skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's fairly cynical, and I don't have that experience at all, and I do not agree with you, and I do not know of any evidence backing a single one of your statements.
GopherCon 2015: What could Go wrong?
Interesting idea coming out of Toronto that's getting publicity. Some of the best conversations and business connections get made when like minded individuals share an Uber ride. I can imagine this could spin in to something really interesting in Silicon Valley.
The point of basic income is to provide a baseline level of stability. There are many things that lead to poverty, but it is the inherent instability that traps people there.

When there is a monthly stipend that someone knows they can rely on no matter what happens (getting sick, losing their job, family emergency), they are suddenly capable of thinking beyond immediate needs.

Many people caught in the poverty trap know full well that they're making short term decisions that will do more harm than good in the long run, but often the better decision is beyond your means, either financially, or time-wise (because you're working 3 jobs and still falling behind on your bills and coming home completely drained and exhausted).
This is what many/most have overlooked. Victoria was the straw that broke the camel's back. Her firing was indicative of the lack of appreciation / recognition given to the moderator's, and was just another example of the disconnect and (perceived) exploitation of moderator time/effort without the proper support and tools.
Only sub'd in smaller subreddits; didn't know everything was happening until I saw it on hn
I would assume, then that you don't know many poor people.

Based on the relationship between poverty and ethnicity, I'd say it's related to much more than their choices.
Most of the individuals that do death threats are doing it because they think that their peers would approve. The community effect is very powerful and sometimes the community deserves blame.
Yes, I responded to your helpful feedback. Thank you.
The harassment thing was not at all dubious: https://archive.is/wP0uB FPH was a nasty cesspit that had been leaking into the rest of Reddit for a while, going into other communities and targeting women who dared to post photos of themselves without meeting their standard of beauty.
James Watt: A Twelve-Year Flash of Genius
But if the paychecks don't stop coming, then nobody is poor. And suffering is alleviated.
I would say the majority of people that are poor didn't end up that way, they were born or thrust into it. The amount of people who become poor purely through their own actions is not reflective of the overall population. Most people, myself included, will make both good and bad decisions throughout their lives. Those with money/education/stability can weather the bad and thrive under the good. I've had difficult periods in my life that probably would have left me in a terrible position if I didn't have a middle class support system.

Maybe at some point after we give poor people a bunch of money those who become poor again we can say are clearly making poor decisions. I believe most poor people are generally good people. We shouldn't leave a majority of people in the position they are in simply because some of them will waste it on bad decisions (drugs, etc.). This doesn't have to be a permanent thing, but the best charity at this point is probably to give people money.
.. > AutoOS
You are confused. Being complicit in, and benefiting from racism doesn't make someone racist.

The author's argument is that you have no say in this system of white privilege. It's neither opt in nor opt out, because that is the system. You get it whether you want it or not. He's not saying you're a racist because of this inheritance. He's saying it's a self-rewarding and pepetuating system that will not change until those who have the privilege a.) become aware of it and b.) decide to change it.

I don't speak for the author, but I'd say if you don't recognize or accept white privilege's existance, then you're oblivious. Exhibits A, B, C, D the're all around you and the author listed a number of examples of how it manifests.

The dilemma though, those of us who accept that white privilege exists and realize we benefit from it, and yet say and do nothing? We're certainly a little bit racist, because we're tacitly accepting the underlying premise: not my problem, I'm OK. That's definitely racist in the face of blatant inequality that we ourselves recognize. Through the recognition and acceptance white privilege exists, that I benefit from it, I've just ethically obligated myself through that awareness to change the discourse with the goal of changing the system. If I don't do that, complicity becomes racism.

Now if we want to play a little game of self-forgiveness, we can start singing the Avenue Q song, 'Everybody's a Little Bit Racist!"

However, I think it's hyperbole when the author writes, "Millions of Black lives are valued less than a single White person’s hurt feelings." I don't really know what that means. I'd say one black life probably is valued less (in terms of policy) than somewhere around a million white people's hurt feelings. That's pretty disgusting, but it's not just more plausible, it's likely.
> PR that comes out of corporations cannot be trusted

What does this have to do with the parent's post?
I'm not the biggest fan of ISPs but that comment isn't entirely fair on them.

In Australia the speed of light actually matters for the distances light needs to travel - this is probably the same for mid-west towns not near an AWS centre too (not sure of their presence there, but I expect they are predominately on the coasts).

The speed of light is 300,000 kms per second.

Distance wise:
Perth to Sydney approx 4,000kms or 13ms travel time, and
Brisbane to Sydney approx 1,000kms or 3ms travel time.

I'd say it is highly doubtful to get sub 10ms from Brisbane to Sydney if you're going via even just a handful of routers. And Perth to Sydney? Forget it!
> I think this was the right thing to do from a PR perspective.

I think this was the right thing to do from a product perspective. Pao didn't really know how to use the site, and didn't ever particularly like the users. I don't know if Huffman likes the users, but one would assume that he would at least know how to use the site he helped build :)
You can get re-infected. As far as I know, it doesn't stay dormant in your body (like say Herpes). But I'm not a doctor, just had it a few mild times as a kid.
As someone who has only watched this popcorn feast, I have the sense that she was the subject of vitriol primarily for taking actions that people didn't like. Many of the insults may well have targeted her gender, but that is not the same thing at all.

I have seen literally no evidence that she was harassed simply for being a woman.
Rewriting the hodge podge of C, Perl and other custom bits of Nginx almost entirely in Lua and hiring its maintainer Yichun in the process where important steps for scaling up the CloudFlare's CDN and make sure each node is running as hot as possible.

More on this from dotScale 2015:
https://youtu.be/LA-gNoxSLCE?t=7m40s
This? https://i.imgur.com/nrYiK5M.png

I find it telling it was negative a majority of the time. Usually "mods" get +1'd just for being mods (common on many forums). It shows, to me at least, that what she said rarely was supported by the community.
That sounds reasonable; only observe one side of the conflict and none of what might have provoked it and base your whole opinion on that.
At $2.60 an hour you'd think the Python code would be smart enough to expand "~" -- and call "avconv" instead of "avconf" -- or use a recent version of Ubuntu that avoids the ffmpeg vs avconv drama.

You'd also think people rendering movies would input and output PNG instead of JPEGs at 75% quality.

But you'd be wrong.

I appreciate the excitement around this but the people on the fringe hacking this shit together really should be ashamed of themselves. The core is so great! The script kiddie stuff wrapping it is SO BAD! This is perhaps the 15th attempt I've seen at it. Maybe the dumbest one yet.

We have Docker. We have AMI. We have scripts. And... we have people spinning up servers at $2.60/hr where you have to wait an indeterminate amount of time for some marketing intern to enable your NVIDIA developer application.

Google anything related to this technology and you'll immediately see a ton of people having the same three problems over and over. All due to sloppy packaging by people who basically Googlebombed keywords with their half-baked github experiments.

Slapping some half-baked shit onto Github isn't open source. It's littering.

And everyone knows "here's how to install!" walkthroughs never work for more than a week. STOP DOING IT.
Is it? On what are you basing that assumption? I can't imagine it was ever easy.
One way to grow reddit would be a gold for referral program.
Child tax credits don't fully offset the cost of raising a child, so they aren't really a substitute for negative income tax.
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It seems that you only get $1000 tax credit per child. That probably eases the burden on people who are going to have children in the first place, but is still net negative and doesn't do anything for people who aren't going to have children.
In the US, the Earned Income Tax Credit is similar to a negative income tax, and has bipartisan support (it was expanded under Clinton, Bush and Obama, for example). Economists love it, too.
I'd like to see Robert Hare's response to this.
Giles Corey - tortured by peine forte et dure to extract a plea of "innocent" or "guilt", but only responded with "More weight". Margaret Clitherow in the UK also failed to admit guilt or innocence under the same torture.

Rebecca West - under torture admitted she had 'carnal copulation with the Devil'.
What are the best ways to create brand awareness?
To set it off - some suggestions would be the usual suspects which I've enumerated below:
1. Facebook Ads
2. Twitter Promoted Tweets
3. Google ranking (SEO)

What are some other effective ways to create brand awareness for a new product?

Let's discuss...
Ask HN: How to understand the end user's concerns and needs?
Hi HN,

Since I started working, I discovered that what makes a development successful is not as much the programming skills as having a clear comprehension of the business logic.

I work in a company that publishes an ERP, where I developed features related to accounting and warehouse management. In each case, my problem was to figure out what exactly people in the trade would expect from the software. And although I did acquire some hindsight on the matter with time, I feel that learning it from the developer's point of view is not the most efficient method.

So, do you have advices on how to understand the end user ? (and I mean the average, representative one). Is it possible to learn correctly from books or evening courses ? Or to work for some time in a team closer to the business logic (eg. peoples who manage the ERP within a company) ?
That's an interesting page. I don't think I agree with "If in a high-rise building, stay away from windows and outside walls, stay out of elevators, and get under a table." Three times I've been sleeping in a tall building when an earthquake woke me up. In Singapore, I descended 14 flights of stairs faster than anyone else in the building. I made fun of some coworkers when they emerged five and ten minutes later. In Hawai'i, I got stuck behind some people at about the 5th floor, having started from the 22nd. In Tokyo, I just rolled over and went back to sleep. The Japanese are on the ball; I figured that if there were a real problem I would get a phone call or there would have been a public address.

If the thousand-ton steel-and-concrete building collapses, you're going to die. That's true whether you're under a table or in a stairwell. The building might not collapse immediately, however. If it collapses after you've hidden under a table for eight minutes, when you could have run down the stairs in seven, you're going to die feeling like an asshole. Elevators are an open question. If you're the first on, you might get out quick. If you stop at every floor, that won't be quick. Also, a shock that isn't enough to drop the building, might be enough to screw up the elevator.
Let's test the title against proposed alternative with one sentence in the article:

"even though that flow is unproven in the scientific literature on psychopathy"

So, a lot of speculation with no evidence to back it makes the existence of psychopaths a myth. Further, the article intentionally ignores research that supports the existence of people with their alleged traits, even neurological differences. Pop psychology and religious rhetoric are far from the only things that went into it. So, the article's claims are unbalanced, weak, and defeat themselves for now with above quote.
This doesn't make sense. I pay a quarter (or more) of my total income so that government can take care of these individuals. Food, basic nutrition, basic safety, etc.

This should be a solved problem.
Sure,
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This wasn't an accusation of group responsibility. In fact, they specifically state in their announcement that

> Ellen asked me to point out that the sweeping majority of redditors didn’t do this, and many were incredibly supportive. Although the incredible power of the Internet is the amplification of voices, unfortunately sometimes those voices are hateful.

Like any popular site, Reddit attracts everything from enlightened discussions to 4chan-level casual trolls (and worse). Pointing out the issues with threats and indicating that the community could be better without individuals who would publicly threaten the life of another person seems very reasonable to me.
Maybe. I'm sure a large amount of redditors (maybe not majority) appreciate a well-run IAmA which manages bringing in celebrities and other big names. Pao's actions as CEO directly impacted their ability to do that.
> The PC gaming community is (I hope) fairly intolerant of any sort of lock-in

> Steam

I've got no problem with Steam, but it's a pretty locked in platform already
Actually, lack of money seemed to play the same role as presence of wheelchair in the above...
And if you hold neither of those positions, the mainstream political parties automatically treat you as though you hold the position that they oppose.

Some of us would prefer to replace the entire welfare system with simple automated scripts.

if( 0 != ImmNatSvc.GetStatus( person ) & ( CITIZEN|PERM_RES|ASYLUM|REFUGEE|NONIMM_WORK ))
{
Treasury.DistributeBasicIncome( person );
}
This doesn't even scratch the surface of pre-Socratic philosophy and doesn't explain its importance for European/Western culture.
Humanity is also full of cynical assholes.
Nice touch, putting a referrer tag for HN in your URL.
Clearly a niciety. That said, it's possible that she did excel in other areas. She's CEO not community wrangler. As a casual user, I had no idea who the CEO even was until recently. Similarly, although I have a username, I couldn't name another user or mod on the entire site. Someone got fired? Ok. Doesn't effect me.
Erm, why should there be any "discipline" at all?

Discussion sites (HN included) exist solely due to their users' laziness for using and/or creating better Free decentralized solutions and ensuing network effects. In exchange for this ease of use, the site inserts an epsilon of advertising and censorship. This is the extent of their value proposition.

Eventually business/legal skinjobs take over, mistake the community for an owned golden goose, and ramp up the amount of advertising/censorship. The illusion of openness is shattered. The users revolt and move to the next green pasture.
if you self-select into the group that isn't cared about, then do you expect your leaving to be cared about?

i ask only because i'm puzzled as to the purpose of your reply.
Parents post was the highest place to hang a reply.
How I built linkmoji in an hour
Giving out mosquito nets to conquer malaria makes as much sense as giving out medical masks to conquer the flu.

77% of maleria deaths are kids under 5 according to the WHO [1]. They're giving out mosquito nets to prevent children from dying of malaria.

But we don't live with malaria, so feel-good gestures are as far as we go.

For every 322 children under 5 protected by nets, one survives who would otherwise die [2]. This isn't the right thing to be cynical about.

[1] http://www.who.int/gho/malaria/epidemic/deaths/en/
[2] http://www.givewell.org/files/DWDA%202009/Interventions/Nets...
Sometimes genomics researchers do things inefficiently on purpose. You very rarely want to look to see if two strings are exactly the same. Instead, you usually try to look at how similar the sequences are, taking into account ambiguities or mismatches. In this scenario, storing sequences compressed as 2-bit encoding isn't significantly faster (if it is at all).
Why both C and C++? I'm guessing because some standard mobile apps use C++?
30 Years of .ORG
Even with tunneling there's still the possibility of hardware fingerprinting. Unsure if it would be limited in scope to Steam Guard or not.
that's a stretch. if the intent is to create a sarcastic nick-name that compares the ceo to a dictator, "chairman pao" is going to be a front-runner not because pao and mao are both chinese but because pao and mao are only 1 letter different from each other.
First steps with Vim script
Then they didn't build wealth, they generated income.
This is the only real solution, as it directly addresses the real problem: interdependence. As Dan Geer described[1] the problem:

... risk is a consequence of dependence. Because of shared
dependence, aggregate societal dependence on the Internet is not
estimable. If dependencies are not estimable, they will be
underestimated. If they are underestimated, they will not be made
secure over the long run, only over the short. As the risks become
increasingly unlikely to appear, the interval between events will
grow longer. As the latency between events grows, the assumption
that safety has been achieved will also grow, thus fueling increased
dependence in what is now a positive feedback loop. Accommodating
old methods and Internet rejectionists preserves alternate, less
complex, more durable means and therefore bounds dependence. Bounding
dependence is *the* core of rational risk management.

In software we've had to face this problem of expanding complexity and interdependency so often we have numerous names for the problem like "spaghetti code" and "DLL hell". Numerous techniques have been invented to try and mitigate dependency problems (e.g. "information hiding" with functions and classes, UNIX-style problem separation and component reuse). With Rust, we have even designed an entire programming language with complicated and usual memory management features, with the goal of eliminating some types of interdependent pointer semantics. Even with all that effort, the good designer knows to ask the question "Did we really need to depend on $LIBRARY?".

Unfortunately, there are may other areas of our society that are just starting to learn about complexity at this scale, and do not understand why it might be an absolutely terrible idea to replace an old system that worked with a new piece of software that creates a dependency on the internet. There will be a lot of people that end up having to learn the hard way why it might have been a bad idea to change a security problem form "lock it in a thick-walled room behind a lot of people with guns" into something that probably reduces to Halting Problem.

[1] http://geer.tinho.net/geer.blackhat.6viii14.txt
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 you would like to actually reduce the net amount of "poor people", instead of simply creating a revolving door for individuals, you give money to the middle class.

Or, phrased differently: Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he feeds himself and his family while selling the excess for discretionary income :)
It's a bit better than the defaults because it generates many at once. But ya if you really wanna hack on it...
Pushing hard on moderator tools. In the short term, Reddit should watch its moderators, look for usage patterns, and build systems to reduce moderation effort. In the long term, Reddit should develop artificial moderation (AM).

Reddit is the natural place for the discipline of artificial moderation (using AI / ML to help moderate public forums) to develop. For example, an automated "argument detection" bot could intervene when two participants start going down the warpath, acting like a janitor who pushes two rowdy students apart when they start fighting. Or, a bot could detect when a post consists entirely of one participant insulting another and take appropriate action.

These are difficult problems, but Reddit is sitting on a goldmine of training data in the form of the human-generated moderation logs. Reddit should either hire the talent to develop such systems or partner with those who already have (Google / IBM / ...).
Seems like Reddit hired Ellen without checking up her references at the previous job, ie. Kleiner, and now they harvest the same results - insufficient performance and high scandals.

(note: there is nothing about her sex here - just read the case materials and you'll see that she behaved just like a jerk at Kleiner - for God sake she complained there that some assistant was using company fax to send brain scans of dying from cancer mother)