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Perhaps you should doubt the rationality of your own views, now that you've realized you don't have any arguments for them. I can give arguments for almost all of my beliefs, except for perhaps very basic ones (things like "I exist", and even those, I generally can give reasons why, just not full arguments). If you realize you have no arguments, you should ask yourself why you believe something and see if you get any answers.

Which part of my comments suggested to you that I'm not willing to hear out other views?

I've tried to lay out my arguments at length. Are there any premises I assume that you disagree with, or are there steps I take that are logically unjustified?

And specifically, why is my claim irrational? It's mostly a moral claim, so to be irrational it must conflict with other moral claims I hold, right?

(Also, it's a bit weird that you seem to have a dichotomy between "rational" and "irrational" people; nobody is perfectly rational, and classifying specific arguments as rational/irrational is often more useful. Especially when it leads you to refuse to argue for a position on the dubious grounds that they aren't interested in hearing it.

And perhaps reflect on the fact that by writing off a differing position as irrational without bothering to rebut it, you're creating the bubble you accuse me of being in.
Maybe somebody will come up with an esport that incorporates current events that is also entertaining enough for a lot of people to watch.
There are lots of things more interesting than The Pip, but they're unrelated. Is there some connection between the Pip and the Russian Woodpecker that I'm missing?
> Yawn, another language-specific package manager.

People have been bemoaning language-specific package managers in favor of (Nix/apt-get/yum/Homebrew/MacPorts) for years now, and again and again developers keep flocking to them, despite the supposedly-superior alternatives being readily available. Rather than continuing to complain about this state of affairs, perhaps we should try to figure out why language package managers are so successful.
I live in Africa & $10 * 12 = $120/year is way too expensive --- when I say cheap, I'm talking about $3/month (shared, 20GB bandwidth, 1GB storage, MySQL / PgSql)

Hostgator, Godaddy...
Yeah, it's a tactic. It works for some, not for others. Try doing that with taylor swift .. lol.
Booster Landing at Cape for Next SpaceX Launch
If it didn't actually mean "best" then you could have cut this whole thing short real fast if you had just said so at the beginning.

It's a real fun technique to say something outlandish, let people criticize it, then finally say "nobody would actually take that literally."

Certainly you can say what you want. And I can say what I want about what you say. Hyperbole about the "best way" to dispose of nuclear waste being to mix it into elementary school building materials plays right into the hands of anti-nuclear activists. It just reinforces the notion that nuclear power advocates (of which I'd consider myself one) care nothing whatsoever about the dangers.
The Innovators Dilemma is still completely relevant and has substantial predictive power today. I'm seeing it in spades in my current company. The problem is in fact not predictive power but deciding how to avoid being trapped by it--Innovators Dilemma is weak on actionable solutions.

I have not read the follow-in Innovators Solution but doubt it really solves the problem in anything like a general way. The trouble is that new markets are basically very uncertain. Big companies like Disney, Apple, or Boeing that have crossed into new markets executed successfully on bet-the-company products. Not everybody pulls it off.
The majority of compiler options don't affect calling convention or class layout, so shouldn't make object files incompatible. They could be whitelisted and omitted.
Something I've taken from my Argentine Tango journey is the importance of focusing on fundamentals. Figuring out what those fundamentals were took some time. Some skills definitely do have a slow ramp up period in the beginning.

Great job getting through that initial phase! The first year can be trying particularly for leads.

I did something similar. People started saying I was a natural at tango. No. I put in the time. Lots of it. Every day. Obsessed, constantly aware of the fundamentals on or off the dance floor. Having some basic talent only gets you so far.

Back to the thread.

I have a theory achieving mastery in any area can potentially accelerate mastery in another area. Related or not. The mastering of mastery I guess. Maybe our brains are able to learn more as we learn more. Accelerating the learning process?
It makes me think of the series Lost when I read these articles. Alternatively, I feel like its these super isolated bunkers that check in every so often and if they stop doing so, nuclear warheads are launched at the US.
The title may be a little bit funky, but guys, this is a great post to lead someone through the nightmare that are the Lambda/API Gateway docs and setup process. I tried doing something similar about a week ago while not operating at full brain capacity, and could not figure it out. This is a great narrative of how someone figured it out, and it was great to follow along and actually learn.
> kind of rubs me the wrong way when I'm put in "line"

Made even more fun by the fact that unless you spam your friends with a useless link, you get to watch the number of people ahead of you climb.

I started out at ~600, and now I'm at ~1200.
> The question isn't whether VCs are brilliant according to some absolute metric. The question is whether they deploy capital better than random chance. The numbers show that top ten VCs consistently do.

Does it?

If you have enough gamblers in a high stake casino where the house hasn't stacked the deck, some of them will seem to consistently win in comparison to the other players.

Similarly, a very small percentage of VCs and other active investors consistently beat the market. A percentage so small I'm not sure anyone can statistically say they are doing so through skill.

Similarly, your argument is the top 10 are consistent. Yes. And the top 10 aren't a statistically significant sample in a market of thousands of investors.
I guess diminishing returns depends on how you measure utility or whatever heuristic you want to optimize. If you close 10% calls, but the average salesperson closes 50%, you haven't accomplished much. If the experienced salesperson only closes 60%, but also closes high value deals that no else would have been able to, their value is much higher than 6x your value. There probably isn't a linear relationship between skill and utility. Utility depends on how you compare with others, which probably has a bell shaped curve among enthusiasts/professionals. I'd wager in most cases, utility roughly tracks variance from average. One example is loads of people want to work in entertainment, but the most successful makes loads more money, even if they are only slightly better.

Kind of a tangent, but this is why its always better to work with more reliable people. A person who does good work 50% of the time isn't half as good as someone who does good work always. They are arguably worse than someone who does good work 25% of the time, because now you can't make any assumptions. You have to double check everything they do and you can't trust anything the say. At least with the first quartile peer, you know what you are getting.

My upshot is that utility doesn't scale relative to how good you are compared with the best, its how you stand compared to your competitors, most of which are probably about average.
Even a change in the pricing of say, the Google Places API (previously part of Maps, now billed differently) can cause drastic effects. I wonder if anyone at Google realise how much power they wield.
Say you're Tim, the new leader of Apple. Your greatest contribution to the company has been to solve logistics and operations problems, to the point where the company is vastly more profitable than all of its competitors.

Do you attempt to re-invent yourself as a design-obsessed visionary in computing devices, something you know you will never achieve, or do you look for big manufacturing and operations challenges? Apple is no longer led by Steve Jobs, and Jony Ive is performing a slow-motion exit from stage.
This analysis breaks down if the top ten outperform the market after you've started watching them. If that's the case (which for top ten VCs it is), the math suggests it isn't a "million quarters" situation.
I didn't say first, I said responsible, and first doesn't really matter. Albert Einstein's e=mc^2 wasn't first, it was already published by someone else written slightly differently. But he made it popular, and that's what counts for widespread adoption and propagation of tech.

You sound like an older hardcore nerd. You're from a different planet. What was going on in your circles was not at all a reflection of the web on a whole. Most people didn't even use ISPs in those times, they were on private systems like AOL. The dynamic web we know today, where almost every website is not static HTML, is because the majority of people making any little website had access to PHP, and free tutorials to learn.
This is pretty much spot on but not necessarily for long. I'm really saddened by how badly kickstarter is being abused. There was a time when they could've put in vetting into the process but it's really late now. I fear people have grown wise to the fact that from their perspective this is essentially a costly way to pre-order in the best case scenario and a costly mistake in the more common case.
People don't place a higher value on the photo than the experience.

They would like to have the photo in addition to the experience, typically so that they can remember it. Sure, you can look at a professional photograph of Times Square, but it's probably not going to help you remember the time when you were there. And you can't point to it and later and say, "hey grandkids, try to imagine me standing here but really young!"

It's bizarre to me that you don't understand this.

It's also strange that you think spending time taking a photo would cause you to somehow "miss" the experience - which, I guess would be true if the experience were a one-time only event that lasted a few seconds - but spending five minutes snapping a few photos at a two hour concert is not going to "ruin" anything.
As a user of freecodecamp, this is a nice new year gift.
Yeah, Bayes, Monads, and Types: things that every programmer uses "intuitively" but for some reason end up being difficult to grasp when explicitly formalized. At least speaking for myself. You're not alone. Hopefully it will get better for the both of us.
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You have Kyle and Brody, just send them a pizza and they get the servers back up! Radical, brahhh, pizza ninja turtle programming! Make sure to send brody extra pepperoni for his sacrifices.

[EDIT] In case anyone doesn't get the reference:
http://justinkan.com/three-stories
China's Millennials Are Happy to Own Nothing
I'm surprised that there was no mention of C.S. Lewis' Out of the Silent Planet, which featured three different sentient species.
nested comprehensions are kind of a nightmare to read, but basic list comprehensions seem incredibly straightforward to me. So much so that the explanation is more complex.
I think its validation that the old ways of media are coming to an end.

Count how many TV News programs make reference to what they found on social media?
> For Twitch, being gamers who also ran a video streaming site was a huge unfair advantage, because they were in a position to recognize a trend as it just started. There was no reason, if you look at statistics or data, to believe that this was a combination worth a billion dollars

There was no reason not to believe the opposite either.

I think I have a problem with your use of the word 'unfair'. Unfair to me means 'cheating', 'foul play'.

Having first spent the required time to create a video service put them in the position to realize that there was another trend brewing and they capitalized on that.

It's a classic pivot into a niche that was unproven, it could have been worth absolutely nothing (and it looked for quite a while that it wasn't going to be worth anything, even long after they already bet the company on it). At least, that's what it looked like to me from the outside. I was more than happy to be rid of the gamers.

> It never occurred to me that it could be a business, let alone a $300B one, because at the time I thought that software companies were things that sold high-performance databases to Fortune 500 companies for real money.

Well, that's just sour grapes. And I'm pretty sure that Mark Zuckerberg is just as surprised as you are at the $300B. That you failed to capitalize on the same opportunity as someone else because they realized something that you did not has very little to do with Mark Zuckerberg being a college sophomore at an elite institution, and even less with a music player, it has everything to do with recognizing an opportunity when one comes along (and whether he acted fairly towards others in that same project or not is not the subject).

If you want to argue 'unfair advantage' you will have to shift your viewpoint to the third world.

Notice how I could have written that Justin had an unfair advantage over our team because he was in Silicon Valley and we were not. But I did not write that because I know that it wouldn't have made a shred of a difference. What matters is that he took the chance and we did not.

> What other unfair advantages do Hacker News readers have that they don't realize are advantages?

Hacker News Readers' advantages are: a great channel to communicate with like minded individuals, access to some of the smartest people that I know, a collective experience that dwarfs even that of the most seasoned individuals in the industry, access to capital, access to YC if you want it and you pass muster, in general a good or even excellent education, not to have to worry about what they're going to eat tomorrow (well, probably not everybody, but most of us anyway) and so on. In short, all the privileges that we as an industry (the IT industry) take for granted and that other people have to fight for.

But between us there is no 'unfair advantage', you're looking at a minute difference between two sets of individuals already from one of the most privileged groups on the planet.
I'm not convinced they would be better off with it. For every American that wisely uses debt to get an education that will lead to an ROI, how many are just screwing themselves with consumer debt and degrees that don't pay?
Apple is doing it as regulatory arbitage which is distorting the normal signals.

I'm not saying you are wrong, more its a really bad example.
Take 1000 people, have each predict a coin flip 10 times. The top 10 players will have predicted way better than random chance would have you believe. Why several of them are even 10 for 10, they must have special prediction powers! ;)

Grow the player base, increase the number of predictions, you'll end up with some real super-stars who just go on winning. They'll probably write books and lecture about their techniques. Right up until the moment they lose. Kind of like hedge fund managers.
> Will the US government really just let you do it? Have they not interfered yet?

Of course they did: the recent propaganda wave against "encryption" is all about preventing the next wave of privacy-conscious communication tools, to which Signal belongs.

Smart governments don't have to "interfere": they just have to pass laws.
Wind is wind. Whether you're a kite or on the ground makes no difference. During a hurricane you want to be out of the way or there'll be pieces.
I've thought about this problem before, and came to a different (though perhaps inferior) solution.

Why not broadcast the material via wifi directly to the audience's devices, and have audience listening with headphones? What if audience member doesn't own a device? There would be spare devices at box office that would be provided / rented. It would certainly change the ambiance of the performance since the acoustics of the venue wouldn't be heard, but it wouldn't prevent people from (for example) hearing the laughter of the crowd around them.

I think if the app was designed right, it could possibly stop people from recording. Not that it would technically be possible to prevent people from recording, but since you control the stream of data to the device you can embed "watermarks" in real time during the performance. So if someone did try to record it would be theoretically possible to trace back to precisely which user / device was responsible for leaking the performance.

EDIT: On second thought, perhaps it would be safe enough to allow the user to retain a copy (with watermarks included), accessible via the app they used to listen to the performance live.
I like the site, is that a custom bootstrap theme or a modified one?
Ask HN: Best ways to target businesses without a site?
Hi, what's the best way to go about finding small businesses that aren't online yet?
I'm a huge Linux fan, and have happily used it for quite a long time. Sadly, however, not all the programs I need to use are available for Linux. Tax programs, for example. There are various other niches as well, where Linux hasn't really caught up yet.
I support all efforts to promote agile hatred, so that part is great. Though, I also promote awareness that gray text on white background promotes illiteracy.
Tell me about it. I still remember asking my dad what came before the universe when I was a kid and he said, "No, there was no before." When I inquired again he said "Time is a property of our universe. You can't have a before without it. There wasn't nothing, there wasn't a before. You are part of this universe and cannot exist without it. There's no curtain to look behind, this is it."

That realization made me feel pretty stupid and caused a minor existential crisis.
Those interested in serverless "backends" should check out JAWS (https://github.com/jaws-framework/JAWS), as they've done a great job building out a framework around this very idea.

Apparently they've got a big update coming Monday, so keep an eye out.

EDIT: Not sure where to put the quotes... "serverless" backends, serverless "backends", both, or none? :P
SMAWK Algorithm
The constant, repeating animation of typing a language and city into the search field is distracting -- once is enough to give the idea.

Other than that, though, this is super cool. Nice work!
It's not debt, there is no interest. It's just a liability. No different to Amazon taking a pre-order on an upcoming book.

Judging how many largish kickstarters end in disaster, I am not surprised the people running them don't use accountants.
Does the FSF own their office space and own their generator, or are they using Electricity As A Service and a Building As A Service. For a lot of people, maintaining a server and service is much much more hassle, and much more distracting than the payoff would be, and thus, contract it out. I have quite a few non-technical oriented friends who would not be able to figure out the decentralized solutions that have been bandied about, nor do they care. If you want something decentralized, make something better, rather than just bitching.
Google already has your data anyway
I'd be interested in a robust defense of the claim that refusing to have a trigger warning, in the context of this post, is not deceptive.

The arguments I see for not having one are: too few people would care so it's not worth inconveniencing the many for the few; there's already informed consent and so it's useless; and the talk is not harmful to anyone. (I think I had another minor one in mind but can't recall right now.)

1 is possible, but is not the one made by OP. I've argued against the premise of 2 (which the OP did make); if you have a more deontological worldview, you might want to frame this as the student's "own fault" for not realizing, but I generally don't blame people for being dumb (in the sense of insisting on them bearing the consequences of being dumb), instead asking which course of action yields the best consequences. In this case, if we assume informed freedom of association is a value, then adding information is a benefit.

3 would be a good defense if done well, but again, isn't the OP. It would actually be the best example of "I'm not a jerk"-type answers. But it's not immediately obvious how we can view something that bothered someone as not harming them. At best, you'd probably need to invoke Christian beliefs and go back to "informed consent" as above. Presumably you concede that Christians shouldn't do this to outsiders, and so the issue is about what counts as informed consent.
It's easy to think this is something dramatic and mysterious, but it's much more likely that it's actually quite mundane.

Building a dead man's switch that operates over shortwave is a pretty iffy proposition. People might jam you just for fun. You could experience prolonged channel degradation. Also, your transmitter could just plain break. If it were that kind of device, operating continuously since the 1980s, I'd be surprised if it hadn't triggered accidentally already.
I am seriously looking forward to a response from PeopleSpark about this post. Will stay tuned!

Edit: It does appear that they've made major changes to their site since those screen shots were taken.
I'm not dropping $60 to sit in a theater with a bunch of strangers, pay $10 for a Miller Lite so I can watch Dave Chapelle on my phone...

That said I'm not sure just how much of a point there is to this. I saw Chapelle a year or so back, and he was very agro about calling out people using phones (even to just check a text message) and having them tossed out. That really ruined the show, not the interruption itself but his jackass attitude. It's like media companies fighting new technology, adapt or die. Contrast this with Weird Al where he embraces phones and goes through the venue taking selfies.
I love Justin Kan's writing. If you read this Justin keep writing more man!
what percentage can even name the cities where those companies are headquartered?
>like in most other countries

For most of the world, with "trade track", you make "ends meat" for the country (developing world included).

That's why you see such a mindblowing competition for Chinese students to graduate from good colleges.
When reading code I find comprehensions easier to comprehend than combinations of map, filter and reduce. That is considering that I played around with some Common-Lisp before getting into Python.

The parts in the comprehension

[*wanted* *iteration(s?)* *condition?*]

compares well to

*iterations(s?)*
*condition?*
*append wanted*

for normal looping behaviour without changing order of the iterations.

One of my favourite comprehensions is of the sort

[item for item in items in for i in (0, 1)]

of course this can be the same as

list(items) * 2

but the comprehension is more versatile

[item for item in items in for i in (0, 1) if items[0] != 'a']

For most once the mental fog clears comprehensions become natural very quickly as they are not that far removed from normal loops.
So if you had a tether strong enough to withstand the tensile force and able were to distribute the moments from the forces of where its tethered, you don't think that would work?
Why would it be a "trap"? The uncertainty principle hints that something discrete may lie at the bottom. It's clear it's deliberate, not something you fall into due to naiveness.

Also, Wolfram isn't the only one in this line of thinking, and this is a topic that rears it's head time and time again in the history of physics.
ECC may be the only alternative to RSA which could be broken in 5yrs (2013)