jaywunder

Serious question: who didn't expect this? Did anybody think that the 19K high of last week was going to be the new normal?

> High school debate today is basically an intellectual game, not an exercise in truth-seeking. It has been turned into something that can easily be scored. This eliminates the complexity and intricacy of real discourse about real issues. If debate is a game, then the execution of a “spread” is like a well-timed blitz in football. Convincing a judge that your opponents’ arguments would cause human extinction is equivalent to a successful Hail Mary pass.

I agree with this quote so much. I was on the debate and robotics team in high school, we did extemporary style in debate. I ended up leaving the debate team and focusing entirely on robotics because debate taught students how to argue, not how to listen. Whenever debate kids would leak into robotics, they would cause endless looping conversations talking about different designs.

The main issue is that high school debate doesn't teach how to listen well, only how to hear well. If debate was more freeform so students could actually form opinions based on what they thought about the resolution, then I believe this problem would be fixed. I have a friend who did my proposed style and said that it was extremely fun, and turned debate into a problem solving exercise.

As a node developer I agree with you, I think the benefit with nice might be that relative paths are shorter in node imports?

The last thing the JS community needs is macros IMO. From what I've seen in other languages, macros are difficult to maintain and document, and they add syntax constructs to languages that aren't supported by code highlighters. The difference between this and babel, is documentation. Babel is working off of a specification of how the language should work, whereas I doubt someone will document their macros as well as TC39 does the JS syntax

If projects were shareable then that would be nice, so I could share a report with a cofounder or advisor. Also having edit/view permission for people would be good to control who can edit the budget. And if you're going to do sharable reports, then live edit would also be amazing.

Thank you! This looks very helpful, I'll be using this!

>Truth is you can't find a good woman programmer.

This is disconcerting to hear, and certainly not appropriate. It's not okay to talk about women in that way. As a student in uni, women do just as week and are given just as difficult material as men.

Your comment is off color and mildly mysogenistic.

The reason why I'm okay with Google, but not Verizon spying on me is because I pay Verizon but I don't pay Google. Verizon shouldn't have to sell my data for more money because they already charge money for their service. If their service is too expensive then Verizon can charge more money. However Google gives me services for free so I expect they'll sell my data to other companies.

Thank you for explaining that! The context is meaningful and makes your talk make sense.

On the regard of data talking into the wrong hands, I take issue to this argument because it's not a unique problem to personal data collection. Any data could be hacked - bank information, address, whatever. But that doesn't mean we don't use the internet for banking and etc. It means we try to make systems that are difficult to hack. It seems like you'd want data collection not to happen on websites like Facebook and Google, when hacking isn't a unique problem to those websites.

I don't think I understand what the exact point of this talk was. Maybe the thesis was stated at the end of the talk when he said that he wishes the internet were more like a city rather than a mall. I think the internet can be like a city, and I think a great example of a place where people with conflicting ideas talk together is HN. Sure HN can be an echo chamber at times. But there's quite a few times when people with differing opinions talk about their different opinions.

Also I don't necessarily understand Ceglowski's stance on why we shouldn't use deep learning and should avoid surveillance on the web. I don't take issue with becoming a datapoint in Facebook's web of people because nothing bad has happened or can happen from me giving Facebook my data. When most people speak out about the data that's being collected about Facebook and Google users they say they're "worried about what could happen" but then never list any bad things that they're actually afraid of. The speaker falls to this issue too. Ceglowski says:

>I worry about legitimizing a culture of universal surveillance.

But then never explains what bad could happen from legitimizing that culture. Maybe I'm completely missing the point of the talk? Please explain what I'm missing if I'm actually missing something.

I don't understand why the commenters in this thread are being so negative towards this project. This is a fun experiment to see what the author could do with the minimal tools CSS provides. Sure there's no use for this kind of project. Not everything has to have a use. Some things can be for pure fun. The negativity in this thread isn't even productive or helpful.

What does it represent? I doubt understand it

> While this is an important skill to have, I've also learned over time that there are certain types of people where it's easier to let them "be right" and accommodate the consequences

Generally when that happens to me I've come across what I like to call a "fundamental argument." Where neither party is correct and neither party is wrong. A good example of this is "do you believe in religion" because nobody can prove or disprove the existence of a higher being or a religion. But some people will fundamentally be okay with believing in a higher power though. So whatever side of the debate I'm on, when the conversation comes down to a fundamental argument I let both parties be right.

I don't see why the author feels the need for something to be either immersive or art – or whatever dichotomy he's trying to draw here. There are plenty of paintings and books and music that transport people. There are plenty of video games that don't. Media is media, no matter what form. The quality of the media will discern whether the media is good or not, the form of the media doesn't matter.

> Why would I want to constantly spam my friends with trivial photos of my daily life? Disappearing spam is still spam.

I think the difference here is that because the photos disappear after 24 hours, the expectation for quality is lowered. Also the fact that the photos are trivial is part of the attraction. There aren't as many expectations on Snapchat as on Twitter. Sometimes it's just nice to see your friends' face, and Snapchat is good for that.

They already tried to sell filters. I think selling filters didn't go well because filters are free now.

I think the OP misses the point of the shirt. Lot's of different subcultures and activities have this type of shirt. Someone could just as well wear a shirt that says "Eat. Sleep. Hike. Repeat." And people wouldn't actually think the person _only_ hikes. The shirt is completely ironic because to suggest someone _only_ codes all day is ridiculous. The OP misses the irony.

drudgereport.com seems hypocritical to me because they don't have many images for their own news stories, but make room for images that advertise other products. Advisments are counter-brutalism because they're very much frivolous and attention grabbing.

People are talking about sharecropping, but this seems to me like they're trying to make Slack-like integrations for the general (non-dev) public. Can someone explain why this is different from Slack's model of using their platform to make apps?

Also people sound like they want to make money from an app on Facebook's platform. But I'd think that to consider making your start-up off someone else's platform is just a bad idea to begin with. Maybe have integrations to the messenger app from your app, but making an entire app on the messenger platform is a bad idea.

Ve found that I'm more likely to journal if I don't feel like I'm being heard by my friends and family. Example, SO and I stopped communicating as well for a bit and I journalled every night. Maybe you don't need your thoughts and feelings to be free because they already are set free.

If the next feature is voting on issues then that would be great. They'd be implement Ling the features people are asking for.

Why is the web worse with javascript? I think one if the main reasons flash was bad because it's proprietary, whereas js isn't.

Also, you didn't address any of OP's points about the separation of styling and function.

Indeed! The best thing to do would to be to ban encryption all together! /s

Oh huh... I don't know if I like that, but if it works then I guess it works

I saw the same thing... it was like she was trying to give sexy looks while also teaching me math. Rather distracting. Did you also notice that?

I really like the idea. Here are areas I think it could be improved.

– It seems like there's no way to comment on links. If this is a place for discussion, there should be a way to comment on links, right?

– The UI is very spread out. I understand that's what Material Design is, but the amount of padding and the space each post takes up is rather intimidating to look at. It's be nice

– "We are hiring" shouldn't be the main focus before the hashtag navigation. Most people aren't looking for a job. I can't close the panel either, so it's just wasted space.

Wait, I just figured out how to get to the comment section. Please change that, it's counter intuitive. Label the comment button "comments" don't put a cutsey symbol.

I really dig the idea, your heart is in the right place. Also +1 for better looking UI than reddit! (if not as efficient)

I think this is the problem Others was referring to with the xkcd. Anaconda might be the best one in your opinion, but there's a bunch more, like pip's `requirments.txt` and virtualenv

My biggest takeaway from the article is that you "want something simple", and most people would agree with you. What you don't talk about, or dodge along the lines of is saying "X is how we should do it".

Personally I like node's way of using package.json and cargo's Cargo.toml. If someone made that for python that'd be awesome.

The other thing node has specifically is the "node_modules" folder, which recursively has all the dependencies and their node_modules folders. While it might not be super space efficient it's really stupid simple.

Well it's not so secret anymore haha. But why do you want Windows dead? I'm not much of a fan either, but competition is good.

Sarcasm? While it's not a bad website, I wouldn't say it inspires me to get into stats with R. It doesn't have a code example, or much color. I think the python homepage is much better designed