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3 female employees gone from the Reddit team in such a short time. This could create the probably false perception that Reddit seems like a hostile working environment for women. I wonder what they'll do to address this probably false perception.
> The problem with that is that if I knew a girl I wouldn't need online dating.

You don't know any women?

I think that this differs from your scenario in that Jess is vouching for a guy for basically anyone, vs. Ken asking all of his female friends if they know anyone they'd be a good match with.
Fun fact: there are virtually no libraries or frameworks that recognize SOH is a radioactive metacharacter.

Hm, maybe shouldn't have given that one away. Oh well, people will forget before we launch.
Ha ... when this cropped back up, that is exactly what I was thinking.
The way she describes it, it was a sensible choice. Various things are being promised that she, as Chief Engineer, does not think will happen. Given what happened with Ellen Pao it's not unreasonable for her to assume that responsibility for those failures could easily be put on her when the inevitable happens.
Does the person in question not have any female friends? If not, then that is a problem they will want to solve first before getting into dating.
Is server bandwidth a problem, though?
I often find that just getting out of the house (going through that process of showering, getting dress etc..) helps a lot. If 'walk around' implies just walking around your house, I'd suggest trying that.
It was a very brief mention.

Most people don't decide to pay or not pay taxes based on perception of corruption, but rather what they perceive they're receiving.

In Canada, we generally are content to pay taxes because we get such benefits as free health care, cheap medicine, free primary and secondary schooling, subsidized post-secondary schooling, and our cities are generally quite clean with good infrastructure, which is a good accomplishment considering our population density is very low.

My wife is from a third world country where almost no one pays taxes. Then again, what do they get? Infrastructure is non-existent (roads are all gravel or dirt, power is on about 50% of the time, no potable running water, police are non-existent, etc...). This is the conundrum of development economics - how do you go from this stage of development, to a new stage where people pay taxes so the government can provide services? With no services people will avoid taxes, with no tax money the government cannot provide services. The answer of course, is that it's difficult and takes time.

Corruption is an easier problem to solve, but difficult to implement. To get civil servants to stop accepting bribes you need to pay them enough that losing their pay is actually a punishment, or punish them enough that the threat of jail time counters the benefit of accepting bribes (or ideally, a bit of both).

Anyhow, neither problem can be solved in the amount of time that the troika has expected Greece to solve them - and they ARE economic problems, not moral ones.
I've seen countless Flash animations turned into Youtube videos, which means the quality has dropped considerably.
It's /r/subredditdrama played out in real life. It has to promote the strangest company culture when your just-departed CEO has been suing another firm for gender discrimination in a wildly high profile and contentious court case (quite apart from the fact that it would take her gaze from reddit); when your previous CEO left in a huff after he wasn't allowed to move the office closer to his home; and when the founders hover in obscure and unclear board positions. And then talk trash about each other on the site that they all controlled at different points.

So many levels of meta oddness.
I understand the hip trend of only thinking about an inept fool who can barely click a link in a browser, but the reality is that a large percentage of Firefox's users are educated users who are concerned about things like openness and privacy. Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer have a fairly strong grip on the technically unskilled user. Can Mozilla survive in marketshare without this group? I have a feeling we are going to find out soon enough.
I'm having trouble parsing that last? The women men want to date you meant?
"like the US trying to impose its poisonous, backwards copyright and intellectual rights laws on the rest of the Western English speaking countries"

I wish it were only on the English speaking countries. The US is trying to impose its laws globally.
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Ask HN: Reputable online certification programs?
I'm a full-stack web developer looking for online certification programs that could benefit myself and my team, however I don't know much about which paid courses are worth any weight professionally (i.e. not "congratulations you watched a video"). Not looking for a specific language or tech, as we may use it to introduce new elements into our system. Generally looking for names, urls, personal experiences, etc. Completion time would be days-weeks rather than weeks-months and would include some level of testing. Thank you!
What's the big deal about Flash, I've been hearin kill flash for years The kill flash rhetoric is getting old now.
We're appealing to a much wider audience than most CTFs, but we certainly aren't trying to appeal to everyone. You don't have to worry if none of this sounds fun to you; that doesn't make anything wrong with you, or us. We're just another thing that exists!
I know exactly what they'll do: nothing.
Of course they could. 6th largest economy on earth, with a functional banking system and plenty of resources at their disposal. They're not Iraq or Greece.
What continent are you referring to that has two countries? North America has 23 countries, with the U.S.A., Canada, and Mexico being the largest countries.
Whoa! I hadn't thought about that. The speed of New Horizons hasn't been constant, of course, but the accumulated time difference is probably close to what you calculated. There would also be a correction due to it being farther out of the Sun's gravity well, but that's a much trickery calculation.
>it does not help to know if the average user is finding it useful

The feedback itself isn't helpful, but the data about the percentage of users using the Pocket add-on should be.
Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9884196
Quite tangential from the content - at the start is "Its transcription and formatting as an e-text, however, is copyright 1995-1998"

I thought that Feist v. Rural Telephone (1991) established that 'sweat of the brow doctrine' was not grounds for copyright. Should I assume that the person who claimed copyright here was incorrect in making the claim?
it's an expression. it means the majority.
>You really think the opinion of game developers should matter in a discussion about how to make browsers reasonably secure for people to use without getting their hosts compromised? Because I don't.

I agree, which is why I wish browser vendors would block WebGL by default.

I'm not holding my breath though, because the reality is that market demand from people like game developers (or at least, perceived demand) is what is driving the addition of so many complex new APIs to the web.
> Although, people like us on HN, won't feel excited about making a little websites and earning through Adsense income

Speak for yourself - I run several content sites covering a variety of topics that I enjoy writing about and I love every second of it.

Also if you think it's actually little effort to make these sites successful, I've got a beach house in Idaho to sell you.
It's not what I'm hearing, and you probably missed my point. It's alienating and very shallow. Like I said, there's nothing wrong with being proud of one's country's, or a country's achievements. There's nothing wrong with being proud of your government, of your people, of your land.

But turn that into mindless yelling and that's just a pissing contest. It's ignorant of what other countries have to bring.

To give you a concrete example: I'm french. There's a lot of things I'm not proud of from my country. I'm proud of my language; French is beautiful. But I also make an effort to learn the language of every country I live in. I have fallen in love with Swedish. Had I been in a pissing match telling everybody (but mostly myself) how amazing French is, would I have gotten the chance to learn any other language? Would I have gotten the chance to even write my thoughts, in English, on this very forum?

This is a relevant example because, in France, a lot of people have that attitude of being too proud to learn another language. It's one of the recurring tourist complaints about France, in fact! I see this as no different.
Yeah good luck with that, about as much as luck as building desktop applications with HTML 5 and JS wrapped in a web view component. It can be done but the result is sh*t.
Maybe they were just a terrible driver. I live in a cold U.S. State and have never slipped on Ice and RearEnded someone. I have never been in a situation where I slid down a hill and couldn't stop, mostly because I drive like you are supposed to in the Winter. Self driving cars will invalidate the need to worry about traction as they will force themselves to adjust to conditions instead of humans choosing to drive inappropriate for current weather conditions.
> Only a small fraction of the €240bn (£170bn) total bailout money Greece received in 2010 and 2012 found its way into the government’s coffers to soften the blow of the 2008 financial crash and fund reform programmes.

> Most of the money went to the banks that lent Greece funds before the crash.

They money from the bailouts went to pay debts that Greece owed on pre-2008 loans, and was not available to the Greek government to be used for social or economic restructuring.

I'm not certain at all what your basis for your comment is.
Using a “compiled” language like C# probably didn't hurt, but Markus Frind is also wicked smart. Some of his work was cited in a published number theory textbook.
Here is a non-facebook link - http://www.businessinsider.com/map-shows-how-religion-spread...
Looks cool but do I need to be running containers?
There's involvement and then there's commitment, as the pig said to the chicken about breakfast.

I'm wondering if merely getting a job programming for a defense company leads to a moral slide into authoritarianism. You know, suppose you're doing sysadmin for HT - is that enough to start warping your view of the world?

Also there's the involvement in actions just short of creating a banking-credential-stealing botnet. False BGP announcements, sniffing for bitcoin credentials and stuff is the domain of Russian and Romanian "Bad Guys". How on earth can an employee justify doing that sort of thing?
I just accept & go with it, understanding that it won't last. I wait for motivation to come & eventually it does- then I take care of my to-do list.

Living with depression, which causes much of these types of feelings, I've learned not to force anything- as it usually doesn't work. So I just wait for the cycle to move on & am grateful to have energy when I do.
You can get them for free from Adobe's site, search for "standalone flash player":

https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/archived-flash-playe...

In the later versions it was renamed to "projector" but you can still tell them apart from the "_sa" in the filename.
Let's say that we can get every major site to stop using Flash going forward, and that we can paper over it with HTML5 and polyfills. Great.

What do we do about the historic content that will never, ever be ported to anything other than Flash? Every thing on Kongregate? Newgrounds? Homestarrunner.com? Desktop Tower Defense? We're talking about taking a decade's worth of interactive web content and declaring it no longer relevant. Without a plan for preserving that material and continuing to make it accessible, I think that killing off Flash rather than deprecating it is a terrible idea.
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Get rid of your videogames.
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The Mozilla Corporation is completely owned by the Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit with a manifesto https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/details/ that reads in part, "Individuals’ security and privacy on the Internet are fundamental and must not be treated as optional."
Because electronic trading networks are like the Internet of Money --- literally. They're a pretty thrilling piece of technology to play with.

Second fiddle, depends where you're working. Like everything else, there are crappy shops and there are amazing ones.
Apparently it snows on Pluto:

Pluto has an atmosphere. It snows on Pluto and the snow sublimates back into the atmosphere.

https://twitter.com/OSIRISREx/status/620932748824285184
What things work well for blind users, and what things don't?
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And yours is?

Most of the comments center around the same idea: Mozilla removed the choice of which "read later" service to use by default, by baking it into the browser itself instead of leaving it as an extension or add-on, where it and all the other services like it belong.

So, now if you have a user who doesn't want a "read later" service, they have to take the extra steps to disable the button and go into about:config to completely turn it off. For the users who do want a "read later" service but don't want to use Pocket, they now have whatever they install via extension, plus Pocket, which is redundant and silly.

Basically, all this integration has accomplished is bloating Firefox to serve the single digit percentage of past Pocket extension users (many of whom will continue to use the extension since that's what they are used to), and maybe grab a few hundred more who see the new Pocket icon and decide to keep using it after trying it out.

If they had gone with an open platform for this service, or even better, their own homegrown solution, I wouldn't be upset by it. As it stands, Firefox was supposed to be the open standard the other browsers should strive to imitate; instead, it is steadily spiraling downward. This is becoming a pattern, and it's not a pretty one.
Please link to a video showing a group of people from the UK chanting

"N-H-S N-H-S" *

*NHS - National Health Service for the UK
And that's why you think the 2nd Avenue Line will take 2-3 more decades?

After 20 years the Shanghai subway is now bigger than NYC yet they are scheduled to add a couple hundred additional miles.
I can remember when the whole point of creating Firefox was as a response to a bloated Netscape that included an email client, newsreader, kitchen sink etc.

Now it seems they're trying to bundle everything back in again.
But also in general, in places like that there is also a huge priority placed on having absolutely the best infrastructure & systems reasonably affordable in order to empower the traders. For example, of Fidelity's ~45,000 employees, about 14,000 work in technology roles (both internal IT and product stuff). To me that's an insane ratio for a non-tech company ...

... but, if you talk to any big-finance leaders these days, they'll probably admit to you that their tech is their competitive advantage (and not just in HFT, either).
If Mozilla is going to start including proprietary closed platforms like pocket, what do they offer that Chrome is not? WebKit is much more targeted by web developers so I'm going to have a slightly better experience with Chrome. Without the moral high ground of openness and privacy why would anyone chose Firefox over the competition?
So you can have all the benefits of flash authoring, without the drawbacks (killing your customer's batteries).

How true is the battery thing today, really?

Objectively, on my relatively powerful workstation PC, watching Flash videos using Flash widgets on web sites doesn't tend to bump either CPU or GPU frequencies up noticeably.

In contrast, watching HTML5 video can cause either or both to go way up, with consequent extra power consumption, temperature rises, fan noise, etc. And all these trendy modern animations and canvas/SVG effects in browsers that are replacing some of what Flash used to be used for apparently require more effort from that workstation-class hardware than literally doing full-screen real-time 3D rendering in a graphics application.

Of course it's possible that this is just dodgy graphics drivers -- I do have an extremely low opinion of AMD's supposedly premium products since I've actually used some of them -- but those same dodgy drivers are there when using Flash too, and it can still play videos without raising the ambient room temperate by multiple degrees.
People driving inappropriate for weather conditions should not be a factor in our decision making. If anything it just proves that we should work harder to stop drivers who are obviously incapable of determining appropriate driving procedures for current weather conditions. There will be the day when if you have a self driving car and you get in an accident with someone who is not in one, the manual driver will always receive the ticket. Just like in fender benders with the person who is in back.
Yesterday I was browsing a technology blog on my iPad and a javascript pop-up banner appeared over the page. The X button in the corner didn't work, I tapped it about 20 times. So I reloaded the page. Same thing happened. To read the article I had to disable javascript in the Safari settings and reload page.

If you think unwanted annoyances only come from Flash, you're mistaken.
One reason is because they consistently run primary deficits.
> Speak for yourself - I run several content sites covering a variety of topics that I enjoy writing about and I love every second of it.

I wasn't pointing at people who put an effort in making original content but there are lots of websites which just build upon memes, gifs, simple tips, and tutorials and do quite well with it.
What's the point of being a Chief Engineer if you can't even get some software (the mod tools) written? That seems like an awfully low bar for someone in that position, and to throw in the towel after she barely started seems to speak more to her character than any problems with Reddit.

I mean... you hire someone for a top technical position and they quit when the first bump comes along? That's ridiculous.
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> The US is not good at wars.

What? We can kick pretty much any country's ass six ways from Sunday. We admittedly have trouble with having the political fortitude to fully break our adversary's will to fight back, but I think that is a systemic issue with a faster flow of information (starting with Vietnam). It's not necessarily a US-specific problem, and it certainly doesn't mean the US is not "good at war".

While we can agree to disagree on the feasibility of a military solution, I can assure you that it's the threat of that possibility that drives diplomacy. Diplomacy without the threat of war to back it is more akin to begging than anything else.
Actually no you don't. Sysdig specializes in container visibility but we have customers that are getting plenty of value out of the product without using containers.
I think they've turned over something like a third of their workforce in the last nine months. It isn't just these people leaving, though they've certainly been the most public.
If you're implying that Flash is using only software-based rendering while WebGL is hardware accelerated - thats not really true. Look it up - Flash has been doing HW acc. for years now across platforms. Its 2015 now and it took WebGL 5 years to get to decent (but not perfect) desktop support - forget about mobile. Same with video - as far as I know Flash does HW acc. video too.

To a developer Flash is not a black box - to a user, again - it seems that that technology gets a lot of blame for what developers are doing with it. If you have 5 animated banners hogging your CPU/GPU, whether in WebGL or Flash - who is to blame?
I'm no engineer and my knowledge of CPAP extends to the amount of Googling I did since I saw this post.

Their constraints do seem very tight but I can conceive at least one way in that you could shrink the device down. There would be multiple actions in such a device:

1. During the inhale increase pressure. As noted by the image[1] this is achieved in the device with "blowers."

2. During the exhale present a restriction to airflow, but don't cut it off entirely. You could use something similar to an aperture to restrict airflow here.

3. Between the exhale and inhale maintain pressure. If you use an aperture-like-device you can simply close the aperture completely.

This means that the device becomes partially passive, reducing power requirements. I'm no expert but let's assume that you are only inhaling 50% of the time - this cuts down the amount of time the "blowers" need to run by 50% (or can double their power consumption or something in-between). My uneducated opinion is therefore: remotely plausible.

http://res.cloudinary.com/indiegogo-media-prod-cld/image/upl...
A recurring, and not-commented-on theme in each of these communications is that the board wants more growth. Reddit closed a $50MM round in fall of 2014, and has never had a strong monetization story.

If the investors came in expecting major growth (since this is not a business with a great monetization story) it's not surprising that there's pressure and turnover right now, almost a year later. And, it may well be that what's needed is a CEO with enough credibility to tell the board "you won't get that growth yet, we have some work to do."

Saying that to the board is obviously going to be hard to do for Ellen, or anyone in Ellen's shoes if they brought her in to deliver growth, and she promised to deliver that growth.

So, lots of drama, yadda yadda, but I would bet 100:1 that drama has, at it's fundamental source, intense pressure from the board, and I would also bet you that this kind of pressure is new for reddit as a company.

To me, that's likely at least some of the context for the rumors that Ohanian intervened directly to get rid of Victoria, the former AMA lead at Reddit. AMAs are one of Reddit's most visible branding / marketing measures. If you need to deliver growth, and aren't seeing it, it is completely natural to be looking at your premier product lines and trying to get them to do more. And, I would be surprised if this kind of thinking weren't informing senior management as they're struggling to deliver on these promises.
America can't survive without war. Where do you think it wages those wars?
Yes they are two different things. Cars have 4 wheels and can make up for lost traction from other wheels. Motorcycles can't. They aren't being optimized for either of those conditions, they are being optimized based on environmental safety and necessity.
Or maybe they were not, and slippery roads are a significant issue.
At least it means Mozilla has reviewed the Pocket code embedded in the browser and it doesn't send every single keystroke to GetPocket. It's good, because I don't usually install browser extensions for the very reason that I don't know what parts of my privacy I'm giving up.

Btw, just a question because I'm not sure. They've reviewed the Pocket code, right?
Sorry, this was meant as a reply to a different thread.

Context was:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9884196

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9884930

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9884324
Well, that's handy.
Mozilla does not get money from Pocket

source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2930532/reading-service-pocke...

There's no monetary benefit to Mozilla from the integration: Pocket didn't pay for placement in the browser.
Allow me to quote the Pocket ToS[1]:

> We may work with trusted third parties that we refer to as internal service providers to facilitate or outsource one or more aspects of the products and services that we provide to you, and we may provide some of your personal information directly to these internal service providers.

I feel that speaks for itself.

[1] https://getpocket.com/privacy