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Do you think Moldbug is intended as a fiction?

No, I think they are essays where in the author is testing out ideas to see how they hold together when criticized by the world. Some of these ideas are deep beliefs, where the question is simply how the outside will react to hearing about them. Some of them are fragments of arguments he's trying to piece together, in the hope that the process of writing will clear things up in his own mind. Others are probably there simply because he was drawn in the cadence of the language.

But I do think that Moldbug is consciously a persona, and not identical to Yarvin. And I don't think either is a fascist by any reasonable definition. Racist? Yes, the writing is racist by the current way the word is used to label practically any belief in racial differences. But I'd prefer to judge the author (Yarvin) by how he treats others in the world, not how he writes about the world in the abstract.

I fully enjoy the fact that people are now afraid to be racist, sexist, etc., at tech conferences.

If this was the only outcome, I'd might agree with the tactics. But what if their pragmatic reaction is to simply avoid situations where they can be accused of these things? Don't hire women, because they might accuse you of sexism. Don't hire minorities, because you might lose your job if accused of racial prejudice?

In such an environment, silence is likely the best strategy. But along with the silence is likely the belief that everyone else shares the same opinion, but similarly doesn't speak about it. I believe more in sunlight as a disinfectant: get the ideas out in the open. I think it's good for people to hear more points of view they disagree with.

I'm one person and pretty idiosyncratic in my ideology and praxis.

Yes, but that ideology is so different from mine that I learn just by the knowledge that such a viewpoint exists.
I don't see how one person's blinded self-experimentation would yield more knowledge in this case, as the proposed experiment is not methodologically sound and as the data would not tell you anything more about the effect - as far as I can tell, anyway.
> "Good hang, good music, good money: don't take the gig if you don't have at least two out of three."

I love that explanation.

I think the problem that most people get into is going after one of them alone or having one outweigh the others significantly. I have yet to see that work long term.
It's a high class way for him to leave, that may set up other options for him in the future (VC, Professorship, etc) that wouldn't be there if it was an ugly breakup.

Given that the stock traded at all time lows, no severance was justified. https://www.google.com/finance?cid=32086821185414
Huh? What about Botulism and the bad E. Coli?
It was easy to find women in your examples, and at least one chubby person in all of your examples but Lifesum. Over thirty, over forty, non-Asians, non-Caucasians, these were more challenging or non-existent.
I've always felt in my gut that my gut has a mind of its own but that might just be my gut's 20/20 hindsight.

It's just fascinating and exciting how much we're learning about the role the gut plays in physical and mental health. The really great thing is that it seems pretty easy to control (with poop pills, or whatever) so a lot of people may benefit for very little cost.
I'm not sure what you're implying? That he doesn't want to stick around? Jobs didn't take a salary after his return.
Do this: http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2014/11/how-to-do-near-real-ti...

Then at the end instead of writing to HBase you can write JDBC to do the insert.
R on Spark is great, but the biggest issue in my view is R's runtime licensing, isn't it GPL? Am I worried for nothing?
Not a culture built on miscommunication, but there are typically going to be different norms around communication.

E.g. can you approach the C-suite directly, or have to go through their assistants? Can meeting participants cut things off if it's unproductive, or is that feedback shared privately afterward? Is really vigorous (perhaps intimidating) debate an expectation, or are people more laid back about discussing ideas? To what extent can you express emotions, and which emotions? Two companies can totally be "feedback-oriented" yet drastically differ on when, how, and to whom feedback is given/received—none objectively The Right Way, just different cultures.

To me this is all culture, hard to judge pre-hire, and hard to adopt if it's really not your style.
To me, the strongest argument for this is that people are dodging the 140-char limit by, incredibly, posting IMAGES of the text they want to type but are not allowed to, thus using two orders of magnitude more data. Which just makes a mockery of the entire limit concept to begin with.

Just up the limit to what you need for a decent English paragraph and be done with it. Right now, you can't even write a complex sentence.
Sure; just note you won't be proving fermented foods lessen social anxiety -- at most you can conclude that consuming kimchi does it.

It's pretty good so you're not at loss anyways! I find sauerkraut enjoyable too, vegetables are too bland for me, a little bit of this stuff is a sauce replacement for me.
Currently DIA uses internet signals collection, social media analysis and human intelligence to identify foreign messaging and popular messages that are harmful to national security.

They will submit requests to have these taken down (as the State Department did to Youtube to take down Al-Alwaki's videos) - though currently Twitter is not very cooperative.

I do not know how Twitter would handle a problem like this itself.
You don't necessarily need a fancy device to stimulate the vagus nerve. Patients with supraventricular tachycardias are taught to do vagal maneuvers, the simplest of which is gagging:
http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/atrial-fibrillation/tc/va...

In general, imbalance within the autonomic nervous system (of which the vagus nerve controls half—the parasympathetic portion) has been shown to be related to everything from heart disease to irritable bowel syndrome to having an irritable personality:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomic_nervous_system
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9700043
I'm fine with "safe spaces" existing. I have very little interest in helping to create a world with all the edges filed off because a few people can't handle the sharp parts. Reddit seems to explicitly be searching after the second, using the language of the first, and there are good possibilities for it to all go downhill.

I don't care, though. I have never found use in reddit, except as an example of how putting people into internet echo chambers turns them into reference-spouting cliques.
Did you miss the whole PRISM thing? If you give data to Google, you are also giving it to the government.
The Wiimote is just a bluetooth device, there's no hardware hack or adapter necessary to connect it to a PC, you just need a driver. Not that I ever used it outside of an emulator.
Wow. I hope you never become a manager.

It's called "politics". And it occurs when two or more humans get together. There are always hidden agendas, different goals, etc.

Learning to navigate it is an essential prerequisite if you want to accomplish something that requires more than your singular individual skill.

And, for your information, yes, people like you wind up on the short end of the stick because you ignore politics. People like me get new jobs, better opportunities, advance warning, etc. because I have helped out people in the past. The combinations of being both technically qualified and politically savvy is quite powerful.

You don't owe any loyalty to a company, but if you piss off the people, it will bite you in the ass.
or don't award the house to anyone
Which is insane, and not sustainable.
It can. On the other hand so can pretty much anything as humans are amazing at rationalising.

On the other hand I've been burned multiple times when I have gone against my gut instinct.
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"The writer seems a little sensitive to socializing/drinking though. Perhaps he doesn't realize young people like to 'rib' those who are a bit different..."

"Ribbing" a recovering alcoholic because they won't join you for drinks would be rather insensitive. By the time young people are old enough to be in the workforce, they ought to be a bit more mature than that. (The author mentions that "I've been a non-alcoholic for more than 16 years now".)
VGA had 480 scanlines. When was the last time anyone seriously programmed on a display worse than that?

My guess would be Commodore 64 with an NTSC TV for display. That's pretty close to the text fidelity you can reproduce on a "virtual monitor" in a current-generation VR environment. (I think a lot of people underestimate the amount of resolution lost due to lens correction -- the rendered screen image is heavily distorted to account for the wide-angle lenses.)

Well, I suppose it would be sort of fun to have a virtual C64, as long as the virtual surroundings are well executed: a complete high school kid's bedroom from 1986.
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On a related note how do I find out what microbes are living in my sauerkraut, kimchi, kefir, or yogurt right now? There is no nutrition label.
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I highly recommend reading Hatching Twitter (http://www.amazon.com/Hatching-Twitter-Story-Friendship-Betr...) which talks about the behind the scenes CEO transitions between first Jack Dorsey, then Ev Williams, then Dick Costolo. Both Jack and Ev were said to be forced out by the board against their will (per the book) - event though the press spin was that they left voluntarily.

I'm hoping that Nick Bilton writes a follow-up with this new Costolo to Dorsey transition. I wouldn't be surprised if Jack ends up removing the interim title and stays full time.
This is a great example of a political who most likely gave the contract for the web site to a company who would in return give him a cut of the profits.
A data mining play for their routing engine? Driver recruitment tool?
It was only wildly successful until our leaders "sabotaged" it by forcing it to obey standard actuarial practices. (Unlike the rest of the govt, the USPS is now required to fully fund it's pension plans.)

See this comment for a more detailed explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6710602

Also, it's pretty hard not to be "wildly successful" when you get a legally enforced monopoly. Comcast is also "wildly successful", but we certainly don't want to expand that model.
Why is that really bad?
Anyone who wants to pick up Spark basics - Berkeley (Spark was developed at Berkeley's AMPLab) in collaboration with DataBricks (Commercial company started by Spark creators) just started a free MOOC on edx: https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-big-data-apache-spar...

(If you wonder what is Spark, in a very unofficial nutshell - it is a computation / big data / analytics / machine learning / graph processing engine on top of Hadoop that usually performs much better and has arguably a much easier API in Python, Scala, Java and now R)

It has more than 5000 students so far, and the Professor seems to answer every single Piazza question (a popular student / teacher message board).

So far it looks really good (It started a week ago, so you can still catch up, 2nd lab is due only Friday 6/12 EOD, but you have 3 days "grace" period... and there is not too much to catch up)

I use Spark for work (Scala API) and still learned one or two new things.

It uses the PySpark API so no need to learn Scala. All homework labs are done in a iPython notebook. Very high quality so far IMHO.

It is followed by a more advanced spark course (Scalable Machine Learning) also by Berkeley & Databricks.

https://www.edx.org/course/scalable-machine-learning-uc-berk...

(not affiliated with edx, Berkeley or databricks, just thought it's a good place for a PSA to those interested)

The Spark originating academic paper by Matei Zaharia (Creator of Spark) got him a PHd dissertation award in 2014 by the ACM (http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2015/dissertatio...)

Spark also set a new record in large scale sorting (Beating Hadoop by far): https://databricks.com/blog/2014/11/05/spark-officially-sets...

* EDIT: typo in "Berkeley", thanks gboss for noticing :)
At least it prompted you to explain what you meant, which was far from obvious in your first comment.
My understanding was that almost all of that is due to the insane benefits and pension requirements placed on the USPS in 2006. Happy to be corrected if I'm offbase.
Apache Spark is a general purpose distributed data processing and caching engine. It is an evolution of MapReduce concepts into more general "directed acylic graph" processing, which is very flexible for defining and executing data processing work on a distributed cluster. It's got some similarities to PrestoDb, Apache Drill and or Apache Storm (although not quite the same).

It also has some nice data mining libraries, a library for handling streaming data, some connectivity to external data sources and a library for accessing data stored in its generic "data frames" via SQL. "Data frames" are just an abstraction for a dataset, but they are distributed, and in-memory and/or persistent.

Personally, I like to think of as an engine for data analysis/processing and queries, but different in that it is not really a "database" like you would traditionally consider. It's almost like if you took the SQL data processing engine out of your database and made it really flexible.

Edit: Also, all the functionality of Apache Spark is programmatically accessible in Java, Scala and Python, or through SQL with their Hive/thrift interface.
Incessantly tweeting whatever thought is current in one's stream of consciousness is like mental diarrhea, and is usually about as appealing.
What "stealth"? Even the article says Nantero has been working on this for over a decade. They and Lockheed had a NVRAM back in 2008. It was sent into space in 2009, along with a memory tester. It's radiation-hard, so it has space applications.

The technology seems to work fine. Manufacturing cost is apparently the problem. Nantero has been trying to fab the things in something close to a standard fab. They may eventually succeed at getting the cost down, but they've been struggling financially.
Beyond the "anyone who's data got dumped is blackmailable!" moral panic, this episode should (but probably won't) serve as a cautionary tale. That is, if you build a big enough treasure trove, lots of folks will try to loot that treasure.

"So what?" you say. "I'm not Smaug the Dragon!" Yes, but the USA's "intelligence community" has been building up the biggest treasure trove ever, complete with information that would allow utter disgrace, ruination and blackmail of everyone in the world, not just US Government contractors and employees. Do you think that someone, Russians, Iranians, Romanian Hackers, Nigerian Princes, won't sooner or later get into the NSA/FBI's trove? Are you willing to bet on that?
Given that he was the CEO of a public company, there's a pretty good chance he had a rich severance clause in his contract in the event he was fired.
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Meanwhile Twitter's engineering talent drain continues, as the company will yet again change directions and nothing will get done.

For chrissake's they are still under their "Code Red", otherwise known as reorg-infinity.

And the cost-cutting will continue (as it should) for an unprofitable public company- get rid of the crossfit instructors, the chef, have less good food, etc.
Does anyone know with what these style of websites are made with? there must be hundreds of .io sites here on HN that look and feel the same

I am not a designer so do not know what this latest web design practice is called
No one thinks you should have to put up with any of this crap.

Some people are telling you to seek legal action.

The point I am making is there is a huge gap between what is unacceptable and what is illegal.
Yes that's the only case I know of where 'is' is regularly used.
That is a well written answer. I knew the material presented but I still found it a fun read. With all the crap that goes around, sometimes it's just nice to see the internet living up to its potential.
That will kill the drug industry. Maybe we will have a freemium model? Or a 24k gold version for the rich Chinese?
There was indeed a typo in the description; it has been fixed. Sorry for the confusion!
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Nice link. Spark jobs run Java code anyway, so why not write to JDBC with the results of processing. Makes perfect sense.
It's not literally every thought; ideally it's only the best/most interesting ones.

I rather enjoy seeing what's on the mind of the smartest people in the world (and even moreso what they're reading), and that's what I try to structure my Twitter feed for.

I try to tweet things that are at least somewhat insightful, but maybe I really suck at it. The great thing about Twitter is that if people don't think I'm interesting they can unfollow me. I really love that. Being on Twitter is like being in a room with whomever you would like to at any given time.
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I agree with your first and second sentence 100%. Especially the 2nd sentence.

But in my experience (not what I believe) very very few MBAs have value. The few I have seen have been the ones who have done executive MBAs (mainly people with a lot of experience going to get some theory knowledge) and they apply very little and very specific knowledge from their MBA.

My favorite experience with 'fresh' MBA students (still in university, no real work experience) was when I sat on a panel of local expat business people (in the Czech republic) doing a Q and A for MBA students from the US somewhere. They came off a day of exploring Prague, and had sat through some chamber of commerce and Ministry of Trade and Industry presentations so our panel was up to talk about our real world experiences building businesses out here. We all gave a short speech about what we've done and lessons learned out here-specifically what is great about business out here but also what pitfalls to look out for- then opened up for questions from the students.

The first question came from a student who I think was trying to emulate a hard-nosed, no nonsense businessman, who quite aggressively asked "Hold on, hold on hold on! So, can you just tell me whether I should bring my business here or not? The first presentations are telling me that everything is wonderful out here, now you lot tell me it's not so easy. So which is it then?!?"

I (admittedly a little bit annoyed, as I was doing the panel for free, I just wanted to help some future business people out) said to her: "Your job as a business owner is to gather data, evaluate it and make what you think is a sound decision based on it. You saw basically 2 sets of presentations today, one from people who are selling the Czech Republic, and one from foreigners who have actually built businesses here. So, you need to evaluate both sides of the coin, and come up with your own decision. If you can't do that you may well end up buying a lot of bridges and investing blindly in things that can't fail."

That gathered a few laughs, and even the woman who asked came up to me afterwards and asked me a few more questions (but still in a bullish type of way). But the local Chamber of commerce and the ministry never invited me again to be a panel member.

That was a round about way of trying to say that newly minted MBAs, their heads full of case studies, tends to see the business world in shades of black and white. That theories always work, that the business would be successful if you only did this. But the real world tends to be a little more murky, and until those MBAs gain a little more experience and are granted a little wisdom, they offer very little more value than an interesting tweet.
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You just write a nice "blog post" in this comment :)
I don't quite understand how this is anything other than prosecuting someone for speech. Blogging and tweeting are "material support" for terrorism? That sounds a lot like artificially designating "Quakers" as "Official Boogeymen of the Century" and then prosecuting people for tweeting or blogging about oatmeal or something.

What a farce. Are the US Federal Courts so empty that they can waste time on crapola like this?
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Undoubtedly that's what Bruce would prefer, but what do you think are the odds it would turn out that way?
LXC and Docker are operations technologies. It takes the same codebase and just generates a different product from it.

Switching to a different OS, however, requires different development-time technologies. Some third-party dependencies like libraries you're used to using might not even exist on the other platform.

Effectively, developers are locked into a pretty tiny development-time ecosystem: all the devs I know develop on Ubuntu (or on OSX with testing on Ubuntu, if they can get away with it.) They depend on the apt package graph, including PPAs.

Half of the renewed enthusiasm behind containers isn't about security; it's about the fact that a lot of operations people prefer RPM-based distros, and it was always really annoying to try to keep a given piece of Linux software portable between deb-based and RPM-based distros. You needed to figure out how to specify operation-time dependencies against at least two package graphs, and also compile-time dependencies using autotools or similar.

In contrast, Docker and similar ops software are interesting (from one perspective) precisely because they let devs learn fewer things: you develop your software on your Ubuntu machine, create a container that basically replicates your development environment, "install" your software in there, and then distribute that. Now your software can be run on some other dev's (Ubuntu, OSX) machine, or deployed to a production (RHEL) machine. The other deployment scenarios are pretty minor in comparison.

Or, in short: devs and ops are separate jobs. Containers make ops people do more work/learn more things, but let devs do less work/learn fewer things. That's why devs are enthusiastic about them: it pushes the work of packaging their software (or writing autoconf scripts) for various platforms off their plate.

Devs are interested in learning one thing—e.g. how to write a Dockerfile—that lets them drop an entire stream of continuous work/learning/keeping-up they have to do, e.g. handling changes in the multiple platforms their software supports.
the net is becoming so low content, tweets are a miracle of history. Look at blogs and comments anywhere else: so much filler.

I can't name another medium built around this much respect for the time and attention of readers, down to the character. It's great.

Note: the above started as 2 long paragraphs; as an exercise I edited it down to 2 tweets - I think it's better!
I almost commented on the irony of that, but I ran out of characters :)
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