skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But how do any of us know what online presence others we work with have? I don't pay any attention to what my co-workers do on their own time. They may be jerks in quite a few arenas; it can be quite invisible to me.
No, but then my country is not part of a decades-long effort to unify the continent it resides on under a single financial and regulatory regime; we finished doing that roughly 150 years ago.

No, you tried to do that 203 years ago, but we burnt down your White House.

I'll give you that you unified somewhat less than half of the continent though. ;-)
greece had primary surplus last year http://www.globalizedblog.com/2015/02/greeces-primary-surplu...
Throw an Error to reject it.
I'll bet it's happened to anyone who has even slightly stepped into the spotlight of the Internet at large. I've received all kinds of death threats via PM, some extremely 'creative', and I've died precisely zero times. It's one step higher than fiction on the 'I need to worry about this' scale, and every investigative/institutional agency in the world agrees.
There is a way to reject it in the .then() callback. You just throw.
I guess that depends on whether you see making a promise you have no reason to believe you can keep is better or worse than being dumb enough to believe it.
Or perhaps it is a case of the "10,000 Monkeys" effect:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
You never covered articles?
You're trying to move the goalpost here, and folks are right to not let you do it.

If you think abusive behavior is OK, show some courage of your convictions and just say it outright. Don't sit here playing word games that make you look like a coward.
I wonder if this will end up being "The Interview" in Piketty's career. I realize it was translated but even so it seems the most inartful discussion of a complex subject by someone considered an expert that I've seen in a long while. I reminds me a bit of Linus Pauling's interviews about vitamins where he goes off the rails.
There is a small culture of people online who make a hobby of harassment. They don't have an agenda. They aren't representative of anything. They're not distinguished by being part of any particular industry, race, sexuality or economic status. They are simply selfish individuals.

They do it because it gives them little endorphin pops to think about how upset their victim must be and because it is a very low risk activity. That's all there is to it. They don't particularly care about "women in tech" or "women in gaming" to any extent beyond the fact that the controversy gives them a hook they can latch on to dig a reaction out of their victim. Or infinitely better: the press!

The only way to prevent this activity is to attach a small but concrete level of risk to it. Quoting the article that chuckcode linked about Reddit's "Violentacrez":

> "My wife is disabled. I got a home and a mortgage, and if this hits the fan, I believe this will affect negatively on my employment," he said. "I do my job, go home watch TV, and go on the internet. I just like riling people up in my spare time."
Well, is that how it's supposed to be functioning?

The tweet says it's a security vulnerability, their response says it's functioning as designed. Not mutually exclusive.
Is there a smartphone these days that doesn't come with hotspot capabilities? I use mine constantly, and more often than not (when traveling domestically in the U.S.) my LTE speeds far outstrip hotel/airport provided speeds.
Once upon a time in the distant past, people entered programs on punched cards. They read these in to the mainframe and came back a few hours later or even the next day to see the results. Often there was no useful output, as a result of a simple syntax error.

Students taking introductory Computer Science courses made a lot of simple syntax errors. Some people at Cornell University wanted to help students out. So they wrote CUPL.[1] Cornell University Programming Language.

CUPL attempted to discern the programmers true intention when encountering a syntax error in PL/I. The error message was of the form:

blah blah error
STANDARD FIXUP TAKEN
EXECUTION CONTINUING

This was useful to people who actually wanted to learn PL/I, but for us early hackers it was more amusing to just feed in random data and see CUPL attempt to turn it into legal PL/I. Unfortunately it didn't usually do a very good job.

Moral: Some ideas in CS have been around for many many decades.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_University_Programming...
related https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_invasions_of_Vietnam
I've sort of thought that this was a fairly consistent phenomenon since the origin of the internet, and that as more and more people come online they've been exposed to it and don't think it's reasonable. And to some extent they're right - it's not reasonable. Unfortunately being a public figure, especially by critiquing that phenomena, is going to attract more of that abuse.

It pains me to see people call that sort of thing an issue with the "tech industry", though. Not that the tech industry is perfect, but that grouping in the internet trolls with people who care and want to fix the things that do need fixing is really counter-productive when you're trying to win a war of hearts and minds.
>That's effectively what Japan is doing, by having its central bank loan money at 0.1%.

Does that make it more conceivable that Japan will eventually pay down its debt?
You're setting the bar for redpiller remarkably low, I must note.
You mean damn those Greeks wanting to run their own lives? Something that was violently crushed and kept through an oppressive military junta?
I've worked with some weird ass people over the years, so this post is, sadly, not surprising.
In addition to this, as CEO, it is her job to get in front of the preexisting issues with important stakeholders of the site. She hasn't done so. In fact, relations have degraded to this low state under her watch. And where does the buck stop, if not the CEO?
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> why more women don't speak at conferences or at meetup groups or contribute to open source software

Whatever, Plenty of women do all the things you said without issues.
Agreed mholt.
I never said this harassment was ok. It is not ok and threats can be followed up by police if she really wanted to get even...
I am saying that it looks like modern day internet trolling to me. Sign on Xbox live or a modern gaming network ..
People are threatening and calling each other vile names all day long. No one cares if you're a female/male or what your ethnicity is. However, if you provide that info, that gives them more ammo to try to mind fuck you ... The aim is to frazzle you w/ extreme comments. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=For+the+lulz
This has nothing to do w/ the tech industry. I only voiced that I am getting tired of people, especially now-a-days, going on a bash party against men every time some woman goes through something. The majority of men, regardless of industry, still want to respect and protect women.
So, here we are.. A woman gets trolled on the internet and, because she feels she's the center of the world, it's ok for her to incorrectly cast this against males in the tech industry? The majority who are running to her defense and ready to fight each other to the death to prove they are worthy of women? .. Come on, give me a break.. That's what i'm trying to say.
And there's deeper issues to address here really. Were "equals" but the gender defending still isn't. Men are still running to the rescue of women at the slightest peep of wrongdoing.. The reverse isn't true.. So, I stated in extended commentary : Contrary to what is being portrayed, men still are stepping all over each other to defend women.

The rampant retraction of the upvotes my initial post is seeing just goes to show how men are willing to stab each other in the throat even when the truth is mentioned just to show a woman that they support them. Those same base tendencies are what steered a bunch of trolls to target Jessie. Same root.. Different leaf.

unbelievable .. Yet another showing though that you get the society/industry you deserve.

\/ To the link below.. keep up the shallow fight.. If you're not comfortable digging into the dirty details of the root, you're just playing whack-a-mole .. Feels good but nothing is achieved and you're likely being manipulated towards some further end-goal that is more harmful (for us all).
I have been on webforums since I was a wee lad and I've spent much of that time as a dyed in the wool troll. I "get" trolling. I understand the psychology that drives people to troll. I've been trolled myself. But there is a difference between calling somebody 'and idoit' and the sorts of harassment that is still all too common today.

Don't think I don't understand how it happens. I went to /v/ at the height of gamergate. I've seen doxxings before too. But as I've become an adult it has become a deeply disturbing part of a culture I once cherished as my own.

But if nobody speaks up, if nobody is there to raise the counterpoint and make a frustrated social outcast think about what he's doing, change will come too slowly for me to be fine just sitting by and letting it happen.

I don't want to diminish what you've had to deal with either. I don't think it's somehow more OK. But I don't think that anybody should have to deal with bullshit based on their cultural history or who they are, regardless of how it's presented. If you had written that post about he shit you've had to deal with being black in a primarily white field, I would still be here, as disgusted and as eager to see a change.

Is this a problem which applies exclusively to the tech industry? No. But I refuse to accept that it's just part of living in the internet age. I truly believe that if we can make people understand just how not-ok this sort of thing is, we have a shot at correcting these sorts of behaviours for the next digital generation.
Hahaha yeah, couldn't be that people are downvoting you for legitimate reasons, no sirree! Can only be white-knighting!
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> Every time I see posts like this, I see people commenting on it with varying statement to the effect of "that's a shame, but most people in tech aren't like that", or "I'm so tired of seeing posts like this, quit making a fuss."

I'm tired of people whining in a blog post instead of calling the police.

Death threats and violence threats like this are unacceptable. CALL THE POLICE. After a couple of high-profile cases put these kinds of assholes in jail it will stop.
>That should be enough to tell you that even if the majority are lovely people, the industry as a whole still has a problem.

Is that really the case, though? If there's a violent criminal in a town, does the town as a whole have problem? Is the whole town to blame for the acts of that individual?

We should do what we can to stop this sort of abuse and make things better, but why do we have to spend so much time allocating blame to everyone in same field of work?
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This is my problem with the piece. In general, these stories aren't "day 0 exploit compromises website, company responds quickly".

These are companies failing to enact the basic security practices taught in introductory college courses. They're companies disclosing a breach six months after it happens, just before (or after) independent researches make it public.

If a few of these companies have used best practices and been caught with new exploits, they deserve to be given kinder news stories than the usual. In practice, though, the story is almost always one of neglecting even basic security.
> You probably haven't heard it from them because complaining about such is so often labeled as "whining" and met with replies of "get a thicker skin."

One need only look here, where many of the responses could be retitled "Talking points from gamergate" or "redpill leakage".
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Thank you for your time. Information is power.
You don't worry about the difference because in practice you are more likely to die in an airplane crash over the course of your life than to die at the hands of an Internet death threat-giver.
My experience as a frequent bicycle commuter is the exact opposite. Taxi drivers are usually the most defensive and courteous drivers on the road; I assume it's because they know that they could be out of a job with one mistake. The only two serious incidents I've had with cars, on the other hand, were both caused by reckless Uber drivers.
Yep, exactly. The majority of the cards I do are either a problem where I convert a sentence from English to X, or it's create a function that takes in these parameters and returns this. Most cards should be challenges, not just quick one word answers.
You are correct nightcracker, I guess I should have said, along with police action.

I think police action may be more difficult than us taking responsibility ourselves. Should be both.
> It may seem counterintuitive, but the fastest and most effective way to stop posts like this turning up is actually to make more of them, until the harassment and abuse stop.

You have evidence to back this up? Honest question.
I have a small theory about harassment in tech.

Posting from a throwaway, as I have been threatened myself.

I know many women in technology. Some have experienced some truly vile online harassment.

Almost all of which is conducted online, anonymously. Not in-person. Instead, it is rape threats via email. Tweets from pseudo-anonymous accounts. Almost never something that can be attached to a real person.

I do not doubt that women receive these threats.

What I doubt is the origin.

Classical hacker culture is very welcoming to hackers from all walks of life. It is, after all, a culture of misfits. People that were rejected from society for any number of reasons, and that found a home in technology.

This is not a culture of bullies, and tech people do not behave like hyper-misogynistic teenagers in-person, whether or not women are present. Socially awkward, sure, but outright hostile? Very unlikely.

We know that there is a small group of hyper-activists. They are well known for online bullying, going as far as to contact employers and families with threats. For lack of a better term, we're going to use the common internet definition: Social Justice Warriors (SJWs).

I think these people are the source of all this harassment and grief. The SJWs are the ones waging a harassment campaign against women in tech.

Think about it: Women are a minority in tech, one that is generally respected in-person.

You could never get people on-board with an extremist view on things like political correctness, gender quotas, that sort of thing... unless they felt like they were under attack by an actively hostile and misogynistic industry.

It is very easy to manufacture that feeling via anonymous rape and death threats. Build a sense of terror and hostility via online trolling, and then use that fear to bring women -- and a vocal number of their male defenders -- over to the side that promises to protect them.

It doesn't take a large conspiracy. Just a few dedicated trolls, and we even know they exist.

Same thing as the outrage over the "whites only" stickers that appeared overnight in Austin -- they were not posted by racists or the KKK, but by anti-racist activists.

Thoughts?
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> Because they have a very compelling future and a really strong product.

Yes, the slightly more convenient, probably illegal, taxi at a higher price, product.
Generally the only trend I see in uber discussions are toxic derailments by people like you screwing up any discussion. It's obviously a good thing, saves drunk driving deaths and "designated driver" has become a thing of the past.
That's true.

Ask a simple group of 5 linguists and they all will give you different answers. This literally happened in a workshop we gave at a college months ago. Quite funny.

While working on grmmr (green-bridge.org) we recognized that so many of us are densely confused when it comes to these metalinguistics. So we just stopped using knives that dissected (metalinguistics) words into words and went for friendlier marker (symbols and colors).

We need to be reminded that a lot of it is just pretend and educated guesses, no absolutes. Markers seem to work better here than knives do when teaching and categorizing language grammar.
Reddit has been going through drama after banning one of its largest hate subreddits and sacking a public facing employee. This has spurred a large number of users to look for other sites.
I don't mean to self-promote, but I've thought a lot about this too and created http://tracket.com as a side project. I haven't actually talked it publicly until right now.

It's sort of a mix between archive.org and google news. It aggregates and archives articles on the web for current events each day. I've been archiving the top stories each day since December 2014.

Part of my interest in this is to preserve human history in the digital age. We already have the means of storing articles, photos, videos and more of current events as they happen. It's a work in progress, but it's something I spend a couple hours each week hoping to improve it over time.

Edit: Take a look at the top stories in January 2015 at http://tracket.com/2015/01
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You're thinking about Something Awful around 2005, or 4chan's /b/ in 2007 or so. That's not what we're seeing.

While I'm hardly a rigorous ethnographer of the Internet's cesspits, my (often firsthand) observations suggest that "for the lulz" was never as significant a motivation as it was made out to be, and it's less so now than then.

Too, trolling "for the lulz" tends to show a pretty typical pattern of high intensity combined with short period -- people doing it just for fun tend to get bored and wander off after a little while, save in the relatively rare case of a high-value "lulzcow" who can be trolled over and over to good effect (i.e., producing responses which lulz trolls consider funny.)

Meanwhile, the attacks directed at our female colleagues seem to vary widely in intensity, but to occur over a relatively long period; sometimes it ebbs, and sometimes (as for example in the wake of increased public prominence, such as a conference presentation) it hits high tide, but pretty much all our colleagues who've chosen to speak up about it have described it as an overall ongoing thing.

That's not a characteristic pattern of lulz trolls; for one thing, they don't have the staying power, and for another, lulz trolls actually do go away if you don't feed them. Instead, that's a pattern characteristic of people who are doing what they do, not for its own sake, but as a tactic to advance some purpose -- in this case, I think a reasonable surmise is that they actually are trying to drive women away from the industry, by making it just not worth putting up the bullshit involved in staying in it.
Because "just coding something" won't cover every method/function idiom you've ever learned. Creating a card with a corresponding challenge can do that. If you just make a Ruby script to practice programming you're allowing yourself to forget another language or framework knowledge.
>If you think abusive behavior is OK

I don't think abusive behavior is OK, I just don't think Internet PMs or e-mails even register above 1 on the 10-point scale of things that are abusive. Sexual assault at a conference is reprehensible and must be dealt with; abusive private messages are an uncomfortable consequence of participating in an anonymous distributed network.
The reason why "trolls gonn' troll" isn't an acceptable excuse is that straight white men don't get told that people are jerking off to their conference talks.

Just google "Kathy Sierra" and see why.
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> Death threats and violence threats like this are unacceptable. CALL THE POLICE. After a couple of high-profile cases put these kinds of assholes in jail it will stop.

What evidence do you have that the police will do something? We could look at people like Brianna Wu and Anita Sarkeesian, who I feel confident we'll agree have experienced massive and credible death threats. They report the threats they get to the police and FBI. Who's in jail as a result?
Uh, a bad experience is a waste of time.

And I'd call these opinions, not ideas.

Not sure if I agree with being downvoted but out of my hands. :)
These days, in Quebec, French (as a first language) is taught using a more-or-less linguistically correct approach, with articles called determiners, dividing sentences into groups and using transformations to understand interrogative sentences. In my days we used a more traditional system, and the time we spent doing grammar analysis was very tedious; we only approached the subject in secondary school. These days they are taught to analyse sentences in 3rd-4th grade and up.
So in the first function you call reject, but in the second function you throw? I don't love the asymmetry.

Also how do you return a value from the second callback? Just return?

If throw and return work that way for then() functions, why not the same for the initial function?
Public transit in SF is a joke.

It takes over an hour to get from most places to downtown.
Probably because most of it is just useless to the general public?

Metalinguistics isn't really the place for people to jump onto and use as the base to improve their language understanding. A lot of it is exceedingly jargon and thus completely inaccessible.
Your friend could always fight shady with shady. Write a script to randomly generate a few thousand email addresses that look like they might be real. :)
There are so many people in the tech industry that have no business being there, that suck and have no passion, that are assholes and aren't willing to teach newcomers. The fact that women in tech is an issue or that women get harassed by men for being in the industry when there are more glaring issues is an absolute mystery.

Men that harass women for being in the tech field are juvenile. If anyone talks to my daughter like that, or sends her messages like that...God help them.
On the contrary, I think that any foreigner being able to buy real estate in the US is a big plus for the country. Think about it, real estate is one of the few things that can never be exported. When foreigners buy in the US, they're divesting money from other possible expenditures in their home country to be invested for a long time in America. This in turn improves the value of real estate, generates jobs on construction, agents, plus local fees, and so many other things that will end up in American pockets. If anything else I would make it easier to sell real estate to internationals.
No, middle-class people had servants back then. It wasn't just the rich.

The lower class, of course, largely were servants.

The industrial revolution opened up other avenues for employment.

Edit: see, for example, http://www.bl.uk/victorian-britain/articles/the-victorian-mi...

"A middle class woman was entirely dependent on a supply of domestic servants, ranging from the untrained ‘slavey’ to a staff of several highly trained specialists."
I think it's fair to say that people who want to write object-oriented Javascript are very excited by class. Those of us who have found that the non-OO nature of Javascript is part of what makes it so productive are... much less excited.
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