skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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“Ellen has done a phenomenal job, especially in the last few months,” he said.

What exactly "phenomenal" has she done? Reddit works pretty much the same as it worked several years ago, but in the meantime she managed to piss off the majority of community, which is the only reason Reddit exists
> And logically, if the poor as a group were good with money, they wouldn't be poor.

I am sorry, just this statement alone, disqualifies your whole argumentation. It is just a barroom cliche of the rich.
Agreed. It's why I stay off Reddit.
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>> As a closing note, it was sickening to see some of the things redditors wrote about Ellen

So what. She got better than she deserved.
Not a very good comparison - the flag situation has been ongoing since the 1860s, and isn't done yet. (I grew up in SC.)
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? There are programs for poor people to get a limited cell plan for free and government offices keyed to assisting the poor do direct them there.

I would never give them cash. While you certainly cited all sorts of needs; this is not hard and runs along the lines of "for the children, no one is against children are they?" it doesn't solve the problem.

There are two categories than need help and both can be helped the same way. First are the truly poor, they just cannot get past Go. Second are those whose decisions are making or keeping them poor. This usually involves getting tied in revolving credit, auto loans, lottery, and monthlies. Catastrophic causes that lead to the poor house need to be treated wholly separately; medical and death.

So give them money the same way food stamps are administered. They are provided an allowance for specific expenditures. This cannot be converted to cash. No system is too complex to implement, the government already manages thousands of assistance programs and sends out tens if not hundreds of millions of checks for such each month.

Basically the idea is to create purchasing groups which have similar expenses. Within these an amount is contributed monthly upto a maximum held for paying such expenses at approved retailers, service providers, etc. This covers the need side as well as hopefully teaches management of funds.

Cash cannot be tracked, it can also be easily stolen, meaning its near impossible to verify it used as intended nor determining if the assistance is the proper type.
Ellen Pao gives the reason for leaving on /r/self: http://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/3cudi0/resignation_tha...

> 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.

This is believable because there have been odd business decisions under her watch, not just policy decisions. RedditMade, one of the intended revenue-generating models for Reddit, failed while she was interim CEO. Alienating /r/IAMA probably did not help.
Right or wrong, fair or unfair, or whatever you think about Ellen, I think most people agree that she had become personally and professionally toxic to reddit as a brand and community and even if she did a great job from here on out, it was going to be an uphill battle to restore community confidence in her as a CEO.

I personally don't believe she had the right qualifications to lead a community-driven site like reddit as it is today, but would have the right qualifications if reddit was going to start making a serious pivot to a more lucrative money making direction via commercial partnerships, advertising, etc.

Reddit may still go that direction, but Huffman won't have the same baggage weighing him down.

(note: this will also likely feed the conspiracy that her turn in the head office was a convenience for her lawsuit, now that she lost, she has no reason to stay in that position)

I agree with other comments chastising the community for the racist/sexist/whatever nature of lots of the negative comments against her. It was childish and dangerous. She had enough issues worthy of reasonable criticism that it wasn't even necessary.

I think this is a good thing for reddit.
Maybe I missed it, but was there ever any information on why Victoria was fired, or whether Pao actually had anything (or everything) to do with it?

From where I was sitting, it seemed like no one actually learned the full story, which might be confidential or take time to contextualize/safely explain, and everyone immediately threw it on Pao's lap and downvoted any holding maneuvers she and the rest of the staff tried to attempt. It was poorly handled, sure, but it seems like there was a lot of finger pointing before anyone knew what was actually happening. For that matter, do we even know now?

If I'm wrong, though, happy to correct my ideas here. (grammar edit)
During the KP trial I had always kept an open mind towards her arguments...until I later learned she was married to Buddy Fletcher, one of the biggest scoundrels and thieves in the investment world in recent years. The character and judgment of a person who would fall in love and wed someone like that says more than I can articulate. It's oddly reassuring to see my (and many, many others') skepticism about both her judgment and motives validated.
> And logically, if the poor as a group were good with money, they wouldn't be poor.

Sorry, but that is not really logical. Many people are poor simply because they don't earn enough money. There is a difference.
I'm curious about a few things, like just how many of the people on reddit making the noise are actually literally children. Probably quite a lot!
Ellen Pao has been CEO of Reddit for 8 months. A month or so ago, Reddit banned several subreddits for organized harassment behavior. Since Pao had recently lost a gender discrimination lawsuit, aspects of the reddit community pattern-matched the occurances as "Social Justice Warrioring" and engaged in an organized hate-fest on Pao.

About a week ago, Victoria, the admin who coordinated Reddit's "ask me anything" subreddits (interviews with celebrities for the most part) was fired for unknown reasons. The optics of this were handled poorly, and the community got enraged. Since the buck stopped with Pao, and she was already weakened due to the backlash on the earlier issue, this second backlash revealed her to be politically compromised, and thus untenable as CEO.

Edit: corrected tenure
If you read the last but one comment, that option has been removed upstream. That option could also have been disabled without holding the package hostage. The debian developer is MIA after that has been pointed out.
i did this about a year ago to run 3dsmax/vray on ec2 gpu instance via RDP. Worked ok-ish but i found it quite clunky to mess about with AWS interface to start and turn off an instance every time I wanted to use it.

Has anyone managed to script something where you just press a button/run a local script and it does all the work, including saving your image to EBS before you turn the thing off and stop paying for the instance?
I hope reddit has good legal representation...
> “It became clear that the board and I had a different view on the ability of Reddit to grow this year,” Ms. Pao said in an interview. “Because of that, it made sense to bring someone in that shared the same view.”

Does this mean that the board thought Pao was being too aggressive in pushing growth or not aggressive enough? If it's the latter then the Reddit community is in for a shock.
>Sam Altman, a member of Reddit’s board, said he personally appreciated Ms. Pao’s efforts during her two years working at the start-up. “Ellen has done a phenomenal job, especially in the last few months,” he said.

This is clearly nonsense, otherwise there wouldn't have been a grassroots campaign to remove Ellen Pao from her role.

If Sam Altman honestly believes that Ellen did a "phenomenal" job, he should reconsider his own position at YCombinator.
Sometimes cliches are cliches because they're accurate.

And who cares if you think my argument should automatically be "disqualified" because it doesn't match your politics.
You applaud them on a PR strategy that is akin to dictatorships all over the world denouncing opposition as "terrorists" and criminals?

The community is not a coherent block. To give the impression that the criticism stems from an organized group of people that applaud and tolerate death threats is the equivalent of binding it to a strawman and lighting it on fire with gasoline.
> The last thing you want is to get flagged as a bot or VPN abuser and banned; Valve customer support isn't exactly known for being particularly understanding or responsive. Personally I would just load up a throwaway Steam account with a few games and use that.

I wonder if you could set up the tunnel going the other way so that the EC2 instance goes through your home network to access the internet?
This ignores that advertisement is a good amount of revenue for Reddit (it took is over $8M last year from advertising)[1]. In any case, there definitely needs to exist a balance, and the announcement on Reddit makes no pretense that they'll allow any community like FPH to come back or exist going forward. Even if they didn't need to rely on advertisement, it's better for the community overall to have communities that are hurtful go somewhere else. In my opinion, if FPH etc. are fine at Voat, stay there.

1: http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/18/reddit-charity/
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As an occasional user of reddit, this whole ordeal has confirmed the reason why I prefer not to hang out in its forums. I have no idea whether Ellen was a capable CEO, but the vitriol which I kept seeing peripherally (through other news articles and here on HN) was absolutely appalling.
Interesting post, something people often ignore is talking about the failures that got them to the solution but this is usually the real interesting stuff!
Best of luck to Steve, Reddit CEO looks like a risky job to have these days.
Is this the entire book?
You are right, I was confusing browser cache with CDN cache hit. In their interview they state that:

"Our CDN is a huge part of the jQuery ecosystem. We usually average around 15,000 hits per second to our CDN with 99.8% of those being cache hits. This provides much better performance for those using our CDN as their visitors can use a cached copy of jQuery and not have to download it, thus decreasing load time."

Somehow because of that I assumed that they had analysis done to understand browser caching rates. My bad.

EDIT: Huh, funny thing. What exactly is the origin server for the CDN jQuery library when the request URI is https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.4.min.js ?

What would be the point for going to origin server at all if versioned jquery libraries are static and do not change? Edge locations are for all intents and purposes an origin server. I think that the sibling comment may be more accurate in its assumption: 99.8% cache hit most probably are 200 vs 304 responses.

END OF EDIT

Nevertheless, I've spent more time to research the issue of random person loading a javascript library from browser cache.

Usage on top10k websites:
Google JS CDN is used on 23.5% [1]
jQuery DNS is used on 4% [4]
CDNJS is used on 4% [2]
jsDelivr is used on 0.5% [3]
OSSCdn is used on 2% [5]

Supposedly set of websites that use a particular JS CDN belong are disjoint with a set of websites using a competitive CDN. Thus we can estimate total JS CDN use at 30% of top10k websites and literally millions of websites scattered around the internet.

As JS libraries popularity follows a power law distribution and libraries cache headers are set for a year and longer, I would suggest that the probability of top 100 JS libraries being already cached in a browser is really high.

Statistical data hints that JS cdns are in fact quite efficient at reaching their goals, but certainly doesn't prove anything conclusively.

[0]https://www.maxcdn.com/blog/maxscale-jquery/

[1]https://trends.builtwith.com/cdn/AJAX-Libraries-API

[2]https://trends.builtwith.com/cdn/CDN-JS

[3]https://trends.builtwith.com/cdn/jsDelivr

[4]https://trends.builtwith.com/cdn/jQuery-CDN

[5]https://trends.builtwith.com/cdn/OSS-CDN
Whole situation started when reddit closed a few hateful subreddits (r/fatpeoplehate, and a few racist ones as well); a very vocal backlash came from the contingent of reddit that believes the admins have no right to 'regulate free speech'. The site was brigaded and flooded with anti-Pao posts (who they saw as their villain) which then turned to racist 'Chairman Pao' posts, posts with her and a nazi flag, etc.

After a while this calmed down.

A week ago reddit fired/let go Victoria, who was the liaison for hundreds of celebrities and reddit, often transcribing entire IAmAs (community interviews). Victoria's departure was immediate and caused a lot of planned IAmAs to be postponed or canceled, since she was the go-between (and in some cases the only point of contact).

A few major moderators were angry and posted about their displeasure at Victoria's departure and the general lack of interface admins have with moderators. This snowballed in to a 'blackout' of many major subreddits for about a day (longer for a few of the smaller ones). One of the admins posted a 'Popcorn tastes good...' comment when people asked him what he thought of the anger; which fanned the flames. The major protests died down after about a day or two, but a few subreddits spawned for the specific purpose of continuing the protest and to oust Pao. These people brigaded most posts about Pao and promoted the petition link calling for her removal. The anti-Pao rhetoric continued at full force (with the usual racist 'Chairman Pao' meme, nazi flags, posts of her photo to a subreddit called 'punchablefaces').

In summary: Pao and admins were wrong to not communicated with the moderators more, especially when it came to Victoria; the original protest had legitimate legs but then devolved in to the same 4chan-esque bile that happens any time reddit makes some sort of administrative move. That awful bile of protest is what kept the flames going which led to Pao stepping down.
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By "as a group" I meant most. Most poor people I know are poor because of their choices or because of the place they live. Neither of which are fixed with cash.
I think he was just being polite but then who knows, we don't get to see what's going on behind the scenes, we just see the outcome of their decisions.
While I do appreciate your honesty (re: downvote), gaining access to my information isn't intrinsically hacking[1]. Hacking might be the means of gaining the information. In this case, hacking did take place, but not the hacking of 21 million Americans, rather on some government servers. I've added citation to my original comment.

Anyway, it doesn't matter because the OP was flagged into oblivion.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_%28computer_security%29
Oh, I think the idea is plenty neat.

It's how it's ended up in JS that I'm not a fan of.
Well, they've done trials of torture (as the article points out).

Maybe he should survey those who were tortured?

"I know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence. I know that victims of torture will offer intentionally misleading information if they think their captors will believe it. I know they will say whatever they think their torturers want them to say if they believe it will stop their suffering."

— John McCain

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/12/John-Mcc...
The notion of group responsibility for individual actions is insidious, because it's too easy to mount a circular-logic based offense and also because it leads to humanity's favorite game, us v. them.
I agree 100%. Except for certain sub-reddits, I go to reddit when I want to see what the idiots think.

There was a time when I would read a news subreddit and reminded myself that every headline should be understood exactly in reverse. I stopped doing that because it's hard to keep up the mental filter.

I think the problem is the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September - reddit is mostly made up of stupid and bored teenagers.
Ok, but go ahead and try to DIY your Tesla.
If you hand someone a pound of rice they can convert it to money. So, in the end it's both cheaper and more Efficent to just hand them meant in the first place.

PS: If you look a little deeper your advocating for a communist style demand economy which as we have seen just does not work long term.
Resignation, thank you
I don't even use Reddit and Sam's quote was so odd it caused me to comment below (probably turning more and more grey by the moment).

In the past few months Pao destroyed herself from the top of the mainstream media down to the deepest underground corners of Reddit. She's pissed off high-powered people in the SF investor community, the LA film community, and the NYC advertising community.

I suppose we just have to ignore these sorts of quotes as they feel like "getting biz done and avoiding lawsuits" and reserve judgment until she re-appears working for another YC company.
I've thought about this since I first used Slack and decided that they are pretty much (early) Apple (Slack) to Microsoft (IRC), both do broadly the same thing but a tight focus on design (and been fashionable, lets be fair) puts Slack over the top.

That said I still use IRC and will likely do so in the future, lots of open source clients, you can run your own server and you aren't putting your entire history in the hands of a private entity (I'm not the majority).

Also while many of us could create something like Slack the real devil is in the details, getting the UI to the requisite standard, the UX nailed down etc is a lot of work - possibly more than the guts of the clone as you could pull in a bunch of extant systems for that.
Isn't it already too late? How can a new captain save the sinking ship? The new CEO would be standing on a double edged sword. If he reverses course immediately claiming reddit an absolute free-speech enviromnent, the people who wanted a safe-space will be disillusioned, if he doesn't the rest of the users will keep seeking for another platform.
Facebook's shortcomings on privacy keep me away.
Hi author here. Thank you for pointing this out and sorry, I meant to mention that I edited it.
Where is the limit? Coontown, does that get banned? Sexwithdogs? Incest? SRS? They seemed to hide behind the vail of harassment and not peak behind the curtain of what reddit really is. Reddits problem is they said anything goes, and then years later they saw what they created.
Two major publicly visible actions:

1) Banning of several 'hate' subreddits especially /r/FatPeopleHate for harassment. The harassment was kind of dubious, as while they certainly weren't saying nice things, it didn't seem like they were actively doing 'raids' or doxing. At the same time several significantly worse, but smaller, subreddits remained online (gore, racism, sexism, etc) More info: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/39bzdf/why_wa...

2) Removal of several employees, likely because they wouldn't/didn't relocate to SF. Notably Victoria, who coordinated numerous AMAs with key people, and her removal completely cut off communications with several planned AMAs, including several that were live. More info: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3bxduw/why_wa...

Both events were followed by a large amount of anti-Pao hate and general massive amounts of spammy posts for 2-3 days taking over the front page of reddit. The first instance also involved lots of new subreddits that would get banned, before another dozen would appear in an endless game of whack-a-mole.
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It depends on the subreddits. With my subscriptions I barely noticed the whole thing.
I agree that nothing much as changed, but "majority"?

Not in the slightest, the majority could not care less about this ruckus and think those agitators are idiots.

Those people are a small, but vocal, minority.
Here's an analogy:

Imagine a pub (Digg) that everyone in town went to. Everything was great until the pub decided to try to make more money by forcing patrons to sit a certain way. Everyone in town decided to boycott this pub, and then they found another pub (Reddit), that didn't have the silly monetization scheme that the Digg pub had. The influx of new patrons turned this quiet little pub in the corner of the town into the main pub in town. Everyone was welcome in this pub - sports types, gamers, geeks, fitness nerds. Everyone had their own little corner, and for a few years the pub provided the town with a place to meet up with people of similar interest, even if the interests were darker in nature.

During the last year, the pub decided to hire a new manager (Ellen Pao). The new manager wants the pub to be a more welcoming place for people of all types so she decides to ban a group of rowdy patrons. However, other patrons felt that Ellen Pao intruded on their freedom to express themselves and their own opinions in the pub, and an uprising took place. To calm the uprising, Pao decides to completely silence people who talked shit about her (shadowbans, subreddit bans), and bans out even more groups of people. Patrons were NOT happy about this situation.

Then, the managers of this pub decided to fire a very well loved employee who contributed a lot to bringing awesome guests to the pub, without letting the patrons or the other employees know about it. This made other employees of the pub very angry, as they all loved what she does for the community. To make matters worse, the managers make snide comments about the situation. Due to the previous Ellen Pao bannings and the recent firing, everyone in the pub decides to riot in whatever way they can. They also consider moving to a new pub in town (voat.co) though the pub seems to always be full.

People were angry, and they knew they have the power to completely render Reddit unpopular, just like they did with Digg. Reddit listened to the community rather than got stuck inside their own views on what the website should or should not be and the resignation of Pao was the outcome; a good PR move.
I'm glad that most of the communities I'm part of sat out of this mess.

The top subs I read and/or post to are /r/asktransgender, /r/ainbow, /r/comicbooks, and /r/kamenrider. None of them would've benefited from taking part in any kind of blackout (the first two of those function as support groups and any blackout could seriously hurt someone who needs help, the third is a mid-sized fandom where people care more about talking about their hobby than staging a juvenile protest, and the fourth is an extremely niche fandom so small that nobody would notice a blackout).
Pao or no Pao, I think reddit is one more bad business move away from alienating users and driving them towards competitors. Steve Huffman has his work cut out for him.
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Super good article about this:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/reddit-is-a-shrine-to-...
There is a post sometime in the last year here about a Microsoft Research tech demo which abused bandwidth to send all possible futures as well as the current screen, enabling client-side prediction to again eat one way of the trip.

Anyone remember this?

e: Found it!

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2464341,00.asp

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8210957 (comments on actual paper)

This is the relevant technical details from the pcmag article:

Microsoft's DeLorean system takes a look at what a player is doing at any given point and extrapolates all the possible movements. It streams a rendering of these from a server to a player's console. Thus, when a player decides what he or she plans to do, that scene—for a lack of a better way to phrase it—is already ready to go.