skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've been exploring this kind of scenarios at [http://codepicnic.com], where you can create your tutorial and then run some sort of test to see if it's running (perhaps returning non-zero values from some script or testing the existence of some files) but so far we think most of the attempts are a bit clumsy and would lead to false positives.

But would love to exchange ideas on the topic.
Oh give me a break... the most offensive/threatening one that was posted by Kurt on his blog was:

"Teach me your knuckleball technique so I can fist your daughter"

You really think this is a creditable threat of violence and not someone trying to make a very, very, very poor taste joke? There are very few tweets I would even consider threats, most were just scumbags trying to get some twitter fame by making terrible baseball sexual innuendos.

There are other ones like "Kurt bleeds more from his sock than gaby does when shes on her period" that in no way could even be construed as a threat, but I feel they are getting lumped into the same category, simply because they are distasteful.
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Not at all. Should you not be free to hire and fire your employees depending on who you want to represent your company? Or are you advocating some sort of affirmative action for asshats?
to expand on my reasoning, go to the root of the problem - the article doesn't lay blame to Lowell, Mass it goes _all_ the way back to 1974? or 76? something that happened in the 70's yet here we are in the 21st century in lowell mass blaming some shit that happened in cambodia in the mid late 70's?
go to the fucking root of the problem and solve it or stop using HN as a platform to BITCH.
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Here it is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9165462
It has enough score to be on front page and it briefly was there, but it then quickly moved to 4th page.
I see what you did there, I think.
That seems like yet another case of the Horseshoe theory.
For a fuller context, and to get a better sense of why people are taking his actions seriously, take a look at the original post Schilling wrote where he explains how ugly it got:

https://38pitches.wordpress.com/2015/03/01/the-world-we-live...
What are the long term effects of this? Wouldn't you risk damaging your brain if you shocked it regularly?
I can relate to this comment and the others that replied to my original. I guess my overall view is that far too much time is wasted and it is mostly preventable. As a senior developer I have a detailed LinkedIn profile, a few recommendations, some side businesses and startups I have been involved in, a portfolio website showing off websites and apps I've built, a tech focused blog, a GitHub and a Stack Overflow. Right there if you just spent 15 minutes reviewing my profile you should have a pretty good picture of who I am and what I am capable of. If you need to see a 3 hour coding exam and have 8 hours of interviews on top of that I think you are just not decisive. I think a lot of it is people rationalizing with themselves that having gone through a "thorough" interview process of tons of candidates and lots of time that they somehow found the best candidate when it's a lot of noise IMO.
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Yes lets ruin people's life for a tweet written in 20 seconds of mental derangement. Insane.
Sexual criminals? really? for words on twitter? There is no question that this kind of behavior is repugnant, but should it really be illegal? The tweets I read are abhorrent, but hardly credible threats.

To me, the best kind of sanction for this is exactly what's happening: social shaming and exclusion. But it falls quite a bit short of something that requires legal involvement.
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Thank you so much guys. I think I'd really like to come down and stay here for a while. Love the energy compared to Seattle.
She is making the point that she no longer sees people in those situations as anything other than potential harassers.

Maybe it would be fair to put a bunch of qualifiers in there to make it clear that in spite of this attitude, she knows that there are many nice people out there and that the essay isn't meant to apply to them, but I don't think it's obvious that it would improve the essay (which I see as an attempt to convey how she feels about the interactions much more than I see it as an attempt to besmirch the men of the world with the label 'harasser').
Could someone expand on this:

>How a single number can be used to represent the answers to a set of yes-no questions.
Disagree with most of this. You don't need a massive inventory for recommendations to be useful, and you don't need a massive data set of usage data to be able to do them. What really matters is how sparse the user x item matrix is, and I know from experience that you can give ok recommendations even in cases with extremely sparse data.

I also don't like the idea it takes mysterious, scary "hefty data science" to be able to do recommendations.

- If you're recommending based on one thing (i.e. "people who viewed this also viewed.."), you'll be doing cosine similarity on the vector of viewers (i.e. the columns of the user x item matrix).

- If you're recommending based on many things (i.e. "recommended for you"), you'll be doing a matrix factorization of the user x item matrix. Pick SVD or NMF, depending on how sparse the data is.

- You probably won't be doing content based recommendations, without doing breakthrough machine learning research. For a lot of content, no-one really knows how to do this.
>The mathematics of Kolmogorov complexity[1] formalizes the idea that a given finite fixed string is "random".

I read into the wiki article and this approach is certainly interesting. However this complexity depends on the description language so there is no unique way to determine if a string is random.
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Ask the author this: why did he not ask: "Postphoned the reckoning of _what_???" what is this FEAR he is trying to spread?
It's a digital embodiment of coolness; once the masses can find out about it, it isn't cool anymore and the coolness is gone. Literally.
Garbage is probably somewhat strong, but I agree about the title.

I suppose, like so much these days, it all depends on your POV and ingrained confirmation biases whether you believe research about the incorrigibility of addicts or the hope of rescue.

My thoughts on this whole "Shoot the messenger, he's a plagiarist" line of thinking is that we live in a remix society, and certainly in music, producers and artists are given wide leeway to come up with new ways to use old sounds with no repercussions.

I wonder if the ability to take old written content and present it in a fresh, persuasive way shouldn't be given the same respect.
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The whole point of even having a kernel is to run the software you like. Kernel by itself doesn't really do anything for you.

There's a feature of the kernel that Chromium wants to use. That's a perfectly good reason to upgrade.

User software should dictate kernel versions.
Gitmo is for jailing people without trial. "Black facilities" in Saudi Arabia et al is for torture.
If these things were said in person, I think you would feel differently. It's easy to pass off actions that take place on the internet as being without consequence, but they can still do real damage. I think this same sense of detachment from consequences is what allows people to do things they would never do if they could see the recipient. I don't know what punishments are just, but it seems to me that returning a feeling of consequence to actions is how you also bring back civility.
This is the same kind of deluded apologism that the gamer gate crowd uses and it is dangerous. How can anyone judge the credibility of a threat made by a stranger on the internet? A threat is a threat.
That's even worse than Dropbox with Condoleezza Rice...
Here's the problem: the woman receiving these threats has no way to know whether this is some teenager on the other side of the country or the creepy guy down the block. She has to spend time thinking about each one and wondering whether to be worried or not, or whether the harasser is going to escalate from being an ass on Twitter to contacting her friends, relatives, coworkers, etc. on email/Facebook/etc.

The one thing which I would bet on is that if something bad did happen – and given that her dad is a celebrity hated in some circles, that's less hypothetical than it might seem in your first reaction – there would be people coming out of the woodwork to ask why she didn't report it.
The people who lost their jobs over making some offensive tweets are the crybabies. Get another job! Man up!
>People who get caught doing this need to be prosecuted, and if convicted, labeled as sexual criminals and placed on a register.

Ridiculous. Maybe we should prosecute people who talk about overthrowing the government on twitter with treason - they're threats! And safety is important!

These threats on the internet aren't acceptable, but neither is your reaction to them. There is a vast difference between threatening someone and actually doing something, and the way our criminal justice system treats sexual crimes borders on cruel and unusual.

You're saying that someone should have the rest of their life ruined because they made a lewd threat on the internet? We've all heard the story of the kid who went streaking on a dare but happened to be near a playground so now he's labeled a sexual predator for the rest of his life. Do you really think that is a good response to this kind of thing?

>As a father myself, this kind of behaviour makes me sick and I cannot understand people who feel they need to defend these kinds of sick comments.

Punishing someone won't ease the anxiety you feel about the safety of your kids; there will always be something else waiting to ruin their innocence. You probably confuse people saying your reaction to these comments is extreme with people defending the comments. Regardless, you want to label someone a sexual predator so that you can feel better about the fact that you're scared for your kids. That is disgusting and scarier to me than anonymous threats to my family on the internet.
I agree. As the article shows, there are already repercussions for being a jackass on Twitter. If it goes beyond simply being a jackass (stalking, physical endangerment) we already have laws against those.
Is there something wrong with it?
Maybe english?
It leaves a gender-bending aftertaste on society.
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Any of these said in person, I would not feel differently. Almost all of them make some reference to a baseball comment and then try to make a joke about Kurt's daughter based on that. They are simply assholes making poor jokes. Unless Kurt didn't post the most extreme ones (e.g. someone said "I'm going to rape your daughter when she gets here"), I feel like none of them even border the line of a creditable threat. Are we going to start arresting new comedians that make shitty jokes because they went too far trying to make fun of a celebrity? Where's the line of poor joke and creditable threat? I personally think its a lot farther away than any of the tweets Kurt posted.
Too bad he doesn't go into how he managed to track the 9 people down who he called out. Was he able to do it because he is a famous baseball player and has the resources and connections to make it happen or is it something any normal person on the street can do to stand up for themselves?
I want to make sure my phone still works after one of my kids dunks it in the toilet. Or tosses it the pool. 100 feet is definitely overkill, but I would rather have a rugged device than a delicate one.
I'm afraid the result will be the same as file sharing. There was Napster which was killed by labels, then Kazza which was 10x harder to kill, then torrents which are 100x harder to kill. If they manage to kill it something new will be there.

The solution is quite simple: if you're not willing to ignore trolls, don't use this kind of social network.

You should NOT drag your family into the business, not even if PR person will tell you that it increases your brand equity.
I think it is sort of sad that Curt took a moment of achievement for his daughter and turned it in to something about him.
Now they're saying the underwater beacon expired more than a year before it even took off...

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An object has state by definition.

More to the point, an object has agency: It gets to decide how to interpret messages sent to it (this is why we say that putting setters on classes turns objects back into mere data structures [1]).

http://www.devx.com/enterprise/the-vision-of-kay-and-fieldin... (right after the seventh paragraph)
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This looks like a very useful tool Daniel. For comparison purposes, are there other products on the market which do the same?
They need a warrant to arrest you.
Did you ask anyone to vote for it? Did you announce the post on Twitter or anywhere else?

You might want to email the mods to ask them.
Snapchat for websites...hmmmm perhaps.
> Edit: I'm not sure why I'm being downvoted...

Welcome to the internet :)
How about detecting GoogleBot traffic and deleting when it has crawled your website?
It's the web, not the internet. And the web is not the most free and open platform the world has ever known, it is a comittee-designed disaster whose goals are regularly overruled by the interests of big companies.

I get it, Mozilla is doing this game native stuff now. Why not keep it at that? Baby steps.
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But also read the blurb on the page:
"By downloading any of the UEFI Specifications, you acknowledge that no license, express or implied, is granted to you to distribute, additionally reproduce, implement or otherwise use for any purpose (other than to read only) the UEFI Specifications, and that all rights, title and interest in and to the UEFI Specifications, including all intellectual property rights of any type whatsoever, are owned by the UEFI Forum, or subject to rights granted to the UEFI Forum."

So if I download these files, I acknowledge that I may not use the spec to do anything useful with it. It might be better to derive UEFI knowledge from the Tianocore sources, since those come with no strings attached.
I haven't read through the tweets but what crazypyro posted aren't threats, they would be considered bullying though.

Didn't the gamergate lady have actual threats on her life? I know her information was doxxed and people actually put her house in their threats.
And here folks I guess we have a real case of harassment.

I think there is a line to be drawn somewhere between here and pycon (two men talking privately about something that could be understood as offensive).

That said I am surprised about two things:

* People trying to argue that this should not be punished because everyone would do if they were safe from repercussions. I strongly believe that a big chunk of the audience here would not steal, kill etc without reason even if they were sure not to get caught.

* People suggesting this should be in public registers etc. This story is most likely already a real problem for a few of those guys.

Side note: They are not alone. I've recently been reading several seemingly normal grown up people signed in with facebook accounts stating how they think a certain country should be nuked.

Edit: as tzakrajs points out these incidents are completely different and that was actually what I meant but I fully understand why it could be read as "a line connecting those incidents." My bad.
>A threat is a threat.

I disagree completely, especially in the eyes of the law. If a comedian says he's going to kill someone, nobody is going to prosecute him. Threats have to be creditable. The tweets posted by Kurt all make some reference to his baseball career and then try to use that to make sexual jokes about his daughter. They are just terrible jokes and should be socially ostracized, but we should not be using the legal system to punish these kinds of tweets. The line is too unclear. None of the posted tweets contain any serious threat that doesn't contain some baseball innuendo, at least the ones Kurt published. There is a difference if someone said e.g. "I'm going to rape your daughter when she gets here" and that tweeter lives in the town of the school. One might be able to consider that creditable. We don't prosecute people who make others scared, we prosecute people that we believe have a creditable chance of harming another human being.
I announced on twitter and posted to reddit. Is this prohibited?
In that case the boundaries of freedom are not defined by the constitution any more, but by private parties. Therefore any constitutional stipulation of 'freedom of speech' is practically worthless. Freedom can not only be measured by the existence of a constitutional construct.
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Both exist.

Postmodernism is a lot more relevant to the digital age than anything, imo. It emphasizes pointing out ways of thinking and doing, which I think is especially relevant when we are actually automating most of our ways of thinking and doing.

I know it gets a bad rap because of the ridiculous examples, but the real point of it engages the viewer into a serious kind of contemplation concerning the massive infrastructure that exists and how that shapes our culture, thoughts, understanding, action..

We have the expectation that the generations to come will accept this infrastructure and what it says about how the human mind functions. But much of it is founded on belief systems of how thought and action operate in the real world. Most of these systems are baseless, the idea of a base obfuscated only by the sheer complexity involved in understanding each layer.
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Yeah, I think of all of these as value objects, and DDD was also a large part of my inspiration for this series of posts. This code eventually rolled into a RailsConf 2015 talk: http://railsconf.com/program#prop_1132
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> 3) "you look amazing in that bathing suit" seems like an attempt to flatter someone. I didn't know they wear bathing suits to work at Google :) It's what guys do to girls. They compliment them. And girls generally accept the flattery and say thank you. If you don't like that it's fine, just let people know and they more than likely will be happy to

Do not "flatter" people on their appearance unless they are a family member or close friend.
If you're serious about this, I think you're going to need something a bit more compelling to offer. Another web forum is unfortunately not very interesting - and I'm saying this as someone who happens to believe the web needs more general purpose forums to compete against social media. It's like creating a new email client, it's going to take a lot to even get noticed. If the point of a startup is competition and disruption, well, you're competing against all of social media and the "anti social-media" imageboards, and I don't see where the disruption is.

It's difficult to tell who you're trying to appeal to with this. Your front page has clip art featuring nothing but upper middle class white socialites, as if you want to present this as a hip SV style startup, yet you're also clearly trying to imitate 4chan/8chan in a number of ways (calling yourself 'schan', naming your paranormal board /x, etc) suggesting an appeal to the lowest common (and not necessarily worksafe) denominator. Who is this site for anyway?

You have some badly scaled artwork, and none of the links in the footer appear to work because of multiple js errors. All of this suggests that you posted this site before it could even be considered finished. When I try to delete an arbitrary post I get a JSON parse error, which suggests to me you might have an unhandled exception being echoed somewhere.

I'm not saying it's a bad idea, but I think perhaps you should perhaps come back with something a bit more focused and complete if you're going to call it a startup. Or just open source the code and let people play with it. Or don't call it a startup.
Like a snow angel? Art that auto destructs? Stay in the moment.
I'm surprised people are defending these guys. Maybe we're just so used to internet trolls, but the medium doesn't change the fact that we have laws against hate speech and threats. This kind of behavior is just not acceptable, it's a stain on the human race. It's these kinds of trolls that make life really difficult for women online. I'm glad they're learning there's consequences.
Unfortunately, the goal of prosecuting threats is to prevent violence, not prevent people from being scared. If the chance of violence is relatively nil, (I already argued that I believe these guys are just terrible, wanna-be comedians) I don't think there is any case to be made that these guys are anything near sexual predators, just assholes and scumbags.
I'm not sure we are talking about the same thing. I never mentioned GPL or any license.
Also KeySnail for Firefox: https://github.com/mooz/keysnail/wiki

It calls itself Emacs-like, but true to Emacs form, one of the default configurations gives Vim-like bindings instead of Emacs ones.
Can we stop dragging gamergate into this?

(Or might I suggest you read up on KotakuInAction on reddit and tell me how it is anywhere borderline close to this?)
Compatibility Support Modules ("BIOS compatibility mode") aren't required. The text states "many UEFI firmwares implement some kind of BIOS compatibility mode, sometimes referred to as a CSM.".

"many" not "all", and the article sticks to that.

Since CSMs are incompatible with Secure Boot (since they can run whatever, without extending the trust chain), I expect them to be on the way out.
Same as with the "Secure Boot optional" requirement on x86, by the way, since I guess that the real reason Microsoft added that to their Windows Logo requirements is that their large customers wanted to be sure that they can image Windows 7 onto new machines for a while longer.

Once this kind of legacy is gone for good, Microsoft may tighten the screws there. And since all big Linux vendors support Secure Boot now, that part of the PC landscape won't make many noises either.
Aren't you just defining competency in a very narrow way to move the goalposts? If the goal is that students show competency in adapting to changing requirements, and mastering information literacy, then that is the required competency.

By competency, I don't mean some narrow technical expertise, but whatever skills it is that an employer needs their workforce to have, that universities claim to impart.
Yes, we need proof.

You've asserted many things. But with no links to any proof.

Every question you asked above, also applies to the US.

I'm not going to bother providing links until you do.
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I'm afraid yes, even if I'm one of those who suspect that there's foul play on both sides.