skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The level of abuse the author has endured is ridiculous and she certainly has my sympathies. It reminds me of Louis CK's routine about why he doesn't give his kids cell phones (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HbYScltf1c) which boils down to without seeing the other person they can't empathize about the effect their words will have on other people. I can't help but wonder how these pseudo-anonymous people will feel when they find out that they aren't all that anonymous in the long run. When gawker unmasked "Reddits biggest troll" Violentacrez he certainly had a change of feelings when he had to stand behind his words and actions[1]. Freedom of speech is one of our most important values and anonymity is an important source for social change and equality for all. Using these gifts to rain down insults on others rarely works out well though in person and likely won't work out well on the internet in the long run either.

[1] http://gawker.com/5950981/unmasking-reddits-violentacrez-the...
I only became a Redditor during the Great Digg Migration, and my account is 3x older than /u/ekjp. I think the problem is that they hired someone who had never really used or cared about the site.
People have been predicting 'The coming collapse of China' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coming_Collapse_of_China) for well over a decade now, and the world is still waiting with bated breath.

I mean a stopped clock will still be correct at least twice a day so I'm sure the naysayers will be correct eventually too.

Anyway, I doubt China will suffer massive internal unrest, because those dictators aren't as dictatorial as you might believe and because most of the Chinese population generally support their government, at least in principle, and see instances of abuse and corruption as 'bad apples' spoiling the bunch rather than any sort of problem with the system or government itself.
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Sadly, I'm guessing a scavenged satellite tv dish and a $12 SDR with a home built antenna is not going to let me listen in...

I wonder just how badly TCP would cope with 32million millisecond round trip ping times?
But the banned subreddits had nothing to do with the content on them. This was not even remotely about "offensive material". This was purely about the subreddits engaging in campaigns of harassment against other people. That's not a free speech issue in the slightest. There's no slippery slope here. The only people who should be upset about this are either people who don't understand what happened (which seems to apply to you), or people who think they are entitled to harass other people online without being punished (which is, sadly, a very large number of people on Reddit).
Reddit uproar over the past few weeks has been pretty maddening. The closure of some hateful subreddits was a long time coming, and yet a very vocal contingent of the community took it upon themselves to brigade the entire site, and to spawn a racist 'Chairman Pao' meme.

This uproar has a bit more legitimacy, and I think a lot of mods have right to be mad over not being told about Victoria's firing/layoff/whatever it was (we don't actually know) -- but the response has been a grab bag of assumptions and conspiracy theories. Anonymous Quora posts were taken as gospel; assumptions about what decisions leaders at Reddit made were rampant and then soon themselves became the defacto explanations of what was going on -- without any shred of evidence.

I sympathize with the mods, and think that Victoria's departure hurts mightily the entire IAmA community; but I cannot support the response so far. Go to reddit and click on 'All', and then 'Rising' at the top (warning, some stuff will be NSFW) -- look at the unbelievable vile the 'community' is spewing.
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its not creating a promise that is the problem, its consuming.

Async/await really is a nice sugar, check it out when you have a chance.
I see a lot of comments here ranging from support to trolling... since this is HN there is more support and (at last check) only one troll.

And that's really my point. No matter what, if you put yourself and your two cents into the public domain this stuff is part of the territory.

Granted in a perfect world we wouldn't have such trolling or at the very least there would be some authority doing online moderation and sanctioning. However life isn't and will never be fair, let alone the fact that such policing of the net is just not sensible.

So what to do really? Well I subscribe to the belief that an insult is an agreement between two people, if I don't agree, it's nullified, it doesn't even exist and I'm really not bothered.

Clearly this stuff is getting to her and after reading her blog post it really seems like it's affecting her emotionally. At the risk of being blunt, I think this will just encourage the trolls.

IMHO she either goes forward with a belief structure that deals with the trolling or she (sadly) takes a break from being in the public eye.
If Japan owes debt in its own currency, can it just print money to pay off the debt? If Greece can't devalue its currency this way, is its situation materially different by even just this fact alone?
You bring an empty water bottle and fill it up at the airport. I've never seen an airport that charges for tap water.
I know of two cost-saving measures for Gogo:

1.) Buy your pass on the ground first and it can be half the price.

2.) Some Delta flights offer free video streaming to devices via a Gogo app. Simply click the link that says "I need to download the app" and the internet switches on so it can redirect you to the AppStore. Switch back to a browser and it still works....
I thought that I was the only one who was never taught this.

Go public school system!
I read the books 15 years ago (IIRC, the first 4 or 5), and need to revisit.

But my enduring memory was of a flawed young man becoming overly enamoured with his new messianic role, and making some choices that were questionable.
It's so baffling that they are pushing these changes when only a year or so ago they were preparing to eliminate WHOIS altogether... [1][2]

Does anyone know what led to this complete change in direction?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHOIS

[2] https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/final-report-06j...
Paying the rent on a building takes extra work. Keeping the roof in good repair so it doesn't leak takes extra work. Maintaining an atmosphere of 14% oxygen takes extra work. Just because we call it maintaining existing stuff instead of making new stuff doesn't mean it's not needed work.
I felt the same as well. It was an interesting read, but also felt "link-baity".

(P.S. I will be using that word from now on.)
Greece actually does have such de facto policy, through its miserable and corrupt tax collection mechanisms.

Those other countries seem able to collect tax to fund their governments.
>Because how the Greek's debt conflict is solved will have a severe impact in global economy.

I'm not sure that's true. Greece is a tiny country with a tiny economy. In and of itself it doesn't matter that much. What matters is whether the bond markets think Portugal, Italy, and Spain can avoid similar problems.

Personally I think that's why the Germans are playing hardball. They can't afford to bail out Italy, so they're signalling that's not going to happen.
Which comments were "the author doesn't know what they meant"?
I think you're being a bit overbroad in speaking for all women (that's the kind of thinking which leads to sexism in the first place). Frankly the 'consequences' here are receiving a bunch of unsavoury PMs. i.e., there are no real-world, physical, dangerous consequences. So the fear of contributing to a community because of it is unfounded. It's just a side-effect of Internet culture, and it happens to men too.
>The key advantage with digital is that it's easily copied.

That and the fact that we can store an entire library of data in a searchable space the size of an ice cube.
There's a great movie by Christopher Nolan about exactly this condition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_%28film%29 http://letterboxd.com/film/memento/ Highly recommended.
http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/10/22/online-harassment/

It looks like both genders are harassed quite a bit, younger people being harassed more. What surprised me in this article was men being physically threatened more than women.
Wow. I wonder how the default talks go with Putin...
That's the problem with simply saying "taxis are regulated because of externalities, so they deserve special privileges". Taxis are among the worst, most aggressive drivers on the streets. Medallions mean there are less of them, which is good, but a better system is allowing companies like Uber to take over. Uber drivers are much better than taxi drivers in my experience.
If I had a nickel for every death threat I've received on the Internet I'd be rich. Death threats from Internet brigade squads are wildly different from actual death threats you need to worry about. Hence the downplaying.
here is my solution :
https://github.com/neyer/respect
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I'd be surprised to learn that any of these hotels had e.g. twelve-year linens contracts. For that reason it's really difficult to learn they signed an exclusive wifi service contract for that long. How did they know wifi would still exist now?
>If a debt were a guarantee, then there would be no basis for charging interest.

That's going a bit far. The borrower would still pay interest for the use of the money. Just not very much.
I was just talking to my friend who works at NetFlix on the frontend team about ES6, he is most excited about destructuring `let { name, age, gender } = user;`. I however advocate that the new class syntax is the best part of ES6. Take the following trivial OOP example, which I think reads so much easier a lot like PHP.

"use strict";

class Vehicle {
constructor(name) {
this.kind = 'Vehicle';
this.name = name;
}

printName() {
console.log(this.name);
}
}

class Car extends Vehicle {
constructor(name) {
super(name); //call the parent method with super
this.kind = 'Car';
}
}

let myCar = new Vehicle('Mercedes');
console.log(myCar);
Yeah, there is a lot of potential for abuse. Mostly hoping that it would spur on some additional thinking in this area.

John Oliver's segment was great. What I'm unsure of, though, is how much a cop can really do? The offenders are not necessarily going to be in the same general area. They may not be in the same country. This would need to be handled internationally, in some way, wouldn't it?
"Not common?" Really? This SEEMS pretty common.

And while I believe it's true that not every woman in tech gets harassed, it's obvious that a much higher percentage of them get this sort of shit than men. And it only gets worse as they get more visible for the good work that they're doing.

You say you're tired of this shit. How do you think these women feel? It's not you writing the tweets and emails, but if you become complacent and say "that's just how it is some times" you are a part of the problem.

Never stop fighting for equal treatment. Never say it's OK.
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I've found that you can absolutely chalk up "online death threats" to idiots vying for attention.

Impersonal (distant) threats are not created equal to in person threats.

Edit: The harm is subjective. The whole point of such a message is it's designed entirely to shock or offend. To give the pests actual power over you is the greatest part of the problem.

Not saying it should be ignored either. Instead of being melodramatic, we should be pragmatic like we were with email spam. The next step is to create tools giving greater power to the users to pro-actively prevent such nonsense.
> Or because they feel innately that they are superior to women because they are male, and then cant comprehend that she is more prominent than they are, which makes them angry.

http://www.sorrywatch.com/2015/04/05/everyone-deserves-a-sec...

Mo’ne Davis got famous for being the first girl to pitch a shutout in the Little League World Series at 13. She also plays basketball and football - she is very talented athletically. She appeared on talk shows and the cover of Sports Illustrated. Disney announced that they were going to make a movie about her.

A grown man (college baseball player Joey Casselberry) reacted to this with the following tweet:

"Disney is making a movie about Mo’Ne Davis? WHAT A JOKE. That slut got rocked by Nevada"

A grown man called a 13 year old a slut. A slut! Because she was getting well deserved attention.
"Failure Oblivous Computing"

https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~cristic/papers/fo-osdi-04.pdf
I've been through that as well.
It was incredibly unnerving(to me anyway). The frightening part was more how would I ever know if it happened again.
I've been a little paranoid trusting myself after it.
I talk in my sleep and my father and some roommates have had full conversations with me, to include them asking me questions and me answering them. The upshot is that I apparently don't always give accurate answers. For example, one roommate recounted me insisting that I needed to fill up the water tank in my car. When asked what I was talking about, I responded along the lines of "you know, so it will have power to drive". Not only was the "water tank" portion problematic, I didn't even have a car at the time.
I'm surprised there aren't more reddit clones making waves.
Is there a reason voat.co has been growing so fast ?
You are right that congestion pricing is not likely to happen very soon, it's just a wish of mine, a transparent and efficient solution bringing us to the same end result as the slow and politically noisy trajectory that we are on.

Re: tolls, however, I don't think it's a smart idea to toll a bridge both ways because of the overhead of installing and maintaining the toll plaza, the detrimental effect on traffic, and the extra friction to leave the city (we want drivers to leave the city! Don't think twice, just leave!); just double the fees westbound instead. And maybe add flat tolls inbound on the 101 and 280 to match the inbound tolls on the bridges.
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Got something for those of us who aren't mathematicians? I mean, I appreciate you've put a lot of thought into this and I'm sure it seems perfectly sensible to you, but expecting us mere mortals to determine our response to a given situation by matrix multiplication is maybe expecting a little more than our capabilities can afford.
I consider myself to be fairly active online and I can't recall the last time I received a death threat on the internet, if I ever received any at all.

I'm pretty sure that receiving pictures of you covered in blood goes way beyond any acceptable standard. I'd be pretty freaked out if I got something like that sent to me.
Yup. It's as if coffeescript was created by one person (and a bunch of great PRs!), while ES6 came out of a committee.
Java can do the reverse, infer an implementations generic types from the declaration.

Map<String, String> foo = new HashMap<>();
According to e.g.:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/legacy-of-versai...

Germany did repay the WWI reparation debt.
Can meditation help you find your purpose in life?
Weren't those who invented the humanities (the romans) (ur)fascists too? Because that Mussolini guy was greatly inspired by them to implement his regime if my memory serves me right. Seriously, in the age of space exploration, roman-inspired "classical education" for the ruling class (humanities) should have been flushed down the drain long ago.
The question of why is something I have never had clear consensus on. Many do it for mental hygiene or for less stress. I found all of that, but also found it connected me with something I had been unable previously to connect with, and this was a game-changer for me. Have others had similar experiences?
Are you denying the existence of tax havens in the EU?
This, this, a thousand times this.

I have a few female programmer friends, and they only ever spoke about "well, you know, not too many women in the field" in careful, guarded tones.

Until the Adria Richards thing happened, and I said something like "I don't really think either of them should have been fired, but I also think it's shitty how common those stupid sexual jokes are. I wish we could get past that stuff."

And it was like they realized they could actually trust me, and started opening up to me about actual specific stuff--like a constant barrage of junior high sexual jokes, being talked over or ignored constantly (which never happens to me, a tall white dude), being hit on, being not quite hit on but followed around and lots of awkward eye contact and vaguely nice gestures that ends up adding to something as inappropriate as being hit on, and on and on and on.

You know how they want to be treated? As people. But that's not really good enough--they want to be treated as people, and they want their coworkers to show maturity beyond what junior high school boys show.

Is this all male programmers? Of course not, not at all.

Enough that they have stories that could fill an afternoon?

Oh yes.
See the sibling commenter, but think government.

Plus, the posts I read earlier didn't mention 'Fortune 500' or 'reliably' - and I'm glad you didn't use words like 'productive' and 'efficient'!
The author received private messages saying that someone jerked off to a picture of her at a conference and also photoshopped pictures of her full of blood.

Those sorts of messages -- even in isolation -- have real-world, often physical, consequences. This attitude that sexual harassment is only harmful if it's a physical assault needs to go back to the 1950's where it belongs.
"Paul Graham mainly wants to know how he can opt out of this 'feature'."
Well, not exactly. The people are rather loud about it (at least here in the U.S. where we lock up petty drug offenders for life, but there's nary a single banker in jail for the 2008 worldwide economic collapse), but it doesn't matter if we make noise about it. As long as no one in government does, and the media mostly ignores it, the result is the same.
I would say that death threats can have very real-world consequences, and if I were to receive them the real-world consequence would be that I would be scared for my life. You tell me how that isn't the real world..
When people say their government's money is "their money", they are not being literal; they mean "I contributed to that government's money supply, so I nominally have some say in how it is spent/symbolic partial ownership".
In "The Economic Consequences of the Peace", there is argument that the original reparations were make-believe and impossible. The 1929 revision was probably closer to reality and Germany did recently repay them. [at least according to news articles from 2010]
I check it once a month or so.
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new Promise(function(resolve, reject){
/* code */
})

it's a little much
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Because if you're scripting something out, it's very possible that you'll need to run it outside of a Mac in no time.

Plus, there's no decent dependency management yet and you can't compare the amount of external libraries commonly used for scripting with languages like Python or Ruby.

Scripting out with Swift sounds to me like the usual "Playing with new & Shiny". Which can be OK if you're just playing around, but I wouldn't do it with anything related to a production environment yet.
You didn't say flying was a waste of time. You said the experience hadn't gotten any better. Those aren't related ideas.
Law enforcement has done a pretty decent job at cooperating across jurisdictions in their war on poor people who use drugs. I'm willing to bet that, if they cared about the issue, they would find a way.

I'm also willing to bet a huge portion of these people are domestic.
Germany was given a significant discount on its external debts in 1960, and very generous repayment terms.

"The total under negotiation was 16 billion marks of debt resulting from the Treaty of Versailles after World War I which had not been paid in the 1930s, but which Germany decided to repay to restore its reputation. This money was owed to government and private banks in the U.S., France and Britain. Another 16 billion marks represented postwar loans by the U.S. Under the London Debts Agreement of 1953, the repayable amount was reduced by 50% to about 15 billion marks and stretched out over 30 years, and compared to the fast-growing German economy were of minor impact.

An important term of the agreement was that repayments were only due while West Germany ran a trade surplus, and that repayments were limited to 3% of export earnings. This gave Germany’s creditors a powerful incentive to import German goods, assisting reconstruction." [1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Agreement_on_German_Ext...
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I feel like you're implying that the threats are harmless. They are not.

She received pictures of her covered in blood. A twisted portrayal of someone's fantasies. Receiving something like that would get to anyone.
Can't say I have ever been in this position. If I was approached like that though it would be an automatic delete anyway.

With that said, this issue recently came up with Radio Shack and how they were planning to sell off their customer data.
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This isn't pretty common nor are any of the off the wall comments and threats she's getting serious. It's called trolling. Have you been on the internet in the last decade? If you're dumb enough to let someone get under your skin, they will and will do so even more.

I'm a minority. Do you know the kind of shit I've had to deal w/ in tech. Note the 'deal with'. Were supposedly in a society where women are demanding to be seen as equals just as men are. Guess what men have to do ? Deal w/ shit .. Shit we don't like on a daily basis. I don't get to create a blog post and have a swarm of women running to my defense? Why all the white knights when women have to go through shit? So, no.. there are standards that are still there. Standards by which men by and large defend women and treat them even above men.

I'm a minority (African American) in tech. Yes, please lets have a sit down so you can tell me all about the kind of crap that occurs. I'm obviously oblivious to it all and have no perspective.

It's not o.k but it's called trolling and this has jack shit to do w/ the tech industry and everything to do w/ the clown assery that is par for the course on the internet. So, I don't in anyway support her blog post. It is ignorant and ill-informed. Just think about it... You think men making six figures at prominent tech companies with a social life, a girlfriend, wife/daughters, and moms are sitting around typing out death threats and rape threats to some random woman in tech when they get home?

No. This is not common. It has jack shit to do w/ the tech industry and everything to do w/ shock-and-awe trolling on the internet. It's 2015. Get up-to-date with what's happening on the internet and stop running to women's rescue every time they have to to go through shit. They have announced they want to be seen as equals and treated as men are .. So, let them deal with and overcome their own shit... trolling being the least of things to be all bent out of shape about.

You disagree? Well, I guess some things haven't changed in society.. Namely that men by and large are still quite protective of women and hold them on high... Quite Contrary to what she and you are trying to portray...