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I was curious what you were talking about, so I found it: https://np.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2iea97/i_am_a_former_r...

It's not nearly as clear-cut as you made it seem. He was going around telling people Reddit fired him for no reason even though he was doing good work, which wasn't the case. Then he speculated he was fired because he raised concerns about revenue.

The only question is whether Reddit told him why he was fired when they fired him. If they didn't, well, whatever. But to go onto a public forum and speculate like that probably isn't the smartest decision.

If Yishan hadn't stepped in with a correction, then it would harm their future prospects as a hot place to work. Employees go where they think isn't lame. I'd have second thoughts about trying to join Reddit if I'd read "Yeah, Reddit seems to fire people for no apparent reason and has problems with employees communicating concerns to management."

On the other hand, I feel terrible for David, even if he got himself into this. Now people will unfairly prejudge him to be a slacker, bashed on Yishan's comment, no matter how hard he works in the future. The only way he can hope to change that is by working hard to get stuff done, combined with the extremely annoying process of making a portfolio demonstrating that he continuously gets stuff done.
The cards look really nice. Too bad they're not selling those and their shelf.
That's how beer and glass water bottles are handled in Belgium.

It's been like this for at least 30 years, and it works fine.
Congratulations to you! I think it's good to iterate that you said you love what you're doing. That's what matters most. When I was a kid and someone offered to by my paper made ninja stars, for $5 (it was a lot of money as a kid and still is) I couldn't sell it because I loved it! even though the materials probably added up to couple of cents.
Are you sure he owned Bank of America before the crash? I know he invested another $5 billion in Bank of America in 2011 and the stock jumped 25% overnight: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/08/25/buffett-to-invest-5-b...

And also:

>Buffett’s paper profit on the Bank of America warrants stands at about $5.7 billion.

From: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-04/bofa-forgiven-as-bu...

Buffett's investment to BAC was seen as a vote of confidence and definitely helped keep the struggling company from declining further. I'm not sure where you're getting your facts from.
It's only up at the more senior legal end that hr will know much about the legal side of employment or how to handle things profesionaly when they go pear shaped.
New PM on ads here. Completely agree and it's one of my top priorities to fix. Feel free to ping me directly if you ever want to give me more detailed feedback - ryan@reddit.com
> Whoever might have legal issues with this can just tell the relevant authorities in their country that scotty79 on HN says it's bizarre and totally unenforceable, and that'll shut them right up, won't it.

Yup. Btw that someone won't care because that will be the day when that someone will get struck by lightning three times, once after each meal, so he'll have much more to worry about.
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Actually, maybe we should listen to someone with an inside perspective, rather than speculate?
Worth a listen: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/11/angell_on_big_p.htm...
ESR's general observation that the ancients often saw homosexual as being about dominance is probably correct. However, the framing makes it sound like this is specific to homosexual relationships. In fact ancient cultures often saw ALL male sexual relationships as being about dominance. Of course they didn't really need to spend a lot of time discussing who was being dominated in a heterosexual relationship: it was always the woman in pretty much all pre-modern civilizations.

This makes his second point about a supposed biological predisposition towards domination sex really apply to all men. If gay men are struggling with this "biological headwind" then so are straight men.
Instant Buy is for non-digital goods.
Very cool concept! At first I thought it was going to be like 2048, but it ended up being more of a challenge which I enjoy. Would love to see an app version of this
I would really recommend you learn more Haskell, because your generalizations of it seem wrong - Haskell programming is often exploratory. What the types give you (used right) is another view into the ramifications of your changes. Haskell also has a repl (ghci), and it's quite useful - it will not only tell you the result of running some code, but will also tell you the shape of code you can't run yet! Meanwhile, those double-checks help tremendously when planning fails, because they show you quickly what needs to change when you change your assumptions.

Deep thought and planning can help you in either language - but they're more required when you can't see what breaks with changes.
There's a few things that I'm guessing could have contributed to this final straw that broke the camel's back moment:

- Yishan's response to the ex-employee publicly calling him out and revealing their work performance in a non-professional manner. (not undeserved, but not professional for a CEO)

- The response or non-response to the Fappening.

- Not a lot of movement on making the site work great for mobile leading to the rise of Alien Blue and other clients gaining popularity.

I don't know if there was a lot of pressure to improve revenues since generally the audience is pretty allergic to blatant advertising but we shouldn't forget that Reddit is a business.
They passed a bylaw here about ten years ago adding a 5¢ fee per bag 'for the environment' with the idea that the penance of paying for your bags was outweighed by the blessing your of donation, which was going counterbalance your minor environmental transgression and balance your eco-karma again.

I don't mind paying for bags if I know the 5¢ is actually going to make an impact on the world I live in, but I fear that over the years every bag I've ever paid for has done nothing but pad the profits of a company already dedicated to destroying the environment I live in and instead offsets the 'eco-karma' cost to me.
In my experience you always loose employees when moving offices. It's a really weird feeling just after the move and takes a while to get back into the grove.
I agree. It shouldn't be certain to anyone that there is a clear good side and bad side here. We weren't there, so we're probably unaware of a lot of important details in this dispute. If anything, the discussion should be about the principles represented by the situation and not about the people.
I like the analogy with poker.

College has the best odds of increasing the odds on having a rich life (not only money-wise). That makes it the rational choice. Anyway we live in freedom so everybody has the right of making the irrational choice and own it. Odds are just odds, not results, you can also win with a lower odd (just look around, the world is full of exceptions. The best exception I remember is Tadao Ando [1]; He didn't go to college and got a Prizker prize for Architecture).

Don't mistake dropping-out college for skipping college. Zuckerberg or Gates didn't skip college they drop-out when they hit (and recognized) a huge sweet-spot/opportunity. Staying in college would just decrease their odds. They also made the rational choice. You (probably) are not doing it.

[1] http://www.pritzkerprize.com/1995/bio
Haha ninja stars!
Not banned. Same situation as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8597615.
Maybe not if a spaceship was exploding nearby?
I was just thinking about bottle deposits the other day. In places where they offer a bottle deposit and a refund when you return it do they consider those bottles your purchased property, or in those places do you just buy the drink and lease the bottle until it's returned?

Is there an expectation of returning bottles in places that offer a refund, and does it affect your legal entitlement to the bottle in any way?
I really dislike this idea. Living in an apartment means I put my recycling in a communal receptacle which is then put out by the building. If you had this rule I might feel compelled to take the extra time to bring my recycling over the the store or what ever to get the refund. Overall I see that as inefficient and annoying.
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and you created an account to say this?
Interesting I have thought that might be a market for consultants to come in early and sort out problems like they had at github recently.

Id be the good cop and my old mate Pat Mulligan who's Industrial relations for the post office could be the bad/cop legal muscle.
Unfortunately 5cents for a plastic bag has nothing to do with "working". The issue is coercion and nothing works when the gov forces private companies to comply with random rules. If you want private companies to encourage "bring your own bags" then you advocate that with free speech, not with the barrel of a gun. You can gather as much data you like about it "working" and however that will never matter because the entire project is the immoral and wrong.
Not super surprising. The more we learn about sex hormones the more we see that they can cause very different personality traits and performance differences by task.

One other famous example is the recent research into digit ratio (measures correlation between prenatal hormone exposures which causes varying digit ratios and aggressiveness, risk taking behavior, etc.)
[http://discovermagazine.com/2013/may/04-finger-length-ratio-...]
[http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/naturally-selected/20120...]

Really fun watching biology deniers claiming biological science is politically/culturally biased then turn around and make fun of climate change deniers for claiming climate science is politically/culturally biased.

I don't mean to endorse any of this science or its conclusions. But the kneejerk reaction many progressives have to researching potential ties between biology and anything sociological is alarming. We'd like to believe tabula rasa is as close to true as possible, because it means we are the masters of our own destinies and have equal opportunities at birth, but that doesn't mean we should silence research.

I predict that this isn't the sort of thing that jives with the HN hivemind, but what can I do.
Yikes!!
Statistics for Sweden: http://www.lonestatistik.se/loner.asp/yrkeskategori/Data-IT-...
(In Swedish, check "programmerare" for general programming jobs, "Webbutvecklare" for web devs)

Depending on skill/education, entry-mid level software jobs usually pay about 25000-30000 SEK/month (~4000 USD), before taxes. Larger companies may have agreements with unions on salary levels based on level of education/years of experience.

30k provides a pretty good quality of life, expect to take home ~23k after tax, depending on where you live you might pay ~7k in rent for a 2 bedroom apartment and ~3k on food.

Everyone speaks decent to good English and getting a job shouldn't be too hard, provided you have experience. The tricky part is dealing with the world-class bureaucracy of Skatteverket, the Swedish tax agency. Even for me, as an EU citizen, it was quite the paperwork mission.
Well some startups that were making progress towards these moonshot ideas have been bought by Google. Also, they have a significant portion of the world's smartest human beings. But there are exceptions; there are companies, big ones and startups, that are working on self-driving cars, cancer-detecting nanotechnologies, high-altitude balloon-based Internet, robotics, home automation, etc.

Thinking further into this question you've posed...there has been a lot of discussion here on HN about how hardware is harder to work with than software. Whether this is true in anything other than for psychological or cultural reasons, who knows. But certainly there is more 'entropy' with your invested failures along the road to success and it's not as simple as deleting or cutting and pasting LOC in a computer file. Hardware is material.
Reddit's new CEO may not be “interim” for long
Regardless of whether you're interested in John DeLorean or not, you should checkout out Neon Neon's concept album about his life - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LadgANhOhiI
My other main concern is that she evidently doesn't have a reddit account. At least not a public one.
Go to the auctions and look for a name:

http://snapnames.com

http://namejet.com

I've gotten names that I had previously made offers on there.
Are Regular Expressions Stateful?
Most thoughtful comments that get downvoted soon get voted back up by other users. That's one reason why it's against the HN guidelines to comment about downvoting. At least half the time your comment is soon obsolete.

Instead of posting comments like this, please just upvote and trust your fellow users. If you (or anyone) think a comment has been treated particularly unfairly, you're welcome to email us at hn@ycombinator.com.
This post has an interview with Pao and Alexis: http://fortune.com/2014/11/13/reddits-new-ceo-may-not-be-int...
I think the recent stock split and creation of non-voting shares is also to help insulate these moonshot projects.
I am reminded of a HBR study showing headquarters of major firms all tended to move closer to the home of the CEO even if that impacted retention - will have to find the reference.

As a side note, how is reddit on "asynchronous working" (if that's what remote working is called these days). How would the board have felt about the move if Reddit was more ready for being location-agnostic?

Edit: it seems I misunderstood your comment (and probably the geography of SF.) So if I understand it Reddit already was remote-friendly but both CEO and board wanted to have everyone in same office (which office being the point of contention). May I ask why you were going the "unusual" route of from remote to centralised - is Melissa Mayer right?

Edit: William Whyte in collected articles (Exoding Metropolis). Noted downthread as in a Joel Spolsky article. I am always late to the party :-)

Cf http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EsvEFIamv3oC&pg=PA38&lpg=...
From the sound of it, Michigan does it very well with their 10 cent deposit, and allowing most people to claim their deposit back right at the grocery store. California (with 5 cent CRV) is miserable with the places where we are supposed to claim our deposits being overrun with homeless and the places themselves not being all that great (I'm speaking from my experience in Orange County, YMMV).
Thanks for looking into that, Matt. It has been a long time since I did any real C programming, and I could not believe that they would be passing by value for this kind of equality check. The word "VALUE" is a little deceiving considering that it is actually a uintptr_t.
I doubt he got anywhere near 15g. As the pilot had a seat strapped to him when he was ejected, adding to his mass. On top of that I assume that he had much less surface area due to sitting down, although that one is much more speculative.
Just playing devil's advocate here, and please know I mean this with all due respect, but you are a Product Manager who has been there 4 months according to LinkedIn.

I do not claim to know the inner workings of Reddit, but can you really be 100% certain that you were privy to all of the meetings, etc. where such signs may have been observed?

Again--zero disrespect intended here, but it strikes me as uncommon that a recent PM hire would be involved in all of the board meetings, hallway conversations, etc. where some of this power struggle may have occurred.
One possibility is to generate or change small parts of the puzzle each turn. For minesweeper for example you start out with an empty field, and after the first click you generate the mines.
you can add it, here's the link to the file on Github :
https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml.org/blob/cd7186176a11c860ef35...
I have nothing much to contribute, but I want to say that this is really well done, I'm having a lot of fun with it, and thanks for making an iOS app for it. Now I just need to train my brain to notice rows determined by the "identical row" rule....
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I don't like Amazon much either, so for books I usually go with http://www.powells.com/
Full-circle back to mainframe era.
You should put a link to the app in the app stores on the website.
Daly City is 9.7 miles from the reddit office, for all practical purposes it sounds like Yishan wanted to just move offices in the same city; the Daly City part doesn't seem like it's important. Or am I missing something?
A company can sue you in, e.g., WA state court, and get a judgment based on WA law, that is enforceable in CA.

If you are subject to a noncompete & moving to a state where they aren't enforced, the smart thing to do is to get a summary judgment in that state. Otherwise jurisdiction is a matter of who shoots first.
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You're right, of course. UP is bigger than BNSF.
> In the grand scheme of things office locations aren't that big a deal.

Location is a make-or-break proposition for a lot of people. If you have employees with lives outside of the company, location will matter quite a bit.

From the top, it might be easy to rationalize a decision that adds 20 minutes to an employee's commute time, but (hopefully) your employees aren't stupid. Time is money, and what they see is that you've just added several hours to their work week -- hours they could be spending with friends and family, or spending on hobbies or relaxing. If the change is seen as arbitrary or for selfish purposes (eg. making the lives of one or a few executives easier at the expense of everyone else), that location change can seriously sap morale.
The software used to put an additional link to Scribd after each pdf link, but we stopped that a long time ago. I assume that's what you're referring to, because there was never (and isn't) anything else along those lines that I know of.
You'll care if it's powered by something with a little more kick, like plutonium.
Others have pointed out in this discussion that keeping cost of legal settlements low is arguably the number one benefit management is looking for from HR, so if they're not getting that right, there's probably not much benefit to employing them at all.
The former in Michigan, where I was raised. $0.10/bottle, and seen as property (socially).
with a highly competitive job market, especially where many of the people in a city with poor public transit do not have cars, 9.7 miles is annoying enough to cause people to choose somewhere else to work.
If your gf has saved those messages, I think she can still sue Amazon. The fact that she signed something under duress should not matter.
I thought that was one of the most unprofessional and disrespectful things I've ever seen any CEO do. It was childish and rash and deeply unfair given the huge power asymmetry between a CEO and a former employee.
Yep, the jump from Haskell to F# is quite easy. It's a shame that F# doesn't put Computation Expressions up front like Haskell does with monads. The times when I feel like I'm getting into a mess with F# are nearly always fixed with monads (passing state around for example).

The nice thing with F# is that [if you have C# experience] you can pretty much just fall back to the standard .NET framework library if you get stuck. And the fact that F# supports dot notation means intellisense works. I've found over time I use the core BCL less and less as I retreat to a more pure functional approach however. Again, a good grounding in Haskell will help you there.
That's what I use. ssh-add properly does not actually include a UI of any kind. It just calls $SSH_ASKPASS. The linked code essentially provides two wrappers around all this: one to add keys and set up SSH_ASKPASS, and the other to be the script that is $SSH_ASKPASS that uses the Mac OS X GUI to show you the confirmation dialog.
Fascinating!
They happen to depend on my vectorial[0] lib.
Got a pull request earlier from google, so I had an inkling that something was up.

[0] https://github.com/scoopr/vectorial
Which temperature?

For ambient (T), I'm using http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=temperature+at+15000m as the data. Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_temperature#mediavi...

The temperature experienced by the pilot as he was ejected was is calculated as the stagnation temperature (temperature on the surface of his clothing, or where the speed of the air = 0), which at Mach 1 would be around -12C. However this temperature will decrease as he slow down. Luckily it should take only about.. 45 seconds for him to get around 5000m, which becomes much more survivable.

Edit: from that page you linked, it says:

> Between 11 km and 20 km the temperature remains constant.
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Amazing the the new SVP of Product is a guy who one day said "It would be cool if reddit had a secret santa." While not working there.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/12/20/secret-sant...
If you resize the browser window, the UI kind of loses its mind, and can't be restored without reloading the whole page.

http://i.imgur.com/BU5L61L.png
I wish reddit would remember my folds / unfolds per comment thread. Always stinks to read the comments, collapse some of the discussion for readability, click a link and then return to find the entire thread expanded again.
Exactly (I am the paper's author). While it is dangerous to identify the scientific term "meme" with those image macros, to study them has a lot of advantages. For example, it is very easy to quantify how popular they are, where and when they get their popularity spikes and so on. I am working on follow-up research enlarging a bit my narrow set of memes, to get it closer to the actual scientific term.
Lambda is just the brand name.
Any credible board will have a succession plan in place, ready to trigger if the CEO resigns/has to be fired/gets hit by a bus.
Depends on what principles the machine works.
Realistically, it transfers information several milliseconds from future into present. Socket present.

Unrealistically, it can only travel couple of years into the future/past. Socket present.

Unbelievably realistically, it can travel hundreds or decades of years into the future/past. ???
Though several of them run architectures on open technologies, which places them in a different situation entirely.
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> We are probably in agreement about buying a basketball team being a waste of money though!

A basketball team is an asset. It's not like he spent the money on blow. It's an investment, just like anything else (although it happens to be one he's passionate about).
Thanks for sharing your experience, that's definitely helpful.

I do look forward to our team coming to an agreement about precisely what we support and how we handle customer requests or complaints that are outside our scope. I imagine it'll look something like what you've described, at least in part.

We already have our support team helping with FAQ and articles about our product, so now it's just a matter of defining our scope more precisely and coaxing our customers to take care of their own internal systems.
I find it rather ridiculous and unprofessional that his personal site is the version of this that's up here.
how long does it take to write a comment collapser? -_-?
It wouldn't be such a surprise if the author worked with any other language than just JavaScript.