skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It shows to me that she was dogged by misogynists and MRAs excited by the discrimination lawsuit, from the start of her Reddit tenure through to the end.

In a similar fashion, if Barack Obama posted something like "Mom and apple pie are both great.", it would be downvoted by his political foes and upvoted by his political allies. That should not be taken as an indication that "the community" opposes or disagrees with his viewpoints on Mom and apple pie.
> More than 200k signed, so you're off by a factor of 10.

So half a percent of the userbase or so? I'd call that a vocal minority.

http://www.redditblog.com/2015/06/happy-10th-birthday-to-us-...

> I don't think she was ever going to get back the community's confidence.

Likely true. Backing down here likely means zero chance of addressing toxic communities in the site for the foreseeable future.
Just ask Toyota, right? If you can't do as good a job as that, then you should be prevented from trying, eh?
GP isn't implying any collusion. The media is intentionally causing confrontation just fine on its own.

Do you have any evidence of this?

atrocious track record

Like what? That she shut down a forum called "Fat people hate", where posters singled out the obese for vicious, personal online harrassment?

is... in bad taste, to say the least

Do you even understand what that means? Criticising Reddit or its community is in bad taste? Seriously?
The Ultimate Geek Road Trip
For sure. I don't know if you've heard of New Tech High Schools by any chance? They recently opened one just south of here. All of their learning is project based. I've visited the campus serval times & I'm super jealous of how they get to learn!
How did you do the ACLs for media files? is there any code online for this? Thanks!
This is off-topic, but you might like this little thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/3chaut/why_...
> And really, you're on HN, this is not the place where you need to fly the "don't trust the media" flag with such earnestness. I doubt many people here do, certainly not me.

This is another common trope that happens a lot. We as HN readers are not any more special or immune to proven psychological tactics than anyone else. We are all still humans after all. This elitist sort of viewpoint that HNers are somehow smarter, better, or faster than most people at nearly everything isn't very helpful. I guarantee there are many people here that could benefit from 'basic' knowledge like this, because we all have our biases.

You can know not to trust most media, and apply it to 99.9% of the media outlets you encounter, but if that remaining 0.1% are sources like the New York Times or Fox News, because for whatever reason, your experiences led you to believe they were 'reliable', then knowing that 'you shouldn't trust most media' is useless when those outlets do you a disservice.
If you fly, that's just a hop, skip, jump to another town.
On OS X 10.9 I don't have a way to disable IPv6 that I can find. In Network > Advanced > TCP/IP > Configure IPv6, there are only three choices: automatic, manual, link local. And as soon as I configure it with either manual or link local, the wifi connection changes from green to yellow and I no longer have even IPv4 Internet, although it remains identically configured as before. A while ago this popup had an Off option just like the Configure IPv4 menu does.
On the other hand, immersive VR headsets ala Oculus is just around the corner, where extremely low latency requirements pretty much makes streaming a dead-end.

IIRC Carmack had written several posts on how they are chasing and killing latency in everything from USB input to LCD front buffering.
The bulk of that 'narrative' is speculative tinfoilhattery as well so of course it fits. See all the handwringing about potential monetization of AMA without anyone ever suggesting any kind of remotely plausible revenue model for it. And again, this is something reddit have addressed directly.
Banning a number of subreddits that you can count with the fingers on one hand, and zero users, is swinging the hammer down hard? What would be a light touch, then?
Is anyone busily tapping away at a Windows port of this? I'm enthusiastic, but it would take me all day/week
I don't think I can agree with you, actually knowing some of the people that have had their information exposed, and I think it's pretty heartless to "be glad" that people are getting screwed over.
Too general situation. Can you elaborate your question?

There is always a better way but you need to build your solution in small incremental steps. This means that you can not solve anything until you had failed to solve the problem previously and identify the wrong answers leading to death ends.
Everyone knows qualia exist. The dispute is over whether they're components of the mind's perceptive systems, or whether they're metaphysically queer. The latter position is obviously wrong and requires reams of magical thinking, but being magical, it's more interesting to talk about, so human philosophers, being dumb and untrained humans who don't get the most basic principles of naturalistic wizardry, concentrate on it, to the neglect of the obviously correct and far more useful former line of inquiry, which would actually augment their spellcraft quite a lot.

:-p
Minimum wage is an artifact of economic folly. If you are voluntarily selling your labor, it means that you are getting the best value for it. If you could get more for your labor, you would. If no one else wants your labor, it means that the price you get is the most for your labor. It does not mean that that is all you will "ever" get. It just means that is all you can get until you can figure out a way to be more productive and be paid more for your labor.
The strongest argument the authors offer is that psychopath has never been included in the DSM. That's a pretty broad argument but it's fairly "substantial" since the DSM involves a lot of debate and includes a lot of disorders.

Plus, what's your evidence the authors are "intentionally ignoring" evidence?
Have you heard of the Stretchla? http://insideevs.com/video-update-diy-stretchla-project-tesl...
Regardless of the intention, they ARE both chinese. So is it really a stretch to see a racist element to this nick name? It is racist by default. I'm not saying that it is a greatly offensive nickname or even unfunny, but for someone to call it racist is not at all a stretch.
The Radioactive Boy Scout: When a teenager attempts to build a breeder reactor
There's lots more to it. While I agree with the banning of FPH, the underlying policy that justified it was deeply flawed. The harassment policy was woefully vague to the point of absurdity.

There's the fact that she promised better moderator tools something like 6 months ago, and as we found out today, only last week dedicated employees to work on it; after the defaults revolted.

This is a small subset of all of the complaints of reddit's direction under Pao's leadership.

Honestly, I think she's a lovely person. I don't think she deserves a percent of the shit that's been thrown her way, but she definitely hasn't been an efficient CEO for reddit.
Live by the mandatory format, die by the mandatory format.

(also what the hell, why would you ever not use a fixed width font for coding)
I think you meant "Pragmatist" epistemology, rather than "utilitarian", which is a moral theory.
> He highlighted how everything in this whole mess so far can be explained through the lens of questionable media

What "everything" are you referring to here? That's the problem with addressing this "analysis+critique". There's almost nothing being analyzed or critiqued. This was a pretty minor story even in the tech blogs, let alone major news outlets.
Show me the other CONTENT in this post besides that rape and death threats are appalling.

Patrick_Devine 2 hours ago | parent | flag

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.
A few weeks ago I heard a psychologist on the radio talking about how the social group of people who are just above the poverty line are extremely opposed to welfare systems because it would give the folks who are just beneath them socially a "leapfrog" jump over them. It might help explain why fiscally reactionary Republican candidates have so much support among poorish whites.
That's quite a defense of harassing fat women that you've written.
> People are sick and tired of ... a small group of militant activists trying to silence people who they disagree with.

You're damn right people are tired of the shrill MRAs with their short-sighted, selfish, and immature wails, who can't think of anyone but themselves. They're a small group of militant activists crying over what amounts to a skinned knee, always trying to shout down other people, but never being pro-active and creating events of their own.
> Like what? That she shut down a forum called "Fat people hate", where posters singled out the obese for online harrassment?

You don't know me. You have no idea what my feelings are regarding FPH. Yet, you make assumptions.

So now we got that out of the way, hi, I'm Jerry, and I hated FPH and didn't give a rat's arse about its shutdown. Had Pao made only that one decision in her two years as CEO, reddit would have bigger problems on its hands.

Thankfully, I just wrote a reply to someone else's comment right below yours - a much nicer comment which asks a question without making aggressive assumptions - addressing your actual question. Take a look.

> Criticising Reddit or its community is in bad taste? Seriously?

The thing with rephrasing what someone else said and appending "Seriously?" is it always goes your way, because you get to decide how you rephrase it. Good thing again that I didn't say "Criticising Reddit or its community is in bad taste". I said:

> painting "Reddit" as sexist while conveniently ignoring the 90-9-1 rule and focusing on Pao's gender instead of atrocious track record [is in bad taste].

In other words, trying to turn millions of people into sexist pigs by ignoring how such communities function is in bad taste. Do you disagree?
The concept of the deserving and undeserving poor is an old (Victorian times) concept in the UK. It relates to the idea that some people are poor because they are feckless and lazy (the undeserving), whilst others are poor due to circumstances beyond their control (the deserving). The links from google in my earlier post should be sufficient to explain further details.
To Twitter! and Friendface!
If the default home page and /r/all can all
be flooded with posts about her, it's not
exactly a small group of extremists.

I don't think the numbers support that statement at all.

Reddit has roughly 1.5 million daily users. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/about/traffic

It only takes about a thousand (net) upvotes to get something to the front page.

So a very small (less than 1%) portion of the visitors can very much get things like "fire Ellen" posts onto the front page, especially when there's no opposing block of voters.

(In other words, there were no passionate defenders of Pao who were eagerly downvoting the posts that trashed her. There were only anti-Pao zealots, and a much larger userbase that simply didn't care much at all. Count me in the latter, FWIW.)
Is it racist to acknowledge that Ellen Pao is of Chinese ancestry? I don't get how but I don't get a lot of the modern sensitivities.
Sleep. Look out of the window. Read. Forget you own a computer.
Ellen Pao Resigning as CEO of Reddit
I didn't know this for HN, though I'd seen it on Reddit. Thanks for passing this along.

On HN, it isn't as much a problem, from my experience, because the downvote button is masked for users with <~500 karma and I haven't seen many false positives.

On reddit, I was familiar with the saying -- "downvote isn't disagree button." Though, the current rediquette has removed that language. Compare [1] (old) v. [2] (current).

[1] https://www.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette?v=08ebd986-6459-11e2...
[2] https://www.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette
But you _charge_ per user pack, do you not? Can we purchase 17 licenses? How about 23?

We have around 20 Backblaze licenses that we pay a bit over $1000 per year for. It makes sense for them to advertise the price per user because they charge us that way.

This is akin to Pepsi sticking a huge sign over their 24 pack at the department store saying "NOW ONLY 99 CENTS PER CAN!" minimum 24, in increments of 24.

Anyway, like I said, the way the pricing is advertised turned an interested/potential customer away.
96 as of now.
AirBnB could have launched as "Show HN: Rent my living room for one night while in town."

Uber could have launched as "Show HN: Rent my driver for a few miles"
I don't know all of their names off the top of my head, and I assume most people reading don't, either, so I went with the Reddit usernames to optimize for clarity and consistency (and Googlability), at the risk of being depersonalizing.

That said, for all four of these people, that "silly website" was not only their job and livelihood, it was also very much a passion of theirs. It's entirely reasonable for it to be a strong part of their identity, and I think it's a bit disrespectful to deny them that.
Absolutely correct. There's no way that any moderately-intelligent woman would ever take the job now.

Perhaps a fairly dim, elderly man who doesn't know much about social media and therefore is immune to the storms of reddit.
I'm not seeing any mention of rape of death threats in the post you pasted. You're projecting your own assumption that the peripheral vitriol the comment is talking about consisted of only rape and death threats.

Take a step back and try look at it with a clear head. Criticism can take many other forms, you know...
> There's lots more to it

and by lots you mean...that's about it. Honestly if "There's the fact that she promised better moderator tools something like 6 months ago" was a good criteria for booting a CEO, Reddit would have had ~20 CEOs by now.

That was the actual problem, that mods have never had the tools they need, but that's not why she's resigning/being fired.
East Asian age reckoning
Yeah, what do you think "poor" means? It doesn't mean "stupid" or "makes bad choices" or "deserves to struggle/be hungry/forego medical care" or any of the judgments that usually get attached to it.

It means "doesn't have much/enough money". Poor people usually make decisions that are perfectly rational given the day-to-day grind of being poor.
The One Question Every Prospective College Student Should Be Asking
"give everyone everything they need for free" - Yes!

Exactly!

Food, shelter, access to medical care, these are the basics of human life, and no one should go without them.
Don't piss off Kleiner perkins, that's all I can say...
Does anyone know if this affects immigration records, as I'm pretty sure they collect fingerprints and such?
I think you would be a dick to send that joke to /u/ekjp, and it's a bit crass for a dinner party, but it's well within bounds on a pseudonymous forum called "Jokes".

Now, I think one could make the argument that /r/Jokes should be more heavily moderated because it's a default sub, and should cater to a more vanilla, easily offended audience.
Seems like it'd be useful to write a script that detects idleness and issue commands to the awscli to shut down the instance.
Even on the internet, mob mentality wins.
Of course, its horrible this happened.

But I have seen people treat computer security is some sort of joke.

I think it unacceptable this happened, but the US govt hasn't paid much attention securing itself from cyber attacks while spending billions on NSA wiretapping.

It's similar to the banking fraud. People in power need to taken accountable for not taking their jobs seriously.

and the realistic in me believes its impossible to make the people in power listen without some reasonably horrible thing from happening - things need to get worse before it gets better. Remember the amount of money the govt poured into the Iraq war due to the "perceived" threat.
To say the contrary of what you think is not being polite, is a stupid communication rule that in other places of the world would just make things more complex to understand. There is the possibility to just express what you think in a balanced way. One can just say: she tried to fix a complex problem, that many experiences in the past proved to be very hard to fix. And she is stepping down now after the recent happenings. Or something like that, but to say he did an incredible job when all this mess happened is not a good form of communication.
If you read the case materials, you discover her peers and superiors generally rated her performance as exceeding expectations.
> This was a pretty minor story even in the tech blogs, let alone major news outlets.

This is currently the #1 post on HN. It might not be the biggest community, but it is influential, and many people bypass visiting blogs/sites and come directly here for their news. Things don't have to be on the front page of Time magazine to leave an impact on interested communities. And here, clearly people are interested enough in this matter to make it the most highly commented submission on the front page right now. So to try and paint a popular HN item as pointless chump change is quite disingenuous.
> but it's certainly enough to become the loudest voice on the website.

This is true of all forms of fundamentalism, off-line or on. and in all cases despite being the minority opinion it generally makes the entire environment they touch suck.
I'm confused how having a negative karma on Reddit is not a sign that people on Reddit find you disagreeable. It's a metric designed to showcase one's agreeability or disagreeability. If more people agree with you than disagree with you: karma will largely reflect that. If it's consistently negative, people consistently disagree with you.

Having a trend over time allows for a better judgement as karma is a metric that can change drastically over time. A generally disagreeable person can have a huge spike in positive karma but that doesn't mean they're liked overall. So it helps that the chart shows as far back as 2013.

A slow overall increase with several downward trends means you're generally agreeable but have a controversial opinion (opposed to the "collective group mentality"). A slow overall decrease with an upward trend now and then means you're generally disagreeable and occasionally say something the community agrees with.

Her karma over time tells me that she's generally disagreeable with a few moments that brought her from "negative" to "neutral" and that before the subreddit bans her popularity was spiraling downwards, hit a full catalyst, and the apology was rather well received.

If her karma was overall positive and only trended negatively in light of the subreddit ban and the Victoria mishap - it'd be telling of a very different story. The fact that it's been consistently negative is telling of the larger picture.
Not sure what you mean "haul". It's right next to Hwy 89 and only 10 miles from Livingston.
> Had Pao made only that one decision in her two years as CEO, reddit would have bigger problems on its hands.

Pao wasn't CEO for even a full year.
Token-based authentication was covered, in passing, here:

https://paragonie.com/blog/2015/04/secure-authentication-php...

Our strategy (designed for a "remember me" checkbox) is actually a little more cautious than a simple nonce, in that we actually generate two tokens:

One is a selector (used to retrieve a record from the database, which is an operation that cannot be performed in constant time), while the other is a validator.

We store an SHA256 hash of the validator in the database. When the auto-login is invoked, we pull the hash and destination user ID from the database (based on the selector), the compare

if (hash_equals(hash('sha256', $verifier), $storedHash)) {
$_SESSION['userid'] = $storedUserId;
$this->generateAndStorePersistentToken(storedUserId);
}

The blog post details it a bit further.
What about it? If you are a public figure these are pretty common. On the same ground, would you go an extra mile like this post when somebody comparing donald trump to hitler? Your political bias goes both ways...
Yes, but it only breaks out occasionally.

If you get it as a child, you will most likely end up with a lower IQ, though, which certainly is a lifetime affliction.

How much malaria costs when it is dormant is something I don't know. My intuition is that there is a cost (for example in a heightened inflammation response which is hard on the body) but I simply don't know.
Can you link to implementations that use OAuth in such a manner?

Login with FB, Google, Github, Twitter, etc different systems, separate from OAuth.
Also a Great suggestion. Just drank a large coffee though so sleep won't be in my near future. Though my flight was just delayed...
The irony in this comment about not discouraging critical thinking whilst shaming someone drawing a parallel... first overstating the GP's case to extremes, then doing a form of Reductio ad Hitlerum...

... it's just delicious.
> That is humanity. People are narcissistic assholes. If the average person wasn't scared of what would happen or how they're perceived they'd punch you right in the face for looking in their direction.

I disagree. Some people: yes. Average person: I don't know, I suspect probably not. I've met a lot of people from different parts of the US, Canada, and around the world. A great many of them have exhibited a tendency towards genuine empathy. That too is human nature, it's not all narcissism and self-interest.
No, it is a defense of hating fat women (and men). Quite a difference. Not that I personally approve of such behavior, of course.
That is the question: When we are fairly certain justice won't happen. What to do?
It would be far more terrifying if the rate of change was less rapid and there was a higher degree of continuity between frames.

Right now it's very noisy, presumably because the frames aren't really interdependent. The video description mentions a blending technique, but its primary purpose seems to be ensuring the underlying video is not completely overwritten by the "dream" generation feeding into itself.
Pao specifically denied this screenshot.
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.

Are you kidding? None of those make it the least bit clear to the users. HN is the most passive-aggressively moderated site I've ever seen. Also, hell-banning non-spammers is about the most cruel thing you can do. By extension of holding Pao responsible for all actions taken under her charge, I declare PG to be sociopathic, if not outright evil.
> Honestly Reddit in general could be taken as "racist and sexist" by an outsider.

Yeah. That's a problem. Probably Reddit's biggest problem.
Certainly if you want to denigrate someone and you bring up their gender or ethnicity, it can be sexist or racist.
I take issue with the title. Is there a VCS that commits every keystroke individually? No, because that wouldn't be useful. There is always a choice in when and what to commit. The only thing with git is that it makes it easy to change things after the fact, but you can achieve something pretty close in svn by simply not committing until you're done with a feature.

It's not about faking anything, it's a question of what information you want to leave for posterity. And frankly I come down pretty strongly against preserving warts for warts sake. As a rule of thumb, commits should be as fine-grained as possible without breaking the build. In my experience more detail than that gives diminishing returns in utility as the signal-to-noise ratio drops and you get overwhelmed with details which only represent a brain fart on the part of the developer, and never had any measurable impact on the project.