skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a stupid reaction to the growing tide of people embracing obesity as a harmless and even desirable condition. Some people in this group, especially those coming from tumblr echochamber communities, have absolutely insane demands and ideas. They are annoying, and they also can be somewhat harmful by encouraging people to maintain unhealthy behavior.

The people on /r/fatpeoplehate don't hate fat people, they're just actively attempting to do the exact opposite of what the "SJWs" demand. I'm surprised by how many redditors were willing to participate in it, but I guess it was a circlejerk that gave the finger to SJWs, which is just about the perfect bait for a redditor.
And why don't they count the cost of good candidates who simply drop out of their hiring pool entirely, because they can't be arsed to bone up on the easily gamed idiotic hiring process?

I'd never even apply to Google based on the stories I've heard, and I'm sure there are plenty of others in the same position who are even better at what they do than I am. There are just so many stories out there of how crappy the hiring process is that everyone who's any good must have heard about it. Some significant fraction will have said, "Yep, not for me."
> Wherever humans interact, you have politics.

> This isn't to say that everything needs to be political

So which is it? Either humans can talk about technical issues without getting bogged down in irrelevancies like the speaker's political views on topics unrelated to the technical issue, or they can't. If they can't, then technical issues will not get solved. I don't dispute that this can happen; I just dispute that it has to happen. Technical issues have gotten solved, which means humans are capable of putting aside irrelevant political differences. But apparently not all the time.

> I was defending the rights of conference organisers to stop that from happening.

No, you were defending the rights of conference organizers to not allow someone to speak on a technical issue that has nothing to do with whatever political views they have espoused in other venues. The speaker that was prohibited was not proposing to speak about his political views; he was proposing to speak about a technical issue that has nothing to do with his political views. So whatever the conference organizers thought they were doing, they were not preventing a politically volatile talk from happening.

> Humans just don't work that way... as is evident by what happens when technical conferences ignore the political environment surrounding their speakers.

Examples, please?
Fair enough, and that's been one of the approaches to paraconsistency and inconsistency in modal logic, too. Of course, from a theorem-proving perspective, it's utterly useless, as with a proof-checker, at some point I need to escape the monadic container and get back into `Prop`.
That's a very different Internet from the one we live on today. I don't think most people want to pay per page view even if the system were relatively cheap and well implemented. I like that I can link to a page and typically trust that if the other person is on the Internet, they can view it.
Touche, I stand corrected.
Former Googler here: After an epic blind allocation fail, my attempt to switch to a project that made use of my talents enraged my manager and he reported me to HR. I left for greener pastures shortly thereafter and HR has apparently banned me from ever returning now that there is relevant work for me.
I think the problem is when people organize a trolling campaign in one subreddit and the conduct it in another.
Also FYI, there are no extension enabled versions of FireFox on iOS because Apple requires all web content to be rendered in their specified engine (WebKit IIRC) and Mozilla is not allowed to use their own.
Keeping bad content off your own site is just good old-fashioned moderation.

Most forums will delete stuff like this - I assume HN would too, and no one bats an eye.
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Use Atomic Web or Mercury as your browser. Both will block ads. I've used AW for about 3 years on both my iPhone and iPads. I couldn't live without it.
My understanding (based on some old blog posts[1]) is that while there's no (published) formal grammar there's definitely a set of internal rules that WoTC uses for determining how things are phrased. What is considered "technically correct" has changed somewhat over the years. I believe Sixth Edition was the first attempt to standardize and make consistent card text. Generally though cards that do the same or very similar things are going to follow consistent word ordering.

For example take Shrewd Hatchling[2] and Coral Reef[3]. Both are fairly different cards, but notice the wording of the first part of their respective card text:

> Shrewd Hatchling enters the battlefield with four -1/-1 counters on it.

and

> Coral Reef enters the battlefield with four polyp counters on it.

Cards with that sort of ability are (almost) always going to have it phrased in a way that fits the pattern of "<card name> enters the battlefield with <n> <type> counters on it."

Lots of other sorts of common mechanics are the same. Additionally, there are the so called "Golden Rules"[4] which are important to take note of when parsing the text of a card.

While Googling for links for this reply I found Gleemin[5], a "rules engine that aims to fully and correctly implement the game's tournament rules, an AI player programmable with expert knowledge and an interpreter for the game's language (the rules text on the cards)"! Seems you're not the first person to think about this!

[1]: http://archive.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg...

[2]: http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiver...

[3]: http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiver...

[4]: http://mtgsalvation.gamepedia.com/Magic_Golden_Rules

[5]: https://github.com/stassa/Gleemin
Or, if you're monetizing a website and one of the largest hosts of your content (imgur) is being actively harassed by a minority of your users, you find a way to mend the insult.

It's becoming more clear that Reddit took action specifically because of the Imgur insult, and that makes a lot of sense from a business perspective. But from a wider perspective it looks very focused and targeted - not in a good way.
I had a sim card from VIVO and they regularly used DNS-hijacking to show me captive portals which tried to convince to pay for more traffic. One thing at least as annoying as that is that Firefox caches that site so that when I close the portal and try to reaccess the original website Firefox shows me again the captive portal.
Has any large website ever managed to stay censorship-free?
There's Tribes: Ascent - http://www.hirezstudios.com/tribesascend/home
No, I'm not really talking about not-implemented-here-syndrome. Yes, you are right, all of those things can be fun to write for fun's sake, but I agree that it's stupid to try to write all of that yourself if your goal is to be productive and complete a game.

My point is, why do I have to use their dopey editor to get at it? Why aren't these things libraries, dependencies that I manage just like any other project I've built since the dawn of time?

For Unity, I can definitely see the appeal of a good "game builder" type application. Game builders have been around forever. Traditionally, game builders were crap, so to see Unity create something that can be used to make games that people are selling, for real money, is pretty cool. Unity was never going to be my cup of tea, but that's fine.

But for UE4, Epic has been a long-time vendor of AAA-quality game engines. I expected a series of libraries for doing the vast majority of things, plus workflow tools for things like baking lighting into textures. That's what I mean about "what ever happened to writing code?" The way you used to wire up a game engine with your models and your gameplay scripts was to write code, not draw boxes in a flowchart editor. Command-line oriented build tools for processing scripts and packing textures and encoding audio and cross compiling could be abstracted through a GUI, but were still available to plunk down on a build server so you weren't wasting cycles on your workstation. I still get the feeling that that is in there somewhere. But where? I just can't imagine a professional game dev house using the UE4 editor.
The world view of the founders was pretty clearly "tech libertarianism" (incidentally, not a view I share), which, in the context of the site, meant a hands-off moderation policy, which allowed the site to deteriorate in many ways but flourish in many others.
Pick the team with the lowest attrition rate. The team to which I was assigned was losing someone every month and I was allocated as cannon fodder to stop the bleeding. It didn't end well.
A couple of different ways that I have heard of:

* SO_REUSEPORT - not reusing the socket, but allowing multiple sockets to bind to a single port. [1]

* Fork / Exec - have a parent process signal the child process to terminate after it has spun up a new version and the new version is accepting connections [2]

[1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/542629/
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9694339
The economic challenges are pretty real, given that consumers, wages, and GDP are all entangled in an interdependent way, when things are out of balance for a long time it leads to sometimes rather abrupt corrections.
I'm not so sure this card is on cost.

My neural network is telling me that it's actually too good at 4 mana.

Don't forget about potential combos like having a bunch of zero cost creatures in your graveyard + anything else that triggers when you play a spell or when a creature enters the battlefield. But even without that, this is a card advantage machine.
Virtual reality amusement park in China
WiFi can be used to count people with or without electronic gadgets
But the reason that Time Warner has a monopoly because the city granted them a monopoly--not because of technology. Plus, politics and regulation make it difficult for new entry into their market.
It's unclear what you're even arguing for. Naive falsificationism? Even Popper didn't argue for that.

Science works by building theories and programmes of research. A single counterexample, contrary to what you seem to think, doesn't invalidate a theory--it's driven by multiple lines of evidence. And ESR's strategy of digging through comments of source code to quote out of context fragments doesn't even approach providing a single counterexample, particularly when he admits that he's in a quest to show that climate scientists are a conspiracy, part Gaian-religionists and part KGB psyops. Like, really.
I never understood why reddit was so lenient with its community. There are so many racists and hateful subreddits, that attract more and more people like that, that makes the community as a whole worse.

I'm really glad that moderation actions like that are taken, and I'm sad that people reply to that by "harassing" the CEO...

Hopefully such people will get frustrated by such events and will eventually leave reddit.

Note that it's mostly people posting to /r/punchablefaces that are reaching r/all right. Another hateful reddit for you...

PS: FWIW, /r/all has always been pretty bad. If you want a good reddit experience do like me: unsubscribe from most subreddits and suscribe to smaller subreddits with active moderators.
Nothing you said actually means they could not have done the job. You basically said, we gave them a test and they failed so clearly the test was a good idea.

The only way to validate your highering process is to randomly accept people you would otherwise fail. Anything else is meaningless.
If they really want to go down this road, it feels like there's only one destination: real Know-Your-Customer-esque identity verification to prevent registration of duplicate accounts, like banks and X.509 CAs do.

If-and-when they do that, they will finally have an actually-effective tool (in the form of being able to ban people "for good") to stop harassment. Until then, it will just go on forever.
This is like dream come true for voat dot co. I highly doubt there is going to be mass migration like it was with Digg but Voat is going to get quite a few users in the near future for what it's worth.

In any case, Reddit has become a new mainstream site full of propaganda, censorship, shadowbanning, hand-picked news, etc. I've noticed a sharp decline in the last year or so.

It's not even their new policy, it just feels like it Reddit got big enough to finally join any other mass media source of information, not in a good way.
Closure is much more tightly typed and namespaced, it has a larger library of pre-built components, it bans (via compiler warnings) practices that are hard to maintain, and it errs toward verboseness. All of these improve the readability of code at the expense of its writability. In a large established organization, you read code much more than you write it. In a startup, you write it much more frequently than you read it.
> he was never dumb enough to try to police 4chan

This is not true, there was a massive controversy and subsequent schism less than a year ago.

A "folk history" (if you're feeling generous enough to call it that) of the episode here: https://encyclopediadramatica.se/M00t%27s_GamerGate_Sellout
I also knew a guy who wore a seat belt and it broke his neck when he crashed his car into a tree. I still wear a seat belt.
(And if anyone has any doubts that this is ultimately about harassment, count how many of the posts on the front page (and their comments) are made up of personal attacks and/or obscenities targeted at CEO Ellen Pao.)

I think people are just upvoting anything that is critical of reddit at the moment. I doubt most people actually care who, if anyone, is being targeted.
It really depends where you look and what subreddits you subscribe to. Opening reddit this morning looked exactly the same to me as any other day, except for one thread because I'm subscribed to /r/subredditdrama.
The Unkillable Demon King
If, like our phones, workstation software actually had to request specific access at install or use, then it would be much more dangerous if software that needed quite extensive access was exploited like this.

But we don't. Our workstations are actually fairly dumb in this regard. Why is that?

Note: Newer Windows an Mac systems might have this with their stores, I don't know. But a store isn't a requirement for this, so why have we had to wait so long?
There are two ways to parse that sentence:

1. Every manager does that

2. Every manager that does that is the problem
The front page is pretty worrying.

The situation seems almost identical to when Reddit axed r/jailbait: one of their more embarrassing communities started to get too much attention, its users were increasingly behaving in a way that was damaging Reddit, and Reddit decided to kill it (ostensibly for the greater good of the site).

But even though that pissed plenty of people off... I don't recall the front page being totally dominated by calls for anyone's head on a silver platter. Reddit's userbase seems to feel especially threatened by Ellen Pao, and it's hard for me to believe that the difference is anything rational.
seems like this thread is inevitable on HN. I see no harm in discussing it within this thread. It hasn't been "brought to HN" until it's getting in the way of other things.
In case anybody was wondering what the five communities are, here's the list of names:

/r/FatPeopleHate

/r/HamPlanetHatred

/r/TransFags

/r/NeoFAG

/r/ShitNiggersSay
It's a shame this didn't get any traction. You might try posting again with a more descriptive title.
Isn't it both? I don't see how moderation (in the form of removing/editing content) isn't censorship.
Absolutely no one is paying for content online.

Techpinions, the Information, and Ben Thompson would all disagree.
Because it was spilling out into other subreddits. I had FPH on a filter, but you could go to any other post with a photo of someone who was overweight and there'd be an upvoted comment calling them a "hambeast".
It would be good if you could disable the scrolling js on vibby.com as it makes the mobile site harder to use.
The only people who have a vote on this are the big miners. Unless > 50% of the miners, by hash capacity, make a change that affects the blockchain, it doesn't happen. The top 4 mining operations control more than 50% of the hash rate. Nobody else matters.[1]

If the blockchain runs out of capacity, the transactions with the biggest fee attached get processed first. So the free market will solve any overload problem.

Bitcoin volume in dollars isn't increasing.[2] The peak was over a year ago. The number of transactions is up, but not the total dollar value. Some of the transactions are just "mixing" transactions, to assist in money laundering. The companies that offer such services are quite open about this.[3]

[1] https://blockchain.info/pools
[2] https://blockchain.info/charts/estimated-transaction-volume-...
[3] https://bitlaunder.com/
OP was obviously being sarcastic to express his frustration.
Whitehouse Mandates HTTPS for Government Sites and Services
Did Google recently say that most of their mobile ad revenue comes from iOS users? I could see this prompting a Apple/Google cold war that would go as far as iOS including ad blocking by default in a few years.
This is super helpful. Reminds me of bropages: http://bropages.org/
Brilliant! A great move to re-establish to covenant between employers and employees. A clear acknowledgement of how important the employees are to the company. I hope they do outrageously well with this.
Yeah, as bad as /r/all has been (though, I have to admit, I've been amused by the drama), my frontpage looks the same as any other day.
In my academic days I used to refer to say "physics-standing-up" is a different subject from "physics-sitting-down" and needs to be studied separately. Some years after I left academia I had the good fortune to get in contact with the person who introduced me to acting at a very young age and thank her for her contribution to my academic career. About 30% of my success was due to my comfort working in front of an audience--even a panel of examiners is "an audience"--and I had a huge advantage over my peers because of it.

One thing that I'd recommend to anyone seeking any kind of job is taking some improv courses--they are pretty common in major centers and even some smaller towns, and can really improve your ability to deal with this kind of nonsensical interview situation, which tests a bunch of skills that have nothing to do with your ability to actually do the job.
Like the Digg HDDVD encryption drama. http://i.imgur.com/0QLFsPo.png
The reddit admins failed to consider the Streisand effect: they made all of reddit an outlet by taking away the container that kept the hate isolated.
I think there's more than enough room in the market of making better cities for every company to thrive.
If you write the code within the `gen_server` guidelines, state migration is supported by `code_change`:

http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/gen_server.html#Module:code_ch...

For example:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1840717/achieving-code-sw...

BTW, You can even support downgrade. :)
Reddit's userbase seems to feel especially threatened by Ellen Pao, and it's hard for me to believe that the difference is anything rational.

Well, she has basically said that she wants to start cleaning up the "objectionable" sides of reddit. Plus, there is a strong sentiment that content that's critical of her (even the less hateful stuff) has been removed often in the past.
Next year in july: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.0R/schedule.html
Then the new born server would have to know what half-done work has been done/exchanged with the client and recover from there. This seems like an impossible challenge to me, or at least much more complex than sharing the socket while the old server finishes serving its ongoing connections while accepting no new ones.
Plenty of content makers manage to sustain themselves without annoying ads. Just because it's so common doesn't mean we need to just accept it, or that it's somehow "immoral" for content consumers to avoid ads.

Imagine if all content sites funded themselves via spam. When you viewed a site for the first time you'd have to verify your email address, which would then be spammed to oblivion. Would we tolerate that? Would we think it was immoral for people to do an end run around the spam?
> I generally preferred Reddit to HN and will probably end up going to Voat.com like everyone else talks about.

correct url is https://voat.co!
Guy complains that working for massive company X isn't very motivational, decides to leave. This isn't something unique it happens in every industry out there, especially tech. I don't get why this post has the amount of votes it has.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole
Mobile Safari sucks compared to Mercury browser, which already has built in ad blocking and a host of other awesome features. And it is fast...really fast. I barely use Safari on my (jailbroken) iOS devices and don't miss it at all.
Pao is attempting to "clean up"... in an environment that cherishes its traditional freewheeling and unrestrained discourse. Even if the stuff getting cleaned up is just the stuff that most people agree deserves it - for some value of deserves - it's a troubling precedent to set.

Some people find themselves wondering what opinions will be deemed unsafe next. The policies are not exactly clear-cut, and neither are the actions of the administration.
Not sure if something like this should be part of glibc. Just recently there was an ABI break due to the fact that jmp_buf is exposed in the headers to allow embedding the struct[1].

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/605607/

(Also, I ended up mixing up ucontext.h with setjmp.h in my comment above; Lwan uses ucontext.h as a fallback. There are coroutine implementations that will use setjmp/longjmp, or at the very least reuse the jmp_buf struct and roll their own asm, though.)
ESR is a global warming denialist. It's possible for people to publish hypotheses that don't support or that contradict climate change, but it's frankly playing it a bit too cute for you claim what he's doing at all approximates scientific discourse.

Like, for real. He more or less explicitly lied when reviewing the stolen Climategate source code, very deliberately and consciously presenting commented out code in a way to deceive his audience and provide talking points for right wing media. And when called out on it, he refused to take it down or even acknowledge the critique.

Unless you also think it's mean to call Rush Limbaugh a global warming denialist, calling ESR out on this is totally fair game. He's a hack. I wouldn't say the same thing of, say, Lindzen, but ESR is very committed to motivated, destroy-the-liberals reasoning, for the good of the Party.
Me, too. I just blocked it on all devices on my home network. I wouldn't want to touch that community with a 10 foot patch cable.
Home taping is killing music! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Taping_Is_Killing_Music