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No, because it leads to an incoherent policy.

Reddit's original policy, for better or for worse, was "anything that isn't illegal." They had to add one or two things to that over the years but they stuck to that.

Reddit's policy then became, unofficially, "trust us to get rid of the crap." That sounds fine, but it has problems:

1. it's not the original policy. HN has a "trust us" policy and it works great but it's always had that. HN has never been billed as "come say what you want." Changing the policy is a bait and switch to the old community.

2. It was never admitted to. While switching to the new policy, the official line was that the old policy was still in place.

3. It requires positive social capital. Remember Philip Greenspun's infamous article describing the VCs at ArsDigita as "a group of nursery school children who've stolen a Boeing 747 and are now flipping all the switches trying to get it to take off"[1]? That's what the reddit admin has been like for months, and it leads to negative social capital. Some guy was shadowbanned but didn't know it for years, patiently posting in subreddits all along. The CEO didn't use the company's only product.

If you've ever experienced a dysfunctional internet community -- and who hasn't -- you recognize the patterns of decisions made in a hurry to stop whomever is immediately yelling at you and then trying to justify it with whatever they can cobble together afterwards, and that explanation will be completely unsuitable for the next crisis which will require yet another made up explanation.

[1] http://waxy.org/random/arsdigita/
> So if you feel up to it, please do so.

Uh, I just did.

Reductio Ad Hitlerum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_Hitlerum

Overstating the case to extremes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

My point is that you're being a hypocrite, demanding someone else not discourage critical thinking, while exhibiting logical fallacies yourself. Shaming someone about 'discouraging critical thinking' through the use of a strawman is particularly egregious.
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Many responders seem to think that I'm saying that most poor people are poor because they make bad decisions. I'm not (that's the logical converse of the statement I made), and I don't think that's true.

My post was an attempt to summarize and contrast the two major conflicting issues that relate to how aid to the poor is made, not to argue in favor of either.
Would that be syntactic caramel?
Yes; this is exactly what her psychological profile suggested she would do.

Excellent.
I wish there were a pair of these satellites separated by a couple thousand miles/km, so we could view these images with next-gen, hi-rez VR goggles and see the surface and cloud topography with enhanced depth.
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I've been thinking of a "sub-commit" concept, so a "beautiful, fake" commit that is atomic for most git operations, can be inspected more deeply, revealing bundled messy sub-commits that may be useful for understanding the history of that change. You get "every commit is a deliberately chosen, well-tested logical unit" as well as "present history as it actually happened." Maybe something like this can be done with certain branch/merge workflows, but I haven't seen it and don't understand git well enough to come up with it myself.
So by being aware of the actual vitriol that this person publicly received, which very much did include rape and death threats. I am wrong to think when that post mentions the vitriol being appalling, they are referring to the the rape and death threats which were said? Alright my bad, next time I will assume they mean that well mannered posts about the person's inability to manage a company, which also very much existed and probably in greater number, were in fact appalling.
redditgifts seems to be online... are they not affiliated with reddit anymore?
> Then everyone who replied was shadowbanned

Can you cite something on this? I really doubt it's true, but if true it's devastating.
> 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.

So then what does this have to do with "questioning ethics in any kind of journalism"??

I am a commenter on HN and a redditor and am in no way related to the "clickbait media", so how are my contributions to this thread "explained through the lens of questionable media"?

The problem is the deflection. It started as a discussion about the actual situation, but apparently "everyone needs to be much more sceptical about what they read in the press and there motivations", and is now about...biased HN posts? I really have no idea.

If you were worried about that, you should have discussed the actual situation and addressed what you thought were misrepresentations, not going off on some tangent about media ethics.
Sorry, I don't buy it. Was anything happening in FPH illegal? If not, then there's no rational basis for treating it any differently than any other hate-oriented subreddit.

If there were in fact some legal concerns, then I stand corrected.
Ha, so mere days after I told you it's stable I had to ship a fix to make sure that it was serving precompiled assets when they are available. We had never noticed because our server-side assets had never gotten large enough to go over Heroku's 60-second boot time limit. So anyway, if you're trying this out, please upgrade execjs-rails now. We cut our app's production boot time by roughly 80% by doing so.
Yes I like to throw meaningless numbers around as much as the other guy. :)
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I think you're overlooking the fact that all 36 million (or however many) people that visit Reddit each month are NOT equal....the active content creators are intrinsically more valuable to a community like reddit, simply because they make the community what it is.
When the people that make the content (of which 200k is no insignificant drop) that attracts the other 35 million ad-viewers are unhappy, Reddit MUST do something about, whether this 'minority' is vocal or not.
So imagine London?
Ellen Pao was a scapegoat. She was the face of a lot of changes that didn't sit well with the community. Now the people clamor, they remove her, and the people are happy again.

Notice how they didn't mention anything about reverting the bad changes to the website. ;)
> dozens of posts

Literally (in the actual sense of this word) there are 160 million unique users on reddit monthly. Personally, I applaud free speech even when it is extremely hateful as I would not trade my right to speak my mind for protection from others voices[0]. However, even if I didn't believe that, I do believe that it is wrong to judge a large group of people based on the actions of a small minority.

[0] I get that the websites are private, before anyone points that out.
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> However they were few and far in between.

No they were not. https://www.reddit.com/r/all was dominated by them for days following the banning of /r/FatPeopleHate.
I think you are operating on a level high enough that you're battling to breathe in rarefied atmosphere, progressing by paragraphs and sentences.

The example I gave was to "learn" Calculus as in a Technical School (Undergraduate level). The material on that level isn't, in my opinion, hard to read. What do you think?
cargo follows http://semver.org/, so that will promote the 1.0.1 dependency to the 1.5 one. It's also safe to link multiple versions of a single package into a single process, so the final result of depending on all three of those (transitively) will be an artifact that links to foo v1.5 and foo v2.0.

Of course, the two versions are incompatible, so if one tries to get them to interact (e.g. pass a type from v1.5 into a function from v2.0), there'll be errors. However, these will be static type errors, instead of some strange runtime behaviour.
Redditors do not know anything about who works at Reddit, so they could not possibly be upset at the firing of "the most competent person". Most well liked public facing one to some people who read one of the subreddits, sure.
Out of curiousity, I wonder how many of those 200k actually fork over money for the service? And whether the rate of subscribing was higher, lower, or similar to the general rate. I know we have no way of knowing, but it would be an interesting factoid.
MIG, the RPC interface generator, is pretty nasty though, if you want to send anything more complex than scalar parameters. For anyone who doesn't know, Apple has sort of deprecated raw Mach in favor of XPC, a wrapper API that sends structured data (plist/JSON-like objects, plus capabilities as an additional data type). It's much nicer to use, but sacrifices a bit of performance and, I'd say, somewhat increases the likelihood of security vulnerabilities, because there's more wiggle room to send invalid data. (Until recently, using the accessor methods for the wrong kind of object in the C API, which uses a 'xpc_object_t' type for everything, could cause memory corruption, which was thoroughly demonstrated by Google Project Zero. That's been fixed, but there's still room for logic errors..)
> We can't trust that her and her husband were in love.

We detached this subthread and marked it off topic.
I understand the general appeal, what I was wondering is the specific mechanism that would work to help case like openSSL (if anything, I can see it hurting the effort, as you said, "stopping programmer from doing something stupid"). I'm more worried that labor union will be doing things more in the veins of RIAA and MPAA: seemingly good for short term of the field, but completely stupid in the big picture.
> The most critical things against Pao and her husband I have seen are posts about there phony extortion sexism and racism law suits

Why the fuck is someone else's sexual harassment lawsuit with their former employer any of your concern? Unless you have a political agenda against women who complain about sexual harassment.
Exactly. They seem to forget that she's part of a ponzi scheme, slept with married men to get ahead, etc.

Even if it was a bunch of racist/misogynist people, you have to consider that despite the messenger, the message might be valid. That's what being open-minded means.
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I don’t have nearly the clout of Ellen Pao, nor have I been attacked with the same fervor and hatred, but I do have a relatable experience. One that got me fired from a job I loved, a startup where I was the second engineer and watched as we grew to over 30.

The problem is one of context. It’s so easy for things to be taken out of context in our 144 character-limit world. It’s so easy for someone to draw a line between disparate things and craft the arc of a story that really isn’t there.

When my father saw a photoshopped image of a shark swimming in the flooded streets of NYC post Katrina, he was literally afraid for me. I assured him it was photoshopped. To me it was obvious, but he didn’t grow up in a world where you could so easily fabricate reality. I hope my children don’t grow up in a world affected by social media trolls.

People apply their agendas on an indifferent reality. This won’t change. It is everywhere from the wackiness of our conspiracy theories to the seriousness of our politics. Our first instinct must be to keep a healthy skepticism, not to retweet. We must resist the urge to act impulsively.

I remember the few strangers who reached out to me when things happened. I will always.

I’ll leave with one strange thing that happens to you when you’re attacked that no one talks about. Your sense of true and false gets blurred, and here’s how.

Say you’re a modest person. One opposite Friday you wake up, and all your friends are telling you to “stop talking about yourself all the time”. They’ve been meaning to tell you since forever, and they’re finally sick of it.

Who do you believe?

Now imagine the crowd is telling you what a terrible person you are.
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Honest question, what do you think is an appropriate set of measures to curtail [people you don't like] on the internet? Do you believe the internet should be a safe space?
Related and possibly the reason this was reposted today: http://sciencefriday.com/segment/07/10/2015/the-ultimate-gee...
OP did not say he was offended, just disgusted. Like "haha gross, look at these shitty guys". Just like if someone starts making racist remarks, even if I don't personally believe they would murder a black person in the street, I will feel embarrassed for associating with them, and recognize that they are shitty people at the moment, and that is not a slippery slope to thought policing. That is how culture slowly fixes itself.
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I don't know if she was a bad leader or not.

My big concern is this populist approach to firing people. Enough people don't like a company officer? Cobble a "movement" and generate enough controversy to force them to step down.

I think unless they egregiously violate company policy or violate the law or do something which would bring damage to a company it should be up to the company to direct the fate of an officer... Not popular sentiment.

Maybe she deserved to be fired, maybe she was a terrible officer. Let the company make that decision. I dont like tho mob rule aspect to her stepping down.
Everyone makes mistakes. Please don't be uncivil on HN.
I'm not even going to debate whether or not she was an effective CEO. At the end of the day it's about the lawsuit, and I'm not going to argue the merits of that either. The only thing she should have realized from the start was that you can't have your cake and eat it too. You either choose reddit or the lawsuit. You can't divide your focus between both or you lose both.
No; and if I have the time I’ll find an article… but basically poverty is a state that worsens decision making skills.

It’s a chronic crisis, a chronic stressor, and it affects the way people think. Short-term infusion of money will probably be blown on what you might consider to be frivolities because of this reason.

There are exceptions, to be sure, and plenty of ignorance about good decisions… but “poor decision making skills” is at best a crass, misleading oversimplification.

(Most dangerously it’s intentionally used to mislead.)
> Why use OAuth unless you want to grant 3rd parties access to your services data, on behalf of your customers?

So, what would you use instead?
Wait, who is right, you or danielweber above?
This is something we help with a lot at Tinfoil (https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com). You can read our blog for useful tips and info, but we always recommend actually running our web application scans against your app in order to actually look for vulnerabilities. Is it as good as having 'tptacek or someone else from Matasano looking at it as a human? Not quite, since humans have more ingenuity. Is it better than reading a blog post and trying to follow 'best practices'? Infinitely.

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> The point isn't whether it's "true" or "false", because that will vary depending on who you ask.

Please, it seems like you're the one who needs to be honest. The most vocal, outraged reddit users are clearly sexist.

Here's the top most used words in the petition. Sure, let's NOT use the word "sexism" here, since it's kind of unclear.

https://www.reddit.com/r/circlebroke/comments/3cetav/i_made_...
What's wrong with Reddit is the "default subreddit" concept and the difficulty of subreddit discovery. Building in some form of interest based subreddit discovery would go a long way to de-emphasising defaults and (eventually) mitigate much of the vitriol.

There is also something to be said for educating users on the effects of anonymity.
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> No one is "reducing" anything.

Do you see another reference to the overwhelming opposition inside the user base? Anything in the vein of "the mounting opposition convinced us that there's no point in fighting our users"?

Because from what I read in the announcement, the opposition is presented as a vocal, hateful and criminal minority that should absolutely not be mistaken for the "sweeping majority" that was "incredibly supportive" of the CEO.
>As an occasional user of reddit, this whole ordeal has confirmed the reason why I prefer not to hang out in its forums.

It's really been awful and hard to avoid. I saw more racism on reddit in a couple few weeks (while the police shootings were in the news) than I've seen in the rest of my life combined. That and the increasingly popular /fatpeoplehate and I was pretty close to never visiting even the small well-moderated subs, the leakage was too strong.

And this recent thing, where there have been days where 5 of the top 10 highest voted stories across the entire site were literally titled: "Ellen Pao is a cunt"
Note that one of those search results is actually a related article for Europe and that another is a followup post.

I noted in another comment that this was likely reposted today because both the author of the post and John were on the US NPR radio show Science Friday today regarding a related story.
She was the CEO, she ultimately bore responsibility for every single decision made in her tenure. Regardless if initiatives were started under a previous CEO, she allowed bad decisions to be made public in her tenure where she had the power to stop them.

Like it or not, the CEO is ultimately responsible for every single thing a company does. That's pretty much their job.

Edit: Also, I have been on reddit for nearly 10 years. I've followed every stupid decision made since comments were implemented. I have never seen a period of bad decisions like this before Pao.

Edit 2: I also think it's sort of shitty for you to move the goalposts. You basically said "there's nothing else major" about Pao to criticize. As soon as I brought up three more things to criticize - well, they weren't important and everyone else is responsible.
When talking about ease of reading, one important nuance is to not to confuse "characters per line" with "columns per line"--whitespace doesn't matter.

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I agree, with a caveat (see my answer to d-equivalence): In Undergraduate level for example, I think it would be useless to look for harder material for no other reason than the very fact it is hard. The person still has to learn the basics and that's the most important thing. Challenges are yet to come.

But, I agree that the material can be boring and too basic. This is why I have always preferred Soviet books (they get directly to the point and don't address stuff you should know) vs. US books (that will go back to high-school level to bring you up to speed, after which you want to sleep). Generalisation, of course.
We keep hearing over and over again about how it's a small minority of vocal people who spew vitriol in any community, but how about providing some real, hard data?

Reddit has enough data and skill to identify approximately the percetage of users who engaged in this type of behaviour at the very least.

I'd rather see the numbers myself than read a press release simply stating something and being asked to believe it.
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Isn't there a slight fallacy at the heart of your stance? You seem to be positing an innate, unchangeable taint that can never be eradicated by change - no matter how pervasive that shift becomes.
Should somebody be like because of their gender? Isn't that outrageously sexist?
This criticism seems so odd to me. Does the author really believe that people reading that are going to assume that Watt knew nothing of steam engines, this idea hit him out of the blue, and he built a working model the next day? Of course he spent the previous years learning the problem domain. Of course it took him time to make his idea work.

But neither of those details changes the fact (I guess, the author does not try to dispute it) that on this stroll, Watt hit upon the key idea which eventually changed the world from muscle- and wind-powered to machine-powered.
> I am a commenter on HN and a redditor and am in no way related to the "clickbait media", so how are my contributions to this thread "explained through the lens of questionable media"?

Herein lies the problem: there is increasingly less of a difference between you or I, some "random strangers on the internet", and 'trusted' news sources like the New York Times. So it's not so much that we're not related to the 'clickbait' media, it's that the media is now mirroring us, unfiltered, and many don't realize that this is basically the modern MO of 'news reporting'. The lines are blurring as a side effect of the influence social media has, that's the danger.

> It started as a discussion about the actual situation, but apparently "everyone needs to be much more sceptical about what they read in the press and there motivations", and is now about...biased HN posts? I really have no idea.

Yeah, I agree. It's certainly hard to follow, but we are on a platform that makes misinformation incredibly easy to produce. Technology is unfortunately a double-edged sword like that.

> If you were worried about that, you should have discussed the actual situation and addressed what you thought were misrepresentations, not going off on some tangent about media ethics

I agree, it would be nice, but at this point it'd be like playing whack-a-mole, with changing definitions of what it means to be a 'mole'. It's unfortunate, but it'd be pretty difficult to keep up with every possible distortion even if we tried, so the best I can do is just remind people that "hey, even when I'm not around to remind you, you should probably try to question things that you believe and might've picked up from somewhere".