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Related, but shameless plug, my PyCon 2017 talk "How to make a good library API" is also about the "API as UI" concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mkFfce46zE

There's also a Django-specific version called "Your Django app is a User Interface": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnzvjn1v1CY

But the UX of the current rating system sucks. Rating stars are very small and you have to hover them to know you can rate. Only if you watch a movie to the very end you will see a clearer rating functionality, but even then you have few seconds to use.

I bet many new users don't even know they can rate. I wonder if people aren't rating much because the UX sucks, not because it's a 5-star system.

IANAP, but see: http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/04/28/the-univ...

hey, your portfolio link is 404'ing

IANAPhysicist, but I think T-duality in String Theory [1] also makes distances "illusory".

"If string theory is a correct theory of Nature, then this implies that on some deep level, the separation between large vs. small distance scales in physics is not a fixed separation but a fluid one, dependent upon the type of probe we use to measure distance, and how we count the states of the probe." [2]

Brian Greene also explains why in an accessible way in the Chapter 10 of The Elegant Universe [3], which I recommend.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-duality

[2] http://www.superstringtheory.com/basics/basic6a.html

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elegant_Universe

Please back your claims with data.

> They don't go to the grocery store for social interaction

Not true for my grandmother and many other elderly people. Maybe it's loneliness. But maybe it's a generation thing, not sure. We need to question if it's best to not interact with people who sell us stuff.

Related but slightly off-topic, there is a great sci-fi story by Ted Chiang (the same author who made the story behind Arrival film) about humans raising AIs in an artificial world. The premise is that if we want AIs to act like humans, we must teach them like we teach humans: http://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2010/fiction_the_...

I'm also not a physicist, but as far as I understood special relativity and also according to this [1] Quora answer, the speed of light is same in every frame of reference, so the universe compensates variations in speed by dilating time. This is also consistent with Maxwell's equations [2].

[1] https://www.quora.com/Why-does-time-dilation-occur-And-why-d... [2] https://van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=2605

While I completely believe this story, makes no sense to talk about "African courts" in general. AFAIK Uganda and Nigeria are countries far from each other, with different forms of government and even different ethnic groups.

dark energy and dark matter AFAIK: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DMPie_2013.svg

You can use Decimal built-in also:

  In [1]: from decimal import Decimal as D
  In [2]: D('9999999999999999.0') - D('9999999999999998.0')
  Out[2]: Decimal('1.0')

From docs: Decimal “is based on a floating-point model which was designed with people in mind, and necessarily has a paramount guiding principle – computers must provide an arithmetic that works in the same way as the arithmetic that people learn at school.”

https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/decimal.html

It's been less than 6 months I first heard about Redux. Looking at its issues, it seems to be a little more than 1 year old. Now everyone is talking about MobX. Why not improving Redux in first place? If it's verbose, why not writing more abstractions on top of it to make it easier to use? IMHO we should think more about those questions before writing another framework-of-the-day.

Here is the reference. It's the text of one of judicial decisions that blocked Whatsapp in Brazil (translated to English): https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u...

The relevant part is: "the other company, based in the country, has no "powers" on the company of your own conglomerate".

Note: in the same paragraph it says "a company does not have established in Germany". It's a Translator bug. The correct is: "one company is not established in the country".

Original text is at: http://tecnologia.uol.com.br/noticias/redacao/2016/07/19/vej...

The best method is to automatize your methods.

Don't know if you are being sarcastic... But "conqueror" may be a reference to Age of Discovery/Conquest [1], similar to "navigator" or "explorer".

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Discovery

Django 1.3 or lower. Django uses PBKDF2 [1] since 1.4 (March 23, 2012) [2].

[1] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/topics/auth/passwords/...

[2] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.4/

Meat is not a luxury in Recife, one of the cities mentioned in the article. Here, even low income families eat meat every day, despite being low quality meat. Red meat is more expensive, but chicken is very common.

Why would you want a function called "callback" polluting you global namespace?

What you suggest makes no sense in Javascript. Variable functions allow the developer to simulate namespacing in JS without polluting the global namespace.

Heroku did false advertising of its routing intelligence. They deceived their customers and must be criticized for that. Rapgenius is having an issue that many of us also have, so it is nice that they are sharing the details.

I need "Zoom: 175%" when reading Hacker News comments. My eye-sight is great, but reading larger fonts is much easier.

The module doesn't know how to interact with a request. Only with integer variables.

There are also implementations in other languages as Java (https://github.com/jayway/JsonPath), Python (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/jsonpath/), Ruby (https://github.com/joshbuddy/jsonpath) and Perl (https://github.com/masukomi/jsonpath-perl).

remembered me of how Interpol was willing to keep the reverse twirling capability as confidential: http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/08/interpol-untwirl...

There is more info on his blog, his wife is posting on it: http://dantti.wordpress.com/

Note that life expectancy is an average, meaning that a number as low as 40 years usually means a high infant mortality rate. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Interpretation_...

What is askolo technology stack?

Why they are orthogonal? When I read a news story, it affects my emotions, it makes me draw correlations with my previous experiences. This is unconciouss and barely manageable. This may even be necessary, to survive we need to learn from other people experiences. We need to feel empathy.

1500 days ago discussion about the same article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=97709

hi! I'm going to CPBR. I'm a web developer from Recife and addicted to HN. I even made a Chrome extension related to HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3511983