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Why the hell is Reddit trying to make their own content when the entire point of the site is for the users to create the content?

Don't make a Reddit podcast, make Reddit a podcast hosting network.

Don't make a Reddit video show, make Reddit a video hosting site.

Don't make a Reddit magazine, make Reddit a source for anybody to publish their own magazines.

Why does Reddit have writers and editors and creative directors? It's like a rock band having a position for a flower arranger.

Is this the point where Reddit has official jumped the shark? Where to next for my cat picture memes?

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Want to increase quality and revenue? Give a cut of advertising revenue to the mods of successful, high quality subs.

Incentivize for the behavior you want.

Provide the platform and get the users to provide, mod and benefit from the content.
A very, very small number of the people who work on films, television, and music are rich. Let's at least be honest here: to the extent that they're cutting studio revenues, the people who are going to feel it most are tradesmen making even shittier wages for sporadic project work as it comes even less frequently.
Communication problem is the biggest red flag there is in my personal opinion. I have never had a communication problem and no skilled manager or executive ever will. Because it only takes one side to have effective communication.
America got out of the Great Depression and WWII with deficit spending. Sure we wouldn't be able to spend as much as then, but $900 billion could go a long way towards paying for these projects http://theweek.com/articles/624334/how-world-war-ii-reveals-...
I'm not sure where we are that we've decided people doing 3.5 billion dollar transactions are "unsophisticated".
It's not apples-to-apples to traditional startup analogies when there is a giant UPLOAD IMAGE button on the Reddit submission page.
Quick summary: "Gut bacteria therefore are not simply acquired from the environment, but have coevolved for millions of years with hominids to help shape our immune systems and development."
This trend of making things illegal before any harm is done is insidious.

Imagine if someone has their Blu-ray player playing on a TV. They design a system that flashes physical flashcards in front of the TV with a twitter feed. That shouldn't be illegal, right?

Now, what is the difference between that and overlaying a digital twitter feed? You are legally allowed to view the content. Why shouldn't you be able to consume it in any way you deem fit? If you copy or distribute it, that should be (and is) a crime, but until you have done that, in my opinion you have done nothing wrong.

Corporations have successfully lobbied to erode the whole basis of our legal system by taking away the presumption of innocence at every turn.
Isolation meaning that every web server cannot issue authenticated cookies for arbitrary users. I'm clearly not a security expert but that seems to greatly increase the damage scale of a single web server breach.

Also, how would you store a secret in a token without encryption? Or was that just a misstatement?
I can see the problems in that picture.

+street five times too wide

+snout houses with huge garages and driveways but few yards and porches

+low rise housing with one floor devoted to parking in a high demand area

+not nearly enough trees

+no street corner retail

But if you think that's bad, you should see 98% of the United States where it's much worse than the worst of San Francisco.
Okay, now one more paragraph about how anyone is incentivized to create anything in this system
Yes. Japan for earthquakes. But no evidence battery is not required.
Even better - great idea!
> [we...] go to a bar for happy hour and just shoot the shit about work.

Yeah, that makes perfect sense, i do that myself. Absolutely agree with the 4 on Friday point as well. I like drinking.

It's just the at work part that makes me nervous. I see the utility in not having to move to a different location, and how that is more inclusive to everyone. I think it takes a very light touch. Because it's at work people might feel more obligated to participate - even if they don't claim any feelings of obligation. Because people are drinking, they might be a little less tactful than normal. These two can compound in ways that aren't great for everyone.

You and your team sound like smart responsible adults. And i'm sure organizations that approach it with your level of delicacy will do great.
OK, so a month ago I was thinking of going all out and getting myself a sweet System76 laptop but then I thought about it and since I am doing most of my coding for web and apps, there is no need for a super kickass system. Decided I would try it instead on an older laptop. I picked up a thinkpad X220 for $200 and added an SSD drive, and I got to tell you, the thing has been pretty solid. I think I am going to upgrade again shortly and was looking again at the thinkpads... 20+ years of refinement has produced a solid machine.. Even the older models. That my 2cents.
To add to the list, Swift[1] had a code of conduct as soon as it was open-sourced. Mono even adopted one the same day[2] because they thought it was a good idea.

The LLVM Project is in the final stages of adopting one[3] (after much discussion) as well. This will (once adopted) apply to the LLVM backend, the Clang (C, C++, & ObjC) front-end, libc++, the LLDB debugger, etc.

[1] https://swift.org/community/#code-of-conduct
[2] https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/672590341757927426
[3] http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-June/101807.ht...
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I worked at a software company that had Whiskey afternoons around 4pm on Thursday. It was good for getting people across departments to talk to each other, and helped bring out some introverts. I wondered if it had negative gender connotations, as guys were much more likely that women to partake.
Well yes, exactly. Point being, a lot of this stuff is sufficiently expensive in the short-term that no investor will commit to it, but pays off big time in the long term.
Agreed. I'm the author of Vorpal.js and already have community-maintained docs on Github's Wiki: https://github.com/dthree/vorpal/wiki

Now I have to duplicate onto another community-maintained Wiki? This is only going to ask for problems. I don't really say "have to" lightly - StackOverflow is most definitely going to yield better search results in the long run.
AFAICT, the IRS has consistently treated them as non-dividend income for income tax purpose, with the main unclear (and changing over time) question being whether they would insist they were subject to either self-employment tax or employer-based payroll tax, or neither.
What is the relevance of this comment?

The person arrested was "global head of foreign exchange cash trading". Is it normal for global heads to be making routine trades all day? (the article indicates it is not; again, only three trade days out of 10+)

From the article it sounds like this person was more involved in client relations/sales than technical execution.
It goes to what kind of company and site you want to have. If all you have is 20-something tech bros then that's the kind of company and site you will have.

If you want to appeal beyond that, you may want to broaden your culture.

Sometimes the founding cultural DNA is too strong, or attempts to change the culture fall short for a variety of reasons.
We use it at my company. I'm not intimately familiar with all the features, but here's what I can tell you:

-It's easy to set up and manage different on-call schedules

-It's easy for someone to manage their own alert settings (e.g. I can add a bunch of different ways to be contacted, like "text me, then call me after 5 minutes if I haven't ACK'd")

-We've integrated it with our internal metrics collections systems so it's really easy to say, "page someone when ${complex_condition} happens"

-IIRC it's not particularly expensive and totally better than the overhead of setting up and managing your own alerting systems.
You can lawyer it in your head how you want, but meanwhile someone can still get sued over this and have to fight it.
In practice, you do one of three things:

1. You encrypt and then authenticate data, such as user profile information, so that clients can neither read nor alter it. This doesn't involve public-key encryption.

2. You authenticate data, but don't encrypt it, because it isn't secret but must not be changed; this is what you'd do if the only semantic value being passed in your token as UUID, for instance.

3. You do neither of these things, and instead generate cryptographically random tokens of sufficient length that they can't be guessed, and then use those tokens as database lookup keys.

All three of these things are lightning fast on any decent processor, including the one on your phone.

You are very likely to cost yourself more security than you gain by trying to do anything more complicated than one of these three things. Again: don't ever use public-key crypto unless you really need it.
>There's a few items that could be solved with the market. Like: Remove city's zoning laws with a federal mandate, to encourage the market to build urban housing. You don't need the gov. to do it, just remove the limitations. Disallow internet providers from offering kickbacks to condo/apartment managers to open up the market. We should probably tax semi trucks & cars with snow tires more, because they're the ones that cause 90% of the damage to highways.

I completely agree. Rigorous antitrust enforcement is another major program I would pursue, alongside every measure to reduce and eliminate economic rents.

>It'll all come out eventually. Either we borrow, and tax our future generations, or we tax more businesses now, which would also repress business activity and American competitiveness.

Or we invest in infrastructure and R&D now to make the profit later. You know, like every sane country in history prior to the Reagan Revolution.

>Your Massachusetts background is showing.

No, I wasn't proposing my ideal economic program. That would start with a lot more of Karl Marx and Henry George. I was pointing out the ways in which actually-existing systems which we once actually used actually dealt with unemployment -- real things, not ideals.

My whole point, facepalm, is that we've been so thoroughly indoctrinated with neoliberalism that we've managed to forget how the golden age of Western capitalism (1940s-1970s) actually worked.
It's a bit more complex than that:

https://www.rocketlawyer.com/article/what-states-are-at-will...
This just seems like a newsletter for people who care about things like that enough to participate in their local government.

For other cities/locales you may be right, but in SF, it just seems offensive. We all know what the consensus epidemic is in the Bay Area, and attempting to use that word to imply that these poor landowners are being encroached upon is something I find reprehensible. Their "epidemic" is a trifling concern compared to what some are going through.

I can see why a block filled with yards/gardens and small buildings is preferable to a block filled with large buildings and not much else.

There are plenty of places in the country where you can find that. When very wealthy people stubbornly want to hold onto that in the middle of one of the most dense metro areas in the country, while people are being pushed out of their homes and homeless fill the streets, yeah I find it disgusting for them to talk about preserving their "much-needed psychological comfort zone." They can move out to the country if they really want all that stuff, they can afford it, not everyone can.
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Reddit isn't Internet infrastructure. It is a startup. The plan from day one was to make a kinder, gentler imageboard, get acquired, and make the founders rich.
"with the stipulation that the buyer must reside out of the country."

If we could prevent them from getting a visa to come at all, we could do the same thing and we wouldn't even have to build the building. Just allocate a few address numbers on ritzy street corners and sell the "buildings" to investors stashing Russian or Chinese black market cash.
Escalation, shift scheduling.
There is no announcement of the death, but the project was under Wong and the blockchain engineer with him, so issue is moot.

You are correct Y Combinator is behind the pledge (http://www.recode.net/2014/9/30/11631424/reddit-raises-50m-p...), but it was only a plan. Plans fail.
There's plenty of stupid money in the market. How else do you think trading desks make money?

Nobody who understands the FX market would have chosen to run their execution like that.
Or just provide better targeted advertising... On Facebook you can advertise to people based on demographics, interests, behavior, etc.

On Reddit you can't even place an add on a specific subreddit if it's not one of the big ones.
Cadence (Tensilica LX3 core) isnt exactly Chinese. What espressif did that was really smart was re-purposing design created as an SDIO WiFi chip for tablets into IoT darling, pretty much _by accident_ (someone in Shenzhen leaked SDK into english speaking website). There is a very strong unwritten rule among Chinese electronic firms of not leaking documentation outside the great wall, because that weakens their technological advantage (for example try finding documentation for one of chinese LCD scalers).
They bought the mobile app family--which was in pretty good shape at the time, no less!--from a third party dev; and then basically abandoned it for several years. They just started actually publishing versions and patches a few months ago.
That really seems like a "No True Scotsman" definition of "sophistication". Regardless, it's not the definition the markets use. For the same reason, I qualify to invest in private company stock by dint of my bank account and annual income, not by passing a test.
A big part of the issue is just that UX and dev are two separate specialties, and while some people can do both, there's no clear place in most open source project for someone whose primary contribution is to provide designs for someone else to implement.

The reason is partly that open source projects are a hell of lot of work for their owners, even without UX experts handing them detailed specifications. And it's partly that UX details often individually seem trivial, even though their accumulated weight can make the difference between a good project and a great one.
What if a regime is using a FOSS application you wrote to do that? Should there be clauses in software licenses to indicate that the software provided cannot be used in a manner that causes harm to others? Further still, how would you enforce that?
It is true that medicine is expensive, but so is setting up the technology for a major cloud provider (on the scale of Amazon), or a car coordination platform/system like Uber.

The difference is that the tech examples I've provided have not had the ability to progress (and the financial reward for doing so) regulated out of them.

The wait time for this is not something that just happened yesterday, and what I'm saying is there's a systematic reason for it that goes deeper than just the nature and cost of the people/equipment/training.

An example of this from another field:

In a 10-year span during the 1880-1890s, J. J. Hill coordinated and financed the construction of a transcontinental railroad, without any government aid. This was done without the benefit of bulldozers, tunnel-boring-machines, automated track-laying equipment, etc.

Today, Seattle's transportation authority says that it'll take 25 years for it to put down six miles of rail between Ballard and downtown.

I'd be dead for sure in 1890 (no CT scanners, etc.), but the rate of progress has definitely been restricted. And the difference is just in our ideas, not things, or any inherent rule in nature.
I strongly need to reread that book.
By the same token though, the entire FX book is under his jurisdiction, so it wouldn't have mattered if he'd delegated to another trader (except that it looks more culpable this way).
The project was under Sam Altman [0], lead investor of the raise: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2hwr02/i_am_sam_altma...

[0] http://www.redditblog.com/2014/09/fundraising-for-reddit.htm...
If you go down to micro-controller levels, you often times are stuck with C++ 2003 and a vendor specific compiler, which means you will lack many of the niceties in the article.

I agree with him that removing the entire standard library is needed. Of course you then need to copy an implementation of printf from somewhere, and likely set it up to only work in your debug builds. Then you quickly figure out that the standard library has a lot of things you didn't even realize you depended on. Math functions typically pop up next, you'll likely end up using a vendor library (by which I mean ARM's), but if you are doing a bunch of math heavy work, and even more so if your chip has some limited FP capabilities (assuming it has an FPU at all), you may also find the need to re-implement some functions based on your performance needs.

Embedded is fun. :)

All that said, I would kill for access to proper lambdas.
I feel it trivializes the Wright brothers' success to call it merely a result of "trial and error", in the manner of Edison's "test all the things" approach to lightbulbs. The Wright brothers did a vast amount of on-the-ground theoretical work which paid off handsomely. Their propeller design, for instance, achieved 99% of the efficiency of our best designs today. So it's more correct to call their success a result of being carefully methodical, which is worth considerably more than base persistence.

As for your question, quite honestly, I'm having more trouble coming up with a counterexample wherein progress came from a flash of brilliant insight. Iteration is the norm :) If you're looking for virtuoso performances, you could look to Konrad Zuse and his series of tabletop computers; however there's a lesson there as well, for apart from a couple guided bombs they never amounted to anything despite being years ahead of their time. You get better results with more staying power when you work with other people.
They bought it.
It says the aircraft can stay aloft for 90 days. Why not longer? Regular maintenance or they have to replace something?
My theory:

Black holes don't exist (time dilation prevents them from forming in a finite time).

Dark matter is gravitational potential energy. (i.e. the potential energy of every star in a solar system falling into every other star, plus the energy of every galaxy falling into every other galaxy.)

Cosmological redshift is actually gravitational redshift. (So dark energy is not necessary as a concept.) There is a lot more gravity out there in my theory. Don't forget that the relative motion of galaxies is inferred from redshift - if the cause of the redshift is not velocity then galaxies are not moving in the way we currently think they are.

I wish I had the math to flesh these ideas out to see if they hold water.
My use of reddit is way own. I'm tired of going to the front page and seeing so many submissions about things I don't care about like multiple video games, dumb inside jokes like r/circlejerk or all those repetitive links about Trump or Sanders.

I know I can buy gold and customize the front page, but I am a little hesitant to pay money to make the front page not suck. I have ads turned on in my adblocker so they do get ad revenue from me, I'm not totally freeloading Also, there is a limitation to the number of subreddits you can exclude. That is the nail in the coffin right there for me buying gold.

Finally, I'm not impressed with some of the censorship and social policies they have and don't really want to support a business who seems to have either questionable or widely varying policies on things.

The result, I check it maybe once a day, down from several times a day.
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* Don't let HTTP GET requests modify state, ever. It's very difficult to prevent CSRF via HTTP GET.

* Session keys are password-equivalents. Hash them with bcrypt or something before you store them.

* httponly is not incredibly useful. If the attacker can run JavaScript on your page, you're in trouble.
I agree with everything you say here, except for one remark, which, I'm sorry, is the silliest thing I've read all day:

> all notational preferences are aesthetic

Try multiplying Roman numerals sometime. Or read up on ancient Egyptian fractions. Or learn group theory without Cayley diagrams. Or do algebra on equations written in prose -- prose! -- as was typical everywhere for a thousand years before the Renaissance. And what good are tensors without indices? Or matrices: do matrices have a first and second index, or do they have rows and columns?

Yes, matrix algebra with indices one and two is just as true, but that's the wrong observation. It takes what we already know for granted. In fact what we already know is the destination, and the point of departure is what you look at, or stare at, until you understand matrix algebra.

How does the brain turn markings on paper into something like abstract truth? Nobody knows, but it's silly to say the markings don't matter. The brain is biology, and in biology everything matters to everything else.
My guess would be they got the IP address from Facebook and looked that up in a database that shows all connections made by an IP address, then noticed one of the connections was to Apple and based on that got Apple to reveal the user behind it. I doubt Apple would cooperate willingly with dragnet-style inquiries.
>Bitcoin Bucket Shop Kicks Bucket

Sounds like it should be on elreg.
>> I can see why a block filled with yards/gardens and small buildings is preferable to a block filled with large buildings and not much else.

Preferable to whom, though? Look at it from the perspective of one of those people who are renting in SF, and can barely afford that rent given your paycheck (or cannot afford it, actually, if you had to pay market value). I bet they would prefer a residence they can afford to the one they cannot.

So long as freedom of movement and freedom to buy and sell property are in place, it's either-or - either a given block will be affordable, or it will have yards/gardens and small buildings. The latter carries an implied statement that people below a certain income level simply shouldn't be there. I think it's clear why some would find it "legitimately disgusting".
WOW, this is utterly profound! Like that time someone put an empty McDonalds cup on the floor of a fine art museum and everyone stood around proclaiming its genius.
Isn't that exactly Facebook's business model?
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Sure, there's the legal and regulatory definition that determines who can invest in a hedge fund or open a trading account or sign an ISDA... But! those are just guidelines that ensure that only people who can afford to get fleeced end up at the table.

The more salient definition is that you're sophisticated if you're able to consistently turn a profit (or just avoid getting ripped off).

In a more perfect regulatory world, these folks wouldn't have been able to make the trade until they were properly educated, but we don't live in that world.

As usual, if you can't spot the idiot at the table, it's probably you.