skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who frequents only a couple of subs on Reddit (which were completely insulated from this fiasco), I have no idea why people were so pissed off.

So she made a bad decision. Big fcking deal.

"She's killing the community!". Well, if your idea of 'community' is making public rape threads (while you use a throwaway) and threaten to kill a person, then maybe your community deserves to die.

Reddit has a lot* of good. I've been there long enough to see it. But it has a lot of absolute low-lifes clogging its sewers as well.
More specifically, medical ethics work under the Declaration of Helsinki, and not "first, do no harm".

For example, the Declaration says "In medical practice and in medical research, most interventions involve risks and burdens." That is not the same as "do no harm."

Also, "While the primary purpose of medical research is to generate new knowledge, this goal can never take precedence over the rights and interests of individual research subjects." and "Appropriate compensation and treatment for subjects who are harmed as a result of participating in research must be ensured." and "No national, ethical, legal or regulatory requirement should be allowed to reduce or eliminate any of the protections for human subjects set forth in this declaration."

On the specific topic of the medical ethics of live donor transplants, see http://ndt.oxfordjournals.org/content/23/4/1089.full .
If you're wondering what Happy Eyeballs is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Eyeballs
Even Pao admits it's likely because her name rhymes well.

Reddit has ALWAYS loved irreverent and even incredibly offensive puns.

Redditors would be calling her Chairman Pao even if she was well loved just for humor value.

https://www.reddit.com/r/yishansucks
Victoria was given a special exception because she lived where half the celebrities were.
Um, proof? The fact that she's been actually active on the site under her own account shows that clearly she knows how to use the site, so that argument alone is moot. I don't know how you can prove she didn't like the users unless she straight up said that.
Giles Corey was not tortured for information. Neither was Rebecca West.
I posted this over on reddit but it got lost in the noise:

Cool, I guess. But after having spent some time on voat.co I think reddit will get less and less of my attention (not that anyone gives a shit about me but I suspect I'm not alone).

Reddit's management has destroyed any sense of trust I had in Reddit (I'm looking at you /u/kn0thing, it's not just Ellen, my understanding is you fired Victoria, right? And then grabbed popcorn [I know, cheap shot, but it appears like you really fell out of touch]).

It appears that it is all about making money which I think is going to be the end of Reddit for some of us. Reddit could have a decent revenue stream on reasonable ads but that wasn't enough, it had to be more. That is really troubling because the next thing you might decide to "monetize" is what each of your users reads. That would make the NSA look amateurs and would be a massive invasion of privacy. It would also be very easy to monetize. Given all that has been going on, it would appear to be just a matter of time before "user optimized marketing" appears.

Welcome back but the existing management has dug you a mighty big hole. I don't trust you any more.
The limit is when the hate speech goes beyond online posts and starts encouraging harassment in real life. Simple as that. FPH crossed that line.
On the reddit podcast Alexis said it was about wanting celebrities to be a part of the community.
The one take away I have from this situation is that we have an honesty problem. People criticize Reddit as a platform of hate and vitrol, but as in reality this only partially describes the entirety. They complain that people on the internet are too free to speak their minds, but perhaps this is a reflection on our society a place where honesty and the free exchange of ideas is discouraged.

Response to material:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/reddit-is-a-shrine-to-...

Food for thought:
https://www.facebook.com/psiljamaki/posts/10153334440110516?...
My book on Django, which helps converting web app Idea to Prototype faster
This is part of the scandal around her. It's not out of left field.
how is it racist?
I get what you're saying, but you are also ignoring my point about bolstering the middle class.

A large and healthy middle class not only precludes unhealthy amounts of poverty (please keep in mind there will always be a "bottom 16%" [aka falling below < -1σ] no matter the level of wealth) but also precludes large concentrations of wealth by the upper class.

EDIT: replied before you finished your edit, I see we're actually in agreement. Carry on...
You can't really reason with people once they labeled something as "racist". Convincing them that they are wrong would imply that they can't differentiate between what's racist and what's not and that's something that would affect their core beliefs.
As a CEO she chose to take actions in manner and method that allowed things to spiral out of control. It was her job to control the message and blowback. She failed at her job, therefore she needed to go. It is really that simple.
It's very much like GamerGate. There is an attempt to deflect an overwhelming amount of legitimate criticism by pointing to a few trolls and characterizing all of it as "racist and misogynist".
I have to side with Joey on this one. Sure in a world like the Linux kernel, where things are still done via emailed patches, avoiding sending a patch-bomb to a maintainer warrants some editorial control on the history of a feature. However, like Joey, I tend to find beauty in the organic evolution of code. Plus I like others to see all the commits where I'm just cursing out build systems, or dev tools or just mumbling about a 'misspeeling'.
what is happening, not used to reading positive interactions on reddit with that account...
I am well aware of the basic molecular biology of the cell, as well as the RNA world hypothesis.

All due respect to Benner for his work - my comment was rather too pointed, I'll concede that. Nonetheless, I am always wary of too much theory being induced from too little data.

Benner's experiment shows that an expanded genetic code can form molecules that show greater chemical functionality in a given situation than that of natural DNA molecules. Now a quote from the abstract:

> This suggests that this system explored much of the sequence space available to this genetic system and that GACTZP libraries are richer reservoirs of functionality than standard libraries.

Already he is starting to extrapolate when he starts talking about the extended libraries in general. The Quantamagazine article then goes on to say:

> In other words, the new additions appear to improve the alphabet, at least under these conditions.

That is true, but for a rather narrow definition of "improve", and a very narrow set of conditions. The result is that the superficial reader goes away thinking "they've made a better DNA".
Author hints that although the enlightenment narrative of a "Greek miracle" holds a strong bias in modern minds, the true origin of philosophy remains shrouded in mysticism. The possibility exists that human civilizations could indeed be much older than the timelines suggested by current archaeological evidence. Indeed if one were to ask certain Hindu devotees about the origin date of the Vedas, you may be surprised to find the response: "They are Timeless!"

A not-quite-painless but no less stimulating intro to Ancient Indian Materialism:

http://www.iep.utm.edu/indmat/
The point of leadership is to deal with these sorts of issues, and take those hits when they don't pan out. It's like having your cake and eating it. On the one hand, we use the excuse: "just doing his/her job" or "just following orders", and then on the other hand: "Happened on his/her watch, by a subordinate", as if it makes it okay. The blame needs to be shared (if appropriate), and not shoved around depending on which side we are currently arguing for/against.
If he thought she did a phenomenal job, it wouldn't have been "a mutual agreement between her and Reddit's board" for her to leave. He would have fought to keep her.
You're not trying to say the two are comparable are you?
I hadn't read his post yet, God I'm glad to see that. I hope you're right.
https://np.reddit.com/r/FaithInHumanity/comments/39ee4c/char...

She tried to share a link to a private message. That's the equivalent of my mom emailing me and saying, "Here's the picture - c:\\user\desktop\pic.jpg" - it demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of how the site works.

Then everyone who replied was shadowbanned and every post was deleted. So no, she literally didn't know how to use the site.
crypto.stackex has an interesting discussion on EtM and MtE: http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/202/should-we-mac-... One interesting take away was, Bruce Schneier is of opinion that MtE (Cryptographic Doom acc to Moxie) is more practical than EtM.

Interesting to note that different security protocols on the Internet prefer different schemes:

1. SSH does Encrypt and MAC
2. SSL uses MtE
3. IPSec prefers EtM

Also see: Authenticating users over REST http://restcookbook.com/Basics/loggingin/ which glances at the details not covered by the blog post (using nonce to prevent replay attacks, for instance).
I believe you mean KSM, Atta was one of the pilots on 9/11.
There have been a number of experiments with basic income and similar things (I am typing this from a phone, or I would dig up links), but nothing at a national scale anywhere. I would guess the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend among the closest things currently running, though of course it's not nearly as high as BI proponents would want.
I don't know about the macroeconomics part. My family is pretty big.

Joking aside, the concentration of wealth is a different issue than poverty. They're only distantly related.

Also, I'm for progressive taxation schemes.
tldr; single bit flips in a hop to a remote server.

the moral of this story is - the number of layers and abstractions between our code (even our shell scripts - cron jobs in this case) and the network layer is so large.. the most subtle of bugs in one of these layers is a massive pain to track down.

i am in awe of the tenacity of these bug hunters.
Very well written, Bravo!

I also didn't know Vimscript, and I've always been curious but without any discipline to look into it.

Actually it doesn't seem so scary.
Does this change anything about Gottfried rotting away in solitary?
I'm interested, have 5k in AWS credit, and I've owned cloudsteambox.com, steamboxhost.com, and hostedsteambox.com for about a year in anticipation of one day building something like this
> Cash cannot be tracked, it can also be easily stolen, meaning its near impossible to verify it used as intended

One of the major motivations cited by many proponents of Basic Income is that a lot of the cost of existing poverty aid programs -- which they see BI replacing -- is tied up in administrative overhead verifying that aid is "used as intended", which does a lot to support a bunch of administrative government (and government-contracting) professional jobs -- which I guess is a kind of anti-poverty program for the college educated -- but really reduces the efficiency of actually getting the money where it is intended, as well as paternalistically assuming that the government knows how people should spend money to improve their situation better than they do.
I'm sure a few hundred of those times was just for sadistic purposes. Look what they did to Bradley Manning.
Secret Experiments in the Middle of Lead Generation Campaigns
They're not the same thing, my worry is that some Redditors (or employees) may not pay attention to the difference and avoid further cleanup.
>>> "they make decisions that help them in the short term, because to their experience there is unlikely to be a long term."

This is also known as "poor decision making skills". Granted, it's very understandable in many situations, but let's call a spade a spade
I don't have an answer to the specific question but there are many people, specific to the case(s) surrounding the original 'justification' for using torture, that say just the opposite.

Edit: see Frontline (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/secrets-politics-and...) or The Black Banners by Ali Soufan

Edit 2: warning on the Frontline doc, 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.
I strongly disagree. There's tons of people that talk about how everything should be mobile first, but that's just not feasible for a lot of web applications. Stop trying to shove mobile into everything.

If I'm making a Web IDE or a Web Photoshop, it's very unlikely I'll be able to fit all of the functionality that's needed into a tiny mobile screen, and it's also unlikely I'll be able to get it to perform well. And you know what? That's totally fine, because if my demographic is gonna be people with 1920x1200 monitors on a powerful desktop machines, it'll work great. I'll build an amazing experience for desktop, because that's my target demographic.

A lot of enterprise applications are impossible to scale down to mobile as well, due to the sheer amount of customizability and information they provide. I don't know of many enterprise applications that support both mobile and desktop. If you want to support mobile for an enterprise app, you're better off designing a separate mobile variant of your application. This assumes you have the resources to do so, and that there's sufficient interest from your customers such that the decision to have a mobile variant makes sense.

Here's the thing, building a sophisticated application that works well on a tiny phone and scales all the way up to a 30'' monitor is not feasible at all for a lot of teams. I'd challenge you to show me a good example of a sophisticated app (e.g. along the lines of a Web IDE or Web Photoshop) that will scale nicely from a tiny mobile screen all the way up to an awesome 30'' display.
o, man! it brings me to tears - compare all this majestic grand scale to my condo backyard patio in MV where i'm trying to build up toward ultimate goal of 2 humans carrying octocopter (and at full scale it actually would hardly fit into the patio :)
The knife cuts both ways. The clickbait media and various groups are trying to paint the now predictable narrative of '50 white male racist misogynist neck beards' who want to chase women out of tech again. Over 200,000 people with legitimate concerns sign a petition to have Pao step down yet they still carry on with there charade.

People are sick and tired of the media and a small group of militant activists trying to silence people who they disagree with. They engage in all forms of harassment, trying to get people fired, posting addresses and family pictures etc. The most critical things against Pao and her husband I have seen are posts about there phony extortion sexism and racism law suits. All of which is factual information available to the public and even the media has to admit these things are facts.

The clickbait media has to be called out more then anyone for trying to turn every issue no matter how banal into a black and white battle between good and evil and then fanning the flames on both sides. Its extremely cynical mostly to drive traffic to there sites. There is zero accountability in the media today and zero ethics. Everyone needs to be much more sceptical about what they read in the press and there motivations.
The Windows license is factored into the hourly billing.
Amazon is paying for it and it is reflected in the price you pay. Windows machines are more expensive to spin up than Linux machines.
Companies don't benefit from sending out rejection letters unless they think they may want to hire someone they previously rejected. There is also the potential for legal liability if they say something. That on top of the time it would take an already super-busy person to send emails to all the candidates means that many companies don't bother.
While OAuth isn't "for" authentication, everyone uses it that way by "authorizing" access to "view your email address" which is as good as authenticating your email address.
Thanks for your comment. The word sequential is absolutely key in this context.
> Stuff such as Tax software has very rigid logic - the stronger guarantees you can make as to their correctness the better.

> So would you actually write the library in Coq

It depends how complex the algorithms are. You would need to write a specification* and an implementation; there's not much point unless the specification is much simpler than the implementation. For example, if the specification of the tax software says things like:

If the FOO is less than 1000, then BAR is 12. If FOO is greater than or equal to 1000 then BAR is 20.

Then there's not much point using Coq: the specification is basically a step-by-step description of what to execute. All you need to do is rewrite it in a machine-readable form. You're just as likely to make mistakes translating it to Coq's specification (type) language as you are translating it straight to, eg., Haskell.

If the specification less algorithmic, then it might be useful. For example, if it dictates things like:

The sum of FOO and BAR should never exceed BAZ.
QUUX can increase or decrease by 10% each year, providing that the difference between year N and year N+5 is less than 5%, and that there are no consecutive increases of length 3 or more.

Then you might consider implementing the core calculations in a language like Coq. Once you've proven your algorithms correct, you can "extract" them into some other language, eg. in Haskell, and call out to that from your regular code.

> or do you somehow use Coq to prove that your eg. C++ code is correct?

That's far too difficult at the moment. You could use Coq to prove the correctness of some algorithm or protocol or whatever, in an abstract form, then go off and implement that algorithm in C++. You would have no guarantees that the C++ is correct (ie. whether it implements the algorithm/protocol faithfully); all you would know is that you're not wasting time trying to implement a flawed algorithm :)

* Well, you don't need to write a specification, but there's no point using Coq otherwise ;)
When some people ask money to buy the food and you give them food - they are quite often disappointed and turn away.

When some people ask money and you give them some money - they are quite often disappointed because you are not giving them enough.
Honestly I'm so disappointed that Reddit's management allowed such a crappy culture to evolve in their forums for so long. I remember signing on in 2010 and just feeling really uncomfortable browsing any of the major subreddits. Why did it take so long to deal with characters like violentacrez?
You are right. I was thinking the torture was to extract information of a guilty/innocent plea. I see now that it was because the court system required that the defendant "submit to it by entering a plea seeking judgment from the court". (Quoting Wikipedia). By not entering a plea, the person has not entered the court system and no judgement can take place.
> Giving money to the poor merely elevates those who received the money over a new generation of "poor" and does nothing to actually stop the systems that create poverty in the first place.

If "the system" is giving people money to raise them out of poverty, how can it simultaneously be a "system that creates poverty?"

Your logic implies that there is enough work to go around, and that's increasingly seeming to be not the case - if there's not enough good paying work, that's not anyone's fault.
> Sure there is, if you care about interactivity, responsiveness, and general user experience.

And all of these can be provided just fine using progressive enhancement. This is _not_ an argument for SPAs.

> The fact that not all potential clients support JS is probably irrelevant, since that number is probably incredibly small.

Your use of the term 'probably' suggests to me that you have not run any actual metrics. Here's a short list of some examples:

- Bots and spiders

- Low-powered mobile devices

- Privacy-conscious users who use NoScript

- Terminal-based browser users

- Literally every single one of your users until the .js blob has completed downloading

- ...

Requiring JS for a website is not okay, end of story. We all collectively understood this 10 years ago, and I'm not really sure where along the way this understanding has gotten lost.

EDIT: Forgot that HN has a neutered version of Markdown. Fixed.
The job she did was sort of a phenomenon, in that someone like me who never even thinks of Reddit was reminded numerous times why that's a good thing. Most CEOs don't do that!
Given her previous record with going after past employers

If I'm not mistaken, that's a record of one, unless you know something the rest of us don't about her time at Cravath Swaine & Moore, WebTV, BEA Systems, TellMe or Danger.
Are these the most expensive shirts made?
Is there some kind of TCP signal that the kernel could reasonably send back to the originator if it detected packet corruption?
this comment and other comments you've posted make me believe that you're really ignorant.

"I'm convinced that there is a highly vocal group (of young men, most likely) that are hell-bent on breaking Internet communities and even corporeal communities with their grotesqueries. And when they're challenged, they howl "but you're censoring my free speech!""

why do you think that internet communities need to be so heavily moderated?
I thought (before reading) it had something to do with the X11 xeyes program.
Equating bad decisions (from our or even general societal points of view) with someone being a "bad person" isn't really the right way to look at the concern.

The fact that bad decisions (again from a given point of view) are made has to do with the duration of the view. From my experience, people that spend their last money on drugs are looking for a relief, even if it lasts from a few minutes to a couple of hours of that high. This is the time that they don't have to face their situation. From that point of view, the decision is sound to them. Addiction is a very powerful thing, but it need not be chemical, it could very well be emotional.

The motivation is an extremely important item to consider. Proponents of the food stamps and other specific-use assistance programs point to the fact that they deter bad use. However, one can still buy fast-food with it and end-up more unhealthy and worse of.

Personally, I am of a very strong belief that as a society, we need to work to address root causes that together combine to contribute to the poverty rates. Some relatively straightforward ones - real universal healthcare (and mental health) and universal education to at least bachelors level.

If we really want to eliminate the notion of poverty, we need to figure out universal income question, but the economic consequences of this still need to be worked out. Universal healthcare and education are economic no-brainers when not completely bastardized by corporate interests... (in my own view at least.)
After you fire somebody you feel bad, so you say what a wonderful person they were. The fit just wasn't right, timing wasn't right, blah blah blah.

We'll have to wait for the movie to come out to know what really happened.
No, most people didn't like her because she was generally a terrible person.
Corporations are like sea of cockroaches on the dark floor. They look vast. Roaches have their little fights and wars, but when they make some random noise and draw outside attention, it's funny to look how individual cockroaches run away from the spotlight.
It's not racist, calm down Tumblr.
But where are they going to find someone like that? Guess it's time to put an ad on Craigslist.
Somebody should construct a theorem that states that any metaphor can be used to support any given argument.