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We obviously draw distinctions between art (whether fine or folk) and design, but these are largely descriptive distinctions that have little bearing on what someone else ought to make or not. The absence of a definition codifying the functions, constraints and responsibilities of art (or design) didn't stop people from creating it.

It is ideal that an artist or designer know their intention (and perhaps audience), but our inability to force the work to fit in a descriptive box has relatively little bearing on whether the artist or designer knows their intent and audience. Likewise, intent is something we interpret in the work; if critics didn't interpret intent, I don't know how much they could possibly say that would be of interest. The frame of their interpretation is furthermore part of how we interpret and evaluate the critic's thoughts; not all critics of the same work have the same frames, nor do they all read the same intent.

Even when an artist or critic states their intentions or frames explicitly: we aren't any more obligated to trust them than they are obliged to tell the truth (or, if you prefer, to fully understand their own intent.) Neither, for example, is likely to be forthcoming about biases in their work. I could give differing statements of intent every time I read the same poem to a different audience, all of which are fairly useless unless critically interpreted alongside the work of art.
> someone who is illiterate implicitly know that "1" and "0" represent

People are usually OK with small numbers. So:

1 - there is a thing.

0 - there isn't a thing.

(I know that you went with 'O' and '.' for "city" and "no-city",[and it worked nicely, thank you,] but come on ... ;-)
> These must be emergent phenomena of something deeper

Deeper might be the wrong word in this context, but I don't think many physicists would disagree that there is probably a small set of rules and variables that makes up the substrate of reality. For all we know, the universe could be a really basic cellular automaton.

> These experiments are a bit like 3d scanning a tree in millimeter detail and then declaring that you have a perfect knowledge of trees.

That does not describe our current scientific process at all, which is to find underlying abstractions and models instead of just cataloguing concrete findings.

I also think there is a problem with the understanding of higher-order (emergent, as you say) phenomena: they often do not follow from the basic underlying rules in an immediately obvious manner. What they do is they become systems in their own right, with their own mechanics worth studying.

To use an analogy, just because you know everything about sugar and flour doesn't mean you know everything that's going on in a bakery.

> But it creates a degree of philosophical unease in the sensitive individual.

It's not the universe's job to make us feel comfortable, nor is it science's job to discard findings on the grounds that we personally don't like their implications. The universe does not care about our comfort, and philosophical considerations are not part of the fabric of nature outside of your personal mental frameworks.

There are many things about nature or the universe at large that make me uncomfortable, but that doesn't mean these facts should somehow be discarded.

> My hunch is that what we are seeing is the population dynamics of all possible systems of interacting elements - or atleast a tiny little piece of it.

I read this several times, and I have no idea what that means.
I just find the Erlang style bizarre. I know it's a great language but I'm really don't see myself going the extra mile. I think Django is a good mid level framework that is good enough performance-wise for most cases. I'm now learning Play and Scala to take cover those high demand edge cases.
> We need the Federal government to stimulate aggregate demand at the consumer level. How?

Simply put by distributing cash to the people directly. Why do only rich people on Wall St. get subsidies and bailouts where the Fed purchase their worthless papers with hefty sum of money and push on their balance sheet on the taxpayer's dime?

Not only this but they are also engaged with them in destroying the labor market by bankrolling Wall St greed and their endless chase of efficiency at the expense of people's jobs as they get more aggressive with M&A activity evading taxes and expanding robotics & automation to eliminate labor costs.

This can't be going this way forever and something has to be done to stop this madness.
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Previous news reports posit this work as part of Collabora's deal with .gov.uk.

The thing they're offering up is a downloadable VM for you to play with. Something you could actually set up an in-office version of; something that people can use and report bugs on.
See my comment above on two situations where coming to a stop is actually more dangerous.

TL;DR: If the car fails while driving on a highway or crossing a busy intersection, stopping will cause a wreck.
> Because as soon as you can get a risk free rate of return, (savings) then why would someone invest in a half brained start up that has a low probability of any return, when you could get a risk free return.

Because startups, while they may have a low probability of return, have a high potential upside, whereas low-risk (and essentially zero-risk, like US government debt) investments have fairly locked-in maximums as well as minimums.

Sure, the higher returns in low-risk investments, the better returns have to be in high-risk investments to justify choosing the latter over the former with the same risk sensitivity.
A simple definition of what a Digital Transformation and a case study: Kabbage
I usually answer "Javascript is bad" statements with "English is not the most declarative language too, but ... it's the most common". Anyway I think JS is not a part of my statement, so I'm not going to agree on why JS sucks. It's opinionated. And contrary to logic it works good when you get used to it.

About Electron. I think nobody will build Photoshop or 3D Games ( at this point ) using it as a platform. I would personally decline if I have an assignment like this. But for apps like Slack, Visual Studio Code, Atom, etc, it works pretty good. Something more. I'm actually working on my own accounting app that suits my needs, which I would not be able to do for that limited spare-time I have these days If I used Objective-C / Swift.
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Either one. The money still gets into the economy.
I question the assumption that "job creation" is the necessary prerequisite for money creation especially in an age of automative ephemeralization and surplus. Large demand for money already exists among the poor whether or not they have a job.

>In technology's "invisible" world, inventors continually increase the quantity and quality of performed work per each volume or pound of material, erg of energy, and unit of worker and "overhead" time invested in each given increment of attained functional performance. This complex process we call progressive ephemeralization. In 1970, the sum total of increases in overall technological know-how and their comprehensive integration took humanity across the epochal but invisible threshold into a state of technically realizable and economically feasible universal success for all humanity.

-Buckminster Fuller
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Have you thought this out? What happens when someone hacks their own beacons for lulz? So then the beacons have to have public key cryptography. Now all of the firmware will need to be audited and kept updated. Will there be over the air updates? What if someone cracks or steals the key? It seems to me that a target as juicy as "getting control of the North American road network" would be worth a major national power throwing a significant fraction of its resources at it, so that inflates the computing power such devices will need.
The graviton is expected to be massless, but I don't think there's any information about the particle's rest mass.
Please do not post uncivil comments to HN.
In Thomas Pynchon's novel V, there is a fellow who has a switch on his skin that detects whether or not he is awake (by the resistance? I forget), and so controls the TV. Judging by the Wikipedia article, this is Fergus Mizolydian; I don't have a copy lying around the office.
In relativity, yes. But quantum mechanics people have hypothesized a graviton anyway, presumably with the goal of unifying the two theories.
In the UK, we have the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act to give convicted criminals the ability to reform and reenter society.
We use Phoenix and Elixir a lot at Bleacher Report and it's great.

However there is very little information out there on how to improve performance. For example - we saw out of the box performance for a simple data parser being better with Symphony than Phoenix (but both were way better than Rails).

It's not a catch all performance booster, even on things you would expect it would be (this was an API that pulled lots of data concurrently from other sources to build the API).

It IS a huge improvement over rails however. José Valim is a great guy and we were lucky enough to have him talk about both here at BR. Plugs alone are a lovely architectural touch and it's worth people checking out the system just from a widening your perspective type of deal, even if you won't be using it in production.

Good practices all round.
> Web development is in truly a sad state.

Has it ever been better though? Technically, you could argue that webdev has never been as good as it is now.

Not that I like the current situation, I just think that things in webdevland are better now than ever before.
We use Google Docs at work.

The word processor and spreadsheet are rudimentary and the OOXML compatibility is terrible.

My favourite new feature in LibreOffice is the Google Drive integration (a first-class feature in LO 5.1). Because sometimes I need a proper bloody word processor or to read an OOXML doc someone's sent me.

LO Online will be proper LO at the back end, so will be that word processor etc.
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Well that makes sense, given that basically all machine learning is transformations over matrices and that is Matlab's bread and butter. The equivalent C code might perform better when optimized, but it is going to be far longer and uglier. There's a reason a lot of ML work is prototyped out in Matlab first.
> And how does the government really stimulate demand?

Building things (roads, spaceships, bridges, etc), funding things (medical research, education, etc) and other obvious things. Low interest rates make longer term projects much more viable.
In my experience, all the money is in writing the hardened, scalable infrastructure. But then my experience is in the database, microsoft, oracle, amazon, facebook worlds.
Oh sure, it's a judgement call. I would say as a founder that it's best to seek a high but not insane valuation, and of course the definition thereof depends on multiple factors: what I think a reasonable growth estimate is (while not under the influence of drugs), what the market is currently paying for capital (average, not outliers), etc.

If every living multicellular organism on Earth would have to create an account on your service for it to be worth X, X is probably insane. If you have no meaningful revenue, then in most cases a valuation more than one standard deviation among the mean for your sector and maturity is probably nutty.
I bet. Even though Node claims to work on Windows, most dependencies are built and tested for Linux (or OSX). Just curious, what are the use cases for Node on Windows?
I'd argue government spending on things like infrastructure moves goods and people to more places thus stimulating the economy.

Government spending on research results in new drugs and medications which improve peoples qualities of life.

Government investment in clean energy promises to reduce the tens of thousands of people adversely affected by pollution in our nation annually and also provide us with a hugely viable export technology.

Government spending on bureaus like the FDA, EPA, and BBB give consumers and citizens access to outlets for complaints against dirty businesses and give us a decent amount of protection against those who would harm us to gain more of those dollars you think they'd rather have in their own pocket.

Meanwhile, the original owner might buy a boat while thousands of people have shoddy products and no recourse. Or they might buy a nice car while people deal with the pollution from their industry.

In the end, I believe it to be about balance but lets not pretend that a lot of the research that goes into the vast majority of the technologically advanced products doesn't come from tax dollars and lets start ensuring that we as citizens benefit just as much as the owner of these big businesses which can (and should) capitalize on these investments made by society for the good of society.

Then we can all go back to our enjoyable lives of digging up and reburying jars of money.
OVH's download is cheaper but Backblaze is $0.005/gb/month so unless you're doing a lot of downloading, it's lower cost than OVH.
Engineered obsolescence at work!
No that's a convenient metaphor for gravity at large scales.
On the contrary, I got a kick out of the quoted line because it was exactly what I did.
You are... uninformed. It's not a proprietary fork, it's all in a public git repo on TDF servers.

I feel sorry you are so ignorant.
The anti Silicon Valley: Start-up haven blooms in Moroccan paradise
Getting an apartment at a fraction of the market rate is not capitalism. It wouldn't be right for someone given this type of apartment to exploit it for profit considering there are thousands of other people who would qualify for these apartments and not take advantage of it.

It has happened in Queens already and I believe the tenants have been evicted. Such a foolish choice considering the money they would have saved over the years.

What do "white people" have to do with anything here?
Yes. The graviton in question would be a massive partner to the ordinary, massless one. You get those in Kaluza-Klein style theories with extra dimensions [1], so they are often referred to as "KK gravitons".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaluza%E2%80%93Klein_theory
A "fancy autopilot" can take off and land.
You're just easily impressed, that's all :)
> more wisely than the original owners ... would have invested

It depends. If the original owners were a handful of wealthy oligarchs, that's likely to be worse (ie. more centralized) than as spent by a large, distributed bureaucracy. If the original owners were a large population of mostly middle-income and poor, that's likely to be better (ie. more decentralized) than government spending/investment.

> government spending in general is essentially a drag

If government is a centralizing force, then yes. If government is a decentralizing force -- improving the mechanism of the free market -- then it's increasing efficiency.
More precisely, Alphabet wants to make Google Car an Alphabet company
Anyone who has grown up with b&w television will tell you that you were actually able to tell the colors of objects, when you were used to it.

The other way round, if you happen to have done any serious recoloring work (e.g., those car configuraters found at the web[1]), you probably know that it's not just about changing the hue. The various reflective properties, diffusion and response to exposure are quite different for different colors and it boils down to reworking the entire histogram to achieve some credible appearance. So, yes, I think it's quite plausible that you may analyse the properties of a surface captured in b&w and recover the original color properties with some limited precision.

(Now, that we're spoiled by highly saturated displays with a limited color range and are used to ignore artifacts of image compression, this may seem quite far fetched. But when you are used to deal with analog images, yes, it's plausible. P.S.: And while we are at it, please stop colorizing images with colors that are obviously not the originals. It's not all the same, just because it comes in b&w.)

[1] Before there were renderings, you would get a product shot in a single color and all the other color versions had to be derived from this.
The problem is right there in your response. Do I do TypeScript or Facebook's flow (whatever that is, I don't know)? Or perhaps CoffeeScript? Or wait, that one is not typed. Or is it? Lots of people like it though! Except the ones that perfer EcmaScript 2015. Because it is the future. At least for the next 2 weeks when 2016 starts. But EcmaScript 2015 is not typed either. So much for your promise of all serious JS shops doing typed JS in next 12 months. Also, yeah, great, "serious" shops will be typed. What about "not serious" shops? They don't count? And their users who have to suffer through crappy products built using incomplete tools don't count? Oh, and you know what all these half a dozen most popular and legion of less popular solutions to the problem of "JavaScript sucks" have in common? They add yet another step into the toolchain making the developer's life so much harder.
It is nobody's fault that we are were we are, but please, let's call it as it is and not pretend that this pathetic situation is somehow progress or even acceptable.
> If you have multiple cores and a single-threaded application that you'd like to scale, then assuming the other resources are plentiful, just spawn multiple instances and pin them to those extra cores.

Not to mention, this is part of the core functionality of node. The cluster module is built in. https://nodejs.org/api/cluster.html.
I never said anything about you having to use your legal name, and that's not Facebook's policy either.

It sounds like most of your friends know you by your "fake" name. That should absolutely be the name you're allowed to use on Facebook and I think their policy supports that. (In fact, this announcement is allowing for alternative forms of "proof" like what people wish you happy birthday with.)

While they haven't done the best job of finding ways of enforcing it in the past, Facebook has frequently stated that they want your offline and online names to be the same (not that you must go by your legal name).
That's also true of Ruby, Python, Perl, ... Ultimately, if you're on Windows and you want a smooth development experience, you need to use made-for-Windows technologies (notably C# and friends). Hopefully that changes one day.
Of course, but once our needs are seamlessly taken care of we're going to just "plug into our computers and get lost in virtual reality"? That is the depressing bit.
I think you may have sleep apnea.
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Consumer demand is meaningless. Trying to push it is like trying to push a string. Demand is an artefact of production. Unless your economy is producing, you won't increase quality of life and wealth for all citizens. This point is obvious, but gets completely lost in all the frenzy around 'stimulating demand'.

To buy something, first you have to produce something worthy of exchange. Everyone has to start from this point.
>This can't be going this way forever and something has to be done to stop this madness.

Wall St: "Invest in pitchforks!"
Upvoted your comment. I mostly agree.

IMHO Node isn't built on this mindset ( endless churn ). I think it's just rapidly evolving. It's just enthusiasm by the community.

As far as my experience goes, I just put more effort in finding the right module rather than finding >any< module that will do the work. Afterwards I can usually npm-shrinkwrap, upload to DigitalOcean and leave forever.
I think you accurately characterize a fringe of HN, but I think support for UBI, etc., isn't all (or even mostly) about imminent AI singularity (though certainly some is based in that belief), much of it is a belief that the Band-Aid over traditional capitalist economic relations provided by the modern mixed economy, particularly as implemented in the US, which remains heavily based on the assumption of steady wage labor with one primary employer (which, itself, is almost a pre-capitalist, feudal/manorial model) as the normal means for people to earn income, is fraying given present levels of automation and preferences for ad hoc interactions, necessitating a more efficient model of support to cushion the blows of long-term and short-term dislocation in an increasingly automated and increasingly fluid market, a need which will only get more acute with increasing automation (even fairly mundane automation that falls well short of AGI.)
If I understand what GET does, I believe you can use our download_file_by_id or _by_name to do that -> https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/b2_download_file_by_id.htm...
20 years from now, we might have countless drones of varying sizes and lobbyists arguing to put more of them into the hands of children to protect themselves from other drones. Best to nip it in the bud while we still can.
24 Reasons Die Hard and Home Alone 2 Are the Same Movie
Yes ->

https://f000.backblaze.com/file/yevyev/pics/Fallout_Small.jp...
I RTFA, I know this an arduino-based DIY hobby project. But if something like this ever comes out for real, the ability to doze off and pause your TV show will be a trojan horse...

You've seen those charts where people use their smart watch to record their heart rate during the game of thrones finale? (No? Here you go: http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/08/13/what-game-of-thrones-... )

Sure, downloading the Netflix pause-your-stream-when-you-fall-asleep app is comfortable, but it also provides a treasure trove of audience response data. Forget focus groups, now you have the real-time emotional response of many thousands of people A/B testing your original content in real environments.

And this ain't old-media Nielson, this is biggest-user-of-AWS technology-first Netflix.
AMD also released FreeSync, an open alternative to Gsync, a dynamic refresh-rate interface for monitors. The Nvidia version requires nvidia hardware and licensing and adds significant cost to the monitor, whereas freesync can be implemented in the control boards that already exist for the monitors, and without cost.

I think they're both great graphics cards, but NVidia tries its best to stifle competition.
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I respectfully disagree.
1) The Manhattan project is not comparable in scope: Both the UK and France developed nuclear weapons on their own.
2) This is not a European project per se. Most of the developed nations in the world contribute, and as such this is very much a project for and by humanity itself.
Ladies and gentleman - the Dunning–Kruger effect in action.
I could have been clearer. By the scare-quoted "collection" I meant a value which implements the relevant collection-like interface. In Clojure this is any object `reduce` works on, in Rust is any struct implementing the `Iterator` trait etc. In all the examples discussed these transformations are lazy, only execution the composition of any number of transforms when values are requested.

Clojure transducers are different because a transducer is a function which accepts a reducing function and returns a new reducing function, adding behavior by how the input function is composed into the result function. Because the domain and range of transducers are both reducing functions, they can be chained through function composition. A chain is actually applied by transforming a reducing function then using that function to `reduce` (Rust `fold`) a collection.

The cool part is that the transformations don't refer to collections at all, not even through some highly abstract collection-like interface. This makes them applicable to other domains, like the previously-mentioned channels.