skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Business owners deserve that right, certainly. I don't have to patronize the businesses that won't cater to everyone; Internet forums would do well to remember the definition of forum, and realize that they outmode themselves when they stray from it.

Tell me; Would you support that same hotel owner disallowing the NAACP from renting a room? He disagrees with their economic views. Would you support him ignoring requests from GLAAD, because their color scheme doesn't fit with his drab hotel? Private enterprise refusing to serve those they disagree with should be treated no differently than any other form of bigotry.
I think he was implying that it doesn't.

Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication or other information which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politically incorrect or inconvenient as determined by governments, media outlets, authorities or other groups or institutions.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship
As a reply to jfuhrman's comment, Reddit has recently updated their rules to include "Keep Everyone Safe: You agree to not intentionally jeopardize the health and safety of others or yourself." (https://www.reddit.com/help/useragreement#section_reddit_rul...)

So, many of the deleted posts could have been deleted by the admins, in theory.
Moderators haven't touched this post. Upvotes and flags are in the usual tug-of-war that happens with controversial submissions.
What makes you think TV and radio would disappear?

Can't content creators monetize their shows with other methods than third-party ads? Like selling their own goods and services?
I'm "feminist in that sense," but that's not how I equate the feminist movement, nor how it seems to play out in practice.

That said, I think it's true of lots of other situations. Political parties, for instance, are widely characterized as those "stupid" extremists. If you ask a liberal, Bill O'Reilly is the epitome of a conservative, and if you ask a conservative, Michael Moore is the epitome of a liberal.

In reality, most people on other side are just pretty normal.

I would never identify as a feminist, but certainly I believe in equal rights. I think that typically, people who identify as feminists give the "movement" a bad name.
meh. Mostly from r/punchablefaces which is another hateful subreddit.
It should have gone to the lowest bidder that was able to meet the specifications. Just going to the lowest bidder alone pretty much guarantees trouble.
I don't think it's fair to say "every single piece of software", as the claim that it's impossible to write secure software is just a myth. It's not very hard to write a secure "hello world".

Then there's also Coq and such.

Of course, usually the amount of vulnerabilities exponentially correlates to the size of the codebase.
Fair enough, but this card doesn't hinge on its combo ability. Imagine it in BW weenie with things like Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit.

Even the synergy with Fume Spitter is pretty great. :)
William Saletan does not hold that position. He apologized for the series of columns he wrote, and acknowledged that he sourced them poorly. To argue that he agrees with you today requires you to argue that he wrote dishonestly. Were that the case, I'd have no reason to believe anything he wrote was in good faith. As it stands, the simplest explanation was: he was writing discursively, as an essayist; his ideas seemed good at the time; he was corrected; he changed his mind.

I also didn't call Saletan an idiot, obviously.
I don't think banning a subreddit will solve the problem os assholes on the internet. People have been saying hurtful things before keyboards were a thing.
You'll all be there in a few years if it sticks around.
I don't hear a refutation buried anywhere in there. Did you have something other than base insults to bring to the table?
Makes sense for google. And it's not that I didn't appreciate doing all that (and I did do well), it just struck me how they knew nothing else about me afterward except that I could answer academic questions, and how different that was from the startup world- where, at the very least, you want to know what they're passionate about and that they are productive.

Asking an engineer what their strengths are and then to demonstrate or explain in concrete terms is how you find out their unique value proposition. I'm not talking about "I'm a hard worker" type garbage, I mean "my strongest experience is in systems programming on Linux." "How so?" "For example, I wrote a specialized TCP kernel module that works like this..."

Again, not saying that should be the whole interview- but there are some non-academic skills and experience (like managing and leading a critical system used by thousands of people) that are worth more than a few weaknesses in problems that were already solved years ago and that are easily looked up. It's how you should judge people looking to get into a graduate program, but falls short if you're trying to build teams of awesome fury that need more broad experience and even (gasp) unique experience that you don't have a ready-made question for ;-)
What is a shadow ban like on Reddit?
You're presenting a false dichotomy, being either 'political maelstrom' or 'zero politics'. Politics is not binary like that; it's not a "which is it" situation. Likewise, being able to deal with an issue isn't a binary either, as there are many levels of dealing with something. You're misreading me totally if you think I'm saying it's impossible to have a seminar without political volatility (and frankly, putting words in my mouth).

> No, you were defending the rights of conference organizers...

Once again, for the cheap seats: there's no such thing as a talk free of politics. Just because the seminar content itself is not political doesn't mean that there's no politics involved. If the conference organisers don't want to be associated with a technically proficient but politically bigoted speaker, why should they be shamed into accepting the speaker? Why does the freedom of expression of the speaker trump the freedom of expression of the conference organisers? As I said, conferences are not public services.

Put another way: If I was to organise a conference (and all the work that entails), it'd be a cold fucking day in hell before I would be shamed by stealth bigots who try to cow me into taking a speaker who I found repulsive, personally or politically. It's my damn conference, and I'm trying to present a certain theme in a certain context. Random speakers don't have the right to have their freedom of expression exerted over my freedom of expression - at my conference, I am the big dog. Other people are free to hold their own conferences. If potential speakers want to be bigot in a way I have a problem with, well, that's one of the social costs they pay for having those opinions. Diddums.

Inviting speakers also carries a professional association with that speaker - again, the idea that politics doesn't matter for a seminar is false. There are a ton of speakers out there; who you choose does have an affect on your own reputation.

And keep in mind that most conference talks are not locked-in when the speaker is invited. The organisers frequently don't even have a title for a speaker's talk when the invites go out, let alone the content. How, then, are organisers meant to invite on seminar-merit-free-of-reputation?

> Examples, please?

You've been on HN for four years now, surely you can remember some. Given that I've now had to re-explain my position three times, I'll leave this history search to you.
Previous Reddit CEO's have made lots of statements about wanting the site to allow relatively free expression, aside from things like doxxing and pedophilia. Ellen Pao has instead talked about turning Reddit into a "safe space", which is a common euphemism for eliminating dissenting viewpoints.

FPH in and of itself isn't the most defensible or tasteful subreddit, but they're going to start by banning the least defensible subreddits first. Once the precedent is made, they can start banning political dissent subreddits.
I don't think the miners have as much say as you think. If the users all get together and hard fork the protocol, either the miners go along with it, or their blocks will be rejected, no matter how much hashing power they have.

The only thing they could reasonably do is go rogue and try to 51% attack the new fork. If they did that successfully, however, they'd be showing that bitcoin isn't as strong as people think it is, thereby destroying their own business (it really is practically being mined by only 5 to 10 miners nowadays).

This is why I like alternative coins like Peercoin and Neucoin which are trying to iron out the details of proof-of-stake. Even Ethereum is supposedly going to move to a proof-of-stake model.
Yep. It's just a nice reminder for me to quietly stay subscribed to r/scala, r/learnprogramming, and r/AskHistorians.
> constantly I'd post on a thread here only to see it disappear with no explanation.

We surely don't have the same experience with reddit then, most big subreddits have a huge amount of rules and posting to them will just cause a bot/moderator to remove your thread and ask you to make changes
Used to; that's what's changing.
From their homepage: "By 2050, the population in cities will double, intensifying existing socioeconomic, public health and environmental problems."

Yes.

People move into a few big cities because companies companies like Google congregate there, ultimately creating problems such as skyrocketing rents, congestion, declining real living standards, homelessness.

Google holds an obvious solution in its hand. By altering their way of working they could support remote working, creating clusters of specialized work forces and communities online rather than in a narrow physical location.
User keeps seeing their comments, but other users cannot see their posts or their user page. Only Admins can shadowban. Mods can use a tool called automoderator to remove posts by certain users but only in their subreddit.
If you throw a bunch of children into the water and thereby force them to either sink or swim, those that know how to swim will and those that don't will sink.

This will filter out those that can't produce content that people are willing to pay for. Hopefully this will kill low quality content. Those producing high-quality valuable content will be recognized by those that know how to make money from quality content those partnerships will be the ones that learn to swim.

Advertising supported content has increased the noise and drowned out the quality. It will be nice to once again hear more of the people with something worth saying.
this is exactly how intro to programming language should be (for people who already know other languages)
Explain succinctly what problem(s) it solves.
From http://www.sidewalkinc.com/: "By 2050, the population in cities will double"

Is the best solution a frontal attack? Or could it be moving away from existing cities?

Could one design a new city from scratch?
Gloria Steinem worked for the CIA, not the KGB ;-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4H...
sure, but if their homebase is on the same site as your programming community (for example), the chances of it spilling over a lot higher (especially given how reddit works, with a lot of cross polination)
All things being equal, larger blocks are better.
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In Australia this (fans of different teams sitting with each other instead of separate) has been normal for AFL (Australian Football League) matches since forever. It creates an atmosphere of friendly rivalry and discussion amongst people sitting near each other instead of animosity. You commonly get some quite funny and friendly banter going on between rival supporters.
> It's akin to a hotel owner disallowing a Klan meeting in the conference room. I think any business owner deserves that right.

Sure. But if your business derives its customer base from its longstanding support of freewheeling speech, more than a little pushback is to be expected.

> I dunno, the blog post seems fairly clear cut to me. It's not about blocking content, it's about blocking subreddits whose sole purpose was harassment of individuals.

If your only context is the blog post, it seems exceptionally clear. From following some of the discussions, I'm also aware that they came down on exactly five subreddits while ignoring many others. In a few cases, they appear to have tacitly approved of some.

So the result is that it's not clear what they come down on, why, when, or what gets their attention. Except bad PR - that seems to work miracles.
I love the irony of (poorly, see #8) censoring the original image

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ae/HD_DVD_Night_...
It allows you to use another processor to do control flow based on an input, freeing up cpu time. For example, suppose you wanted to emit to DOWN:

0 if LEFT is <= 0
UP if LEFT is > 0

So you have two options

S: MOV LEFT ACC
JGE E
MOV 0 DOWN
MOV UP NIL
JMP S
E: MOV UP DOWN

Or you could do this:

S: JRO LEFT
MOV UP NIL
MOV 0 DOWN
JMP S
MOV UP DOWN

And left would send 1 if its value is <= 0, or 4 if it's >0. In this case it only saves one cycle for the node under consideration, but it could be a good deal more if the conditional is more involved.
I am not but curiously enough I got the idea from a short response the creator of mythicspoiler had made on a reddit thread asking for an api to find similar cards or some such. He mentioned that he had played with n-grams but found it to be a dead end.

I ran with the idea and found a version weighted on matched n-gram length gets reasonable results.
as another comment said "If you want a good reddit experience do like me: unsubscribe from most subreddits and suscribe to smaller subreddits with active moderators."

r/hiphopheads, r/nba and r/comicbooks are great communities in their own right
If the stories had really been the same we would have merged the threads and left a "comments moved to..." post in the other one. But I was worried that the delta was a bit too great to deprive those comments of their original context. That particular dilemma doesn't come up all that often, which is good because we don't have a good solution to it.
It's a bit harder to link to this type of stuff because by definition its been removed, but for example,

this sub has been banned today: https://np.reddit.com/r/paoiskillingreddit

here's a thread regarding a joke removed about two weeks ago:
https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/378smw/a_jo...
It's worth noting that reddit is a big place. The majority of subs are largely free of this nonsense - it's the accumulation of it all that makes it look so prevalent.

I only noticed what was up when The Verge wrote an article on it, for example, since I tend to browse subreddits directly.
T:A is the game which is being left to rot. Devlopment has been abandoned, the community ignored, and the game heavily incomplete. Management, when it existed, was incompetent.
Yup. The publisher won't want those users on their site anyway if they can't be monitized.
A group? To my understanding, "SJW" is a pejorative naming from the other side of the scale.
I think the key is that R (and S before it) were designed from the start to provide a continuous path from being a user to being a programmer. Unlike real programming languages, you can get a lot of value out of R without really coding. Its a great statistical calculator and has good graphics. Then you can move relatively easily into scripting a few repetitive tasks, and then on into writing simple programs.

One consequence of that is that R has a lot of 'non-programmer programmers', statisticians and domain experts. Some of them write libraries that encode their domain knowledge. Then over time that adds up to having library support for more different types of analysis than any other language. I personally dislike R as a language, but I often end up using it because it has a library for some task that just doesn't exist in Python.
Hey, I was just going to mention how easy it was for me to move... to right next to your cube! (I'm in V8.)
Who is trying to control and rein in antivirus companies?
Ah yes some kind of normalization for the sail's velocity would be cool. The whole systems dynamics gets a lot slower as you get away from the sun, so it gets frustrating to see what happens with those; and it is hard to execute manuevers near the sun. (Maybe normalize for constant angular speed and display e.g. 'Time at 3.5x'?)
He's also been sued for a building which, in the mid-afternoon, would focus the sun's rays into the eyes of incoming motorists on a nearby highway.

Gehry buildings are striking and inspiring, but he does have a history of surprising practical harms.
Kaspersky's technical paper on Duqu 2.0,[0] begins with: "The initial attack against Kaspersky Lab began with the targeting of an employee in one of our smaller APAC offices." It notes that the next step was compromising other machines on LAN. But they only discuss Windows, and don't even mention OSX, BSD, Linux, etc.

I'm wondering how lateral movement to non-Windows machines would have been accomplished.

[0] https://securelist.com/files/2015/06/The_Mystery_of_Duqu_2_0...
OK so the Safari 'No Ads' button effectively becomes a 'Do Not Track' button. Users still see ads, just not targeted at them specifically.

This is a very effective response by publishers because many users who would have enabled 'No Ads' simply will not bother to enable 'Do Not Track'
I was saying your statement is obviously false. The onus is on you to provide proof for your original claim, not me.
I don't see that option. Perhaps you can PM me?
> Are you suggesting entertainment doesn't have a value of its own?

Yes, exactly.

Netflix is paywall for entertainment. Youtube does have some educational content. Some of it generates revenue from ads. Although those who actually do create educational content, do it for self expression or as a token to return to community.

Just another day there was a top ranking comment about Apple's music streaming service. The TL;DR was that there are millions of great musicians who do not care about profit, they care about music.

I think art is about self expression, not means to making money. Somehow it is much more prominent in tech community with open source and bunch of free information. The information that is actually valuable.

Of course we do have day jobs, but there we get paid for implementing something that people actually need.

I realize this is probably a unusual worldview, but perhaps we are too much entertained and not enough educated?
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I'm sure it knew it was a target for this kind of thing since they did exhibit bias. That is to say they showed greater interest in exposing western gov't hacking capabilities and activities than they did in exposing Russian and Chinese govt actors in the same arena.

I'm sure this is no surprise to them.
LMAO. I've never seen someone call themselves a SJW. SJW is used by MRA types to put down anyone who wants to have an educated discussion about feminism, rape culture, privilege or any other trigger word that seems to send a bunch of straight white dudes into a frothing mad rage.
Yup, it's like trying to clean up a crack neighborhood when the rent is already cheap everywhere else.

You cant gentrify reddit because there's no incentive to be the first to go back to the cesspool.
I'm quite sure that it will take more than that to kill Reddit. The fact that I haven't heard of Voat anywhere else but HN reinforces my belief.
is /r/fph and relevant subreddit affecting reddit's advertising income that much that they needed to be shut down? if the subreddits were such a huge issue it's kind of interesting that I've never realized it till this thing broke today
I agree with you, but it's still easier to fire someone than to un-not-hire someone ;-)
I think they have now new web interface, which has regular login. Still quite complex and arcane, but looking a bit better and a bit less resembling HTML skin put on top of a good old mainframe UI.
> The alternative to ads alongside my content is ads inside my content.

I love ads "inside" my content when they are done right.

The most effective advertising for me is when an author I like to read recommends a product by directly writing about it because they were paid to do so and they like to use the product. Ad blockers don't block these because they aren't ads, they show up inline with the rest of the author's content (and the author acknowledges it was a sponsored posting).

I am completely happy with this model. The whole reason I read an author is because I like her style and opinion. So a recommendation from her, as long as she genuinely likes the product, is actually interesting to me.

The same goes for video: algorithmically determined video ads at the start or within video content are rubbish and I will block them. But the presenters themselves recommending something in-line I am totally open to watching.
Apparently you're right. I have seen instances of members of this group self labelling as an "SJW" though.
Reddit also has an astroturfing problem
I think this is a something without general and clear-cut answer. I don't think there is something inherently wrong if you run a hotel only for women or people of a specific religion, probably because your offering is tailored to your audience in some way. But if every hotel would start to randomly decided to set up rules who can and can not stay there, I would definitely see this as a case of discrimination. There is tension between your right to run your business the way you like and the right of your potential customers to not be discriminated and there seems not to be a general and easy way to draw the line.
It seems like this is something that should only have to be done once, though.

Ideally: imagine that the government of each state/country—who already have to work out how to deduplicate people for purposes of taxation, Social Security, etc.—acts as an OAuth identity provider. Then doing KYC becomes as simple as having a signup process that requires an OAuth login, and having a whitelist of identity providers you'll accept for that login (presumably just government ones, but there might be interesting edge-cases.)

In other words, imagine a site that detects the country you're coming from, and presents a single button saying "Sign Up with [name of country] Federal IDPass" or something similar.

The first time you see one, you'll probably be forced to set up your Federal IDPass account, which will likely be a huge hassle (though I could see it being as easy as showing up at e.g. your local post office with your regular physical ID. A process similar to voter registration.) Every time after that, it's like logging in with Google or Facebook.
Basing all of your management decisions purely on statistics is a bad strategy. You're assuming that the weighting of good vs. bad candidate is the same, when they're not.

Hiring a good employee is not nearly as impactful as hiring a bad one. If you can have a strategy that filters out 100% of bad employees, but unfortunately also filters out 90% of good employees, this is preferable to filtering only 50% of good employees, but also only filtering 90% of bad employees. You may have more good employees with the latter strategy, but the bad employees can kill the team.