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JonTron isn't going to lose his subscriberbase from this though... I doubt most of them care.

Personally I don't really, mostly because his personal views never come into play on his actual show. This kind of thing always happens when you get someone involved in comedy to participate in a serious discussion, you start realizing they have opinions and views that you may not like.
> You kept it going for so long and shut it down.

Sometimes it's just time to move on. In the early days things were different, everybody had a blog, and you had no trouble making mutual connections. I met interesting people, had interesting discussions, sometimes you'd meet fellow bloggers at events and find out you're subscribed to each other. One time, I spent a week of my holidays at a famous tech blogger's house, on a whim, even though I had never met the guy before.

People moved on to other platforms, but I never built a social presence, nor did I do anything to really grow my audience.

> Can you give more info on how many people you had and how it tapered off?

Traffic wasn't that great by modern standards. According to Google Analytics, a good post would generate maybe 10-20k within the first month, and then taper off sharply. A bad post would not generate more than a few hundred eyeballs. My stuff was never monetized, so I didn't track visitors that well. Sometimes I saw there had been a crazy spike like months ago ;)

> If you wanted engagement, can you have added engagement features?

It's a matter of commitment. If I ever start anything again, that would definitely be a focus.
Size: I'd suggest several standard sizes in multiples of 15cm (6 inches). For example 30cm cube.
Connector: Should be recessed so it doesn't extend beyond size envelope.
Voltage: Probably would need several. Connector should be unique to voltage. Multiple of 4.44 volts (NiMH x Li-Ion voltages).

Lack of standards holds things back when companies need to make a very large investment and need to know over what timeframe it will work. These standards could be in place for a long time. The "D" cell battery standard is over a hundred years old.
I was disappointed to find out the laser-focus was on scandals related to youtube celebrities, and not on the infrastructure youtube has that creates youtube celebrities.

The author mentions Game Theory (another youtube channel) which has some videos that delves into these mechanics instead.

My fear with Youtube as a casual viewer is that content creators (such as the author) are too focused on scandal with other channels they themselves are friends with and not focused enough on keeping engaging content and/or keeping engaged with the fans who made them money in the first place.
How real-mode Windows loaded code from the disk
One of my favorite youtuber only publish a new video like once a month, and he doesn't talk in the video, ever.

I suspect he's the exception to the rule, though.
Oh man, ascii.li is really cool!
I wonder if it is based on some open-source project about ASCII, or you built the thing from the ground up?
This article was about PewDiePie's nazi joke, the JonTron thing happened more recently (article is over a month old).
You're speaking past each other. You're talking about "blame" in a moralistic sense, but the other posters just mean simple causation -- "would this fault have occurred if a safer language was used?"

The former sense would be useful... if you want to sue someone or something I guess? But the latter is more useful in real life, so that's what we're discussing
Facebook looks inward for new AI technical talent
The website is called the art of manliness...
He is the largest youtuber, he has like 50M subscribers. Did a bit pretending to be a nazi that people took out of context alongside some other things, became a huge stupid controversy.
That hadn't occurred to me before, but I think you're right in that JonTron's situation is roughly comparable to the second half of OP's article. Any real publicist would have advised him that doing that debate was a bad idea or at least would have prepped him for it, but it doesn't look like he got any such advice (or if he did he didn't listen to it).

There's probably a point to be made that a real publicist would also help do damage control, which both Pewdiepie and Jontron (and I imagine most people) are clearly are terrible at.

(One difference I would draw is that I don't think PewDiePie is genuinely racist, he just made a really, really stupid joke. Conversely, JonTron was pretty clear about what he thought about undesirables polluting the gene pool...)
1 in 30 pound coins is fake. If you have a handful of smash and examine the pound coins you can usually find at least 1 fake one. Counterfeiters made millions before anyone caught on
Not sure, but a stolen (some say give away by disgruntled postal carrier) USPS key was used to break into dozens of mailboxes in a very affluent zip code in San Francisco (Nob Hill and Russian Hill).

It must have been very lucrative for the pair of thieves. Also scary that a single key works across an entire zip code.
Brave Browser Attention-Backed Ad Currency Whitepaper[pdf]
I don't get the comparison. One is about clearly illegal crossings going down.

The other is about legal, ordinary passengers. Moreover, these countries are important for global business, and are used as hubs by travellers of many countries. I don't get what's there to "think twice" about it?
Chances are that your friend embellished this story. People do that, often. Think about the absurd amount of effort required to know that one of the thousands of people going through that airport that day had sex with a man of Arab descent sometime in the past few days.

I've had a few interviews entering and leaving Israel. It was a more pleasant experience than in the US because the security seemed engaged and efficient. I had my carry on emptied and searched in front of me while leaving the country, but the process was fast and professionally done.

Security workers also looked me in the eyes and paid attention to what I was saying. I've never had that experience in the US.
Team discount is 20% off for purchases of ten or more copies.

Diversity discount ... I don't think we have a policy for books, but for training we offer 50% off to people who are under-represented in tech and I'm happy to offer the same for books.

Email me (noel at underscore.io) to arrange either.
So, to go back to your original post ('Why in the world everything needs to be made with react'): not everything is made for/with react, and you provided really good counterarguments againts yourself (polymer, vue, angular, etc). I still don't get the point you were trying to make (no offense really).
"The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger" by Marc Levinson

This book is an amazing breakdown of the shipping container and the impact that seemingly insignificant details can have on the world. But more importantly for me were the examples of non-automated labor required to move cargo in the past. It demonstrated the sheer amount of human effort that is poured into profitable tasks. It made me consider some of the tasks/projects I decided never to bother with out of laziness and think about what it would take in terms of tools and resources/manpower to actually get those tasks done. Instead of thinking about whether I wanted to do some task, I began thinking about whether the outcome was desirable regardless of the work required, and if it was, I thought about what it would take to get it done. If I had to list a second book it woul be "The Age of Intelligent Machines" by Kurzweil
Yes. That's why the government doesn't want amateurs cutting in on their business.~

Some people--though not many--survive that can remember when newly-minted coins still had silver in them. Then governments all over the world got greedy and debased their coinage, upping the seigniorage to obscene levels to turn their mints into profit centers instead of cost centers.

So whenever I see governments complaining about counterfeit currency, I feel that they are hoist on their own petard. They learned it by watching you. I am honestly impressed that a system run almost entirely on public confidence can get away with so much chronic, endemic chicanery.

I was really hoping that India's little experiment in destroying its economy by removing larger-denomination cash would have resulted in a tiny bit of blood in the streets, pour encourager les autres. Without pushback, the trend will continue. So the world really, really needs a currency system that no one can effectively manipulate. Bitcoin gave me hope, but so far no cryptocurrency is anywhere near ready for universal adoption.
If they weren't metallic, it wouldn't be a bad idea to put some RFID in them, or even set some secret handshake to automatically detect false coins.
Congratulations, you've built a microlith!
I feel I'm in the same camp as the comment you're responding to, so I do want to chime in. Most of the applications I've had to develop require a database of some sort, rails makes this incredibly easy to do. I can simply generate a model and migrate. There are very few applications (that I've needed to develop) that don't require a reliable database. This is where I've yet been able to truly utilize anything like react, vue, etc. The best situations been some form storing json data objects but that's not scalable and I rather be able to backup a sql database to query from (especially with thousands of records). And I know facebook uses it and has one the biggest databases on the planet but I'm talking about easy of use in spinning up full stack applications as a small shop and understand what's going on.

I know you can use react on top of rails (with postgres, mysql, etc), but then I start feeling too many weird abstractions going on and have a hard time following the bouncing ball. React claims to be just the V part of MVC which is fine, but when I'm trying to quickly build up a full stack application rails just felt the simplest way to do so.

Bringing this up not because I think there is anything wrong with React and I know they are solving a pure front end problem, but this is more of a question to what's the most elegant full stack solution that would be comparable to RoR solution with any of these new hot js frameworks? If there is I think I'd be more than happy to startup some projects that way.
'Orthodoxy' by G.K. Chesterton, because it shocked me out of self-absorbed materialist nihilism.

“Fairy tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water.”
This (and the whole "airplane mode" issue) could easily be solved by a few things.
1. Adding a faraday cage around the passenger sections of the plane would stop wireless connections from passengers to the panes main systems.
2. Completely separate the passenger systems from the plane systems - not unlike separating a monolithic application into a few smaller applications.
I read the article. That is absolutely normal HDR. I was doing most of those techniques five years ago via DSLR burst and merging the images in post.

What from that article don't you consider "normal HDR?" Because as I said, everything listed there is completely par for the course. "HDR+" is just obvious branding for standard HDR that happens to use more bracketed shots than other HDR systems (e.g. 5x instead of 3x).
Catastrophic Interference (forgetting in neural networks)
On the left there is a menu the fourth item of which is Subscriptions. Click on that, it gives you exactly what you asked for.
As typical for these type of events, a relatively small proportion unsubscribed, which was completely counteracted by latent user growth in a couple weeks.
C was well-designed for its time, but "extremely" well-designed is a stretch given the much better designs that came immediately before (ALGOL 60 and 68, Pascal, Scheme) or after (Ada, Modula, ML) it. C was optimized to be fast to implement (and won out for that reason — "worse is better," and because UNIX was the first usable OS written in a high-level language), not for the best practices in safety or even performance, even as understood at the time.
Probably a lot of PewDiePie's appeal is his uncensoredness. It's just unfiltered non-sense for the most part.

Some people can't deal with it. But a lot of people want it.

Personally, I think that's why I love Dave Chappelle so much. He seems to be able to get away with a lot as well.

Few things relaxes me like someone making jokes with no filters.
Miele PG 8528 Washer-Disinfector Affected by a Web Server Directory Traversal
Anecdotal but I can't stand the OA. Loved it until the dancing aspect. Total turn off from the show. :\
Bill Aulet, Teaching MIT and the World About Entrepreneurship
The problem with hollywood movie plots is people have been able to remove the optical drive or floppy drive from a laptop for decades, insert a baggie of weed or whatever criminal activity.

To some extent avoiding TSA scrutiny might be a goal behind the apparently meaningless quest for thin laptops at apple. No removable parts means you can't rip parts out and insert a baggie of whatever in the case. Also the laptop being lightweight means whatever you're sneaking in can't be too heavy, if a laptop is lighter than a derringer even if it physically fits its going to be weird explaining why your laptop weighs twice as much as a normal laptop.

Also I'm sure this looks fascinating on the xray machine.
I've always been asked to remove all electronics (usually my laptop, ipad, phone and kindle) including phone power packs in the past few years. Most recently, this included Dublin and Berlin.
Didn't know that - thanks!

You can get answers on so many topics on HN...
Your colors contrast too much, making it look like a cake. Your shadows are harsh and gradient rather than flat, and they do not use the material shading guideline. Your lighting angle is different.

"Any designer can find [my] mistake if they spend some time looking at the design." Tell us what you did wrong rather than puffing your feathers

If I write "O" and draw a circle around it, I didn't steal your design. Only they know if they used your design as a model or not. I'm sorry, but I don't buy your theory. I think it's moreso inspired by the letter O and Material Design.
Shibumi - Trevanian; I've read the book three of four times now and I'm not sure why but the characters and the characterizations just resonate with me.
>>Java was going to replace C.

In the enterprise world Java did that - even high frequency trading applications have been Java based for quite some time.
Compared to 20years ago, there is significantly less C code nowadays.
The promise of Netflix was "the long tail": an ultimate video library of all but perhaps the very latest content.

I'm not interested in "Netflix originals". Focus on the core competency of archiving & delivery; let others make the content.

I've worked at IBM, Smith Corona, Kodak, CNN, AT&T, others - a major takeaway is: businesses which don't stick to their core competency/purpose die.
I only like the marvel shows cause they have interesting villains, and they all seem to actually be leading to something cool, they tie together neatly.

My only hope is that we get more Fisk.
I'd take that on a case-by-case basis.

PewDiePie was obviously targeted. JonTron was not.
Complete Robot by Isaac Asimov

When frustrated by technology, it's pretty cool to read some things in this collection of short stories and think "We're actually in the future. We just aren't great at making robots walk yet."
The New Digital Tastemakers
Went into the article expecting it to be silly, but there were actually a ton of interesting insights, especially about how no one knows how to manage these celebrities.

Also, slowbeef is being humble; he literally invented the LP and curated the scene forever ago. His Metal Gear 2 annotated playthrough (from the mid-00s at the latest, I'm remembering HTML tables) was absolutely hysterical (at least to my teenage self), and was the only way I could read the earlier plot to that series at the time. He's also been able to figure out how to hack ROMs for translation that nobody else could and ran translation projects, like with Policenauts. He's a hero in the gaming community and totally underrated, so I'm always upset to not hear his name come up more often when people discuss Let's Plays.
This. I prefer discourse but most people just want to have light conversations so I have a slew of stories I can tell that are entertaining.
> most of the specific parsing-related complaints (pointer dereference or multiplication?) about C/++ are also true of Rust.

This should not be true, and we fought hard to keep it that way. There's one spot of Rust's grammar that's context-sensitive, for something very rarely used, and other than that, it's all much simpler.
> I can't really imagine a seasoned C developer introducing completely new bugs in a code base they are already very familiar with

Get a CVE list for some Linux distribution, this will open your mind. Happens all the time.
Capitalism depends first on competition and then on competitive advantage. We need standards for modular power storage before we can have competition. Look at the competition for standard PC PSUs. Super high-quality and low cost - compared to proprietary power supplies.

Compete on quality (life, weight, cycles, etc) within the bounds of a modular standard.
For me, 9 times out of 10, I'm genuinely interested in the other person, and I like to ask questions and actually listen to what they're saying. I find people, even those that some would classify as boring, to be fascinating. Actually, I find that the 'boring' ones can be extra interesting because they usually have some very unusual interests.

For example, I recently met a person who was obsessed with the TV show 'Friends' and spent many hours re-watching episodes. To me, in a world that seems to be becoming increasingly homogenous, it was fascinating. And, even though I'd only seen a few episodes of the show, it was enough for me to latch on and indulge in the pleasure that this person felt about it.

Unfortunately, as time has gone on, I've also sort of lost my interest in many people. Although I can relate to many of their interests and ideas, I have met so many hikers / bikers / runners, cooks / bakers / beer-brewers, foodies, musicians, travelers, photographers, aspiring entrepreneurs lately that I have had a hard time motivating myself to dig any deeper.

Anyway, to your point, I think feigning interest in someone is awful and insincere. And, I refuse to do it. But, if I open myself to actually empathize with them and to indulge in what they're saying, it is very satisfying. Hopefully, I come across as sincere to those people to whom I inquire, because it's genuine curiosity. But, as 'hacking' seems to have gone mainstream, I certainly have seen my share of social pickup artists, and it is irritating.
The Dale Carnegie Leadership course (based on this book) is worthwhile and available in many cities globally. Expensive but sometimes covered by corporate training allowance. You want the one that is extended over 8-12 weeks, one session per week. That allows time for weekly application of that week's lesson to your life, as homework assignment. The compressed (3-day version) does not give enough time to apply the principles and see real-world results. The material in the book is easy to read and very hard to apply.
Artificial Intelligence: The Park Rangers of the Anthropocene
Primitive Technology, I presume. It's a great channel.
'outrage crowd'. Huh. right now, the big blowup is over some guy ('jontron') spouting racist BS. This is bad enough in front of an adult audience, but in fact he is performing this for children. Shouldn't we be mad? For PewDiePie recently, the same story: He is an adult (who should know better) performing antisemitic jokes for children, who might not follow the joke were it funny. When they don't follow it, when it's not funny -- it wasn't -- it boils down to a respected figure repeating anti-semitic talking points to an adoring audience of 14 year olds. Did he mean poorly? Maybe, maybe not. If he didn't mean poorly and it was all environmental factors, "He's just trying to make a living and YouTube culture doesn't give him time to test jokes", are we supposed to apologize for him and move on? I say he took on a responsibility and failed it, so we should be angry.

If he wants to perform for children he needs to respect the fact that his words have exaggerated consequences because he's dumping them into impressionable, insecure minds. Don't reduce me to some 'outrage crowd' and write me off when I'm concerned that a children's performer is feeding them rape & jew 'jokes'.
A lot of mentioned software was started many years ago, when other languages were hardly viable options. And those programs are good enough now, so there's no much movement to replace them. It's not a good argument for C, IMO. It's like telling that Windows is awesome because so many users use it. But when people started from scratch (mobile world), it turned out, that Windows is not the best OS.

Actually when I'm reading about new software, it's very rare to encounter C. Usually it's something else.
It would indeed be a huge coincidence if humans and an extraterrestrial species had the same hard-wiring for language, but I would think it far less of a coincidence if they both had hard-wiring that was functionally broadly similar.
You were not alone in this. I read about him some weeks or months ago because of some newspaper that features a 'scandal' about him. IIRC something about Disney dropping him from their network (did not know they had a youtube network, and I'm not entirely sure if I remember that correctly).
This is a great little read and encapsulates the other side of the 'rethink the way' trend-ism of some HN new lang advocacy. C is fine, C is good. It is widely understood, it is a systems staple, and it is not dangerous in knowledgeable hands. Rocking the boat is fashionable.
I'm going to copy/paste a bit of a comment I made further down:

Let's Plays are videos where people play video games and commentate over them.

Fivrr is a site where people can offer small services for about five bucks.

Pewdiepie is a extremely famous youtuber who produces lets plays, and is especially popular with younger audiences. He got in trouble for playing some indian men on Fivrr to wave around signs with racist messages on them ("Death to Jews" IIRC) on camera as part of a joke. The joke was delivered extremely poorly, and even in context it just seemed really scummy. It understandably didn't go over well and lots of people wrote angry articles about it. It ended up with Disney, who were affiliated with him, disavowing him and ending that affiliation.
> Can your rust project from two years ago even compile?

Post 1.0's release date, which is just short of two years, the vast, vast majority should, yes. We've had one or two soundness fixes in those times that would take a trivial amount of updating to do, but that only hit a very small part of the ecosystem.
> For a creature that doesn't have sight at all, they literally can't talk about certain concepts.

Any intelligent species will create instruments for measurement in non-sensory regimes, so they can certainly explore those regimes.

And if you're talking about some kind of qualitative experience, it's conjecture that such experiences aren't reducible to some kind of complex third-person account.
can Python now be used instead of Java?

for example Go language, I heard is not a total substitute for Java for Android
> Can your Rust project from two years ago even compile?

Eh, two years have not passed yet since Rust 1.0.

But yes, it is likely that your Rust project today will compile just fine in 2019.