skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"NBC News quoted two unnamed U.S. officials as saying that there is no indication that the market shutdown was related to the computer problems that temporarily grounded all United Airlines flights Wednesday morning."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/nyse-trading-...
> The technical glitch is probably related to China news somehow

If that were true, you'd expect to see volume spikes on multiple exchanges, which so far I haven't seen any evidence of.
Their backup plan was to email immediate issues to ama@reddit.com, but that didn't satisfy the nerd rage, so the users had to go into nuclear mode.
I'm not exactly sure what it is about existing cofounder search sites, but I do feel that they leave much to be desired. Certainly they never worked for me.

Online dating sites attempt to solve a problem of approximately equal difficulty in my mind - creating a long-term relationship with somebody who initially is a total stranger. They leave much to be desired too, but have at least reached a functional level for many people, such as myself (met my wife through one of them several years ago).

I suspect it has something to do with the much smaller number of people on cofounder sites vs. dating sites, which makes reaching critical mass and iterating to improve the user experience that much harder.
Just saw http://signup.metroia.com/ today in the public Game Development slack.
Adobe tends to catch a lot of flak with regard to security... and a lot of it is well-deserved. It's nice to see that they saw a problem, and immediately began work on a fix -- for those people with Flash still enabled, it'll be nice to have a security hotfix :)
The Python "one right way" is a bit of a myth. It's a design goal that is unrealizable in practice. However, the documentation is very good and (in my experience) it lends itself to solving problems in very obvious ways.
Show HN: Users are improving Boreal, the Hacker News client
SHARES crashes every few months like this, that's not news.
So after a little owl-like head twisting, I was able to perceive the brush on both of my Dell 24" LCDs. However, I noticed something interesting.

Even though they are fairly similar models with a year or two difference (U2410 vs 2408WFP), they have different polarizations. The U has a vertical brush/bowtie and the WFP has a horizontal brush.

In the past, I have noticed that the brightness of the two is different and has been hard to match. If I drag an application between the two screens, it is almost impossible to tune either monitor so the display is uniform.

Does the manufacturer explicitly determine the orientation of the polarization? Are there reasons for one versus the other? Reasons why a manufacturer might want to rotate it?

I have noticed in the past that some dashboard or nav screens in cars are hard to see with my sunglasses while others aren't, and I know that is due to the orientation of their polarization because if I twist my head 90 degrees, the effect reverses.

Fun stuff.
This is what happens when you pay ENGINEERS less than 100k in NYC! This is what happens when you hire a bunch of H1Bs! This is what happens when you don't invest in tech infrastructure!

Why aren't Vladimir Tenev and Baiju Bhatt being acquihired? Why isn't David Byttow making 1 million plus as a full stack engineer for the NYSE? It's because companies, even those heavily dependent on their systems, see tech workers as a cost instead of THE business.

This will more than likely never change. Underpaid engineers vastly outperform their salaries. But when things like this happen I can't help but feel a little glee.
It's interesting that you're quoting that line as "the heart" of the piece, when it's the one line that seemed to reveal a less-than-reasonable motive: most of the rest of the editorial was about the way Taylor was fired, but this line was complaining that she was fired at all.

As an outsider to this drama, it sure sounds like people are angry mainly because this person was fired, and they liked her. They're clinging to the details of the way she was fired to give some weight to that indignation.
And Atlas is to those suite of tools like how GitHub is to git, kinda.
It's not as simple as that. I'm a moderator on several subreddits and, via moderator mail and private messages, monitored events during the shutdown. The impression that I got from speaking to other moderators and users of diverse subreddits across the site is that many of them feel a sense of pent up frustration toward Reddit. The mismanagement of AMA was the straw that broke the camel's back, and so many of them closed in solidarity with IAMA, and as a form of protest. It was not a witch hunt by any means, but simply an expression of "We're all fed up with this. Something needs to change". The protest was effective at getting Reddit leadership to rethink their actions and change course.

It's true that many Reddit users are "lurkers" who simply read the site and never contribute. These people probably never have had cause to become frustrated by the Reddit admins. However, among those who actively contribute, a surprisingly high fraction, from my personal observations, seem to be upset.

I can also say that there was debate among moderator staff on a number of subreddits. It's not as if everyone went along with it unilaterally. However, when moderators of other subs learned how poorly the situation was being handled, and learned how condescendingly Reddit staff responded, the backlash surged. Take for example the snide comments that Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanion wrote to users who expressed concerns: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/3bwgjf/riam...

Or the unhelpful, brusque way that Reddit handled AMAs during that time: http://i.imgur.com/ICSz7Xp.jpg (After reading, compare to statements from AMA mods about how helpful, supportive, and responsive Victoria was.)

I was initially skeptical about the shutdown, but seeing this evidence with my own eyes was enough to swing me into the "pro shutdown" camp or at least the "I don't oppose the shutdown" camp.

The responses from the community in these threads does not give me the impression of a witch hunt:

https://www.reddit.com/r/modtalk/comments/3byqjc/we_hear_you...

https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3cbo4m/we_ap...

Reddit and Alexis subsequently apologized and said they didn't realize the "depth of the frustration", but actions like this certainly contributed. Treating people with contempt is always going to make a situation worse. If Reddit had responded promptly, professionally, and respectfully, I doubt so many subreddits would have shut down, and it would have been resolved much sooner. I personally had no complaint with Reddit staff prior to the shutdown, but their handling and response to it concerned me. A company's staff should never treat their users that way. It should not take a massive backlash for admins to think, "Maybe I shouldn't be snide and condescending." The people running an organization need to be the mature ones in the room. The shutdown was Reddit users calling them out on their behavior.

Edit: Why the downvotes? Is this comment not constructive?
> As the article explains, the issues aren't to do with Victoria herself. In that respect, why she was fired doesn't matter

It absolutely matters. If it was something egregious and for cause, the company probably wouldn't have a choice but to terminate her on the spot. There are a lot of scenarios where they also wouldn't be able to disclose why she was terminated. If that's what happened, yes the company made poor choices for not having a contingency plan, but they may not have had a real choice of how to handle it the day that it happened. They could have been scrambling as much as the community was.

Now, I hope that's not the case because I like and respect Victoria. And the way people like Alexis "Popcorn" Ohanian commented suggests that this really was a case of Reddit's admins not giving a shit about the community. But to my knowledge Victoria herself has not commented on the reason for her dismissal, so it's hard to know whether Reddit had a choice about how to transition.

Anyway my point is the circumstances around the termination do matter in evaluating the way the company acted.
Thanks guys for your awesome reception. As always all feedback is welcome ;)
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Ok, but that doesn't answer all of the communication points. They had an email set up (despite being a communication platform, but if that's how they needed it, ok) and then they didn't tell the mods what that meant. Are they each supposed to send a question about everything they thought Victoria was going to be doing over the next month to that email?
If he demands to be the front-and-center face of reddit, he should act like it.
Hacked hacking company: Terrorists could be using our tools right now
To make it perfectly clear , "async void" should be replaced with "async Task"

The async stuff is interesting in that akin to generics it has an almost cancerous effect on your code. When you start using them they tends to spread to large parts of your code base if you're not careful.

It's awesome that C# now has such good support for parallelism and asynchronicity... but I remain in the opinion that a lot of this stuff is grafted on to the language and at some point we need to start over from scratch. Already more and more of the code is taken up by crud that should be abstracted away.
No need to apologize, my Bayesian inferences are going wild too.
>Bad communication. - they fire Victoria without telling IAMA moderators

I asked for things that were already "on the camel's back".

>Mods feel like they are volunteering for a for-profit company yet treated poorly.

They are volunteering for a for-profit company. What are some specific concrete examples of mods being treated poorly? I'm a mod of two subreddits (20k and 8k subscribers) and I've never once been "treated poorly".

>Recent top-down decisions that aren't the "reddit way". - banning of "hateful" subreddits such as /r/FatPeopleHate

Who gets to decide what "the reddit way" actually is? My reddit account is nearly seven years old now and I say "good riddance".

>A temporary(?) CEO who doesn't seem to "get" reddit, or at least is not the right person for the job. - that is very specific and concrete

That's laughable: it's not specific or concrete at all. It's an unsubstantiated, open-ended subjective opinion.
The author, from his comment section:

geekslop says:
July 7, 2015 at 9:59 pm

Appreciate the comment RedditorThrowaway. My parenthetical headline that “tor is the devil” was facetious and apparently a failed attempt at dry humor.
> "In Smalltalk, everything happens somewhere else." - Adele Goldberg

Am I the only one that thinks this sounds like a maintenance nightmare?

I don't understand how this could ever be a good thing.
It's quite obvious that you have a greivence against part of the reddit user base since, as you mentioned, you have been the focus of their hate before.

I appreciate your opinion on why the other subreddits were taken offline but I must remind you it's just that, an opinion - only that, it means nothing in the bigger scheme of things.
The US wants to push back the date it gives up symbolic control of the Internet
so you're saying that china has initiated some sort of half-cocked single-exchange attack? all other exchanges are operating, and trading is maintaining volume, and asset prices are stable. not sure i'm seeing the reasoning for such an attack.
And AOL too after the deal last week. "In a second part of the deal, Microsoft’s Bing search engine will replace Google on AOL for the next 10 years."

http://thevarguy.com/business-technology-solution-sales/0707...
It's a cognitive bias. The assertion from the admins was pretty clear regarding the harassment of individuals and threats of violence, but rather than acknowledge their prejudice, some have tried to make it into a first amendment issue. On a privately owned website.
> Most people who frequent the site dont care at all about the plight of the moderators.

They care about the quality of the comment they see on the subreddits they follow. That transitively means they really care about the plight of the moderators. They just don't know it.

> Moderators are largely faceless human spam filters.

On the well-moderated subreddits—which are increasingly the largest ones—they do a hell of a lot more than spam filtering. Moderators at subreddits like /r/NoStupidQuestions, /r/science, or many of the "Ask ___" subreddits are responsible for instilling the voice and culture of the subreddit.

> When I see the moderators throw tantrums demanding more respect, it reminds me of Reagan firing every air traffic controller who went on strike, people who thought they were above being replaced.

I'm not saying they couldn't be replaced. But if you do that, those subreddits will fundamentally change. And, in many cases, the userbase may go elsewhere before the subreddit finds its feet again.

> In the immortal words of southpark, if you dont like America, then you can get out.

I don't think reddit needs to worry much about moderators leaving. But they should really worry about content contributors leaving. The Digg v4 exodus happened virtually overnight. There's nothing magical about reddit that ensures that can't happen to them.
Secure Messenger Service by Truecaller, Called Truemessenger Launches in India
Really easy to use for creating quick quizzes.
That's not accurate about the Air France pilots -- they were striking because the airline was moving to replace them with cheaper pilots.
I don't expect my boss to dive into my commit logs to figure out what I am doing. I instead tell him.
Unsupervised image segmentation and categorisation
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You wrote a fairly long reply, but failed to actually say anything whatsoever about what Atlas is...
Evil and good are not real things, those are abstract, subjective and high level concepts that exist only in our brains. You can easily reprogram a human ("teach" or "brainwash" using the subjective terms) to classify death, slavery and misery as either good or evil.

All that matters in nature is whether something works or does not work, not whether it's good or evil.
Google self-driving cars are now in Austin, Texas
New York City Introduces Bail Reform Plan for Low-Level Offenders
Yep, I was wrong, you are right!
I meant BATS IPO on the BATS.
> Sorry, but is this guest the Queen of England or the Pope?

Irrelevant. You make a commitment to someone, you keep it or make alternate arrangements.

> Did the mods pay for his/her way to New York?

Completely irrelevant, as this is about how the company treated a guest.

> As the GP said, this is an overreaction -- the mods act as if insulting one celebrity means that IAMA, a subreddit that was originally populated by regular reddit users, has been inconvertibly sullied.

I would argue that it has been. To what degree, and whether it materially affects the sub, remains to be seen.

> Or that they, the mods themselves, spent their lives savings to fly that celebrity into town.

No, they aren't. Not even close.

> I'm not saying that the celebrity deserved to be snubbed

No, but you are implying that it is a trivial occurrence.

> but non-conspiracy-shit happens, and firing/rehirings can be a chaotic process that yes, sometimes lasts longer than a couple of days.

I know shit happens. I almost used that phrase myself above. However, there is a proper response to shit happening. In this case there should have been some sort of alternative arrangement made for the person coming in, even if it was just a managed delay to figure something out. You do not just turn someone who came to town to see someone at your organization out on the street on their own.
Mapping the U.S. By Property Value Instead of Land Area
Actually the Google C++ style guide forbids short, long, and long long and recommends int only under the assumption that it is 32-bits wide.
China's market has been crashing for a few days now. How does a cyber attack on the NYSE help China? All trades will go through just fine on NASDAQ and BATS.
Postgres 9.5 feature highlight: New JSONB functions and operators
Continuous Discussions #c9d9: Episode 20 Recap–DevOps and CD KPIs–Gene Kim
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11721622/Daily-T...
It looks like Anonymous tweeted something about this yesterday...

https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/618626955433349120
Actually a great example of this is Lincoln Precision vs Miller Syncrowave TIG welding equipment. Amongst welders there is heated argument about Lincoln vs Miller. Miller Syncrowave being the best of course ;]
Do you tell your boss about the code you don't commit?
Very cool! I would be interested in seeing more detail on Full Fact's implementation. Is there a technical implementation of the Decision Tree that is shown in the diagram? If so, it would be cool to learn a bit more about how it was encoded/represented.
The only company making phones with your mobile OS is not a competitor.
Github is still incredibly expensive, for both Enterprise and Github.com.
They're not mad that she was fired. They're mad because she was fired aND reddit leadership had no plan to help the communities that depended on her work. Instead they left them high and dry. That's a very important distinction.
Here's the problem: b/c the whole economic system is based on jobs, the government will create increasingly more complicated bureaucracies to ensure jobs for people. This is what has happened to the healthcare industry, for instance.
Why shouldn't you start a company just for the sake of it? Everyone's gotta eat, what if you want your employer to be yourself?

I guess my behavior is the exact opposite: I won't start a project then try to monetize it, I prefer to look at what people are likely to spend money on and then build that. That seems more in line with what the OP is trying to do.
We came prepared and actually purchased a hundred eggs right before the hackathon.

About 75 eggs were used as debugging eggs and the remainder was for us to enjoy
>they really care about the plight of the moderators

no they dont. its like henchmen in a movie. if some fall more will take their place. its a thankless task. they dont care at all about the individual, they just care that the group functions. the group will function without the individual as long as there are reenforcements.

>in many cases, the userbase may go elsewhere before the subreddit finds its feet again.

probably to another subreddit, like when /r/trees replaced /r/marijuana (thats still a win for reddit corp)
We have a few rather complex mixins in React-Router-Component and react-mixin's decorators worked just fine [1]. The only limitation I see now is a mixin that defines more mixins; this currently doesn't work, but there's no reason why it couldn't. I am considering a patch.

1. https://github.com/STRML/react-router-component/blob/master/...
Sure? Questions go there, then the person will follow up with whatever human replies and act appropriately. People leave companies all of the time unexpectedly, the world ending drama made it hard for most people to take seriously. Any immediate issues could have been handled with some speedbumps, if the mods were willing to act reasonable and proceed forward.
Don't plan for failure.
To expand ontokenizerrr's point, I read this as a big victory:

> First, the pedo site saw magnitudes more traffic than the counterfeiting or drugs websites – in the order of 100 times more traffic than the other two combined.

When someone wants to use the DNMs, they start at http://deepdotweb.com/ , http://thehub7gqe43miyc.onion/ , http://darknetmarkets.reddit.com/ or http://www.gwern.net/Black-market%20survival ; these are curated community lists, which people use to avoid falling for phishing links and scams.

Just look at the traffic stats for the one subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/about/traffic/ !

DNM users do not start at a random .onion because that is a recipe for being the latest victim of 'Drug Market' and other longstanding onion scams.

OP appears to have made no effort to get his honeypot into any of the standard sources of DNM info, and accordingly, he got no traffic. This is exactly as one would hope, and says more about how badly he bungled the drugs honeypot (and conversely, how pathetic the security of the pedo community is) than about any ratio of pedos to drug buyers.

(This is a similar problem as the paper which counts .onions and argues that pedophiles are 99% or whatever of hidden-service traffic; the differing communities using hidden-services simply don't work the way that OP or that paper assumed for ease of making wild claims. Counting onion addresses does not work because the pedo sites tend to change onions constantly while the huge blackmarkets like Agora stick at a single onion like agorahooawayyfoe.onion for months or years; counting visits to a lame honeypot like OP's does not work because with no advertising, vetting, or sellers, no one would bother with his honeypot when they could use Agora, Nucleus, Abraxas, or other established markets with broad offerings.)
they're highly likely related, your intuition is telling you that for a reason.
> The DNS resolver in the net package has almost always used cgo to access the system interface. A change in Go 1.5 means that on most Unix systems DNS resolution will no longer require cgo, which simplifies execution on those platforms.

This is great news if you're on one of those systems supporting it, using the net module and don't like the libc dependency, or if you're doing a lot of concurrent DNS requests.
Yah for sure, it is not perfect but it is pretty good.

In my use case, I don't support IE7 (won't work at all on my SAAS app), and I only support browser clients.

I have simulated LB failures by killing nginx, and watched traffic flow over to the other LB without a big delay (in 30 seconds everyone was over).

Fancier IP failover is nice for sure, and would let some more enterprisey people in.. but for a lot of apps out there, DNS failover works great. Surprised from above how many people don't realize it exists or works so well (for so little effort).
It works on my 10.10 machine. Can you please file an issue?

https://golang.org/issue/new
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Meh, most people will never notice it, and if for someone is an issue, you can continue to develop using 1.4 locally until 1.6 comes in 6 months.
> it reminds me of Reagan firing every air traffic controller who went on strike

Unionized laborers collectively bargaining for more money from the company they work for is almost the exact opposite of unpaid volunteers maintaining the profit making infrastructure of a for profit corporation.
We need to differentiate between fault and responsibility. Victoria may very well have been at fault, but the responsibility for steering the ship was management's and they appear to have been unaware that you needed someone in the engine room to make sure everything kept working.

Even if Victoria hid everything she did and didn't document anything, the tone of the initial response was one of surprise that seems to indicate they didn't fundamentally understand how everything worked.
Overreacting by immense proportions is what reddit does.

I do not know any details about Victoria's firing and I do not care about them, but obviously somebody up there did a terrible job managing the whole situation.
Nice! I've been using this for a few years for my Scrabble solver app but it's good to know they've committed to it for the long term :).
RebornDB: The Next Generation Distributed Key-Value Store
You are defining the community as people who interact with the site (or maybe content creators). I am defining it as people who visit the site. The old 90-10-1 rule suggests the community how you define it is only a small subset of the community how I defined it. If someone doesn't care enough to even create an account on Reddit, what makes you think they have strong feeling about the personnel decisions of the company?