skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your plan to get rid of the trolls is to feed them by bringing their trolling out of the dark confines of message boards and trying to shame them in public, congratulations, you've fed the trolls, and inspired other proto-trolls (goblins, kobalds, I need a D&D person here...) to snicker in their caverns and sling their troll arrows at you.

If you start trying to troll the trolls, you're laying on a feast of HGH-laden troll-bait.

People have always been shitty to each other. The internet tends to act as a force multiplier for shittiness, allowing people to be shitty to each other at extreme distances, and with much improved protections from the immediate consequences. Once was a time, I hear, where if you insulted somebody in the public square, you had to be ready to drop the gloves if the insultee took it harshly. I dunno, I came in just at the very end of when it was considered acceptable for children to wrassle, and not grounds for throwing them, or maybe their parents, too, in jail.
> The income of people has diverted more and more in the last decades.

diverged.

(In the hope that it helps another non-native speaker.)
You're right, I was confused because she joined reddit in 2013. My comment still applies.
i did read the materials and discovered that they clearly understood that a rattlesnake they've got on their hands and were very cautious to not get that rattlesnake angry (and thus in particular very carefully worded reviews with nowhere close to real "exceeding expectations") and were just waiting for her to leave on her own ( they even paid her to do that if I remember correctly - ie. she was more worth to them being gone than working for them )
I wonder if a Law Degree runs counter to running a social network? Where authority bumps up against anarchy. Imagine Peter Thiel running reddit. Both Thiel and Pao have law degrees. Both have been lightning rods. I suspect a JD comes in handy for some ventures. Such as Thiel running Paypal or Pao sourcing funding for RPX. In both of those cases, it is about removing ambiguity. For social nets, the opposite holds true. Because, ambiguity is the main product.
As typesetters have known literally for centuries and human-factors folks have confirmed since, there is a number of characters per line that is optimal for reading. Shorter than that, and you're going back to the beginning of the next line too often. Longer than that, and going back is too hard. Either one disrupts concentration, even if we're only talking about tiny fractions of a second.

Is 80 columns exactly right? Probably not. From what I've read, the ideal is probably a bit shorter. In any case, having a standard that's in the right ballpark is a good thing. There will always be some complainers, but 80 columns seems pretty good for most people. It's nothing to do with punch cards, except that their design was probably influenced by the same ergonomic principles.
Since the context wasn't moral theory, the special definition of "utilitarian" has in the context of moral philosophy wasn't intended; "utilitarian" has a general sense outside of that context which is what was intended.

I avoided "Pragmatist" specifically because I'm familiar enough to know it refers to a philosophical school of thought that touches on the epistemological questions I was referring to, but not quite certain that the exact position I was referring to was within its scope (I knew it was along the same general lines.)
Watch all the free movies (if your flight has them).
Whatever else, she didn't "betray her spouse" because they weren't married at the time. http://www.vanityfair.com/style/scandal/2013/03/buddy-fletch...
eu-central-1a: $0.0938

eu-central-1b: $0.1053
> I'm confused how having a negative karma on Reddit is not a sign that people on Reddit find you disagreeable

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_bias
if you want to invoke the America vs Europe rift you'll probably be interested in an earlier talk from the same conference given by Robert Griesemer on the evolution of Go:

https://sourcegraph.com/blog/live/gophercon2015/123645585015

in short, Go's design is not from a unique line of programming languages, it just goes back further than you think. the argument made in the talk is that Go combines the European heritage of Algol (Pascal/Oberon) with the American one (C).
Start a $10 billion business like this guy did on a bus trip:

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-27579790
The point isn't whether it's "true" or "false", because that will vary depending on who you ask. Yes, even people you find disgusting are legitimate human beings with opinions too. Who are any of us to decide what is "right" or "wrong"? Good journalism is supposed to let you make those decisions on your own, not give them to you.

So in order to be good journalism, it must be objective, and to not describe things in terms of loaded phrases that convey any opinions. The opinions may be right, or they may be wrong, but that has nothing to do with the problem. The problem is the one highlighted in the book, which is that our news isn't getting properly filtered, and as a result, we're being shown rather restricted points of view in our media.

If current media organizations were run with proper journalistic merit, almost 99% of what gets published out there as 'news', would be filed in the editorials section.
But Reddit wasn't attacking corporatocracy or actual censorship. They were just trying to defend their right to be dicks to other people through abusive and hateful subs.

The right to free speech is not the right to speech without consequence. And what obligation does reddit have to preserve "free speech" in the first place? They run the website and it is fully up to them what gets filtered through and what sticks. It's not beholden to the first amendment.
What takeaway should we have about those drunken coworkers? I see roughly three possibilities:

* Their comments were funny / reasonable / etc.; there was nothing wrong with them. GP was wrong to find it disgusting.

* Their comments were bad, but there's nothing we can do about them. Our society involves it being socially acceptable to tell jokes about how people should die because of their inability to articulate clear moderation policies on a popular website, and that's unfortunate, but there's no way that we'll be able to change that social norm. (Or, alternatively, changing that social norm carries unavoidable downsides.)

* Their comments were bad, it's possible to make it no longer socially acceptable to make those jokes, and it should happen.

This doesn't really have anything to do with how seriously we take them.
If governments cannot keep data like that safe what are the chances of most other data owners being able to do the same? The way that we need to give it out all over the Web is a recipe for disaster as we are shown time and time again.
How to sleep on a long haul flight
I turned down a job working as a scientific-programmer-at-large for a college recently because it would have been a 40% pay cut. (I might have taken it at 20%, but I have a mortgage and a family).
That's a two year old link to a sub whose whole intent is to be as diametrically opposed to the SRS sub as possible. If you're trying to strike a point here, I think it'd be much more effective to link to something that's more impartial and up-to-date.
The Whistleblower Who Won't Be Silenced
I ran into the same thing. Not sure how to fix.
No, there's more to it. Because I don't want to drag her personal life into it (which does play a role), there were the huge problems with the AMA app, the new privacy policy (which while I agreed with, many didnt), Reddit Notes (the reddit cryptocurrency; perhaps the most jaw-droppingly stupid move in her tenure), and really, many more things.
>comments about her personal relationships

Is it not a relevant comment on her character that she has married someone who (allegedly) defrauded over a hundred million dollars worth of pension funds? That she later sued a company she was fired from over supposed sexism for the exact amount her husband needed for his legal defense fund? That she lost the case miserably due to a complete lack of evidence? (The case against her husband, on the other hand, looks like it will be quite the open and shut case with mountains of evidence)

I don't care about reddit at all, but I don't understand how anyone can defend her and her husband after one of them (allegedly) ruined the pension funds of thousands of clients who trusted them, and the other tried to provide him with the funding to get off scot free for the actions.

Would you defend Bernie Madoff or someone who had been complicit in trying to keep him unpunished for his crimes?
I was really enjoying this until someone put "tarantula" in the chat.
Seriously. Somehow this topic became a slightly less obnoxious Gamergate twittergasm.

So, does anyone have guesses as to what the material issues were in the board wanting her gone? I confess to having little interest in Reddit most of the time, so I haven't paid attention to what's going on there (outside of the recent firing-related explosion).
I think users were pissed off because of the lack of transparency. No one knew what the admins were deleting. It was up to the community to find out which subreddits were banned and why. Further the admins never logically explained their decisions, for example, to ban fph over srs. From the outside it seemed like an arbitrary power trip. And for what? Reddit's moderation system is perfect: let users form their own communities and moderate them as they wish. Some of the communities will be terrible but that's the beauty of it; you don't have to go to them. This system is what let reddit grow to the size it is today. While hackernews takes a different approach (moderation at the admin level isn't unusual) that is only manageable for a site of a smaller size.
If all this really is a matter of perspective, then TFA is basically correct that people can learn to behave so far outside the norms of any given society as to inspire a specious label like "psychopath".
> Nest's competence is design sense/simple ux which Apple already has plenty of but Google doesn't. That makes them far more valuable to Google.

Yes, that's my point. Apple buying Nest would keep Google from having better sense about simplicity when it comes to UX particularly when it comes to hardware.
Chelsea, but yes, agreed.
> usernames and passwords that background investigation applicants used

if this is correct, I guess that means passwords were stored in cleartext or reversibly encrypted. that is either epic stupidity, or someone wanted to keep passwords of potential employees so they could use them elsewhere
I disagree with Pike though I have mine fixed to 133 columns, not 80. A different historical set of handcuffs.
Victoria was beloved despite the fact she was a woman, not necessarily because of it. I understand what you're trying to say, but it doesn't really hold up.
There's a huge difference between 'government employee' and 'accepts federal grants'.
Equity Crowd Funding in New Zealand: A look back at the first 12 months
I read the entire thing and I think it is cool that now days this is possible. However, I got to thinking at $.50+ per hour, if I play 6 hours a night, that's $3.00 a day on weeknights. If I only play $8 on weekends it adds up to $23 per week. This would equate to $1196 per year at (23*52). Basically I'd much rather invest in a gaming rig. My CPU and GPU haven't required upgrades now for years in this day in age. At least if I invest in a gaming rig I actually have a gaming rig.

While I respect and find the technology fascinating and cool, it feels like leasing a car I'll never own versus owning and evening buying a new one every few years at a much lower price. For those who game a few hours a week however, I can see this being a cheap alternative to a gaming rig.
I noticed the plug for https://handmadehero.org

How's that going? Seems like progress has slowed.
IIT Rorkee expelled 73 undergrads
There are many technical solutions here.

First is realizing that there are technical solutions. Some people say "you don't want technical solutions to social problems" but the fact that subreddits have no protection against brigading at all is a serious design flaw with reddit[1].

Second is some way to require subscription for some period of time for votes to appear or to count. The CSS-hack stuff was silly, and as someone who has been on reddit since its first year, I have never seen the CSS-side of reddit because I never turned it on.

One of the big complaints from the blackout was the complete lack of tool support and this is an example. Reddit tried to paper over the technical shortcoming with rules and social hacks but once different reddit communities who didn't like each other realized there was a way to attack each other they did so.

[1] to be fair I wouldn't have realized it either if I was in charge of the subreddit design
You asked, verbatim, "What the fuck is this?". Parent answered. But somehow, parent is to blame for not answering the rest of your very rhetorical-looking post.
I am sadden that you are justifying black murderers.
> If you are voluntarily selling your labor, it means that you are getting the best value for it.

If you assume (as do most Econ 101 models) that humans are pure rational actors in the sense of the rational choice model, which there is considerable empirical evidence that they are not. And also assume that the market for purchase of the kind of labor that the subject is selling is perfectly competitive on the buyer-of-labor side, rather than distorted by monopsony or oligopsony (which may be more frequently true than the former assumption -- though subtle collusion make it false even when it seems to be true superficially -- but certainly is not universally true.) [The second condition is necessary because if it fails, minimum price regulation will change the best price, since in the absence of competition, the purchaser of labor can do so at artificially depressed prices.]
Most people are completely unaware of /r/all
Definitely interested. My email is also in my profile.
you're not alone in that thought: https://www.reddit.com/r/deepdream/comments/3cadj8/people_ar...
Another user explained, thanks, got it now.
Malice is very unlikely. If I had to guess, maintaining interoperability with legacy systems probably played a role.
Any link or should I just believe you? I really like to believe everything I read on the internet btw. :)
> Why did it take so long to deal with characters like violentacrez?

The admins asked violentacrez to help with the /r/creepshots. Later history got rewritten to say that he had created it, maybe to throw him under the bus.
IIT Roorkee- Parents result in removal of students from the institute
Beyond MVC with Rails
If that's the case, then why is Apple bothering with Homekit? Nest isn't just about thermostats and fire alarms. Nest is going to encompass your whole house which is the same thing that Homekit aspires to do. I still feel that Apple made a huge mistake by letting Nest go to Google. The main difference between Homekit and Nest is that Nest's products and platform has already been battle tested.
Some blog posts get loads of comments. Some don't
There's no reason why my comments shouldn't be analyzed critically either. So if you feel up to it, please do so. But the comment I responded to did not exhibit any logical analyses, nor any reminders to remain analytical.
Ha, I was there for that. Ick. The fun thing is to go full screen, cover up the upper left corner for a couple minutes, then try to guess what it's drawing. I got it right a couple of times.
I think you are very correct.

Maybe one of the nice things about UseNet was that you could only be signed up for a forum that you explicitly looked for? That at least forces the trolls to go out of their way to interfere with general-interest sections, not just go after them out of laziness.
>We can't trust that her and her husband were in love

I'm sorry but this is total BS. The onus is on you to prove the "Pao's marriage is political to help with lawsuits" conspiracy-circlejerk, not on Pao to prove that her marriage isn't just a "normal" marriage.
What you're describing are basically non-events in the history of bad decisions made at reddit (and like half of them come from Yishan's tenure, anyways). And reddit survived just fine every time, mind you.

There really wasn't anything overly egregious here except an angry internet mob. If it weren't for the subreddit blackout (which, again, was from an issue boiling over for years) timed so soon after the FPH shutdown I would give good odds it would have dissipated and we wouldn't be seeing this resignation today.
If something like railgun(https://www.cloudflare.com/railgun) could be done with this. Im sure latency can be reduced further. Have small data-centers in various regions around the country but only a big data-center with all the beefy machines.
Probably the most agreeable statement here, regardless of which 'side' you stand on.
> “The attacks were worse on Ellen because she is a woman,”

@sama, how do you explain this claim without ignoring the community's enormous support for Victoria Taylor?
6 hours a night on weeknights sounds like a heck of a lot! Owning might make sense for you, but you might be an outlier.

I would have to think most people with a job and family might struggle to find 3-4 hours a week to game. No offense intended by the above. I'm quite envious :).
Anonymity doesn't make any "normal person" start spewing death threats and rape threats. The Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory is just an excuse bad people tell themselves to justify their antisocial behavior.
And the US government denied Area 51 existed until 2013. Fire is hot, water is wet, PR is slimy.

There's no way to know whether it's correct or not, use your best judgement. Pao denying anything brings nothing to the table.
Apple has done amazing things for IPv6 on the client side; first defaulting to IPv6 for link-local traffic, and then being an early adopter of Happy Eyeballs and putting relatively good IPv6 support in their AirPorts.

Many brownie points!
Microsoft and Nokia – a marriage made in hell?
Ishii also threatened to break a jar of cholera in a room full of people. Dude was evil but at least he understood himself.
If you are providing real value, showcase what you built. If you are disingenuously shilling your product, dont bother. You will only damage yourself. What's the product. Happy to take a look at it if you have a website.
It was a comparison. Once MooTools was the library to use, now its dead.
As an aside, I think it's notable how Metafilter has maintained a high-quality link aggregation/discussion forum over many years through the use of community norms and relatively aggressive moderation.
Good. I last worked for the government in 2007 and all of my data was still included in the breach. Heads rolling is the very least of what needs to happen when a security error of this magnitude occurs.
The crypto currency sites I'm aware of such as seals (swcpoker.eu), shibes (pokershibes.eu), and betcoin (betcoin.ag) all have "microstakes" levels.

On the other hand, all of them have low volume of users, so you may not find a game immediately on any of them.
> So, does anyone have guesses as to what the material issues were in the board wanting her gone?

Performance/track record aside, her name had become toxic to reddit. Sometimes you don't clean the stain, you buy a new shirt.
Note that this is a chart of per-comment karma, not a trend of her total karma. Thus explaining the sheer cliff between a largely-downvoted comment and a largely-upvoted one.
There are some ways to coax a retransmission (duplicate acking, maybe selective ack?); but retransmissions doesn't really help, since a given socket was always running through the same route, and getting corrupted. I guess an explicit 'got bad data' message would have shown up better in tcpdump though.
Casey has took a week off for a medical urgency in his family.

If you want to see how alive is Hand Made Hero just follow Casey on Twitter and check the Forums from handmadehero.org.
Implementing Secure User Authentication with Long-Term Persistence [PHP]
>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.

There is a polarising effect which occurs in these kinds of threads (or communities discussions as a whole): once the vitriol has met a critical mass the more moderate people tend to just avoid the whole thing (not participating, likely not even observing). So all that's left are the extremists who keep perpetuating it.
obvious question: do you have a laptop?
I found PG's comment[1] from over 7 years ago. Granted, HN has undergone subtle voting changes since then.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

edit: yeah, the downvote threshold system was bumped up ~1 year after PG's comment.
I was talking about Google Glass as a platform and product line and not the very first model.

Correct me if my memory is wrong (it's been wrong before recently), but I remember Google explicitly mentioning that this is a beta product; kind of like the current Oculus Rift releases so I'm not really too surprised at the current situation.
Ask HN: Why does GitHub `Zen Mode` not have syntax highlighting?
This is about two and a half years old:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5111354

Do they consider syntax highlighting as a distraction, do I not know how it works, or was it simply not designed to ... write code?
- collaboration (easier than desktop, but still possible there)

- instant updates and critical bug fixes

- reproducibility

- visibility

also, because of "Atwood's Law" [1]

[1] http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-principle-of-least-power/
Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others. We have decided that no one is more trustworthy to pick our leaders than large bodies of anonymous people.
You can set up your own repo.
Privacy Tools: How to Build Better Passwords
Next you are going to be asking whether it would be feasible to have Internet filters (browser plugins) that augmented the social media pages of other children from households with differing views. It could even, for example, replace words like "Jesus" with "Big Brother" (or Allah, Jehovah, et al). Then, of course, the child would need to wear augmented vision that made other children from disagreeable families or backgrounds look really ugly (or scary). Perhaps the system would simply detect the identity of each person (based on face) and use keyword profiling from social media and related to classify each.
Is there a larger red flag for the aggrieved tech male to wave these days than whinging about "ethics" in the media?
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The 4th option would be to just not assign a moral value to their comments, and chose for yourself as an individual to not let yourself be offended by them. It doesn't mean the co-workers were right, but it doesn't penalize them if the didn't intend to be bad (because doing so would be a slippery slope to thought policing). Unless OP thinks his/her co-workers would face Pao in person and tell her those things, or worse, act on them, then is there any reason to let their silly actions cause you any distress?
Reddit is a simple crud app that runs on amazon for scale. What could a CEO possible do?