skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The web is so much faster with JavaScript disabled. JS has become the new Flash in terms of web page performance. Is JS really needed for what is primarily text based content?
Honestly, I wouldn't even be mad if that was actually intentional. Reddit's community in the larger subs has been getting really awful of late.
A "feature"?

I'd consider doing things just to make development a little easier at the expense of many users' ability to operate the UI is most certainly a bug and not a feature.
There's a balance to be struck. The pendulum may have swung too far towards the minimalist, but it used to be much more common to have lines and boxes around everything, where simply removing them and leaving open space made the layout easier to quickly grasp.
Reed Elsevier have a really nasty reputation. They also supported SOPA / PIPA.
/r/netsec went down too, quite surprisingly.
https://www.reddit.com/r/yishansucks
They also often step up to political careers: vide Chris Christie currently running for President.
I think that a clearer answer for @stefantalpalaru would be that the making /r/science private is the moderators of /r/science sending a message to the Reddit admins. They probably don't feel like grandstanding to the public over the issue. People that care about Reddit drama already know what's going on via other avenues.
I think it's more like a "haters gonna hate" type of comment. Whatever kn0thing says, it won't be good enough to placate the masses with their pitchforks so the best thing to do is sit back and wait till it all blows over. Generally, reddit has very short term institutional memory, by next week new users and admins will be like "Victoria who?!"
unfortunately it automatically gets filtered by corporate firewalls.
kn0thing knows better

http://live.fastcompany.com/Event/Chat_with_reddit_co-founde...
For years all it would've taken is a solid competitor with good technology and management and Reddit is gone. Right now Reddit's really the only game in town. If someone were to come along with technology that wouldn't regularly crash and tools to help the moderators moderate and allow the community managers to quickly and effectively respond to problems; and a solid management team to be proactive and keep improving the site (not to mention make a few bucks) then Reddit would be in real trouble.
> That seems ... bad :)

Why would it be? Employees having access to modifications to open-source software the company made surely wouldn't materially affect any aspect of the business. It doesn't mean they can change the code running on your servers, or peer into other people's accounts.

Sounds like a non-issue.
it will filtered by most corporate firewalls, like mine.
Too bad most of the community there is made up of the worst of reddit. Maybe if enough normal users moved there it'd be worth it, and maybe that will actually happen if reddit doesn't figure out how to salvage this, but until then, there's nothing on voat worth wading through the sewage.
Recreating Facebook's Celebrate Pride Rainbow Overlay 3 Different Ways Using CSS
You are right.

The whole point of Mailpile is to take your data off the cloud and control it yourself. It is explicitly and deliberately anti-cloud. If the license makes it nearly impossible for others to use Mailpile as part of a cloud-based platform, the developers probably consider it a feature, not a bug.

If there's any program for which AGPL is an appropriate license, Mailpile is it.
I agree that Agile can be the middle ground, but it can also can be dangerous.

When my previous employer implemented "Agile" they payed what I imagine was tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars for an "agile framework's" consultants to come in and teach us how to agile correctly.

1.5 years after that I saw that our time was more micromanaged than before. We were told regularly we were "empowered" and to speak up when we had any doubts or anxiety or saw a problem with our plan, but when we did it we were either chastised or disregarded or in some cases convinced it wasn't an issue.

That and the entire development organization treating estimates as infallible. That was the worst. Being told to estimate as best you could because agile was about adapting to change. Then getting reamed for being wrong. I gave up pointing out all the double-speak (release dates are flexible! as long as it is done by the release date) going on in the "agile ceremonies" (2 day 4-hour Release planning meetings with all 30 dev teams in one room.)

I know it's just one org I'm speaking about, but after almost 3 years I don't know if their dev organization is any better off than when they were waterfall. Now I'm curious just how wide spread this particular issue is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPBk4jMLZ5o

kn0thing is a play on Alexis' favorite Metallica song....

"King Nothing"
At least then people could try to prepare.

It sound like this started the same way it would if someone was hit by a bus. All owns sudden they were just GONE.

Unless the firing was REALLY fast this hasn't been handled well. It's obvious she was important and did a lot of work. If Reddit knew even one day in advance they should have had some sort of plan on how to handle her workload l. Basic business continuity for others.

Instead it sounds like everything got dropped on the floor and Reddit is rushing to pick up the pieces and it's clearly not working.
Is that different than the bitmap index access method, which IIRC landed in 8.1 or so, and is used to combine results of multiple index scans?
Despite your own image / plans being your own responsibility, it's not like there aren't people with public profiles (celebs, politicians, etc) out there who are vindictive over failed PR events.
Reddit admin's recent decisions have painted an impression that they think that administrative actions are favors to hand out to their personal social group. Like, it's the explanation that makes sense both for this as well as the banning of /r/neofag.
Hi, OP here, if you have any questions that aren't answered please let me know.

This came out of a problem I've encountered over an over again where a team is blocked from progressing due to lack of an API being complete.
Scala is the only one I can think of 24 hours later. Not many languages outside of Haskell have tried to do typeclasses. But there's no reason languages like Python couldn't implement them.
Having seen this updated version I'm not terribly impressed at their guide for ES6. No mention of symbols (which are pretty important if you're using classes), generators are ignored almost entirely, a pretty poor explanation of modules, etc.
New study: Attractive people fare best in getting what they want
Attractive "anything" fare best in gaining "everything".
It should be something decentralized and open.
Seems very tone deaf. He had to know saying something like that would only stoke things more.
I applied for Embedded Systems Engineer, but since I'm looking for remote work, and I'm not sure if this position is remote, I'm going to apply for other positions as well (I have solid experience with web development on mobile and Objective-C on iOS).
I hope this is OK.
Stories of people quitting their jobs and traveling the world
Dear Google: Stop Making Apps
I'm almost certain household servants have always been for the rich.

I'm curious what makes you think otherwise?
Why are they worried about working by reference on numbers?

// bad
var a = 1;
var b = 2;

// good
const a = 1;
const b = 2;
Why the Dutch oppose windmills
I remember reading that attractive women is discriminated against in certain situation, fundraising being one of those (men will probably do better in fundraising). Although in aggregate of everything in life, I wouldn't be surprised if they (attractive women) still fare better than ugly "anything".
The only folks I personally know who played UO were my actual friends :) I have coworkers who were also old enough to remember it but they all started withy EQ or WoW.

In my mind no game will surpass closed beta era UO. It had the sandbox and freedom combined with q culture that was actually into the idea instead of the grieving
"What's the most important factor in making partner at McKinsey? A good hairline."
What's really sad is that reddit and Alexis were, arguably, the most successful Y-Combinator startup, and now they've fallen by the wayside as cronyism and personal agendas take over. Alexis let this happen, though. Not that I blame him, I'd have taken the money too.
I agree. If you don't believe this, ask yourself where is SomethingAwful now?
Yeah, it's probably the Illuminati. Or the Greys.
> That's just FUD. Pure and simple.

... are you claiming that most co-los, and major VPS providers like AWS, actually do let you use IPv6? Because that's an easily falsifiable claim. Or are you claiming that this is irrelevant and only motivated by a desire to slow IPv6 adoption? Trust me. I've worked on IPv6, I love IPv6, I want it to get out there in the world.

> There isn't that much that matters. It's jut routers from edge to core to leaf.

Oh, you sweet summer child.

The typical hosting setup involves a server behind a NAT on a network that internally looks nice and layered and normal, but that no outsider can get to. When you ask for a public IP address to be assigned to your box, a 1:1 mapping on the NAT box is installed, so that anything directed to "your" public address is mapped to your internal (private) IP. In the middle is a whole host of firewalls (typically IPv4-aware and either not IPv6-capable or not IPv6-configured, since the configuration is a substantial piece of code), VPNs to layer a more customer-friendly network topology on top of the physical one, and on VPS providers a network virtualization layer that is usually not IPv6-ready.

> Some of the worse colo vendors aren't offering it because they're lazy or see increased income from higher v4 rental prices.

I'm sure they would love to see such increased income. And yet, I've never yet seen a co-lo or VPS provider actually charge anything for IPv4 addresses. If you're going to impute malicious intent to these faceless corporations, you need to at least come up with a realistic motive. Otherwise, the "it's hard and they haven't spent the engineer-days" is a lot more convincing of an argument.

Here's a good example that I think shows that this has to do with the inherent difficulty in maintaining two separate layer-3 infrastructures on the same layer-2: Amazon EC2 does not support IPv6. It is impossible to get a public IPv6 address assigned to one, or even to route IPv6 traffic internally between different EC2-internal subnets. However, they've gone to the trouble of making their load-balancer service (ELB) support IPv6 and IPv4, translating TCP, SSL, HTTP, or HTTPS to IPv4 internally. Why would they do such a thing? The rates they charge for an ELB are peanuts; this is not a profit center. This does have the benefit of keeping IPv6 packets out of the internal network, though; that they went through that effort seems to indicate that they consider that problematic.
I'm sure someone from reddit is reading this on it's old second cousin.

Enjoy my special occasion popcorn /u/kn0thing

http://i.imgur.com/6qa9K4R.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rZ8f3Bx6Po

10 years of reddit. Funny that 10 years of reddit gold is equivalent to 1 hour of Pao's $600/hour rate. That was before she was CEO.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/reddit-ceo-ellen-pao-ban...
"Perfectly Suitable Data Models and APIs” Are an Illusion
Actually, that happens in the United States.

I read an article a while back that some types of manual labor are having a really hard time filling positions because nobody wants to do them for what they can afford to pay, and IIRC, they were already paying significantly higher than minimum wage.
I'd go further and say their users don't provide content, but instead act as evaluators and filters for others' content. The thing is, almost anyone can evaluate content for basic human emotional or intellectual value. The community built up around shared interest and that is itself hard to replicate in a way that achieves critical mass.
Gyroscopes accumulate error with time, they make sense for an application with a short range but they're useless over long periods of time without a reference standard to crosscheck and recalibrate. That's one part of The Martian the author got entirely correct despite the criticism. The mechanical odometer in your car is only accurate to +/-3% of reading and the best mechanical calibration standards are only 0.25% of reading, that puts the trip described in The Martian off by ~90km.
If you live entirely on the proceeds of slavery, you are likely to be killed if the slaves revolt. This is not a matter of ethics. If you live on a boat that sinks, you are likely to drown.
Yes. In the case against Mark Force.
If I recall correctly (it's down right now, not a big surprise) about half of the users are subscribers to voat's fatpeoplehate.

Those excellent people are the grassroots of the community you'd be joining.
Study: Another Thing You'd Think To Be Correct Is Correct
Everywhere I've worked has had an IP policy that was agreed/signed at the same time as all of the new-hire paperwork. The ones I've signed essentially said "if you develop it on your own time and equipment and it's not based/dependent on our code, it's yours; if you develop it on our time or equipment or codebase, it's ours". The others I did not sign. Anecdotal experience, probably not reflective of everyone's hiring practices, et cetera.
I'd like to see a cmos imager, multispectral light source and a spherical microscope integrated into a single package. Like a cellphone camera module, but as a bonafide microscope. A way to purge the system would be nice as well (ultrasonic phased array, heated compressed air (nichrome wire, sealed can, one way valve)) ?

My use case is a water purification system that will tell you the exact pathogen count before and after purification/sterilization.

Hopefully this statement makes it non-patentable.
So in the stuff that doesn't matter, attractive women do better, but in the big picture, they do worse?

So uh, they do worse, then.
I think it's all repeated code now.

The moment I get an error the first thing that crosses my mind is "someone has had this problem before, I just need to find the forum where they discussed it."
Another success for "merit"ocracy.
"Is ISO 8601 really beyond comprehension for most of the population?"

Absolutely! I have had to program date-related code, and I am familiar with the differences between US and European date formats, and I have never heard of ISO 8601 before today.

The average person from the US will assume that 2015-04-03 is March 4th, 2015, while a typical person from Europe will assume it's April 3rd, 2015. You're still thinking in the context of a computer programmer, not the context of a user.
What you would listen to be honest
>Mr. Jackson, You are an immoral, hate-filled race baiter that has figured out how to manipulate the political system for your own gain. You've personally set back race relations year after year and continue to do more harm than good. Extorting money from companies to line your pockets and threatening to bus in protestors and create a fake racial controversy if they don’t agree to pay you off is NOT civil rights activism. My question is simple; how is your relationship with the illegitimate child you fathered in 1998 while cheating on your wife? Bonus question: How much money have you extorted from various people and companies over the years of practicing your shakedown scheme? Do you think Al Capone would be jealous of your business model if he were still alive?

That is the "best" question according to Reddit's sorting algorithm. I think that easily qualifies as "overly disrespectful".

It one thing to ask tough questions. It is another to call a man an immoral race baiter, say he set back his cause years, call him an extortionist, chastise him for an affair, and then insinuate he is worse than one of the most notorious criminals in US history all within a single paragraph. That isn't a question, it is a personal attack.

I sadly don't think it is surprising that a comment like that is posted. But it is a black eye on the Reddit community that it was upvoted more than any other question in the AMA.
"Attractiv"ocracy
Honestly, though... isn't this just a total overreaction? I get that Victoria getting fired was bad for /r/IAMA (which once WASN'T a celebrity PR stop) but how does setting the whole damn subreddit to private help anyone? Like, I'm seriously asking. How?

The "solidarity" thing also makes my eyes roll because I don't fully get how a place like /r/AskReddit is affected by this, at all.

Reddit's admins have always taken a stance of not interfering with the community above an absolute minimum, a policy that caused them much trouble in the past when assholes of course abused this freedom by posting disturbing garbage. They stepped in and stomped out the biggest fires, people got mad about "censorship", now they're suddenly not involved enough?

It's a mess. It has this smell of "people on the internet getting excited because they can participate in something without leaving their chairs" to it. There's no substance to any of this.
They are, but as far as I know C has no plans to remove them.
Guys, I apologize for the snarky replies. Had a bad day. Should've been more polite and to the point. Either way I stand by my opinions.
That's true about Imgur. It has already gained a sizable community not directly related to reddit before this fiasco, I wouldn't be surprised if it grew more quickly now. It has the infrastructure as well as the most popular form of content from reddit - unlike something like voat.
Didn't people say similar things about Digg's short-term collective memory right before their ... "mishap"?
You're missing the part about how many things that said person was responsible for are floundering because the admins fired a person that was a single-point-of-failure without any backup plan.

It's like firing someone, then all of the sudden you realize that you need to hire a team of people to replace them, all while your site is down and your servers are on fire (and all of the MBAs are busy looking for someone else to blame so they don't get fired).
I don't quite get it. Is this much different from after the fact spelling autocorrect in effect?
Indeed, however it managed to crash my browser after clicking that button a couple of times.
Did anyone bring up his father?
Hooray for rational and efficient markets!
The best part of that story is realizing I haven't seen the term "Web 2.0" recently.
We knew this already.
I don't know why they ever bothered.

People running RHEL are among the most conservative Linux users there are. We have some of that where I work. We have big production systems still running RHEL 5 (which RedHat still supports, and for those systems the less you change the less of your time they demand).

Anyone still using RHEL 6 is not really the sort of person who jumps onto the latest container or cloud frameworks the moment they are released. If they are into virtualization at all, they are probably using VMWare.
Well, Sam Altman wants Reddit to have a billion users. To me, that means preserving Reddit's culture isn't a top priority. I mean they'll nod at it and say they're trying to keep the culture yada yada, but push come to shove, they really aren't going to defer to it.
Choosing a license is difficult. There is no question that choosing a more permissive license lowers the bar for participation.

However consider what they are building here: a mail client that purports to securely send and store email. Imagine you are working for a company that uses Mailpile. You think that your email is secure and encrypted because you are using Mailpile. Instead, you management has hacked in a back door to spy on your communications.

As you mentioned, perhaps someone should push back. I'm not involved in Mailpile, but it seems that this is exactly what they are doing. They are drawing a line in the sand and saying, "You must show your users any changes you have made to the system because otherwise how are they to trust it?"

It's clearly a tradeoff and also clearly not an easy decision. Do you give up a little bit of your goal of protecting users at the benefit of having wider exposure? Or do you refuse to compromise and suffer from potentially having less adoption? It doesn't seem that they took the decision lightly.
This does feel a bit like "Internet" culture meets Sarbanes Oxley (which comes into play when you are publicly traded).

There was a story about how unprofitable Reddit is [1] and given that one would expect it to start running out of cash. And when that happens it has to either get more VC funding or go to the public for additional funding. But if you're going to file an S-1 you really have to get your SOX compliance in order, and generally that has things like executives swearing that there isn't any illegal stuff going on, with jail time penalties if there is. And lawyers tend to be really conservative when it comes to "illegal" (advising against anything even nominally bad).

I, of course, have no inside information, but I'm not the only one wondering about this. An inability to raise funds would kill Reddit, and this "strike" action would seem to just accelerate that (fewer page views, fewer ad clicks).

[1] http://finance.yahoo.com/news/reddit-ceo-admits-once-bowed-1...
Victoria being fired is basically the last straw in what has been close to a year of friction between the people who volunteer to provide and manage reddit's content (the moderators) and the people who profit off of their work (reddit the corporation).

This event basically exemplified the fact that reddit as a corporation doesn't care one bit about their volunteers/moderators and the subs going private is basically the one and only way that moderators have to express that enough is enough.

Firing Victoria on the spot for what seems to have been an AMA gone wrong (Jesse Jackson's) without warning and without considering what the consequences of this termination would be on the moderators was poor form.
Here here.

The whole dust up over /r/fph and the few other little subs kinda horrified me. I think reddit has often veered too far into laxness (the LONG existence of /r/jailbait) and there is still an amazing ton of blatant rule violations going on.

The only problem I had with the /r/fph thing was how inconsistently enforced it was. It seemed like a ban against a relatively small group so they wouldn't have to deal with pissing off one of the bigger problem subs. It ended up looking like a fake token gesture.
You can make an AGPL fork anyway. You cannot relicense other peoples code, but you can make all your changes in your fork AGPL. That gives you as most user freedom as possible for a permissively licensed project.
There is also a link on the page to browser compat style guide of es5
https://github.com/airbnb/javascript/tree/master/es5
Extensive discussion when announced 5 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8961518
I would imagine that users by-and-large support the shut-downs (I do, as a user). Moreover, I don't think Reddit is the sort of site that fosters friendships. A sense of community, yes, but not individual friendships. And anyway, PMs and such are unaffected so you could contact an individual without issue anyway.

> 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.

Why is that a problem? If the mods are actually acting in the best interests of their communities (which, in your scenario, are able to re-form on another site) then that's a positive result for them (in an altruistic sense).