skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's easy to see the major outbreak of support for Victoria and the mods of the default subreddits, but I personally couldn't care less. Yes, it's clear Reddit has a significant number of difficult problems to work through with their unpaid non-employee volunteer moderators, but I, as a user who has long-since unsubscribed from the majority of the default subreddits, was unaffected and don't care.

I'd hazard a guess and say that even a large portion of the users who are constantly commenting in all of the major posts with things like "down with Pao!" and "let's go to voat.co!" probably don't care a fraction as much as their virulent comments would indicate.
I've been trying to track down copies or PDFs of Electric word and Language Technology to no avail. I'm really curious what the design and contents were actually like. Best I've found are some scans of the covers and a little info on a few issues:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080819193753/http://www.rynne....
why is this related to the question of making community sites profitable? community-driven isn't the same as a non-divided society, lots of communities form around various division lines.
Most people would not have cared about the original firing, but many more do care about the way it was handled.

She should also not underestimate how quickly Reddit latches on to these kind of memes even when people might not personally care so much. That she's already widely known around Reddit as Chairman Pao is not exactly a good sign.
I know the moderators didn't like the firing, but the lack of a thoughtful transition plan put the AMA subreddit in jeopardy.

That _is_ Pao's responsibility, and she failed in having a plan, and the community called her on it.
Is the teacher a govt employee or are they a private business? If the latter, I'm not surprised that everyone needs more hours. The teacher is incentivized to squeeze every student for more money.

It reminds me of a story from my father's youth. He had gotten a minor DUI (back when there was such a distinction), had his license suspended, and was sentenced to see a counselor for a prescribed number of visits. After those visits the counselor could, at his discretion, recommend more counseling or recommend the license be renewed.

Edit to clarify: He had to see a counselor for x visits. He could choose from a list of approved counselors and he would be responsible for any fees.

After the prescribed number of visits the counselor recommended more counseling. Dejected, my father went home and thought. The next day he called up the counselor and said, "You know, I don't feel that I need further counseling. I'd like to see another counselor for a second opinion."

The next day he had a recommendation for license renewal from the first counselor.
My god, what a horribly written article, and by the BBC?

> Reddit went into virtual lockdown, with many of the sections made private after Victoria Taylor was fired.

Sections? Private? Explain this to your users, or use better wording.

> About 100 chat sections, or sub-reddits, that together have millions of readers are believed to have been shut, although are many are now again public.

Just..what? "have been shut", "are many are now"

> There had been no explanation of why she was suddenly sacked, said the administrators.

This makes no sense. Administrators are the employees/company. So you're saying that the company just fired someone without knowing why? Maybe you meant moderators?
Actually, the most vocal subreddits are also by far the subreddits least worth anything. My entire reddiy experience has been utterly unaffected by this drama and I don't know anyone who seriously thinks that Pao is bad for Reddit.
I'd argue that it discovered the concept of a cat under the limitations of its setup. Missing from that concept are all of the memories and societal connotations of "catness" that most people would by default have as part of their learned concept of cats.
check out assembly.com maybe there are some ideas there. Also, firespotting.com
I tend to agree with this. It would better align the goals of the organization supporting the community with the community.
> Note how the article shows them apologizing for how the transition was handled, not the firing, which there are still no clear details on.

That is none of your business. That is none of -our- business. Anybody who thinks they deserve to know why Victoria / u/chooters was fired has either never worked a real job before, or has a vastly over-large opinion of themselves.
"Michaelochurch it" or "MOCh it" (pronounced "maach") needs to be in the SV dictionary. This is obviously for taking any conversation and jacknifing it to absurdity. Fits very well in that it sounds similar to regular mocking, but is way more intense and is where one has full intention of hellbanning themself just cause. Sometimes conflated with "going nuclear". Love me some MOCh.
Yet somehow we haven't killed ourselves off yet.

I'm just bothered by the wording. To call driving in the US "extraordinarily dangerous" is just hyperbole. It might be quantitatively "more dangerous" than the UK, but there really isn't anything to fear going out on the roads in the US.

The way these sorts of articles are written, they make it sound like you need to don a suit of armor and make sure your will is up to date every time you step outside, lest a car comes hurtling off the road and wipes out your entire family.

I'm not trying to condone driving drunk, but drunk-driving out in the middle of nowhere like in the shock story cherry-picked for the opening article just isn't as assuredly insta-death as MADD would like you to believe.

Yes, tailgating is relatively more dangerous than not tailgating. Is tailgating objectively dangerous? The fact that millions of people do it every day and still live to tell the tail suggests otherwise. "Alcohol is a factor in 1/3rd of road deaths". Yeah, but what factor is it in road survivals? Road statistics have never been conducted in a sound manner.
Don't work for free, just build some fun pet projects.

I've had stuff like a poker equity calculator, craigslist monitoring program, etc in my "portfolio" to showcase some different skillsets.

Obviously it helps to tailor it somewhat to the kind of work you'll be doing.
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Why would you stop reading there? That's when it gets interesting. It's OK to think for yourself :)
Yeah, I wouldn't necessarily call MONDO 100% naive. There was a lot of paranoia about government surveillance and the misuse of technology in its pages as well.
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Well, I believe Reddit Gold saved Reddit. There were four people working in a corner of the Wired Offices before Reddit Gold. Afterward, they became a prize property.
Yes, but since he frames it in the title as a "redesign," it's hard to get out of the frame of thinking about it as such. If he had titled it "A Simpler Notation for Piano Music" or something, his intent would've been clearer.

But then again, probably wouldn't have gotten to the front page without the word "redesign"
That's probably because no-one's produced a fully invalid block with sufficient proof of work, but supposedly the pools involved would quite happily have built on top of one because they're skipping block validation almost entirely.
From an employee standpoint over 50% of medical spending is pure waste, so your argument basically says. If I get robbed before handing you a paycheck that's still part of your total compensation. Even still, your arguing a few percentage points one way or another as if 15 or 20 vs 130 makes a huge difference.

PS: Wellness programs are a classic case of 'fake' compensation. When the net cost is ~zero it's not compensation. It's like calling safety equipment compensation, because it's an expense.
> business model

I'm not sure what you mean here; are you referring to the annual donation drive? I love this model, but I know a lot of Wikipedia users who absolutoly hate the (admittedly non-invasive and pretty respectful) banners requesting donations.
You're missing the point entirely, and it has nothing to do with public transit. Although smaller overall, do you not think that Germany has rural areas? They do, lots of them.

Just by virtue of the fact that you live in the middle of nowhere, should not give you the right to pilot a several ton metal box going 100+kph that has the ability to kill you and those around you.

Driving should still be seen as a privilege and something that you have to earn, not just "oh, you live in the countryside.. well, do as you please"
"Or put him/her in a four-wheeled vehicle which will drive far faster than the two-wheeled one and kill the light of your life in case of an accident. The choice is yours!"
Great article, wish i had such an experience when getting an account hacked
I didn't bother implementing any validation rules on the backend so it was free for people to change whatever they wanted using the debugger console.
That's exactly my point, of course it's working for me, I've never had an issue finding what I was looking for either, it's just super slow. The keyboard does not open (like you mentioned), recent web searches and websites appear above my own content. Just makes everything so slow, so I eventually swipe away at my app drawer or my contacts' app to find stuff, which is so 2001...
The best way to do that stackable staves: see the last two lines here: http://i.imgur.com/tqZRXzt.jpg

Ledger lines preserve the melodic contour but it's harder to read the notes. 8va's stay within the regular five lines you know how to read, but fragment the melodic curve. This way has the advantages of both the above and the disadvantage of neither.

(The lack of key sig in that image is a limitation of the software it was printed out from, I think; it should start in E and change around a bit afterwards. The "3"s are that software's way of printing tuplets.)
Adversarial search in zero-sum games
Well, a Reddit CEO didn't hesitate to make public negative comments about a fired employee.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2iea97/i_am_a_former_...
I'm not going to cut and paste (or type out) the whole forward but more than half of it talks about this claim in considerable detail. It's not new. Tolkien says:

- He dislikes allegory in all its forms

- The relationship between any author's experiences and his writing are amazingly complex.

- The story is meant to provide a good long tale that would move, delight and surprise readers. It is not meant to have a deeper meaning by intention.

- Parallels between WWII and LoTR simply don't work.

- The key parts of the story are by far the oldest.

- The old miller had a black beard and his name was not Sandyman (his final dig).

He was far more influenced by his classical background and philology than current affairs.
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"Acquihire" is misspelled "acquhire".
Companies usually don't fire people who are well liked and doing a good job. They also fired the reddit gifts admin.

I think it's obvious that there is a forced changing of the guard happening at reddit and given the people who were fired were some of the most popular with the users and moderators I can't imagine those changes will be well received by the users.

However, firing of staff is a personal matter and neither the company nor Ms. Taylor are going to say anything about it. So now we just have to wait for the other shoe to drop to find out what is really going on.
Same experience here. And reading a few of the comment threads on reddit to try and figure out what's going on completely cured me of feeling too sympathetic toward this revolt. The "men's rights" mix was a little strong for me. Some of those threads left me feeling like turning in my man parts.
> Sections? Private? Explain this to your users, or use better wording.

That's implying the reader knows or wants to know how the website works.
Broad summary of what's been going on the last few days in Buenos Aires, Argentina (by /u/sebadoom):

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/sebadoom/f0eedcba2f39e3e0...
My thoughts exactly. The vocal minority are those that produce content and keep the site going.
Of course they have to paint anyone dissatisfied as a vocal minority. I hope it's just damage control, but I suspect they believe their own bullshit. Alexis too thought it was just a vocal minority when he was posting to reddit publicly laughing when the first few subreddits went offline.

He has since apologized, I'd hope he's sorry for being out of touch with the userbase. But everything Reddit has done makes it look like he's sorry he got caught.

A lot of the moderators I've heard from aren't satisfied at the statements released to them as well. There was a lot of talk about getting better moderation tools out, but Reddit doesn't seem to realize that the clown-car toolset available to mods is just a concrete and undeniable example the mods can point to about how the admins entirely ignore the "community" the entire business is built upon.
And there was a massive shitstorm after they did that.

It's a good thing that Reddit does not reveal details of why people were fired.
I mean assumedly "some" people had heard enough about the internet to make a GUI browser for it...
By that rationale, you can make Hacker News better by removing voting altogether. Get rid of those two arrows and the needless complexity of karma. Only you can save us from ourselves, dang.
The two issues are distinct. Stop trying to justify racism.
What we need though, is something federated. Where everyone can interact with anybody, just like email (or like XMPP did).

IRC does not have this. I've to connect to your server, or you to mine. This doesn't scale as an email/IM replacement; it only works for rooms with a certain usage/target.

The huge problem with any replacement (aside from federation) is the network effect. No matter how good your solution is, you need critical mass for it to pick up, and no huge company is going to invest into getting users into a federated network which they won't control. There's no profit for the company.
Wallet functionality has been re-enabled to work with autoprune, but it won't make it into the 0.11 release. https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/6057
Is this really necessary?

When I took piano lessons as a kid, I never had a hard time reading the music. It looks really complicated knowing nothing and jumping straight to Beethoven, but realistically, you'll learn to read sheet music a lot faster than you'll learn to actually play it.

I only took lessons for a few years, but by the end I was able to read sheet music that I had no hope of actually playing.

And then there's hundreds of years of music using the existing notation, so anybody serious about music will inevitably end up learning the old notation anyway.
The more sharps or flats the key has, the more the need for putting them in the key signature, not less. Otherwise there'd be sharps and flats everywhere. And you wouldn't be able to determine the key by looking at one bar.

Experienced musicians don't look at a key signature and say "okay, so I need to perform so-and-so particular substitutions", they look at a key signature and say "okay, so it's in the key of X".
No, he's arguing to not change major parts of what makes e-mail useful in order to try to shoehorn e-mail into an entirely different messaging pattern.
This is overblown (like most internet nerd rage that transpired at Reddit the last few days).

I bet most folks who don't frequent the site, and haven't used it over the holiday weekend will come back and not even know anything had transpired and don't feel any decline. I've used the site daily for a long time and it is fine by me. Maybe I just don't get upset that I can't say and do anything I want on the site because I know that is silly.

Shutting down creep subreddits like fatpeoplehate and others is totally fine and isn't stifling anyones free speech. No one has a right to be able to post whatever they want on a 3rd party website, fortunately to many and unfortunately to some the Internet is no longer the Wild Wild West.
Very much unlike other products, Reddit is a community. It's curious that Pao et al. have not spoken to that community. They spoke to NYT, to TIME, to BBC, but not to reddit. It's really strange.
Why don't people use bookmarks anymore?
I think there's an important distinction between a rain and a consciousness. Rain is a movement of physical objects, that's all it is. Consciousness, on the other hand, is not just movement of physical objects (e.g. electrons), it's more than that. The movement of electrons that gives rise to consciousness (or is interpreted as consciousness), creates information. This process is an abstraction from the physical world. A math model of a rain does not create rain, and a math model of consciousness does not create consciousness, but a computer simulation of consciousness might actually create the real consciousness, unlike a computer simulation of a rain.
I feel like mobile developers and the creators of the hardware have given up on heavy optimization to work on minimal hardware and instead just gone with more expensive, top of the line hardware so they can continue current programming practices.
There are perfectly fine ways to discuss this situation.

The fact that Reddit refuses to take that path is a strong indication that the reasons would reflect badly on the company.
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Legal questions should be asked of a lawyer, not HN.
Pay for one yourself, rather than use the corporate counsel.
The concerns about culture below are separately worth considering.
Yes...but Reddit's CEO interpreted the employee's tell-all as justification to cross that privacy boundary in order to publicly counter the ex-employee's claims. Victoria, AFAIK, has made no such public attack against Reddit.

Also, Ellen Pao was not Reddit's CEO at that time and it seems unfair to hold her to the behavior of the CEO she replaced.
Go far back enough and you find corporations everywhere.

At the time of X's creation, DEC and IBM was looking for a GUI for their unix offerings.

And dbus came out of trying to make it easier to get the various Linux GUI toolkits to talk to each other, under the stewardship of Freedesktop (where also Systemd was housed until very recently). Thing is that RH was a big backer of that, and was out to win against the big unixes (A recent video interview with various employees there pretty much proclaim "we won the unix war(s)").
Yep. They guy reinvented Klavarscribo.
React is so shiny that it sucks your entire application (HTML and CSS included) up into it's non-standard JavaScriptified web-page format.
It is, however, standard practice for a company to evaluate an employee's list of duties to ensure that the tasks they were handling continue to be fulfilled.
For the less crypto-educated of us: outside of an air gapped laptop, wouldn't JS loaded from an HTTPS location be just as secure as most other media? Is the concern that execution on the client-side could be hijacked or snooped after the JS fetch?
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"EDIT: Downvoting me as a way of saying "I disagree" is immature."

Downvoting for disagreement is officially sanctioned on this site. It's annoying, but that's how it is.
I'm on Reddit's side on this issue

"In return, the polite expectation is that the employee will not go shooting their mouth off about the company especially (as in your case) through irresponsibly unfounded speculation. (...) Unfortunately, you have just forfeited this arrangement."
What I described as a Service would be what this query/caching layer is. I would just rather not have it embedded in the Component, making it harder to follow what a Component does. The beauty of them is that they are simple to read and understand. The more mixins you use, the more esoteric it gets and you have to read a bunch of code to understand why the render function magically has these properties to display with.

Another point would be that the service or store could be re-used in more than just react, and it can be tested without having to consider the UI.
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Actually, I am OK with certain stereotyping, because that is how comedy works. However, burning trash is not remotely funny and not true anymore, it is not representative at all. In that case, it is not even a good stereotype, it just lazy thinking & writing because they don't bother to understand what it is like to be an Asian nerd.
> > Oh well, it was great while it lasted.

> Also an eight-year user; couldn't agree more.

I've also been around since nearly the beginning (coming up on tenth cakeday) and I feel very similarly.

I expressed as much in Alexis' modtalk thread, and I was glad to see many others doing the same. Site usability issues aside, frankly I couldn't care less about the admin-moderator and moderator-user dynamic of the default subs. The large-scale reddit community lost my interest years ago in typical Eternal September fashion.

But I feel, on the whole, betrayed by the new direction of the site. Not only does it not reflect the early days of reddit that drew me in -- it doesn't even seem to reflect a natural growth-driven evolution of the platform.

I find myself losing all remaining interest in reddit and suspect I'll delete my account in the coming weeks if there aren't major changes to

(a) the horrendous attitude of the [user-facing] admins,

(b) communication channels between reddit engineers and users who try to contribute to site development,

(c) the ancient moderation tools that can't handle subreddits over 50 thousand users.

It's been a great run. Really, what an amazing decade. But, at least for me, these recent events are just the final blow. They represent a turning point in reddit and a turning point in my own life. These discussion silos of the early 2000s all feel bloated and fairly useless now.
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And certainly not for lack of want by the users. Just look at all the AMA request activity. However the community knows Pao would never do it as it would be akin to walking into a pitchfork mob.
OK, I can appreciate your stance, but can you explain the difference? (Or at least point to a reference that does?)
> But times are changing and i decided last week to make my own.

Times have not changed. Why exactly would you build your own?

> But the thing is, most of them are generic and boring!

That's the definition of good design. If you can see it, it's poor design.

Were you expecting some tacky flash website with animations and gradients everywhere?
> But Ms. Pao says that the most virulent detractors on the site are a vocal minority, and that the vast majority of Reddit users are uninterested in what unfolded over the past 48 hours.

This is an incredible simplification.

If we follow the 90-9-1 model: 1% of reddit's user base contributes new content, 9% interacts with that content, and 90% are lurkers and consumers. The 'vocal minority' are the content creators and contributors.

Reddit has hardly changed in its existence. Things like a search that works or reasonable moderator tools have been promised for years to no avail. Reddit has never had any decent product leadership, but their attempt to reign in control of content has been disastrous.

Moderating content outside of removing illegal content is a really slippery slope. It's incredibly difficult to get content standards right. Reddit, as it becomes more mainstream, seems like its trying to get content standards under control, but the cost is immense and might eventually end up alienating its userbase.