skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I'm sure he did more good over there in preventing the spread of the disease"

Why are you sure?
Politics 101 – The Myth of the Just World
Shills are easy to detect, as they out of character with the typical tone and style of messages on a particular forum. They also tend to have egregious flaws in reasoning and use emotional and heated personal attacks against the person or topic in question. The posts often get pushed to the top more quickly than usual.

It has already been revealed that government agencies use sock puppets and other techniques to manipulate popular and influential message boards, such as Reddit and Hacker News:

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/07/14/manipulating-o...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-ope...

Also, as many of you here on Hacker News should know, marginally ethical marketing techniques are commonly used by tech and other companies, including bought articles and opinion pieces, astro turfing, sock puppets, guerrilla marketing, software to assist in targeting specific forums and message boards, vote brigading etc. See:

http://www.blackhatworld.com/
I'm really sorry to hear that. As someone who has faced sexual harassment at work, I feel for you.

Good luck shaking off the crazies.
The bias is pretty clear in this comment thread, so here are some links from the other side to balance things out a bit:

GameJournoPros is a private mailing list of numerous influential game press members, from which numerous examples of corruption and collusion to choose the messages that the game press reports have surfaced, reminiscent of and literally named by its creator after the JournoList (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JournoList) scandal from 2010:

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/09/17/Exposed...

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/09/21/GameJou...

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/09/18/The-ema...

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/10/10/GameJou...

Yanier "Niero" Gonzalez, owner of popular gaming news site Destructoid, colluded with GameJournoPros to blacklist a writer from the game journalism industry after a scandal:

http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/2014/10/gamergate-destructo...

Clickbait sites and Youtube channels purposefully misrepresent games as sexist by abusing glitches and emergent behavior like ragdoll physics to portray the games in a negative light, purely to fan the flames of controversy for the ad impressions:

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/ngiujr

But it's all about sexism and hating women, right? A few bad apples aligned with the GamerGate movement spoil the whole bunch, right? It's not like anti-GamerGate bloggers would advocate bullying and violence:

http://gamergate.giz.moe/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Gawker-B...

http://gamergate.giz.moe/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Bring-ba...

...welcome the branding of the word "douchebag" as a racial slur against white men ("the racial slur we've all been waiting for," you can't make this shit up):

http://a.pomf.se/kblzcz.png

...call gay GamerGate supporters "fucking traitor scum to their people... that deserve nothing better than burning in hell for all eternity":

http://a.pomf.se/vrwobd.png

...compare GamerGate to the ebola virus:

https://twitter.com/fd1017/status/525512137234337793

...say that advertisers like Intel that pulled support over the controversy are "run by craven idiots... pusillanimous morons."

http://unvis.it/gawker.com/how-we-got-rolled-by-the-dishones...

...while using tactics like unjustified (and probably illegal) DMCA takedown notices to censor controversy:

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1s4nmr1/
The claim is not only that Google does business with the government, but that they also help push the US Government's agenda. Did you read the article?
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I looked up the names mentioned in the last paragraph and ended up on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_magnetism ,
which seems to me to be the Europeans' name for chi.

Funky stuff.
@yummyfajitas - it appears that all of your posts are dead right now. I'm not clear if you've been banned after many downvotes or what, but the last several posts are all dead now.
I see no problem with discussing and analyzing this issue, especially given the clearly unscientific suggestions made in the linked article.

If it is true that women and men are both harassed "a whole lot" on average, then it changes certain details of the discussion. If women are harassed more on average, then that changes things as well. No one here is supporting harassment of anyone, regardless of gender or any other status.
People move through the stages at different rates with a high variance. That's still pretty scary.
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$5 billion isn't that much in terms of modern capital investment. It's not chump change, but it's well within the capability of a large telco.
Just wait until you meet mathematicians.
>Some Small Advice: if you’re just beginning to program, I’d suggest starting with JavaScript/HTML/CSS because there is a plethora of help out there.

What a terrible advice.
Or you went to university a decade or two earlier?
The biggest problem for me is that it simply doesn't matter if I trust today's Google 100%. The fact is that it's a company and eventually the leaders will die, leave or retire.

Even if I claim that Google [today] is 100% pure, honest and ethical, that trust isn't transferable to Google [tomorrow] that will have all of its resources and all of its databanks to mine someday.

And that's a problem. Rationally we shouldn't let them occupy too high a pedestal or trust them too far, or we run the risk of regretting it later, when it's too late.
Traditionally, the term has been used to describe people who make comments like http://i.imgur.com/QMbGVLG.png or http://i.imgur.com/vJgiov8.jpg or http://i.imgur.com/fMcjKsg.png.

Essentially, radical social justice viewpoints taken to absurd extremes. Sometimes to the point of expressing highly racist, homophobic, or transphobic views in the course of supporting some other group they feel is even more persecuted than those groups.

Now, the term is being thrown around by some people to describe those who are left leaning and support a viewpoint they disagree with.

So-called "Social Justice Warriors" are indeed an actual and rather ridiculous (yet amusing) group on the Internet, mostly centered around Tumblr, but their overall population density is pretty low compared to progressives and feminists in general.
Absolutely. I think it's important to learn how to write proper code. I think my biggest hurdles were thinking that I wasn't good enough to even try, and being unable to acknowledge that my school had given me a solid background in CS.
Understanding memory leaks in Android
Edit: This comment assumes arguendo that the original claims of Gamergate are true. I do not necessarily make or agree with that assumption.

This is the portion of Gamergate that, too me, doesn't fit in with the claims of being entirely about journalistic ethics.

If the situation were a journalist and a developer went out on the town for an evening of fancy drinks paid for by the developer, followed by the journalist writing a positive review for the developer, we would be primarily be upset at the journalist for their breach of ethics.

Similarly, when a congressman takes a bribe, we are mostly mad at the congressman. When a doctor takes compensation to push certain pharmaceuticals, we largely get upset at the doctor.

In this specific instance, the vitriol seems to be directed primarily at the developer, and the journalist is largely ignored. What is the different, in this case, that causes us to fixate on the developer and not the journalist?
Very well put. The phrase "perfect storm" crossed my mind when I first heard of this.
Everyone overvalues education similar to their own and undervalues education dissimilar to their own.
Why is it a terrible advice?
> The biggest problem I forgot to mention above, however, is that people will read all sorts of literature, but when it comes to actually weighing their food with a food scale (costs literally $20) and counting their calories and macros, they all fail.

There recently was a story in Norwegian media about a person that had gone down some X kgs (basically from overweight to more healthy) -- by eating a strict diet of ready-made meals (heat in the microwave type stuff). The reason behind this anecdote? They all list calorie content. No need to measure (again). Is it a healthy diet? Probably not (high salt, high fat, low vitamins, little variation... the list goes on).

But it's easy to then try and follow up on calorie count.
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There is no discussion about the difference between male aggressors and female aggressors (though the examples were all male I imagine). The question is about aggressors in the gaming community as a whole,e ven if this is "just" a consequence of there being more men than women in the community, it's still an issue .

The question in the test was "is it easier to be a man or a women in the gaming community?", not "why". I agree that this doesn't answer the why, but I think it answer the initial question.
50 Years of Eating Patterns Around the World
My husband spends practically 24/7 around me as he works next to me, but he still rarely sees that behavior directly or aimed at me until I copypaste/screenshot/link it to him. And I get a lot of direct and indirect bs in general that some people would have mental breakdowns over, mainly cause I help moderate /r/twoxchromosomes and I help with a yearly event or two for women in tech. All he hears until I bring it up is me muttering to myself about misogyny/misandry, me going 'for fucks sake' at yet another doxxing, or me rage-typing on irc (thankfully for him I don't have a clicky keyboard). One of my closer friends too, works at Big Name Dating Co., didn't understand it too much until he created a female test account for development. Ha. So don't worry about not seeing it.

Moral support is a lot more than many are offering, so don't feel bad in the slightest. Do exactly what you pointed out. Ask around and help people around you. They may not just be women, they may come from all kinds of backgrounds. Don't be silent, because some of the worst people are assuming that silence means support.

After you feel comfortable doing that, there's a lot of other hard questions to ask. How do you know that your workplace or community or product/service isn't complicit in similar problems? How do you do what you can to help others before a problem occurs? What if you make a mistake? What if you do see something awful but there's no good way to call it out? They're questions I struggle with all the time, and I think the biggest misconception with tech folks is that they're one-off problems easily/already solved when they're not. People going "why don't you report it to Twitter" that have never actually used Twitter's abuse/harassment reporting form. People going "ignore that" like it's not a problem that rears its ugly head for me daily given how many other women I know. People going "you could just not say anything" but then I wouldn't be moral support for even a single other person out there.

It's tough, welcome to the club ;) Making an effort to do anything is a good thing.
Concrete Mathematics is probably a more relevant Knuthwerk.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/cr/0201558025/n=1/ref=aw_cr_i_1?...
This gives up some flexibility. If you want to switch from horizontal to vertical you have to change a lot more code. If you want to introduce a new face style that color codes bars based on height this wouldn't work.
That's a great hobby when you're financially independent ;)
Were you actually able to get 1ms latency from Kafka? How long does it take an event to enter then exit Kafka?
Intel pulled advertising from Gamasutra because they directly insulted a customer group that is very important to their brand. Intel didn't cave under pressure, they simply acted rationally to a media outlet committing brand suicide.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/224400/Gamers_dont_have_t...

Phil Fish forced himself off the internet by being a contemptible jackass with an ego to rival that of Kanye West who fights with his coworkers, publicly shat on an aspiring Japanese game dev during a Q&A panel that asked him a polite question regarding his thoughts on their country's games, says that gamers are "the worst fucking people," tells people to "suck his dick, choke on it" then claims to be a feminist without a hint of irony, completely and utterly lacks self awareness, and just generally can't go a fucking day without throwing a tantrum on twitter.

EDIT: Oh neat, my other post in this thread, a collection of links from an opposing perspective, was flagkilled. Way to flag/downvote for disagreement, redd-I mean Hacker News.
"The company, which in 2010 blamed China for an attack on its computer networks, said it recently discovered the Gmail campaign, which "appears to originate from Jinan, China," and targeted specific individuals." - http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/china-hacks-go...

"Chinese hackers who breached Google’s servers several years ago gained access to a sensitive database with years’ worth of information about U.S. surveillance targets, according to current and former government officials." - http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/chines...

There's a reason PRISM and others go through the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) Courts.

China hacked the interface US intelligence agencies were used to request Chinese surveillance targets and information. This is why they've lost business in China.
would your argument change

This is a tangent. I don't think there's any argument. The statements were well supported.
Contact me if you want me to show his CV around HP's lab in Barcelona. Hope it works out well for him!
>Unemployment in Spain is 24.5% right now.

Yes, but AFAIK developers are exceptions - at least in Catalonia. Especially experienced ones. Depends on how much salary is acceptable. As I researched, for senior devs, it is 35-45K EUR/annual, which is rather low... He may as well consider consulting.
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Awesome, the last thing that held me back jumping ship from Unity was that i love C# so much and have no prior C++ experience.
Soft Machines breaks cover with the VISC architecture
Madoff is not what we could call a successful psychopath.
Yummyfajitas isn't banned. Some of his comments are being flagged by users.
I'm sorry to hear that :( I'm lucky in that I've never really had to deal with that yet. The few times that could have happened it didn't, and I mainly work for myself now so it's easy to take myself out of a problem when it arises.

Thanks though. I have a reasonably thick skin and I'm used to it so I'm not too worried. I'm mostly worried about what this means for others. Hopefully more awareness means a better solution for this problem so others don't face it. I don't have enough relevant expertise or passion though, so I'm hoping until there's a YC funded company that focuses on fixing that ;)
Bay area tech company caught paying imported employees $1.21 per hour
Because programming != web programming, and sure as hell HTML/CSS is not programming.

About javascript(vanilla js), nobody even wants touch it anymore. Almost anybody who interacts with javascript code does it with a 5 foot stick(coffescript, clojurescript), and/or behind huge frameworks that protects you from its perils.

Something that is more usable and understandable in its barebones state like python makes more sense for beginners.
It's not just the oldies (ageism in tech)
Migrating an existing project won't be easy sure, but making the move to UE for a new project would be much easier for Unity devs now.
Can you speak more about NDAA?

Oh man there's so many things I want to add to your list.
The thing is, if I have some interesting personal project that is useful for some group of people - I'd make a small business from it rather than dumping it online and just mentioning it on my CV ;)
I think they are still using 2.10 which is about 3 years old.
Isn't this basically an endorsement of the caste system and a form of slavery?

Huxley's society functions largely because no one questions their role in it. Gammas have no aspiration to rise up because theu have been coached to not have any aspirations.

Thus doesn't this form of society rob humans of the ony characteristic that separates them
from animals?The ability to think, reason and make decisions for themselves. A world where humans cannot and ARE NOT allowed to think for themselves is definitely a horrible dystopia.

At least in 1984 some humans still have the ability to think for themselves.
In BNW they have no choice in the matter, unless of course they are born with
the ability, which again resembles the relative freedom of the Party members
from 1984. Come to think of it, the upper echelons of both societies
employ a sort of doublethink, whereby they convince themselves that what they are
doing is correct.

There really isn't much difference between the two societies, in 1984 the commoners
get to fuck and entertain themselves as they wish, and the same goes for
society in BNW.
Thanks for clarifying. I was wondering if he'd tripped something automatic.
Replying only to your comment about sitting next to security professionals. I am a security professional at another large company. I and my team mates are also all pissed about XKeyScore etc. But it doesn't bubble up all the way through upper management. Because at some point there's section 215 of the Patriot Act, NSLs, and CALEA.

It's the compliance and legal folk who implement key and data escrow. The security folks are mostly not working to defend against nation states - although they will partner with other companies in the field and with the government to share intelligence about ongoing campaigns and fingerprints.
> this is the only node that I found patching binaries

This suggests the exit relay itself is doing the patching. Isn't it more likely that some MITM between the exit relay and origin server is responsible?
Found some references:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maimonides
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishneh_Torah
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/682956/jewish/Mishneh-Torah.htm

Although it's great fodder for movies and ppl into conspiracy theories, getting an audited list of all the Vatican books/artifacts tucked away (and then digitizing everything) would be amazing to see in our lifetime.

The really really old stuff inherited from the Roman Empire days would be of particular interest. Not too many secret ancient libraries left these days...
In my country (Netherlands) people speak English quite well. My entire (CS) master was in English. So that means literature, class, assignments, exams, everything. I must say it did feel kind of awkward sometimes if you sit in a class where every single student and the teacher is native Dutch speaker, and still the course has to be done in English.
But I think in the end it is worth it, because you learn all the terminology in English.

Actually it is funny, I only realized while reading this discussion that I always google my programming questions in English. It never occurred to me do google them in Dutch. I will try it today to see the results :)
No it doesn't. I have to have a massive complex piece of software that includes and entire programming language and uses a GB of memory to read basic hypertext now. 90% of the sites I need to enable javascript for are just a blog post. Nothing but text and some images, but completely reliant on javascript. A simple browser can not view 99% of the web now. We need a replacement for what the web used to be, because that had value.
But uprooting and relocating to such a long distance, especially in his age (with regard to nostalgia, I mean..), is it comfortable for him?
> It's entirely untestable, not repeatable, undocumented and just stuck together with flaky glue code.

Code that's testable, repeatable, well-documented and elegant doesn't guarantee that an application will actually meet anyone's needs in a commercially sufficient manner.

The WordPress code base is frequently criticized, and the Facebook index.php code from 2007[1] will probably make some people cringe, but these are just two of many examples demonstrating that if you want to "do well", building applications that work and meet the needs of their users is initially a lot more important than "proper technique."

[1] https://gist.github.com/nikcub/3833406
Everyone generalises too much.
Postfix, dovecot, roundcube.. you'll figure something...
As someone whose native language is not English (and didn't receive particularly good English classes at school, but had access to the Internet): if you start at a young enough age, you pick it up somewhat naturally. Seriously.

In my case, wanting to "do X thing in VB6" drove me to read heaps of text in English, and even if I couldn't make sense of everything I could kind of guess what they were saying from the context and some few words I recognised. Do this for a few years and you'll have decent comprehension skills in that language. I guess that's a pretty natural way to learn, rather than being drilled some abstract grammar rules.
Curious if you've also tried Forth?
This. Seriously - I look around for the library or code snippet I need, I find x variations that all seem correct.

Recognizing the answer that will actually work and hold up under stress is a measure of the programmer.

A Go-cart & a Lamborghini are both "4-wheeled vehicles that will get you to the bottom of the hill"
I'd just like to say that Disneyland has always felt like BNW to me. In that sense, it seems more realistic, because I've experienced something like it in today's society.
Prolog, and there'll most likely be four.
Well said.

We have a similar dialog going on among the power users at Quora. The trouble women were having really escalated when the first influx of general users showed up.

It got to the point where many of them were going to leave.

All of us had a discussion, and Quora had a discussion in private with the women.

The ban hammer came down on a surprisingly large number of users. And it still comes down.

Most of us men, who participated in this, got to understand a lot. Due to the nature of that site, and that we have real life meetup events, many women felt it OK to just share with us, no filters.

And I was stunned. Thought I had some idea, and just didn't. Of course, now I do.

Honestly, that these stronger women were able to experience that, share it with others including men and continue on in seemingly normal ways is kind of amazing to me.

If more people were able to have these kinds of conversations, I suspect social norms would start to shift quickly, as would actions to remedy the problem.

Not that we don't have actions now. We do. People are supporting others who need it and we are beginning to speak out more and discuss it more.

But that ban hammer session was notable. A lot of the community got the message right away.
Indeed, that's what my first sentence implies. Note that this doesn't prevent you from lazily loading other JS libs when using them inside Angular modules.
I Germany, most professional literature is translated into German. Most developers I know prefer the English version though.
Piqued (just FYI)