HNLurker3

Nice effort but I don't like it.

You could replace everything here with Django. There's nothing in here that supports migrations, deployment etc (Django can).

I've used React and Webpack and loath it, it's extremely opinionated, saturated with pure JS developers, has an enormous learning curve and load of gotchas.

Django also has API support and a wealth of add-ons for services like federated auth, ElasticSearch bindings, bindings for S3, Redis, discovery, Cassandra, NoSql, etc etc.

The architecture here is also really unscalable. There's nothing in here that can be horizontally scaled, and Jinja or Django + bootstrap is 10x faster for prototyping before you hire a dedicated dev to maintain a React nightmare.

Modules are not a feature of this app, they're a feature of the Python language. Putting that in the README is misleading IMO.

Chill out dude, no one's actually going to behead you.

We need to fire whoever decided to make this decision, and then fire whoever decided to hire that person, and then reevaluate the entire existence of the agency that managed this entire process. Nuclear weapons are not a joke. These are the kinds of things that actually threaten our immediate existence. This whole thing makes me seriously sad, anxious, and scared. I don't know what else to say.

From what I understand, military personnel generally "operate" equipment and technologies that are built and designed by private industry. I can only imagine the idiotic buzz-word sales pitch that some whiz-kid fast-talking slime-ball in a suit from a fancy looking tech company made to some meat-head, decorated military general with no understanding of what a digital threat model is and barley knows how to check his email on a windows 7 machine on IE, all for quick federal contract. I hate it.

I don't understand all the hate for Siraj and all the personal attacks about being a "fraud" and a "coked-up" guy and I think it's really unwarranted. The dude isn't Geoffrey Hinton or Andrew Ng and doesn't claim to be, and obviously nobody should consider his videos or courses as a substitute for actual coursework etc.

I'm actually a really big fan of his channel, and all I see is a guy with a bit of understanding in the field trying to be enthusiastic about ML/AI in the hopes of getting people that otherwise wouldn't be interested in such a topic interested (i.e. a younger audience or audience that doesn't normally delve into this kind of thing and/or doesn't have access or exposure to academia or the community and culture behind it). There are people in this world who don't know who Hinton or Ng are, or what ML and AI are or what that means (a lot of them are high-schoolers or people from poorer and less fortunate backgrounds than I'm sure that a lot of people on this thread have any exposure to).

That being said, almost all of Siraj's videos have working demos (and usually some references to their source), and having watched numerous videos of his, I don't get any sort of feeling that he's trying to take credit for anything he shows in his videos as being his own or why that's even an issue considering his videos are 99% free, intended to be fun, interactive, and educational.

I also have no doubt that Siraj could be working where ever he wanted and could be making a great deal more money from starting either his own company or working in industry. I have no problem with Siraj trying to make a bit of money for himself by putting out a $200 course which is totally optional, is obviously not a credential, doesn't claim to be, and is honestly the comparable to the price of a Masterclass showing you how to cook dumplings or something.

I think Siraj makes a real effort to put quality, working, engaging content out there for possibly a less exposed and younger audience in way that's entertaining and doesn't take itself too seriously, 99% for free, and considering todays educational climate, is something that I think will actually benefit future generations to come and isn't done enough.

I'm actually really disappointed in HN community's response to him in general, especially the unwarranted attacks on his personal character, behavior or the way he dresses, etc. I would have thought a community like this would be above superficial and meaningless things like that.