skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for sharing! I've been looking for a well structured course to help me navigate through SICP.

It's kind of funny how at my university (one of the better public unis in the world, or so they say), there is no rigorous introduction to computer science. Sure, we have our architecture, and our data structures, OS, and algorithms, and even a "here's how to Java" introductory course. Yet there is no "This is the way to think like a computer scientist and how to understand as a computer scientist would" class.

The result? You can clearly tell there are a lot of people in the cs program who just sort of go by and learn all these periphery (but still important!) topics without ever touching the core principles. I've even seen seniors who are just clueless! I guess the idea is they're meant to figure it out for themselves through a eureka moment? That doesn't seem like a sound structure to me. I'm realizing that I, myself, fall into the lacking-understanding camp and I'm doing my damn best to rectify that. When I get my degree I want to be able to say I'm a computer scientist, and I want those words mean something. I'm hoping that SICP will truly help me understand the core principles.
> Redditors may be the product, but a farm doesn't last long if you don't care for the cows.

But out of Reddit's entire user base how many are actually pissed off enough to go someplace else? Let alone how many are actually pissed off over this or other politics around Reddit and mods. I'd have to imagine the number is very small.
In this situation, it sounds like they are both startup wreckers, not just the woman involved.
I agree with you man. For a site that's geared towards technology blogs there's a huge amount of health articles on here. Not only that, but like you said it attracts a lot of fervent personality types who portray a lot of the cult-like attitudes towards a certain diet or program (Keto is especially bad). Way too much speculation from programmers who think they're outsmarting an entire industry of health professionals.

I have a particular hatred for Soylent but thankfully its quick rise to popularity has drawn upon it a lot of scrutiny and with that has alleviated a lot of the bad that it was originally representing. I still think there are superior alternatives on the market that have pre-dated Soylent but the fact that its been iterated and improved by health professionals and not a Software Engineer says a lot for it.
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Or, use COBOL to pay the bills while you work on your hobby or startup on the side. Having a steady job that doesn't require overtime is sadly often underrated by our industry, but it provides quite a bit of flexibility of its own.

Then again, being stuck in crappy, uninspiring code all day and then getting to use something interesting and exciting in your off time can sometimes make the day job all that much harder to handle...
Ask HN: What are you using the money you made from your side projects?
I'm curious to see what other online entrepreneurs do with the money they've made online.

I remember when I first got started I bought myself computers, went on vacation, and bought some stocks (MSFT, which was pretty much flat through the 2000s).

How about you guys?
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Right, this isn't about firing the person but about the complete lack of communication with all the other people that action affected.

That said, I have to agree with most of GP's points. The amount of vitriol aimed at Pao doesn't seem to jibe with anything she's actually done.
Yeah, privacy is a lot harder than you think. For example, gmail probably has > 50% of my email, since the recipients use gmail. And other compromised providers.

If you really need privacy, try going the gpg way.
> Assuming I wanted to pick up COBOL and land a contract gig, what else do I need to know?

In a saner world, nothing. Someone hiring for COBOL would see a candidate who knows a handful of other programming languages, some database theory, and a little bit of other experience and hire and actually train them.
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Thomas Jefferson was a lot of things, but one of the things he wasn't was at the Constitutional Convention. His writings evidence strains of thought that existed at the time of the founding, but to the extent that you can divine some sort of "intent" on the part of the 40 people who signed the Constitution, his writings do not clarify that intent.
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Regardless of why he won, the fact that he did win at the federal level and would serve no time even if convicted in NY clearly shows that Vance just wanted the conviction for his own selfish purposes. Probably for his conviction numbers. It does not serve society, only its detriment.
Our Matchbox[0] library uses a copy of the ctrie in this repo

[0] https://github.com/Workiva/matchbox
This is a pretty shitty apology. The key problem is that ekjp isn't owning the failures directly. Just look at the language in the post...

"We screwed up."
"We haven’t communicated well..."
"we acknowledge this long history of mistakes..."

This type of language shows a lack of ownership and accountability of the author. It's a huge red flag. If one of my employees wrote something like this I would never have accepted it.

A good apology would have started with something like, "I am sorry." Everything that happens at a company is ultimately the CEO's responsibility. The language used in ekjp's apology does little to reassure me that she actually feels like she owns the failures.
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I think there's an opportunity for funds to service a certain class of higher-tier retail investor with a few tens of thousands to invest looking for an actively-managed vehicle capable of going long and short in a variety of markets while following a particular investment philosophy or thesis.

Institutionally-focused hedge funds can't really do this, being held as they are to their mandates. Co-investing/social investing services like Motif meet part of the need, but only as long only equity portfolio construction services.

A small team comprised of an analyst or researcher with deep expertise in a specific theme, a quantitative risk manager, and a portfolio manager/trader could maybe make a good living for themselves running a $20-30m portfolio for tips.

So I guess that's a new category 6, reliant on the aegis of something like OP's startup. That team couldn't really support themselves independently and they certainly couldn't market to the investors that might actually want to buy in.
To pre-empt a potential reply: you can make the fact that the "is" of "your house is big" contracts freely even more stupid-obvious like so:

Your dog's big.

If it did contract in "your house is big", it would have exactly the same pronunciation, so there's not really much grounds to say it isn't contracted even in that specific sentence.
As someone who has been using reddit for nearly a decade, I can't help but find this whole thing to be completely absurd. Mods are claiming they're the backbone of the whole site, which is complete nonsense. It's the internet; one person steps down, there are thousands to replace them... just like reddit and other sites have always worked. The whole organized "blackout" just felt like a bunch of people on a power trip who didn't want to step away because that would be relinquishing some sort of internet "status." When did it get so complicated?
And they were attacking her with sexist and racist comments. Classic Reddit: 4chan 2.0
I had the privilege of being personally flamed by Derek Smart on Usenet in the mid-'90s.

If achievements had been a thing back then, and had Usenet had them, that would definitely have been one.
I kind of thought that would be your play - I just replied to another comment below; I wonder how close to the mark I am.

I'll be watching closely.
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So Goldman got Federal prosecutors to prosecute a person for violations of commerce law where Goldman was performing no commerce?

Sounds like trumped up bullshit, actually.

According to Wikipedia, this guy was also pursued by the State of New York after being released from jail (since he did nothing wrong) on the same conduct and lost his double jeopardy appeal because a State judge claimed New York was a sovereign entity from the US Federal government and so his constitutional right to not be tried multiple times for the same behavior does not exist.

The State of New York also ultimately lost by failing to show actual violation of claimed statute.
Purportedly, these are 0days from the HackingTeam dump that happened last night. See the previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9836336 and associated files https://github.com/hackedteam
I can not perceive of right and wrong as absolute concepts. Only as concepts which exist when comparing one possible outcome relatively to others. People use some factors to inevitably choose between the choices they see available to them, they will choose what they perceive as having the outcome they desire given those decision trees that they construct. An outcome which they can not see a path to is not a choice, it effectively does not yet exist so they can not choose it.

Guilt to me is what people feel when they realize they made decisions with incorrect or incomplete information, and would of made them differently had they known. Even when the person had no way of knowing the correct or complete information at the time of decision making, in this edge case society has developed a term to attempt to remove guilt from the person by calling it an 'accident'. Often I find the source of guilt to be not looking very far ahead on the decision trees which I eliminate early on as not effecting me. (Guilt can also be simply an act, as demonstrating guilt often leads to fewer negative consequences in our society. Think of all the people convicted where not demonstrating remorse was used as a factor in sentencing or parole denial.)
https://www.openssl.org/about/secpolicy.html
> I'm talking about someone religious that may not agree with gay marriage because of their religious beliefs, but treats everyone equally (gay, straight, or trans).

Your "not agree with" is hiding a lot. If someone is trying to make it illegal for one group to marry (and legal for another group) then how is that treating everyone equally?
Qihoo 360 is very successful in starting a hype in China and some tech company believe that installing it is good practice.
I tend to (maybe unjustly) associate the Reddit community as being the Gamergate community.

I think Ellen Pao may immediately conjure up a perceived connection with the SJW scene, especially after her lawsuit. If I had to guess, that's probably where a lot of the hate is derived from.
Because Cobol keeps getting updated to follow up with times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL#COBOL_2002_and_object-or...
Agree, this seems to be a modern interpretation of this. Charles (http://charlesproxy.com) does this pretty successfully. They let you use the full app, but only run for a 30 minute block.
Why do they believe that? What does it offer that other tools don't?
For the unawary, the latest standard revision is actually from 2014.
Exactly. I'm not a Cobol programmer but I did learn it in school. From this limited experience and from speaking to some older guys who actually do it for a living, there's probably no language out there that's better at what Cobol is all about: report generation. Not to mention decimal arithmetic.
I'm not sure this is accurate. Aside from the protest over the weekend, over 150k people (non-moderators) signed a petition to have Ellen Pao removed as CEO. That doesn't seem like a tools issue.
"... the criticism Wallis and Wickramasinghe’s claims have received in just the past few hours ... can be condensed into two points: (1) Wickramasinghe has a history of making wild and unfounded claims (2) This latest claim is wild and unfounded. ... [S]cientists affiliated with the Rosetta mission have dismissed the claims of alien life out of hand. Project scientist Matt Taylor called them 'pure speculation.' Monica Grady, a co-investigator on Philae’s chemical-analyzing instrument Ptolemy, echoed Taylor’s criticism, dismissing the claims as 'highly unlikely.'"

http://io9.com/what-other-scientists-are-saying-about-todays...
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Exactly, and my answer is 1000 times more empirical than yours. You imagine some tiny butterfly effect that might impact something vague but are ignoring the masses of evidence of the straight forward problems.

Hoofbeats, horses, etc. Also, when we deal with the horses we'll have a chance to check for any odd zebra.

(ie, even if you're right, the way to check is deal with the other 99% of the problem first...)
Who's going to trust this? Google is so quick to terminate technologies that I'm hesitant to try anything new that they bring to market.
Disclaimer: I have been a moderator on a website of slightly less than a million registered users from 2003 to 2008 so I have my heart on the moderator's side.

The moderators of Reddit actually have very legitimate issues and are bringing points that need to be addressed. Moderators of websites as big as reddit should be managed correctly and supervised. They should also have a line on communication with the administrators of the website for issues such as this one.

They should also receive proper tools needed to ensure that their work is done correctly and in a timely fashion.

Reddit's moderators have even greater responsibilities than moderators of more normals websites have. Their efforts on this point should be rewarded or at the very least recognized. It isn't the administrator of Reddit that attracts celebrities to the websites. It isn't the administrator of Reddit that create the quality content that is in subreddits like /r/askhistorians, and /r/science and all the other serious subreddits. It is the users and superusers, all self-managed by the moderators.

Some subreddit are ecosystems that are bigger, better staffed and more organized that a lot of websites out there.

To say openly that moderators and content creators are simply creating a ruckus out of nothing and should be ignored is biting the hand that feeds you. Those people are people of passions, and people of passions will hate quickly and move on to a better suited ecosystem even faster.

The firing of that employee was only the bottlecap blowing out from all the pressure. She also ended up a martyr to push the strike into the mind of regular users. Otherwise, she is barely related to what happened on reddit recently.
This is the first I've heard of there being explicit rules and measures on the replacement subs. My understanding is that they were banned because they represented an attempt at ban evasion (which is itself a serious violation of reddit policy and always has been), but I admit I haven't done much research on the replacement subs because I didn't think it was particularly important.
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>in real life if this happens

Except he claimed it was a "logic puzzle," and he does not meet the requirements of a logic puzzle as the term is used. If you're allowing misuse of terms, then anything is possible, and my solution is as ridiculous as his, given the claim.

In fact, it's formally provable his solution makes the problem not a logic puzzle. Logic puzzles, by definition in the genre, require statements to have truth values, hence the word "logic."

If labels are either true or false, as is always the case in style of problems labeled "logic puzzles" unless the statement claims a random outcome, then his puzzle leads to the red solution.

To see the logical outcome of his "solution", by putting the treasure in the in the green box, the label "the treasure is in this box" on the green box is true.

Then the label "exactly one of the labels is true" on the red box has indeterminate truth value, because it cannot take the value true (since then both it and the green label are true), and it cannot take the value false (because then exactly one of the labels is true, contradicting the red label).

Thus, under his solution, the "logic puzzle" is not a logic puzzle. Statements cannot have indeterminate truth value by taking a final answer and working backwards and cancelling any statements that become indeterminate.

He even finished with "16 people correctly said that the treasure was in the green box. This has to be counted as a lucky guess, unacceptable as a solution to a logic puzzle."

So he claims any "correct" answer to his non-logic puzzle had to be a lucky guess? Well, he got that right - the green solution is certainly unacceptable as a solution to a true logic puzzle.
> Mods are claiming they're the backbone of the whole site, which is complete nonsense. It's the internet; one person steps down, there are thousands to replace them... just like reddit and other sites have always worked.

Perhaps we're seeing people slowly become aware of this fact. In any other context, having given long hours of uncompensated labor to a for-profit entity that views them as completely disposable is not something that most people would feel great about.
Ask HN: When the fruit bowl is no longer filled
I've now worked for two companies that have stopped filling the fruit bowl. The first company started to let go of staff around the same time when they stopped filling the fruit bowl.

The second company, which I now currently work for, is still employing staff and seems to be in positive territory. Last week, the daily fruit bowl stopped being filled without reason.

For an office space of approximately 30 staff, what possible cost-benefit analysis could justify canning the fruit?
They cannot repay this debt. France debt to gdp is reaching 100%. They cannot even gather the political steam to stop increasing their debt, and they have a pension wall coming their way, an ageing population, an increasingly illiterate and unemployed youth. This debt will never be repaid.

And like all individuals who keep borrowing more to sustain their life style, and who use the credit card to repay the interest on their loan, it stops when creditors loose trust in them and stop bringing fresh money. And then it collapses. It is an almost identical mechanism than a ponzi scheme.
Yes, you can. Such licenses only apply on distribution, so if you're not distributing it, it doesn't matter.
I'm sure this happens a lot. But I'd have expected more of an effort to gain the trust of the users, which would seem to me to be an important element in all this.

Reddit is not exactly an ordinary business, Yahoo and Apple are not comparable in that the cohesion between Yahoo users is much lower than between redditors and Apple makes hardware and is much more a business in the traditional sense.
> The level of abuse being directed at Pao seems disproportionate to her deficiencies as CEO.

I have a hard time attributing recent events directly to Pao, though with her being CEO I guess ultimately the buck does stop with her.

> I can't avoid the niggling thought that this is really still about ethics in game journalism.

That could well be the case (though I fail to see the connection), but that still does not explain why she was initially picked and that's what my question is about. I can't imagine it was just a roll of the dice.
Reddit users are too stupid to effectively use reddit.
I was eager to watch this video but I found it disappointing. The presentation was disorganized and unfocused, although Bourne did have some interesting war stories about Bell Labs. A specialist in writing shells might enjoy this talk, but there wasn't much value for a generalist like me.
Why mentors won't help your startup
If I were you, I'd leave all three and find a job (any job) in a completely different town.
One look at the completely irrelevant second sentence of the petition to remove her [1] should tell you everything to know about why users are actually angry at her. This outcry would've been minor if reddit had a male CEO without the failed lawsuit in the rear view mirror.

Reddit has harbored toxic subreddits for long enough that they've nurtured a huge user base of racists and misogynists. It's a demographic crisis and it apparently doesn't take much to incite these mobs. These vocal and active users hated Pao before she became reddit CEO and these events were entirely predictable.

[1] https://www.change.org/p/ellen-k-pao-step-down-as-ceo-of-red...
Databases often don't enter into it. A lot of mainframe COBOL work is batch-oriented. It basically just streams through a series of flat files.

Source: I worked for a bank in my youth, which involved writing COBOL.
Unless social programs turn out to be unexpectedly cheap or gun law enforcement unexpectedly expensive, gun laws are probably the cheapest, smallest-delta intervention against mass shootings.
I don't trust the APA's position on anything with strong political standpoints since homosexual lobbyists/activists pressured them for several years leading to their 1973 decision. Being disrupted and threatened for years and knowing a single statement with no immediate consequences to them could make it all stop - the decision seems easy.

Regardless if that decision might prevent further research into the area and might be justified: it was pre-emptively killed off due to activists and social pressures.

Which makes the APA's position on a related, but different and still politically-charged issue utterly meaningless in my eyes.

There's also substantial evidence against SRS being helpful. So we'll have to agree to disagree based on our sources (which could easily be confirmation bias or simply politically-slanted studies, hard to tell with the lack of research in the area).

It's very difficult to assume that a person who is "certain it will help" will actually be helped by the treatment. It is not a decision someone can make beforehand, but rather a result that happens after. Believing it will have a beneficial outcome and it having a beneficial outcome are not the same thing. Even if someone believed it would be beneficial had a beneficial outcome, that has little to do with their beliefs on the matter.

That's why so many people who believed it would help them regret it after. Their beliefs of what would happen didn't match with the reality of what happened after.