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My general distaste for popular culture, I guess…
Seriously though: there are of course exceptions, but my experience is that videos with 2+ million views aren't for me, as well as all the videos and channels featured by youtube itself, which usually fall into this category. When I see those, I won't watch them, so might as well just filter them out. Especially true for music.
Just a personal preference, really.
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I don't think he was calling you stupid, podner :)

I just think "ah, it's a yes we have no bananas" and stop thinking about it :) It's nonzero cognitive load but it's not much.

I've dealt with enough active-low/inverting hardware such that "on" = 0 that it actually doesn't bother me at all. Assembly has that all through it at times.

Compared to reading code where people treat cell [1] as the first significant cell of an array ( usually translated from FORTRAN ) , this is a picnic.
If that is the case there must be vastly cheaper ways to provide that service.
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>> "My friends and I went "offline" and we are much closer and happier."

I'm guessing all your friends live nearby? If not, how do you keep in touch with them 'offline'?
> But there isn't really such a thing as a wrong political opinion.

True, but there is such a thing as being on the wrong side of history.

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/National...
There are photos of their bodies when they were found, as well as photos from the morgue. They are quite gruesome and can be found with Google Image Search by "дятлов тела" or "дятлов морг" keywords.
I agree - design by committee is probably the culprit.

Generally, when one (or a couple) experienced designers get their hands on a UI, it turns out alright. Its the 'mish-mash' effect where multiple people try to control the look and feel, where things go south.

This can be because of a literal committee, but it can also be due to poorly designed software trying to take away design decisions from the designer.

Just take a look at the mess CSS made of things in the browser. For years, it was easier to design something that looked good by just hard-coding an interface in a native language...
I think you are taking the abstraction too far. True, there are some very significant similarities but there are also differences and although they may be subtle, such differences can lead to vastly different uses. Facebook and Twitter were never "officially" about posting short-lived, single-view posts the way Snapchat is and I for one never used them like that (and I've been on both for many years).

You might be right about ads eventually ruining it, but that doesn't mean that it's otherwise identical.
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Aside from there being bugs, like videos not appearing in your subscriptions page, missing thumbnails, video (you just hear the audio of it) continuing to play in the background while you can browse the site normally?

One option I'm missing is as simple as reversing playlists (often they are in counter-chronological order when they shouldn't be) or that I can't order the subscribed channels on the left panel manually (I have so many subscriptions, that I have to get to the subscriptions manager, scroll all the way down and go to the second page to find some of my favorite channels) or infinite scroll which makes the viewport jump around when using the back button jump around and generally feels slow and clunky (although YT's implementation is not the worst out there at least.)

The player itself is quite nice here on Chromium (not HW-accelerated but that's a longstanding Chromium/Intel bug), I agree. Otherwise the site is relatively fast and reliable; I like especially the video streaming smoothness and automatic quality detection, which is lightyears ahead of anything I have seen elsewhere.
I don't have issues with the page design like the grand-parent does, but I'd like a way to make the video go "full window" in addition to "full screen" (yes I can fake this to some extent).
can you clarify what your specific issues have been? I think many of the readers on this thread, myself included, find it hard to believe that you've churned 10 employees and are having trouble recruiting and yet its THEM that's the problem and not you.
>...it works for a while until you get too big. Then you can't pay for it and you have to start inject ads...

In a rather serendipitious stroke Snapchat don't have to maintain armies of servers to hold years of user data (unlike Facebook or Twitter). I think this will help them a lot in the long run in keeping their costs low and advertising to a minimum.

This topic actually reminds me of that great Gavin Belson rant in Silicon Valley:

Gavin Belson: "Data creation is exploding. With all the selfies and useless files people refuse to delete on the Cloud - 92% of the world's data was created in the last two years alone. At the current rate, the world's data storage capacity will be overtaken by next Spring. It will be nothing short of a catastrophe: data shortages, data rationing, data black markets... Datageddon!"
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>>Examples: climate change denial, anti-vax, religion... They're the intellectual equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting

They aren't, you just don't understand it. Anti-vax people are often very well educated. Their position is that you can't trust the pharmaceutical corporation and the government to put health of the citizens above their profit.

99%+ of the population is in no position to make their own judgement about climate change or effectiveness of medical procedures. What most people do is choose who to believe. You choose to believe the government and the researches, some people don't. From purely incentive based analysis maybe those people are rational after all as they are very clearly not aligned in the interest of general population (the whole thing relies on assuming there would be enough whistleblowers among researchers and that they are in general ethical - both very shaky assumptions).

>>It's worth noting that all these things are driven by fear of things people don't understand.

No, they just don't believes the same authority figures as you do.

>>Someone who understands how vaccinations work, why we do them, why they're made the way they are can't be afraid of them, and thus won't be against them.

This comment is equivalent of sticking your fingers in your ears and shouting rather than seeking to actually understand the position of others.

Thinking like yours is a problem because it skips over actual problems: misaligned incentives, lack of transparency, history of corruption and politically motivated government policies (for example with anti-fat pro grain diet policy).
> All user written code is call-back based, reducing code complexity

I think this line deserves further explanation. (I wish people would just post the video of a talk instead of slides, they are often devoid of important context).
GP is probably including the time it takes to get to the airport, get through the baggage drop, security and boarding procedures, as well as get from the airport to their destination. It can easily add up if both they and their family live in places far from their respective airports, and we're talking intercontinental flight.
Still doesn't change the gains as I presented.
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Can you elaborate on the "bullshit is epic" part?
Funny, just this week I was looking for an easy solution to cluster storage for containers.

I found SXCluster and posted it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11812566 - not directly geared towards containers, but very easy to setup (no need for etcd and the like).
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Whether something is a war crime rather does depend on whether you are on the winning side or not.

e.g. Curtis LeMay stated that he thought that had the US lost the war with Japan "he fully expected to be tried for war crimes."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_LeMay
For me the site requires a video to be visible once, so it starts to play. Playlists, once started, play indefinitely in the background regardless.
i can understand where you're coming from. i've felt exactly the same about Martin Shkreli. people just went crazy about him, and few asked how to change the system to not allow it. but still, even if the system is wrong, so is Shkreli.

no system can be perfect. even in pure math you have Gödel. in the ugly gray world of real life, of human societies, it can only be worse. unpredictable outcomes, grey areas,.. they are unavoidable. so i think we must do both - create systems which try to guarantee good order, and always complement them with a human touch. and that means personal moral responsibility, and a duty to think of more than just satisfying the dead letter of the law. furthermore, a system which would exactly codify morality is probably impossible, or even deadly for society. (just imagine what it means to have laws covering everything that is immoral... it would be the most extremely totalitarian state imaginable.) a lot will always be left to people themselves, to decide and to enforce in this way, through open public discussions, and their ugly brother, public blaming and shaming. it not even clear: should we even make a law against what Mr Thiel is doing? the answer does not seem so easy to me.

also, how could this discussion even take place if no one should judge the actions of Mr Thiel? what kind of abstract articles would we then be reading? "somebody somewhere did something, we can't say too much about what, so you don't figure out who it is"? :)

BTW, is it not kinda funny to defend a well known libertarian by proposing a stricter system? :)
When you get access to a time machine, go back in time and have this argument with the poor grad student who committed this sin :)

In assembler, comparisons generally have a result of zero when things are the same because hardware works that way. If the difference between two voltages is zero, they "null" and are the same.

In a pidgin, non-real assembler I'm making up:

MOV AX,A_VARIABLE

MOV BX,B_VARIABLE

CMP AX,BX ;; or maybe AND AX,BX or XOR AX,BX because flags

JNE THEY_ARE_NOT_EQUAL

JMP THEY_ARE_EQUAL

...

THEY_ARE_EQUAL:

...

THEY_ARE_NOT_EQUAL:

In 'C' if I am really concerned about this, I will:

const bool TheThingMatches = (strcmp(a,b)==0);

Edit: It ate my line breaks.
This can be done with addons in TB :

- Expression search addon to filter/search the inbox.

- Nostalgy addon for moving mail (and navigating the mailbox only with the keyboard). This addon is basically required for serious usage. Just press b and a popup shows up and allows you tochoose folder with autocomplete.
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Maybe you have become biased by the number of views. You could try, as an experiment, to write a script that hides the number of views as well as likes and dislikes. Then keep track of the videos you liked and disliked and then check how many views they have.
I didn't think the question was so bad ... but the guess of cronyism is only one of half a dozen you could pick. As part of that list, it is in fact a possibility but to immediately jump to only that was a bit of a slight.

I'm also interested in the other half of the question - what made the MIT selection committee willing to promote an uncredentialed candidate - that's a gutsy move in a university environment as faculty are very protective of the status of their group.
I worked at a private University (as a conservative leaning independent) for 7 years. I found the University to be a hostile work environment for conservatives. In my case as well as others, that I met while there, it was enough to dissuade us from pursuing an advanced degree.

I worked with many wonderful academics, they are people that I still count among the smartest and kindest people that I have ever met. At the same time, they could be absolutely vicious towards conservative or religious ideals or individuals. There was regular conflict over the Catholic University's traditional masses and other gatherings. They would wrap themselves in a cloak of "Academic Freedom" as they denounced anything that they viewed as religious infringing on their positions.

It wasn't just religious issues that brought out the worst of them. I still remember how on the first anniversary of 9/11 a number of professors refused to participate in the memorial ceremony because the University's ROTC would be the color guard. They deemed their presence to be sending the wrong message and a validation of the war in Afghanistan.

All in all, it left a bad taste in my mouth and as time grew on it was no longer a place that I wished to be. If it wasn't for an online option at a different school, then I never would have pursued my masters degree.
Your example doesn't make a lot of sense. Opera can delete adresses from history. In fact, there are many things Opera does that other browsers can't.
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Wouldn't this theory be among the considered ones for the investigation in a country like Russia, experienced with cold related issues? And why would they have been so inclined to make this secret for over forty years?
That's actually semi-polite of the API. You can hide packet reassembly behind a facade in that way.
This is fantastic, it's always been a pain to move between Youtube videos at social happenings. Out of curiosity, are there any plans to make this a collaborative feature, perhaps just over the local network by integrating with Chromecast?
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Sometimes it's just a nice past time as well. Oh i'm sat waiting for the train, might as well see what everyone is up to today/last night.
this is war fetishism, pure and simple. For some, war is romantic and they like to ruminate over it. It's gross. Those that enjoy it are animals.
I would say "mud" instead of "dust".
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That's unfortunate; but on the other hand, I'd guess that 99% of LFS installations are abandoned sooner or later.

LFS is pretty good at teaching you what a working Linux system is made out of. It's not a productive way of actually creating a useful Linux system; it's simply not practical to select and compile all your dependencies from source without automation. But the lack of automation is exactly what makes it pedagogical.

As such, it's not wholly clear to me that you need to go through the steps. But performing them certainly makes the experience more visceral, and fixing minor issues along the way (if you can) improves your confidence installing software from tarballs when they're not available or are out of date in your distro's repository.
This is my personal experience as a YouTube user:

- There are these weirdly looking fixed (Googleish) bars for no other reason than to steal my screen space.

- Recommendations are mostly awful (10 things that will shock you!) or videos I have already watched.

- The subscription to a whole channel is a dumb concept. I usually care only about specific series of videos, not the whole channel. Example: New movie reviews, not the bullshit rambling filler videos. The effect is that I often unsubscribe from the whole channel even though there is some interesting content.

- The video controls cover part of the video for no apparent reason.

- The volume control slider disappears for no reason when you move the cursor away from it.

- There are wrong defaults like showing annotations or autoplay.

- Annotations are abused so much that you cannot leave them enabled.

- Obvious missing feature: Next/previous buttons for videos that belong to a series. Playlists are used as a bad workaround.

- I can only use YouTube on my Desktops because that's where the ad blocker works.

- Obvious missing feature: Donations to content creators.

I don't think this is a big company problem. It is a culture problem. When your boss has no taste and does not take criticism very well, you end up with wrecks like Twitter, Google+ or YouTube.
I blame Ben Franklin for guessing wrong about the sign of the charge of the electron.

(I keed, I keed )
They're not rogue agencies. They're doing exactly what they have been empowered to do. All these opinions from other parts of the government do that appear to be in conflict with that make it look like the government wants them to stop, so people think that the government is looking out for their well being.

The various TLA's in the US are operating as intended.
Among other things:

They ought to have a clear indicator of thumbs up/down ratio on each video thumbnail (a couple pixel bar at the bottom colored green/red would easily do the trick). That would save plenty of time that would otherwise be spent watching some troll video or annoying commentary/reaction edit of some other person's work.
Certainly not in the same league as this, and restricted to only recent electronic music, there is Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music: http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/
That's an interesting thought. I have no idea how complicated this is, but I wonder if a Spotify or Pandora has a chance to some day develop something that can _generate_ music tuned specifically to the listening habits of individual users.
A classic text on the philosophical underpinnings of (US) liberalism with regard to economic redistribution policies is A Theory of Justice by John Rawls, a renowned professor of philosophy at Harvard.

After reading Rawls, I'd suggest maybe reading Robert Nozick's libertarian leaning Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Nozick was another distinguished philosopher from Harvard writing about the same time as Rawls. Nozick comes to a completely different conclusion than Rawls.

Both books are good and completely accessible to an ordinary reader (i.e. philosophy degree not required). However, they are serious and not as entertaining as the Friedmans' Free to Choose. While the two philosophy books address the question of what should a fair society look like from a philosophical perspective, I feel they don't address the aspects of human nature that have proven troublesome in socialist economies as well as Free to Choose.

Finally another classic, The Fatal Conceit by F. A. Hayek considers the practicality of socialism from an economic position in a more focused way. Like the previously mentioned books, it is an easy read.

These books may not reflect cutting edge thought, having been written in the 70's and 80's, but they were a useful starting point for me when I started to think about these issues more deeply and they are considered seminal works that in my opinion shouldn't be skipped while studying the questions of political and economic theory.

A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell further reflects on this question and makes some conclusions about why smart people end up disagreeing in such fundamental ways. I find Sowell's thinking and writing to be clear and well expressed.

Finally, an interesting book addresses the puzzling and related question of why does the academic community so easily accommodate views so antithetical to a scientific world view. I believe that this at the heart of the questions raised by the original NYT piece. The book is Higher Superstition by Gross and Levitt. While interesting this book is erudite and seems directed to narrower audience than those mentioned above, expecting a well-read reader.

[1] Rawls, A theory of justice. http://www.amazon.com/Theory-Justice-John-Rawls/dp/067400078...

[2] Nozick, Anarchy, state and utopia. http://www.amazon.com/Anarchy-State-Utopia-Robert-Nozick/dp/...

[3] Milton and Rose Friedman, Free to choose: a personal statement. http://www.amazon.com/Free-Choose-Statement-Milton-Friedman/...

[4] Hayek and Bartley, The fatal conceit: the errors of socialism. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_9?url=search-alias%...

[5] Gross and Levitt, Higher superstition: the academic left and its quarrels with science. http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dst...
Perhaps due to the behaviour of the politicians more than their policies. A lot of left wing politicians and parties seem to be openly condescending to people they consider 'uninformed', whereas a lot of right wing ones will at least pretend to understand where they're coming from.

Perhaps also because some people value social attitudes more than economic ones. Perhaps some people say, dislike immigration more than they dislike economic inequality. Maybe people would vote for parties with 'liberal' economic views and 'conservative' social ones, or 'conservative' economic views and 'liberal' social ones.
The TV person is obviously distinguishable, but the non-playing character in the VR I described would not be.
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That is actually a neat idea. Trying it out now :)
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Why does it need permission to Read and Change the data on _all_ of the websites that a user visits?

There are so many cool extensions but most of them need access to every single domain - even if its functionality doesn't need it. Which is what keeps me (and probably a lot many other people) away from installing them.
this is meat fetishism, pure and simple. For some, meat is romantic and they like to masticate it. It's gross. Those that enjoy it are murderers.
I was about to attempt this as well but I am glad I read your post first. Which version of LFS did you follow. There seem to be 3 -- current, stable and systemd? Thanks.
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I think the confusing thing was the injuries. Apparently the injuries found on some of the bodies would require a considerable amount of force to inflict. (being hit by a car level of force)

So what caused these injuries, and why did only some of the bodies have them?

This is the main mysterious part of the event for me.
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