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Comments aren't necessary for a blog. Most people who are trying to make money allow comments because the same people hit the blog over and over when they're bored at work. Pageviews = money.

But comments are a double-edged sword, too. You have to police them or the trolls and stormfront types will chase all the normal people away. So it takes time you could have spent writing.
I don't know the core of it, but I also don't think it matters a lot given that all NFL entities are pass-throughs.
This happens all the time, http://torrentfreak.com/tag/italy/
The post is referring to comments on popular posts (e.g. everything from IFLScience) that only contain someone's name in a comment.
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That reflects a mindset from an OS where the only data structure is a file system. When the only hammer you have is a file system, everything looks like a tree. Chrontab is a database and should be treated as such.

The "everything is a file and files have no locking" mentality of UNIX doesn't scale well to continuously running systems.
I've always been of the opinion that if you want to control how a piece of land is used, you should buy it. If you want a bunch of indigents living on land that is very in high demand, raise the money, buy the land, and build a homeless shelter there. If you don't think that's a wise use of money (i.e., maybe you would prefer to help 10 times as many poor by using land that is in less demand) then don't contribute to the scarcity of already scarce (and thus expensive) private property.

It's sad that people want to manufacture an outrage over the simple reality that if you live in a place you don't own, and others are willing to pay more than you to live there, you need to find a new place to rent.
Misleading headline. They said there's a 50% chance that they detected dust rather than inflation so inflation isn't confirmed after all.
Good to know. That was so long ago, it's possible I just had PC-based lists and forgot there were other lists.
Yes, I know there have been projects that try to use this as a source of entropy:

https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/quantum-random-num...
C is not the place to look for good core concepts. I recommend http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput... instead.
On the one hand, we're lamenting the death of our nostalgic remembrance of blogging's heyday.

On the other, we're conflating blogging with indie commercial media businesses.

Blogging isn't dead, but indie commercial media businesses may be in their death throes.

Why do we fret? Is it because the listicle is such a mindworm that it has made us forget what we liked about the indie voice? That we can't help ourselves?

There was this saying, "interesting news finds me", meaning that a properly tuned social network and media diet is a good filter for what you should ingest, better than trying to be omnivorous and a slave to fear of missing out (FOMO). Over time, it's become closer to "interesting people find me" as more of my intake comes from the people I follow (and the ones I mute).

But there are great opportunities for us to create better filters, for better routing mechanisms to our short attention spans.

I just don't know whether there will ever be a commercial motivation to create it, or whether there'll be enough of a market willing to give up their FOMO and outsource their self-discipline to consume it...
“You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.”
I am really, really sorry you don't like how social communication channels are evolving. It's a bummer that other people aren't using the Internet the way you want.

How can we fix this? Well, certainly the next time we build another generation of the Internet we will consult you. In the meantime, perhaps you can get working on an RFC for how people are supposed to use @mention and #hashtag constructions? Do I sense a standards group waiting to be formed (possibly in a church or YMCA basement)?
Why not use let instead of var?
You'd probably want to make sure that the noise you see in the images is truly random (e.g. caused by cosmic rays or heat), rather than power supply or EMI noise.
Of course, that's how it's done. Thus distortion is just an effect and not amplification. You can put a gain of thousands. The resulting may be swinging close to rail-to-rail (relative to the distortion effect's power supply). This is too much for the next thing in the chain, so it is turned down. No brainer.
I was referring to public facebook pages, like musicians posting about their new albums or something. Sorry to not make that clear.
I ran across this the other night. Pointing you to it because it seems to offer a complementary counterpoint to your benefit of the doubt point of view.

http://pando.com/2015/01/28/andrew-sullivan-is-not-the-futur...
I think this habit comes from a desire to have everyone on the same comment thread. On FB at least, I don't think there's a better way to do that, and it's hard to imagine a better system to, say, share comment threads between posts, while allowing people to have control of what's on their feed and not confusing the living daylights out of them. Anyway, I don't buy that it's a strictly useless behavior.
I don't quite understand the OP - I just used Facebook's mentioning feature a few days ago on a big status update reviewing antics with friends for the couple of days prior. I mentioned ~50 friends in the post, it was a great time for all involved, and everyone was happy with it. I also mentioned friends in comments I didn't get to hang out with during the weekend.

I don't think I have seen any friends abuse the mentioning ever on Facebook. I can't speak for Twitter since I hardly ever use it.
I agree at-ing people is really annoying. They can easily make up 90%+ of the comments on popular posts like IFLScience. But the flip side is popular posts have such low quality comments that even if you took the time to dig past all the at's, you wouldn't find much of value. So I find the real solution is to just ignore comments on Facebook.
With respect, neither do your comments. Your opinion that health insurance is "useless" does not improve the conversation, because it is incorrect, close minded, and may mislead people.
This is what the OP is referring to: http://i.imgur.com/jOOrFgP.png

On popular posts like IFLScience, "at" comments make up the vast majority of comments.
Andrew Sullivan's exit really doesn't mean very much. Blogging is a lot of work and doesn't pay very well, so it's kind of a surprise he lasted this long. I know a whole lot of people who tried to write a blog, but it's such a grind they pretty much gave up after six months or so (on the outside). The time between posts gets longer and longer in some sort of asymptotic death spiral, and eventually they put up a short post that says, basically, "I quit".

The problem is to keep people interested in your stuff the content has to change multiple times per day. You can't just write a single post every couple days when you feel like you have something important to say - most of your potential readers will drift away.

The vast majority of people trying to make money gave up trying to produce that much content by themselves and joined some sort of group blog (or have "guest bloggers", like Kos). At that point it's less a blog and more of an online magazine. I'm thinking sites like Huffpo and Gawker. As a business/creative model, how are they different from the online presence of The Atlantic or National Review?

Most of the people who still produce all the content on their blog are really just news aggregators. Provide a link, write a joke or a sentence indicating why it's important, and your done with that post.
It seems I've had to edit my post. I don't have a problem with tagging. I think it's a waste of space on popular facebook pages where most of the comments are literally just names of people tagged. Tagging your friends in a personal thing is obviously fine.
I appreciate the snark, but I am a fan of evolution of communication, especially organic ones. My problem is when people choose to systemically waste webspace and my screenspace when I want to read comments and instead get a laundry list of people's names.
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Have you never written something with some form of hyperbole? Isn't it implied that I'm trying to get a feature improvement? Isn't this a hacker community that wants better software and better uses for them?
Instead of raising and lowering a giant heavy desk, why not just get a standing desk and a tall chair that raises and lowers? Eh? No?
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Ship JSON to ElasticSearch, visualize with Kibana, and backup to S3/glacier.

We use found.on and qbox.io for managed hosting of ElasticSearch clusters.
I started Textfyre in 2007. At first I was just trying to build Interactive Fiction (text story games, also known as IF) games and sell them. Once I realized there was no captive audience for such things, I nearly quit. But then I noticed my kids elementary school textbooks. They sucked. I also noted how stressful the entire testing regiment had become.

So I thought maybe IF could solve the problem. So I pivoted to an ed-tech firm and though selling games to schools was a better model. This led to actually getting a team together. I had a CEO, CFO, teachers, marketing help, testing expert, and many supporters. We had the basics of an "embedded testing" web application built. We actually managed to get the attention of The Gates Foundation and talked with them for several months.

In the end, The Gates Foundation focused their efforts at the big players (like Pearson) and we were left out in the cold. My team disbanded and I gave up.

Of course now "embedded testing" is all the rage (there was just an NPR story about it), but unless you're one of the big players, you're not getting anywhere.

I have another idea I'm researching, but I'm much more pragmatic about it than I was with Textfyre. I'll build it on my own, spend as little money as possible, test it, and see what happens.

It's very hard to be a first-time unproven entrepreneur. If you manage to succeed and get one exit, you're golden and investors will hand over money without really asking any questions. Once they know you can "execute", they will support you 100%.

The trick is to learn how to execute. I'm still learning.
You don't have to rely on Github, you can use Github Enterprise which gives you a little bit more control and allows you to run it on your own servers.

That said, my understanding is that authentication even for Github Enterprise is done through Github itself. (Someone please correct me if I'm wrong)
I've also done some tatting I'm particularly fond of Japanese tatting books. Maybe I miss the text, but diagrams and designs are beautiful. And if course, it's a god change from staring a screen for hours!
I was asked this question at an interview at $COMPANY last week. Heh. I failed pretty miserably.
As a new Wikipedia user looking to increase my activity, I find this useful.
I've switched from Adblock Plus to µBlock and there's been a significant difference in performance. I'm a huge fan and much simpler to use.
"Chrontab is a database and should be treated as such."

Why a database?

"The "everything is a file and files have no locking" mentality of UNIX doesn't scale well to continuously running systems."

I don't understand what argument you're making here. UNIX doesn't actually have "everything is a file" semantics (cron does not, for example, in the sense proposed by the article). Plan 9 mostly does, and it's actually kind of awesome. What part of Plan 9's semantics of everything is a network-transparent file "doesn't scale"? And, what do you mean by "doesn't scale"?

I'm not trying to be argumentative, I genuinely don't understand what you're suggesting instead. What is an alternative cron implementation that is implemented as a database that "scales" better than something like this, by your definition? And, what is "scale" in this context?
Does your company use google apps for email? If not, can you understand why some companies do? Same thing IMO. It's a calculated risk that is OK for some but not for others.

If I was managing the IT dept for a government security contractor I wouldn't be using cloud email.

If I'm knocking up the next cloud service mashup, I'm fairly sure I'd be storing the code in a private github repo until there was a need or decision to change.

So yes, sensitive code is stored in public cloud sites. Sensitive emails are too.
That seems like a good way of limiting yourself from discovering potentially new and surprising things. I get the need to protect your time, but not at the total expense of randomness.
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Fucking fix this, Google
Very nice, had a fun time checking out your school. The 'share your thoughts' box is really well done, I hope people use it.
You can set up LDAP for Github Enterprise:

https://help.github.com/enterprise/11.10.340/admin/articles/...
We use ElasticSearch and Kibana in production for real bughunting and support requests. Logstash was too frustrating to deal with so we wrote our own simple wrapper around an open source ElasticSearch client library to log ourselves.

We log every request (everything but the body usually) and response. If an error occurs, its logged as part of the request. We can practically replay actions taken by users and easily drill down to the exact requests pertaining to an error.
The reason I would offer less for the pill that cures my ailment and has no chance of killing me is because I also have the option to live with my ailment. Anyway, I think agree with the article I just this analogy to valuing loss greater than gain was bad.
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It could also be argued the "hacker" way to solve this is a greasemonkey script that removes the comments.
Umm, no. You write it on a piece of paper or white board while the interviewer watches. And it's gotta be pretty close to runnable as-is when you are done.

If you can't write a loop, conditional and dump something to some output destination, all from memory, you have no business applying for a job as a Software Developer.

I will say that I'm lenient about knowing the modulus operator, since that's not an every-day thing for many people (though I would think it's pretty common with webdevs since that's traditionally been a popular a way of doing alternating row colors on tables).
That all makes a lot more sense now.
Cloudflare pretending to check you are a legitimate client. I guess it puts their brand across and the delay communicates that they are doing something complicated to achieve that. In reality they pretty much just do setTimeout.
PoC author hear. This is the first I've heard of Windows making your ISP IP address available even when you're on a VPN. That definitely shouldn't be the case. Anyone have a link to the bug report in Firefox and/or Chrome?
> Specifically, "how long before a write/assert is able to be queried?" Otherwise, it might as well not have happened. Right?

Immediately. The approach used is to have a separate "long-term" data structure and a smaller short term one. The long-term structure is only batch updated periodically, while the short-term logs changes since last batch. Every access queries both.
Nice. I’ve been having some issues with Adblock breaking a lot of websites, so I guess I’ll give this a try.
Greasemonkey is unnecessary bloat, Facebook runs at a crawl as it is. This is broken design that could be mitigated with improved sharing functionality. Not that it could be ever eliminated, but these tools change functionality to offer better alternatives, imo.
If this article is correct then corporations could also obtain higher returns than ycombinator.
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Normal definitions of 'front-running' entails trading with non-public data. Anyone who describes HFT as front-running is not telling the truth and not to be taken seriously, because HFT generally has no more reason than slow trading to involve insider information. If your insider information is exclusive and rich, you don't even need HFT.
My takeaway wasn't literally the "time" consideration but the "one decisive reason" part. I believe that could extend into other types of decision-making like building products where there should be an overwhelmingly strong reason to do something vs 10 small reasons where you're just trying to convince yourself of something.
Previous discussion, without the blog-spam

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8916103
I like the fact that it doesn't make exceptions for sites that fit "Acceptable ads criteria", I'm looking at you, Adblock plus.
Could you give an example of the type of bug you're referring to here?

> This means that only the fields of an object that a component explicitly asks for will be accessible to that component, even if other fields are known and cached in the store (because another component requested them). We call this masking, and it makes it impossible for implicit data dependency bugs to exist latently in the system.
Where do they get the "2,000 unique visitors" bit from? And 100 downloads... are they referring to the 92 forks?

I think Public Affairs does not get Github.
General descriptions are fine, but saying that a particular person (ie "you" or "the public") is allowed to do something in relation to another (the NFL) boarders on specific advice. There is a difference between explaining the concept of "fair use" and saying that a particular use is fair.

On second thought I do think the article made a mistake. Sure, you can VHS the superbowl, but good luck doing that on a modern TV/cable setup. Recording an HD copy will likely involve bypassing encryption or other content protections. Saying that anyone can "tape" the event is an overstatement. Some "taping" is cool, other "taping" may violate any number of rules.
I agree. This story is becoming timeless, but its understandable. From XBox mod-chips to BitTorrent, people love subversion over protest. I can't blame them really. I've been on both sides. Building and distributing a DRM break is a thrilling experience; one of my most memorable engineering projects. And consuming pirated games and music as a kid was a form of empowering rebellion. The satisfaction of subverting what is perceived as an immovable market is immediate. Whereas protesting, simply not participating in the ecosystem, is not at all satisfying. We know its the reasonable and smart thing to do, but it doesn't have the same emotional satisfaction associated with it.

So, I don't think we'll ever see an end to it.
>But the good news is that the depth of field on a camera with a crop factor is deeper for the same field of view and aperture.

To be completely honest, that's the bad news and the reason why I miss my film SLR so much after I switched over to digital. I absolutely adored my 50mm normal lens's nice thin depth of field, and I miss having that on the smaller format sensor.

>f/22 is likely to show blurring from diffraction through the small aperture

I'm gonna have to learn about these concepts -- I'd heard that diffraction causes decreased sharpness when stopped down but I didn't know it was a significant issue in modern lenses. I do know that I get significant chromatic aberration on my 28mm, but I always figured it was due to its retrofocal design. Do you have any reading recommendations?
Sound advice. Although I already have SQL. Why switch away from PHP?
Aren't there different brewing temps/times? Shouldn't this have a little jog wheel on the side to select the possibilities?
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You're right. All statements of fact. Very mysterious down-voting.

I guess I used the term "opposing view" as a catch all for something that people seem to disagree with. It appeared that people disagreed with you since you got down-voted. I didn't mean to incorrectly represent your post but I guess I did accidentally.
I see ublock is already using easylist and others. are those different ?
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Although the original author identified as a "super introvert" the problem he or she is asking about does not seem like introversion, but rather shyness and social anxiety. The author describes going to social gatherings and "like[s] hanging out with people," but has problems carrying on a conversation. I didn't read this as a clinical diagnosis of introversion, but as someone asking for help dealing with specific social situtations. As your own sources point out many people conflate introversion with shyness, and based on what the original author actually described I inferred that shyness and anxiety are the actual issues, whether or not he or she is also truly introverted.

My personal anecdotes, as both an introverted personality and (formerly) shyness/social anxiety sufferer, are not meant as professional therapy. Take my stories and advice for what they are. They are presented as personal anecdotes, not psychology or self-help. Whether I know more about introversion and shyness than the distinguished Huffington Post, Psychology Today, or Bustle is left to the reader, but sites that also promote "One Weird Trick" and celebrity diet advice may not be the best sources for psychology information. Since I grew up around practicing psychiatrists and psychologists in my own family I know that basing a diagnosis on a Jungian dualistic principle is out of step with modern psychology.

Introversion and extroversion are not things people are; they are opposite directions on an arbitrary scale of personality types. Likewise social anxiety is a spectrum of behaviors and maladaptations, not a black spot in the brain you can see on a CAT scan. That's what I meant by no one "is" an introvert. Many people have behaviors that are commonly described as introversion, and also shyness and social anxiety. Those behaviors may overlap in an individual, or they may not. More important than the labels you or someone else attaches to your personality and behavior is understanding that how you perceive yourself, and how you present yourself and react to social situations, are things that most people can change. Some people can do it themselves, others may need professional guidance.

There's not enough information in the original article for me or anyone else to say if the author has an introvert personality, or suffers from shyness and social anxiety, or both. I addressed the actual problem the author described: difficulty meeting people and carrying on conversation.

Since the author specifically asks about networking in the SF Bay Area I will reiterate that listening is the best skill to develop, because he or she will be trying to network with many people who love nothing more than an audience so they can talk about themselves.
This is what I was thinking of:

http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/first-recorded-usage-of...

https://web.archive.org/web/20060715031620/http://listserv.l...
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