sillysaurus3

If you call a corporation and chat with them, the conversation is recorded and used for quality purposes. This is normal.

If you grab some groceries and ask to return one of the items you thought was on sale but wasn't, and this fact is noted by an audio recording system, suddenly this isn't normal.

I don't have feelings about this either way, but it's interesting to contrast the situations.

He shared what little rations they had, and his condition was visibly worse than the children by the time they were found.

He also helped them by teaching them meditation, so as not to focus on their hunger.

Seriously, I can't wrap my head around it. The kids were stranded 2.5 miles inside the cave. All anyone knew was that the kids didn't return form their hike. How does that lead to "Hey, let's dive into the cave and maybe we'll find live children"?

I guess they were expecting the worst, but still.

I suppose it is horrible, but it's a very common situation.

Picture a group of humans who evolve a new language. That language will likely start with short sounds, and then progressively build up to longer sounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCn8zs912OE

Anyone who hasn't read A Mathematical Theory of Communication, you're missing out. It's quite readable and quite cool: http://math.harvard.edu/~ctm/home/text/others/shannon/entrop...

1. Our immune systems are pretty good. Much better than is generally appreciated.

2. People usually buy lemonade from lemonade stands to support the kids, not for the taste.

Pogo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl5TUw7sUBs and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQuqeLBTetA etc) recently answered the question "Why is your Youtube name Fagottron?"

https://www.youtube.com/user/Fagottron

In a moment of somewhat poor judgement, he said, essentially, "I've always hated gay people." But he was joking.

The joke was that gay haters are often so over the top that they will sound completely ridiculous -- like, say, naming their Youtube channel Fagottron as a way to rub in the gay hate.

The original video has been removed, but here's a part: https://youtu.be/-8y553PV0Gg?t=52

The internet of course exploded at this, and soon the hornet's nest came out at him. The general mindset was apparently "I know you were joking, I don't care that you were joking, enjoy your ruined career."

Now, to be clear, if you watch the original video, there's probably no way for you to tell it was a joke. He sounded dead serious. But he was in fact joking, and I think that's an important distinction.

It's... getting unsettling unsettling that people can lose their careers over this sort of thing. Pogo will probably be ok, but it's strange that it was even an issue.

Part of the problem is the culture of outrage. Outrage = clicks, and media knows this. That's why it's so easy to write articles like these: https://i.imgur.com/oVvsN3q.png

Another name for this type of joke is trolling, and that would be a fair description this case. But to mark someone for life -- to discount their hard work and to try to ruin them over something that was satire, is strange to me.

I was going to write an inliner for a Lisp I was working on for a couple years. Emacs seems to have a decent one. But I know there are tricky corner cases.

Not a bad plot for a movie. Reminds me of Sync https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhjimhX9d5U

Additionally, when we started the company I didn't have much money, but I saw that the most commonly searched term for SoundCloud producers was "How do I get more Reposts on SoundCloud?" A repost on SoundCloud is like a retweet on Twitter, so artists want as many of them as possible so their music will get heard.

I thought if I named the company Repost and dominated the SEO on that specific search we could get some free inbound traffic. My assumption worked. I believe if you search "SoundCloud repost" in Google we're one of the top hits, and something like 25% of our inbound applicants come organically.

> Note: As js-ipfs@0.29.0 currently doesn't support DHT peer discovery, the peer from which you are fetching data should be within the reach (local or in public IP) of the browser node.

The PR to implement DHT has been languishing since May 2017: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/pull/856/files

Typically, they want to use your code to save their own time. The code rarely does exactly what they need, so they almost always need to make changes. And since they are required under their NDA not to disclose any company related work, this prevents them from incorporating your code.

I have no feelings about this one way or another, but it's an answer to your question.

If you imagine what the world would be like without any incentive to create, it would be a very different place.

If the situation were sufficiently dire, then presumably it would be easy to get community support. But the opposite is true too.

Besides, you can still buy ETH classic, if you disagree with the decision. It's just not worth much.

https://zeit.co/now

I just lost a 5-year bet for $10 to Keyframe (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Keyframe)

It would be mildly interesting to have an HN-bets type service, with the proceeds going to charity.

Usually the search space is too large.

The same is true of Coinbase. Somehow they've been fine.

Here's his full reply in context:

https://lwn.net/Articles/753654/