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For kids, the OP had point 3: "The solution for getting together with friends when you have small kids is other people with kids the same age who can play together."

What he forgot to mention was point 3a: "The solution, when you have kids, for dealing with friends who have no kids, is to kick their asses out of your friends network". It's closely related to point 3b: "The solution, when you're married, for dealing with friends who stay perpetually single, is to kick their asses out of your friends network".

Note, I'm not promoting this behavior, I'm just pointing out, from observation, that this is how people behave.

My experience, as someone who has no kids and is unlikely to have any, is that the only way to socialize is to move into a big city where there's a bunch of other ~35-45+yo people with no kids. Otherwise, you're going to be a very lonely person, because you simply will not fit into any other social group.
It's hard even for humans...
I'm not sure what your specific gripe is with npm. It's one of the fastest and most capable package managers out there, is easily better than Python's Pip (which doesn't resolve dependencies) [0] and Go's go-get silliness for example.

If your problem is just 'lots of dependencies' that may break from under you, npm has a solution for that: 'npm shrinkwrap'.

[0] https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/988
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Exactly this. When I was trying to get my pilots license for small aircraft I wasn't afraid of flying at all. But my lizard brain tells me that when I fly commercial I should be terrified because I'm not in control. Even though the commercial pilot is statistically magnitudes safer than me driving, and considerably safer than me flying.
3 things:

1. Much of it reads as"are you taking this approach? yes? don't take this approach. no? take this approach."

2. There are also a couple of flowchart errors ("are you working on a production app" appears twice for no reason).

3. The main reason React makes me sad is the need for excruciating flowcharts like this.

As a result, the entire thing comes across as self-parody. For context, I'm a developer who works on a large enterprise app with a full build toolchain (npm, babel, webpack, sass, etc ad infinitum).
Which is partly why I kind of mourn the fall of Wikipedia. By having an arbitrarily defined criterion of "meaningful" knowledge is spread across hundreds of wikis rather than being in the singular copyleft originator.

Why couldn't the Pokemon Wikipedia articles be as extensive as the Bulbapedia ones? There is demonstrable demand and interest in maintaining such extensive information as evidenced by the commitment of the contributors to Bulbapedia to keep it so up to date and pristine.

If an article rots where nobody wants to maintain it or cannot write it with sufficient information to justify it's existence that is a very different situation to this. But that is not an arbitrary line of relevance someone pushes upon everyone else. You could just have a minimum length and minimum sources and be done with it.
Most Wikia sites seem to use some form of Creative Commons licensing: http://www.wikia.com/Licensing

I think fans contribute to Wikia more out of convenience and inertia.
The lifecycle of a fintech startup (ftalphaville.ft.com)
Whether it’s crypto currency or peer-to-peer, the lifecycle of a fintech start-up can be roughly summarised as follows:

Phase 1
Fintech startup creates a tool using engineering logic borrowed from information technology methodologies, tries to go it alone.

Phase 2
Fintech startup realises client acquisition is really hard and costly. Oh, and the tool either doesn’t scale or there’s some other unintended consequence related to risk or liquidity.

Phase 3
Fintech startup tries to sell the tool to banks, who engage out of politeness to avoid the risk of passing off on the next big thing.

Phase 4
>Banks say… actually there’s a social or compliance reason we do things this way not that way…

Phase 5
Fintech start-up pivots to account for this… tries to resell tech to banks.

Phase 6
Banks say, actually you’ve also overlooked this other factor…

Phase 7
Fintech start-up adapts, and goes into “partnership” with the bank, at which point it realises the compliance headache associated with financial services, and also why the compliance is there in the first place.

Phase 8
Fintech is absorbed into the bureaucracy of banking. Innovation stalls.

Lifecycle completes.
>I really want to move somewhere warmer but I dread loosing all my friends and family.

It's not right to keep them enslaved or confined. Slavery and involuntary imprisonment are wrong. You need to set them loose.
> But my lizard brain tells me that I'm putting my life in the hands of a machine that potentially has bugs, and that's a little scary.

> Most of us are going to expect nothing short of perfection from these machines to really trust them.

I am not sure if this is satire or oblivion.
And yet we routinely trust other people to drive us around, when we know that they're imperfect.
> The vehicle and the test driver "believed the bus would slow or allow the Google (autonomous vehicle) to continue."

Clearly the algorithm does not take into account the classic attitudes of bus drivers.
They are rather opinionated. That, however, isn't very respectable in the German (very consensus driven) public sphere.

Most German newspapers are very bad on a journalistic/technologic level. Might be caused by the small userbase and the language barrier that shields away international competition.
The farther we skid along into a fin-de-bubble era, the more tech articles read like something out of GQ or Maxim. In addition to the above, we also have, for example:

Nadler, who is 32, spent the rest of the morning checking in with some of the bank’s most regular Kensho users — a top executive on the options-and-derivatives-trading desks, a fund manager — then took an Uber down for a lunch meeting at Goldman’s glass tower just off the West Side Highway in Manhattan. While almost everyone in the building dresses in neatly pressed work attire, Nadler rarely deviates from his standard outfit: Louis Vuitton leather sandals and a casual but well-cut T-shirt and pants, both by the designer Alexander Wang. Nadler owns 10 of these.

Memo to wannabe alpha geeks: you now have more options besides back turtlenecks.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/the-robots-are-co...
Is there any information available about how these cars take evasive action or attempt to reduce damage in the event of an imminent impact? The article's wording makes it sound like the car was at fault for the crash by re-entering the lane:

> "But three seconds later, as the Google car reentered the center of the lane it struck the side of the bus"

Presumably the car's software predicted the crash before it occurred but was unable to completely avoid it. I'd love to know what the programmed behavior is in these 'unavoidable' crash scenarios.
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> Understanding the expected behavior of other drivers is critical to making self driving cars work. And that seems like a pretty hard thing for a computer to figure out.

You're definitely right.

With regard to this particular instance, based on my experiences in many cities in different countries, buses pulling out into traffic when they don't technically have the right of way is an expected behavior. :)
$80k after a few months sounds crazy but it really isn't. $80k in salary in NYC would probably equate to $50-60k anywhere else besides SV, which is a reasonable starting pay. With rent as high as it is in NYC I can't imagine there's much left in savings out of that salary. That's some frugal living...
> This makes them able to see all the upcoming problems in the technical bits of the company, but not the upcoming problems in sales. Most effort is then spent on the technical side because "that's where the problems are."

ugh. this is 100% me. spent 6 years working on a hard problem. Why? Because ironically people wouldn't pay large sums of money for it and I figured that if I made it 1000% more innovative than the market I'd surely justify the price.

I sometimes look back and see how fucking naive I was. I'm a totally different mentality now. It's figuring out how to get paid and making sure you are able to CHARGE people for it. You just need to get to the absolute MVP. If it's something nobody has seen before then you don't even need to build it. Just try to sell the god damn thing before you even build it. However, if there are already established markets and competitors you can't do it without risking looking like a snake oil salesman but what this is the problem of many engineers, we view making money as evil and negative because we devalue our work, we just don't see the business value and so highly possible we end up working for free at some point our careers.

For example:

Marketer: Our software that will boost your sales by 50%.

Developer: It just scrapes data from other companies and resells you public data. You can find it on github.com

VP of Sales: Shut the fuck up.

Anyhow, I can't stress enough. Startup is 80% people and 20% coding. I've learned my fucking lesson the hard way.
I don't believe this 100% true, unless you use an effective ad blocker. Data Management Platforms [0] (such as Krux, Bluekai, etc.) exist to keep track of the different sites you visit so that they can place you into various audience segments. It's unlikely they have a "bonsai" segment but you probably fall into a "gardener" segment, as the sites you visit to read about bonsai trees are most likely classified as a gardening website. Any site can signup with a DMP and offer advertisers the ability to target specific users (i.e. gardeners).

Advertisers are always looking for better ways to target a specific audience, publishers are looking for ways to charge higher CPMs, and DMPs are helping both achieve their goal while tracking you across numerous sites on the internet.

[0] http://digiday.com/platforms/what-is-a-dmp-data-management-p...
> There was never a stream of pure, refined truth availablem, that just somehow lacked a distribution method

Academic educational programs have exactly been the source-without-a-scalable-distribution-method for at least the past century.

You're unlikely to find a treatment of mathematics or physics or even Computer Science that is as well-curated, free of coercive bias, and well-presented as it often is in the undergraduate programs at universities that care deeply about their educational programs. (Such universities and colleges do exist; they unfortunately also tend to be expensive, selective, and not always well-represented in top N lists -- especially in the US.)

The reason the distribution method of university education is lacking has more to do with economics than anything else. Hiring truly high-quality people to teach small groups of people difficult content in a rigorous way is expensive. If you skimp on any of those features, the quality of the end result goes way down (c.f. typical MOOCs and the university courses to which they are purportedly equivalent, in pretty much any dimension.)

> There were things that claimed to be streams of pure, refined truth. Those claims didn't become false. They always were false.

Again, I fail to see how this critique applies in any meaningful way to high-quality undergraduate education programs in hard sciences. Nothing is perfect -- and in fact I doubt any of those programs ever claimed to be "streams of pure, refined truth". But they come far closer than your comment seems to suggest.

Now, going back to the contents of the article, universites certainly aren't "streams of pure, refined, and new truth". Such streams very likely don't exist.
"I may have been fooling myself when we were still in the honeymoon phase, but when there was all the talk of you killing email, I have to admit I thought it was the email problem you were attacking, not just the email platform.
Which is to say, I thought you were providing some relief from the torrential influx of messages, alerts, and notifications I was receiving on a daily basis. “Me + Slack = Fewer distractions and more productivity,” I thought at the time. I have to say, though, that I’ve since found it to be the opposite."
I think it's a matter of framing. You put your life in the hands of a machine all the time. Even when you are driving yourself -- software and mechanical engineering conspire to consistently connect your movements on the steering wheel and brakes, as well as be ready to deploy safety measures in the event of an emergency. These things fail in many different ways...if you weren't ware that the auto machine you currently use has life-threatening bugs, take a visit to the NHTSA complaint/recalls databases: http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/downloads/

Robot-driving is just one more layer on top of that. And not one that frankly, seems substantially less safe than autopilot on planes, given how unreliable we ourselves are when it comes to driving. But sure, the emotional impact of hearing a self-driving car malfunction is always going to be emotionally stronger -- i.e. in the man bites dog way -- than the daily fatal accidents that happen to other people that we filter out.
How does strace work?
Then we'll have the problem of us humans trying to predict the behaviour of the machine that unintuitively will be harder than predicting that of other humans. Of course the system will be much safer when there are no more humans involved in the decisions.
Its going to be similar to the software running on airplanes, you expect it to be essentially bug free(airplane software is held to a much higher standard) since you are trusting it with your life.
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There have been a number of studies in the past showing LISP or other VHLL's outperform C-like 3GL's in productivity or defect ratios. There's been some consistency in results regardless of the methods. The consistency on those is more that C sucks than that LISP is great. ;) Java seemed to suck too except not as bad as C.

I'd like to see a batteries-included LISP with dev environment put against Python, Ruby, etc by people with similar skill level in respective mindsets on same types of apps. Quite a lot of people. That would tell me more. Of course it will outperform C, C++, and Java in productivity: it's a safe-ish, malleable, dynamic language with macros. LISP beating scripting languages would speak volumes given it also compiles to efficient native code, was used in OS's, and can use dedicated CPU's.
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Of course, life isn't about how big/nice your house is. But at some point you realize you've just been working on a CRUD app the last few years (and not changing the world with a self-driving AI satellite hyperloop), you can't cross your apartment without stubbing your toe, and you have enough money for whatever you want but no time or room for anything, and maybe (just maybe) there's delicious food outside silicon valley, too.
The best conferences I had are the ones I barely attended any talks in them. Mostly because I met some very interesting people outside and the discussions/debates were more interesting, I've made some great friendships there.

My worst was actually a Droidcon, where most the talks were a word-by-word repeated versions I already saw on Youtube.
Maybe you do. I mostly spend every moment in terror when someone else is driving.
That would be pushing it for powering through just the RPi. Webcams are typically rated for 500mA each and the RPi has been running around 700mA usage. So with the recommended increase, I'd wager their power usage may have gone up to 900+mA.
jasper project
voice recognition with raspberry pi.

hook it up to your garage door, your lights, whatever!

http://jasperproject.github.io/
Slimmer born during a revolt time vs. Jenkins
They're probably not, they're giving the car enough real world experience that it can learn on its own that busses don't always slow down.
> Most of us are going to expect nothing short of perfection from these machines to really trust them.

I hope not. I'd like them as safe as possible, but I already expect that they'll be better than human drivers, and that ought to be sufficient to allow them.

However, there's another issue in play here: in addition to the possibility of holding self-driving cars to a higher standard than humans, people like the feeling of control, and will feel "better" about an accident where they see someone to blame.
"You’re actually making it HARDER to have a conversation ... You’re asynchronish.
At first I thought this sounded delightful — it would be the best of both worlds! I was always free to drop someone a line, and if they were feeling chatty, a full-fledged conversation could simply spring up, with no need to switch platforms.
After getting to know you better, though, I’ve found that your “asynchronish” side is less impressive than I first thought. It leads to everyone having half-conversations all day long"
Which are controversial in some circles because they're a rare example of a "get out of jail free" card for big companies. (I'm not agreeing with that POV but noting that it's pretty widespread.)

I actually agree that vaccines (and really drugs more broadly) are a rather unusual example of products that can be used as directed and things can still go bad--without the manufacturer necessarily being "at fault." [Edit: Where it's not the fault of the user or other human.]
I'm in much the same situation now. Don't listen to that other guy: if you're living in a place where you don't intend to stay, and the locals really aren't people you want to spend your time with, then don't. All the people around me are a bunch of small-town religious people, so I have no desire to get to know them, or else they're going to start asking me about my "personal relationship with Jesus" or somesuch. I'm just working on my finances and planning my move out of here, and for socializing I try to take a day every weekend and drive to the nearest big city and do something with a Meetup group there. I meet some very interesting people that way, unlike the people I currently live around.
For anyone interested… We just moved back to Atlanta in September after five years in the Bay Area, to be closer to family, and to be able to afford a house, ever.

I was well paid at Google, and loved working at YouTube. I also severely miss our many friends, as well as beautiful San Francisco: I used to walk up Bernal Hill one or two days a week with my toddler. Pictures of oceans and hills and everything else make me sad…

That said, we could never afford a house in San Francisco. And to get affordable, we'd have had to have gone way out, and the commute would have been terrible.

I was lucky enough to find out that Square has an Atlanta office, full of very smart people, so I was able to keep doing Silicon-Valley-style programming, which is a big win.
Did you read the paper or the title?

tDCS was what was used, which is simply a low current meant to modulate firing rates at the cortical layer. There is NO interpretation of thought patterns and conversion into some modulatory electric field.

I do agree there are a lot of issues with clinical based trials especially ones with less concrete physiological measures, but the evidence for tDCS is certainly slowly stacking on.
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.NET is a actually a very good programming environment for these little computers.
That may be the case with privacy, or other intangibles like that, but we're talking about electronics.

As I said, the airports (or the commercial kitchens, or the industrial lighting consumers) need to buy these things in bulk, so the prices get driven down.

Yes, a brand new NEC displaywall panel purchased quantity 1 might cost 20% or even 100% more than a panel at best buy, but go backwards one revision and its as cheap as any electronics.

In this case it's not "the rich" but rather the informed, or the savvy.
I sometimes visit such wikis, and my feeling is they often wouldn't fit in Wikipedia. It's mainly an issue of perspective. Take, for example, these two entries on the same fictional character: http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Aerith_Gainsborough, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerith_Gainsborough

The one from the Final Fantasy Wiki is from the perspective of a Final Fantasy fan, and is generally for a Final Fantasy fan. That is, it's explaining how Aerith relates to the rest of Final Fantasy. Some of it flirts with being in-fiction.

The Wikipedia article is more about how Aerith the fictional character relates to the real world. My point is that the people who want to maintain the versions that are more in-fiction may not also want to maintain versions that are more focused to how this fictional thing relates to the real world.
It's funny in a way, it'll end up creating an opposite kind of taste for Windows compared to the desktop version.

"All the programs and cool stuff are on Linux. Nothing supports Windows, lmao"
If API + binary blobs + single company control + BSD license is the new definition of open, then... hmm.

They should have called it ValveX. It's the best bad option among worse options (and that's probably why Valve won't put more effort into opening it up until the market matures), but it's not an open standard.
Are any breaking changes coming?
So what happened when the bus driver walked over to the self-driving car in order to exchange insurance information?
I think I have achieved 95% accuracy in attempting to predict driver behavior as much as much as 6-10 cars ahead of me. I say 95% conservatively. Though I have not exactly ever found myself making the wrong guess.
I suspect things may start out this way, but I wouldn't be surprised if our laziness rapidly overcomes our fear.
Even more lucky it wasn't a BMW.

Here in Europe the attitudes of BMW drivers are not highly regarded.
It makes me sad looking at apps made with React. I am currently using Knockout.js and Router.js which is working out very well. I like that your code is concerned with maintaining the state of the VM, not rendering the view.

What is gained by building an app in React, and are there certain scenarios where it really shines?
Flipkart's COD model has many innovations. Ecom's main payment option in US is credit cards; India does not have many people having credit cards. Also people did not want to prepay because of their past experiences with other services. Flipkart was able to COD on a large scale, became reliable and trusted, and was able to overcome people's reluctance to purchase online. Flipkart's other innovations, easy returns, their own delivery network, not depending on 3rd parties.
Newark is the element14 partner (subsidiary?) in Canada: https://canada.newark.com
Agreed. When I explain why autonomous cars are always going to be better than humans, I use this example:

When you drive, you only look at one thing. If you glance at the rear view mirror, you're no longer processing the front. If you look at a side view mirror, you're no longer looking at the front or back. All this is not counting blind spots. But imagine if you could see all around the car, all the time, and process all of it with the same level of importance.

That's what self-driving cars can do.

People I speak to are usually receptive to that, but there's still the lizard brain aspect, one even I'm victim to. ;)
They're still experimental. React handles a lot of the legwork towards getting proper web components today.
So apparently everyone on HN agrees IoT is bad. Who can make/ or has made a reasonable argument defending this progress? Why is this progress happening?