skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that it's more possible now to switch/choose alignment than it ever was. And being 'more possible' means that it must be happening more.

But "why people choose the communities they align with" doesn't seem much different than "why people have their opinions." Are we carefully choosing who we align ourselves with, any more than we're choosing our opinions?

I don't think there's any test for this, or any cure, other than making time to ruminate, meditate, and ponder. Alone. Free from distractions and other voices.

And if that's the case, isn't it at least possible that today it's both easier to switch communities, and less likely to be for any principled reason?
The Discourse implementation of a mailing list is subpar. Many emails are delivered out-of-order or not delivered at all, the sender's email is not set in the from field, so you cannot glance at your inbox and see who replied to a thread and so many other issues. Google Groups is a far better alternative if you do not need open-source and need a mailing list that just works.
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Well you misstated it then. You said they 'without having to pay taxes'. This is false. They do have to pay the taxes. And the cash hoard might technically be 'growing' but there is a corresponding liability that is growing too - so it's no longer Apple's money to do what they want with - it's owed to creditors.

So the 'film-flam' as you call it avoids no taxes with regard to the cash-horde.
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It's not clear from the article what the input data is. I had a look in the repo, it wasn't clear from that either. Is it the normal fare you'd expect?

I've heard of prop betting firms using stuff like "distance travelled by the away team" and other logical things like that.
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Interesting. Will check it out!
I was only commenting on the first-party code bloat side of the problem mentioned in the article, and I realize this only addresses a part of it. Asset bloat and third party scripts are entirely different beasts that can only really be tackled on a case-by-case basis.
Yes, the equivalent of the BIOS on PCs.
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That's a proven approach going back decades. A number of banks do it, too, because it often works well enough in practice where data isn't lost. A trick on that is having something on each end that sort of checksums the data(base) for certain time periods to see if anything was lost. Then, resends that stuff. My use of that was inspired by the transport layer of the Tsunami file-transfer protocol with the implementation very similar, too. :)
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And that's why I think questions like "whether the car will be programmed to kill you or someone else" are missing the point. The car won't have an explicit decision point like that! Evaluating pros and cons is what humans do because it's hard for us to do any better. A car can be continuously observing, updating and navigating the solution space, and if it ends up killing someone, it's either because of not having sufficient data, or not being able to stay within its envelope on the solution space (i.e. a situation when it's physically impossible for it to avoid a collision). I don't see why a car would ever have an explicit if(something()) { killDriver(); } else { killTarget(); }. "Killing" won't even be a concept in code.
Which ones and protection against what attacks?
While there's for sure a use case where what you're describing is 100% appropriate, and in those cases, yes, you need some of that complexity - a good majority of blog-like things on the internet are by and large managed by a single person, and something like Jekyll or even just writing in HTML directly is totally fine.

In fact, this is the exact point the author brought up - of course a lot of this complexity has it's uses - complex systems aren't invented just for the sake of complicating things. But instead of assuming that every single thing you write needs to be written to the most complicated standards you can imagine, we should instead be focused on "What's the simplest way I can deliver this experience right now?".

Really, it's another way of expressing YAGNI, which apparently the development community has completely forgotten in their quest for the latest and greatest.
Twain was wrong on his main point. He claims self-approval as the motivator for following fashions (of all sorts), but most conformity comes from trying to navigate life: we do what works for our neighbors. IBMs dress code wasn't adopted because coworkers liked the fashion, but because if you wanted to work at IBM you needed to wear the uniform. Time and interest are limited, and copying is easy.

> Do you believe that a tenth part of the people, on either side, had any rational excuse for having an opinion about the matter at all? I studied that mighty question to the bottom -- came out empty. ... We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon.

This mistakes the value of expressing an opinion or having a vote. First, there's the personal benefit of investigating and thinking something through (even if you "came out empty"). Second, there's a public benefit to encouraging people to investigate and thinking something through on their own. Third, the 'wisdom of the crowd' might be right, show us new ideas, or offer insight and wisdom.

--

This essay seems related to Paul Grahams "How to Do What You Love". He wrote that when deciding what to do, we should consider what's respected by our peers.

> What you should not do, I think, is worry about the opinion of anyone beyond your friends. You shouldn't worry about prestige. Prestige is the opinion of the rest of the world. When you can ask the opinions of people whose judgement you respect, what does it add to consider the opinions of people you don't even know? [4]

> This is easy advice to give. It's hard to follow, especially when you're young. [5] Prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. It causes you to work not on what you like, but what you'd like to like.

http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html
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I'm most fascinated by the slides on the bookmarking sites. I'd really, really like to know exactly how a bookmarking site with 3k daily users manages to rack up a $23,000 monthly AWS bill, that they only managed to reduce to $9,000. Did they try as hard as possible to split everything out among as many AWS services as possible? Yikes.

I just threw up a little blog and a few tinkering sites on AWS. Looked around at a few blogging systems. Guess I coulda used Wordpress or Ghost or some other DB backed thingy and used one, or two or three, of their database services for the backend, which would probably be much more expensive and hard to maintain. Decided to go with Jekyll instead. Don't need anything but a nginix now.
Did you have citations for those artists? We're you hindered by the lack of citations possible for artists who weren't written about?

Sadly, wikipedia doesn't support the notion of citing "art installed at so and so location, viewed by so and so people" unless someone wrote it down in a western publication.

In a real sense, an encyclopedia is a history of books, not a history of the world. This is an unfortunate consequence of writing's special "viral" place among forms of communication, and the medium is the message etc
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I usually learn best when there is a reason, an immediate benefit, for doing so.
Find a project that interests you and start working on it. You'll see what you need to learn more about to get it done, and that provides the motivation and context for learning it.

If that's not enough or too hard, find someone who knows what you want to learn, and talk with them, work with them.

Sorry if that's vague, but provide some more details about what you want to learn and/or your goals, and more help can be provided.

But your intuitions are right - video is not ideal at all for learning. Most people stop watching after the first 4-6 minutes (http://blog.edx.org/optimal-video-length-student-engagement). See also:
http://linkis.com/papers.ssrn.com/sol3/mYfya
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/in-online-courses-stu...
http://www.wired.com/2015/08/learning-physics-tough-get-used...
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2015/07/01/why...
http://pgbovine.net/publications/edX-MOOC-video-production-a...
http://www.tonybates.ca/2012/03/10/pedagogical-roles-for-vid...
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I wonder what your company would do if you chose a short position with your options.

But I guess what you're given pretty much assume a long position.

The little I know of options (and how no human can never ever guess the strike price!).
There's an ad on some pages:

"Converted from HSXML by HSXML->HTML"

Bloat!
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Exactly. Plus, botnet capacity was cheaper than AWS last I checked where it was around $1 a machine. So easy to pull this off on the cheap that it could be anyone for any reason.
Their open source repository is full of interesting things to learn: https://github.com/discourse/discourse
> There has been a lot of negative press lately,

In am extremely small geek bubble. Your non-HN/Reddit neighbors aren't aware of such press.
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Based on Caniuse[0] data, it looks like that «srcset» is not supported on pre Lollipop stock browser on Android devices. So, it is still not a feasible solution.

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An English teacher I had once explained that this works because you're engaging different areas of your brain in writing notes than you are in reading them. She also recommended handwritten notes because typing did not promote effective recall or understanding.
Ha, would be funny if the internal setup were like that.

I wouldn't be too quick to assume bad faith on the companies part though. Sometimes agile companies have these vanity metrics as a proxy to keep their development environments and processes in check. (ie: are things set up well enough with a fast test suite so that developers are comfortable committing/pushing/deploying frequently with confidence?)

That's why I phrased it as a query as to the reasoning behind the metric as it could be easily read as the company using a poor performance metric.
Don't.

Better spend a couple of weeks selecting one and do a damn good product.

I know where you come from, I mean that feeling of having muchas 'great' ideas and wanting to try them all. Many of us HN readers feel the same. That's great, the world needs great ideas, but it also needs great ideas that turn into great products (not necessarily talking money here).

If you are old enough you'll remember them CDs with 'one hundred PC games'. It was fine to kill some time playing somewhat fun games but not one was a great game. Same will happen with your 50 MVPs.

Pick one, run the full course. You will not get bored of adding features to a successful product.

What to do with the other 49? Share them, write them down, colab with someone already doing them, plan them for the future, etc.
I know it's all over the place even cold sore virus I've heard is a risk.

There is diabetes on both sides of my family (I'm not diabetic) and I get cold sores too but nobody on either side of my family has or ever had Alzheimer's Disease.
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They do. You can transfer a repo to another user account. GitHub even supplies a Redirect for the old URL.
I don't understand this website. It still seems like video based learning. Am I missing something?
There are editors that do such things. However, I've never seen one that does it well. It tends to break down if you're editing code and have a temporary intermediate stage that's syntactically invalid. It's also not great in the face of copy-pasting, especially if you're rearranging code in ways that breaks blocks. You're easily left with code that's been "autocorrected" resulting in everything after a certain point being indented one level too much or too little. In a brace-using language that would correspond to an extra closing brace (or a missing closing brace), and it's easy to fix. In an indent language, fixing it is more of a hassle.

Also if you have unmatched braces, that's generally a trivial parse error - the compiler (or linter) will check that and find that every time. But with indents, if the outcome of some code refactoring accidentally broke the indent and everything after some point is over-indented, that tends to superficially work (I've actually made that mistake several times in coffeescript).

Additionally, diffing tools I know of can be set to ignore whitespace, which makes common code changes much easier to understand. If, on the other hand, you do that with an indent-sensitive language you're going to miss indent-changes entirely. That's just a practical tooling problem - you could write a diff that works just as well for indent-based languages - but it's a practical problem nonetheless.

All in all, I think it's a much better idea to have braces. If you think they're ugly, use your syntax highlighter to deemphasize them. A smart code editor could even omit the braces entirely in normal, syntactically valid code (which I'm not suggesting is necessarily a good idea, but it's possible).
Guesstimate is napkin math. It makes no sense to spend an inordinate amount of time fine-tuning the distribution when both the distribution and its parameters are just best guesses. The important part is the propagation of uncertainty across many dependent variables, and the normal distribution is often good enough for that purpose. Whenever it isn't, for me that'd be a sign to use a proper statistical model instead. MCMC was invented to do inference on models of arbitrary complexity, with however much or little data you might have.
Who was supposed to be maintaining it?
educators have always hated everything new, and encyclopedia had never been a valid source for a research paper. That has nothing to do with wikipedia
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The only difference it makes is that a properly programmed car is guaranteed to make a near-optimal decision. I can't imagine a situation where human driver could react better than an autonomous car when facing an imminent collision.

The question mostly boils down to whether the car should be optimizing locally or globally - whether it should care only about the interests of the driver, or it should strive for an optimal outcome for all parties involved. The latter doesn't sit well with many people.
I agree. I've noticed that programmers are often evangelical about their favorite language, and it gets tiring sometimes to say "yeah, but..." Sometimes, you just need a different tool, and efforts to make one language do absolutely everything well are not usually the best way to spend one's time.
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I'm curious about the stuff that's hard to replicate. Don't most of them store their stuff in files? Could those users perhaps use a distributed filesystem for replication? Clustered filesystems were used in supercomputers, are used by Google, and similar methods go back to VMS systems on VAXen.

I'm not saying something off-the-shelf will work or out of the box. Just seems like there would be a clear path for admins or developers of such software to integrate it with... something [1]... that did that.

[1] Example: http://sector.sourceforge.net/
Nice to see a local company(I can almost see your office from my house!) on here using a newer language!
That only covers a subset of what you need to know. :-)
The difference being?
RSpec remains one of the more controversial testing approaches in the Ruby community. DHH, for example, consistently knocks it. In this I think Hickey's comment remains gold: "there is no syntax you can create that will improve upon pure data".

But then I used midje (a Clojure analog to RSpec) with glee, so, by gum, my position is even incoherent.
Did anyone mirror/archive all his blog posts? I was always meaning to do that but never got around to it.
You're exactly right; ES6 modules can solve this. Rollup (an ES6 bundler) has tree shaking [1] and also smaller bundle sizes in general [2].

[1]: http://rollupjs.org/
[2]: https://github.com/nolanlawson/rollup-comparison
Then what's your take on my suggestion?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10822904

EDIT to add: Good work on Unison btw.
Then by all means, use Ruby. Most langs have epoll.
That would explain why engineers often dress like shit.