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> I am struggling to think of big drops like this working, anyone?

Gmail has done major overhauls all in one go. So has Dropbox. Google calendars. Google earth. Apple's main site. Most newspaper's sites. Bitbucket. Facebook has had several. All of these have irritated some portion of users who decried the death of the product, yet eventually people get used to it. I think it works more often than not.

And if we went suddenly from Amazon of five years ago[1] to the Amazon of today I don't think there would be that much of an uproar. It's basically the same site, just with minor colour and layout changes.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20130316112319/http://www.amazon...
What does "game the election" means?
What was the purpose of $1.2B that Hillary spent?

Advertising in tv is fine but on fb it is gaming the system??
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Ask HN: How do you keep up the energy to work on side-projects after work?
Curious about what other people do to maintain the energy (and money) to work on side projects after work. What's your side project working schedule like?
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At the risk of snark I don't have a clear way around, your definition of "good engineering" appears to be the same one that thinks a modern toilet is no better than a hole in the ground. Nobody that pays for developer time in 2018 is going to optimize their site for people that go out of their way to willfully turn off part of the stack. It's not gonna happen. Effort for no reward.

The protocol you describe, just a bare tree of text links, already exists as Gopher. People mostly stopped using that.
Maybe the title scheme is throwing you off.

I read these as "a list of things people have assumed about X that, on the surface, seem true but absolutely won't be 100% of the time."

IOW, examine your assumptions, and protect yourself from your unexamined biases and assumptions.

No?
I couldn't get anywhere with those last time I tried (2013). LispStick doesn't seem to have been updated since 2014 and LispBox has had no commits since 2010. Have you used either of these recently?
For those wanting to go this route I'd recommend Portacle which can run on off a usb and includes git
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To add a small tangent to your comments...

Car dealerships should have been disinter-mediated long ago. In my opinion, they add no value to the process of purchasing a car/truck; except for unnecessarily driving up the price. If i want expertise on which to buy, i wouldn't want the person whose incentive it is to get me into their most expensive car...i want advice from a neutral third-party who knows cars/trucks. I'm not an expert on capitalism, but it seems to me, that car dealerships - at least in this modern era - have been held up to exist in such an artificial way, which distorts pricing for me as a consumer. If car dealers failed to exist, yes, i would feel bad for the low-level car salespeople who now have to find another, different livelihood...but honestly, isn't this like trying to keep the jobs of the telegraph operators in our information age? Car dealerships should be left to go extinct.
> There's really very little reason to ever use C over C++ with modern toolchains.

Formal verification is one reason. There is still no formal model of C++ and C formal tools are light years ahead.
True, including lost knowledge, etc.

It makes sense to invest as much money possible in returning someone to being the most productive they can in a society, especially if you think about automation systems that will lower costs of everything more and more - assuming a profit layer isn't gouging unreasonably; that is if you are following trusted processes and carefully following them as to not make mistakes, and directing investment towards fixing source causes and not simply symptoms, when possible. The problem I have personally been facing the past two years relating to this kind of process is from human error - incompetence (inability to do something successfully) - whereby I've observed that it seems doctors are selected for their memorization skills to regurgitate information on tests (etc) and not critical thinking skills, to understand more complex, less straight-forward scenarios. And this will likely lead me to ending my life; I have chronic pain I have been problem solving, had success with healing, but have been stonewalled by illogical thinking. I am trying to write my story out, though it's difficult for me to organize thought and focus/concentrate enough for longer form.
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It also annoys the hell out of me how often companies get away with something if they just say "Whoops, it was a mistake/bug."

Google was recently found to track Android users' location even when they didn't have their GPS on. And they said it was a "bug". Like I'm just going to believe that from a company whose main objective is to track as much about us as possible.

But my point is the FTC should have slapped them with a major (at least tens of millions to hundreds of millions of dollars, depending how long they've been doing it and to how many people) even if this was a bug.

If you tracked or collected data without users' consent, you get fined - bigly. No ifs or buts about it. Enough with the BS excuses and apology tours while they pocket billions from the "error" or "mistake."
The need to bulk post, and fees in general, are likely to hinder mainstream adoption.

Can multiple users share a bulk post? Curious if it would be possible to set up a site that reduces latency by grouping post actions from multiple users, possibly even letting them post for free by displaying ads in the front-end.
The biggest reason Google's name hasnt come up yet is probably because most of these senators are on Google's payrolls. That Google pays for favourable research is already well established.

The fact that no one has even raised a finger at Google, which by all accounts does a more pervasive job at monitoring people, speaks volumes on how well entrenched it is in media circles. The fact that Google can more or less kill any media outlet literally at a flick of a button is reason enough that it should be shut down hook, line and sinker.
Because the alternatives are better? Because we need convergence? Because competition is bad? For what?
My same thought
Studies have shown sleeping for longer also correlates with increased mortality. Although I've not seen a study which establishes the causality of this. It's plausible that people who are sleeping longer are doing it because (potentially undiagnosed) diseases are making them lethargic, rather than oversleeping causing disease.

I think a study would have to take a set of people and force sleeping habits upon them for a significant length of time for the results to be meaningful with regards to causality.
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I think it's more that programming languages have to be precise and unforgiving. Natural language is the opposite.
Voat is utter shit.

The default greeting/nickname on that site for other users is nifa. How is that okay at all?
I've been using React Native too and my experience is: I accomplish a lof of stuff in a few days, then lose a whole day trying to hack a custom Picker element or similar. Grrr.
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You're making up stawmans, nobody's talking about that. Just some extra taxation like with cigarettes.

We're discussing ideas on how to get a hold on the obesity crisis. I suggested some extra taxes. Yes some gov't regulation.

You suggested me to use the free market, but food is already on the free market. So I fail to understand what you are actually suggesting.

At the same time you say "get rid of the crap", while not defining how to do so (without gov't regulation accordin to your own preferences) and without defining what in your eyes crap then means...

Please make a real argument.

And why should any solution be "consistent with American values"; obesity in the US is VERY CONSISTENT with American values. Maybe to turn the tide on it we have to look in a diff direction.
Good Q. Early tracking seems to indicate there's a good chance, but one thing to consider is that Avengers more than doubled BP budget so matching revenue is one thing. Being as successful will be even harder.

The big question is if the audience is getting fatigued on Avengers or excited about next chapter in the overall story; since BP was of the cannon but also decidedly new and different. So far, trailer interaction and presale numbers-wise seems like people are excited.
I didn't read that. Organizing a union or a political or social movement occur through deliberate, thoughtful efforts. I took his comment to indicate something along the lines of; Mobs (IRL or digital) are emotion driven and feed off of (or even are dependent upon) instantaneous, omni-directional communication. Maybe adding friction to communication has historically had the benefit of reducing mob tendencies. But friction does not mean prevented or blocked.

I haven't thought any of this over myself, but if I supported this idea, I'd offer that friction, in reducing mob tendencies, might actually make more room for the types of communications that promote rational democratic ideas.

Basically, i think you read way more into his idea of friction than was there.
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The new missile is called 40N6E, and is still in development.

The existing ones are unable to lock on F-22 or F-35. The ground stations under favourable circumstance can possibly see stealth aircraft, but S-300/400 family has active, missile-based guidance, and this is not compensated yet.
Probably because Orkut was hugely popular in 2 countries. India and Brazil.

India probably dominates the downloads due to population differences.
I certainly don't trust the press to do a better job of this than anyone else, and they definitely don't do a great job of encouraging deliberation and slowness to act - if anything the exact opposite. This is more of a practical observation of how things actually are and what the actual end result of this would look like. There hasn't been the same kind of push to stamp down on hasty, mob-like action backed by the press as there has been to restrict social media and direct unmediated communication, and I can't see any such push going anywhere given the amount of media pushback that would result.

(Also, to be fair, I should probably have extended this to other powerful institutions and organisations with the ability to mediate what kinds of activism can and cannot happen, not just the press. Meant to but it didn't make it into my original comment.)
It's the guy's name. Give him a break. There are a lot of names which don't translate well in other languages.

On the other hand, having your social network associated with orgasms might not be such a bad plan!
There are ways in which humans self-organise, amplifying individual intelligence and empathy, and ways in which humans self-disorganise, amplifying the naive ambition, greed, and poor choices of powerful individuals.

The challenge is to distinguish between the two.

The FB memo is self-serving nonsense, because it tries to deny there's a problem. In fact the problem existed outside FB before FB and the rest were created.

Why do we have an economy in which a social network exists primarily to amplify the power of persuasive media? Why do our political fitness functions reward this outcome, instead of the other possible outcomes that social networks could generate?

This isn't a problem that can be fixed with more or better software, because it's not a technical problem - it's about politics and values, and how our political economy rewards certain behaviours while punishing, or at least strongly disincentivising, others.
I am sure that this would be included in the article.
Being mobile-only ensures that the network will only consist of pictures and low-effort posts. That's fine, there's a bigger market for Instagram competitors than for social networks with substance. But between that and the video that consisted almost solely of liking cat pictures makes it obvious that it's not for me.
Hubski! I knew there was one I was forgetting.

Also, thanks for the Snapzu and Soylent mentions, those are new to me.
Having less than a week worth of rations (as in canned / dry food) is irresponsible regardless of where you live.

During the “great storm” we had in London where we had like maybe 5” of snow fall and everything stopped working I had people seriously complaining and telling war stories about going hungry because they couldn’t get food delivered...

Like seriously any small scale natural disaster or even a local utilities outage can cause issues to so many unprepared people it’s not even funny.

I keep some basic canned / dry food enough for about a week for 2 people, 20 liters of bottled water and several high capacity charged chargers and I live in W2 London.
Does using Arcadia (Clojure for Unity, https://github.com/arcadia-unity/arcadia) qualify?
That people carry the toxic "make this post go away because I don't like it" mindset everywhere, even when they're explicitly asked not to?

At this point, the only reason I still hold a (read only) Reddit account is so I can turn implicit censorship like thresholding and front page blocks off. HN, unlike reddit, still has value as a discussion medium, but I wish that "showdead" didn't make the posts unreadable.
The quote from the memo that really irritates me is

> The natural state of the world is not connected. It is not unified. It is fragmented by borders, languages, and increasingly by different products.

This is such a load of crap. The natural state of the world is actually very connected (whether we consciously assent to it or not), and specifically, humans are one of the most social species. Humans have deep societal and psychological needs for interpersonal interaction.

What Facebook does through "engagement" is replace richly rewarding and deeply needed face-to-face interaction with a veneer of connection. Actually, Facebook's effects are even more insidious--it addicts us to a "feeling" of connectedness with dopamine hits, which prevents us from even realizing we aren't getting what we need.

Facebook is not a community, it is software. Software can enhance what is in the real world (ie, real community), but it cannot replace it. Zuckerberg's new world order of community is a mirage, and cults have been built on lesser falsehoods. The article's link between that mirage and the modernism that gave rise to communism is not theater.
One man's missed is another's almost hit.

(No idea if F-35 were deployed by Israel at all)
I know this doesn't matter as I'm a tiny minority but mobile only makes this inaccessible to me. I have no compelling reason to have a cell phone plan and this isn't going to be one either.
Aww, no Chang? :) Someone has been hanging out in Hubud too much :)
This seems far too focused on dev tech debt, which has a very narrow scope. I like the article, so I'm not knocking it, just offering a little perspective. As a senior sysadmin in the past my primary issues have been technical debt across the entire board, number one being too few hires for too much workload due to cheap or nearsighted execs, but I would definitely agree that contagion is a great term for how techdebt grows faster the longer it's left alone.

It's worth remembering the CTO and senior sysadmin and a few others are dealing with all the tech debt of the entire company and IT department of which dev is only a subset (of course this depends on the company, but on HN sometimes I see convos like this where it feels devs are just talking at each other and not receiving much outside feedback.)
You know, no network is made for "hate" per se. The problem is that hate from the outside looks like love on the inside.

You see this most clearly in conservative v liberal tribalism, but that example is so close to most people you may not see it.

Even the most horrible "haters" feel they are protecting or preserving their secularism/race/religion/political opinion etc
> Just learn to count calories, how much you need and avoid excesses.

Easy enough to say, but hard when you're trying to get a 6-7 year old (what this article is about) to adopt that lifestyle - that's an age where they eat what they're being served. Given this is in the UK, part would be the school lunch - which is directed by things like cost and preparation time/effort (Jamie Oliver did a series about this) - and part is the parents that feed the kids.
This is not so different from the arguments behind what motivated the Unabomber. One key difference is that Ted Kaczynski saw it as necessarily political.

People should read Kaczynski's manifesto. It's rough at parts, but it's really an interesting perspective.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabo...
That... is an unfortunate name. I would really encourage people to google a word before choosing it as a product name.
It would seem so.

Here's a selection of post titles currently on the front page of voat.co:

- Syria chemical attack was false flag operation by US

- Didn't some vegan, muslim, woman shoot up youtube a week ago?

- A heavy redpill from a man who knows what he's talking about.

- Congressional Dick Pics
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The article mentions that in the study there was little difference in the self-reported sleep times of night-owls and morning folk. So probably not.
I upvoted because I'd like to see more competition to FB so people don't feel as "trapped" to one network, but I see no reason why this would be much better than FB privacy-wise.
Exactly - THE PARENTS. Look at this bit: "they will tell him his parents are overseas" - they will mentally destroy this kid.

The embryo was his parents, not grandparents. There was no actual will granting them control over that. They just decided to claim it anyway.
> nifa

What is nifa? I am guessing it isn't the National Institute of Food and Agriculture and other organisations that come up on google.

nvm, found it apparently: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nifa
Pleonasm is more of a needless redundancy like "It's déjà vu all over again."
> ...taking away some control of the culture from the press, the media, and other powerful groups and giving it to the populace;

Shouldn't we replace "populace" with "social media networks (via the algorithms they create)" in that sentence?
Driving a 2017 Corolla on busy highway is more exhausting than driving a 2007 Honda civic - the Corolla has all this stuf like it moves the stearing wheel if I drift complains if I dont signal and jerks the wheel - slows down on cruis control and then speeds up.. I would be out of it driving a more bossy car like a tesla. I would rather the car just do the driving rather than act like my dad when I was 15.
Regarding energy, I do what I can when I can, and I don't stress about things taking a long time.

Regarding money, I don't spend any. Between free services, free/promotional tiers of paid services, and open source tools, there's rarely a need to spend anything until your project is generating cold hard cash.
That's a lot of text not to mention Darcs, which I believe introduced the "unordered set of patches merged by mathematical theorem" [1] 15 years ago.

I was a heavy Darcs user for a while before switching to Git. The biggest flaw in the "set-of-patches" model IMHO is the inability to quickly compare the state of two repositories. With Git, this is trivial -- since commit hashes represent the entire history, just compare them. With a Darcs-style VCS, you're limited to only comparing patch sets that have been explicitly tagged, or comparing the repositories patch by patch. And the existence of rebasing (which is sometimes necessary even in Darcs-style repos) pretty much negates the main benefit of the set-of-patches model.

[1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Understanding_Darcs/Patch_theo...
In that case HN isn't the right place for you either, because explicit racist slurs aren't tolerated here.
I'm beating my own drum here, but the gameplay code for my game Galactology is 90%+ done in a Lisp dialect (l2l with LuaJIT underneath), clocking at 51K lines currently. It has been a huge productivity boost since I switched from C++ two years ago, but I do miss some level of typing and static checking.
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Love lobste.rs! Their April fools gag was to reskin the whole site as a PhpBB board circa 2004...
"A hardware security module, or HSM, is the only appropriate place to store privileged credentials,"

"We provide you with an exclusive hardware container, your private data is never stored together with other customers’ data."

When I read hardware I assumed it's a physical device I have to install. What you provide is still software isn't it?
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Reddit scrubs the identity out of many communities/topics. I have found much deeper and meaningful discussion on focused forums. For almost any topic with any significant interest there is a non Reddit forum or community that is deeper and more customized. Not always, but usually. Just support those communities and forums. Example, mtgsalvation is by far better to visit for meaningful MTG deck building and discussion. Subaru forums are another great example. There are plenty of established communities out there.
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I've seen some studies on this, but I (personally) haven't run across many that show a significant difference in isocaloric diets where carbohydrates are replaced calorie for calorie with fats.

If it is swapped with a mix of protein and carbs, then you have some confounding variables of the thermic effect of the protein to account for.

From what I have seen, keto diets work due to two things:
1) Reduced caloric intake due to chopping out carbs - a major swath of foods
2) Increased adherence due to stabilizing blood sugar levels and thereby increasing satiety (the whole "stay full longer" thing)

If you have other studies that have been shown significant in an isocaloric state, I'd love to see them. I just haven't run across any that have shown good control around these areas. I personally like keto (and bacon) so I'm always looking for another excuse to do it, but I don't think that there is a ton of evidence for it doing any hormonal magic in healthy populations at the moment.
Are you sure that wasn't hotornot.com or something similar? I've been on Facebook since back when it was still segmented by college (connections with people at other colleges were clunky), and I don't recall it ever having a built-in "hot or not" feature.
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I avoided it because the team had previously sacrificed the stability of SproutCore to make it “web designer friendly”, and Ember was more of the same.
Yet, nowhere in the article did they mention what time is their half-a-million represents for a night owl, 11PM, 12AM, 1AM?