I still want to write some software to support community-curated lists of related links. It would include whatever I'm currently posting as "related"* plus fabulous contributions like cloudier's above.
This is also a dream of mine and I have many thoughts around this. I have a lot of little collections like this list and have always wanted a way to open this up to community contributions
I also don't think "awesome lists" are a sufficient solution for a number of reasons. Like this list is a perfect example of something that would (1) definitely get ignored on GitHub, (2) not reach the most likely target audiences, (3) not be easy to contribute to for basically anyone who doesn't know what a "git" is (so, the majority of people on earth)
If you (or anyone!) have any concrete ideas to offer about how list of related links could best be incorporated into HN's UI, I'd like to hear them!
We'd be looking to make the minimum possible change while adding such a feature. The goal is a "splash free dive" as sctb used to say. Most ways that I've thought of doing it (so far) involve too much splash.
The butterfly one reminded me of how much I liked reading the now elusive and Pagerank murdered non techie blogs that would pop up a few results under Wikipedia in biology/physics related queries.
Yep. One study^1 estimates that zoning and land use restrictions across the country leads to an (unnecessary) increase in housing costs worth 2% of the US GDP (about $400 billion).
That’s not the full context on the data OK Cupid released.
Men tended to rate women in a normal distribution, but they also mostly messaged women in the uppermost range of attractiveness.
Women tended to rate men more harshly, rating most men below average attractiveness, but they also tended to message those "below average" men regardless of their assessment.
Exactly. If you intend to throw a ball to your dog but accidentally break a vase as a result, does your original intention absolve you from the consequences of your actions?
I agree that the thoughts and feelings of other people in general are difficult to predict. But a person you marry is often someone you spend a lot of time around and hence whose thoughts and feelings can be predicted to some extent - because you see them in different situations, then see their reactions and talk to them about their thoughts and feelings.
In this specific case, the author denies that the consequences existed:
> But that doesn’t make sense, I thought. I’m not trying to hurt her; therefore, she shouldn’t feel hurt.
If someone complains a lot and often and typically about same set of thing, it is pretty easy to guess they are annoyed about that set of things. They feelings are no mystery, they feel bad about thing they complain about.
The unpredictable thing here were consequences - that she will act at her feelings eventually instead of just experiencing them. And it basically what he writes about in the article, that she eventually figured out her feelings don't matter to him and interpreted situation as such. And then it was too late to fix anything.
“Seeing like a state” taught me what high modernism is and it’s pitfalls (since I - and I imagine many readers of HN - are already familiar with its strengths and achievements e.g. modern medicine).
Poor Economics is a book in a similar vein that talks about how policies that sound like they would be effective can backfire.
(I am a software engineer and found both of these books approachable and interesting.)
The vast majority of HN comments care much more about being right than being kind, and this has also been my experience within the tech industry in general. I doubt that the author thinks that unlimited kindness at the expense of correctness is the ideal.
Yes, if you want to say something reprehensible it’s fine as long as you say it in a long-winded and impartial-sounding fashion involving lots of “logic” and “objectivity” à la Slate Star Codex.
When I saw this comment, my first thought was "this explanation must be useful for people who don't get internet references, like old people". And then I remembered the movie is from 2006. Oh god we're the old people making not so topical references to ancient stuff and wondering why the young people don't get them.
One of the scariest moments in my life was when I went to Portland to visit my cousins. We got to talking about their parents, my aunt and uncle and so forth.
We were all getting up in years, just as their parents and mine did.
And then one of my cousins said "now we are them!"
I went along to the midnight premiere of this film at my local cinema. It was completely full, and the crowd was... quite a different crowd to what the cinema usually attracted. At one point before the movie started someone loudly said "it feels like the whole Internet is here!"
Same -- went to the midnight (iirc they just moved it ahead to 10pm, since unlike LotR/etc no one cared) show at the Cinerama in Seattle and it was packed. People brought pool noodles to wave around, the whole crowd was hissing -- I've actually never rewatched it because I assume nothing could compare to the experience of watching it in that setting.
For anyone unaware of Samuel L Jackson as bringing a character to the character in his movies, see the (NSFW) video below. There are a lot of actors who do similar, but Jackson is maybe the best and most versatile among them. Not sure he is top tier among Hollywood actors, but he's got a great niche, and has become a cultural icon IMO.
Let me just add, he was also in Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing (1989), a movie that absolutely everyone should see. But it’s not in the clip above because he plays a DJ (Mister Señor Love Daddy) and doesn’t say MF.
likewise, in "A Time To Kill" (1996) where he plays a good role, but does not say MF.
That one is just an "ok" movie but it has an incredible cast: Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, Oliver Platt, Donald Sutherland, Ashley Judd, Kiefer Sutherland and more.
IMDB has him at #42, but I'll be honest, I don't have much appreciation for their top 50 list. I do think he rates as top tier, though, by my arbitrary judgement.
If he had to atone by planting a tree each time he uttered an expletive, I have no doubt he'd have replanted the entire Amazon forest by now. He's great.
YouTube's CDN doesn't enforce authentication, only the UI, account backends, etc do. So if you can determine the URL(s) for retrieving the video from their CDN, you can watch it without auth.
Apparently, youtube-dl can't do this anymore (assuming it ever did), since trying to download an age-gated (which was my strat) video fails where it used to succeed.
> "Many of the early fan-made trailers and later other viral videos and commercials circulated via YouTube, and captured media attention there with such titles as: Cats on a Plane [...], Snakes Who Missed the Plane, All Your Snakes Are Belong To Us [...], Steaks on a Train, and Badgers on a Plane
I'm dying at how creative these internet names/early memes where
Given that women’s participation in the labor force in the US passed 50% in the 1970s (well within living memory!), this is pretty optimistic :)