skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's much more likely that the amplification of criticism and outrage was catalyzed by her high-visibility public image stemming from the KP trial. She came out looking (IMO) like a vindictive, petty, and greedy person. Whether that's true or not, I suspect that image was then projected onto her role as Reddit's CEO. The kind of insults she got were absolutely driven by some of the most vile and reprehensible expressions of sexism, but I think it was more that Pao was an unsympathetic person who made an easy target for sexists, than that some latent sexism caused otherwise-normal reddit users to turn against her.

I don't think she was responsible for nearly so much of the stuff Reddit reacted negatively to over the course of her tenure as some would think, but I think the primary blame for that perception lies with Reddit's leadership as a whole and their astounding lack of communication to their audience. They knew that Pao had been the subject of a high-visibility lawsuit heavily steeped in social justice implications, which she rather badly lost - it doesn't take a PR genius to think that if you start introducing sweeping social justice-driven changes to your site while she's in office as CEO, people are going to presume that she's the one driving them. That could have been trivially defused by saying "This was a decision made by our board" or "This initiative is something we've been working on for the past 3 years", rather than just sitting by and letting the bogeyman grow and grow.

As another example, as best I can tell, Ohanin let Pao take all the heat for Victoria Taylor's firing, and then clarified that he was the one who made the decision to terminate her only after Pao had resigned. A huge amount of unrest could have been deflected off of Pao if Ohanin had said "Hey, I'm the one that made this decision", but that wasn't said (if I'm wrong, please let me know; the first reference I saw to this admission was timestamped around ~1h ago). In fact, reddit's leadership as a whole was extremely wishy-washy and vague about the whole thing, despite the fact that it upset the volunteer base that makes reddit usable enough to incite mini-revolt.

Leaping to claims of sexism seems lazy and just a little-too-convenient for me. I think that if her husband had been in the CEO role and the same things had happened, given his PR image problems, you'd have seen the same magnitude of criticism and outrage (but then, of course, people would level claims of racism as the cause, which I think would have been equally as wrong).
While we're at it, there were two unpopular firings last month at reddit. The Reddit Gifts guy, who was let go without much fanfare, and chooter (Victoria), who got the entire website to support her, go dark in protest, and fast-forwarded Pao's resignation.

But we don't mention those, no no. It's only "sexism" and "mysoginy" because we don't like what happened to a woman. When it's good for a woman, that's just sheer luck. Or white-knightism, whatever floats your boat.

Please.
I think it was Yishan (former Reddit CEO) who brought in Ellen.
Basically, the nature of the internet and how it enables individuals to have much louder voices, has significant implications for the integrity and expectations of what we used to consider "news". The point being that the old idea of 'news' as many of us are used to, as being something that's even semi reliable, needs some serious rethinking, because 'news' undergoes significantly less curation now that outlets are competing against the lightning pace of social media.

The author gives his own various experiences as examples of how this new style of information flow in the media industry is easily exploitable, and frankly, it's quite scary. Not just because of what he could do, but because how natural and subtle it all the 'propaganda' seemed.
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Haskell - A purely functional programming language that is a general purpose language. It's often cited to be best for making language parsers using Parsec or Attoparsec, but I've found with Snap/Yesod/Scotty it is great for web development.

Purescript - A pure functional alternative to JavaScript that compiles down to very concise readable JavaScript code in the rare case you need to debug it or track down performance issues.
Objectively? Pao was criticised for her present actions while at the job, Eich because someone pointed at his past.
It is "whining" that godoc has to output at a max width of 80 characters because many people apparently still use that as the terminal width. I, personally, do not and can see his point.
There are dozens of posts with 1000+ upvotes comparing Ellen with Hitler. As far as I can tell, there's something larger and terrible going on within reddit's community.
I was thinking the same thing, and concluded that perhaps the label is not the actual ASCII domain name. So perhaps みんな's label is "minna".
Sorry you're getting downvoted. Even Ellen Pao claims the racist and misogynist are a small minority.
That somebody else could be someone who tries identity theft, or worse. And information about state actors has been published, that's what the WikiLeaks case is all about. I don't think it had the effect you might hope for but just because the government acts badly doesn't mean they're the worst predators out there.

We also live in a world of industrial espionage. What if someone in this list is the CEO of multibillion corporation with a serious health problem that he/she kept secret. You publish the health records and the stock tanks. Or someone who works as a contractor for the army. There are nightmarish scenarios of what could be done with all that kind of information. There are even fingerprints in there.
Not really, its just used for finding your personal best photo... not a hot or not.
Good on Pike and co.

Next up, let's deprecate the horrid mess that is the userspace terminal control subsystem on most modern Unix-likes: http://landley.net/notes.html#27-04-2015

(Keep in mind this is an orthogonal problem compared to the in-kernel VT subsystem, and I think it's Linux where CONFIG_VT is particularly bad.)
This guy is building one too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqN2DqKyKtw
All the evidence points the opposite direction... in the United States, you are unlikely to escape the economic circumstances that you are born into, especially if you are born into the top or bottom quintile: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/01/04/us/comparing-e...
You think "the media" is intentionally causing confrontation as part of some collusion with Reddit to make money? Neither Reddit nor journalism generally is particularly profitable.

And isn't painting all of the media in the same cynical light for the actions of, at most, a small minority pretty much exactly what you claim they did to you?

I saw racist and sexist posts personally, so I know that's not a complete fabrication even if not every Redditor holds those beliefs. I found the posts of e.g. Pao as Hitler pretty jarring. If I were writing an article about Reddit and its CEO I probably would have mentioned them, not through any desire to stir trouble and certainly not as part of some money-making conspiracy.

And what does any of this have to do with Sam Altman or Ellen Pao?
I didn't want to give specifics of the hardware. Now that you know , yes its Harman with QNX on Chryslers. Now you need to figure out the remote execution codes to put on the CANBus frames :) . There is a catch though , without the original car keys , you can't move the car or can you ?

In another news , access to the terminal is now based on an "authentication key" , root access is not enough. For development purposes , Harman provides these keys and they expire after a certain period of time. I am not sure those "fixed" telematic models are out there on the market currently.
> Look if a person does not want come across as supporting rape and death threats it is best not to disagree with posts which are only pointing out how horrible those type of threats are. It's a pretty basic idea. And if a person does want to support rape and death threats, they should just flat out say so, that way they can be removed as a user on whatever sites want to have actual conversations.

This is the same discourse BS that we get from politicians, name-dropping "terrorism" and "paedophilia" to pass random bills, laws or make people swallow unpopular opinions.

It's frankly repulsive seeing it happen here too. "Oh you disagree with me? YOU SUPPORT RAPE."
Protip: it's their, not there.
Even if that's the case, they're a very visible component of Reddit's userbase, to the point that an outsider definitely might see them as representative.

If the default home page and /r/all can all be flooded with posts about her, it's not exactly a small group of extremists.
This is a wrong question.

Even if torture yielded absolutely vital information, it would still not be OK.
Take an open source git repo you've made, or open source a project you've got somewhere on your hard-drive and a) polish it (absolutely without adding new features), and b) document it. Both will teach you new skills and stretch you as a developer in ways that might surprise you. They'll also help make the ecosystem better for others, whether you have 2 or 2 thousand watchers.
I'm ~2 light-ms from us-east-1, and my latency is 49ms. My latency is 11 times what it would be if there were a direct fiber run from my laptop to us-east-1.
Very cool. Very nice to see your work. Hope to learn something from you soon.

Maybe I will steal a friend's iPad to play with your stuff. Will keep track of your stuff.
Given that it manages to discriminate on the trifecta of race, gender and sexual orientation, probably the former.
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> The problem with this RNA World hypothesis is that the reactions that current RNA can catalyze is very limited. But what if, at the origin of life, when nature could experiment, the genetic alphabet that RNA could play with was bigger, potentially leading to expanded capability?

Transfer RNA currently have a few additional bases, probably to do same things that are impossible/difficult with the standard 4 bases. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_RNA#Structure
Your "confidence" is wrong.

Consider a graph which can have nodes added, and edges added or removed. Say you want to keep track of the part of the graph that is connected to a node.

You can't know ahead of time which references can be weak. So all must be strong and you will leak memory when a circular part of the graph becomes disconnected.

In general, garbage collection is a difficult problem that solves a lot. You can't trivially do without it. It's not just a tool of laziness.
I am so happy this is happening !

I always felt cryptography was treated as a back room kind of operations. We are all so busy making iOS apps. The real computer science has always taken a back seat.

Hopefully MORE such breeches occurs and investment in security recieves the kind of investment and respect it deserves.

We are all so focused on this MBA growth bullshit. Time to do some real computer science !
Wow. Great suggestion. Thanks.
Did you even follow the original parent's argument? He didn't just bring up "clickbait media" as a non-sequitur while defending reddit comments. He highlighted how everything in this whole mess so far can be explained through the lens of questionable media, and literally none of his analysis+critique has been addressed so far, all that's been done is point out how he sounded like some angry mob person. Please explain to me how that is a logical way to respond to a legitimate argument.
> it is almost vomit inducing to see the powers that be continue systemic torture when every shred of evidence (sometimes blocked or destroyed to continue the program) says it is useless, in fact harmful

It would be nice to know why they're so intransigent about it. Do they believe the evidence is wrong? Or perhaps they only use intelligence gathering as a pretext, and they really use it for punishment. Despicable, either way, but I'm curious to know.
So... news sites are getting less reliable. Ok. What does that have to do with Ellen Pao or the new CEO?
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." -- Oscar Wilde

Relevant as always.
> " Submit your pictures to be voted on by thousands of people and find out which one they think is the juiciest of them all. "

ah it's like hot or not except you're competing against yourself haha
It is enlightening to see that the Joseph Mengeles and Shiro Ishiis of our times are not subject to any sanction.

Remember folks, this is only the torture that we know. There are dozens of CIA black-sites around the world about which we know next to nothing. It is not too hard to imagine a regime that can torture people via waterboarding can also torture people by, say, forced heroin withdrawal and then just kill them.

Just goes to show, the only morality is that of the victor.
The "responsive" text layout needs some work.

I clicked and clicked expecting to find the second half of every sentence (".ORG hit the 10 million mark with"... with what?) and only at the very end did it occur to me to resize the browser window.
They have something like 500 moderators though so there is that.
>Can anyone even point to open, independently verifiable evidence

What do you want? Some twins studies where one is tortured and the other isn't? Maybe look in Mengele's papers. And why do you want to know? Would it be okay if torture "worked"? It's an immoral question if the answer is Yes, let's torture people. Because it does "work". People will tell their secrets, the practical problem is that people who don't have anything to tell will do their best to make up a convincing lie in the hope that the torture will stop.
> Maybe you want to hire people who read about this kind of thing for fun. They may also have read about other things.

Maybe, though I'd be shocked if the typical hiring process were that nuanced.
I don't think that the community at large supports those individuals who did those death threats.
ARC languages are Turing complete, but some algorithms require more than just "peppering weakrefs" and actually require you to essentially build your own GC.
> And isn't painting all of the media in the same cynical light for the actions of, at most, a small minority pretty much exactly what you claim they did to you?

Of course. No one's evil, everything's broken. The reason offensive and controversial discussions are so common throughout the interent is that they self-perpetuate; something makes you angry and you make a post 'debunking' it, that makes someone else angry and they reply; the more efficient posts at making people angry get more replies, and so are brought into prominence.

Thus the virus spreads.
It'll be back after the weekend
Rob Pike pursued a unique line of PL design research from a systems perspective that was never integrated into mainstream PL design research.

This is correct. Pike's chief PL research interest has always been in concurrency as a first-class construct, particularly CSP.
It's hard to ignore the external circumstances that lead to the previous CEO resigning on the spot. Maybe not everyone needs to work in the most expensive city of all to keep a favorite pet startup in startup mode.
Not sure what the downvoting is all about - let's hope you never get cancer. The source is the employee himself who did an AMA that was partially censored by Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3c0idl/i_am_dacvak_fo...

It was on HN a while back.
Wow.

Am I the only one that sees this as possibly the greatest potential "turnaround" story ever created?
How is this different from Sharepoint or Parse?
can anyone recommend a good FPGA development kit to get started? I'm ultimately interested in SDR (dsp) and possibly finance applications, and would like to get familiar with the dev tools as I work on some hobby projects.
Her actual claim was that the people who are critical of her and the changes Reddit made are a minority. For example, http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/reddit-users-turn-... and http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/04/technology/reddit-moderato... for example.

Being a racist or mysogynist is unrelated to being critical of or disagreeing with how she was managing Reddit as a business.
His whining is funny, while yours is not.
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UK teenager sentenced over 'biggest' web attack
> If you can get away with it, outsource identity management to Facebook / GitHub / Twitter / etc. and just use an OAuth flow.

The thing that everybody seems to overlook here: this has serious legal consequences.

You are demanding of your users that they agree to a set of TOS from a third party, that does not have either their or your best interests at heart, and that could have rather disturbing things in their TOS - such as permission to track you using widgets on third-party sites.

Not to mention the inability to remove an account with a third-party service without breaking their authentication to your site as well.

Always, always offer an independent login method as well - whether it be username/password, a provider-independent key authentication solution, or anything else.

> When storing passwords, salt and hash them first, using an existing, widely used crypto library.

"Widely used" in and of itself is a poor metric. Use scrypt or bcrypt. The latter has a 72 character input limit, which is a problem for some passphrases, as anything after 72 characters is silently truncated.
Who is Ellen Pao?
And it's out: https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/blob/v1.7.3/CHANGELOG.m...

https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html
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1) Ostracisation.
2) Parental hatred
3) _You_ couldn't perform that function, were you standing behind them with blinkers and earmuffs at the ready
4) Other children. Will talk. Should we censor them too?
5) Rationalising the views we have _in the face of conflicting opinion_ is what allows us to cement our own views
6) Guiding our children in how to accept / interpret / evaluate the plethora of opinions out there is the largest influence we have. Your choices of media, internet access, social groups, extra-murals, etc. are there to perform this function.

I really don't want to see the psychological damage this could cause, even if possible (I do believe AR and augmentation and weak AI will enable versions of this). Filter bubbles are dangerous, limiting, and foster intolerance. I don't think we need any more intolerance.
can we change the title to be a little less click-baity? even just adding "in 1950" would make it less like a tabloid cover article.
It's not just those employed. A family member of mine has a security clearance, and let me know that I'd be one of the 20 million with my SSN exposed, since I was one of the people the government checked on when doing his clearance.
You do realize you're commenting on a HN thread for a New York Times piece, right?

A piece that casually included terms such as "racist" and "misogynistic" as if they were describing the weather. If those terms do sound natural enough to use in something as casual as describing the weather, then congratulations, you've discovered the dangers that this book tried to highlight.
looks like it's down already, hopefully it comes back
My word. That is embarrassing. This guy spent years in prison on our behalf, and his campaign is getting nowhere.
I like the epilogue. I too wish I could go back to my younger self and describe this understanding. I would try to explain to myself that each pattern can be seen as an object in and of itself. That an algorithm is a way to move between these objects in a specific way that marries with a particular human goal. I would try to explain that each step of an algorithmic process combined can be seen independently of time as a pattern in and of itself and as such is itself an object. A process is a noun, a thing just as much as a chair or a lightbulb. I would say that in order to find an algorithm to solve a goal, all one needs to do is imagine the shape formed by this goal and construct that shape from the shapes that are readily available to you. Be them finger movements on an abacus or bitwise operations in a computer memory. And then I would explain that the universe can be seen in this way. The entire thing as a single object out there in phase space. I would tell myself that I suspected that all possible shapes exist, that the shape of your life exists only as much as the shape of a thing that you imagine while dreaming. This was the understanding I have been searching for since my early teens. It is such a joy to have found it, I like to think my younger self would have cherished it as much. But I may have discarded them as the ramnlings of an old fool.
So there will not be, but there was?

It's my estimation that if there are hundreds of thousands of anonymous or pseudonymous discussion comments it's very likely that a few individuals will a make death threat (which are likely not intended to be taken seriously). My point is that stating that death threats were made is not particularly interesting, as that's not a rare occurrence when we're talking about very large number of comments by very large number of people, some of which are anonymous or pseudonymous.

"Dude, seriously. And I'm pretty sure "dude" is appropriate here:"

Could you refrain from sexist comments like that?
Just marginally.

AFAIK, the bacteria used in this experiment is not related to measles.

However, there is the fact that the US government (all governments really) have repeatedly been found to inflict these kinds of nefarious deeds on their own people AND that they have a tendency to cover up those facts (not all governments are such hypocrites, some are proudly jerks) AND that the general public is often unaware or unwilling to admit it after the fact has been brought to light.

So, this is the kind of thing that reinforces the world view of the AntiVaxer side. Every time you try to reason with them, the label "cover-up" comes to their mind and they just disengage and shut down whatever you are trying to convey. Keep trying long enough, and they will label you as a "sheep" (a member of the willingly unaware public) or a "wolf in sheep skin" (basically, and agent provocateur).
Isn't it strange that you have to say this? These people are literally insane.
Pretty good at the surveillance side, but evidently not so good at their other mandate, which is to help the rest of the government secure their stuff.
I have a riddle for you. If literally the only content of what someone says is "Rape is Bad" and a person disagrees.... Does the disagreeing person support rape?
> It would be nice to know why they're so intransigent about it. Do they believe the evidence is wrong? Or perhaps they only use intelligence gathering as a pretext, and they really use it for punishment. Despicable, either way, but I'm curious to know.

Some people really are sadists and derive pleasure from the suffering of others. Others are fools or are too apathetic or cowardly to do anything about it. This may very well be the reality of our government. Signs seem to point in that direction.
Ask HN as an aside: What would be a good platform for learning how to use FPGA's, that's hobbyist priced? This would be for someone who is already experienced with electronics, microcontrollers, programming, etc.
What's wrong with the jokes? Ellen is a grownup and a public figure. Jokes come with the territory. No one is seriously comparing her to Hitler.