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The romanticism comes from the fact that 4chan has been incredibly influential in internet history.

Chaos is a ladder, as they say in GOT, and some of the best content out there has come from 4chan.

The lack of identity and point system also brings out some of the most interesting conversation. I recommend checking out /mu or /lit (/b, /pol/, and /r9k are all containment boards). If you contrast the conversation on /mu and /lit with similar reddit boards (r/music - or even spin offs like r/hiphopheads - and r/books) you will find much more interesting and original content. I find the point system on reddit lends itself much closer to a 'hivemind' where everyone ends up conforming to the same opinion, which makes things boring
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I mean, just save the file as .txt and open it in Notepad, TextEdit, or whatever is the default editor in your desktop environment of choice. Should have a print function.

Otherwise you could stick it in <pre> / <code> tags in an html file, open it in a browser, and print from there.

Lots of options...
Don't lose hope. A lot of us folks got into CS through playing computer games and thinking "how the hell does this even work". My first "programming" experience was modifying the scripts for my Diablo 2 bots.

Imho an interest in figuring stuff out, building things and some capability in abstract thinking are way more important than an interest in programming language at a young age.
Really nothing that most of us do most of the time is very difficult, nor does it require very much knowledge (except for the sake of productivity)

All that’s required is the ability to decompose problems and systems into smaller pieces and trace cause and effect. With those two things and a smidge of domain knowledge and a lot of persistence you can move mountains.
I disagree. Anonymous environments bring out the best kind of discourse with the occasional annoyances. There is a reason why most people agree that reddit's golden age was around the 2008-2012is period. Before all the censorship and propaganda. In my opinion, censored environments bring out the worst kind of discourse. Look at social media of today.
I think you're just noticing the more egregious examples which garner a lot of attention. Quite a lot of original content that didn't have any other common place used to originate on 4chan. Eventually a lot of it shifted to Reddit as Reddit came into being and gained in popularity, but there's a reason that some content (such as very short science fiction stories, or humorous explanations of DND sessions in "greentext") is archived in the form of screen capture images, and that's because one of the few places you could find this with a wide audience was on 4chan.

I've only ever been on 4chan a handful of times, and yes, the boards that people expect to be a clusterfuck are indeed a clusterfuck, but if you pay attention it's hard to discount the influence 4chan had on internet culture in benign ways as well.
The great thing about software entrepreneurship is that your plan B is pretty decent as well.

I failed at building a billion-dollar company too, a decade ago, but my consolation prize was working for Google, which was pretty good. Still working on building a billion-dollar company the second time around. I work harder and make less than I would've if I'd stayed at Google, but I'm not really passing up too much. Mostly just the opportunity to own an overpriced Silicon Valley quarter-acre Eichler.
There goes the accounts of anyone working in a place that blocks ads for their entire wifi network for anti-malware purposes.
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It remembered me how much I miss LPeg - Lua parsing expression grammars.
I was very fast and way more nicer to work than regex.
Yes, the paper is general and covers the case for arbitrary bit size. 64-bit would require a 128-bit approximate inverse in general and the multiplication during computing the mod would extend that out another 64-bits. So would require three registers and two more multiplications on x64 I think. Socidont think it gains you anything in the general case. Bit for some divisors it might beat the traditional Granlund-Montgomery-Warren method when you could use a smaller approximate inverse.
> Many local news sites now have online subscriptions available. Combined with an ad blocker

It's kind of disappointing that news website still have ads even after I decide to pay for access.
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> A lot of the stories I formed my opinion on were second hand, issues my friends were dealing with; such as the Kafkaesque situation of registering for residency in a city, but not being able to rent without residency paperwork, and not being able to get the paperwork without a fixed address.

This is the type of problems that come up. I don't understand, though. There are multiple ways to get an address in Germany without a residency permit. You can also rent places without a residency permit. Maybe the person that encountered the issue you describe wanted to rent one specific place which requires a residence permit, and didn't want to do any other (temporary) thing to get an address.
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The repo itself https://github.com/imageworks/OpenColorIO
It's disingenuous to compare a tool to an act. Would you blame Home Depot if someone bought a pipe there and used it to bludgeon someone to death?
There goes the account of anyone who works in a place that blocks ads across ther entire wifi network for anti-malware purposes.
While not a true generic, Novo Nordisk does sell an old version of their insulin at Walmart for $25 a vial. About as close to a generic as you’re going to get.
Tony's Law
That’s a really interesting point (and quote). I write legal briefs for a living, and routinely an argument I thought was very compelling when I jotted down the bullet points completely falls apart when I go to write it out and am forced to actually conntect the dots.
Agree with bang, but I call "*" star or asterisk.
This is my favorite collections of reasons that yaml is a bad config file format: https://github.com/cblp/yaml-sucks
4chan was the best. It was meme culture before meme culture. In fact, I believe that's where the modern usage of the word comes from (ytmnd used "fad" for the same concept). I spent so much time on there 15 years ago when I first entered college.
this is the 1960 paper about ADALINE that discusses the memistor: http://www-isl.stanford.edu/~widrow/papers/t1960anadaptive.p...
Yes, bureaucracy provides a lot of jobs, but they're not jobs that produce anything useful. You're just paying people to check if other people should also get paid. Just pay everybody and be done with it, and maybe let people do something more productive or fulfilling.
Think cellular automatons combined with PD/MaxMSP.
Each letter in the alphabet is a node. The node's inputs/outputs are adjacent grid locations, data typically flows south (outputs are sent down)
State advances on every frame. There are nodes to generate data (counters, timers, etc.), nodes that have state and nodes that are sinks (OSC and MIDI). I had to fiddle around the webkit console to get the midi working with garage band.

It's fun.
I've never had issues on Mac, Windows, or Linux with the operating system's mute stopping ad playback.

On a related note, Spotify's volume controls should never be touched, because no matter what you set the music volume to, ads will play at full volume. It's usually louder than the music anyway, but the damage to your ears can be minimized.
The world isn't made up of just laymen and students. There's also professionals. In some cases employers will pay, or individuals can pay, but journal payment schemes aren't really set up for this.
I never once got the impression that Julia was dumbing her presentation down to a juvenile level to make it more accessible.

Rather, the impression I get is that Julia is as enthusiastic about this stuff as anyone has ever been about anything, and that she has no pretense of having known any of it last week, nor does she care if you did.

It's pretty charming and unique combination (it's rare enough that when status-conscious adults come across it, it reads juvenile!) and is my favorite thing about the way she writes and presents. When she writes about stuff, she doesn't have to judge each element she's discussing for whether it's interesting or worth calling out; it's all interesting. That's a good way to avoid missing interesting observations, I think.
All kinds of other ways - subtle manipulation, advertising, evaluation by power structures etc.
O'caml and Haskell are extremely niche in the web server world, and are not especially faster than go. C# is not blazingly fast either. They all seem to be in the same ballpark.
People are so enamoured by 4chan precisely because it isn't like reddit. Reddit, Facebook or any social media platform that rewards users with up votes, karma, reputation, likes or whatever creates a system in which people want to please others and develop reputations they have to uphold. 4chan is free from those chains and people are able to freely throw ideas into the mix. This is why 4chan has been so instrumental in coming up thousands of memes that define internet culture today. Reddit, Facebook and others are usually consumers of those memes rather than generators.

I know this is a massive generalization, but that's been my impression being on digg, reddit, Twitter and 4chan for 10 years now.

The problem is that a lot of the original 4chan users either moved on or just grew up and at the same time 4chan got over taken by alt-light type folks. I still think the basic idea of 4chan has a lot to offer that maybe could be replicated on an other platform, with a fresh set of people.
I used Spotify for a few years (with an ad blocker at the DNS-level) and never heard a single ad. I was constantly blown away by how great the service was, and free! Then I was on a road trip and heard the ads on my phone because I wasn't using my at-home DNS. The ads were so annoying, came on after ever 3-4th song. Ad blockers were really effective on Spotify.

I've been a paying member for a few years now.

Curious if they will block paid users too.
It needs to have a better performance per dollar, however, or its not a great option.
You agree that they can serve them to you. Blocking them kind of stops that, yeah?

8 Rights you grant us

In consideration for the rights granted to you under the Agreements, you grant us the right (1) to allow the Spotify Service to use the processor, bandwidth, and storage hardware on your Device in order to facilitate the operation of the Service, (2) to provide advertising and other information to you, and (3) to allow our business partners to do the same. In any part of the Spotify Service, the Content you access, including its selection and placement, may be influenced by commercial considerations, including Spotify’s agreements with third parties. Some Content licensed by, provided to, created by or otherwise made available by Spotify (e.g. podcasts) may contain advertising as part of the Content. The Spotify Service makes such Content available to you unmodified.
4chan is to Reddit as Xerox PARC was to Apple. It's the baked potato to Reddit's buttery mashed potatoes. It takes a little more work to get what you want out of it, but sometimes that's part of the draw.
As an architecture enthusiast and a fan of brutalism I am having trouble connecting this word with UI.

This style of UI reminds me of something different... a late 80's/early 90's simplicity. Yet it's still stylish. I am hesitant to call it retroism because it will cheapen the movement to do that. It's refreshing and unique.
The Black Death in the 14 century killed a third of the population of Europe, which lead to a surprising rise in wages and standards of living.

It's weird and uncomfortable how tragedy sometimes leads to very good things. Similarly in the opposite direction, automation should have been a good thing yet it leads to unemployment and poverty.
Addendum: coding is Nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your writing is.
As the author explains, this approach to automatic differentiation (AD) via transformation of source code "supports control flow, higher-order functions and nested derivatives. The differentiated code can be further fed into a traditional compiler such as LLVM, which results in an extremely efficient derivative program. Further, it opens up the opportunity for robust traditional compiler techniques to be extended to machine learning, enabling kernel fusion or compilation for accelerators with no artificial limitations on the kinds of models that researchers can express. This combination has not previously been possible in a high-level, general-purpose programming language."

The author's package, Zygote, makes all Julia code differentiable, so any program can be optimized as an ML/AI model to learn a set of parameters given some training objective.[a]

:-)

[a] That said, you will not be able magically to overcome the limits of mathematics, in case you're wondering. See darawk's and b_tterc_p's comments below.
Good post. Keep asking why. See where it takes you.
With regards to internet culture, 4chan and SomethingAwful are definitely way more influential than reddit.
People try to over analyze the appeal of 4chan, but I really think it's quite simple:

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19
> Spotify is extremely affordable, for literally everyone who can afford an internet connection.

Maybe everyone in the first world, but certainly not everyone who can afford an internet connection. Smart phone internet connectivity is still pretty ubiquitous in many areas where the typical smart phone is <$100 and the average income is an order of magnitude lower than the developed world.
Section 9.10

> circumventing or blocking advertisements in the Spotify Service, or creating or distributing tools designed to block advertisements in the Spotify Service
which ereader is that?
Gotcha, no worries.
Reminds me of the last cornfield in the middle of Silicon valley. The field is worth millions if sold to a real estate developer but every year without fail there is a new crop of corn planted and harvested. I imagine it belongs to some aging retiree who sits on his/her rocking chair and watches the corn grow while harried tech executives in Teslas navigate rush hour traffic on the Lawrence expressway.

https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3622129,-121.9960813,3a,75y,...
Interesting!

What I’ve heard from other diabetics is that the older Novolin drugs take a lot more effort to get constant insulin levels than the newer ones.

I guess not true for everyone!!
I think you might be selling Carreyrou short. The "corporate scandals" you're saying he wrote about are, in many cases, scandals because he broke the story about them. There might still be a Theranos as a going concern if it weren't for him. He's not like Andrew Ross Sorkin writing about the collapse of investment banks in 2008 --- his reporting had a causal impact on the collapse he wrote about.

Read the book! It is a excellent read. There are technical details in it a-plenty.

_When Genius Failed_ isn't simply a description of a scandal, but also a pop-grade exploration of the technical factors that led to the scandal. The book is impossible to write without conversance with its technical subject matter. Which is my point: Lowenstein wasn't a quant, but he was able to accurately and effectively write on them.
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You are fooling yourself if you think the parents' of facebook employees' aren't proud of them.

What's with the neverending facebook bashing. So much of it is propagandistic and unreasonable. It's funny how the media says something and so many people just parrot it.

Do you really believe parents are disappointed that their child works for one of the most important companies in the world? Where the average salary is double what the average dentist makes?
If the terms change, they contact you that they changed. At that point, yeah, you’re bound by new terms if you continue using the service. That’s kind of been the way things have been since the advent of Internet services in general.

I’m curious how you’re certain they defaulted first when you state that you never read the document in the first place.
This isn't really that kind of piece of software. It's a work of art, but more relevantly it's meant to be a conspicuous component of other people's art. That means an air of mystique is a selling point.

It's weird, it's confusing, and it doesn't care about you — but open it up and play around and you might find something worthy of delight.
> Nobody is 'hurting anyone' - not even slightly, by ensuring that their free product also has ads.

This isn't a convincing argument. As an extreme example, replace ads with something that's clearly detrimental for the user: "nobody is hurting anyone by ensuring that their free product also delivers a LD50 of cyanide" is clearly bogus. While ads don't kill people, the way that they are distributed currently has many negative externalities that the user must deal with.
I'm curious to how much time is allocated for writing these six pagers? Both total leadtime and actual writing time. Anyone with experience have any insight?
Yes, absolutely, but this typically feels like companies responding to market preferences of consumers for the cheapest/brightest fruits/vegetables, rather than the feeling I get from companies marketing typical packaged products, which is of malicious deception.
I'm not trying to bring up a lawsuit, just saying that the coffee is way too hot for me. I have the same problem at most places you can stop on at the road. I usually get my gas station coffee with a side of ice.
Great Ask HN. I plan on looking through all the links here for ideas.

I just restarted my blog after a few years away: http://larrywright.me - feedback appreciated.
Right, with patience, persistence and a little bit of Googling you can always work through the issues.

But the issues don't exist in the first place in AU/NZ (and presumably UK/US though I can't speak first hand do that). Even if they did, they'd be solved in a much more straightforward manner. I guarantee a similar form here, even though it would never exist, would accept "address pending" as a valid answer.

I'm not trying to say the German way is wrong, but you have to understand how crazy it seems to a foreigner.
$1,200 for 20 years of music, updated constantly. Still seems cheap.

Less than 5 grand for a literal life time of music.
I'm surprised this comment hasn't gotten more attention. This is an extraordinarily succinct take down of the evils of advertising as it relates to our mental health and well- being as a society.
And what difference do those massive differences make to my original point?
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Neither, I was trying to suggest that offering Blockchain and related technologies as a solution to every problem in existence is kind of an annoying trend. I don't really see the outage discussed here as a technical problem. Quite literally any failover mechanism would have been preferrable here.
To the other (currently) highly-positioned comment here who proposes "just pay for it or don't use it":

How do they know if you close your eyes or look away? How do they know if you plug your ears? How do they know you are actually paying attention to the ads and not just ignoring them? Are those actions, none other than the human free will, not essentially a form of adblocking?

My biggest concern with the "just pay for it or don't use it" attitude is not how much it costs. That's irrelevant. It's the idea that it's wrong to not "consume" ads somehow, or that it's acceptable for companies to use increasingly intrusive techniques to monitor users for "compliance" of this consumption.

Not a Spotify user, so I have no skin (or ears...) in this game. But now I'm even more unlikely to become one.
It’s actually a good thing. Advertisers demand “family friendly” crap.

4chan is perfect as is.
I suggest what might be happening has less to do with writing rather than the structured approach required to do such writing.

Obviously all of this works for Amazon so that's great, I wouldn't see any reason to change it, but it's probably worth thinking about a little.

I do not believe PowerPoint is inherently a bad format, nor do I believe that written is better, moreover, I think a lot can be lost in prose.

The reason I believe this is due to some military experience with SMEAC NATO orders format [1]. This format can be used by Corporals on up to Generals, by all NATO forces such that a Polish recruit could sit in on a US General's Orders and effectively understand what is going on.

Aspects of SMEAC exist to enable tired and sleep deprived commanders and soldiers to create coherent and complete plans, and to ingest them as well.

Little things like: " You must always repeat the mission twice so that any squadies not paying attention have a chance to catch what it is they are meant to be doing."

At all levels, the Mission Objective (which is a specific format) is repeated twice. Always. The impetus is twofold: if well trained staff understand the mission objectives, then the rest is 'details' meaning, even if everything falls apart, training and skills can take over so the mission could be achieved. The 'say it twice' is essentially a double affirmation of the objective.

Once everyone is on this same wavelength, it's interesting to see how people can become operationally synchronized.

My feeling is that a SMEAC-like format for meetings would likely be ideal; something that requires a specific approach, with checklists that force product/technical etc. to contemplate various issues.

If this were to be done well, then it could be abbreviated into another format.

Another reason I'm just a little skeptical, is that every big movement has a series of behaviours and attitudes that help embolden the koolaid. Amazon started as a book selling company, so in a way, it kinds of makes sense for them to value the 'literary' in some way, and this odd behaviour (which actually does work) helps them differentiate their 'movement' in a material way and reinforce ostensible 'culture'.

It's probably worth some further analysis, and maybe some data points as well, because there are many things that make growing companies unique, I wonder if we should just assume those unique things are drivers or just arbitrarily correlated aspects.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_paragraph_order
Well no, it shows that people are willing to accept some worthless discourse; but that doesn’t mean it all is.

It’s the same as when you spend an hour trafing memes with your friends — its utterly worthless, but that doesn’t mean all of your conversation looks like that. But anyone else who wanders in blindly might only see the meme trading and think that’s all you do. In the context of 4chan, its just wandering into the wrong board (eg /b/), or the wrong thread, and thinking that was the only thing that happened round these parts. Like the whole hacker and gore thing came out of a single subcommunity, but became the public face of 4chan; but none of the other boards cared about it (although bots would randomly start getting through captcha and spam gore/loli porn, which most users simply hid or ignored. Some people praised the bots for keeping out the riffraff (those unwilling or unable to ignore things they dislike), but otherwise, they were far more an idea people had about 4chan and its users than the userbase actually did or supported
Without context, quotes from obscure movies from 1995 are a bit of a gamble!
...and of course the user who works for Facebook is espousing the position that we must be forced to consume content. (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19115460 for more context.)