skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like some people need prison sentences.
This is just stupid. The German regime that racked up the WWII debts was destroyed and its leaders suicided or executed. The entire country was split in half by the war. The regime in power when those debts were rescheduled was a completely different entity. And Greece enjoyed similar, if not proportionately greater, economic support at exactly the same time. The Marshall Plan started in Greece, after all.

And there are enormous differences in the uses of the new debt capacity. Germany used the capacity to rebuild its economic capacity. Greece would use its new capacity to fund further welfare transfers and tax dodgers. Germany did not use the new capacity to repeat the same mistakes that created the old debt (and the vastly more important war). Greece would continue the exact same policies, and arrive at the same point of demanding debt concessions.
This would be a tolerable state of affairs if we lived in a world where decisions only had spatially and temporally local consequences. But, alas, we don't.
When a company is so dependent on community created content or work, the company needs to nurture and be in touch with that community. What seems to have happened with Reddit in recent times is that the company has drawn further away from the community and taken it for granted as they seek to monetize the content.

Take for example r/IAMA. It was a community created subreddit that became quite popular. Once it became successful, the company seemed to try to take greater ownership of it by directing the process themselves. After the recent scandal, they created a dedicated AMA@reddit.com account to coordinate AMAs. The mods have instead created AMAVerify@gmail.com to own the process separate from the company.

The current leadership of Reddit really does not understand the community and the fine implicit agreement between the community and the host.

This is going to make a great case study in the future on how to manage the relationship with user generated content sites.
OK, I'll try to shed some light on why this subject tends to inflame some of the europeans nationalistic sentiment with a concrete example:

1. Meet Portugal (my country). Some may know us derisively as the P in PIGS because of our financial problems (much similar to the Greek one in nature and extent).

In 2010 and 2011 as one of the 14 member states of the EU that were part of the Greek loan facility Portugal contributed with 1102 million euros into the 52.9 billion loan that greece received [1].

Yes, that's correct, not all of the debt that people are so eager to expect that German forgives is from their coffers, it was actually pooled from the following countries: Belgium, Cyprus, Germany, Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Slovenia, Slovakia and Spain.

2. As you may know, about the same time we had our own problems and also had to be bailed out. As part of the measures put in place to reduce our deficit a massive tax hike was implemented in the end of 2012 [2]

I'll draw attention to single one of those measures: the 3.5% extraordinary tax on the income paid by every single person with income above minimum wage (485€/month) including pensioners.

Now, for the money quote [3]: "Minister of Finance Vitor Gaspar said the tax would bring in 1025 million euros".

Less than what Portugal contributed to the Greek bailout fund. 3.5% of the income of every citizen in this country.

In conclusion, that's one of the reasons for the nationalistic outrage against Greece defaulting the loan. It is not only the money of the richest bankers of Europe that won't be repaid, it is the taxpayer money of each of those countries that contributed to their rescue.

To put in perspective, 1102 million euros means that default would cost every inhabitant in this country 110 euros (about 330€ per household) and not only hypothetically but in practice too as demonstrated above.

EDIT: Changed second link as it was paywalled for the same news, but on CNN

[1] http://www.rekenkamer.nl/english/Publications/Topics/EU_gove...

[2] http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/31/business/portugal-fiscal-t...

[3] http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/observatories/eurwork/article...
What exactly did you have in mind other than "new Promise()" to create a promise?
> Awful page to link to since it features (a) an auto-play video ad, (b) click-text hidden ads, and (c) a full-page auto-popup after x seconds. Sheesh.

And yet, running NoScript, I saw no auto-play video ad, no click-text hidden ad, and no full-page auto-popup after x seconds.

I just saw the text of the article, somewhat badly formatted (horizontal scroll), but readable.
I'm not a huge fan of the Heisig method. I started off with it, but I realized that a lot of the time, the key word I was learning for the kanji had absolutely nothing to do with any meaning or reading for it.

What I currently do is learn new kanji via Kanji in Context, and then create cards for them in my anki deck as I have learned them.
I've used ES6 and prefer coffeescript - IMHO more concise, easier to read, and has been place for years.
Because women are the easiest target, essentially.

The people who do this essentially are pure sociopaths, and they pick the easiest targets because they're bullies. Women are an easy target for several reasons:

1. Isolation. Women are a minority in tech and there's a larger social stereotype that women can't do math/are incapable of advanced reason/whatever tosh you want to throw in here. That means it's easier to tell women they're trash and undeserving and have them believe it. There's not a lot of people most women can go to to complain about this or receive validation that these are poisonous lies without triggering another stereotype, being weak and vulnerable.

People would rather sit in silence and take it than be seen as a whiner.

2. In performance oriented cultures it's very common to shit on each other as an in-group building behavior. People who can 'take it' are the in group and people who get offended are the out group. Bullies can exploit this by knowing exactly how far they can push and make it seem like good natured ribbing even in a public social context. More subtle bullies can take things further by establishing unique contexts for minor slights to give them greater meaning that isn't there for other people, so that when the victim complains they seem irrational and crazy to observers. (Another stereotype of women.)

3. Cultural factors. All those stereotypes regardless of how much truth there is to them become self fulfilling prophecies. Women are weak and vulnerable is essentially an advertisement for bullies to go target women, bullies enjoy hurting women more for reasons that could be basically summed up as actual misogyny.

As for harassing men as well, they do. They just use different words when they do it. It might be helpful to throw out terms like 'women-hating' or 'misogynist' and zoom out a bit to look at the ways bullies hurt people in different contexts. Bullies don't care who you are, they will hurt anybody who will give them the warm fuzzies of having gotten someone. And to do that they will use whatever tactics or words will hurt.

These people use rape threats and death threats against women because they hurt. Women as a class are the most receptive to this sort of negative input for various cultural and yes physical reasons I won't elaborate on. But bullies have all sorts of tricks to use on other people. If you're a typical heterosexual male they'll tell you you're gay and unmanly. If you're gay and proud they'll tell you you're deviant scum. If you're a minority they'll call you racial slurs and insult you with stereotypes. If you have visible pimples they will tell you you're ugly. They will pick out whatever salient features are available to hurt you with and use them. It's less helpful to think of a lot of these people as racists or what not so much as optimization processes for suffering and tears.

They don't care who you are, they will hurt anyone.
It's questionable how directly Versailles caused WW2.

WW2 was caused in no small part by the Wall St Crash, which was a direct cause of hyperinflation in Germany, and by delusional industrialists who thought that financing Hitler would be a good way to avoid a revolution.

At least one of them - Thyssen - ended up in a concentration camp. So that didn't work out so well for him.

The others have never been held accountable.

Weimar could easily have been rescued if the Nazi party hadn't received literally millions in external funding and other forms of corporate support. In a counterfactual reality, Europe would probably have united more quickly and peacefully. Technology wouldn't have developed as quickly, but there would have been an arms race and perhaps a war with the Soviet Union sooner or later.

Some background:

http://www.businesspundit.com/10-global-businesses-that-work...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Thyssen
After an initial screen, we do a paid project for hires. 2-4 weeks (or longer or shorter as appropriate for us and the candidate) at a fair rate that we all agree on -- usually equal to or at a slight premium to what the FT salary of that person would be. Our goal is to get something somewhat useful out of it, and more importantly for our engineering team to see what it is like to work with the candidate, what kind of questions the candidate asks, and to have the candidate demonstrate that s/he can deliver a fully formed package. It has been a great screening mechanism. It is slow, but so far it has been worth it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse_That_Roared
> The fact that you are convinced that Germany acted in Greece's best interest is what sets us apart.

Greece not failing to pay creditors is good for both Greece and Greek's creditors. I'm not sure why you feel that the two are mutually exclusive.
Way too difficult and rife for abuse.

First, we don't really have static IPs, not even static prefixes on IPv6. You could narrow someone down to their city by their host mask, but that can still be any of 5,000,000 people. And all they have to do is change their MAC address and renew their DHCP lease to have a new IP.

Second, easy to submit faked screenshots to get someone flagged as a bad person. When you get (in)famous enough, trolls start using false flag operations against you.

Best bet is probably a service where registration requires absolute proof of ID (Facebook's "I pinky promise I'm really $madeUpName" isn't enough.) But that still has issues with stolen logins, tricking the registration system, the harassment having your real identity known can cause, and it would keep away decent people who value their privacy.

This is why we can't have nice things.
Death threats are illegal in most countries. So yes, police action.
Speaking as a woman here -

>Are scenarios like this really common?

Very common.

>have not heard of them dealing with such harassment

Doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Opening up about harassment opens you up to more problems than it solves sometimes. You get labeled as a trouble maker or people don't believe you or say you made it up or whatever.
Everybody on the internet gets harassment. Especially those who twist facts and misrepresent arguments to push their own agenda.

For example, if you get harassed because you do things like mentioned above and then say it's because you're a woman.

And as alwyas, [evidence needed].
Hacker Monthly Issue #62 – July 2015
Share with me what you think are the most reasonable approaches to security and privacy?

Option 1. Collect all the things.

Option 2. Just do good hygiene.

Aside from these two options, what else is available to provide a most reasonable approach to protecting our customer's sensitive data?

EDIT: I'm the head of a compliance agency
Those "shitty SDL ports" are open source games written 10 to 20 years ago by one guy, for fun. Trash talking them is somewhat uncalled for.
Guess the Jackson AMA is one for the memory hole.
that's so fucked. this sucks :<.
Reddit under Ellen Pao simply feels different. The site often times feels a hell of a lot more like a cute puppy picture aggregator than anything else.

The more niche subreddits (especially programming-related) are just as they always have been, but it's gotten to the point where I barely ever look at what's happening under /r/all anymore.
About immigration, you should read about the "Dublin 2" treaty, and be amazed at the EU's hypocrisy.
This is not common and, given her focus area in tech, it just happens to be more pronounced among those individuals. Ever heard of 4chan? All it takes is one post of your info and you'll get a swarm of people descending on you...

Linux/open source is full of such individuals.

They do it to get a rise out of people and the internet is a nice anonymous vehicle to do it under. Has nothing to do w/ the broader industry of tech and more to do with a group of misfits who like to frazzle people for the lulz.

Get the police involved and keep these unfounded broad based attacks of a whole industry to yourself. By making such statements, you're attacking people unjustly and doing the same thing to others that is being done to you. Techies are not rapist... I could care less if you're male/female. The industry is not fucked. You just got trolled by some dweebs on the internet.

One pronounced incident and everyone is ready to cast stones at an industry.. If anything, this needs to stop. It's really getting old and, as someone who does their best to value/see people as equals as a good number in tech do, I'm getting tired of this sh*t.
If access to (parts of) Market Street needs to be rationed, they should make it a toll area, like the congestion zones of London, Singapore, and elsewhere.

Ubers and taxis are functionally the same in their benefits to residents; they should each have the same option to pay the toll or choose other routes.
I'm sorry to hear this.

But I want to add a counter statistic.
I've only had pleasant experiences from people trying to help me.
The only shit I got in the industry was from a business manager trying to push our team into a death march.

There are many factors out in there in the world.
We need to put things back into context, rather than just saying things like "Our Industry is fucked".

It feels like lately its too easy to forget the majority of people in tech (i've found) are incredibly decent human beings both men and women.
According to this guy's argument, we have:

- People and businesses who save money instead of spending it, get their wealth confiscated by the state indirectly through inflation or directly through the "special tax on private wealth"

- People, businesses, and other countries who help the state out by loaning it money have those loans retroactively converted into outright gifts by debt relief measures.

So the solution to fiscal irresponsibility is to turn the fiscally responsible into...I believe the technical term would be "suckers," or maybe "bag holders."
But that's kind of the point. The subreddits that got banned are ones in which the moderators refused to take any action to stop the harassment That's why Reddit had to step in and deal with it.
> The German regime that racked up the WWII debts was destroyed and its leaders suicided or executed.

Yes, but most of the people who enabled that regime to do its work, were still around. It's not as though the entire population of Germany was swapped out for a different one, after the war. The average German was not a murdering genocidal maniac, but he did fall under the sway of idiotic fascism, and while it would have served no one's interest to force him to pay the price, there is nothing wrong with pointing out that he did not, in fact, pay the price.

> Greece would use its new capacity to fund further welfare transfers and tax dodgers.

Let's talk about those tax dodgers, then. You make it sound as though the Greek government has some sort of policy in place where they encourage people not to pay their taxes. Rather, the Eurozone is set up in such a way that it is very easy for the rich to avoid paying taxes by putting all their asset in tax havens e.g. Luxembourg and with very little oversight. And the wealthier nations in the EU tend to support this status quo, not the poorer ones.
I asked my only female coworker about this, and she said she had never experienced sexual harassment, and found tech culture tame compared with finance, where people would shout at programmers over the phone if things went wrong.

Just one data point.
The Science of Pixar's ‘Inside Out’
That's only the corporate card, not the consumer one.
A little from column A, a little from column B. Of course creditors are after their money, that's what loans are for. And anti-corruption measures do have the ability to work well.

For example, during the early 90s, Australia had a recession. Due to this recession, more stringent banking laws were introduced. Fast forward to the GFC, and the entire globe is running for cover. The Australia dollar tanked because everyone thought that the economy would die and the banks would collapse. On the contrary, due to the tightened banking laws, the 'big four' Australian banks all kept their credit rating. All of them. At a time when most banks were slipping.

Times of national pain like this are the times to slip in significant reform. Greece has an endemic corruption problem, and independent of anything else, this is a good excuse to 'stop the rot'. Or we could just point fingers everywhere, make it no-one's problem and no-one's responsibility, and not progress at all.

And if you've been watching the news lately, the big economies are all looking at ways to counter tax avoidance by corporations, as it's a significant problem. It's a complete misrepresentation to say that there's no concern or effort being made there.
Yeah, it's more the rise of China than the downfall of the US.
I'm going to avoid addressing the community-created offender registry idea, because like you I'm not sure how to even begin evaluating its potential harms.

But I think that law enforcement will inevitably create something of the sort. Like John Oliver's harrassment video from a few weeks ago described, these are real crimes being committed and the state has an interest in solving them. The current weak link in prosecuting offenders is in training officers and prosecutors to recognize that a crime was committed and in providing them the tools to gather enough evidence for a conviction. And I hope we'll get there soon.

Once there is a lower bar for and less social stigma attached to reporting these crimes and having those responsible judged in court, there will be a public record. So whether someone in our community makes a death threat in real life or via Twitter, they'll face the same social consequences as well as legal ones.
They did. They took a hefty haircut of more than 50% (some sources say 70+%) in exchange for near certainty of getting paid, i.e. basically the rest of the EU taking over the remaining debt.
That's true, but my general point was that the very communities within Reddit that are most vocal about this and most critical of Pao are likely to have a lot of overlap with the subset of subredditors who are both willing and capable to try and rig something like this. Yes, internet voting in general is problematic, but there are a lot of groups on Reddit that explicitly set out to figure out how to rig stuff like this and encourage each other to do so (as opposed to isolated individuals, who are unlikely to have a big impact).
Totally agree. From what I gather thus far it seems like Reddit wants control of their main content base provided _by the users_ so that they can monetize it and push e.g. ask-me-anythings as ads (AMAs as a service?).

Reddit has literally tried to rip control of the mods right out from underneath them, it's ludicrous.

See e.g. /r/IAMA mod /u/firedrops asking:

> Can you share the contact info with us? At this point it might simplify things if we handle it.

Reddit admin /u/kn0thing responding with:

> There's nothing to simplify, we have the relationship and we'll let you know the next steps.

From: https://www.reddit.com/r/Blackout2015/comments/3c4x6h/leaked...
Not to put too fine a point on it, but isn't it more likely than not at this point that the AMA admin was dismissed for some markedly embarrassing cause? Otherwise, why wouldn't we have heard a full story?
Agreed. What Jessie is dealing with is classic internet trolls. They don't give a damn about "Women in Tech", her or anything else. All that interests them is finding a target to dig a reaction out of "for the lulz". They do it because it gives them little endorphin pops to think about how upset their victim must be and because it's very low risk. That's all there is to it. If there was any perception of risk in their activity, they wouldn't do it.

Making it clear that "this is simply unacceptable" will only encourage trolls. They aren't ignorant. They don't even have an agenda. They're simply selfish. The only way to discourage them is to introduce concrete risk to the unwanted activity.
I'm not sure you can entirely blame management for that. As reddit has grown, it has transitioned to focus more and more on facebook-style "let me tell you a story about my day" sort of posts, where the aim of submitting content is to get attention from others rather than to inform others. This seems to be a fairly common trend as online communities move to the mainstream, the fact that Ellen Pao is in charge for it is just coincidence.
They're not quite the same as other LCCs, they do have "mint" service on transcons which is quite competitively priced.

I stick to the legacy carriers because I tend to buy fares without all the usual bullshit included, and because I like the mileage program. (You can't redeem JetBlue miles for a first-class ticket to Hong Kong.)
Wow, you just downplayed receiving death threats to "attention ensues".
What's most interesting to me in this entire crisis is the moral discourse surrounding debt. More often than not, you'll hear stuff like: "Of course Greece must pay its debt", "You mean to say you can just take money and not pay?", "Why should taxpayers bail Greece out?"...

All the while, there is absolute ZERO condemnation for banking entities making risky loans. There is not even a tacit nod towards acknowledging that if banks make loans that fail, it is their loss to eat. Not a whisper about how taxpayers have been surreptitiously bailing out banks, and not Greece.

Somehow, a creditor is deemed morally superior to the debtor. What repulsive rhetoric!
You should probably point out that you're the head of a compliance-focused company.

Your previous 2 comments seem to be drawing a very strange dichotomy where the only options for "security" are "capture all traffic" and "compliance". I'm not even sure where to begin in responding to that, because it's so far beyond any facts you provided in either update.

Neither compliance nor traffic capture are "security". Capturing and analyzing traffic can be a facet of a security stance, and structured compliance frameworks can provide structure and goalposts for measuring your security stance, but there's a near-infinite range of other factors at play here.