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Not pursuing a project that’s too risky, is not using the latest tools, and might not get you published in Cell/Science/Nature is all about scientific curiosity. Please. Such b/s.
> Twitter has turned into a place where famous people and news organizations broadcast text.

That's not unexpected given their signup flow, it's pages and pages you have to click through where it automatically follows hundreds of celebrities unless you uncheck the boxes.
> Was shown this address but it isn't valid

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz would disagree with you: http://www.wlrk.com/

But perhaps you were referring to the fact that there should be a newline between the care-of and the street address?

c/o WLRK
51 West 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019
Except for reducing tax burden on the middle class, amazingly wrong all around.

Savings are not to be seen due to the inflationary policy of the FED.
I wonder what the author would think of this in light of FoundationDB and Google's F1 RDBMS.
It's particularly import for people who are legislating minimum wage laws to read articles like this. Most of the legislation I've seen drafted, always has an exception for farm labor - and here is an example why. If you didn't have that exception, then it would quickly become the case that automation/machinery ends up being cheaper (or soon will), and those jobs will vanish pretty quickly.

Now, that might not be entirely undesirable, from the perspective of the legislator (I.E. Move people up the feeding chain to more productive, better paying jobs, and automate the drudge work like raking berries) - but at the very least, they need to be aware of the impact of what they are doing.
In Austria most studies have the same "fail three times and you're out" rule.
Depends on the cost/benefit of being tested. Often non clinical early screening is a much better option.

For Alzheimer's that could be as simple as getting enough sleep for a solid 2-4 weeks. As the disease progresses really slowly waiting that time period has minimal impact, but A the pre-test is cheap and good for you, and B you rule out a lot of false positives.
Why? If the field is looking at a fundamental problem, then it's basically true. Linear Algebra, for example, could claim legitimately having had major impact in brain dynamics, quantum technologies, and quantum gravity almost trivially given the sheer ubiquity of linear transformations.

Likewise, the sheer ubiquity of networks (essentially, that just means graphs that change with time) in all sorts of problem domains makes understanding them, and improving the theoretical tools to model them, a win for all of them. It's really not that controversial of a statement.

It's like hashtables, once you know about them, they're a fundamental data structure you use everywhere.
My problem with twitter is that it feels like a desert land more and more. I get more and more bot 'followers' and more ads in my timeline. The signal / noise ratio has decreased incredibly and continuous decreasing, unfortunately.
Something you might have thought about is applying for QA (Quality Assurance) jobs for software / startup companies. I got my foot in the door as a QA Engineer and was able to learn many different things besides testing software that allowed me to move on to different roles, including Sys Admin positions.

With your current experience I think you would be able to get a QA job pretty easily and move around after you get a years of experience and move towards being a Dev afterwards if that's your goal.
The problem is nobody sees these phones as premium they're just expensive.

The solution is to release fewer phones, give timely updates and support them longer (Like Apple).
You can do all those with out applying, even with lottery they tell which numbers wins. If the sharing idea is not an issue why they don't share the winning ones? If sharing the idea is an issue then there is a price you sharing yours then?
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There certainly are better examples[1], but I think you are being willfully obtuse.*

Please... that kind of thing just lowers the level of discourse for everybody involved.

Of course there would be something where the billboard would have been, but advertising is designed, at great expense and with a huge amount of effort, to arrest the attention of the audience.

Perhaps it is, and what I'm saying then is that that doesn't bother me. But it's probably a reflection of some ideological / philosophical bias on my part. I've never been up-in-arms about advertising the way some people are. I don't even surf the web with an adblocker installed. Ads are something I see as occasionally beneficial, occasionally Really-Fucking-Annoying, and mostly just ignorable background noise. The only time I find myself drifting into anti-ad rage is when the ads are particularly obnoxious, or repetitive, etc. For example, video/audio ads on a page that start playing with no prompting from the user. That gets on my tits a bit, and that's where I jump on the "end the bullshit" bandwagon somewhat.
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The peanut butter test is interesting. For sufferers of early onset Alzheimer's, the range at which you can detect a smell is different between your left and right nostrils. They used Peanut Butter in this test done by the University of Florida.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_butter_test
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Comparing the number of "graduates" is pretty much pointless. We always had a low number of graduates in Austria, partly because of the apprenticeship system, but also because many schools just didn't award degrees.

For example, if you become a Kindergarten teacher, or a primary school teacher, or a nurse, you just dodn't receive an academic degree.

A few years ago this started to change. Most schools were formally changed to "Hochschulen" and now award degrees. On paper, this measure vastly increases the number of academics in Austria. But in practice, not much has changed.

Such circumstances should be taken into account when comparing the percentage of graduates across countries. The raw numbers don't tell the whole story.
>Rising minimum wage and reducing hours does the exact opposite. Decreasing a tax burden is a good idea - but decreasing the tax burden on everyone.

This is the exact same story we've been told for 30 years: if you want more jobs and more productivity just lower taxes. It didn't work then and it doesn't work now. It just enables the ultra-wealthy to siphon off wealth from the rest of society.

Ultimately that hurts productivity.

>The UK dabbled in extremely high investment taxes at 98%. I think this would fall under your 'tax the rich' proscription. The unfortunate side effect was that investment was virtually stopped overnight and the country stopped growing GDP for two whole years,

IIRC this was actually due to the oil crisis. The US, on the other hand, dabbled in ~90% tax rates in the 50s when it experienced high growth levels never before seen since.
Great points all. Especially #5.

One of the strangest things about Twitter is that its search seems broken. Sometimes when I'm trying to locate past tweets authored by myself or by someone else, I can quickly find them on Topsy, but almost never directly on Twitter.

Twitter has begun to feel stale. Considering how much I love learning from people like pmarca and pg through it, this is something that worries me.
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The idea of divorces increasing is a good point you bring up. I have no stats, but I've heard way too many instances of this of late. Perhaps, I'm being biased. While I am all for people being happy in their marriages, I guess I'm pretty narrow minded to think that people in arranged marriages make their marriages work (culturally enforced or not). I don't believe in perfect marriages; there are always going to be problems.

In the end, I feel it's a healthier environment for the children out of the marriage. Love marraiges are a more natural, a more realistic option over the arranged marriages setup, but I think it also needs both people to be extremely mature, not greedy, and make proactive effots towards keeping the relationship stable. That is sadly something I can't think of the people I see around, in the society we live. People are way too greedy, so it's easier for them to abandon their partners and move to 'greener pastures'.
It is incredibly easy to set up a bot in twitter. (Slightly hard since the API v1.1, but still easy.) If an account is attached to a bot, there should be a small icon in all it's tweet to indicate that.
Another thing on the "desert island" effect is that, from the perspective of a artistist or creator, it seems oddly difficult to get discovered on Twitter. Maybe it's something about the interface or recommendation system?
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Yes, actually one should assume that; not doing so is irrational. There are many other diseases that one might have without even knowing they exist. It would be extremely foolhardy to get tested for them if/when you become aware of them.

"given that most of the research is around prevention of damage"

Given that aren't any preventative treatments, you're barking up the wrong tree.

"surely it's better to get tested early if you even remotely suspect there is a chance of it being Alzheimer's."

No, it's surely not.
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Fair point on PFP.

> I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "this usage" (lists?) [...]

By "this usage", I meant containers, generally. Maybe algebraic data types would be more specific.

> [...] blocking actors like Erlang's (or our own Quasar) make great use of (lightweight) threads [...]

Have you been following the Reactive Manifesto [1] and reactive streams [2]? If so, do you have any thoughts on whether this it builds out design practice in a complementary way to your suggestion here, or is it divergent?

> Using them to create lightweight threads solves almost all of the problems with the monadic style, [...]

My concern here would be whether you'd then be recreating the old problem you mentioned of having many implicitly monadic constructs in imperative programming but no good way of adding your own. In the analogous case in PFP, even if the continuation monad is the mother of all monads (and I haven't finished reading that post you linked to), I'd have to imagine it wouldn't be a whole lot of fun to use it exclusively. Or else people would do it!

> Where does Java's verbosity bother you here?

I probably should have withheld comment on Java's verbosity. There's probably nothing wrong with it. I think I'm just used to Scala and dynamically typed languages.

Anyway, awesome work. You make a lot of great points.

[1] http://www.reactivemanifesto.org/

[2] http://www.reactive-streams.org/
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You will realize that YC is uncle.

i think problem is wys is not wyg. Someone wants to surf and we are becoming the wave.

I would love to hear alternatives.
My main issue with Twitter now is the recent (undocumented) change to the mobile apps for "suggested tweets." (example: http://i.imgur.com/AfsmQgW.png )

As mentioned by the commentators, Twitter has a discovery issue. Twitter's solution is to put "suggested tweets" below the normal replies, but without any clear discernible division. (just "Suggested by Twitter" in light gray color). Way too many times I accidentally read suggested tweets instead of normal replies while instinctively scrolling to the bottom and I get very confused.
At Stanford, this is known as the "duck syndrome." Ducks appear to glide easily on the water, but beneath the surface they are paddling like mad.

In a similar way, students may appear to be happy and content when chatting with them in person, but are actually dealing with larger issues that they don't show.
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I recently visited a Twitter page, to find that it downloaded 6.3 MB of data across 63 requests. Since it only displays around 10 140-character tweets on the first page, that's a bloat factor of 4718x in my book. Twitter is done.
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I think it's time to rethink the 140 charcter limit.

When people want to post more than 140 characters, they include it as an image (so not searchable), which is considerably more effort.

Why not allow longer tweets, and only show the first 140 chars by default (along with an indication of how long it's going to be), and then load or show the rest on demand?
Guy, the only thing abundantly clear is that you are full of dung. Your shameless self-promotion may piss-off the police chief here - murbard2, so be more careful. Ten digits better classified, out of 10000? With a structure more complicated than a human DNA vs two lines of code? Congratulations! Or, and how are your "stairways-to-heaven" even remotely universal? Show us something these networks have generated like the VAE or Gibbs/ACE papers? Perhaps you can show some density estimation results as in http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.04623 or http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.06585?
Oja and Hyvarinen are great guys and have left their names in the pantheon of neural nets. But it is time for you and the other 12 people who live there, to shake off the legacy of ICA and the obsession with orthogonality: Andrew Ng and company showed years ago that it is not needed and is in fact detrimental http://ai.stanford.edu/~quocle/LeKarpenkoNgiamNg.pdf . Read it! Also, too much dung smells bad in the arctic summer, murbard2 here prefers comics and won't be reading your installments of 25+ page spaghetti any time soon. At least Oja and Hyvarinen know how to write.
As I've written in past comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10094396), and as this post suggests, rebuilding developer relations and improving integrations would go a long way. There's a lot of potential locked in the platform right now; they should work on letting developers get access to it more easily and strive to remove the cloud of uncertainty that has built up around it (i.e., will they shut me down if I do something too popular that colors outside the current lines?) It would benefit everyone, especially Twitter.
I would imagine most lawmakers would actually agree with you too if it wasn't difficult to distinguish bare minimum spending with nice but not absolutely necessary spending.

Where do you draw the line between, "I need clothes to function as a human being", and "I buy clothes because I'm into fashion?"

We could probably come up with some general fair-ish rules, but their effects on consumer spending might do more harm than they help.
How can one not completely opt out? I'm completely opted out of it all. All I've got left is a facebook profile I haven't updated in over 5 years.
If the average user cared about page loading time, the majority of the modern internet wouldn't exist.

A multimedia site can justify the heavy asset loading.
I had tried lattice but I don't think it is ready for production usage. When I reported a few security issues on their issue tracker, I've been told that lattice is just a stripped down version of Cloud Foundry designed for development usage.

I think it's obvious that k8s is designed for staging/production usage and I can't see where lattice fits there.

Also, lattice is not running docker containers, but garden containers. There are a lot of issues on their issue tracker about people not being able to run images from docker registry.
I heard a lot of them. Killing of bride(even though not necessarily by burning) used to be very common.
How is bloat related to their viability as a business / long-term profitability? Does the extra bandwidth cost them a significant amount of money? Does it negatively impact a significant number of users in their target market, sufficiently so that they will stop using Twitter?
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> Twitter has turned into a place where famous people and news organizations broadcast text. That’s it.

It has? I don't follow any news organizations or famous people. Well, a couple of Hugo-winning authors. But than's not like Beiber famous. And my timeline is a vibrant place full of friends talking with each other. It's like an IRC channel where I get to decide who's there. And it works great for that.

> Second–and this one is obvious to almost everyone–Twitter needs to focus on realtime events. When I open Twitter during a major debate in the US, or when a bomb has exploded in Bangkok, there should be a huge fucking banner at the top that says “follow this breaking event.”

Whenever there is a major thing going on my timeline will tell me about it. Because my friends will be retweeting stuff, or tweeting news articles they saw about whatever the thing is elsewhere. I know when there are conventions going on. I know when riots are happening. I know when there is a videogame speedrun charity marathon happening. Well, I used to until I decided to preemptively block the hashtags for those. I know when my friends are musing about their gardens, or their resumes, or their angst about their core skills. I even know when some of my friends are feeling frisky if they've trusted me with access to their private accounts where they occasionally post half-naked selfies. And in the middle of that I get all these weird blips of surreality from various art project bots I follow. I don't need a "huge fucking banner" telling me to follow a breaking event, because my friends will be talking about it.

When I have a problem with some software or some corporation, if I use their @name while bitching about the problem there is a pretty decent they will reply and help fix it.

Yeah, every kid who tweets at Beiber isn't going to get a reply. Duh? Would they expect a reply on other social media? Does Beiber even run his own account? There's a lot of celebrities with mostly-dormant accounts run by their social media specialists, and they're boring as fuck because they're not really there. But a lot of people who are famous, but not Mega Corporate Media Distribution Famous, actually do run their own twitters.

Who the hell is Dustin following here? Does he actually have any friends who use Twitter as his primary mode of communication? Are all his friends on Facebook or G+ or something else instead? Because it sure sounds like he's not using Twitter anywhere near the way I use it.
Depends on if that's all they know or if they come from a workflow where that's foreign. Or depends on how flexible they are mentally.

I use it mostly as my guitar amps, guitar effects, and drum machine. I have a lot of synths on there that I sequence with a separate app or have someone play with at MIDI keyboard controller. My new favorite thing is to get Xynthesizr (sequencer) in random mode but in a certain key to talk to a synth app and have that be a background bleep-bloop thing that is every changing while I do heavy reverb and echo drenched ambient guitar stuff.
I very much like tweets be ethereal like SnapChat snaps. Many people don't like to keep a history of stuff they said previously.
Twitter's real problem is that it does not have, and never will have, a CEO with the authority to make big changes. No matter what the next CEO's vision is, as a non-founder it will be impossible for that person to satisfy all of the major stakeholders.
He's even got a little follow up on what happened after he posted his content:

http://www.novolume.co.uk/blog/stolen-success/
I don't know what the performance claims are but it's a bit laggy. Nothing infuriating but I don't know your patience. I don't even touch on it, my mouse cursor moves onto the screen. It didn't even occur to me to touch it while in second monitor mode, I literally treat it as a regular monitor until I stop using it as such.
> Right now, a reply to Justin Bieber by a 16-year-old fangirl goes into the ether, never to be seen again. There is zero incentive in the product to interact with celebrities on Twitter, because no one will see the responses.

This seems like speculation. Empirically, do a search for "@justinbieber" (click on "live") or look at any of his tweets, and you'll see innumerable 16-year-old fangirls who have found some incentive to tweet at him. There's also the subphenomenon of these 16-year-old fangirls getting incredibly excited when those tweets do get seen and interacted with, which indicates, one, that they don't go into the ether, and two, people have a genuine hope of interaction.

I've seen this in practice, because I do actually follow certain parts of popular culture and music and trashy television (not Bieber, as it happens, but enough others) and occasionally look at what they're up to on Twitter. It happens without fail for every celebrity.

So I wonder if the author is actually reporting on how actual people actually use Twitter, or extrapolating from the eyes of a non-16-year-old non-fangirl who cares about things like reply threading.
Twitter without the 140 character limit is Google+.
OK, I'll admit, I haven't been following what is going on with Twitter, but come on people, their product is limited to 140 characters. Surely they have something to fix.
Especially since students from a Hauptschule can do their 10th grade and students from a Realschule can get into the Gymnasiale Oberstufe as well as people being aged out of those options being able to do their Abitur at a later time.
It's impossible to have meaningful conversations with that kind of limit. You end up having to use "1/N" over and over again. That limit has always left me wondering how Twitter even got started...
Don't get fooled by the success-posts on FB, as they are an extremely edited version of real life. If you really put on effort to make your life appear as fabulous as possible on FB, wouldn't you be also feel shitty compared to that version of you?
The author has an entire blog full of old advice, and it's worth checking out:

http://www.askthepast.blogspot.com/