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I don't know how to feel about this. On one hand I'm against censorship, on the other I'm against internet bullying.

/r/FatPeopleHate was engaging in both.

In the end reddit is a private site that can do what it wants. Wikipedia removes things all the time and sites like 4chan remove all sorts of extremely offensive material.

I'm glad the mods of the hate oriented subreddits have been shadow banned, I actually think this shit storm is wonderful and I hope the reddit admins literally pull the plug and shut down. The FPH spammers are complete idiots, buying thousands of guilds and donating money directly to reddit and hurting their cause by vote brigading at the same time. They're sealing their fate.

This whole fiasco has shown the true face of reddit, just a whole bunch of (slightly below) average kids who don't deserve my attention.

I can't wait until reddit dies, but I have no idea where I'll go. I want something like reddit, but more open and transparent, and with a way for users to somehow remove mods.
PHP & MySQL

No real technical reason for switching, more a need to scratch my nerdy itch.

Python seems like a super-clean language so far.
The bridge was made in China and assembled here. There were a lot of quality control and cost overrun issues. The Chinese company would kick out the American inspectors.
Thanks, conversion rate and retention is pretty decent - just need to grow traffic now.
Found it. http://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/

Edit: Anyone know how to use Scribble to render math, preferably with MathJax?
> We need to be making much better use of the federal government’s labor market data and that of websites like Monster.com, HireArt.com and LinkedIn, and even consider creating skill equivalents of the Obamacare health exchanges. Online talent platforms — that can link everyone’s C.V. with every job opening, with the skills needed for that job, with the online and campus-based schools offering those skills with data showing which schools do it best — create more employment, more relevant skills and the right education for them.

So the solution to high unemployment is...slightly better search options on job sites? Are there really so many people who are unable to find work in their chosen field because they're physically incapable of finding listed openings?
More or less agree with this. I'm also a Google reject (didn't make it past the phone interview). I didn't take the rejection personally. I don't see how the interview process could be drastically improved. They get a lot of applications and they need some way to filter - there is a standard and it has to be met. With the sheer amount of applications that Google gets it's a virtual guarantee that there will be a subset of people taking the piss regardless of what the interview process is like.

I don't doubt that the engineers who manage to jump through all those hoops are sensational. Personally in the end it just dawned on me that I didn't want to work at Google that badly.

The whole Twitter exchange is a pitiful sour grapes circle jerk, and I'm surprised that it's provoked such a massive response.
agreed in spirit, but politely disagree in practice, at least in the context of an absolute statement. auto scaling data stores can be sql or nosql based, and there is a ton of nosql data stores that have no concept of autoscaling at all.

while there is many big platforms out there that have big nosql solutions that are autoscaled, there is probably way more that are sql based. companies such as Facebook and Twitter were using large scale sql data stores.

auto scaling is also a tricky word. as it can mean many things. possibly you mean how things like riak and mongo can automatically scale out without having to write code to do it. certainly nothing prevents folks from doing this with any data store. and there is utilities like Twitter gizzard, tumblr jet pants, and YouTube vitess that help.

often in my experience by the time you get to the point of needing a database that can scale itself your use case and production needs often demand a very well understood data model and flow. often it's easy to shoot yourself in the foot worrying about that early on. auto scaling can be an expensive mistake that can lead to even more technical debt and monetary debt too.
That's not what the quote means by people. It means specific people, like celebrity or water cooler gossip, not ideas about people in general like psychology.
I'm not very familiar with US politics. When i say attacked, i was primarily talking about the articles talking about strangeloop. (It sounds like you misunderstood me there.)

On the other hand, consider how "Obamacare" was attacked, and (if i understood correctly what came out of your country) changed, cut and successfully damaged, thus affecting wide parts of the US population. ( http://www.galen.org/newsletters/changes-to-obamacare-so-far... )

Also, i find it a little disingenuous to ask for something and in the same breath declare delivery of such impossible.
Reddit has become a real cesspool over the past few years. You'll always find misogyny front and center and you don't have to dig to find racism.
Google contacts plenty of people. Reaching out to yet another engineer (not even talking about this particular case) doesn't mean they really want someone particular. They just going through the pool of potential matches.
Person who initiated contact may not even know what exactly Homebrew is.
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AAAAAnd reddit just jumped the shark.
More "the entire subreddit is involved in the harassment of users by taking action outside of their subreddit"
And yet subreddits like 'coonville' and 'GreatApes' still exist and continue shitting all over reddit. I know it makes my (black) wife feel welcomed when subreddits she frequents are slammed with the most virulent hate speech you can imagine.
Why not ban the people organizing these activities rather than the sub? It's a smoke screen for banning ideas.
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>That works both ways. zxcvvcxz just denounced someone for suggesting medication.

Given the context of trying to use it to cope with a job that makes one miserable. Is that really so difficult to understand? Obviously I don't denounce all medication use in general, and I'm only referring to a fairly specific situation (of the OP).

>Both medications, and lifestyle changes could help. It depends on the situation and the person.

And given the situation of one being miserable with their job, I believe that medication is in general not the right answer. At least statistically I reckon it's the wrong answer in the majority of cases. Certainly it's not necessary, even if forking over the money could help one cope. The whole point of my post is -- why would one want to cope in this type of environment in the first place?
Sigh. I'll go get my tinfoil hat.
> And this is all C++??

C++ is far from perfect, however: What else? I can't think of any other language this project could realistically operate as efficiently in between suitability, availability, tooling and talent pool.
Feminism too.
Wikipedia has a stated goal, a public management team engaged in discussion and debate with their users, and something resembling accountability. Reddit has the Silicon Valley's most notorious gender-baiting troll as it's head, virtually zero interactions between the corporate side and the unpaid community managers, and no clear rules on what it does and doesn't allow.

Honestly, the writing should have been obviously on the wall when r/jailbait was banned. I think they could have made up reasonings that would have placated the userbase, but they failed to, and they handled the resulting outrage very poorly. I was sorta surprised that wasn't reddit's 'digg moment', but I thought that the HDCP controversy was Digg's, so maybe I'm just ahead of the wave.
You'd still need to take a day off for Google to grill you on algorithms in person.

I don't see how taking a day off to work on interview problems independently is any different from that perspective.

What the latter offers that the former lacks is the opportunity to work on it after hours without affecting your day job at all.
It's intended to show that yes, I have actually heard what neoreactionaries say. "Cthulhu only swims left" is Moldbug's way of saying, "Politics only ever moves leftward."

As I noted, there was a substantial rightward sing from roughly the late 1960s until roughly 2013, at least in the West. Certain elements of social liberalism advanced, while most were held back or even undone (abortion, for instance, has become de facto more restricted in many places), racial segregation has re-asserted itself, labor was just plain dead as a political power compared to its former self, Communism fell, etc.

The point being: history does not actually swing, swim, or evolve inevitably towards anyone's political ideology. Where victories are won, they are usually the result of deliberate activism by devoted ideologues, and they are sometimes undone. This applies to both Left and Right.
It's not about being able to control the distribution of their IP, it's that allowing users to redistribute their IP makes that IP more valuable for users. This isn't a universal truth of all content, but it's certainly a truth for stuff like news articles. Look at this very website. It's premised around sharing articles, blog posts, and such and allowing users to add their own commentary and see what others think about the same article. Every time a paywalled article comes up on the front page Hacker News, half the posts in the first 10 minutes are about how to get around the paywall or complaints about the paywall.

The point is, for a user of Hacker News, an article he or she can post on this site and share with other HN users is simply more valuable than an article he or she cannot. And that's not just a local phenomenon, it's part of Twitter, Facebook and a bunch of other smaller (sometimes ad hoc) online communities.
Reddit has replaced RSS for me. HN is nice but hyper-curated and very specialized; though I prefer the HN voting system and algorithms over reddit's.

Reddit also has a massive advantage when it comes to companies/games/etc communicating with their fan-communities. It's an excellent medium for it as the type of vote-curation that happens there is great to sort topics of importance and the threaded comments are far better than what you would find on bulletin boards.

Overall, reddit has had a fantastic impact on the internet when it comes to communication, IMO. I hope that sticks.
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Great timing, troubleshooting an issue that this will come in handy for. Thanks!
This is pretty interesting. The top posts on all of reddit as of now: https://www.reddit.com/r/all
> On one hand I'm against censorship,

I feel like censorship isn't the right word for this but I can't think of a better one.
This is genius. My C is rusty, but isn't this more than visualising for humans, if I cast a NormalNode as ReversedNode, traversal should be reversed, right? (I.e.reversed->right is normal->left
What? Are you comparing feminism to misogyny and racism?
I believe you're missing the point of my comments entirely, probably because you got offended at my tone. That's alright, I realize that I write provocatively.

To quote what I wrote above,

>Can the right medication help a small subset of the population who are a few standard deviations off in terms of brain chemistry? Of course it can, that goes without saying. Doesn't mean we're not facing some disturbing trends in the developed world.

I am not deriding "the entire concept of (responsibly) using medication to treat depression when appropriate."

Rather what I'm suggesting is that the vast majority of people in the OP's situation, or something analogous, are not these brain-chemistry outliers who require medication. Instead, I suggest that the unnatural environment created by office cubicle/computer wage slavery runs counter to human nature, particularly with respect to one's happiness.

I hope it is very clear at this point what I am saying, and that I am not deriding the use of all medication, but rather, speaking with respect to a particular environmental example.
Curated speech.
I've been on reddit for 8 years, and lurked before that. The top submissions and comments have always, and consistently, been standard-issue PC/liberal in their overall view.
The idea is to make people who are being harassed on reddit feel safe[0]. This goal is something I think everyone agrees is a good goal. As a policy decision, I think it is pretty weird they started banning communities instead of people.

There are a lot of people on reddit and policing individual users would be a challenge. Would something like a "flag harassment" button have the same desired affect?

0 - http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/39bpam/removi...
70x is a lot larger than 29x. If anything the real difference is police are more likely to be armed in the US are are given a free pass when they shoot someone. Generally paperwork and a token investigation is the only major issue.

PS: The safety argument falls flat as truck driving is a significantly more dangerious job in the US. And driving is also the most dangerous part of a cops job.
You'd think so, but they're banning any new sub that attempts to be a "new" /r/fatpeoplehate -- if it's not about "banning ideas", but "banning behaviour", then I find that somewhat at odds. I think there's a simpler answer: FPH ended up on the front-page of /r/all constantly, and the Imgur staff "doxxing" (I've heard right before they were banned there was something happening regarding harassing the imgur editors outside of Reddit, though I don't know how true it is) was enough to get the admins to pull the plug.

If you're monetising a website, and the most active and fasting growing sub on your website (aside from the defaults) is a subreddit dedicated to mocking fat people, I think that may make it a difficult sell.
A few weeks ago, /r/fatpeoplehate started showing up at the top of /r/all, every day. This was pretty lame, since I prefer /r/all versus home page.

Anyone know how /r/fph suddenly jumped so high?
I don't think there is one. I'm pretty sure censorship has a pretty specific connotation, but it's the only term in the ballpark of what is being accused.
This article dramatically understates the magnitude of the shitstorm that is currently unfolding. Check out http://www.reddit.com/r/all/ if you feel like seeing all the ugliness.

(And if anyone has any doubts that this is ultimately about harassment, count how many of the posts on the front page (and their comments) are made up of personal attacks and/or obscenities targeted at CEO Ellen Pao.)

I don't fault the Reddit admins for trying to clean things up but I can't see any good that will come of this. To paraphrase a comment that I saw earlier today and now can't find, it's like trying to get rid of an anthill with a leaf-blower; you just end up with pissed-off ants everywhere.

EDIT: Ah, found it. It was in the "can I sue Reddit for violating my freedom of speech" thread in /r/legaladvice. http://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/39c58h/could_so...
Name one person who was fired for supporting Obamacare. That is the relevant question in relation to your unclear point. I dare say you don't even understand. Name one person who was fired for comments in support of the federal involvement in local police matters in relation to the Treyvon Martin and Michael Brown incidents. The left is in power. The only people getting fired are those in opposition to the left.

With regard to your link I don't know whether you're obtuse or spraying squid ink. The topic under discussion is consequences for voicing free speech.
>You might be unsurprised to find out that free speech is not valued on the left or among "SJW" groups. I suggest you research this further, because I can't communicate to you in a single hacker news comment why this is, or what theoretical basis it has.

Who needs theory? Practicality tells all.

Extreme ideologies don't value free speech, because free speech allows the unwashed masses to communicate to each other just how ridiculous they think your ideology is. This is true regardless of where an ideology falls on the oversimplistic "right-left" spectrum: North Korea, Fascist Italy, Communist Russia, Oligarchical-Capitalist Russia, Cambodia, North Vietnam, Burma, Communist China, pretty much the entire Middle East, etc. The list goes on and on and on.

Suppress free speech and criminalize dissident thoughts, and you establish a social basis for staying in power - for the good of the people, of course.

It's unsurprising that extreme ideological adherents are always united in at least one common idea, regardless of the actual content of the ideology they are espousing: the belief that people themselves don't know what is best for their own interests and must be closely watched and shepherded (and culled) if they fall into an annoying habit of thinking on their own.
Hrm, another point that people are missing is that frequently conference organisers have no idea what the technical talk will be about until the few weeks before the conference. Sometimes those talks even change topics during the conference themselves. It's par for the course for a seminar topic to not be set before the speaker is even invited. How are organisers supposed to sort out the technical merits of a talk where the speaker frequently hasn't written it themselves yet?
Klabnik in that post seems to be advocating anarchism, which Marx struggled for decades to expunge from the socialist movement. I'm not that familiar with Klabnik's politics, but having skimmed that piece I would be surprised to learn he was actually Communist.
> This goal is something I think everyone agrees is a good goal

Depends. As it stands, making something a "safe space" is a super broad goal that has some very fuzzy edges. But then, I enjoy dissent and viewpoints at odds with my own, and it's a private company that needs to make money, so I can understand it.
it is quite funny to see another innocuous post amidst all the vile and hateful posts.
"How do people even do this shit? (X-Post from /r/gtagifs) " (https://i.imgur.com/po4V0QW.gifv )

Edit : added quotes for clarity
>Number of times I have had to invert a binary tree in my 25+ year career: 0. Number of times I have been asked to invert a binary tree in an interview: 0

Well, if you wanted to pull that card, it would have been nice to mention the sorts of problems you've worked on in those 25 years.

>What I would do if I had to invert a binary tree: look it up.

Unless you're already good at algorithms, it would net you a mediocre solution.

For e.g. You would only know that there are multiple ways to implement an algorithm when you've actually done the work dozens of times and noticed that some implementations won't be appropriate for you needs. Like with many things, its about having experience, knowing whats a good fit, and knowing why something similar isn't a good fit.

Certainly - every single time you choose an algorithm, and then decide on a particular way to implement it - you could in theory, implement each algorithm in 10 different ways and then choose the best one after benchmarking. But that would be a huge drag on productivity. And if you had to choose 5 algorithms for 5 different tasks then it quickly becomes a quadratic complexity time sink. It would be far better to just know via experience. Its kind of like in chess - the better players just KNOW that certain paths lead to less favourable winning odds. Well, novices do take those paths and eventually find out the hard way !
> What's to keep a good engineer like you describe from buying a couple of books and spending a couple of months working on becoming the type of person that can do well on these questions?

Google doesn't make everyone multi-millionaires anymore. If you want me to jump through a bunch of hoops for you, you'd better have a pretty solid case for what the outcome will be.

By actively selecting against people who don't want to answer bullshit questions, they're definitely turning away creative, talented people. They're selecting for different people instead. Perhaps that's what Google needs to feed the machine now that the company is mature, so I won't necessarily fault them for it. But that filtering or selection IS happening, even if they don't think it is.
I've been on Reddit approximately that long, and I disagree. It's always been made up of people who like to think of themselves as liberal, in a group-solidarity, shared-identity sort of sense. But the conservative/reactionary undercurrents have been around for quite a while and have been growing with every passing year.
I agree. I have no idea what "inverting a binary tree" means, or why I would want to do it, so I'd need some context from the interviewer. Chances are, I'd ask some very pointed questions about whether a binary tree is really the best underlying data structure for whatever the "inversion" process is intended to accomplish. The interview would probably go downhill from there.
Wait, only two strong online services? I can think of like five other excellent services including a maps site that is years ahead of the competition.
> Anyone know how /r/fph suddenly jumped so high?

It was the fastest growing subreddit outside of the defaults, and by far the most active. Turns out there's a large contingent of people who seem to hate fat people, at least that's how it seems anyway
every 'ism has its bullies...
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The notion of natural monopoly, while superficially plausible, is an ahistorical ex post rationale for government intervention.[1]

Any day now some guy or gal will visit my home to hook up my Google Fiber. How can that be if if Time Warner Cable has a natural monopoly? Oops, I should say that TWC, AT&T, DIRECTV and Dish have an oligopoly. Before you protest that I lump guys who launch satellites together with guys who hang wire on poles, remember in a dynamic world supposed natural monopolies are not safe from substitutes.

[1]https://mises.org/library/myth-natural-monopoly
This is just how it starts, who knows what they will define as harassment next.
Allow me to quote you:

Please provide one example of a person [...]
enduring serious economic consequences

To be clear here: People are being damaged through anti-left actions without even needing to have voiced anything. Plus, you can't deny that plenty people are trying to get people fired over this.

As for this:

Name one person who was fired for comments in support
of the federal involvement in local police matters in
relation to the Treyvon Martin and Michael Brown
incidents. The left is in power.

What exactly was the federal involvement? What exactly was done that would otherwise not have been done? I do not know the details, and do also not understand how any of that connects to left politics. Please educate me.

Edit: I'm sorry for the edits, and i hope you see this post only after i am done editing. One last note on this:

The topic under discussion is consequences for voicing free speech.

I was answering someone who was asking if people were afraid to speak up on the matter. I am saying, yes, i am, because i see american people who have many listeners brand me indirectly but surprisingly aggressively for my beliefs.
I don't think this has anything to do with liberal vs conservative. Nor does outright bullying really have anything to do with "political correctness".
Yes I agree. Everyone attaches their own meaning to that. I only mean it to be, a website where using it isn't going to get you needlessly harassed, doxed, threatened, etc. and when that kind of stuff happens, people don't find it acceptable.

This is clearly a growing pain for reddit. Something like "reddiquitte" only scales so much.