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Why is there only one comment on here about Feynman's pretty obvious sexism? Why are the rest attacking the author or anti-sexism in general? Or commenting on how his actions or si…

This is great. The structure and simplicity is bomb and the data will be easy to mess around with while still being easy to clean up even if you mess around with verb usage like "s…

No comments yet supporting the maintainer? She experienced real prejudice from issues at these orgs. No matter what the cause likely needs to be changed. But of course, I'm sure th…

So uh, no actual experiment here. Even with the methods they're using we're not really getting causality. Seems like they're just saying cat people (or raw meat eaters) are more in…

It is straight up weird that Assange is going after Hillary because he's a bit butthurt about her. Its funny when a whistleblowing body is explicitly partisan for personal reasons.…

Weird metaphor. 1 Billion people on Facebook daily. Most of twitter's interactions are read only. So according to this idea Facebook is a nightclub the size of china and twitter is…

Build yourself a hut. Pretend to live off nature while women from the town one mile away bring you pies. Thus is self reliance.

Awesome, great work. This is one of those situations where I wish massive bribes were part of the open source ethos.

Any easy way to run remote kernels?

Thank you for bringing us the future.

This article is straight up more nuanced than I was expecting.

Usually I'm very pro internet.org with the basis for my response being "people who can't afford internet don't care about your politics, why should we get to deprive them of useful…

None of the comments here really capture the importance of this book in my mind. Hadley-headed projects have dominated the data-science space for years - defining how open source a…

Also, am I the only person in this thread who actually works in ads? Ctrl + F did nothing to answer this question

I like how much heat this topic on the hacker news. I wonder if its extra touchy given how much "hacker" culture overall developed with online advertising - the big tech successes …

Its disproportionately high for the publisher. Niche sites with demographics that overlap with adblockers demographic get hit harder than other sites. The ad company will find othe…

To continue said yelling, a point that I haven't noticed mentioned on here yet - since when do consumers get to decide how much they pay for a service? Or how? If I want to sell yo…

While I like your poetic verve, this isn't true. Ads were always garbage. Old ads lied just as much and tried to instill the same feelings. They just had less direction since they …

And as long as we're all whining in one direction or the other, the average U.S. citizen still watches more than 25 hours of tv per week. So we're all just yelling into the ether o…

More importantly, no big publishers / ad networks really care about adblock. A vocal minority use it and think their convenience is socially progressive. The only people feeling th…

How is this a new point? This is literally why everybody uses adblockers.

Nice work.

For the record, when people talk about "Brands" on Facebook, we're not talking about janky startups. We're talking about big old companies that blow >10 Million dollars in ad buys.…

Fun little idea. Tuesday all I eat is hot sauce. Monday I only drink lemonade. Wednesday I end my fast with the varied loaf.

Not sure I'm convinced the effort of switching streaming frameworks is worth it as opposed to switching to a jvm compiled language.