skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are a public figure, it is your (really, your manager's or agent's) responsibility to manage your image. An important part of that is deciding which engagements are good opportunities for you and which are not. It is also your own responsibility to be prepared for an engagement to go poorly -- unexpected/negative questions, hecklers, etc -- and have a plan in place for how to respond to that. If you're not willing or able to do these things, you should decline invitations like this and live privately. Or at the very least, don't complain when you don't get the result you were hoping for when you accepted.

I think it's pretty forseeable that an AMA would likely result in a lot of uncomfortable questions for a highly controversial figure like Rev. Jackson. That can be an opportunity, or it can be a disaster. It does not seem that he was properly prepared for it either way. That's not Reddit's fault nor Chooter's; it's his.

All that said, it's clear that Reddit is not a well-managed company, and this appears to have gotten worse since they hired Ellen Pao. So it's certainly possible that the people calling the shots over there don't get it, or are trying to reimagine Reddit as something it is not. If that's so, then your theory is entirely plausible. But it still doesn't explain the lack of communication or any semblance of a backup plan. If you're employing someone who has no alternate, and you have no plan in place to transfer that person's duties, the only reason to fire that person on the spot is that they're committing felonies directly related to the company or its business. Anything else -- and I do mean anything else; I don't care if they took a giant shit right on your desk -- can wait 24 business hours while you get some kind of continuity plan in place. As a manager, if you can't control your own anger or impetuousness well enough to avoid torpedoing your own business out of spite, you don't belong in your role. Ellen Pao, we're looking at you.
Wait, They're making a Wall-e sequel?! YASSS!
So, next two product will be

* One for Chart UIs
* One for Alerts

Good Luck with the Tick Platform.
I'm not a lawyer but here is what I know.

These clauses are for the company to cover their ass. Let's say you make Flappy Bird at Google and they try to claim it. The bad publicity will not be worth it.

Working on a side project that competes with their core business is different. But if it's a pet project with 100 users then Google will be seen as the bad guy again. How about 1 million users? Then you've created a competitor and less people will sympathize with it being shut down.

I hope that made sense.
Please don't do this. Who Is Hiring threads are not the place to litigate grievances. There are plenty of other opportunities on HN to discuss particular companies.
Hm, there's a lot to it. Maybe the best way to do this is a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style of answer.

Do you want to know about...

1) the incredible complexity of MMO development and why nobody wants to make an MMO (though everybody thinks they do)?
2) the origin of Ultima Online as a small, skunkworks project that led to extremely awkward core engineering?
3) the even more awkward munging together of the Ultima IX and Ultima Online teams that led to a suddenly massive team trying to ship a massive game in six months (and succeeding!)?

Pick one.
They may just want to send a message to the admins without a formal declaration of war.
The point is not about Rpi, it was just an example. The powerful thing is that it's open source, very active project (check out https://github.com/diydrones/ardupilot), and runs (among other things) on standard Linux distributions. 3DR has received over $40m of funding so far, it is not in any way just a hobbyist platform and is aggressively going after industry verticals like farming.

They manufacture and sell their own drones but there is also a growing number of other manufacturers building drones using ardupilot.

That's not to say that Airware won't have customers, since drones in general are a fast growing sector and there's plenty of room for different businesses. But I doubt it will be the de facto operating system for drones
Stupid, Lost, Depressed !
A tangential point, but I really abhor this style of writing:

"/r/IAmA, /r/AskReddit, /r/science, /r/gaming, /r/history, /r/Art, /r/videos, /r/gadgets, and /r/movies have all made themselves private in response to the removal of an administrator key to the AMA process (... lots of other text ...) Major subreddits, including /r/4chan, /r/circlejerk and /r/ImGoingToHellForThis, have also expressed solidarity through going private."

So you read the fist part, building a mental model of what's going on ("ok, so these subs went private, which means others listed did something different"), only to have to update it because someone decided to split the list in two, probably going for style.

I see this happening particularly in news reports and it's really, really annoying. You may actually fail to connect those two separate parts together if you're skimming.
Something related I saw posted today is the news that the guy in charge of community at Digg ( /u/LordVinyl ) when the fallout occurred was hired to be in charge of shadowbans, something that has seemingly increased a lot (maybe due to the Ellen Pao issue). The /r/videos post is down obviously, but a mirror is here:

https://voat.co/v/MeanwhileOnReddit/comments/192235

The problem is that the poster and everyone else was subsequently banned, which created a bit of a backslash.
So far 3 person mentioned this, tempting.
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Here's the live thread - https://www.reddit.com/live/v6d0vi6c8veb
That's actually interesting, but immediately invoking some racial/political agenda spoils your comment. HN is for intellectual curiosity, not ideological wars.
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You think the definition of "monotonic function" is more relevant to the meaning of "monotonically increasing sequence" than the definition of "monotone increasing" is?

[1,1,2], [1,1,1], and [1,2,2] are not monotone increasing. They're also not monotonic functions.
Same thing that goes on in every exec board room: stupidity, ignorance, self-delusion, ass-kissing, change for the sake of change, and various forms of backstabbing. Unless Reddit's user base is comprised entirely of kindergartners, they know that already.

They're not wondering what's going on; they're angry that what's going on is, at best, not what they want, or at worst, harmful and destructive. Probably nothing will come of it, but they figure they may as well try.
That sounds like it would only touch each pixel once: the minimum amount of times.
Well, I'm sure glad I don't have to work tomorrow. I don't know how Reddit is going to fix this. Unless they have photographic evidence that Victoria was literally eating puppies alive, I don't think they're going to win the community back to their side.

I understand that if you're going to fire someone, you can't very well go around telling a bunch of people that you're about to do that. They still should have had a better plan in place to pick up the slack first.
Reddit still has those subs about beating women and lynching black people, right? Get over yourself, voat is better than every single example you listed.
So just don't make any modification that you aren't willing to give to the public. If you're really concerned, just don't make any modifications period.
I hate to do what is an essentially a "me too" post of sorts, but as an old, old Reddit user, I'm really confused by the moves made in the last few months.

I can't think of another time I've been immediately like, "Why?!" in reaction to Reddit's actions. Usually when I see a new feature, direction, policy, etc, my thoughts are, "Huh. Makes sense"
This seems like an abuse of power to me.

The people who have closed the subreddits are the moderators. These moderators should represent the desires of the users. In this case, they are instead caring for their own personal feelings/ease of moderation through communication with the Victoria.

As a result, hundreds of thousands of redditors are cut off from their friends and fellow subredditors. Even the AMAs are cut off. I think this is wrong.

Consider this: What if the redditors, while this protest was going on, found an alternate site and all started posting there instead? Then the mods would've just effectively stripped themselves (and Reddit, Reddit admins, etc.) of power.

While I don't know Victoria so I cannot sympathize, I can at least understand the moderators' cause. However, the method which these moderators have chosen to demonstrate with hinders the community, and for that reason goes against what moderators represent, and so should not be supported.
Speaking of frequent rebooting, I always thought the lack of support for orthogonal persistent state, seamless application checkpointing and built-in dynamic software upgrade facilities represented a failure in modern mainstream computing.

When a system is in a complex, poorly-tested state, problems often occur. Rebooting solves these problems by putting the system back to a simpler, more predictable state. With orthogonal persistent state, the system remains in the complex state across reboots, and these problems become much more difficult to solve.

As a user, I agree that persistence is really nice, but I think we need to address the existence of these complex, poorly-tested states before we start transparently persisting them.
For years Tesla refused to make public it's sales numbers, after going public it's reluctantly doing so. I have read from 2012 to 2014 it's sales numbers in tenth of thousands per year. In comparison Mercedes Benz sells its gas powered toys in hundreds of thousands per year.
> They really shot the communities in the foot by not giving them any notice or support.

Reddit's major liability (and yet, one of its strengths) is the devolvement of responsibility to moderators. Without their volunteer work, the site couldn't have grown as big as it has. But mods have the power to utterly trash the site through collective action.

The admins have spent years saying that moderators are responsible for the content and direction of a subreddit. I wonder whether they'll keep that line now that moderators of several key subreddits have effectively gone rogue.

This is actually a much bigger threat to Reddit than the recent revolt over the banning of /r/fatpeoplehate and other subreddits.
>The internet" has it's own culture, and the people running reddit right now (one of the places where this culture is the strongest, imo), seem to have no idea how to interface with it.

The first rule of the internet is you don't censor the internet.
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How about you describe it for us, instead of making us hunt down one of approximately 600 people in the world.
Pretty sad that the free speech is disappearing from the internet with the speed of light and it gets replaced with propaganda. Victoria was a well known character of the reddit community and she did a lot for them. Sad to see her gone.
I think the multi-homing feature of SCTP is not so useful. It adds a layer of complexity without so much gain.What do you think of it.

1) It makes the SCTP header complex. Without it, IP address in IP header is sufficient. With it, IP addresses have to appear in SCTP header too.

2) Multi-homing makes it difficult to configure firewall rules, for example NAT(Network Address Translation). Linux tools like iptables, LVS(Linux Virtual Server) do not work well with it.

3) I think the benefit of multi-homing can be gained in Network-layer or Data-Link layer instead of transport layer, for example network interface bonding, etc. It relieves the complexity of the application in this way.

I must iterate:" I’m taking a 3000-foot perspective here, it is still a far away perspective although less a 0 than the author, and whatever I’m writing could be completely wrong. If that’s the case, please point out my mistakes in your comments."
Think it's a coincidence that now the legal case is pretty much over there are suddenly a lot of 'adjustments' being made?
Pao ruined reddit unfortunately. Time for an alternative.
(Translation for the reddit-impaired: Woody Harrelson came to IAMA trying to do publicity for his movie Rampart. His cluelessness and apparent entitlement nearly blotted out the sun.)
It would be relevant to include a histogram of #yes_answers - #no_answers in the summary, to test whether people are biased towards positive rather than negative tests. I think the raw data suggests that it does although I totally failed to create a histogram in google spreadsheets within 5 minutes.
Ah, you're right. Same studio, but Looking Glass abandoned the UU/UU2 engine for System Shock.
It does make some sense.

How about creating Flappy Birds while being glue coder #1,341 for EA's next big budget NFL next gen console game? Would the same idea apply? Would the idea be different for EA vs Amazon or Microsoft?
Just bought this! Great job!
We're an external partner pulling data via a 24/7 Windows-based web service, a system of record. The three we work with are all Windows, but three is likely a blip in their system count.

All I know is it's weird how they and their vendors manage the systems and environments. Glad it isn't me!
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Use Datomic, unfortunately.

This problem is pervasive, and it's not easy to solve.
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SPOF = Single Point of Failure, for those wondering.
She is not only non-technical but also a criminal just like her husband. This is insane that she can kick out legitimate people from a community that was build ground up.

Interesting read about Ellen Pao (I dont know if it is true or not):

http://pastebin.com/8y4VUf4U
Don't we say black hat / white hat now?
> a default subreddit carries extra responsibilities.

Tell that to the admins that just cut a beloved person without prior consultation or a continuity plan.

I'm blown away by what Reddit has been doing in the last few months. I thought it was just me being a get-off-my-lawn old user (since I've been on Reddit like 7-8 years or something) but then I had a young copyrighter (early twenties) talking to me about leaving Reddit for "other places" and that blew me away. I hadn't realized it was starting to trickle down for lack of better words.
Wow, I didn't realize that this was part of a series until I saw your comment, Thanks! For everybody else who's interested:

http://norvig.com/ipython/

If you don't have ipython notebook installed, you can view them by copying the URL (without the protocol) into:

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/<URL>
Tests like this are frustrating even if you don't recognize the logical fallacy! Just because it's always possible you're wrong. You're either right because you're lucky, or wrong because you messed up!
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Yeah cause what you want to do, as an employer, is go out to a community of people you have no control over and say, 'Hey we are about to fire one of your favorite admins, one of your friends maybe. But don't freak out it'll be ok. We can't talk about why we want to fire her, but trust us. Oh and can you not mention it to her before we fire her tomorrow.'

Yeah that will go over well.
> So you end up needing to build a small parallel userspace to handle things like service discovery, orchestration and provisioning, networking bridges, location transparency, resource scheduling

Or you install a PaaS, which does these for you. I've worked on Cloud Foundry, OpenShift is a competitor. Both are far superior to rolling your own.
You don't have to localize icons which is a feature.
Maybe a stupid question, but how exactly do you "personally" do "autonomous" missions? Isn't it a one-or-the-other sort of thing?
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No, that is NOT what I mean. What I mean is that he:

1. Established his own medical practice in Paterson, New Jersey.

2. Was appointed City Physician.

3. Founded the outpatient clinic at Paterson General Hospital.

4. Became Health Inspector in Paterson.

5. Became Health Officer in Paterson.

6. Left the city's service and became the sanitary adviser to the East Jersey Water Company.

7. Became President of the Board of Health for Paterson.

He was also a member of "a large number of professional associations".

There is more in the wikipedia page, but I'm getting bored.

He sounds like an awesome guy and certainly somebody who specialized in public health, but there isn't a shred of evidence that he wasn't a shrewd business man.

On the contrary, everything points to him being just that.

As far as him not capitalizing on his invention ... he didn't invent it, by his own admission. Also, let's not forget that he developed the delivery device in the employ of the water company. It's theirs, even if there is something to patent.

If you work at Microsoft and develop a piece of software in the process of working for them, they own the fruits of your labor. That's not a foreign concept to that era.
If /r/aww, /r/funny and /r/pics did the same, Reddit's traffic would fall off a cliff.
I'd be rocking Datomic everywhere if it were free software.

It's really too bad - if they offered paid support and otherwise-sane licensing, I'd be all over it.
> Unneeded use of separating lines, grouping boxes,.. less of these = easier on the eye.

I seriously disagree with this particular assertion. I find that "flat" design trends make things much less usable, and this is no exception. It is far easier to group things with visual references than with lack-of-visual-references. And it is far easier to find things like buttons if there are, say, actual indications that they are buttons.
It seems like the propagation issue is significant. What about radiation effects in semiconductors they will cause? What about using other modulation like QAM or OFDM at 60 GHz? What about advances in fiber?
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Good riddance to Reddit. Let it burn and go the way of Digg V4. Time to move over to something more grassroots.

Reddit has too many shills, too many paid-for content and way to much thought policing. Time to go!
https://github.com/jimktrains/polygonus was a little tool I wrote a while back.
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If drones could build themselves, program themselves charge themselves etc.. then maybe it would be one or the other. For the time being someone needs to do those things so while it might be autonomous as far as flying goes there is still much human interaction to be had.
Thanks, I just got an invite for snapzu and it does look really nice.
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Sorry to be pedantic about a little point, but:

> In fact, it seems that they actually cut off active IAmAs in progress. https://twitter.com/edfrenkel/status/616653911835807745

This seems to be due to the moderators setting /r/IAmA private, not Victoria being yanked away.
I have a question that will sounds like a rhetorical just for the sake of mindless bashing, but actually I want to ask it honestly, and I don't pretend that I know the answer.

Have Pao done anything good for Reddit since she's been appointed CEO?
Please don't lump this in with the anti-Pao brigade. Like her or not, the issue of admin-moderator relations goes back long before her tenure. I say this as a (currently inactive) moderator of a default subreddit.
Running clang with the undefined sanitizer[0] goes a lot of the way towards identifying this sort of thing. I don't see why it isn't used more often.

[0] http://blog.llvm.org/2013/04/testing-libc-with-fsanitizeunde...
People think, naively, that you don't need to localize icons. And yet a lot of the time icons should be localized.

Or rather:

You can design an icon that doesn't need to be localized. But unless you design for it, it very well may need to be localized.

Things like thumbs-up/down, any sort of animal icon... Even trash cans.
>Tell that to the admins that just cut a beloved person without prior consultation or a continuity plan.

Let's think about the fact that this is possible for a company to do this to a full-time employee with several years experience next time an election comes up.

Unfortunately, not all of us get the luxury of advance notice on firings/layoffs
You should read "Atlas Shrugged". These moderators built the community they wanted to thrive; they work for the community they desire. They are not slaves to the masses. If others want to create their own communities, then so be it. But the moderators that have closed their subreddits do so because they are their communities, even if Reddit controls the platform on which they live.
I'm not advancing a strawman - I'm straight asking him a question, because he's responded this way to multiple people who are just saying "let's wait and see what the data says".
Reddit admins have consistently shown themselves to be clueless in the past. They're only ever reactive to some scandal or PR disaster. I've never seen them try to get out in front and actually lead their community.
[citation needed] on all of that.
We know. Those who haven't experienced it first hand have only to glance at the exorbitant profit margins. But it is not ridiculous that prestige is valuable. That is not what was claimed. What is ridiculous (although not remotely surprising -- it seems to be a frequently recurring anti-pattern in the modern economy) is that a private body which plays a morally tangential role at best in the production of this particular form of value is allowed to hold the process hostage and simultaneously price-gouge scientists in their roles as researchers, scientists in their roles as reviewers, scientists in their roles as editors, and the general public which funds them in all three stages.
i see people talking about alexis, but don't see a user named alexis posting in this thread. i assume alexis uses a handle other than his/her name?
Hello Everyone. My name is Terry Gafron. I am the CEO of the company in Boise selling memristors. You all make some very good points. We are a few honest guys, trying to bring this technology to life. We do sell research grade memristors. Leon Chua has bought some from us and we are working with him to refine their characterization. While many of us are from Micron, there was no IP package from them. We developed this with a local university and are working very hard on this. We are a bare bones start-up, bootstrapping our way through this. You are correct in that there are still some discrepancies we need to resolve, but we are working on this. We have been doing contract work for DoD for the past few years, developing memristor based processors for them. We have some significant IC design experience with this sort of thing, but there is still so much that needs to be done. We sell bare bones devices we scraped up the cash to build. We do not make colossal claims. Our aim is simply to drive a stake in the sand. If you have questions, you can always send me a note at terry.gafron@bioinspired.net. Thanks all!
You keep telling yourself that, maybe some day the truth fairy will come along and grant you your wish.
In all seriousness, the definition of monotonically increasing that I was taught is the same as exists in wikipedia:

"A function is called monotonically increasing (also increasing or non-decreasing), if for all x and y such that x <= y one has f(x) <= f(y).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotonic_function#/media/File...

This definition allows for 'flatness' in a graph, since the derivative does not change sign.

Or, from http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~john/analysis/Lectures/... :

A sequence f(n) is monotonic increasing if f(n+1) ≥ f(n) for all n ∈ N.
The sequence is *strictly* monotonic increasing if we have > in the definition instead of ≥.
Alexis goes by kn0thing on reddit.