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Funny automation fail:

The tech podcasts I listen to frequently end with recommendations.

One of the recommendations in the latest JavaScript Jabber is for a Taylor Swift album.

Podcat attributes the entire episode to Taylor Swift‽

JJ Episode Details: https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/202-jsj-donejs-canjs-with-justi...

Podcat Episode Details: https://www.podcat.com/podcasts/D13bdo-javascript-jabber/epi...

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Request:

Since most of my podcasts are technical (as I assume many other HN readers' podcasts are) many of them also have video. Sometimes only specific episodes have a video component (e.g. Lately in JavaScript), and sometimes every episode has a video component (e.g. JavaScript Air).

All of the ones I listen to that have video versions also provide an audio-only version, but the host or guests occasionally still refer to something on the screen.

So, it would be nice to be able to filter on episodes that do or don't have a video version.

Thanks for letting me know the latest archive version was already outdated!

If jwz is trying to avoid the HN-effect, then sending people via another route won't completely mitigate the problem.

I went ahead and updated the archive.org link. Providing that means HN users don't need to do yet another search and his site shouldn't get hammered nearly as much.

GUN, an awesome Graph Database Engine! http://gun.js.org / https://github.com/amark/gun

Things that make it so awesome: it is open-source, real-time, fully distributed, and offline-first. It's also highly modular and easy to use, so our community is growing, which of course makes it even more awesome!

For anyone else wondering about the links, I think one of these is the archive.org version of the link jcr removed:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150930225625/https://www.jwz.o...

[edited with more recent version] https://web.archive.org/web/20160310204843/https://www.jwz.o...

There is already a popular board game named Robot Turtles.

http://www.robotturtles.com/

Jeff mentions some studies of something known as 'Implicit Bias'. One of the leading Implicit Bias research institutions, out of Harvard, makes some of their tests available online. I highly recommend going through a few of them - https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html

Definitely 'caused confusion, in particular:

A) @hafling's comment (11195956) now looks like it is directly referencing the parent discussion (therefore it's lost its context).

B) Your comment about detaching it (11196963) references the comment it was detached from, BUT because a link to a sub-thread opens the linked sub-thread as a parent thread, it appears to be a brand-spanking new thread (if I haven't properly articulated this, click https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11195895 and you'll get the idea)

C) I don't see any indication that the offtopic sub-thread has been marked as offtopic.

Combining these, B makes it look like the relevant conversation has been completely detached from the relevant conversation, while A and C makes it look like the off-topic conversation has been left, but it's now lost it's context.

I absolutely agree, the sub-thread is off-topic. But the detachment result is just downright confusing!

I'd rather there be a visible flag that a sub-thread is off-topic with a way to collapse the off-topic thread (something I'd love to see anyway for several other reasons), maybe even auto-collapse an off-topic thread (somewhat similarly to the way dead-threads default to not being shown, and when they are shown they are flagged as such).

Just my thoughts after being really confused! (Kinda ironic, given my original comment on the sub-thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11196732)

@dang - Special thanks for helping me understand what was going on!

edited: trying to make my statement slightly more clear

You broke off (detached; are NOT showing) the comment that IS ACTUALLY RELATED to the original post.

You left the comment that was commenting on the commenting style of the detached post.

It seems like you detached the WRONG comment, hence my confusion.

I find it confusing that you detached the thread that was actually commenting about the actual article, but then left the thread that was commenting about the <now detached> comment's style.

It would have made much more sense to leave @morley's original comment wondering if the actual post, "Is this just a fancy blog for engineering stories as a means of hiring more engineers?" and instead detached @hafling's comment about @morley's comment style.

I've done it in spoken language since long before I heard of, yet alone used, the internet.

I rarely do it, "to dull the edges of an opinion". Instead, I do it to provide explicit context (e.g. this my opinion or my observation, similar to the way people will use 'IANAL' in discussion of a legal matter) and to let people know that I genuinely think I'm missing the point. The only way someone might be able to help fill in what I've missed is to explain what I see from my perspective. While most of the time, my perspective turns out to be pretty close to the mark, there have been times when I was really, really off, and someone was able to help provide the context necessary for comprehension.

In this particular case, I actually thought exactly the same thing as the original commentor and am glad to know that I'm not alone in my impression and subsequent confusion that "I think I'm missing the point"!

I've never done illegal drugs, but for years suffered with depression and occasional had "amazingly productive" periods.

After one particularly bad bout of depression, I decided to see a doctor. One of her questions was something to the effect, "Has anyone ever accused you of having been on drugs when you weren't?"

The funny thing is, during one of my previous "amazingly productive" periods, I had a coworker who -point blank- told me she was convinced that I was on drugs. I just felt high on life and told her as much.

The doctor ultimately diagnosed me as bi-polar, and we found a drug that would reduce the depression and not trigger hypermania or manic episodes (apparently a common problem with drugs that treat regular depression is that they can exacerbate bi-polar).

Fast forward a few years and I had to have knee surgery. Thankfully, my mother was taking care of me and knew I had been diagnosed bi-polar, but I'd never had a full blown manic, so she didn't know what that looked like. It took three days for her to realize what was wrong, but almost immediately after the surgery I had slipped into a full-blown manic. In the end, it turned out the pain medication and the bi-polar medication combined were triggering the manic episode.

I've since had to have several other surgeries and have learned that strong pain killers have a tendency to trigger manic episodes in me. In a way I'm lucky, because I've never gotten addicted to any pain killer, and I'm coherent enough to let my providers know whether I need manic-inducing pain killers (i.e. I rather be manic than in that much pain), whether I can take less effective pain killers that don't trigger manic episodes, and when I can just suck up the pain.

So, yes, drugs can trigger episodes, but it isn't necessarily illegal or 'bad' drugs that do so.

The argument can be made that this isn't anything new. Ericsson, "widely recognized as one of the world's leading theoretical and experimental researchers on expertise"[1], has been researching Expertise and Deliberate Practice for decades[2].

For example, "The superior quality of the experts' mental representations allow them to adapt rapidly to changing circumstances and anticipate future events in advance." [2] Indicates that the experts have already been practicing with changing circumstances.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Ericsson [2] https://psy.fsu.edu/faculty/ericsson/ericsson.hp.html [3] https://psy.fsu.edu/faculty/ericsson/ericsson.exp.perf.html

... please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait. - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The original title is, "Employee Satisfaction Doesn't Matter".

DHT - Distributed Hash Table https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table

And she's already said as much:

>Extremely successful people are unlikely to be reading stuff like this.

>Surfing the 'net is a deadly time suck

I'd also suggest checking out http://podiobooks.com/ . They have more recent offerings, frequently read by their authors.

I too have extreme myopia, but am old enough to be suffering from presbyopia also, and frustratingly have the bifocals to prove it. While presbyopia is not technically the opposite of myopia, it is functionally the opposite.

> Presbyopia (from Greek presbys (πρέσβυς) = old man + ops (ὤψ) = see like, sight > meaning literally trying to see as old men do[1]) is a condition associated with aging in which the eye exhibits a progressively diminished ability to focus on near objects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyopia

Ironically, I spent most of my childhood outside and still developed nasty myopia.

Projects can also be mirrored on Github[1], so even if the main repo is somewhere else (e.g. GitLab or Bitbucket) contributors can still be credited via Github[2] and the project can still get the publicity on Github.

[1]: https://help.github.com/articles/about-github-mirrors/

[2]: e.g. https://github.com/dsandler?tab=contributions&from=2015-10-2...

Groups, government or otherwise, have done great evil with very little information (by today's standards) - http://jacquesmattheij.com/if-you-have-nothing-to-hide

Over 15 years ago, for my undergraduate thesis I set up a "Hypermedia Textbook" on the history of my field. I had to manually collate all the info, manually scan in every photo, and type in every last bit of text and html. The end result was a couple hundred pages that looked very, very similar to what your Einstein page looks like! At the time, I knew a better way would emerge, but didn't know how or when. It's moments like this that I (a) feel old :( and (b) am amazed by the times we live in and the speed at which things are happening! :) Thank you for providing such a wonderful, if unintentional, moment of self-reflection!

I'd be much more concerned with the printing exhaust.

e.g. http://3dprintingindustry.com/2015/10/28/toxic-abs-pla-fumes...

Interesting that the the "Deed of Trust" starts off,

> Gentlemen

The first paragraph goes on to talk about supporting widows and children. Thankfully the paragraph does end with, "Grants of sums of money may also be made to heroes or heroines as the Commission thinks advisable-each case to be judged on its merits."

But by the third paragraph, it's back to "A medal shall be given to the hero, or widow, or next of kin ..."

I'm sure that language doesn't bias anyone on the Commission.

[1] http://www.carnegiehero.org/deed-of-trust/

Definitely related, from http://venturebeat.com/2016/02/08/zenefits-ceo-parker-conrad... / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11061992

>Also today, Zenefits announced that venture capitalist and PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel has joined the startup’s board of directors. In addition to relinquishing his role as chief executive, Conrad has also given up his board seat.

Some of the comments here reminded me of another recent post, and in particular these statements...

>Do not start an open source project if you need praise, warmth and love from your fellow human beings. [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11053810 ]

>Folks forget that most FOSS work is volunteer & berating the hackers who make it won't help one bit. [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11054809 ]

I'd definitely recommend learning the traditional css (i.e. not flexbox) because that is what most existing sites are written in and most front-end developers know, so you're likely to need it.

I run a group with almost 600 JavaScript learners. With this many people, we've been through the vast majority of self-study resources. My goto recommendation for learning HTML, CSS, & JavaScript is http://www.freecodecamp.com/ This has consistently had the best results for our learners!

It (a) assumes no knowledge coming in, (b) provides a linear progression from no knowledge to a portfolio of web applications, (c) lets you move as fast or slow as you want, (d) lets you skip lessons and topics you're already familiar with, and (e) has phenomenal online support. (EDIT: and it's free)

Once your friend has the fundamentals, I'd also suggest checking out http://flukeout.github.io/ and http://flexboxfroggy.com/ . They're fun little games to introduce lots of css and flexbox features.

>Should the interrogator know about the computer? [1]

> ...he states only that player A is to be replaced with a machine, not that player C is to be made aware of this replacement.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test#Should_the_interro...

And he gets to run a Turing test on his AI for each call, sorta like training AI through CAPTCHAS.

Or a kilt?