skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
did you happen to miss how sites like the NYTimes and such were disappointed with how her case played out? How that and and another played out? They have their playbook and cannot see outside of it to the point they are no longer able to see the world for what it is.

Social Justice has infected the media to the point that anything contrary to the desired story is either ignored, recast, or dismissed. You can go google the Confederate flag issue and find far too many stories trying to link Republicans with it when it was Democrat politicians who put it up fifty years ago and kept it there; apparently it was just too good an opportunity to slander the Republicans for something the Democrats didn't fix for the fifty plus years they controlled most of those states.

So yeah, the media intentionally causes confrontation and likely because the same focus groups they use/rely on are merely political machines created to drive people one way or another. Politicians and the media both need a divided population and they both damn well do their best to get it.
meanwhile facebook goes big as video stealing platform. zuck must go to prison, too!
GP's example was that two reddit employees, in two similar situations, got treated differently. They had a different gender, and the woman was treated exponentially worse.

My example was that two reddit employees, in two similar situations, got treated differently. Thad a different gender, and in this case, the woman was treated exponentially better.

So my point was that you can play the "let's find the sexist" game. Or you can just admit that there are other circumstances at play. I'm not saying sexes didn't play a role, I'm saying Pao wasn't hated because she was a woman. Nobody gave two shits about her until she started making unpopular moves.
How do you think labor union would have helped in the openSSl case?
It really is one of those bizarre things. I can't quite figure out how there's so much money in technology, and yet some common and ubiquitous (and crucial!) open source projects are so incredibly underfunded. There has to be a better solution to this?
I stand corrected, thanks for the info.
Is that out of the ordinary? What has any reddit ceo done to make reddit better?
Jailbreaking not a requirement for infecting iPhones with Hacking Team spyware
There are often some startlingly bad practices in some of the Microsoft sample code. I've worked with an SDK where the majority of the example projects would crash out before illustrating the point of the example, because event callbacks that were hit by the code executed in the sample were just stubbed in with

throw new NotImplementedException();
It's equally ideological to always be polarizing it into pure nurture-ists vs. (let's say) Steven Pinker-ists. The vast majority of people in these debates concede that both sides (nature & nurture) influence. It's just tiny minorities and click bait driven journalists that like to make it out as these big unreasonable camps on such or such side. Easy to see the drivel it is.
I agree on the "Youtube repair manual" aspect and I've saved a ton of money as well. We've been in our place for 8 years, and in that time, I can only recall fixing the fridge (bad defrost element-$20 or so), throwing out a slow cooker, replacing the igniter on the gas stove, and replacing a working dishwasher and a not working washer (bad bearing seal on a front loader and the bearing was too seized to remove before I damaged it irreparably).

That's in a place with two kitchens, plus a chest freezer, two washer/dryers, and numerous small appliances, plus most of the items were old when we bought the place. I'm sure I'm averaging less than a repair per major appliance per decade.

I don't doubt your contrary experience, but it seems to skew on the unlucky side IME.
Looks like you are confusing UI designers with bullshit designers, who make such things "material design". It's not a beauty contest.
> huge class of web apps

You have a failure of understanding here.

There is a difference between a web site and a web app (although there is blur in the middle obviously). A web site (e.g. this site, a news paper, a blog, a search page, a job application form etc) should not need JS - and frankly if you put it in there then you're over-engineering things. Meanwhile web apps like e.g. Google docs/Office 365, a webmail client etc are clearly going to need specific JS.
We completely agree, it is impossible to replace the impact a teacher can have on a young mind. These apps are selected because we've seen a huge value in project based learning that we utilized during our college careers.
The topic at hand is journalism and misogyny. That particular phrasing was often used as a thin veil over many vile attacks on women in visible positions during the gamergate thing. I see a lot of similarities with what happened to Pao (not that I'm defending her in particular, she's pretty dodgy, but the hatred was palpable).

And really, you're on HN, this is not the place where you need to fly the "don't trust the media" flag with such earnestness. I doubt many people here do, certainly not me.
The way you make the unfavorable comparisons worse is by taking them seriously. I wouldn't suggest taking those co-workers too seriously either - it probably won't help.

Ellen Pao wasn't awful, but all-in-all, it's probably a good thing she stepped down. Hopefully, next time there's a huge community changeover or staff change in reddit, everyone will talk through it and about it reasonably, and everyone will be able to bat away the easily-led and the gleeful and/or bored shit-stirrers.
> huge value project based learning

that's definitely true, collaboration is a big part in learning!
I like the zoning analysis on this blog and generally support the conclusions.

I worry the methodology in this post is a little fast and loose though.

For example, as we move to CASE 2, its stipulated that a supply constraint artificially inflates prices of MFH and an oversupply artificially decreases prices of SFH. That really depends on the sizes of the zones, it could easily be flipped in some situations (maybe even as a tool to protect land values for SFH or large homes...).

Would really be nice to see a blog on zoning economics with more citations to academic journals, just as another check on the conclusions, or a path to deeper study.
I wrote a simple shell script[0] to scrape and output the latest image.

It uses the tiles from their online satellite map[1], and can output images in increments of 1x1, 2x2, 4x4, 16x16 tiles (each tile being 550px by 550px). Here is an example with 2x2 [2]

If you have any suggestions or bugfixes, feel free to fork or comment.

EDIT: Also works for a single tile[3], also clarity.

[0] https://gist.github.com/Syrup-tan/1833ba1671c7017f0d59

[1] http://himawari8.nict.go.jp/

[2] https://denpa.moe/~syrup/himawari8.png

[3] https://denpa.moe/~syrup/himawari8-single.png
With reddit gold most of Reddit has no problem with Reddit making money if they do it the right way. But if it means censoring content and speech and changing the community interaction that is totally unacceptable.

I see the backlash against Pao as a reaction to the wrong type of monetization form the communities perspective. Done by a CEO that seems to not have much of an understanding of what Reddit means to the people that use it.
Ah, I missed that announcement
I think you're right. It will never be a 100% thing (nothing is, gas cars included) but it needs to get a bit farther before "everyone" can use them.

However, the infrastructure is not that tough to build out. At the start of 2014 there were 50 superchargers in North American. Today there are 217. That's one company, funding them with the profits from selling cars. Give it another couple of years and the network should be nearly ubiquitous.
What about her bad behavior which affected many redditors?
Oops, I can see where it might construed as a list of top apps starting with the best. We did not intend for the post to be perceived in such as way. All the apps hold weight within those specific areas.
I'm not sure that keeping them around matters a whole lot to reddit as a company. People who resist monetization so heartily are unlikely to be anything but a drain on resources anyway.
It might be more that trust is broken and she can't be replaced now.
1K LUTs with 5 I/O's, My thought was an RGB LED controller with an i2c bus but that is already available in hard logic. You could probably do the motor sequencing bit for a motor controller in it, doing i2c for reading the position sensors. But mostly I run up against pin limitations. I'd like it to have 12 I/Os rather than 5 presumably Lattice provides that too. Then its a replacement for the CoolRunner CPLDs.
Reddit CEO Ellen Pao resigns after week of 'sickening' attacks
Urinalism sounds like a (sadly, apparently discredited) singular, though!
Labour unions are know to manage and divert investment for the common good for a field.

They help enforce regulations and prevent random programmers from doing something stupid.

IN the case of openSSL. Even though we all collectively know how important security is for the Internet in general, it would be hard to convince investors to fund something that is a collective good with long term potential.

Right now except for EFF, no one is voicing the concern about encryption. And it's all programmers collective fault for letting this happen.
I thought by "scary" he meant "impressively efficient, since this ran on a desktop, while most ML algorithms take huge amounts of server space."
This had to be the most absurd argument ever made. Poor people are poor because they are poor and therefore they will be? I can give you a million examples of poor people that have gotten wealthier (including my own and a lot of people I personally know) but it wouldn't matter to you would it? Ever heard of social mobility? To fix society, give everyone everything they need for free? Amazing insight.
Thank you :). Yup that's are primary goal. We have a new app coming out next week where kids can build their own unique monsters.
Frankly every public figure is compared to Hitler at some point or the other on the internet. There have been pretty personal attacks on Ellen Pao on reddit, but every link you posted here is relatively mild. Similar posts and subreddits were made about Yishan Wong[1] when he was CEO. Hell, reddit also makes fun of little kids[2]. You can not police what people make fun of.

The personal attacks and name calling, which haven't been linked in your comments, were a bit much. However they were few and far in between.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/yishansucks

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcoop
>> As of July 2015, there are at least 522 known cryptocurrencies,

Realistically: sort by popularity in descending order and keep the top 3.

>>tens of reliable cryptocurrency exchanges

...until exchange will either get hacked or owner will ran away with customer's money...

>> and a growing suite of services specifically facilitating financial operations in cryptocurrencies

These are great business models.
Just like selling shovels to gold diggers - never fails during the gold rush.
Privacy is on a sliding scale. There are certain assumptions we rely on when we go out in public.

Imagine, for example, some future where you were effectively under constant surveillance when in "public". Where your every action, every movement, every utterance was recorded, categorized, transcribed, data mined, and then put into a feed that anyone could subscribe to. That's what the complete absence of public privacy looks like, and it's not great.
http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/faqs.html#treatment
Turn open source support in recurring revenue with Stewaard
It's jarring -- that is, newsworthy -- to see overt sexist or racist remarks with hundreds of upvotes, suggesting at least widespread if not majority support. So, yeah, that fact is going to find its way into many articles.

What is the argument against Pao anyway? It seems like the only non-personal complaints I've heard are that FatPeopleHate was banned and a well-liked moderator was fired on her watch. Is there more to it?
previous discussion of the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9851512
I wrote a script which downloads the latest image in a large resolution[0]

If you can set your wallpaper from the commandline, or have the wallpaper refresh from an image on disk, you could use it for a live wallpaper.

I'm also going to have the scraper check if the image has changed every 10 minutes and have it update at [1] if it has, but the image will only be in 1,100px x 1,100px resolution.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9867655

[1] https://denpa.moe/~syrup/himawari8.png
> What is the linked article supposed to be an example of?

It's an example of exactly what the book talks about: subtle, lightly filtered "news".

> Would we be having a different conversation if the thread linked to the Reddit announcement instead?

No, because if you read my previous summary of the book, you would realize that the mechanisms in these two outlets is exactly the same. A single highly emphasized voice/view, with little curation/filtering, being projected loudly through network effects.

If you're still unsure about what I'm talking about, or how it fits in, I can only recommend that you pick up the book. It's really quite an interesting and quick read. And interestingly, the issue you're having of having difficulty seeing what I'm talking about, is basically exactly what the book talks about.
reminds me of this vault company who refuses to use computers to keep records or something along those lines.

http://www.losaltosonline.com/news/sections/news/219-busines...
Huge data breach prompts resignation of OPM director
I don't presume to speak on his behalf, but from what I can tell, he is saying that some poor are helped by direct cash payments, and some are not. How does that lead to a distinction of deserving/undeserving?

I guess my question is, what do you mean by deserving/undeserving? Deserving of what?
>Kind of renders all of his information theoretic calculations moot.

The stuff in the article isn't information theory. Information theory, in the senses of Shannon and Chaitin, is actually very useful for studying cognition, because it tells us about how much we can try to learn, via what methods, from noisy sensory data.
FPH was targeting individuals for harassment.

The subreddit was filled with photographs that were either a) creepshots taken off the street without the subject's permission and b) friends-only Facebook posts shared with the public without the subject's permission (which is a violation of Facebook's TOS).

Then, on top of that, they were harassing imgur staff members for enforcing their ToS.

CoonTown, as disgusting as it is, wasn't doing that, at least not in the sheer volumes of numbers FPH was. Most of that sub consisted of making racist statements about news articles and misinterpreted statistics.
Yeah, I was also thinking about that. But at the same time who would think about a business idea for small air ports otherwise? Also not many people rent to new businesses who might end up not being able to pay a bill or two on time (or at all). So yeah, you're right. It's an ad. But that doesn't make it a worse adventure, I presume. So I actually like it despite hating to see ads on the front page.
It has democratized the distribution of information or opinion. In the old days, as A.J. Liebling said, "The freedom of the press applies mainly to the man who owns one." (Quoted from memory, so probably a bit wrong.) Those men, and the occasional woman, were a very mixed lot.
This is like a company saying "I know employees need food, but instead of giving you money, you'll be compensated in hamburgers".

I'm tired of this stereotypical judgement that poor people are so bad with money that we'd be better off generously making purchasing decisions for them.
That’s fair. But making a more realistic model would require quite a bit more explanation.

The point seems to mostly be to make a little simple toy model which can be used to explore some of the possible outcomes, and show some which might not be obvious a priori. But it would be nice if he tried modifying the model in various ways (e.g. in amount of land devoted to various zones, etc.) and showing the results.

Or alternately, it would be nice to compare more comprehensively to concrete real-world outcomes.

When this little experiment is seen in the context of the rest of the blog, which has lots of analysis of specific neighborhoods around the world, it’s a bit better balanced.
By no means do they stay to themselves, however. Pick a news issue involving race in the vaguest sense and they're there in the comments, promoting their diversity-apocalypse conspiracy theory. If the membership numbers are to be believed, it's swindling some people(some of whom perhaps had pre-existing beliefs, sure).
But it does seem to fit the corporate 'need to monetize' narrative quite well.
If that isn't a pointlessly antagonistic thing to say, I don't know what is.
One person's "freedom fighter" is another person's "terrorist". For matters like these, it's better if we stick to the few objective observations we can make, such as deconstructing how arguments are made, and when/where they're propagated, which is exactly what the original comment tried to do.
Wouldn't what is left of the pre-Socratics fit into a very small book, with plenty of room for commentary?
America's secret weapon against cyber attacks?
A `<noscript>` tag seems most intuitive to me, perhaps paired with some server-side Google Analytics.
> I was refering specifically to websites, not webapps.

Okay, then yes, we were using terms differently. I consider web apps to be a subset of web sites (which is the standard usage as far as I knew), and thus I thought you were claiming that JavaScript should not be a requirement for any web site, including web apps. But you're using "web site" to mean web sites which aren't web apps, and in that case, I do agree.

I disagree with several claims you make later in that comment, but since I think I've addressed our primary disagreement I will leave it at that.
The problem with insults in America is that people confuse sexism for insults that are gender-specific. Unlike anal sex, many insults do not work on any gender.

Many of the insults we men use on each other just don't work on a woman. For example, what would calling a woman a "dickless wonder" even mean?

Similarly, let's say I wanted to insult a guy raised by a gay male couple. It would make no sense telling him "Your mother is a whore".
There's something offputting about referring to people by their reddit usernames as if that's an important facet to their personhood. It makes me think, perhaps without justification, that you have your identity far too tied up in a silly website.
There's a nice live version of this effect on Twitch that you can guide by typing things in chat: http://www.twitch.tv/317070
I don't care what the limit is, but there has to be a limit, because otherwise you always get that one asshole who likes to zoom his single editor pane fullscreen on a 30" monitor and then type, type, type until he wraps around the far side. Codebases like that are just painful to work with, and it's a waste of monitor space when you can't stack up a row of editors side by side.

I use 80 columns, personally, just because it's familiar, but I'd be just as happy with 100 or 112 or 120 or 160 or really anything as long as there's room to fit at least two editors on screen side by side.
The difference is in the culture you learn. So of course if you grow up poor, you're more likely to be poor. For example, you would think payday loans are normal if that's how you grew up.

The problem with the "evidence" you're using is that it can be interpreted many ways. It's merely a correlation.

In circumstances closer to controlled experiments where I actually gave someone money, they usually wound up worse off in a couple months, not better, unless I made sure the money went towards fixing a real problem.
She is Reddit's Chief.
Some people who remain poor do have poor character. Some people who are poor are so because of hard luck. It is extremely impolite to say it but it is true. Not that it should prevent you from helping any of them. Your hypothetical example is irrelevant because rationally, they should save the money for a rainy day, if they know that every day is not going to be as bountiful as this one. And try to leverage that to elevate themselves out of poverty. I saw this in lot in the third world. But many other people (both there and the west) lack it. Acknowledging that fact is the cause of the problem? Thats just silly.
Where "orders of magnitude" here means "four times"? (and one suspects the additional complexity will not do good things to your instruction cache)

ETA: wait, hold on. To compare two pairs of bits, you can do an xor, mask out the bits you care about, compare that against 0, and jump based on the flag. To compare two bytes, you can do an xor, mask out the bits you care about if you're packing them into something larger, compare that against 0, and jump based on the flag. Totally not seeing the advantage here.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-remote-desk...

chrome addin for rdp on chromeos or chrome desktop browser
> I saw racist and sexist posts personally

Honestly Reddit in general could be taken as "racist and sexist" by an outsider. By an outsider. The humor tends to be sarcastic, tongue-in-cheek, over-the-top, and in-group. For example any references to /r/pyongyang can be written off, 99% of the time it's part of a dedicated running joke that's not intentionally malicious. Pao as Hitler is jarring? You seem naively unfamiliar with Reddit.
I was just answering your question. Some might think that context matters. As in, what happened to Pao just comes with the job while what happened to Eich was purely personal.
The really interesting question is: why do you humans obsess over subjective consciousness rather than general intelligence, when the former is simpler and stupider, while carrying a burden of moral value, while the latter is more versatile and useful, while not carrying undesirable moral weight?

Which one do you really want to build in a computer? The intelligence, plainly.
More than 200k signed, so you're off by a factor of 10. I think that's too many to dismiss it as a vocal minority.

I think a lot of things were incorrectly attributed to Pao. It doesn't really matter though. I don't think she was ever going to get back the community's confidence.
Git is pretty easy to contribute to, fwiw. Thought it does require you to create patches and send them to the mailing list like the linux kernel does.
What are you talking about they did it to themselves. They tortured themselves they killed their own people. They are the monsters, no us!
Are those "racist" and "misogynistic" claims false? Judging by the top post(s), here https://www.reddit.com/r/Ellenpaoinaction/top/?sort=top&t=al... I would say no. That's pretty "racist" and "misogynistic". There was another sub reddit that was worse, but I can't seem to find it on my phone.

If you think the NYT article made those claims lightly (I don't) then I think that says more about the state of the Internet and its communities in general (or perhaps just you) rather than "The Media"
Victoria's firing was the final straw. The general complaint is that moderators are in an abusive unpaid relationship with reddit and are treated like crap, that she is/was completely out of touch with the reddit userbase (going so far as posting a link to her own inbox in /r/self in a grandma-emailing-c:\\paths.jpg fashion; something she later explained as an administrative mishap), that she got rid of well-liked programs such as redditgifts and was behind other much less popular programs and very unpopular decisions on the site. And the whole lawsuit thing didn't help, either.

She doesn't deserve the blame for all of it, but things easily snowball on reddit. Once the mob finds its pitchforks, there's no stopping it. That's not unique to reddit in any way.