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Some issues dismissed as partisan anti-factualism actually mask layers of nuance.* Political discussion is almost entirely about stressing different layers of nuance and dismissing or eliding the nuance of your opponents as irrelevant.

So if you were to ask someone in a survey for their opinion, they might respond according to their preferred level of nuance on the politically charged topic, throwing a monkey wrench if the underlying presumption of the question is overly simplistic. They might provide a contrarian response because they see the question as loaded, as in "Did you stop beating your wife?"

An incentive though turns the game into a Keynesian beauty contest, and makes people fall back on the perceived popular answer, even if they don't think it's right.

* All the examples of this are incredibly fraught and risk sidetracking the entire discussion. Kindly only read these if you can charitably look for the meta-rhetorical point. But imagine:

Did Trump support the war in Iraq? Depends on whether a half-hearted 'yes' on Howard Stern really counts.

Did Bill Clinton lower the deficit? Depends on how much you believe the Republican House forced his hand and was the real actor.

Did Reagan end the cold war? Depends on how much you want to credit internal political factors or the role of Gorbachev.

Were WMDs found in Iraq? Depends on whether you count sarin-tipped warheads found in 2005, seed material found at Tuwaitha, or if you're referring exclusively to the Hans Blix UN investigations or assembled nuclear munitions.

The study designers tried to use careful phrasing to avoid some of these problems. Even so, there are some questionable ones. "Did inflation rise under Reagan?" Of course it did! At least once every year! Just not overall...
That's really cool. I've always found it difficult to follow discussions on Twitter. Maybe the UI is better for logged-in users but I've never bothered.
> I called up Bill and said, “I’m going to turn this thing around.” Bill always had a soft spot for Apple. We got him into the application software business. The first Microsoft apps were Excel and Word for the Mac. So I called him and said, “I need help.” Microsoft was walking over Apple’s patents. I said, “If we kept up our lawsuits, a few years from now we could win a billion-dollar patent suit. You know it, and I know it. But Apple’s not going to survive that long if we’re at war. I know that. So let’s figure out how to settle this right away. All I need is a commitment that Microsoft will keep developing for the Mac and an investment by Microsoft in Apple so it has a stake in our success."
Yes, understanding licensing has a cost all on it's own. Not just to buy the products, but as your developing you have to be aware of what you can and can't use, the developer edition has everything, which can create some traps.
Hosting might cost peanuts, but literal peanuts cost money. How are those bloggers going to eat?
The older machine as 32 GB of RAM and the newer has 64gb. This could potentially be an issue, but generally the build consumes no more than 6GB leaving a leaving amount unused. Memory bandwidth is more likely.

But really I am building C++, all the parsing and re-parsing is stupidly CPU intensive. most 5400 rpm drives can feed the compiler fast enough to keep them saturated.
This is misinformed on a number of points, unfortunately.

First, Jason didn't "pivot" from Indie Shuffle. It's a separate standalone business that he never shut down, and in fact continues to spend many hours running even today.

Second, SubmitHub's user base consists of hundreds of other blogs and labels, whom he spent a painstaking 4 months sending 1000+ personalized emails to trying to convince them to sign up. They're responsible for the vast majority of his revenue. He did not simply keep "the same audience".

This is exactly what I was talking about when I said that people read these stories and conclude that everything was easy.
This is the basis for prediction markets like Gnosis and Augur. Would be interesting to see how they play out in practice.
Speaking of NeXT, I've yet to read a good history that explains how that came together. There's so much innovation there -- the NeXTStep kits (which became Cocoa, among other things), Objective-C, the fact that they used a Unix kernel. It was a lot of great ideas, but I don't think I have heard about who designed it. It's interesting to note, for example, that NeXT didn't invent Objective-C; they licensed it from the two guys who created it, Tom Love and Brad Cox, neither of whom I think were involved in development of NeXTStep. I'd love to learn more.
Yea my psychiatrist did not prep me at all for sexual side effects upon taking them nor for the withdrawal symptoms after getting off of them. I'm still on a small zoloft dose but so much of what i understood about what was going on was gathered from what people say in forums online...that's basically the worst possible route for getting information on medicine but it worked for me? And I'm on some big public tech company health insurance.
Good question. So I think my suggestions would make it a better product but I think if you can create better ways to engage others you can make Twitter more sticky. The more sticky the users are the more ads you can show them.

For example Facebook provides a great way to engage in conversations (the quality of said conversations may or may not be dubious). You can keep track of conversations, where you are in the conversations and mute specific people within one. Twitter has almost none of that which, in my opinion, likely contributes to the less than half of the daily usage that Twitter gets when compared to facebook [1].

But that's just one example. Working better with video and other media and lowering friction to using Live video or capturing it right within the app all help to keep users in their ecosystem.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2016-02-12/social-...
On the other hand, it's perfectly reasonable to remove some disruptive individual from a lecture (think someone repeatedly shouting the name of a soda in order to disrupt the lecture, not an invited speaker).

This is the same sort of removal of ideas from the marketplace that you are talking about, it's just probably not one you want to use as a test for what you have articulated.
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If you need gravity, you could build rotating habitats.
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I work for a news organization so I'm constantly building short/mid term applications and visualizations.

Next year I'd like to improve my productivity making more precise estimations and tracking the projects.

I'm currently using a combination of trello and asana. I'd like a tool to see the big picture(like the gantt diagram) then zoom in and see the specific tasks, managing them with a trello/asana way. It'd be nice to see both the estimated task time and the actual time.

Is there something like this?
The ram thing was mainly due to a decision to go with lpddr3, which tops out at 16GB.

The argument they put forth was a battery life one. But they made it thinner which reduces the volume available for battery.

Also, the dongle complaint is mainly that to use it, you need to carry a bag full of dongles around.

Also, thinner laptops than that have had no issues packing a USB-A port in.
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Installing Ghostery, Privacy Badger and adblocker makes a world of difference in terms of how fast page loads are for me. Ads are not just annoying, they slow the web down considerably and make the mobile experience terrible.
I was comparing NeXTSTEP with one of its contemporaries to show how innovative and polished it was. Taligent was supposed to be the standard and it was a true pain in the butt to program. Apple and HP bailed in 1995.

I did like the concept of People, Places, and Things. It is a shame that little pieces of a good idea can be lost because of the overall failure.
Thank you, and it is very good that the path I'm looking towards is possible. I've been brushing up on algorithms, mostly as I run into them in things that I have been writing on nights and weekends. Primarily C++ and Python, with a smattering of C, bash, javascript, and php. I have probably about 6-9 months before graduation, so I've been starting to look at fields in more detail, rather than the nebulous concept of "industry" that you typically hear about in academia.
I only notice the kind of "tabs are slow to open" behavior pretty randomly, and without knowing the state of the rest of my machine at those moments (is there something else pegging a few of my cores for some reason?) I can't confidently place any blame on the browser itself.

For what they are, I consider modern web browsers to be exceptionally fast and reliable, and they tend to put a lot of other applications to absolute shame. They are imperfect, but still very, very good.
The only add-ons I use are ones to remove ads. If I didn't have them those ads would easily make the my overall performance much, much worse.

I have a custom blank page loaded from SSD that has only a small amount of html5/pure js and it takes maybe 1000ms on an intel i5/3xxx. If I open a new tab without any other windows/tabs open it's very fast, maybe 100ms. A new private tab (doesn't load add-ons or my custom new tab) opens quickly but not as quickly as a fresh restart w/ no windows/tabs.
You're actually right Benjamin Hindman now CEO of Mesosphere Inc. started what became the Apache Mesos project while a PHD student at Berkeley, He later left Berkeley, interned at Google, then took a full time role at Twitter where he built out Mesos at scale.

His linkedIn bio:
Member of the Technical Staff
Twitter
March 2010 – May 2013 (3 years 3 months)
Built out Apache Mesos (http://mesos.apache.org).
> The MacBook is fine – the new models are quite expensive, and...

True, for Macbooks, they are fine. For MacBook Pros however, they are disappointing. They really added nothing, and just took away. And then raised the price.
I hate the built in one
Fully parallelized browser using something like Servo and Vulkan for rendering graphics is your friend.
We got some new rocking fast www.brave.com versions out that should be wayyy fast.
Safety standards that delay the transition by a week might also save one person per day from being hit by a beta car during the transition period. You can't just tally deaths on one side and ignore the other.
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I agree with you, and I feel Apple is leaving money on the table by not doing this.
This is really stunning. I can't wait to commence to course. I finished a Masters from a top-50 worldwide university, and frankly, the approach to data science was mediocre at best. The NLP module notes were plagiarised from Stanford and we were quite happy with this! It gave us a break from 20 year old textbooks that set the plodding pace for the Data Mining module. And don't get me started on my deep learning dissertation. The only expert in the uni on the topic got poached by facebook halfway through the project. The universities are finding it difficult to keep up and are resorting to 'interesting' techniques to retain talent - witness the Turing Institute in the UK. They gave out titles to many professors in several universities a year or so ago... as I gather, as a precursor to pivotal data science research.
> Lay off approx 60-70% of the staff.

How will that go down with investors expecting growth?
Is AWS baked yet. In the past the EBS mounts failed to mount. @justinsb i look for you.
And immediately any webGL visualizations / games / necessarily resource intensive webapps are rendered useless as they're automatically throttled back by the browser.
Depends... What extensions do you have?

I remember back when FF used to be considered fast. Then we went through the age of extensions. And shortly after that chrome came on the scene, and didn't support extensions (intentionally it seemed), for quite some time.

Guess which browser won the user speed test...
bull. twitters growth stalled because its way to hard to join and sort through. look how long you can be part of reddit before you make an account. you can even bookmark http://reddit.com/r/tech+askhistorians+bestof+askscience and have a custom mix without having an account. their logged out front page is a pile of shit. imgur.com is better at what twitter is trying to be, twitter should chase digg/medium not lowest common denominator memegrabs.
I question the ethical culpability of big pharma. Taken from the article
"Drug companies had bombarded West Virginia’s rural towns with record numbers of narcotics, according to court records: 300,000 tablets of hydrocodone to the mom-and-pop pharmacy in the town of War, population 808; half a million oxycodone pills to Kermit, population 400. During a five-year period ending in 2013, a single drug company had shipped more than 60 million doses of hydrocodone into a state with fewer than 1 million working-age adults."

I would prefer to use the term 'criminal liability' but I suspect there is none for this crime

edit - IANAL - to be defined as a crime it would have to violate a criminal law, and while this is ethically odious, it is most probably not criminal
It's called "batteries not included" and it's a shitty thing to do as a company when you're selling a several-hundred-dollar device.

Seriously? They can't include a $19 cord?
A friend of mine is a PA who works in emergency medicine, which means he pulls 30 hour shifts sometimes.

I challenged him about how, with what we now know about sleep deprivation, he could defend that schedule.

He pointed out that much of medicine, especially emergency medicine, requires deep complex analysis of a wide variety of symptoms, some of which might seem unimportant or unrelated at first. We've all seen shows like House where it takes a genius to diagnose the root cause of a set of weird symptoms. While that is obviously exaggerated, the reality is that diagnosis is often difficult and in an ER, happens continuously with treatment.

He said there is no way that a doctor or PA can fully hand that mental flow state off to another one. So the scariest thing to him is handoff--what if he forgets to document or mention some seemingly minor detail that ends up being crucial??

Long shifts give medical personnel more continuous time with each patient, reducing the chance that handoff will come too early in treatment, when mistakes or misses have a greater impact. It also permits long periods of overlap between shifts.

"Being sleep deprived is bad for care," he admitted, "but so are handoffs." He feels that as long as the total time per week does not exceed too many hours, long shifts are good for care.
Which ever publisher that do so hopefully live in a country which doesn't have advertisement laws (and tax laws, if they try to be sneaky with the source of this new revenue). There is currently several cases in Sweden, and I heard similar tales in several other countries including the U.S.

I would say that for once, the law is actually catching up with Internet activity that would clearly be illegal if done on a physical paper.
> But I remember the times when we had the amazing Opera browser. In Opera, I could have a hundred open tabs, and it didn’t care, it worked incredibly fast on the hardware of its era, useless today. You may ask: why would a sane person want a hundred open tabs, how would you even manage that? Well, Opera has had a great UI for that, which nobody has ever matched. Working with a hundred tabs in Opera was much easier back then than working with ten in today’s Safari or Chrome. But that’s a whole different story. What would you do today if you opened a link and saw a long article which you don’t have time to read right now, but want to read later? You would save a link and close the tab. But when your browser is fast, you just don’t tend to close tabs which you haven’t dealt with. In Opera, I would let tabs stay open for months without having any impact on my machine’s performance.

This is exactly how I'm using Firefox, right now -- 273 tabs open. It's sitting at ~5% of CPU and 450MB of RAM. And switching tabs is instantaneous. And it doesn't reload every page when I quit and restart my browser -- it only loads a tab when I click into that tab. And it has tab groups so that my current group has only about 8 tabs in it, and the other groups are sorted by topic. And on and on.

I find it frustrating when people post these articles as if everyone has this problem, and don't provide enough details as to their setup so that people can help them fix it. I promise you -- if everyone around the world right now had the problem the author was having, it would have been solved. No one would stand for it. Rather than assume everyone is suffering just like you, assume that other people either a) don't behave the way you do, or b) have found a way to fix the problem.
In related LA news, Metro is doing an amazing job massively expanding LA's transit footprint, in rail, bus, and local (e.g. bikes). LA voters overwhelmingly approved Measure M to further fund the plan:

http://theplan.metro.net/
They would still be the goto place for most twitter users. If they don't screw it up with censorship.
To be fair, Safari application-level Safari is extraordinarily slow.
I think it's very much a doctor issue. It's probably worth looking for a better psychiatrist.
twitter was too small to be there, he wanted companies with money?
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Facebook has developer APIs but they, ultimately, control the ecosystem. They only let developers kinda play in it. I honestly don't think Twitter needs to win any developers back for two reasons.

1. They should be more like Facebook. Never, ever again allow a third party app to control the primary way to view all of their data. It's too important. Grandfather existing apps in but slowly add new capabilities that they cannot access thus smothering them.

2. If Twitter can become more engaging / sticky it can keep users around for longer which should, in theory, help bring more people to their platform and let them display ads longer. This will ultimately force developers to work with them again, regardless of their feelings around trust.

Look at Facebook. They destroyed many games livelihoods with changes and people not only still use them but other than places like HN you rarely hear about issues with developers trusting them.
Yeah. https://github.com/team-emt/rz_demo/commit/59ee149a50f25d13f...

Rewrite history, as @sapeien suggested.
IMHO, Taxes (or market access/safety-of-life etc) are absurdely overpriced. We are seeing market-competition. And I for one welcome it, like any other competition.

I dont know whats "fair" and I dont care. I want things as cheap as possible.
Yes, I read the Wired article. It mentions the government funding. I'm guessing the US because it's very much the kind of project they fund.
Owners of the Treo would disagree with you there.

Palm OS wasn't even suitable for 90s mobile hardware. It was a buggy mess.
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It permanently altered my brain for sure and I'm a father. It altered my thoughts. The things I care about. The way I act. There is no going back.
I'm not sure what the author is talking about. After my recent tab clean-up, I've got 35 tabs open. Opening a new one is near-instantaneous, and I can say the same thing about bringing up any other tab I have open, as long as it has been loaded since the last time I restarted my browser.

I've got an Atom-based 2014 laptop at home. That one might take a second to open a new tab if I'm doing anything else on it at the time.

Modern browsers handle a higher load than older ones did; a more complex web means a greater amount of more complex data, and that means more complex data management. The overhead is higher (there's a lower floor), but it allows the browser to scale better (higher ceiling).
Brandon's talk was awesome - highly recommended!

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes.
> It might be too late for devs to trust them again,

Stupid mistake from Twitter.

Basically Twitter has a long history of shutting down API access to any product or client that becomes remotely popular. Did they think being unpopular among developers would be something positive ? It's like they didn't realise ALL these twitter clients actually helped create MORE content on Twitter. That was stupid.
The OpenStep spec was a collaboration between NeXT and Sun. OpenStep was available as a full OS (for 68k NeXT hardware and 486 beige PCs) as well as running on top of Solaris (SPARC), HPUX, and Windows NT. Sun went with Java instead but Microsoft has a WinObjC project. Go Figure. Until 10.7 or so, OS X still included Windows NT theme graphics [1].

NeXTStep 3.0 used the NS namespace; 2.0 and earlier was NX.

[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/02/mac_images/
Considering layoffs typically increase stock prices in the short term, help increase profits in the short term, I would imagine short term investors would be happy. Long term investors it's hard to say because trimming the fat allows you to try much, much longer than you could have before.

Overall I would imagine long term investors would have a positive feeling but only if a solid image is communicated to them regarding ways to improve and grow.
So I'm trying to dockerize a legacy PHP app that likes to use a config.php file. Would this be of help?
Surely there's a trade off, as we add more and more features to browsers, w3C specifications, add ons, JavaScript updates etc, a browser will inevitably get slower. Yes older browsers were fast, but they did little in comparison to today's virtual machines.

The fact that you can do this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BV32Cs_CMqo in a browser should tell you we've come a long way from them just being Document readers.
There are basically no children with enough experience to be doctors.
Jeez if a person can't get excited about their own tech project on Hacker News, where can they??
Thank you. I've been primarily working with C++ and Python, and consider myself proficient in both, so it is good to hear that Python is usable. I've been meaning to work more with databases, as I haven't interacted with them in particular. Maybe writing a mini-library catalog, as my bookshelves are starting to outgrow the haphazard google spreadsheet where their contents are currently recording. And yeah, testing is something that I try to do in my home projects, but 95% of the coding for research is throw-away code, and so I don't get much of a chance there.
For that just use ConfigMaps http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/configmap/
>"But I really think that a code-first approach is much better."

This is really refreshing to hear Most of the books I have looked at seem to be mostly math-first and very densely so at that. As much as I appreciate math it's not always the warmest welcome.

I am looking forward to working through your course and seeing part 2 as well. Cheers.
I think they played a big part in shaping Mesos early on if any of the interviews/talks I've listened to are any indicator. They were one of the early adopters and hired one of the people that created the project at Berkley.
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On Android you should check Polarity browser.It's faster than any other browser.
Ah! Just got into the life after death topic... what is our life on Earth about. And really this is controversial. It started when I read this book just last weekend, hasn't slept much since that, try to gather information and I'm getting mind-blown at every step. The book is Journey of Souls (https://www.amazon.com/Journey-Souls-Studies-Between-Lives/d...)

There is a good summary on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzwle9gjC2E