skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. Her reaction was ridiculous and aggressive and was done in public and in reference to her work. Her employer absolutely should have disciplined her. However, the increasingly aggressive presence of internet mobs saying "fire this person or we'll make a terrible fuss!" over minor matters is absurd, getting worse, and is being abused by people of all political identities. It's just not an acceptable way for our society to function and the idea that it gets lauded by whichever side gets it to "work" is disgusting. Unfortunately the internet appears just to allow amplifying the grievances of the loudest subset of any group.

I hope companies learn that picking sides by firing someone does not resolve the matter and just pisses off more people. Hopefully that tones down their response and then makes the internet mobs less aggressive because they don't get as much satisfaction out of it.
You literally turned the number on its head. Obviously OP is not celebrating 6 million dead, but celebrating the 14 million saved.
The basic result is horribly overfitted, because "account creation minute" and "account creation hour" are two of the parameters. (They split those up because "account creation time" was effectively a unique feature all on its own, and they wanted a 'harder' problem.)

This is basically an exercise in overfitting - they learned to recognize account data using that exact same data, and called it deanonymization. The data fuzzing was a little interesting, but it's still overfitting from top to bottom.
Damore used company channels, internally, to speak to other employees. Price used her own twitter account who's only connection was having ArenaNet in the bio.
Ugh. I didn't see that myself either. This definitely makes a big difference in terms of my willingness to acquire one.
Ahh, yes, capitalism, where we funnel all of our resources to the top and hope the benevolent billionaires will reach down to help those of us in poverty.

You're of course correct that industrialization has an outsize positive impact initially. But it's pretty silly to ignore the eventuality of "and then Bill Gates donates money to make the world better!"
The article makes the case that our "emotional systems" can be understood as an effective way of internalizing and responding to our experiences in a complex world.

Maybe this is obvious but I think equally important is the emotional interplay between people, and the dynamics of that larger emotional system. Emotions are like a protocol that humans use to communicate their mental states to each other. If emotions were just about understanding the world, there would be no reason for humans to express them visibly & audibly.

A little bit of occasional anger can effectively communicate that someone has crossed a line. Laughter is positive feedback. etc. etc.
Certainly wouldn't be the first time a company didn't want the public to know it was talking about being acquired.
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You haven't given any evidence that it arose because of that system or in spite of it. There are plenty of examples going back to Singer sewing machines [1] and the Wright Brothers [2] that demonstrate that the surest way to delay the widespread deployment of any transformative technology by many years is to patent it.

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1354849

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers_patent_war
Jessica's actions were disgusting. There is no excuse for this behavior, and it's just pandering towards gender issues to disguise and sweep away her attack on somebody offering feedback.

Polygon is not an unbiased source.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCQK3OcdkD4
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"The implications of sexism are too obvious." How do you see this? ArenaNet fired Peter Fries (male) for doing the exact same thing.
I get the cassette thing because that was an audio format people used for albums, but in the 90s nobody released albums on floppy discs, so this is like all gimmick
I am curious about startup / deployment times?

When I a deploy WAR-file it, it is fairly small (just app + dependencies), and startup / shutdown is well-defined and happens fast, allowing me to update an application with just a few seconds downtime. But here - how fast would an update be? How much downtime? Does it reinstall the os, the vm, the app, are the shutdown / startup operation well defined or does the process just get killed?

Wouldn't it take quiet a bit of work just to match what you get out of the box in a traditional setup?
Why should I care? It's the bank's responsibility to secure their equipment and refund any dollars stolen from me.
The standard authoritarian scales are indeed tuned to detect right-wing ideology. That being said, it's easy (though unpopular) to construct measures that capture Left-Wing Authoritarianism (the "Loch Ness Monster," as Altemeyer famously labeled it). Unsurprisingly, authoritarianism turns out to exist in equal measure on left and right. A couple samples of the literature; there are plenty more if you google around:

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pops.12470
[2] http://www.bartduriez.com/sites/default/files/documents/PDF/...
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I agree. Comment sections tend to be really hard to moderate. I accept comments via email and then I manually add them to articles as part of the main text. This is a largely self-moderating system because only when a reader honesly thinks their comment is important do they bother emailing. While I always respond, I only include the comment in the article if I think it is of greater value to the community at large.

It's not ideal, but it is as close as I have come to showing someone an article and asking for their comments IRL.
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If I recall correctly she also took great public glee in the slow, painful death of a prominent games reviewer/YouTuber from cancer, so I would be entirely unsurprised if she'd already been warned for something or the other and this was just the final straw.
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http://innovationdemandsfreedom.com/

http://systemshealth.com/

http://www.inventorofemail.com/

http://www.historyofemail.com/
I'll have that debate. I can't seem to find anyone to get into that either.

My proposal: You write a Medium post with your argument, I'll respond with my rebuttal/response on Medium. That's how the old guys did it, except with letters.
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I appreciate the vote of confidence but I was hoping someone from the team could chime in or someone who took the time to try it out. Based on other comments in this thread it looks like it may just rely heavily on copy/paste.
I'm assuming sarcasm, so forgive me if I'm wrong. I'm a pretty centrist, non-politically active guy, and I personally have one acquaintance that identifies as a marxist, another as a communist, and a third, literally as a "radical feminist marxist" who has participated in protests/riots. I know nobody that identifies as a fascist. Anecdotally, left-wing authoritarianism is much more prevalent in my milktoast town.

Edit, because HN won't let me reply to the claim of "misunderstanding" Marxism (and the clear gaslighting of the words "communist" and "radical" that were used):

Clearly, my "radical marxist" acquaintance destroying public and private property, while actually flying the Soviet flag, is wholly misunderstood for the non-authoritarian, peaceful, theoretical marxism it actually is.

Edit 2: Are you perceiving the whole comment or is your cognitive bias actually blocking out the words "communist" and "soviet"? You're picking a minute fraction of my sentences that suit your disposition and acting like they're the whole.
Your position here seems to be opposed to anyone who works for a company having any kind of free speech. Please consider whether this is a position that is maximally good for society. She didn't say anything offensive or harmful, just expressed frustration with a pattern of communication that she gets.
To me that is quite a popular opinion. Unfortunately, as often is with popular opinions, it is quite... unhelpful. For the vast majority of eart's population, kids are a pension insurance that guarantee income if you happen to live old. As soon as kids turn from asset to economical liability, number of kids fall dramatically. This has been seen over and over again.
It's not a trap, it's just convenient to use. I can export my data in a CSV format that can be imported in another password manager if I choose to do so in the future.
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This has only worked surface pro 1-2, and surface pro 3-4. It also seems the original "surface"(atom) non-pro keyboard would not fit this new "go"

And regardless, if you upgrade a normal amount of time for a laptop/tablet, even in a corporate environment, you will need a new keyboard every time.
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It's about conceptual accessibility to the solution.

When you have a small group dying of hunger because of a drought, it is easy to perceive what to do and your ability to realize it. So people are more likely to speak up.

If a drought affects an entire nation, you're at least aware this must be a complicated task. So you're more reluctant to criticize inaction.

That behavior is especially problematic when the solutions are abstract or long-term.
It's probably not that hard to build something like that yourself. I remember my first project on Github back when I thought web development was PHP and nothing else was something that felt like a static site generator (all my articles were hand written XML pages with markdown blocks) but would generate blog indexes etc (including its own comment section) by parsing the XML and rendering them to "components" (basically php pages that handled content and arguments and returned HTML).
It also had a super simple caching bit (like most forums/blogs do anyway) so it was almost static I guess.
1. There may be a scale, but they didn't use it.
2. Go to an Antifa riot and you'll see your "Loch Ness Monster"
I wouldn't be able to until later, but it's fairly easy to find the details under the NOAA's site. They have visualizations and methodology, amazing public resource.
Probably the team vault management stuff and ability to use it across different browsers. There's a lot to be said for not-adding any kind of group management to iCloud Keychain.
The EU is willing to negotiate a trade agreement. The UK wants that trade agreement to include full access to the Single Market, without freedom of movement. That's an unicorn.
Why someone would willingly under their own name participate in these kind of flamewars that will be preserved for eternity is beyond me.
This is about the latency involved with live broadcasts.

For a moment I thought someone tried predict goals based on gameplay information, and be able to forecast goals with a certain confidence - but I suppose the game moves too quickly and player performance is too inconsistent for this to ever work.
I'm impressed with the state of 32kbit AAC streams. You could fit almost 6 minutes of that onto a floppy, and the quality is much higher than an 8-bit MP3
I tried this using a flir one on my iPhone.

https://youtu.be/IMxZQ922rLs

Sorry, it sounds like a really good idea, but it just doesn't work very well in practise.

The users fingers don't sit on the keys long enough to transfer enough heat to last. Just use a standard video camera if this is your thing.
Those two tweets are quoted by the article.
I think russia did very well, even better than USA when it brought electricity, modern housing and basic education to rural populace. All without shread of capitalism. What ultimately killed communism was exclusion of russia from global technological progress. When there's no tech advancement central planning is way less efficient in running things. But when you just got new tech and need to undertake huge infrastructural projects to spread it I think that central planning has some advantages over capitalism thanks to not requiring having capital or not bothering about immediate profitability or not having to ensure that same entity that invests gets ultimate benefit out of the investment.
Murdoch was in favour of brexit, that‘s a huge resource in the UK.
I read he died in a flash flood. Might not have been a mistake so much as an unexpected turn of events in a dangerous, dynamic environment.
They did so at tremendous human cost.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_famine_of_1921%E2%80%9...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1946%E2%80%93...
(2016) Technology destroys people and places. I’m rejecting it
I don't see the keyboard as necessary. Just the tablet with the pen looks like a good deal at that size for me.*

Others only want the keyboard, not the pen. Having only one variant and "take it or leave it, we know what's good for you" is a strategy. Allowing customizing is too.

*If I want a keyboard I have desktop PC with a full-sized keyboard, a big monitor and everything else I need
> What about the static features (like account creation dates)? Aren't those overfitting with cross-validation?

Yes, absolutely. The paper admits that using only account creation time with KNN was enough to get 98% accuracy all on its own. The authors then broke creation time into hour and minute to increase difficulty (slightly), and introduced heavy data fuzzing to see how far they could go and still get results.

But in practice, that's not an ML problem. It's just asking "how little data is needed to perform recall on this dataset?", and finding that it's relatively easy to associate Twitter accounts with, um, themselves.

I think this could have been made interesting by not just fuzzing some data, but actively stripping everything account-level instead of tweet-level; if metadata like posting time was enough to tie tweets together, that could have interesting consequences for identifying sockpuppets or even deanonymizing the human users. But as far as I can tell, including account-level features makes this a non-story.
At least when I was reading, those seem to be linked (now?). Regardless, reading those is much more informative than hearing it from second-hand sources.
Well, to be fair, the problems you've pointed out are quick fixes.

Hugo works fine out-of-the-box with markdown files that don't have any headers. You'll just be seeing some reference errors for things like Title, probably.

And moving the blog to a separate page wouldn't take hours. The homepage comes from `layouts/index.html` [0], and each type of page already has a list page ( `page_type/_index.md` ).

Not sure if it'd really take that much longer to get your head around how Hugo works versus a traditional CMS. At least with a static-site generator, if you keep it outdated (and therefore don't need to bother with any breaking changes), any unfixed vulnerabilities aren't facing the web.

[0] https://gohugo.io/templates/homepage/
She called people who'd never worked in her field, who were telling her to do her job, asshats. And I feel that descriptor suits them.

More to the point, as I originally postulated: Are we now in a place where your employer just has free reign to regulate and permit your speech off the clock? Yeah, she talked about her job, like people have since time immemorial. She probably also called her boss a dick occasionally behind his back, and might've even left her desk in a bad mood. Are these all going to be fireable offenses? Are we just never ever allowed to say "you know I like my job and my coworkers, and overall am pleased with my career, but goddamn that guy Joe we sell to is an idiot."?
It seemed like Derior was engaging her in a respectful discussion, and the GW writer took it as a gendered offense for a reason that I can't seem to figure out. Maybe it's because Derior is a man? Either way, I do think that it's pretty ridiculous to get fired for something like that, I'd guess that ArenaNet wouldn't fire someone they though was truly valuable for an offense like this.
F2P if anything makes all of this worse...
Negotiating tactic perhaps...
I'm a bit torn on this, perhaps leaning a bit on the side of the firing being at least morally legitimate.

0) Her behavior was way out of line. No question about this.

1) There's no company out there that should be expected to look the other way when your employees are giving them a black eye on official channels. (And we can quibble about this, but when you're running officially blessed Q&A sessions and state your employer's name up front, it's "official enough" for most purposes)

2) Doing nothing or "handling it internally" would not have resolved the black eye. If anything, radio silence would have made ArenaNet look like they tacitly support rudely shouting down perfectly reasonable questions.

3) Making a public statement about how they don't support the words said (usual corpspeak PR nonsense that everyone can smell a mile away) would be recieved as cynical and noncommittal, possibly even making the brand perception issue worse.

4) Putting your employer into a lose-lose situation by your actions is generally a firing offense.

F2P games live and die on engagement in a way that paid titles do not, which magnifies the issue somewhat. Come to think of it, to memory, most firings that made the games media circuit that I can think of were F2P companies. Riot did it to someone making distasteful comments about a particularly infamous player.
I completely agree. I think Price was just a terrible employee that created a lose/lose situation for everybody.
So it was $3M paid for by a rich guy? Was he going to donate the money to charity if he didn't spend it on this?
There's a difference between being quiet about an acquisition and just completely lying about it though- especially from a company that relies on being considered trustworthy
People blast McDonalds for putting phrases about tragic situations on their signs. People criticize them for being opportunistic and capitalizing on a tragedy. So, how is this different? Because he happens to be able to build a "submersible" for kids, he should get a pass? Why can't McDonalds say, "Our thoughts are with you" and get a pass?[0] This was pure PR. Everyone claims he's so smart and all this, but he ignored the domain when he designed this! Those SEAL divers aren't trained to work with a kid size submersible. Human bodies flex and can move around the narrow areas of the cave, this metal tube can't do that. If they had used this they would not have had training to fall back on when everything went south.

Musk injected himself into this situation as only a narcissist can and decided to PR the hell out of it.

Yeah, there's just a bit of anti-Musk sentiment lately, but he brings it on himself.

[0] I don't think they should. I think businesses should stay out of it. Even the ones helping would do themselves a favor and play down their involvement. It's the respectful thing to do.
Having read the exchange that triggered this, I feel like I would not want this person representing my company. The comment that the fan made was respectful and constructive, and apparently due to her prejudices, she assumed he was acting with specific negative motives, despite any logical evidence of this in his words. She asks (on Twitter) ‘ask yourself what would make him say that’... when all he did was respond to her ideas about game design, respectfully? I think her political beliefs are interfering with her job duties.
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wants? this is the way it has been done for a long long time in the US (the first US patent grant was from George Washington in 1790), there is Property category where there is at least Real Property & Intellectual Property, patents which are in the Intellectual Property 'bucket' so to speak

There are multiple of forms of intellectual property beyond patents: copyright, trademarks, etc

This is the way the legal system has always worked, not an invention of a modern corporate interests, the ancient Greeks recognizes some forms of patent, the modern version is based around the implementations of Italy's patent system in the 1400s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_patent_law

no conspiracy here....but yes corporations do like to see a return on their significant research and development investments
Grandparent comment pointed out that there are no recent big Mac-specific AppKit/Cocoa-based blockbuster apps in a post-Electron world.

Parent mentions Sketch and a counter-example.

I pointed out it wasn't really valid.

Mentioning 3dsMax was indeed inconsiderate of me, because it didn't add up to a discussion and subverted it instead. My bad.
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Can you provide an example of such service?

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I honestly think this is an oversimplification.

1. Food is free for the starving in many places around the world.

2. Where it isn't free, a meal of rice and beans is usually within reach of even the poorest.

3. Where it is out of reach of the poor, it may be due to corruption; ie North Korea redirecting food supplies to the army instead of the public, and withholding it from prison camps.

Don't fixate on the price or you'll miss the forest for the trees.
Apologies it was directed, I did mean it more as a generalization and it didn't come across that way sorry. Off for the morning coffee now :)
Some important details many posters here might miss:

1. Jessica Price was seemly fired before for having conflicts with her costumers, in another company.

2. Jessica Price did some other stuff on twitter that were ticking fans off, for example she wrote a tweet commemorating TotalBiscuit death (instead of offering condolences)

3. The person she called a "rando asshat" that shouldn't give his opinion about game writing to her, is a official partner of ArenaNET, is wildly popular, has an NPC named after him, and he is famous because he analyzes the game lore. He probably knows more about GuildWars lore than she did.

4. She also attacked another official ArenaNET partner that tried to explain to her why she was overreacting.

5. She, and Peter Fries, made clear that when off the clock they don't have to pretend to be nice and that fan feedback is not welcome, thing is, Jessica Price had ArenaNET name in her twitter account, and the conversation started when she was on the clock, the initial conversation was on July 3th.

6. The person she called sexist and whatnot, was replying to her AMA, and he was very polite, also he was a super fan of hers, there is videos of him praising her, this is why he wrote he was "dishearted" with her reaction.

7. And for wider context, community got angry so fast because several other incidents like this been overlooked, for example Rami Ismail wrote a bunch of openly racist stuff on twitter and got no punishment over it, when the pair were fired, people were genuinely surprised, and now the subreddit and forum is littered with people praising the devs instead, or telling what their favourite part of the game is, and so on.

And disclosing: I never played Guild Wars 2, neither interacted with any of hte persons involved, neither used or bought any other products any of the persons involved worked on, I am just a bystander that was fascinated by what was going on.