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As someone who moderated a large forum (not a subreddit) of >100,000 users (with ~15,000 active users at peak and rarely dipping below 3,000 users at inactive times) a large part has to do with community.

The difference decent moderation can make in a large community can vastly impact a community. There's a lot of networking that happens because of it. I was an extremely well-liked moderator who would take over "dying" sections of the forum. I was even given the nickname "The Lifegiver" because any board put under my control would go from 10 posts/week to 100s of posts/day. I made a lot of friends whom I still talk with to this day, nearly a decade later. That is what made being a moderator worth my time.

As to what jeletonskelly commented in response to you - no. There isn't always someone willing to "fill the shoes". The boards I was left in charge of were dead precisely because nobody wanted to fill the shoes. Many members of those communities were asked if they wanted to be "promoted" to moderate their board: they always declined the position. Sometimes a board is dead and nobody knows how to solve it or what it would take to revitalize it. Not everyone is a leader.

Moderators who are bad with community management have their lives turned to hell. Death threats from users who dislike your actions, dealing with community drama (having to mediate between two users in an argument without pissing either side off), dealing with 'staff' drama (mods who disagree with how another mod handled something usually) is not worth "being in power" or any "ego trip" you get from the position.

Moderators are not too far off from the founding administrator when it comes to forums (or subreddits): They enjoy the community and want to help have a part in the creation of the community.

Every good moderator I've dealt with has always put the community before anything else.

It's when money does get involved that moderation and administrative decisions become questioned. The decisions are no longer What is best for the community? but What is best for my account balance?
Yea, I can't dispute that.
Got excited to see Atlassian listed on the page. Didn't find that Atlassian actually uses "Replicated". Felt sad, because Jira, etc. are a bit of a pain to upgrade.

Am I missing something? Seems like an endorsement by Atlassian or working use case at first glance. Same goes, obviously, with Github and Palantir.
A policy which unfortunately lumps DoS in with remote code execution as both "high". They're both significant, but one's clearly going to give us all a much worse day than the other, so we're all still left to wonder - how bad is this one?
It's necessary but not sufficient for a loss of profits.

Further I was talking about code in general. To have separate laws or treatment of "financial" code versus "regular" code would be pretty silly. How would you even draw the line between the two?
I'd recommend jumping on team travel. Low hanging fruit, no significant players there yet, though some are trying.
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Currently it's for physical locations only. I'm hoping to move to products and companies like ecommerce in the future.
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That's a great recipe for burnout. Coding 12+ hours a day isn't healthy.
I'm floored by the wide geographic range of listings. Sure, the gross majority are in SF, NY, & London (all English-speaking cities to boot!) but Zurich? Belgrade? Maui? Wow.
> So Goldman got Federal prosecutors to prosecute a person for violations of commerce law where Goldman was performing no commerce?

Goldman was performing commerce: trading securities and commodities. And the software in question was used to perform that commerce.

Before it was amended, 18 USC 1832 applied to a "product that is produced for or placed in interstate or foreign commerce." The issue was what "produced for" meant. Was it enough that the product be "produced for" the purpose of effecting commerce, which the software was, or did the product itself need to be sold in commerce?
> Is there space for a native-code main-window on desktop like we have on Android?

Sailfish browser did it as well (using native UI). Desktop Firefox also can benefit from IPCembedlite. But the question will be, what should be used to write the UI. Qt as well?

I'm a bit torn on that, since switching away from "Webby" interface basically killed Fennec for Meego, and only Android started getting UI improvements (that's what triggered a separate browser for Sailfish to begin with).
I have zero problem with the fail-fast, fail-earlier strategy and attitude. ultimately it's business. there is no point to continue if it's obviously not going to work. there is a catch though: do fail because of innovation (crazy, big ideas). I'd argue all these experiments, except gmail/map/wave, have 0 substance. most of them are crappy implemented, poor planed cat projects.
We already have rental car status competition. It's called a limo service.Not very popular.
Yea, so... before we had customers we had to show that important companies value on-prem as a deployment method. We're currently working with Code Climate, NPM, Travis CI to power their enterprise versions. This recent post from Travis gives some good insight as to how it works: http://blog.travis-ci.com/2015-06-19-how-we-improved-travis-...
This is right up my alley; I work for a large financial firm doing COBOL work right now.

The language itself isn't that bad. There are a lot of quirks given how old it is (variable names being limited in size, file name being only 8 characters long, file-based scope, etc), but once you learn them it's really not that bad.

The best thing about the language is how it enforces a particular programming style. You have to define ALL variable and external data sources before you're able to use them. And when you get to the meat-and-potatoes of the program, a certain style is primarily used: open external resources (files, DB2 tables), check for IO errors, process the data, close the resources. Makes it easy to grok what's going on within a program (even if that program is older than you are).

The biggest challenge that I see for new COBOL programmers is learning all of the tools you'll use for your job. On the IBM zSeries Mainframe that we use, there are a TON of tools that we use to monitor our batch/CICS online programs. But that, like everything else, will take practice.
> Guilt to me is what people feel when they realize they made decisions with incorrect or incomplete information, and would of made them differently had they known.

That's wrong. This is regret.

> I can not perceive of right and wrong as absolute concepts.

That's fine. But you're here denying that other people can and do. You're wrong about that.
There was a sort-of interesting memory corruption flaw in OpenSSL 1.0.1 SRP (it was interesting because the corrupted copy was implied in bignum operations, so you had to squint at look at OpenSSL BN code as string copies). I remember when our team found it, we looked somewhat carefully at the rest of the code for similar flaws.

SCTP and DTLS seem a little more likely.

Edited: tired, forgot to write "SRP" in the first sentence.
Thanks for letting us know of this. This is a constraint set by working with a brokerage partner. I think it's a good constraint though because trading with small amounts makes transaction fees to big relative to your capital base ($3.49/trade is losing nearly 10% of your capital at $50).

You may also cancel at any time with 0 fees. So if you deposited $1000 and want to leave, you may do so with all $1000.

Finally, there is a product preview here: https://instavest.com/preview-feed/

In the future, if we're able to get lower transaction fees, we will definitely lower the minimum (assuming we have the power to do so)!
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The biggest problem with these types of theories (e.g. Paleo diet, grazing, micro-eating etc.) is that there is no way to test against a placebo, for obvious reasons. So it is really impossible to completely test the theory scientifically.
"Would you agree that, in order for simulated rain to be "really rain", you would require a conscious person inside the simulation who regards it as such?"

I'm not sure about your question: are you asking if we should regard the simulated rain to be real if it's real for a simulated person?

This reminds me: "If a tree falls down in a forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"

Let's compare two situations:
1. There are real people on the other side of the world, who experience a real rain (but we, on this side of the world, can't experience that rain directly).
2. There are simulated people who experience a simulated rain, which is real to them.

The simulated people have real consciousness, and are indistinguishable from real people if viewed within their virtual world. They can even control robotic human-like bodies in the real world. Can we say the simulated people are real?
What if we regard the virtual world to be an extension of the real world, like the "New World" (the Americas) was considered to be an extension of the Old World? In that case, the rain experienced by virtual people is just as real as the rain experienced by the real people on the other side of the real world.

Thanks for such an interesting question!
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I thought there was some confusion about who the credit for the quote went to. People weren't referring to Reid by name. The link was simply the first Google result that I clicked. Random.
Your webserver needs access to the private key when it starts. Is it really a big enough gain to be worth it to move it to another server? If I root the webserver, I can presumably just read the key from that service.
I agree, ride sharing with self driving cars is going to be pretty normal in the near future.

What will be cool is once they are self driving, they will be able to auto calculate quickest routes to pick people up, drop off, etc while being able to re-calculate to pick up people along the way.
Saying "I love you" to 2 guys simultaneously makes girl a whore. And I don't accept any arguments. First feelings of young people is always a lust, love comes later.
You can downvote it to death, it will not change my opinion.
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It is shocking to see a post from Qihoo 360 appear on the official golang blog. This company is notorious for at least the following:

* Their flagship products, "360 Security", provides an alternative Windows-update facility; they take use of this to disguise another product of theirs, "360 Browser", as a Windows update: http://www.ipc.me/360-fa-bu-jia-xi-tong-bu-ding.html (Chinese source)

* "360 Security" and "360 Browser" spies extensively on the user, including uploading "suspicious" files for their "cloud antivirus" service, uploading the browsing history: http://www.ce.cn/cysc/tech/07hlw/guonei/201302/26/t20130226_... http://tech.163.com/10/1231/17/6P8I1JPR000915BF.html (Chinese source)

* "360 Security" was caught cheating in AV software tests: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2919554/tencent-qihoo-antimal.... More interestingly, after the denunciation from the test bodies, Qihoo 360 pretended that it quit the test voluntarily and announced that these tests are no longer suitable for "Internet-era AV software".

* They recently announced a "pregnancy mode" in their router product, due to widespread concern about the effect of WiFi signals on the fetus.

Their wrongdoings are uncountable.
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At the very least, he could have posted beforehand to say "we'll get back to you about this on Monday."

Also, I don't understand the excuse about downvoting as a reason for not saying anything. If she says something worthwhile people will pick it up and link to it. So far, much of the reason they are getting downvoted is that they aren't saying anything meaningful. This thread was an exception.
If we're going to be judging news outlets by the worst opinion piece they've ever published, then let's be consistent: most if not all American newspapers have published torture apologia. Would you condemn someone published on Huffington Post for sharing a banner with "In Defense of Torture"[1]?

If not, why?

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sam-harris/in-defense-of-tortu...
Hey -- similar situation happened to me. People gave me some good advice on what to do, but still didn't work out. Want to talk about your situation? Shoot me an email --mattkrisiloff@gmail.com
Given how open Reddit's structure is (in the sense that it gives non-employees strong moderator rights and works to make them feel part of the community), are they treading untrodden ground in walking the tightrope between keeping the community in the loop and respecting the right to privacy of their employee?

Maybe Victoria was let go because the big mean American tech industry is full of misogynists and she's another casualty in the culture war. Or maybe she was let go because Reddit can't afford to pay her. Or maybe she was let go because she profoundly screwed the company over. The fact of the matter is that the privacy door swings both ways (protects the company, but also protects the employee). We don't know and we don't have a right to know---neither do the moderators.

But that aspect of right to know is traditional. In an ecosystem with so many (essentially) volunteer staff members, perhaps the traditional rules can't be cleanly applied. I suspect the sift-out of this situation will teach people much about how to operate heavy-volunteer corporations.
Gun control cost the Democratic party control of the Congress in 1994 and the Presidency in 2000. That's about as "expensive" as policies get in the US....

And as noted in this discussion, any attempt to squeeze tight enough that there might actually be an effect on mass shootings of the current type would replace them with fantastically more "mass" shootings of the civil war type, which tend to be only exceeded by foreign invasions as "expensive".
No, the hate comes from a frivolous lawsuit, terrible policies, terrible management and overall terrible CEO. None of that has anything to do it with video games, SJW or her being a woman.
Kanye West is an amazing amazing figure, and a really interesting personality. If all you know about the man are his misplaced frustrations that manifest themselves in public ways, then you really don't know the guy or the influence he's had on millions over a decade.

He's produced greatness, but not only that, he's done so consistently. He's made some missteps along the way but if you really dig deep and watch his interviews over the years you'll start to understand the person he is.

People are very interesting, and it's so easy to characterize public figures in these black and white ways and dismiss their work, but it's far more difficult to truly understand the person, their motivations, and their frustrations.

I've watched hours and hours of Kanye interviews, listened to days and days of his music, and watched him grow as a person as he progressed through his legendary career. It's truly incredible.

I think there's something be learned from Justin Bieber as well, whose music I don't like and whose fanbase I dislike even more.

People are fascinating, you just have to dig deeper to find those parts, and put forth effort to learn something from other people. Even those people you don't like.
This is ridiculously hypey. If it only works on Apple products it's not going to "destroy Google."
I'm used to agree. That's how you get a native look and feel, but I don't think that's necessarily what people want. I find the use of tabs in the browser to be very telling - it means the way OSes have handled multiple instances of an application are not satisfactory, so people want the browser to handle that. Once it's in the browser people will want it to be the same on all platforms.
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By definition, the canonical hedge fund should be uncorrelated with the market.
This is a nonsensical comment. With the information we are given, there's hardly any basis to conclude anything about:

1. Who is betraying who

2. Who should take ownership of the startup in case of a breakup

The OP is asking for any relevant experience and advice, not for someone to irrationally moralize.
I'm curious just how much is object-oriented Cobol even used in the real world. My knowledge is that new Cobol is barely written, only old COBOL codebases being maintained.
I've met a lot of people I'd consider 'success' focused individuals in the Ivies, I suspect if I met her I'd consider her in the same group.

There is a focus on a narrow definition of success that is more important than anything else. How that success is accomplished doesn't matter, just that it is. The behavior is surprisingly irrespective of traditional intellect or competence, it's pure focus and drive. It also is not about doing anything well per se, it's just about gaining stature.
This is already a solved problem with package managers. You shouldn't ever have to "run the installer" each time you need to update a program.
Glad I'm not the only one! Cause that would be friggin awesome haha
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Cheers!
Not to mention does not match any of Apple's consumer mission
If that were to happen, how big an impact would that have on Firefox OS development? I admittedly don't understand the project too well, but they had to port Gecko to work in Gonk right? Would there be significant overhead getting Servo working under Gonk?
We're a much smaller community with a much smaller scope in topics as well.

Reddit is another animal.
So you are saying they should have spun it and presented the moderator in bad light? Yes, they are allowed to fire her, but so is the community allowed to vocally disagree with the decision and other terrible management that has gone far enough on Reddit.
Generally the interior is the first thing to get trashed.
This is really cool! I hope I'll be able to use CL for webdevelopment one day.
> We are sorry -Reddit Corporate

> Prove it -Reddit Community

There is no point in analyzing the apology, only the actions that occur over the next month.
There is literally nothing here. Someone noticed that apple is calling it's in-OS searching "Spotlight", and concluded that they are about to launch a search engine.
A fix around this devolution we've seen might be to make badges and reputation private: you only see your own.

This way, the "require reputation for certain actions" can be kept around, but those who are there only for the competition would be less motivated to participate that those who legitimately want to help.
I have to say, I really dislike the appearance of material design.
Agree with your points. There are plenty of smart people in the org all trying to do the best they can. There is a sink or swim mentality, which can be effective, but as the company grows it’s tougher to reward the swimmers and not have their work obfuscated by politicians. It’s also tough to promote cross team collaboration in this environment.

Building something from nothing is tough, and so is turning an elite team into multiple elite teams. It strikes me as the latter gets less focus in SV since it is much less frequent and goes against the entrepreneurial grain. It’s easier to bash large companies than to think about how to actually build one.

I recognize that I’m likely missing relevant factors, but some of the key problems seem to be a flat org, no VP of engineering, and no encouragement of cross team work.

When managing people, you really need to meet with more than one level below you. In a flat org, with 20 people reporting to the CEO and 40 people reporting to each of them, there is no way for the CEO to meet with all 800 people. The CEO just ends up having to blindly trust his or her direct reports that everything is good. A few bad ones can result in large sections of the company rotting from within.

Promoting cross team collaboration is tough. A company needs to emphasize this in how it promotes / rewards people and crafts the org chart. Easier said than done, but no VP of Engineering and directors promoting loyalists with no emphasis on helping other teams doesn’t help. Having multiple directors involved in promotions may help.

I like the CEO and think that he does care. He may be able to fix things, but unfortunately I don’t see it happening. I am tired of hearing everyone complain and find myself getting angry at nice people that I like due to bad incentives. My only option is to vote with my feet. He can trust his ‘Generals’ but thankfully this isn’t the military and I can leave. The grass may or may not be greener, but I’d rather take a chance on change than the status quo. Putting in my notice was an amazing relief.
Thanks! The #1 requested feature from our users was a better way to fill and manage a room block once it's booked.

Passkey is a great tool that was originally built for hotels, but it's an awful experience for planners and attendees - frequent errors that prevent attendees from booking their dates, annoying alerts, and an overall clunky user experience.

We wanted to put the planner in control and build a modern user experience around it.
I like the idea of doing freelance work, but I've always had the impression the jobs were all web development, not very interesting, or required extreme specialization.

Is there a big market for freelance C++ work?
Was this why Victoria was fired?
This is great! Also, check out this easter egg which makes every video rick roll haha: https://github.com/rasguanabana/ytfs/blob/master/stor.py#L12...
Besides being very useful, the pace of updates is much faster than I would have guessed. Kudos to the team behind this.
SlicedHam.com aggregates a lot of company and individual tech blogs. Worth a look if you are generally browsing for tech related news.
Thanks. Just reached out to you on LinkedIn.
Because right now they are an advertising company as their other investments are not significant revenue drivers, or are meant to provide additional audience data for advertising.
How does any CEO get selected?
I'd imagine it has something to do with knowing the right people.
I wouldn't necessarily blame Pao entirely for what transpired, but it works both ways. Nadella, for instance, has been attributed with many of the positive changes that occurred recently within Microsoft. Was he single-handededly responsible for all of these positive changes? Hardly.

Human beings are poor at grasping complex and sometimes chaotic systems. Hence we concentrate our emotions on a single target. The amount of vitriol in this instance may or may not be warranted, but I'd hope that someone who took the job title of CEO was prepared for it.
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> Programming, wrote Dijkstra many years ago, is a branch of applied mathematics.

This is as effective as saying "X is a branch of philosophy", where X is any discipline. It's probably true for every discipline, but what's the point?

Also every X is a branch of physics, because we live in a physical universe and everything is inside it (so even pure mathematics is a branch of physics).

And finally X is a branch of computer science because computation and information processing sometimes appears to be more fundamental than everything else. E.g., physics cannot answer the question, "are we living in a matrix-like simulation?" but if we really are, the whole physical universe is mere computation happening in some higher dimension.

I like to think of Mathematics, Computer science, Physics, and Philosophy to be deep and insightful realms of human thought, and they have many connections but also many unique attributes.