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rfrank··on Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him
By his own admission he's had user mentions turned off for years. Avoiding trolls isn't nearly as hard as people here are making it seem. If you don't want to deal with trolling, don't become the CEO of reddit immediately after their ridiculous community ousted Ellen Pao. The mainstream media and an awful lot of the internet (including the majority of users on this site) paint Trump supporters as racist, sexist, homophobic, uneducated, etc. on a daily basis, but calling spez a pedo is somehow beyond the pale? And that justifies him editing user posts to appear as if they've said something they haven't?
rfrank··on Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him
Do you actually think most people are questioning whether or not their witch hunt was the right thing to do? Jesus christ.
rfrank··on Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him
And I think that is incorrect, and spez's actions are inexcusable.
rfrank··on Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him
Comparing users talking on reddit to being invited into a home is pretty ridiculous on its face.
rfrank··on Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him
Thank you. That's exactly what I was thinking of, it's just late haha.
rfrank··on Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him
I'm missing the point.
rfrank··on Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him
That has literally nothing to do with the question. Considering whether an action is acceptable only in an instance, or universally, is an extremely basic way of determining if it is morally correct. Do you think spez's actions can or should be made a norm?
rfrank··on Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him
Is administrators editing users' posts as a norm of the internet something you would be comfortable with? Are spez's actions acceptable in a vacuum, or should they be a norm of internet moderation in your eyes?
rfrank··on Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were critical of him
I think that logic is stupid and don't think your comments re: moderation of YC companies on HN are honest.
rfrank··on Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were critical of him
Potential vs. proof. That is a large distinction.
rfrank··on Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were critical of him
Why was the title changed from "Reddit CEO" to "I"? Seems very asinine.
rfrank··on WikipediaP2P
I feel like I should contribute more than a pun, but this is a missed opportunity for wikip2pedia.org. The domain is available.
rfrank··on What.CD is shutting down
I had roughly the same reaction when I saw it was still up fairly recently haha. Waffles' problems had me thinking about the evolution of p2p over the years (downloading LimeWire Pro with LimeWire was my favorite), and I was pleasantly surprised to see them still chugging along.
rfrank··on What.CD is shutting down
It's good to hear it's gotten better. I haven't actually used Soulseek in years, but there's a few things in my library I haven't seen anywhere else. I have mp3s from Soulseek that are as old as middle school kids, that's a weird thought.
rfrank··on What.CD is shutting down
Soulseek is alive still somehow, and has a solid selection of rarities.
rfrank··on What.CD is shutting down
hah, I remember the COFEE leak from back in the day. For those who don't know, what.cd requires users to maintain an upload:download ratio to keep using the site. You could contribute a portion of your upload total to a "bounty" on requests for material not currently on the site. Uploader of the content gets the bounty applied to their upload total. The COFEE bounty was over 1TB if I remember right.
rfrank··on Demystifying the i-Device NVMe NAND
The stackup is what controls the layers of a bare PCB; signal, power, ground, etc [1]. An engineer at your board supplier is likely involved in determining the stackup with the EE and PCB designer. The stackup and material selection of the bare board is one of the things that controls min/max trace width, proximity, etc. Once you have that info, you can plug it into your CAD tool of choice, for instance in Mentor Xpedition it's CES [2]. Makes things like differential pairs a lot easier.

1. http://blog.optimumdesign.com/hdi-layer-stackups-for-large-d...

2. https://www.mentor.com/pcb/xpedition/constraint-manager/

rfrank··on Our World Is Going Full ‘Black Mirror’
Whatever makes you feel better.
rfrank··on Siemens to buy Mentor Graphics in $4.5B deal
Definitely true, seems like it would depend pretty heavily on what's being made & at what scale (as if that isn't true for all mfg haha). Something that takes a few PCBs and needs bare boards, assembly, system integration, packaging, shipping, etc etc, could make a percentage of profits challenging. Makes sense to me for embedded because they're after platform adoption as well.
rfrank··on Siemens to buy Mentor Graphics in $4.5B deal
That makes sense. Rightly or wrongly, I perceive Mentor as having lots of users who cater to companies in industries like telecom, medical, or A&D who aren't very pro-FOSS (on a corporate level, at least).

It would be cool to see them open up access to their tools somehow though; Library Manager, Valor DFM, maybe even something like HyperLynx. Not sure how open people would be to some sort of royalty agreement in exchange for access to CAD tools.

rfrank··on Siemens to buy Mentor Graphics in $4.5B deal
The PCB design team at my job almost all use Mentor Xpedition. From my experience with those guys, they would not appreciate modern software UIs in their CAD tool at all. Half of them refuse to upgrade from Windows XP because they don't see a point. If an update to Xpedition suddenly had a super clean/minimal UI someone might actually have a stroke haha.
rfrank··on Siemens to buy Mentor Graphics in $4.5B deal
Agree with your sentiment, but wouldn't Cadence or Altium be better candidates than Mentor for that goal?
rfrank··on Peter Thiel To Join Trump Transition Team
Bad for your cause and bad for society aren't the same thing. The thoughts on freedom and democracy are at least as old as Alexis de Tocqueville. Maybe try actually reading some political theory.

1. http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2015/03/equality-t...

2. http://www.city-journal.org/html/end-democracy-america-14332...

rfrank··on Clinton’s data-driven campaign relied heavily on an algorithm named Ada
By that point Wikileaks had also been releasing Podesta emails for about a month. It's an example of Clinton's terrible decisions re: the email server turning an election.
rfrank··on Clinton’s data-driven campaign relied heavily on an algorithm named Ada
Or, ya know, Hillary Clinton and the DNC.
rfrank··on DeepMind and Blizzard to release StarCraft II as an AI research environment
This is true. I was on the higher end of the SC2 ladder (diamond 1v1) and still couldn't execute it consistently. One of many reasons I'm not a pro :)
rfrank··on DeepMind and Blizzard to release StarCraft II as an AI research environment
Part of my problem was definitely what I was asking it to do. Going after blink so fast left me open to faster all ins like 2rax/2gate, 6 pools, etc. Being slightly slower than a 4gate and with more tech investment puts you even further behind if you can't do damage with the push. A better way to phrase it might be that the build worked, just not in the context of the metagame at the time.

I had to look it up again to be sure, but 2 on minerals 3 on gas haha: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/sc2-strategy/140055-scientif...

rfrank··on DeepMind and Blizzard to release StarCraft II as an AI research environment
When I was playing SC2 frequently a few years ago, someone made a program that used genetic algorithms to construct build orders [1]. It would produce a build that technically worked, but in a lot of cases they weren't very viable.

I tried to make a blink stalker rush that'd be the rough equivalent of the build shown in the post liked above, just with the Protoss race in the game. The program would tell me to do things like make two extractors but put fewer than necessary probes on them, pull probes to extractors after X trips or at X time (can't remember which), things like that.

1. http://lbrandy.com/blog/2010/11/using-genetic-algorithms-to-...

rfrank··on “Ultrasonic cross-device tracking” embeds inaudible tones in advertisements
For sure, FWIW I'm personally an organ donor and broadly agree with your logic. Those are just some times when I feel the choice not to donate organs is valid.

A person's choice is probably always valid regardless of what it is, it's their body at the end of the day. In the normative sense I think everyone should donate their organs, but I'm not sure it can be reasonably codified.

rfrank··on How to get the wine you really want
> There are plenty of sommelier competitions where they tell apart years and zones very precisely.

There's a documentary called Somm that follows a few people as they prepare for the Master Sommelier exam, it's impressive how precisely they can determine the year and region of a wine.

Example tasting from the doc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKNmcCCE15E

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