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> Why are you so vehemently disagreeing with someone else's anecdotal experience?

> His opinion is wrong because you read something and just had a baby?

To be clear, what I am about to say is a response only to your post, not to the debate about the accuracy of the article.

Although it was supported by opinion and anecdotal experience, the main thrust of bsder's post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12670315) seemed to be that the article, not his or her opinion, was a matter of assumption:

> I hate these kinds of assumptions ...

and that his or her objection was a matter of fact:

> The biggest difference between adults and children is not neuroplasticity--the biggest difference is TIME.
Actually, not so much. There was some but largely limited advertising in the 19th century, but the start date was February of 1860, when The Atlantic accepted its first print ad. The practice exploded in the late 19th and early 20th century, with the rise of the factory process and widespread distribution networks, such that goods could be centrally produced and sold in distant markets.

Alexander Holt discussed this in a 1909 lecture, "Commercialism and Journalism", presented at the University of California and published as a small book. It's available on the Internet Archive, and the first section has a considerable overview of advertising practices and statistics:

https://archive.org/stream/commercialismjou00holtuoft#page/n...

Quoting:

In olden times the dailies carried only a very little advertising --- a few legal notices, an appeal for the return of a strayed cow, or a house for sale. It is only within the past fifty years that advertising as a means of bringing together the producer and consumer began. And, curiously enough, the men who first began to appreciate the immense selling-power that lay in the printed advertisment were "makers", or "fakirs", of patent medicines. The beginning of modern advertising is in fact synchronous with the beginnings of the patent-medicine business.

The remainder of the essay is mostly a cautionary exploration of the consequences of commercially-financed press.
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Wasn't this the exact premise of another HN article on dating, and how few choices are better?
Thank you, this weird myth that women are just walking around with this amazing pool of compatible men to choose from needs to go away and definitely has no place here. Even for women for whom there is a really large pool, which is not all women, it just creates a lot of extra noise to sift through but it's not really quality.

From what I heard, nobody gets anything serious started in clubs. Bars are probably better but, quite honestly, I don't feel safe going to a bar by myself late in the evening.
Coding costs money to.

You have to motivate designers etc. in a similar way as you motivate coders to work on the project.
A lot of Christian martyrs were martyred outside of battle. Like, the entire first 300 or so years of Christianity, for starters. Also Christians living under Muslim rule.
Our society needs to learn the basics of reasoning, stat!
I went to the Decentralised Web conference in June. Fantastic venue, good talks, and lots of interesting people to talk with during the breaks. I blogged about the experience http://blog.markwatson.com/2016/06/action-items-after-attend...

Until recently, I was trying to go 'all in' by favoring GNU Social over centralized social media, almost always running Linux on the laptop, etc.

I have backed off somewhat, realizing that my workflow for writing books and consulting is more efficient using OSX, and sometimes Facebook and G+ are much better at connecting with friends and better for publicizing book updates, etc. than GNU Social.

I am trying to live in a practical 'middle ground' where I can get my work done and still participate in keeping the web open and decentralized.

Two new developments that are promising: a Ruby version of GNU Social that uses the same protocols that looks much more hackable, and TBL's W3C Solid project.
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If you haven't already seen IndieHackers, it's worth taking a look -- lots of stories about side projects and their associated incomes: https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses
Twice the number surviving one year without the side effects of chemotherapy seems like a pretty big improvement to me, although there are a lot of news articles prematurely hyping "cures for cancer" that will probably never see the light of day.
Same here with Opera 40.0.2308.81, on OSX 10.11.6.

Made a quick screencast showing the problem:

http://ded.ninja/meteortoys/meteor_toys-website_problem1.mp4

(and yeah, I haven't bothered to set up https on that box ;>)

Update - Same problem happens with all 3 browser extensions disabled. (https everywhere, ublock origin, privacy badger)
I learnt a practical amount of a second language at 30. The first 3 or so months were super hard and I found that to even remember basic words I would have to repeat them about 10 times. But then I felt my brain changing and I could remember new words much more easily. About a year after that I picked up another language and this time my experience was that I could remember the words a fair amount quicker. So from personal experience - my brain just needed the stimuli for a prolonged period then it seemed to change
Unfortunately this doesn't seem to expose nearly enough features to the programmer of mods. No way to do direct rendering of your own, add AIs, or many other much needed things.

You can basically just define blocks and HUD items and that's it.

Good work on writing the engine, just needs a little more work on the API side.
Or if GitHub became Sourceforge.
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And your wiki, and all links leading to your project and all tooling you've built around.
I'm probably not the only one but aiming for something that is small enough that I ca run on my own and it makes little enough that only pays for me is more attractive to me than to make more money but then have to deal with hiring people and so on.
I would disagree with that. Github shows a lot of the benefits of centralization, where they get network effects from forks and pull requests when these do not have to cross git server boundaries.

Using external services in your build process has little to do with centralization. People that do not realize that having an external dependency in there is bad, will also not realize that having two or more of them is bad. That does not mean that you are not allowed to sync stuff in from github, but your release should be buildable without internet connection from local data.
I have been thinking kind of along the same lines. I work full time but I can carve out 5-8 hours a week to work on some research project and add value as a technologist. I would love to contribute especially to projects and folks working in the medical field trying to fight diseases, finding cure and advance genetic engineering to name a few.

I think a lot of people would love to contribute their free time and together that would mean thousands of hours of help into these projects which could mean that the goals could be achieved sooner. The problem is I don't know where to start and which projects would benefit from my 5-8 hours a week. This seems like the same problem I have with contributing towards open source projects.

I would love to talk more and see if there is a viable solution out there.
Well, they were similar, but showed variation. Now all we need to do is introduce selection, and the articles can write and evolve themselves!
They're interlinked. I've found that when I make more sales on my project, I'm motivated to do more work. Then when there's a lull, I think "I need to give up and start a new project". Money's a powerful motivator - if anything because it proves people really want your work.
HN, a predominantly male audience, is probably not where you want to promote this, though doing so won't hurt.

I think the idea will gain traction, just promote it to a fashion-conscious audience - women.
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No idea about the other things, but the wiki is just an additional git repo that you can check out like any other one.
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>Why are you so vehemently disagreeing with someone else's anecdotal experience?

Because it was communicated while dissing on the article and the research results, as if personal experience trumps everything and those people that say otherwise are just lazy.

>His opinion is wrong because you read something and just had a baby?

No, but your comment is wrong because you put words in the other guy's month that he didn't say to manipulate people's perception of his argument.

He doesn't say the other guy is wrong "because he read something and just had a baby".

That is, he doesn't say: "You're wrong because I read War And Peace and also just had a baby, so I'm right".

He says that the other guy is wrong because his anecdotal opinion doesn't agree with what brain development books say.

So, (a) he only mentions the fact that he had a baby as an aside, to just convey us his motivation behind "reading up on brain development", and (b) he is not just saying he "read something", he's saying he read books about brain development.

You can dispute whether he did or not, or come up with other books on brain development that say otherwise, but your framing of what he said is in bad faith.
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Doubling survival rates while having far less severe side effects along with proven effectiveness on multiple different types of cancer is definitely a major breakthrough. This is also based on human trails and not rats in a lab.
Sometimes selfish rather than racist. I've had a discussion with a coworker from a suburb who was against a referendum on a state affordable housing law. He was worried it would let poor people move in and use his town's good schools without "paying their fair share." So there are lots of bad reasons for these rather than just racism.
Being able to successfully ship things is a useful muscle to develop. People who can program radically overestimate where the bar is for being able to charge money for things. (And underestimate how much money businesses pay for just about everything.)
Do you have any examples so that we can base it on these?
This has been one of the reasons life logging has been interesting to me.

It might be a while before we can "upload" your brain, but we can build a predictive model of your behavior and leave an interactive "autobiography" much sooner.
I can only speak to the parts I know about.
I've been playing a bit with ZeroNet [https://zeronet.io/] lately; it's quite usable despite being a fairly new project.
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Well, that's the problem with relative numbers. If my absolute chance of survival increases from 0.1% to 0.2%, I'll take a pass.
I actually said "which passages they believe are applicable to the present situation" which is quite different from "which passages to believe"[1]

Fiqh literally is the principle of interpreting how actions and statements made by Muhammad at various times during his rather turbulent life should be applied as behavioural rules and guidelines for Muslims living under different circumstances today and in the future. For example, Islamic scholars differ hugely on whether the "sword verse" abrogated all prior calls for religious tolerance found in the Quran or was better understood from the context of the surrounding passage as a conditional and quite specific directive targeted at particular pagan groups in the event of them opting to violate a ceasefire during the time of Mohammed (and of course there is plenty of scope for scholars following the latter interpretation to nevertheless claim a particular side of a particular conflict is an analogous situation...). Needless to say, the interpretations found on websites like "Answering Islam" are not necessarily the most authoritative or representative of mainstream Muslim belief.

[1]if this is because you have a more general difficulty or unwillingness to interpret even simple, uncontroversial sentences written in modern English using their most natural meaning, the study of Islamic theology probably isn't for you...
Didn't GitHub jump the shark already after that notorious faux diversity presentation?
We have money to fight climate change. We're spending it on defense
And then you still need the infrastructure to run it on a site where contributors already have an account or don't mind the extra burden of registration.
That's just classism rather than racism.
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Indie Hackers (http://indiehackers.com) also has some great projects earning over $1k/mo on it. It's been on the front page of HN multiple times.
Interesting observation about the legal protections you mentioned.

While it's just one case, I think this is illustrative of how seriously certification, licensing, and other exams are taken in the rest of the world. Exams can be useful and perhaps even essential, but they aren't trivial. It's a big deal to put someone through this. It is important to have safeguards to ensure fairness, integrity, and consistency.

One of the reasons we don't have this in tech is that companies have no incentive to be transparent about their exams, because they fear lawsuits. They'd much rather reply "we've decided not to pursue your candidacy further at this time" than tell you specifically what you did wrong during their technical exams (they really aren't interviews, they are exams - calling them interviews just confuses people who aren't familiar with what goes on in tech).

The thing is, these exams really are formal affairs. My understanding is that if you applied to google, there is a database entry somewhere with your name, screen captures of what you wrote at the whiteboard, notes on your performance, and a score. However, the person who has been through the tests have more or less no rights to any of this information.

I suppose some people might say "well, that's their business, if you don't like it, don't apply." My response is, yeah, exactly. I believe tech culture turns off a huge number of people - these interview exams are a notable part of this, along with back visibility, open offices, micromanagement, and concerns about career longevity are other. I believe that people with choice, those who aren't obliged to work for a particular employer in a particular field as a condition of living in the US are choosing not to work in tech. There's a constant drum beat about this shortage, from a field that puts candidates through this constantly.

I do think that tests without any protections for the examinee is one of many things tech may need to reconsider to attract people with choice into this field. I see no reason for government to get involved in helping tech get workers without while going about business as usual.
Many rely on Github for more than source control hosting and issues. It's really not a non-issue.
The problem is I find it hard and expensive to get traffic coming in.

So what if I find a useful app but it is getting 5 visits per day?

My personality is not terribly compatible with the type of marketing that I see some people do nowadays like social media stuff or dumping an ad about their startup as a Quora answer or writing "How I learned blah ..." posts on medium.
The most advanced decentralized system Ive seen in web 3.0 is also the one Tim Berners-Lee talks about, solid. While still very new, I think it has more than sufficient power to take back your data from the large monopolies. One nice feature, as you'd expect from the inventor of the web, is that it's 100% backwards compatible with existing Web technology.

https://github.com/solid/solid

Link to github repo above
TL;DR: the article doesn't even attempt to answer the question asked in the title :(
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I love the way Ben shared his thought in The Shape of Content :)
ellcc is a cool cross-compiler that supports many (all?) of the llvm backends as targets. Pretty handy IMO.
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So it's C's scanf(), but for Python?
There are more than 2 :)
But since most use the free plan, the 2 I was referring to make up almost 80% of the monthly income.
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When most of the lower class in a certain area in the US is non-white, they're both the same thing.
Could you link to it?
A real barrier to a decentralised web is the difficulty of installing software on a server. I know that sounds really mundane and inconsequential in the broader debate about a decentralised web, but consider the following...

Imagine if installing a server-side chat app, message board, project management app, or CMS were as easy as installing a desktop app. In a desktop app, it's usually one click to start the install and then, if necessary, you're guided through a few screens to complete the install. Want to uninstall? The OS (operating system) will provide a feature to manage that.

Now consider how complicated installing on a server is in contrast. Upload you files to a folder or directory, enable permissions, set configurations not just for your server but also the language the program is written in - the list goes on. No wonder SaaS (Software as a Service) is thriving like never before. Who, other than technical folks, could possibly have the time, interest or inclination to set up a self-hosted solution when the barrier is so high? Perhaps some in the tech field would like to keep it that way? Would Saas be less attractive if installing a self-hosted solution was simple, easy, quick and secure?

Surely an essential part of a decentralised web is that companies, organisations and individuals choose to run their own software using open protocols and data formats. But until the ease, security and simplicity of installation improves for web software, it simply won't happen on a large scale.
I am a long time IRC user (irssi is my 'daily driver'), but I'm pretty sure IRCv3 is called "Slack".
Except there are a lot of OSS and side projects hosted on github. It will take a long time for these to find their backups and move to another service. And some will lose source code due to faulty or outdated backups.
I tried releasing an iOS sticker pack app that had an actual use case (allowing you to markup and annotate iMessage conversations). I was hoping would give some passive income. Had a good first day and then dropped off a cliff.

Link: https://appsto.re/us/zMHnfb.i?app=messages
I have no idea where the mangled paragraphs came from - they weren't in the version I sent TechCrunch :(
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Anyone who visits your site (who are more likely to be interested in and knowledgeable about your niche than random people here) could copy it if they wanted to.

By posting here you may increase your traffic/ad revenue, now and/or in the future (not everyone cares about or has the time to rip off every site they see), and you may get some constructive, helpful comments or advice.

Totally your choice, just giving possible benefits.
>> we don't have liberal newspapers anymore in the U.S.
>Most conservatives would say the papers and media outlets are _all_ liberal.

I think this effect can be best demonstrated by a conversation I had with a Google fan last week. In particular, I've had an ongoing banter with him about his choice to refer to The Verge as "iVerge". I find this very odd, that people believe The Verge has a strong Apple bias.

You see, The Verge regularly gets exclusive interviews and opportunities from Google. When the Pixel was announced, The Verge staff had already been sent a demo unit, and they had a ton of quotes from senior Google employees available to use in their article, written in advance. Why would an Apple-biased blog be given so much direct access to Google? And this isn't new by any stretch of the imagination.

What I've come to recognize is that The Verge will shill for anyone who gives them the goods. Exclusives are as valuable as Google or Apple outright cutting them a check, because it guarantees a ton of page views. Apple and Google both are pretty manipulative when it comes to their press, and unsurprisingly, The Verge rarely posts hard-hitting critical material of either, because hurting a company's reputation in an article is a great way to get blacklisted by their PR team.

Anyways, the point of the story: The Google fan stated that even though The Verge seemed equally positive about both companies, that it was Google, in his opinion, which was innovative and did amazing things. So by giving Apple similar coverage, The Verge was being biased towards Apple. Because in his opinion, Apple didn't deserve the praise, but Google did.

If you are a biased viewer, a moderate voice can be quickly confused with bias for the other side. This is also, for instance, why liberals think I'm a conservative, and conservatives think I'm a liberal.
Eh, you are not the one with problems noticing the without part. Pattern matching is powerful.
Jihad was invented by Muhammad who was political and military leader in need of big army to enable his conquest of Arabia. So when Muhammad spoke about Jihad he meant it quite literaly: kill the infidels.

That "spiritual struggle" interpretation was invented later, by some imams, who turned out to be better, more peaceful and compassionate human beings than the prophet himself.
It seems to me that one significant barrier is that most people don't have a static IP. If we can move to IPv6, will ISPs start issuing static IPs for everyone by default?
It is not viable until there is an order of magnitude cheaper storage (e.g $1/1TB) and cheaper/faster bandwidth. For the latter it is becoming more expensive and slower lately.
I can't seem to find the reference to it, but there was a link on HN a couple of years ago of a dad who taught kids (9 year olds IIRC) to program a robot by creating a real world obstacle course, giving them a basic set of "commands" that they could put together on post-it notes and a parent or another kid being the "robot" that "ran these instructions".

I have used this to introduce my son to the basics - and call it "post-it" programming. We built a few obstacle courses around the house. The most advanced we got was to "unload the dish washer", that resulted in him "inventing" functions.

It typically works better when some one else "executes" the program, since bugs are easier to surface and debugging is a lot more fun.

That said, my son has since learnt to read and write. There is greater enthusiasm to "type" on a computer than use post-it notes.

Hopefully this can be adapted to your friend's circumstance. Best wishes to him.
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That's what I figured on both accounts. I guess I'm just bothered by the obvious inefficiency of Minecraft versus practically any other Java game I've played. Even other Java-based voxel games have far better performance.
And a bit more background on RedHack and its ongoing efforts against the government:
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