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> "clickbaits are more than logical."

You're saying clickbait not only makes sense, but is profitable beyond merely representing the content.

I'm not with you, sorry.

Clickbaiting ensures crappy content is rewarded.

"World's best coffee" sign over the door will ensure the shop remains in business a little longer, but who benefits from that? Customers? No. The coffee shop owner who uses 3 month old beans and overheats the milk.

Titles have an obvious purpose other than to "bait" with emotion and suspense. Lines such as "you'll never guess what happens next" don't represent the content. It's a craptastic headline with inflated claims.

While the definition of clickbait varies depending who you ask, a point comes when a title becomes disingenuous and inaccurate, cheesy and desperate. This causes me to lose a little respect for the author or site. Bit by bit I lose respect until eventually I don't return.

Consider "8 things you didn't know about cats". The title makes an unnecessary reference to me the reader, claiming I won't know the information within. Secondly, we all know most listicles contain at least one or two gems - the best items in the list. It's these items which would be best alluded to in the title rather than relying on me clicking in hopes of discovering gems. If the list is boring without any gems, clickbait is the least of the site's problems.
I haven't tried Asana yet, but I guess I have to. As I understand it at the moment, Asana is mostly team-oriented. Mentally, I put Asana in the same conceptual bin as Trello, which is my primary teamwork tool.

What I was looking for, and couldn't find, is a personal productivity tool in the same category as Wunderlist, Todoist, Swipes, Things and countless others, but with much stronger todo de-cluttering abilities.
This. Running services under screen or tmux is a kludge at best. For unimportant or personal things, fine, but for any serious services, it's not the way to go.
I think the problems identified with the architecture are being wrongly imputed on REST.

REST is synchronous in terms of request/reply, but that doesn't mean that higher-level actions must (or even should) be restricted to that cycle, so subprocesses like the notification should never have to block the stock update. Even if the requester needs to be informed about that, the stock updating mechanism should instead create a new Resource that tracks the notifications, and send the link to it so that the client can see how it's going.

But this wouldn't be necessary, because I agree that the stock updating shouldn't have to known about the notifications - but again, REST does not require it to!

The way to architect this using REST would be for the Notification Service to track how the stock of each product is currently. Since polling each product is inefficient, the stock manager could offer a feed that lists the latest stock updates, just like blogs do with posts.

This doesn't require a SPOF like a messaging bus, it doesn't suffer from the "service going pop" problem (since we've eliminated the dependency the inventory service had on the email system) and it's proven to work at a huge scale - the web.
You make a great point about the success of AI-lawyer pairing. We need to avoid the Lump of Labor Fallacy[1], in which automation only replaces lower-level work. Advanced tools will allow less experienced (but, let's not forget, intelligent and highly educated) lawyers to perform more advanced work at an earlier point in their careers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lump_of_labour_fallacy
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There is defiance and then there is just being an asshole. I think we should appreciate the difference.
Actually its more like 300 treatments that haven't panned-out...

‘Too much good news’ – are Alzheimer
mouse models trying to tell us how to
prevent, not cure, Alzheimer’s disease?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=20542579
That approach only lasts so long, as would "world's best coffee" sign above shop door.
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Talking about Cyc ontology, we are working on automatic Wikipedia articles classification: http://cycloped.io/
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>We don't especially want trolls here.

And judging from the responses in this thread, it appears that he is successful.

Or do you enjoy feeding trolls?
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technolo...

http://www.oracle.com/us/products/database/berkeley-db/db/ov...

Oracle doesn't count?
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In France (and I suspect in many European countries), most modern buildings/renovated buildings have large mailbox in which many packages fit (e.g. books). The mailman has a 'universal key' and drop the packages there.
You've touched on a grey area of clickbaiting, where the headline isn't too bad because at least it describes the content....

* Programmer (good to know it's a programmer's trick, we've established a character and identified role)

* crazy (thinking outside box,)

* FP (specific info about the trick)

* worried for their jobs (the only useless part of headline but suggests the trick saves time).

So all up, not such a bad title.

A proper Clickbait headline tells us nothing, for example (loads up yahoo.com)... "#1 reason not to buy a new computer".
This isn't really a solution when you start multiplying the # of carriers (USPS/UPS/FedEx/Ontrac/etc) that deliver in the US, to the number of packages that heavy e-commerce users receive per month. It's not unusual for people with Amazon Prime accounts to have 10+ packages delivered in a month. If they would have to go to different locations to pick up all these packages, then it quickly negates much of the convenience/experience of shopping online.
The researchers are chasing grants and funding to be able to carry out research.

You don't go into research if money is your motivating factor - there are plenty of easier ways to earn a living.
This kind of noise is the bane of my existence. Any good texts on this subject out there?
I've tried all of the above in different configurations. What works best for me is to use Workflowy to think and plan the overall picture, and to use Trello to manage active tasks.
We are building a customized one soon. It would be nice to have something off the self.
Ask HN: What is the logic behind closing comments after certain period
I see this becoming a trend on some major sites, but it just feels wrong. Actually, in my experience, I was able to get information many times after posting on a old thread, because, things change, and people get new knowledge / perspective on the subject.
> the stock manager could offer a feed

How does it differ from polling?
I would rather put it “free as in torrents”. Microsoft https://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/family.aspx?FID=3... offers to buy it for €129
Get up, walk around, stretch, think. Talk to other people, unless it's interrupting them.
That's a simplistic view. A grammar might not be a 1:1 mapping to an AST (where the AST is just a reduction of a higher-level construct set). Also, an AST is really a generic term, and can mean anything from a parsed representation of the grammar to the final stage of the output code.

The classical example I give when I ask this question, is how do I represent the concept of an abstract "record" (or structure) in any visual language. How do I convey the mapping from definition to instance of any given construct?

These are though problems to represent in a visually compelling and useful way.
You could try IQTell, it does have an amazing amount of customizability and filtering options with which you can easily create those current todo lists by context or area for example. It was created for GTD but due to the customizability I can still recommend a look
Have you tried the font? = and == has 3× difference in width, it’s hard to mistake one for another. I’m using Fira Code for a year now, never had mixed them up
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I know that, but it still was correct. thanks
It doesn't, it differs from polling each product, since it provides a single resource for all of them.

An alternative would be for the Inventory system to allow the Email system to register a callback URL (aka Webhook) with it that gets called when the stock updates - allowing for push events while maintaining a decoupled architecture -, but that is only useful if the stock only gets updated sporadically, as you should still have a resource that can be polled, in case the Email system dies and then needs to check what happened when it was offline.
> Too many projects and too many next actions. It was information overload. I think my brain couldn’t handle my 50-100 ongoing projects and next actions.

IMHO, this isn't a problem with GTD as a system; it's more of a problem with the user's prioritization. Nobody should have to have 50-100 ongoing projects and next actions. Urgent/Important them, and junk the rest.
Up to Part 5 now...but only on question one "Where" and pretty much stumped by the others...but fun exercise so far!
It's not necessarily only window units. Many apartments have in-wall units also. It would be cost prohibitive for most to close up a hole in a brick wall to install a split unit.
GTD works fine for creative work when you get GTD. Most people don't. it actually takes quite some time (months/years) to do the needed click and understand what GTD is all about.
You probably mean = and ==. They have 3× difference in width, which, in practice (I’m using Fira Code for a year now), is more than enough to tell the difference.

Regarding the difference between == and ===, latter has three lines (and so does !==), so in fact in Fira Code === and !== the looks implies the meaning, whether in other cases you have to bend your mind to accept that negation of “three equals” is a “two equals and a bang”
IMHO, The use of incoming WebHooks handles the polling problem quite well. This makes REST over http one of the fastest and most elegant way to implement Microservices.
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
Free Will by Sam Harris.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Why doesn't vlc work?
It took me 17 years to achieve a working model...and at the
end, it became so simplistic...no need of complex mathematical theorem...the bare minimum... so easy, a 9 year old could process it in a few minutes...
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Hi Rishi,

I'm a current student so please forgive my naiveté of any real-world implementations.

You mentioned "My goal on the site is therefore give tools, but not recommendations."

Do you have any plans to offer portfolio construction tools? I took a portfolio construction class which used Andrew Ang's book as a theoretical basis and was struck at how simple it appeared to create [insert weighting scheme here] portfolios.

I think though a platform could go a step further and demonstrate how to execute different strategies that appear to be only executable by hedge funds. i.e. can you show [insert publicly-tradable assets] which when bought together appear to replicate a hedge fund's beta (maybe not HFRI but some sort of market-neutral beta)?

I dunno it just feels there's a lot that can be done to remove the mysticism from wealth management and open data is just the beginning of such a movement.
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Emacs is a graphical application to me. That's the default behaviour, how I use it, and what I see people doing things like screencasts use.
A long touch often brings up an explanation and/or context menu on iOS. Not very fast, but it does the job...
An easy way to think about this (for me at least) would be to think in terms of transferring liability to another party.

Who's responsible for the package/order when the package gets left with the neighbor? Would the liability/loss transfer to the customer if the package goes missing when the neighbor supposedly has/had it?

If you're a seller on Amazon/eBay and shipped the package yourself, the liability of the total value of the package is with the seller, unless you purchase insurance or signature tracking information.

For packages 13+ ounces (0.36+ kg), USPS automatically provides insurance up to $50 when sending packages Priority Mail (w/restrictions):
http://pe.usps.gov/text/dmm300/609.htm
It's funny how some people lambaste GTD and then proceed to offer a productivity solution that's basically GTD plus some extra steps or tools. The basic tenets of GTD are sound and not new. David Allen just simplified the process and provided some psychological justifications to why they work. So as long as you collect everything out of your head and into a system where you can review and prioritize, that's GTD for everyone regardless of your station in life.
The Chinese paper mills take a shotgun approach. Publish as many papers as possible, with little care for quality.

I saw one Chinese professor who published more papers in a year than the number of days. When you spend that much time submitting papers, nothing is getting a second look.
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Authority should be questioned, again and again and again. Not in order to be an asshole but because of the consequences when we don't:

1. scope creep. They will slowly become more authoritarian over time: (legitimate) authority in one area will bleed into (illegitimate) authority in another area.

2. they will be unable to deal with defiance. Because they're not used to it and because to much of their identity is intertwined with their professional authority.

There are too many people out there who enjoy exercising their power over others. Too many teachers who completely lose it when students pull some harmless prank. Too many police officers who threaten violence when talked to disrespectfully. The victims of overreaching authority are always -- as the article points out -- the weaker members of society. Standing idly by in the face of injustice is not the mature adult thing to do; it's plain cowardice.

All authority should be assumed to be illegitimate, and structures of authority that cannot justify their existence must be dismantled.
I hope this may let them think more seriously about the potential security threat that a so-called "governamento backdoor" would pose.
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My experience is that Chinese are very hard working. Their mathematics background is normally quite good, but they only know the Chinese names... Try going to the English wiki page of for example a Fourier transform, then click on the Chinese version.
Which field are you in?
Sorry if I'm asking the obvious, but how does gun ownership relate to health problems?
>This is some kind of trick. I'll bet the mountain has 50,000 'Syrian refugees' living on it or something.

Cracking up.
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Careful what you wish for! Countries with oil seem to be in a world of hurt right now :)
We actually tried to give away major oil rights to the Swedes 35 years ago, in exchange for 40% of Volvo, but the Swedes refused.

So we ended up pumping up the oil ourselves and invested it in a giant oil fund. This oil fund is now the second biggest owner of Volvo.

Thank you Sweden for not accepting the offer :)
Czech Republic is giving Poland 900 acres as a gift:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/czechrepubl...
basically how US academia works. professors don't do the programming themselves. that's what graduate students are for.
Taking into account the rate of growth China has experienced in the last few decades, in a lot of ways (including standard of living), are you sure Chinese citizens are not behaving intelligently by not making much effort to change a political system that is basically working for most of them?

In most of the West we have the luck of being born in democratic countries, we mostly don't have to lift a finger or risk anything to defend that. And yet, we increasingly elect dangerous morons like Trump, Le Pen, etc. to positions of power, which doesn't say much about our collective political intelligence. In China, defending political changes entails both personal risk and risk to the country itself (placing a country that is working very well economically and increasing its power into a political turmoil with uncertain results). I honestly don't think we are in a position to lecture them about this kind of things.
I agree with you. I really rubs me the wrong way when people put down new food ideas by effectively saying "things should follow tradition".

It's like they don't realize that if someone hadn't experimented previously none of the foods they love would exist and that picking some arbitrary point in time before which experimentation was okay and after which it's not is really hypocritical.
This is changing. The problem was so much low-hanging fruit still to be done there. That's what got solved first. In terms of mobile, VR, drones, to name a few - the Chinese are in front now.
Polling a "show me all updates since X" endpoint is a reasonable approach that is loosely coupled and minimises the amount of transfer needed.
Interesting to finally see some music creation apps on Android.

What has been your experience with latency ?

From what I can gather the Android team is reducing it release after release, but only with marshmallow we are starting to see acceptable values.
CNN is the People magazine of cable network news. I suppose this story is important because it's exposing this issue to the wider American audience, but anyone who is reading HN already knows about this issue.
> hydro is the only renewable power source that is weather-independent.

Geothermal and biomass are also weather-independent, in addition to the long-term drought possibility that justinator mentioned.
For example, in California new hydro is not considered a renewable source for purposes of achieving their renewable electricity standard.
While legal documents like terms and conditions can have surprising gotchas, they are not impossible to decipher for a layman and for a completely new website, it is absolutely reasonable and practical to spend an afternoon researching the gist of concepts and getting a sufficient understanding so you can create a T&C that won't cause you legal troubles.

That is, if you want to create a T&C in the first place. Hacker News doesn't have a T&C. Facebook certainly didn't have a T&C when it first launched, and Apple didn't sell their Apple I with a contract. You are very very unlikely to encounter any issues without a T&C and privacy policy.
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Pretty sure in American history there are corporations that have knowingly, literally killed people because they knew the side-effects of their products, if not immediately, over time.

Tobacco industry comes to mind and lying to congress scott-free. There is also the dumping of toxic chemicals into water sources and rivers, etc. which happens to this day.

So while it was the biggest financial and government oversight failure, credit-default swaps unlikely literally, directly killed people.

What's worse is that little to nothing has changed and it could all happen again given enough time.
Maybe the fact that I am not from somewhere where litigation pays off gives me a different perspective. Here suing is just not worth it usually as the judge will not demand significant payout. So when you win you will not get much anyway. Most of those cases can be replaced by computers today (judge and lawyers) and as far as I know those are most cases that are done here. So like trivial bankrupty cases, most small claims stuff. I had a few of those and I can and did just use Google to write my defense which works fine. No lawyers needed there. In the US the stakes are higher I guess so maybe I just cannot comment on that. And then there is criminal cases which might be probably more complex. Although AI might augment the lawyer to generate possible defenses and give the lawyer more creativity?
A client wanted to run our application in windows at the latest, a week before I joined the 2 men project. 2 months (?) later we delivered a "patch" (the first version didn't even work at all) of the initial solution using the same unix scripts running in interix.

Seems like they were not in any hurry after all. Some 5 years later, they contacted my company again asking how to install it in their test environment. They were apparently not happy that after 5 years, the solution was still a bodge solution using interix rather than a proper port in windows. I don't know what happened from there, I had moved on to another project right after that delivery, could not remember anything and to be honest only painful memories could come back from that shitty codebase. ( the company was making something like 5K a year gross from that application )
You might want to check out taskwarrior, it's got a lot of tag and filtering capability that can just murder clutter
How does this not segfault on -O0 if the pointer is NULL?
You can, just not everyone has access or the ability to write server-side code. For instance if you used Wix, Squarespace, some generic website builder you often have no access to the underlying server-side code.
The only real problem I find with REST+microservices as an architecture is situations where the right framework for one of the microservices' jobs is not well-equipped for HTTP interactions.

Although it's always possible to knock something up to get the job done, a developer working in (e.g.) XSLT is not necessarily in his or her comfort zone when working with remote services, and that tends to cause delays and other headaches.

Otherwise, though, I'm all in favour of it as an architectural choice.
Honest question: Does any of these books predict any positive change due to climate change ? I can hardly believe that climate change will be a catastrophic event, without any further qualifier.

Other than that, your lifestyle change is something that has been on my mind for years now. Kudos for "shipping".
Ask HN: Where to find the users for a goal-intelligence application
There's a (likely non-profitable) application I'd like to build based on providing people with information about their goals.

While its a pretty generalized need, I feel like there's a definite particular demographic that would enjoy using the application - People who are pro-technology, infovores, 'self-improvement' minded, people into self-directed education etc. I'm just not sure where to find those people.
How come then new OS feel sluggish on slightly older system. You would assume with better know how it would run better(Me running latest mac osx on old mac book pro)
Great article - I run a legal tech startup which automates some of the process work around litigation - https://rollrun.io and it's been receiving a lot of interest.

There have been a lot of the 'lawyers will be replaced by robots' type articles recently and I think the more positive spin is that lawyers will be able to spend their time more wisely with the help of AI. As a junior lawyer I spent a lot of time and effort doing tasks which were important to a case or a transaction but were more suited to a machine (the inspiration behind RollRun).

AI won't replace the skill and insight of a lawyer, but it will definitely speed us up and I'm grateful for that. And I'm sure clients will be too when it's reflected in fees.
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Isn't this a solved problem? People have been living in the ISS for years.
SOAP really excited me when I did some training on it a while back - then, I read about REST.

Now, REST is all over my life, and I have literally never used SOAP since that training.