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Everything about their saga is bizarre. Did you know that up until his marriage to Ellen, Buddy had lived as a homosexual? he was living with a partner of multiple years (Hobart “Bo” Fowlkes) and was openly gay. Not that there is anything odd or wrong about that.

It is just rather strange how these two polarizing figures came together in a union.

For more info and details see:

http://www.vanityfair.com/style/scandal/2013/03/buddy-fletch...

And then there are the KP employee reviews and other internal documents which became public as a result of the trial she lost that show Ellen Pao to be a thoroughly unproductive and toxic employee who was given every opportunity to shape up but was too busy engrossed in the internal office politics and making 'enemy lists'.

If someone made a movie about this stuff and the people involved, most would think it too unrealistic.
This (deleted) Quora post is the best explanation I've seen thus far: http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--N83GXLMb...
There are some schools (mostly, that I've seen, small private for-profit law schools, not general colleges) that offer undergraduate degrees in law (e.g., B.S.L.), but they're pretty rare. More commonly, there are specialties/concentrations in other programs (often Political Science) which are promoted as preparatory for law school, though students that go on to legal study may have pretty much any undergraduate major.

Since this is looking at undergraduate degrees, its not surprising that Law doesn't show up.
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That doesn't mean the other 2% can be ignored. On the contrary, those are the times when you want the least amount of trouble.
There isn't any beyond rumour; and those reasons aren't likely to be disclosed for a long time (probably never).
The best way to help poor people who make reasonably good decisions is to give them money.

People who make bad decisions often end up poor. Giving them money will not help them make better decisions, and may make them worse off.

How you think those two effects interact, and how much you value efficiency of donation vs. enabling people with poor decision making skills to waste probably determines where you stand on this issue.
There's a fine line between being polite and being so boring that it's stifling.
Every commenting site has it's herd mentality and punishment of thought crimes.

Reddit users just wore it on the their sleeves and trying to suppress them was silly.

It might turn into DIGG 2 pretty fast and might not recover.

The investors and the "community" are just too far a part on this.
Not aggressive enough:

> So why am I leaving? Ultimately, the board asked me to demonstrate higher user growth in the next six months than I believe I can deliver while maintaining reddit’s core principles.

http://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/3cudi0/resignation_tha...
Did the "community" make death threats? I didn't see any, and I don't think the average redditor would approve those. There will be death threats in almost any large-scale, heated discussion. The typical upvoted comments actually consisted of valid criticism against Pao and reddit's management.
bbgm made two comments; one about a company under bootstrap, the other about "using Modeller purely for hobby projects".

My first paragraph was a response to the first comment. My second paragraph was about the second.
I'd say that a non-clinical pop diagnosis invented in the 18th century would have to justify itself, actually. The onus shouldn't be on others to disprove that it doesn't exist.

edit: which isn't to say there's not disagreement on the subject, but it's important to keep in mind where the status quo actually is, and it's not as represented in cable TV shows and tabloid covers. There is currently no recognized disorder here.
The first rule of reddit is unsubscribing from all the default subs and searching for the ones most relevant to your interests.

The day I discovered I could do that quickly made Reddit my favorite site on the web (/r/NFL, /r/homeimprovement, /r/television, etc).

I'd love to see a discovery feature similar to that of Pinterest built into the signup process that algorithmically signs new users up for subreddits most related to their interests.
This is why it got so messy when they got rid of FPH. They did a MISERABLE job of defining the line on what is and is not appropriate. If you're going to censor, it better be a well-defined line.
Will the anti-corporate brigades in these large community-driven sites make turning a profit impossible in the long-run?
My anecdotal experience is that fridges last a few years before requiring repair. In the space of 10 years, my home fridge failed once, ran for a few more years, and then just stopped cooling. Over that time period, I've repaired nearly every appliance in the house. They were all new when we moved in, because we bought a house that was empty of appliances.

Dehumidifier: Defective potentiometer. Repaired, then it ultimately wore out and stopped cooling. Folklore is that the seals in the compressors are short lived, system loses the ability to compress the refrigerant sufficiently. This also causes a gradually rising power consumption until it can no longer hold temperature.

Chest freezer: Starting relay / capacitor failed. Replaced with unit bought online. Currently idle, as we have nothing to freeze.

Microwave: Failed, tried to repair, to no avail.

Cooking range: Loose connection in heating element caused wiring to burn up. Repaired by silver-brazing new wire to Nichrome element material.

Dryer: Repaired twice. First time was an over-temperature sensor. Second time, the motor bearings failed, and the unit was squeaking like crazy.

Waffle iron: Repaired once due to heating of loose connection, second time it was unrepairable.

I've also repaired the furnace, but it was a pretty old unit.

One basis for predicting life span of new design is to base it on known performance of old design. Of course this can't happen if cost reduction results in multiple, radical design changes, including use of lower cost materials.

On the plus side, the Internet has opened up a bonanza of repair information and spare parts, so I have saved a boat load of money by being self sufficient for repairs.
One of the issues during the trial was for KP to show that she had options outside the firm and that her dismissal was not detrimental to her career.
The CEO of Reddit gig came in nicely to prove just that. Even if she was just an interim CEO. Now the actual CEO is in place, considering that she did not work out ok for Reddit.
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I think it's unfair to compare your un-curated Reddit experience - which you admit is pretty good in a few niche subs - with your highly curated Facebook feed.

It's like saying that food in New York is awful because you reached into a trashcan and found a rancid bagel, but is awesome in Chicago because you looked up the nicest restaurant and spent $500 on a meal there.
I'm interested and had started looking into it when a similar article was posted a couple of months ago. My email is in my profile.
"With the exception of a few niche subreddits and the (few) incredibly moderated major subreddit's"

Sometimes I don't recognize what y'all are talking about, and I almost want to defend reddit, then I remember: I've long since adjusted my reddit to be virtually nothing but niche. My largest is ~320,000, but it's just a "Deals" reddit. I've got two at 150,000, both very focused. And it goes down from there.

I'd hardly know this was going on except /r/blog is essentially forced on to your reddit front page.

It's just like Usenet was... subscribe to politics.vitriol.hate.anger and rec.sports.flame, and yeah, you're gonna get idiots. Subscribe to comp.lang.niche_language, get almost nothing but signal. Times never really change.
very cool, thanks for sharing.

we decided statuspage.io was just too expensive for such a simple task, so we decided to write our own soon... looks like we might use yours instead.
Meh. They should have left it alone. The sub mods tried to keep people mostly contained within itself. There are bad actors everywhere. The whole thing seemed like a guilty by association thing to me.
After seeing what Ellen went through, I think Sam will need to raise some more funds to offer a significant pay bump to entice even mediocre talent to fill her void.
> Sometimes cliches are cliches because they're accurate.

And sometimes they are cliches, because they match into politics of some people. It is always much better to have an argument, why you do better than others, than to admit, that you are lucky.

But I guess, you are the one, who knows which ones are "accurate", because you know best.

> And who cares if you think my argument should automatically be "disqualified" because it doesn't match your politics.

Right. It is better, that your politics matches the politics of the rich and mighty.
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"Have to chastise you for one example, giving them money so they can buy a cell phone? Why? To be further in debt with monthly fees?"

I feel what you're saying, but in 2015, one needs a phone to get (and usually to hold) a job. Especially low-wage jobs. E.g. a temp agency might start calling at 7h30 because they're looking for someone to fill in. Don't pick up your phone? We'll just give the job to someone else, oh and we won't call tomorrow, because you don't pick up anyway.
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Apparently, you don't negotiate a big raise at Buffer. You prove that you've increased your experience level. The only thing I would add to the equation would be a multiple for "years employed at Buffer". Then they would be automatically handling raises for people as the stayed longer.
PG has posted on HN saying that downvoting for disagreement is fine.
Just as logical as saying that if the wheelchair-bound were better at walking, they wouldn't be in wheelchairs. Poor people are often living anxiously one emergency from total bankruptcy, eating cheap, non-nutritious foods, living in uncomfortable or dangerous housing, etc. They'd need to be more than just good with money, they'd need to be brilliant.
I didn't really follow this subject, but I saw a lot of crude and frankly pretty racist joke images voted up to the front page.
I don't understand that either. I can't think of a single thing that she has done to make reddit better.
> Removal of several employees, likely because they wouldn't/didn't relocate to SF.

Let's be perfectly honest here: that was Yishan's thing. He announced that change and set it into motion before he resigned.
American style corruption.
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I think tax credits already accomplish this to a degree. The poor are more likely to have children, and they can already claim those children for tax credit, for example.
Don't know. I agree that your hypothesis is probably the best one. But lowering quality is a conscious decision.
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I'm always amused by these "here's how to protect data better" articles, because today's security is tomorrow's joke, and that's how we got here with the OPM hack.

The only way to get ahead of it is to make it so that all private data is public and thus devalued. Privacy creates liability. Visibility creates value.

The problem we have right now is the idea that one entity should have domain over any information. That's what we need to get over. It should be shared- all of it, from bank security cameras down to what you're doing in the shower. When all surveillance is shared, you find that people suddenly get a lot more tolerant, because throwing stones in glass houses isn't helpful.

The Earth is a closed system. We have finite, shared resources. Privacy creates the fiction that it's not a closed system. You think that's how the space station works? Is that how you want it to work? No, you want cameras on everything, because if someone decides to experiment with the CO2 scrubbers, it affects everyone.

The same is true here on Earth. We're now in an age where one person or company or government can single-handedly change the habitability of the entire planet, such as Exxon did in the 80s. That's dangerous.

And meanwhile, there's incredibly valuable, life-saving services and conveniences we can all enjoy if we are open with all our surveillance data. How many lives could be saved or improved if we all had a smartwatch measuring our vitals and our food intake and toilet waste were monitored? That one change could single-handedly resolve most of our healthcare issues in the US.

What we really need instead of privacy is complete visibility coupled with a code of conduct that emulates the benefits we expect from privacy. Just because we can see everything doesn't mean we have a right to bother people with what we know. That's the issue we need to address. By all means, check out whomever in the shower, but that doesn't give you a right to interfere with that person's life by commenting on their genitalia. That's the key ingredient we're missing from the privacy conversation. We like privacy because we equate it with civility and thus freedom.

If someone doesn't know something, then they can't make you miserable with it. But that doesn't really work anymore. Even if someone doesn't know something, big data techniques can interpolate what it is they're not supposed to know. What you're really signing up for with "privacy" is granting visibility to only a privileged few- the spy agencies, the multinational companies, the hackers, and anyone willing to pay for the information.
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Considering that it was Sam who brought in Ellen, what do expect him to say? if that isn't enough to warrant 'corporatespeak' over-drive, consider that Ellen really enjoys suing her employers and she still hasn't been able to completely pay her legal fees for the last case she lost.

Do you really want Sam to speak honestly about Ellen in public and open himself and reddit up to a lawsuit?
previously they'd call their stuff OpenSomething... OpenDoc, OpenTransport etc.
The article's title was just edited[1] to read, "Data on 7% of Americans Was Just Hacked, Now What?".

This is apparently a living document.

1. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:WKgL8jW...
"Just as logical as saying that if the wheelchair-bound were better at walking, they wouldn't be in wheelchairs."

Yeah, that's a good analogy to show my point. You don't throw someone on a wheelchair on their feet and hope it goes well. Just like you don't give a poor person a wad of money and hope it goes well.
This is a beautifully succinct summary of the issue. It explains why micro financing can elevate people in Africa from abject poverty, but why it's extremely hard to lift the bottom 5% in the West (apart from the fact that someone needs to be in the bottom 5%...)
> I also applaud Reddit's announcement for calling the community out on their childish BS

You mean this?

> [1] Disagreements are fine. Death threats are not, are not covered under free speech, and will continue to get offending users banned.

All that opposition - strong enough to convince "Chairman Pao" to resign - reduced to death threats? All those arbitrary bans written off as a just punishment for criminal behavior? Something tells me that we haven't seen the last of "safe space" Reddit.
All I know is I'm glad I never had hundreds of thousands of people demand to know the gory details of why I left my job. Unless Victoria wants to share it, it really isn't any of our business.
It was not made public why Victoria was fired. Neither of the parties are talking about it, so generally it's unknown.

The /r/iama mods were not upset that she was fired. They were upset that there was no transition plan in place.

> it seems like there was a lot of finger pointing before anyone knew what was actually happening

There was finger pointing because nobody knew what was happening. Functions that Victoria was performing fell through and — according to the /r/iama mods — jeopardized the functioning of the AMAs that week.
That makes a lot of sense. I'm sure there was more to it, and the image that she has on Reddit was certainly not helpful, but she wasn't fired because of the backlash from last week and previous, because if that was the case she would have been fired much sooner, but instead she stepped down, by force or not, because she wasn't able to guarantee good revenue for Reddit by past actions and admission of the above.
Malaria generally kills only the young and weak. It's like the flu over here. The problem is malnutrition. Hence why a large amount of mosquito nets are never used to sleep under, but rather as fishing nets.

I know people who have had malaria (family that lives in a tropical 3rd world country). All survived.

Giving out mosquito nets to conquer malaria makes as much sense as giving out medical masks to conquer the flu. The answer of course is to be in good health, and to have access to medicine.

But we don't live with malaria, so feel-good gestures are as far as we go.
> Reddits problem is they said anything goes, and then years later they saw what they created

Isn't that basically what I said?

> Where is the limit? Coontown, does that get banned? Sexwithdogs? Incest? SRS?

I genuinely do not know, but they need to find that limit, they need to be transparent about how they came to that decision, and they need to be consistent and fair about applying it to subreddits.

Like I said above, they tolerated it for too long, and then swung the hammer down hard. If you don't house train your dog for three years, and then start screaming at it for peeing on the rug, the dog isn't going to react well.
> People who make bad decisions often end up poor. Giving them money will not help them make better decisions, and may make them worse off.

But there are also many people who started poor and stayed poor, because they did not have the possibilities of the rich.

Or is your argument, that somebody whose parents where rich, will stay rich, because he made all the good decisions himself? There are so many rich, that make bad decisions and stay rich, because they have so much, they always will stay afloat.
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The article states that Buddy lived with a boyfriend, which is not the same as living as a homosexual, as he might be bisexual. Some other articles state that he was "openly gay", but perhaps those articles are slightly incorrect.
It wasn't just the 'optics'. They screwed up everything about it. They didn't have a replacement. They didn't have a transition period. They didn't have a clue how much work Victoria was doing. They didn't realize how significant she was to a number of core subreddits. They didn't realize how important those core subreddits were. They thought that none of these things mattered, and that a mere email address pointed to the rest of the reddit team could 'pick up the slack'.

They didn't just screw up the optics - they royally screwed up, and then tried to laugh it off.
I don't like this at all.

Even if she wasn't the right person (I don't know), all the worst elements of the site are going to see this as a victory for their awful behavior and it's going to get worse.

The people who attacked her with sexism and comments about her personal relationships. The people who supported FPH even though they were attacking people in real life and off Reddit, not just posting comments in their personal corner of 'discussion'.

She didn't do a good job of it, but at least she tried to stand up against some of the worst of Reddit.

I worry heavily that if the new person doesn't draw a clear line at the start things are going to get a lot worse in terms of hate/abuse/harassment.

EDIT: After posting this I saw Nilay Patel tweeted basically the same thing: https://twitter.com/reckless/status/619620964658245632
Well, somebody frickin' wrote those threats. It did happen.

And people who should have had the sense to see there were vile pighumpers in their midst did not moderate their nastiness.
Yeah, no question there. Things would have gone a lot smoother, explanation or no, if they'd had a plan to carry on without her.
> What is fundamentally wrong with every site that allows me to sign in with a github/google/facebook account (via OAuth)?

That is a inaccurate statement.

Those sites allow you to login with your Github/Facebook/Google Accounts. That isn't OAuth. Those sites also use OAuth in order to let 3rd party applications access the users data stored on that system.

Take this Scenario

Alan has a service that finds funny tweets.
cpitman wants to use Alan's service, to find his funny tweets.

No OAuth Example:

cpitman gives Alan service his Twitter Username and Password.

Alan service logs into Twitter, and pulls twitter data.

With OAuth:

Alan service opens a request to Twitter asking for twitter data for cpitman

Alan service redirects cpitman to Twitter

Twitter notifies cpitman that Alan Service wants to access twitter data

cpitman agrees

Twitter passes back a token

Alan service uses token to access cpitman twitter data.
I'm sorry to see it go down like this. Redditors treatment of her got really ugly (/r/all after the FPH banning was shocking) over the past few weeks, and it's disheartening to see people's bad behavior rewarded.
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It's interesting how fast people go from hating[1] /u/kn0thing to love[2] him again

[1]: https://np.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/3bwgjf/riama...

[2]: https://pay.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3cucye/an_ol...
One big omission from this list: gzip. Before you ever think about uglify, make sure you're gzipping your textual assets.
GiveWell has also named GiveDirectly one of their top charities (alongside the Against Malaria Foundation), with their detailed reasoning here: http://www.givewell.org/international/top-charities/give-dir... , for what it's worth. The reasoning is a bit different from AMF, but it's still strong reasoning.
Yes, the whole thing stunk like gamergate imo. I honestly don't care about whatever minor offense pao did, I wanted her to stay just so that the vitriol and misogyny on the front page attacking her would not "win".
There are plenty of wealthy people (mainly inherited) who became poor after bad investments.

But, obviously if you have significant amounts of capital, it's harder to lose it all.
You should check your stats some time and see how many of your users fail to load your JS, rather than are capable of loading your JS. You might be surprised, especially if you have lots of mobile traffic.
PR that comes out of corporations cannot be trusted. We cannot trust Altman is being honest that he appreciated her efforts. We can't trust that her and her husband were in love. All of this that comes out of spokesmen is carefully crafted as a result of a numbers game.

When do we hear "so and so CEO did a horrible job and was forced out by the board."? Never. So are we to believe there is no such thing as a terrible CEO? Will we hear Sam saying "We made a terrible decision putting her in charge."? Never. Even if it was the actual truth.

Pao does not get a pass on this dynamic for being a woman.
From the "PR" that treats the community as "a coherent block":

"Ellen asked me to point out that the sweeping majority of redditors didn’t do this, and many were incredibly supportive. Although the incredible power of the Internet is the amplification of voices, unfortunately sometimes those voices are hateful."