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>I don't think it's supposed to make you feel bad for him.

Then it was extremely poor writing because I got the impression that was one of the main messages. Maybe there was an interesting message in there but it didn't come through.

I agree that making a good, well produced, YouTube video takes a lot of work. I've never seen PewDiePie's videos but they don't sound very good or like they are much work to produce.
I find it surprising that a bot can create such a post!, anyway I use to change password randomly to create new account in HN, it seems a downvote move me to change my nick and start anew. Anyway I find the post of math and programming very interesting but you can always get better.
They also supposedly are becoming more paranoid and legacy media like (piracy!! and the like). Influence and size corrupts.
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I was also somewhat irritated by that. I still enjoyed the rest, though. The whole dancing thing just made me realize for the first time that the show won't keep all it's promises (for instance, the scene when OA bites the dog and it becomes "tame" had a lot of mystery surrounding it - but that's never resolved. And can never properly be explained by dancing ;-) ).
If you're really rockin on your cynicism right now, how is that any better?
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> They bought Gentile a bacon cheeseburger and a Diet Coke ..

I don't even.. Is this normal in the USofA or are they just denying him sugar, while feeding him, to pacify him ?

edit: but the cheeseburger already has plenty of sugar and the coke has caffeine. idk
carry a little dog in a crate or weer your insulin pump, well you are getting an extra look. security is one thing but the level of ignorance at times is astounding.
does't mean he keeps $15 million every year

The problem is that YouTube goes after much smaller people, as well, quite frequently, often for arbitrary or small reasons, and resolving such content disputes is Kafkaesque, taking weeks. Often someone (usually a competitor) will flag a video and then YouTube will pull it and suspend the account or put a restriction on the length of videos (often a 15 minute length restriction for flagged accounts), citing 'copyright infringement', which is a favorite boilerplate explanation, even though nothing was actually infringed upon and no DCMA report was made. If could be trivial as a ringtone or a 10-second clip of some music on a TV in the background, or a midi file from a video game made 25 years ago.
In the Internet scheme of things, I'm probably considered old (43) but youtube is one of my main sources of entertainment. I've got some channels I follow and watch their "show" regularly and others where I'll follow sidebar links if they seem funny.

There's a tonne of content out there and a lot of it isn't great, but on the other hand there's also some very funny stuff.
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I want to reread this sometime. Everything after the 5th circuit was just too crazy or abstract to make sense of for me the first time around.

I'm quite to keen to try The Illuminatus Trillogy as well. His writing style is funny to me, in a similar way that Douglas Adams' is.
I'm 34 and I probably spend at lest an hour each evening that I'm at home watching YouTube.

I don't watch any fiction on YouTube except for Adrian Bliss [1] who mocked vloggers and actually has story arcs running through the videos.

I subscribe to many channels but my favourites are Casey Neistat [2], mainly just from the production quality point of view. Tom Scott [3] because he just covers some very interesting topics. And Techmoan [4] because I also have a fascination with old HiFi gear and his puppet sketches at the end of some videos are brilliant.

1. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChYARX5Yj8CapM-F2Z2vPxA

2. https://www.youtube.com/user/caseyneistat

3. https://www.youtube.com/user/enyay

4. https://www.youtube.com/user/Techmoan
I'm not talking about pre-ANSI C. Compare C89 to those languages and, in my opinion, C comes out on top.
They've talked about making content for $100k that a small number watch and making content for $5M that a number 500x that watch.

They know exactly what they're doing and every comment on this article in HN right now shows you that.

One person says they hate something and it's crap and the next person tells them that they're wrong. Entertainment is subjective netflix has numbers to back up their spends.
> I honestly think that Common Lisp can do this quite well

I haven't used any lisp dialects for decades, so I have naive questions: is there really sufficient support from compilers+linkers to write a bootloader in lisp? Do I have to do a lot of bootstrapping in assembly to bring up lisp interpreter before I can execute the lisp code or does the ahead-of-time-build result in executable machine code? Can I do inline assembly (not required but a really key benefit IMO)? Are there numerous examples where someone's already written one in lisp?
If anyone knows what is happening, spill?
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The OA is amazing and beautiful. I loved the incorporation of primal & tribal dancing -- it's been a huge driver of healing from trauma since the dawn of man.
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That's part of YouTube vloggers' appeal though. They seem genuine and not personalities and anecdotes carefully crafted by publicists like you see from celebrities on talk shows. This leads to the greater risk of someone doing something moronic, but the rewards are a greater connection with fans.
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Fuck, that freaks me out and I'm not gay nor traveling to the Mid East. Shit.
I'm no better. I'm a terrible and flawed human, and I admit it. I don't pretend to be a concerned citizen righting wrongs and protecting children.
> He did. See the other people on fiverr he got to do other, stupid things. You did actually watch the video, right?

He did all those other things and he still did 'death to all jews'. I'm saying he didn't need to do that one at all. If he did other things in the video it supports my position.

> If a kid thinks that they've misunderstood the joke

Yes, kids are by and large stupid.
Allow me to introduce you to Andy Kaufman.
That's not completely fair. It's true that there are some issues I've not counted that could be caused by the "limited expressiveness" of C. Notably the latest vulnerability, #62, which is caused by bogus error checking and would probably not have occurred in idiomatic Rust and could easily be blamed on C's terrible error handling ergonomics (or lack thereof).

However for others it's not immediately obvious how a safer language would've helped, for instance #59: Win CE schannel cert wildcard matches too much

This is clearly a logical error due to a badly implemented standard. There's no silvet bullet here.
Yes. The days of people typing in a URL directly to go to the place they want are history, and Facebook/Twitter have entirely supplanted the feed readers of the aughts.

Normal people will only visit a small handful of web sites and follow outlinks from there, before immediately retreating back into their context: wherever a Google query takes them, an aggregator like HN/reddit/Facebook, and social media like Instagram/YouTube. It's nearly impossible to get people to regularly go to a domain to which they are unaccustomed.
Ah. I stand corrected. I'm leery of their consistency model in that mode, but could just be that I haven't dug into it far enough to make sense out of it.
> The simple fact is that most of our past vulnerabilities happened because of logical mistakes in the code. Logical mistakes that aren’t really language bound and they would not be fixed simply by changing language.

This statement is laughable nonsense. Shall we go into their bug history and point out counterexamples left and right? [Edit:user simias has done this; thanks!]

Every single bug you ever make interacts with the language somehow.

Even if you think some bug is nothing but pure, that logic is part of a program, embedded in the program's design, whose organization is driven by language.
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The Unix practice is anything but minimalist or modular, it's crazy, complex and very crufty (notice it's talking about 38400 baud!): http://curiousthing.org/sigttin-sigttou-deep-dive-linux
CW Pencil Enterprise
> One of the primary goals of a programming language is to prevent humans from making dumb mistakes.

That clearly wasn't the case when C was designed.
Phone number reuse is also a major pain in this scenario. If your mobile phone number has ever changed, you still likely have the old number registered with many sites. The SMS you received may not have been for your Facebook account, but rather for someone else's account using your new phone number that used to belong to them.

The number of sites that use - sometimes even requiring - SMS as a backup authentication mechanism, even while you use a separate authenticator app, is astounding. Cell phone number recycling is just as bad as email addresses.
The "semantic web" stuff has not really disappeared, but it hasn't thrived either.

OWL2 points to a world where a production rules or logic language is fronted by a macro language that lets you say something like

"x is a transitive property"

rather than write

"x(a,b) and x(b,c) implies x(a,c)"

In fact, many RDFS and OWL implementations work exactly that way. RDFS/OWL is designed to support data integration in the sense of "this predicate is an alias of that predicate" but aren't revolutionary because it lacks the ability to do things like

"CentigradeTemperature(x,T) implies KelvinTemperature(x,T+273.15)"

which ordinary production rules engines do easily. Many semantic web tools have such a production rules engine hidden inside (Jena/GraphDB/...) but production rules have resisted standardization.

Note that "Datalog", a subset of Prolog that is purely logical and doesn't have cuts and all of that awful stuff, has caught on, but there has never been a "Turbo Datalog" or "Common Datalog" because frequently Datalog-equivalent functionality gets build into semantic web tools, Datomic, or systems that don't claim any formal compatibility with anything else.

RDF suffered a lot because of RDF/XML where it was really unclear where RDF ended and XML started. Today there is Turtle and JSON-LD, both of which are pretty ergonomic.

One issue I see is that many companies have their own "semantic web"-like technologies which are their own secret sauce and competitive advantage (thus not shared) whereas there seems to be a huge amount of fear and loathing of the W3C standards process, especially amoung people who are veterans of it.
I see the ideas of Henry George pop up in discussion occasionally, but reading the first few sections of "P and P" here is the extent of my exposure.

Are his ideas taken seriously by mainstream economists?
You are also very comfortable making assumptions about my motivations.
> The simple fact is that most of our past vulnerabilities happened because of logical mistakes in the code.

All bugs are logical errors at various scale.
Please, connect the dots for me. An initial skim of the commit messages did not yield any egregious "Utter Disregard for Git Commit History" [1]. Even if it did, it may just mean that the maintainer is focused more on results and robustness than preserving a pristine history of the project.

[1] https://zachholman.com/posts/git-commit-history/
That's basically this, right:
https://www.starfighters.io/
Sure, but I don't know how you'd still guard against runtime issues. I'm not even sure you could require user space only safe code.
I do. But the content creators I watch aren't "Entertainment", they're interesting and educational and that, to me, is entertainment.

I didn't discover the channels I watch based on popularity, but on what interests me. Occasionally I'll find another channel that puts out high quality and interesting content, and add it to my list, but it's not something I set out to do methodically. Most of the channels I watch have less than 500,000 subscribers and several have less than 100,000.

I've never watched one of Pewdiepie's videos, or anything remotely resembling one of his videos, and have never had the slightest inclination to do so. He might as well be living in a different world.

That said, I find Youtube to be invaluable as a platform and don't feel the time I spend on it to be in any sense wasted.

Sturgeon's law is very much in effect. I suspect Youtube is especially predisposed to encouraging clickbait and low-effort content. It's all a matter of finding the quality stuff at the long end of the tail.
> How many applications have a working set that is in that relatively small region between DRAM and SSD.

Actually I'd say quite a few. Because not everyone has a server with 40 cores and 1TB RAM because that is quite expensive. But many people have 8 cores and 32GB RAM, and could conceivably add 512GB of fast flash-core (by which I mean fast flash memory accessibly via the memory bus, rather than PCIe, although that may be fast enough). So, your laptop could search a ~fast-as-RAM key value store with 200GB of data, even with only 8GB of RAM.

But I don't think any of this is particularly relevant to desktops/laptops as such. This is more of a programming paradigm change. Main memory is still going to be unbearably slow (many clocks to fill a cache line), but next level storage will only be 10 times slower than main memory, instead of 1000 times slower. What do we do with that? How do we orchestrate inter-processor and inter-chassis cooperation on solving problems? (For example, if inter-node flash-core IPC is about the same speed as intra-node. Distributed flash core could be hundreds of TB.) What can we do if memory is persistent? How will we adapt algorithms to reduce flash wear problems?

https://www.usenix.org/conference/inflow16
LOL, foreigner, so I just use "heck" as a common idiom -- not because of some puritan upbringing.
If you run Android, that is a feature on recent versions (Marshmallow and up seems to have it - it might go older, I can't look).

I have actually put my phone into guest mode to lend it to people at the office.
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Yes. I think it was purposefully designed with multiple threads having their beginnings and ends hidden in the text. Even tells you where one thread ends (where it gets nonsensical). So the start of the book is pretty much just dumping you into the middle of the braid.
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We have 13 seconds as well... you're all idiots.
Counter-point: Windows 10 updates locked up 2 of my machines - Microsoft has a tough time implementing most things properly...
These rules are/were certainly a step in the right direction for the protection of consumer privacy and should be saved; the attention on consumer privacy is welcome.

What's fascinating is that other online privacy areas that I would argue are much more invasive and threatening to consumer privacy are completely ignored. I'm referring, of course, to the ecosystems of Google, Facebook, the new Verizon (AOL, Yahoo), and the many other companies looking to amass as much consumer data as possible for profit.

These FCC rules feel a bit like the FCC was patting themselves on the back for fixing a drip in the bathroom faucet while ignoring the broken pipe to the water main.

From a business perspective I can also see why ISPs would be so upset about their businesses having to abide by these rules while their competitors (again, Facebook, Google, et al) are left to collect data unbridled. The all sell ads after all.
That's what makes it a valid appeal to authority, rather than an invalid one.
No, but AIs will override all elevator scheduling code. It just need to keep tuning all the knobs until everyone gets to their floor as fast as possible.
It seems like Zimbardo always wanted to be a "thought leader" rather than a scientist. He has a history of promoting novel theories/diagnoses/techniques with catchy names that don't especially pan out (the Lucifer Effect, Social Intensity Syndrome, time perspective therapy).
In the 80s I was able to use 5p coins (same size as the modern 10p) instead of quarters in arcade machines when I was on holiday in Florida.
> All reminded me of the quote generally attribued to cardinal Richelieu.

It's worse than that. Richelieu was talking about absolute power of the State. Now the online power is made up of hordes of folks whose only reason to exist is to make their views the predominant ones and silence anyone who's diverging from them, even if that person was simply joking. There's a surprising good share of folks who are anti-Freedom of expression especially in Gen X and Y. Anyone who lived during the 80s would find the present situation intoxicating.
I second Influence.
Well, you do have people like Bannon in powerful positions who have openly stated their belief that legal immigration is a "real problem." [1]

It's not that far-fetched, then, that GP is describing a real strategy with the goal of making them "think twice." It's not something that you or I want as an end, but it is an end.

[1]: https://mcfeely.areavoices.com/2017/02/01/bannon-legal-immig...
The 7th point: "curl sits in the boat"

In the curl project we’re deliberately conservative and
we stick to old standards, to remain a viable and reliable
library for everyone. Right now and for the foreseeable
future. Things that worked in curl 15 years ago still work
like that today. The same way. Users can rely on curl. We
stick around. We don’t knee-jerk react to modern trends.
We sit still in the boat. We don’t rock it.

I see a lot of inertia in there. While it's a great record to maintain 15-year consistency but in the era of every changing InfoSec outlook, it could be a legacy and baggage if the authors resist to change. One thing we know for sure is that human will make mistakes, no matter how skillful you are. In the context of writing a fundamental piece of software with an unsafe programming language, that means we are guarantee to have memory-safety induced CVE bugs in curl in the future.

Some of other points that the author raised are valid too. If there is a trade-off that we can have a safer piece of fundamental software by almost eliminating a whole category of memory safety related bugs, and with the downside of less compatibility with legacy systems, more dependencies etc., perhaps we should consider it? I believe the tradeoff is well worthy in the long run and option is ripe for explore.
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I suspect this is because Theresa May didn't want the UK policy to be so blatantly discriminatory, but still wanted to obsequiously support Donald Trump in the hopes of receiving preferential treatment from America as the UK severs its ties with other EU member states.

Whatever the intelligence says about the risk of certain devices, I can't see how that threat doesn't apply equally to passengers travelling from any country (although plausibly there could be significantly increased risks relating to passengers of certain nationalities).

This policy feels like an obvious target for someone to crowd-fund a judicial review into.
I see. That sounds like a smaller constant factor, rather than a lower complexity.
Nice example since his recent stand up routine is getting a lot of flack for supposed anti-LGBT statements (I haven't seen it yet so I can't say if they have any value). With regards to the Pewdiepie case I am on his side here the quality of jokes doesn't matter it was pretty clear that they weren't meant to be taken seriously and that should be it.
I don't understand why people here are comparing Next.js to create-react-app.

I see Next.js primarily focusing on server-rendered React and then it also supports client-rendering. I see create-react-app is primarily focused on client-javascript. Am I missing something?
YouTube has a fake Peppa Pig problem
This link first loaded the page, then unloaded it and put me in a queue! I was told how many people were ahead of me and an estimate on when I would get to read the page, complete with elevator music. Why would anyone even make that?
I wonder how long for -

http://uk.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-symphony-custome...
creator here — we just launched Focus Mode, which makes reading on the web more enjoyable by dropping a semi-opaque layer over online distractions. You can adjust the level of opacity, as well as the color of the transparency.
Just read this recently, on loan from a neighbor. If you like that, you may like the works of Richard Bach, especially Illusions.
Near me in the UK countryside, a lot of the phone boxes are being used to house AEDs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_external_defibrillat...).
I actually learned Scala from this book, and the only languages I had used in production before were Python and Fortran. I don't think learning the functional subset first made it harder for me to learn the object-oriented and imperative parts later on. Plus, understanding the functional subset gives you a better understanding of many of the internals, such as what `for` comprehensions are actually doing.

Of course, if you just read one book and stop there, I'd agree. But most people will continue learning from tutorials, videos, stackoverflow, etc.

I've also seen several other people learn Scala this way, usually without knowing any functional programming before, and really haven't seen any signs of issues wrt not understanding code written in other styles.
Using Observables in real life
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The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand.

I was never that into Rand-branded libertarianism - even as I read through TF and Atlas Shrugged I considered it a limited and self-blinding ideology - but I was certainly influenced by a story where the protagonist forges his own path even as the entire world sets out to prevent and undermine him.

Nowadays, I point to a far superior example of this inspiring and uplifting theme in the 2007 Japanese anime series Gurren Lagann.
I am so glad I've deleted my Facebook account a long time ago. A request to provide a photo ID for a social network platform just shocks me. Welcome to the Orwellian world, dear people...
The excellent short film MORE by Mark Osborne is about similar reality-editing glasses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCeeTfsm8bk
We can't see reality, we can only see a very limited representation of a small slice of reality. Why is that particular representation any better than others?
If you're writing machine learning/intelligence, please just consider how to do so without condemning us to a dystopian future.
I thought they were already all gone, but I guess I put too much stock into the opening of 2002's Phone Booth