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She had a affair with a married senior partner who was also a lecherous jerk at her prior job, betraying both her spouse and her fellow cheaters spouse. Then when he, the lecher, was under fire for his treatment of another female subordinate she defended him.
What? How is acting rationally given your past life experience "poor decision making"?

If you don't have money to spare, and then one month you get a windfall and do, it's absolutely rational to assume (and consequently base your decisions on) that you'll go back to the former state.
> Maybe not all my clients support javascript, but substantially all I care about do.

See here: http://bradfrost.com/blog/post/fuck-you/

> I even take advantage of this on my blog by rigging a field in the comments section to not be visible for users but be visible for spammer bots, so that they will fill it out and the software can auto-reject it.

That is a reverse CAPTCHA, it works very well, and has absolutely nothing to do with Javascript. They are typically implemented using CSS.
Ideologist will act like ideologists, they don't care about the facts, they care about their narrative. If the original narrative isn't strong enough they just fabricate one to legitimize their hate.

So caving in to those groups prevents nothing, it just makes things more toxic. As a tactical move, bringing in Steve Huffman might not have been the worst decision though.
I just think it's important that we don't gloss over the possibility that the level of criticism and outrage could very well have been exaggerated as a result of latent/subconscious sexism.
Maybe they are talking about 200 vs 304 caches.

A browser can use be told to revalidate files, telling the server to return the content using the "If-Modified-Since" and "If-None-Match" headers. This way, the server will return 304 and empty content if the file has not changed or 200 and the file if it is new or it changed
Really? What are the decisions she has made that seem so substantially larger than past Reddit CEO mistakes? Worse than selling to Conde Nast? Worse than closing subreddits for content?

To me the uptick in personal insults seems obvious, and uncorrelated to a long history of questionable decisions by Reddit admins. Although I think her being labelled as a feminist false accuser is as much the reason as her being a woman.
> it doesn't stay dormant in your body

Yes it does.

> just had it a few mild times as a kid.

Nope you have it. When you are in poor general health it will probably resurface. Good luck.
It's very possible to lift a single person out of poverty at the expense of two or more others. Also remember that poverty merely defines the current state of a person, not their inherent class.
I don't think so, because the degree of "anti corporate" sentiment varies dramatically from sub to sub. The thing is, it almost doesn't even make sense to talk about "The Reddit Community" as though it was any one, unified, cohesive whole, because it largely isn't.
I find that we can do this sort of thing amazing. However on the animation the fact that the terminator line changes angles is a bit unnerving.
$2.60/hr is way overpaying. For this task people should definitely be using spot instances, which are $0.32/hr. Big difference! It seems to me like they should also switch from g2.8xlarge to g2.2xlarge because caffe does not benefit much from multiple GPUs. That brings the cost to $0.07/hr; more than an order of magnitude difference.
Let's make three categories of things on Reddit. One is innocuous (or relatively so) like /r/knitting or even /r/politics or /r/atheism. Perhaps there are big arguments but in the grand scheme of things it's not bad.

Type two is /r/coontown or other hate subs. They're clearly offensive. I wouldn't let them on my site if I ran it, but they exist. The key here is they stay mostly to themselves. I wasn't aware of them before all this.

Type 3 are problem subs. Things like /r/FPH. There often offensive, but on top of that they branch out to act in the real world or in other subs. They don't stay confined to their one little corner but actually make things worse for everyone. Never if your topic isn't flat out offensive doxing or causing actual harm fits here.

What they did was a small hit against some of category three. It wasn't much, but it's the most I've seen in a long time on Reddit. Given the amount of stuff I've seen in the last year against various people in the games industry in other places, some of that organized on Reddit, I'm happy to see something done.

There are still tons of subs in category three that they haven't done anything too. The vast majority of them. And I really don't care about category two things, I'd be fine if I didn't wanted to ban those too.

By no means did she clear up Reddit. But at least I saw she tried to do something, dipping her toe into the battle. And I'm worried I'll be back sliding on that.
What's wrong with Reddit is that politics.vitriol.hate.anger has a very large presence in the default subreddits.
http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fgene.2014.00...

Sorry, made a mistake in the comment above. It's not the DNA's structure that is changed, it's the resulting protein's. (Different codons slightly alter the rate of translation, leading to a different folding of the protein.)
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Not speaking dishonestly would be nice.
Ha. Maybe we need language to evolve the way we now have "rape" and "rape rape." I propose "harassment" and "har-fucking-rassment."
> I cannot comprehend why Reddit chose a single-page app for their new mobile site

They should but not the way they are making it.

It should be server side render for initial page (not just home page but any page). And mostly changing content through AJAX when you navigate between pages.

SPA is hard specially when it comes to usability. One of the biggest issue I see with SPA is going back. Browser handles back history pretty good for non-SPA. Replicating similar behavior in JS in not easy.

Reddit SPA should be like this with server side rendering. http://reddit.premii.com/
When will these people stop acting like our moral superiors. smh.
I think it was the right move for many reasons.

Should someone hesitate from making the right move if vile people happen to support that move?
You were modded down, but I don't know why. On what planet does it make sense to ban /r/fatpeoplehate while permitting /r/CoonTown?

If you don't have a coherent content policy -- and no sane person could argue that Reddit does -- then you're better off with none at all.
> Will we hear Sam saying "We made a terrible decision putting her in charge."? Never. Even if it was the actual truth.

She was previously fired from Kleiner Perkins for unsatisfactory performance.

Perhaps the Reddit board has come to the conclusion she might not be ready for a CEx position.
i have a pet project doing something like this hacked together with with obs, nodejs rtmp server, etc. email in profile
The childish and aggressive level of communication on Reddit led me to discover Hacker News while in search of quality and informed discussion. Admittedly I also use Reddit but more and more it has become a curiosity to see how people act when they think no one will know it's them. Occasionally I also engage in rewarding exchanges there but the few loud, brash and opinionated (but not well informed) users in the subreddits I frequent do lower my level of engagement and enjoyment considerably.
Supplemental note: I'm not saying they did this by design or that this means Ellen succeeded. The ideal outcome for her would have been to manage that negotiation and positioning herself, identifying and settling into the middle ground and coming out the other side still in charge - this didn't happen, and the turnover does not make any of the parties look good. Still, she tried and probably benefited the business-side of things in some way - the next 12 months will see whether these benefits outweigh the reputation costs.
This issue with cars, is what scares me the most. We'll be able to have 'classic cars' -> cars made up until about 1980s. then there will be this huge period of cars that have to be destroyed because their onboard computers are totally ancient and not accessible. That or we'll have the ability to 3D print circuit/boards chips very easily from an old archive of designs. sigh
That's hardly the only thing that predates the last few days:

http://www.vanityfair.com/style/scandal/2013/03/buddy-fletch...
> I think it's hard to underestimate the degree to which our knowledge of biology has changed [...]

That's not the issue. That relates to us understanding why it's dangerous. But wondering if it's dangerous and testing small and willing populations at first is something we knew how to do back then too.

> That it would kill someone, I don't think that was a possibility in their minds.

If they thought it was harmless they'd have tested it at the military base first.

> If you want outrage, be outraged that [...]

I don't, thanks. And I don't appreciate the redirect. (I agree, but it's not the topic.)
> The most critical things against Pao and her husband I have seen are posts about there phony extortion sexism and racism law suits. All of which is factual information available to the public and even the media has to admit these things are facts.

Oh please. You can disclaim the disgusting statements made all over reddit recently as not part of a coherent community or whatever, but don't pretend they didn't exist at all.

As for the rest of this nonsense, the statement quoted had nothing to do with "clickbait media and various groups" (I seriously feel like we're in talking points memos territory with this stuff), this is a statement from Sam Altman, so take it up with him.

> There is zero accountability in the media today and zero ethics. Everyone needs to be much more sceptical about what they read in the press and there motivations.

I mean, seriously, what on earth are you addressing here? Who are you talking to?
Calling someone you disagree with racist is itself racist. People call her Charmin Pao because she moved to limit free speech, increase dictatorial control, fire those who disagree with her and generally seems like dictator in here own special little way.
No one said give her a pass, it was simply said the 'vitriol was appalling.' That simply means that the denizens of the internet when taken as a collective are horrible people who can not voice criticism in a civil manner.

Assuming she was completely horrible and a terrible CEO... Assuming that! How could someone's lack of ability to do their job (or anything else for that matter) make the type of death and rape threats that this 'vitriol' was seen being expressed with less appalling?

You are falling into a common pit where you may think it was good she has been replaced, and you may be right, and gosh darn it you are certainly entitled to that opinion. But when you reply objecting to a comment that is basically just saying the type of hate a woman got on the internet was horrible, you become part of the problem by basically saying she deserved to receive those threats.
I thought the article made a good point about the general popular adoption of the ill-defined term 'psychopath', and that the reality of individuals with traits often attributed to psychopaths may not be as clear as they are portrayed in such pop culture representations as e.g. Dexter.

My real complaint is that the article seems to have conflated the psychopath with the sociopath. I was under the impression that sociopaths were a superset of psychopaths, with psychopaths being more traditionally "evil" (a la jack the ripper).

I do agree that the article's arguments in general are weak, and I don't really see any reasonable conclusion to be drawn from it. At the very least, though, I do find the description of this Gregory character to be interesting and to some extent representative of the small handful of people (~3) I've met in my life who I believed to be sociopaths (admittedly, I'd never heard of those particular individuals running someone over with a car with no remorse or hesitation, but I also believe that had they done such a thing, they wouldn't bring it up in conversation).
I seriously think that people who label others as psychopaths without clinical diagnosis are a much bigger problem than the actual psychopaths.
That's when most people started hearing about it outside of Reddit, but I guarantee there is been strong hate before any of that happened. And it really does seem gender-based, or at least those are all the primary attacks.
Because they're not actually acting rationally? Semantically correct logic built upon false assumptions is still fundamentally incorrect.

You seem to be caught in a circular argument... the poor can't help that they're poor because, well, they're poor!
From my reading, this wasn't about harassment. It was about missteps, many of them. Needless to say, her various apologies were not spurred by harassment.
Agreed, but there's a subset of the reddit community that passionately rallies against comprehensive attempts to make the site more commercial in nature. And now, with this resignation, they're likely to feel emboldened.
I get what you are saying. But really, not all of your income tax goes to take care of the poor. Sure the government wastes a lot of it on bullshit but there is no reasonable scenario where 100% of your income tax could go to help the poor.
Even if you don't intend to use build a complete web application using OpenResty, the underlying HttpLuaModule for nginx is awesome on its own if you're using nginx already. It makes it easy (among other things) to build logic around requests before they are handed off to a backend service. I used it for two different problems that would be more difficult to implement otherwise:

* Classifying incoming requests based on various signals to detect DDOS patterns and moving those requests into different request limit zones. It's used in production at a bigger hosting provider.

* Rewriting incoming requests to a certain path of an existing website to a different shared blog hosting provider and changing back HTML/CSS/JS so everything worked. It didn't end up going into production, but it was pretty easy to build in under 100 lines of Lua code.

So when you're bored and want to learn something useful, have a look at http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpLuaModule. It might help you someday.
ianferrel is not perpetuating the meme that poor people are poor because they lack decision making skills. He acknowledges that there are poor people with good decision making skills, and that giving them money will help them. Pointing out that fools impoverish themselves is not the same as saying that all impoverished people are fools.
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It's also pretty awful to see places like Wired, Tech Crunch, and Engadget had blindly reposted the PR clickbait material without any scrutiny. Even when those that did eventually 'update' their article it was tacked on as a minor note, no mention that the photos and video were digitally altered. A real expose from any of these publications would've had enough force Kickstarter to action.
https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3cucye/an_ol...

The new CEO doesn't know how to make lists. Is he going to catch shit for it?
Awesome work David!
I don't see that as a problem. At all. The US government (NSA, CIA, etc) has files on most of the people on the planet (including close spying of most governments, politicians and important corporations worldwide). I don't see how somebody else having 20 million records on US people would change anything.

On the other hand, if personal and important information about the activities (behind the curtain) of all those politicians, banksters and big corporations, american or not, was accessible to the public, perhaps things would change.
She walked in to a hot mess of a situation after the previous CEO resigned on the spot and kept the company from falling apart (which I thought was a live concern at the time). You try doing that some day.
I know the story. What I want to know is how this is relevant to her tenure as CEO. Which you've failed to specify.
> now predictable narrative of '50 white male racist misogynist neck beards' who want to chase women out of tech again

This is a pretty accurate narrative. You may not agree, but casual misogyny is incredibly pervasive on most defaults, and it's fairly prevalent within the smaller, community-based subs as well.

> small group of militant activists trying to silence people who they disagree with

If you're referring to SRS, they're annoying and take themselves far too seriously, but as far as I know they don't try to silence anyone.

> The most critical things against Pao and her husband I have seen are posts about there phony extortion sexism and racism law suits.

I'm not even going to address how laughably absurd your characterization of consistent harassment, abuse, and terrifyingly legitimate rape and death threats as "criticism" is. Most people were upset with Pao because she was part of an executive decision to shut down FatPeopleHate and a couple of other abusive subreddits. It's quite a stretch to say that she was solely responsible for this decision, and even then, it's sobering that people would respond with scathing, fiery, and highly toxic personal and threatening attacks on a decision that was intended to help people be kinder to each other -- and worse, lobbed on someone that had at most 2/5ths of the executive power to make that decision.

The media didn't turn the shaky relationship between reddit's users and their administrators into a black-and-white affair. Reddit itself did, by using Pao as a scapegoat to attack everything they saw as antithetical to freedom of hatred and abuse under the guise of "free speech."
some people are clearly willing to use it, especially for games that are a bit more casual and story driven. and like I said there's no huge risk where you're sitting on all this top-end hardware to play the games with this setup.
The fact that she "stood up" against some of the worst of Reddit shows that she was not the best suited for the job. Now before I continue, let me clarify that those banned subreddits were awful, as awful as all the threats and insults she received.

However, I wonder what was she thinking when she banned those subreddits, specially FPH. They were a bunch of trolls: did she think they were going to just shut up and stop harassing people? Nope, they weren't going to. Moreover, as the ban reasons were not completely clear (they were a bad behavioured sub, but the admins didn't show a clear proof of harassment with support of the mods) some redditors decided to support them, because hating corporate is always cool. A wonderful mix of a big community, with a high percentage of trolls, plus the "free speech" flag, plus the "corporate is destroying Reddit". The result is the chaos that happened in the days after the ban and the obvious damage to her reputation.

That was not the better solution to the FPH problem. There were other possibilities. For example, removing them from the front page to cut their growth in the early stages. Or, in the moment the imgur thing happened, issue a clear warning to the mods and tell them that the next offense meant a ban (they could've avoided further harassment or maybe could have banned them without such community backslash, giving the rest of the users a "see? they're bad, we told you, we had no other option" explanation).

But even with a bad decision on the FPH ban, she could have survived if it weren't for the /u/chooter thing. A CEO in a delicate position, with part of the community with doubts about her and another part directly hating her... firing an appreciated admin wasn't the best idea at all. I wouldn't have thought it would have created such a big outcry, but it was clear it was going to revive the Ellen Pao hating circlejerk. It was a suicidal move.

And, as you say, the bad part of these suicidal moves is not only the hate and the threats she received and the fact that she had to resign, but also the fact that is going to be taken as a victory for the childish trolls of Reddit. Basically, Pao screwed up really bad, and I think she made things worse in the harassment/hate field.
Thanks for your answers. Do you have any insights to #3 or #4, or any good links/documentation I can read for any of the things?
He is perpetuating the meme of the deserving and the undeserving poor though...

EDIT source
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=deserving+and+the+undeserving+poor
> In the US, the Earned Income Tax Credit is similar to a negative income tax

EITC is like what a person who once heard of negative income tax but wanted to make a Rube Goldberg parody of it would create.

A negative income tax would, in its simplest form, instead of limiting AGI to a minimum of zero after deductions, let it go negative, and treat the (negative) calculated liability on that income as a negative total tax liability.

(Now, EITC helps a wider range of people -- with qualifying children, it hits about the same point for people without children -- than NIT would with the current deductions available for US taxes, but, that could be addressed by adding greater child deductions than the existing standard deduction.)
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> clearly weren't harmless

From what I've read, it seems to be the opposite: it was reasonable to assume, to a certain extent, that they were, indeed, harmless. But I agree that the certainty level was not high enough to conduct experiment on such a big number of participants. (I want to point out, we're only discussing the harmlessness here, not the other points like consent).

> can always be argued to

This is a horrible phrase. You can take any statement, and disregard it because it "can always be argued for". I think in this particular case, the benefit of these experiments is pretty clear.

> such offences should be under strict liability

This I agree with.
I've been a heavy reddit user for 8 years and I did not know about this until I read about it in the New York Times. It's really a small subset of the reddits that were touched by the entire ordeal.
When people say "email in profile", they're talking about listing it in the "about" section. The email field is private.
It's almost like you didn't read the article at all.
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Being the CEO of reddit is a political position. And Ellen Pao has too much drama in her life to be a good politician. Losing a sexual harassment case, marrying a crook who stole millions...those are events that don't happen by accident.
The Reddit founders had very strong ideas about censorship and freedom of speech, and so as a matter of principle, they refused to censor subreddits unless the latter were breaking the law. As far as growth goes, this was probably the right choice, as a lot of Reddit's userbase came from previously marginalized groups who now had a forum for their interests on the Internet.

Note that Hacker News made the opposite choice: it has a variety of mechanisms (slow-banning, hell-banning, quarantine, explicit moderation) that makes it very clear to certain users that they are not welcome here. And it gets shit for it too: if you browse the New page with showdead turned on, you'll see pretty frequent posts from people who are hellbanned complaining about the fascist moderators of this site.

Ultimately, the problem is that for any given slice of humanity, there are significant other slices of humanity that the former find repugnant. And usually vice versa. As a community grows bigger, there's no way to avoid running into the bad apples. I actually think the subreddit system is about as good as it can currently get for a public, open forum.
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