skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook's userbase is so large, many users are functionally anonymous.

Before online communities, most people interacted in social circles small enough that their identity actually meant something to the other participants.

But on widely circulated/public posts on facebook, the audience is so large, that "John Doe from Indiana" might as well be anonymous.
>Abuse stories like these make me embarrassed to support any form of privacy online

I don't feel embarrassed to support free speech when I see it abused.

Your line of thought would have us all registered with the state before we could use the internet - a tragic outcome that some on this planet are already subjected to.
It's not as easy as you seem to think to e.g. (de-)multiplex a single TCP port to/from 1024 cores, and that's before you actually try to keep any application state in sync. Lots of stuff breaks at that level of concurrency.
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Quite to the contrary, in fact. One of the big learnings from the Google real names policy was that people are JUST as willing to be terrible under their real names.

What I think it is, if I may hypothesize, is merely that there is fundamentally no incentive to NOT be however you want on the internet. 9 times out of 10 nothing you say will be traced back to you, or will reflect on any aspect of your day to day life. I consider the internet a window into the uninhibited mindset of the average person, and that although we may find it distasteful, to censor it would be paramount to burying our heads in the sand about our own nature.

What's worrying is that rather than find avenues to deal with it in reasonable or moderated fashion, the narratives often seem to shift to the most extreme and often dogmatic-seeming angles, more as talking points than measured response.
Did you see the front page of Reddit when they were blowing up at Pao over the fat people abuse subreddit? I think it's disingenuous to claim that this is just polite disagreement: http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/images/original/2015/6/10/...
I think it's a nice idea, but seems difficult in practice.

First, I think embedding language knowledge into the VCS is fraught with peril. For one, does that mean that you need to rev your VCS version every time your language changes? What about when your language revs its AST, but not the language itself? Is your VCS version now no longer backwards compatible with old versions?

Second, I think there's a significant amount of overhead and new technology here. Most DVCS's currently use hash-based filesystems for storing history. If you replace simple data diffs with semantic transformations then you have to find some portable way of encoding that. If you don't want the implementation to be language-specific than you have to find some language-agnostic encoding system that can also recognize that the textual diff and the alpha-rename are identical commits.

IMHO, I would rather have metadata on commits. That way you can always fall back to plain text and all the old tools (like an ancient vi) continue to still be usable, but more advanced language-specific tooling could recognize these things and provide a simple view to the user.
It's too bad that this type of comment and the one above it are going to kill any meaningful discussion about this interesting and important topic. To quote Sam Altman[1]:

> Most smart people I know have decided to just not discuss anything sensitive because of the internet lynchmob looking for any slight mistake

> This seems unlikely to be a good development. At some point the conversations will only have the extremists left.

We need to talk about this, but without heavy moderation which will introduce a different set of problems, I don't see how.

[1] https://twitter.com/sama/status/610494599526641665
Lets see... web app... small... click here... click there... one more click... $ 14.000
I don't know what I've been doing the last 25 years but now I know that I need the next 7 years to be a millionaire. Thank you!
I would hypothesize that the correlation is that a pseudonym increases your sense of invincibility.

If you already think there will be no ramifications of friends/people knowing your opinion, then a pseudonym doesn't give you much incremental benefit.

If, however, the potential ramifications are great, a pseudonym does a lot to distance the ramifications from you individually.
To be honest, I prefer the original java version over the html5 version. It uses less resources, and doesn't cause my browser to crawl while it's running. The java version starts chugging on my laptop at about 20 transistors, this chugs with a third that many. Also, the java version had a zip file you could download to use it without being connected to the internet, which this one doesn't.
Reminded me of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co5jTvGlt6Y
People like to gossip and trashtalk. We can act like it is not human nature and philosophize about ideal conversation, but one look at the afternoon TV programme will quickly convince you otherwise.

Imo the way forward is not demonizing either social group, but to give each their own forum for expression. The word 'troll' is an extremely slippery slope...
Where can you actually still have an uncensored discussion on the internet?
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The trolls are a small, small percentage of users but some of the loudest.
It's like grocery shopping and coupons, however. If you shouldn't be calling the function, then even a 99% reduction is not useful in that context.

Would you rather call a slow function, a fast function, or skip it altogether?

(A coupon only saves you money if you would buy the item in the first place.)
Which arguably also is a label quickly thrown at people with different opinions.
Thousands of people? Where did you get that number from? Also, there were (misguided) reasons for people to be upset, which does not justify the racism, but hey, extreme insults are normal if you are very angry (no, not just on the Internet but also outside tech filter bubbles).
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She's still a millionaire executive. Obviously nobody deserves the kind of abuse she's gotten, but I think I could put up with a whole lot of nobodies saying mean things about me on the internet in return for being in her position.
Apparently Pyrex is no longer borosilicate.
may be, yet it is still doesn't help them win in court ...

Without any reason, just as a fishing expedition for millions of dollars, she basically publicly labeled a bunch of men as sexist pigs. Talking about trolling, ehh..
Automated notifications/confirmations/instructions that imply that no humans is sending this email.

Although many such email do contain instructions on how to contact someone relevant.

Expecting "thank you for your purchase" from amazon to come from jeff.bezos@amazon.com is unreasonable.
I would start with django.core.handlers.base.BaseHandler (https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/core/han...), which is Django's Front Controller.
The article speaks wider than Pao's own personal experience and speaks on the internet as a whole
EDIT: Removed overreaction to grammatical pet peeve that distracts from the main point.

> It seems that one of the most powerful online political classes have lumped hatred and abuse in with disagreement and mockery.

Its pretty common, online and off, for people of all classes to ascribe disagreement with their preferred position with "hatred and abuse". Mistaking this common error for a feature of a particular "powerful online class" is, AFAICT, the same kind of misperception of persecution as the error itself.
Pao had thousands of accounts calling her a ching-chong cunt.

There's potentially a big difference.

I'm not defending the slur - it's abhorrent. But if the magnitude matters to you, let's try to be accurate when we describe what we're counting.
Lower barrier to entry, all you need to get started are some photos. Creates a higher user population, so the % of creeps is lower (from conversation, this seems to be what turns my female friends off traditional dating apps)

And lastly, there's no real negative social stigma attached to it, partially because it's so popular. With traditional dating sites, people think you're a loser if you have a profile.
Real trolls exist, but other than that, I must admit I was also thinking that a rallying cry against trolling is usually just a cry to shut down people somebody disagrees with. Actual trolling without content is usually well covered by user agreements and general law.
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"Pao had thousands of people calling her a ching-chong cunt."

Is this a known/established fact? I see in the article a paragraph about how she received thousands of positive notes/emails but nothing about the # or volume of hate. It may not be documented here, but I'm curious if it was actually as widespread as implied.
Thanks vonklaus- you're completely right- it is very similar to tinder and grouper- however FriendsTonight has a few main differences

1. We're about meeting new people in groups, not dating- I actively tried to reduce the "dating app" feel as much as possible.

2. When you make a request to hang out with someone- it only lasts until the end of the night (4am). If the other group doesn't respond by then, they lose the chance to meet you.

3. All likes, matches and chats disappear at the end of the night.

I'm trying to focus all my initial marketing in NYC. From what I've learned, my target market is young professionals or people that just graduated college.

Would love to chat with you more about marketing. Feel free to email me at sam@friendstonightapp.com
I think is embarrassing meet an unknown man/woman and start a conversation based on the fact that they have to meet each other because they matched with a social app. The problem is not "How to meet people". I think socialization is a more complex process that is very difficult to engineering.

This article explain it more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/fashion/the-challenge-of-m...
The scope seems way too large to fit in 5 weeks for 1 developer. Not to mention 3k doesn't even come close to being realistic. I do wonder though, are you talking a mobile responsive website or a native mobile application? The "with CMS" makes me question that as does the online shop etc. Either way, still way too much for the timeframe at money.

Realistically, in the US at least, regardless of web app or mobile app you are looking at likely multiple 10's of thousands of dollars to do it right assuming it is all new code and design work still needs to be complete etc.

As an FYI, I have seen a few companies make these wild type suggestions to find out who NOT to use. If someone even entertains it they know the person has no clue and so they won't work with them.
Fair enough. I had not realized that NH could send data at a faster rate when bandwidth was available. I wondered about the point of having 8 gb storage when you had such low speeds - it would take years to download.
Nice app! congrat!

I'm interested in how you guys plan to solve the empty restaurant problem.
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They were hit back by karma. Reddit has never hesitated to take advantage of the word "democracy" to refer to how their site works. It's a word that sounds very well. So there they have it: that screenshot is what democracy looks like.
there is physics and there is language (and sometimes the twain shall meet). does normal glass flow at room temperature and typical earth gravity? nah. do glasses flow at some temperatures? who would deny it? so glasses are possessed of liquid properties. your non-crystalline statement is the properly important one (in my humble opinion), and it essentially defines what a glass is. and as a sibling commenter here states the thicker glass in panes in old buildings is probably a statistical phenomenon, or just possibly represents a glazer's choice, rather than anything to do with chemistry or physics or holders of phds, (by the bye, from experience, if a phd requires you to add a "Dr" to their name, that's a pretty good test of jerkhood (jerkship?))
Yes please, it always helps an economics discussion.
Here it is: https://archive.org/details/2015_reddit_comments_corpus_sqli...
This is one of the worst advertising campaigns I've ever experienced.
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Looks like a competitor to weCliq (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wecliq/id965067652?mt=8)
It is really easy to define the meaning of terms if you are the easy-to-agree-with side of a conflict. And now you cannot even mention the elephant in the room anymore without being immediately flagged, banned or at least called a women hating privileged white boy.
Trolls used to mean (and I think still does mean) a person who attempts to voice an opinion they don't hold with the intent of invoking a negative reaction out of someone else. Most of the folks spewing bile at Ellen Pao probably don't actually hate her, but can't help seeing their actions have an effect.

Trolls don't win if you ignore them -- the shitshow that's been Reddit this past month is almost entirely because Ellen and co. can't/won't stop reacting to short-sighted outcries from Reddit's userbase.

Yishan, Ellen, Alexis, Steve, even Sam, and everyone else involved needs to shut the fuck up (publicly) about Reddit for a few weeks. This whole "airing of grievances" is actually what's killing Reddit, not the trolls.

What I want to see is legal action taken against Yishan for fueling this well beyond its natural life. He had to violate an NDA of some kind with all the extra fuel he's been throwing onto this...
Mid-tier gaming headset, 60% off.

Yeah, they really dropped the ball on this.
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Nobody is debating that extreme insults are normal when people get angry. What people are saying is that it needs to stop being normal.
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Writing CRUD apps, the same thing that we've always been doing overall as an industry :)
The trolls won the war for usenet too. It didn't destroy the internet. Just because trolls are making reddit unpleasant doesn't mean that they will destroy the internet. reddit isn't the whole internet, not even close!

Furthermore, supposing that reddit users revolting against the clamping-down of reddit management constitutes the "biggest trolling attacks in history" is a little disingenuous. What about all the people who got internet famous for dumb stuff like the mustard guy or folks that got pranked by Sacha Baron Cohen or the jackass guys? Those were arguably trolling, and they got made into major motion pictures that got commercials and put into theaters!

Reddit trolls just post nasty comments on reddit, a place that probably half of America barely knows about and definitely doesn't care about.

I'm not saying that the nasty stuff that happened to her didn't happen, or that it's somehow not a big deal. It obviously is a big deal to her, and a great many other people as well.

But that doesn't make it the "largest trolling attack in history"
Hey jetpm- I totally agree. I wish we had an android version, but it's too hard for me to manage two codebases at once.

You can leave your email at http://www.friendstonightapp.com/#download in the android request section and we'll let you know asap when it's out!
Looks like it to me... what you think?
> She's still a millionaire executive.

I would presume she's still a millionaire, though I don't have access to her current finances. Of what is she still an executive?
Ask HN: Which JavaScript framework should a beginner chose?
I'm learning web development right now, and every time I search for a framework or library I get lost in how many options I have. So far what I got is:

Angular: Google's framework, is the framework teached by freeCodeCamp.

React: New kid on the block, made by facebook. People seems to like.

Ember + Handlebars: Some people said that is better than Angular.

Backbonejs: All I know is that is teached by The Odin Project.

For someone who is starting, after JS which framework should I choose.
Maybe they shouldn't have started the war in the first place. Stop trying to gentrify the internet.

Also, people who disagree with you == trolls? Nice.
Ususally titles are written not by the author, but by the editors, in order to be attention grabbing
His coding style is not common to most writers of Python.

He's using overly terse, poorly descriptive variable names, not using multiline strings for docstrings, not indenting where he should, and one-lining if/elif statements and function definitions. This style does not contribute to readability.

This is not how I would want someone just learning Python to learn it.
What I really care about: Who gets to decide who is a troll and who isn't?
So what's your definition of abusive? Who's definition do we pick? Can we vote on it? What happens when a vocal minority disagrees with a consensus? What happens if that consensus harms a non-vocal minority? What happens when no matter your decision, someone will be affected adversely? Which side do you choose?
It is U+FFFC, the OBJECT REPLACEMENT CHARACTER. The Unicode spec says it is "used as placeholder in text for an otherwise unspecified object".

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFFF0.pdf

The weird thing is that this is the second time I've seen it today, and I don't think I've ever seen it before...
http://zesty.ca/voting/ was a nice start.
I still don't get it why they only write in Python (Horizon also has Less, JS) However a lot of code would be way cleaner / clearer when they wouldn't use Python that much. Especially when looking at Horizon. They use Django mainly to use Django, they nearly need nothing from Django at all. The most things they did were quite hacky.
I mean horizon is full of magic to do really simple things.
And especially a lot of code got glued together over time..
Here's some further information [1]:

Command and Data Handling

The command and data handling system – a radiation-hardened 12-megahertz Mongoose V processor guided by intricate flight software – is the spacecraft's "brain." The processor distributes operating commands to each subsystem, collects and processes instrument data, and sequences information sent back to Earth. It also runs the advanced "autonomy" algorithms that allow the spacecraft to check the status of each system and, if necessary, correct any problems, switch to backup systems or contact operators on Earth for help.

Guidance and Control

New Horizons must be oriented in a particular direction to collect data with its scientific instruments, communicate with Earth, or maneuver through space. Attitude determination – knowing which direction New Horizons is facing – is performed using star-tracking cameras, Inertial Measurement Units (containing sophisticated gyroscopes and accelerometers that measure rotation and horizontal/vertical motion), and digital solar sensors. Attitude control for the spacecraft – whether in a steady, three-axis pointing mode or in a spin-stabilized mode – is accomplished using thrusters.

The IMUs and star trackers provide constant positional information to the spacecraft's Guidance and Control processor, which like the command and data handling processor is a 12-MHz Mongoose V. New Horizons carries two copies at each of these units for redundancy.

[1] http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/139889main_PressKit12_05.pdf

--

Detailed specifications for the Mongoose-V MIPS R3000 Rad-Hard Processor:

http://synova.com/proc/mg5.html
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I see /r/all maybe once a day, and I've never seen most of those subreddits on the front page.
Well this is awkward...
I see this frequently as well. A difference of opinion is equivalent to a declaration of war to some people.
What does it have to do with trolls, or internet, for that matter?
"I have just endured one of the largest trolling attacks in history"
I don't know enough about what Ellen went through to comment on it, but I find this comment very funny, and it made it hard to take the rest of the article seriously.
IMO the newer title enforcement policies are worse than the old ones. The old ones might have been unreasonably rigid, but at least they were consistent. Right now the policy is "Keep the original title... unless we feel like it." The definition of "linkbait" here is so vague that it destroys any possibility for creative expression (remember the days when writing a good headline was an art?) and reinforces the notion that HN has no sense of humor.

That's without getting into the separate tendency that original user-submitted titles (whether or not it matches the article title) often capture the essence of what's actually interesting to the audience here. Subsequent edits then lose that association -- making it less likely that I (or other people) will click through. Linkbait, you say? That's the whole point, I say.

In this case: Sure, the article's original title was hyperbolic. But so what? It's hyperbolic to good effect, and gives a feel for the tone of the rest of the article.
On your blog.
The report is signed by him, so it's safe to say that report is an accurate recollection of what happened according to him.

Having a report on the security of a system be issued months _after_ it is used is completely stupid. This is not simply his fault, it's the entire arrangement which is stupid.

The report shows that Righetti had access to the source code. Unless you are trying to say that he did not have access to the files in which _actual_ security vulnerabilities were found, or that the source code he was given was _different_ from the source code which was leaked, which contained egregious vulnerabilities.

Keep in mind he pockets hundreds of thousands of dollars in this arrangement. That's the part that adds insult to injury. Further, he does not teach information security or anything similar at university (he teaches networking), when there _are_ people teaching such things at UBA (FCEyN), who would have been better suited for the task.
> Someone who claims to Lead Efforts To Optimize Production while having the title Sandwich Artist is overstating their accomplishments.

I'm not so sure of that. Does this guy realize how ridiculously long it takes some sandwich shops to make a sandwich? Any Lead[ing] [of] Efforts to Optimize Production would be a welcome change, and if said candidate really did so in a sandwich shop like Togo's (which is notorious for taking, like, 10 minutes to make a goddamn sandwich when the local Port of Subs or Subway takes, like, 2 for an equivalent sandwich), I'd hire that candidate in an instant.
Heat is caused by resistance when the electricity moves through the metal. The more metal the electricity is flowing through, the more material there is incur resistance and generate heat, correct? If so, then more layers = more heat.
Hey willow9886, thanks for your comment- there's plenty of dating apps, but there aren't too many apps for you to meet new people in real life.

I really enjoy meeting new people, but I'm in a committed relationship, so it's awkward for me to use tinder or okcupid.

Some of the best nights I've had were meeting a new group of people with my friends and having a random night.

I'm hoping to recreate that with FriendsTonight
For the web developers out there, what do you think of reddit? Any honest commentary on it? https://github.com/reddit/reddit
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Fine, she's technically between positions. You know as well as I do that she will shortly be made an executive or a board member of some other firm(s). She is part of the executive class.
You mistakenly think that all of the people who signed the petition (~200,000 people) are from the fat shaming subreddit.