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Why are these questions considered important?

That's a great question. I don't think I have a good answer, and have not heard an answer from anyone else that satisfies me. I recognize that some people feel these questions to be keenly important at certain times in their lives, and feel that way myself, but I am not sure why.

Perhaps it is part of "human nature", or human psychology, or evolution. Some philosophers have spoken of an "anxiety" that comes with existence, a result of being "thrown in to the world", others speak of such concerns being the result of a fear of death.

My own view is rather pessimistic: I think people are very good at deluding themselves, and very bad at figuring out their true motivations (if that's even possible at all).

As to meaning: some people do think there is no meaning, others that the universe is absurd, others still that people create their own meaning, yet others that there is some "objective" or even "god-given" meaning, etc. I'm not sure how one could tell.

I'm interested in seeing how people have approached these questions and tried to answer them, though; and perhaps there is some way to find out after all.

I am reminded of Benjamin Disraeli, who said "All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil."
Hey, totally off topic but you replied to a comment of mine 22 days ago with a link that no longer works. Is there still a way to contact you?
But if he already owns your box what prevents him from accessing your data anyway?
The short comings of npm are very real.

I would go so far as to say that npm is the single biggest problem with the node community at the moment.
So schoen's comment should become

"Hopefully HN readers ++without the famous chrome extension++ know that Animats is the inventor of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagle%27s_algorithm"

...

Reminds me of snooker i.e. "and for those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green"
Just help fund SpaceX's plan

OR

Set up a moon base to help the plan

OR

Help nuclear pulse drives for the interplanetary trips.
We do. It's called Lodash.
Coming from evil-mode, I often have to make them myself, and it is a pain. Every mode needs new keybindings to fit in with whichever scheme you use. I imagine it would be worse with custom keymappings that aren't evil-mode, because I can at least use the default keybindings in input mode as-is with evil.
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We're 100+ people and have one first thing every Monday morning. There's a set agenda that is usually speedily read through by a random "rank and file" member with executives usually only chiming in to a) clarify a point or b) have something important for the entire company to hear.

I think all your points are excellent for companies that do want to do this and I actually find it a good way to kick off the week.

I would definitely be skipping it (and possibly getting in trouble) were it to happen around lunch instead of the start of the first day of the workweek. Sounds lame but I consider my lunch time 'sacred' and helps me clear my head for the afternoon.
I laugh at twitter playing stupid to what their information was being used for.

Government loves its surveillance. Try this though, if you live next to a cop, FBI agent or public official place a high res video camera on your property facing their house and leave it live streaming. Post it to a website with photos of all their family and children, their license plate numbers the time they leave for work etc. All things that are publicly available and captured from a simple video camera. Start having multiple people do the same and locate it all on your website. Then watch how fast the hypocrisy rears its head.
> You clearly do not understand what objective means.

No, I'm saying that your taste is objectively wrong, 'in the same sense that someone who thinks Steve Buscemi is more handsome than George Clooney is objectively wrong.' He's simply not (which says, of course, nothing about his value as an actor or a man, just about his value as a model).

Tastes can be wrong. Brutalism is wrong; objectively wrong: it denies life and organic beauty (the only beauty that can exist, because we are living creatures). Some things are indeed matters of taste, but others are not. If one writes the number which consists of adding unity to unity as 2 or II or ٢ or २ or ꤂ or 𐒢 doesn't really matter, but if one writes it as PA͉I͓͍͇͜N̵ ̗̻̗p̴̻͙͚͇̳̹ͅa̦i҉̥̫̥͓n̖̭ ̼͕D̻̤̘̮̼̣͜E̴͇̦̟͚͚A̞͇T̴͎̮͔̣͔H̟̻ ̩̥͕̯͙̘D̶̳̞̘͇̠̳̦e̳̥̖̺̯̺s̤̰̬̺t́r̗̼̳u̲͉͎̩̱c̩̬̮̣̫̭͇͟ţ͉̝i̫̝o̗̞̫n̟̘̹̥̖ ̞̝P̪A͓̞͍̭ͅI͚̲̬͙Ṉ̫͉̥ then yes, one is wrong.
Sorry, I'm a long-time embedded developer and that's gibberish to me.

We don't deploy fast. We deploy once.
Remember how differential cryptanalysis was discovered by the academic community and subsequently the DES S-boxes pre-dating that discovery were found to specifically make DES resistant to that attack?
Don't worry, java makes up for it by putting all the config into flags. At one place, I have a triple-monitor setup, all in a horizontal line. This was still not enough for one java application (elasticsearch? logsearch?) - even stretched across all three screens, I couldn't see the full process string on a single line :)
> No. NPM is awful in ways that could not be fixed without braking changes. They have a need, so they satisfied it. A need which, by the way, every one of the dozen-or-so Node-using projects I've worked on have shared.

Examples, please.

> This isn't even remotely true. Shrinkwrap is still a usability nightmare and doesn't begin to address the non-deterministic install behavior that crops up when you add new dependencies.

Again, examples, please.

> There's no way that they could have got these changes in to NPM in anywhere near the time it will take for Yarn to become popular; if at all! Politics (or the avoidance thereof) are practically _the_ perfectly valid reason to justify NIH.

Did the Yarn developers make any attempt to contribute to NPM at all? If they did and were turned back, then sure, I understand. However, everything I've read about Yarn thus-far is just vague finger-pointing at NPM.

I'm by no means suggesting NPM is perfect, for one I find it incredibly slow. However, surely that can be optimised.

However, regarding dependency version locking, which is the problem Yarn is trumpeting, what are the actual issues with Shrinkwrap? I'd like something specific. Since Shrinkwrap was updated to keep a flat sorted structure (a while ago) I've been using it no fuss at all. What are the specific issues people are running into now?

I've seen comparisons with Bundler, and how Yarn will be more like Bundler's Gemfile.lock files. However, the thing is the current version of Shrinkwrap works almost identically to Bundler's lockfile e.g. When I update a dependency the shrinkwrap file automatically updates (at least that's the default behaviour).
Work in finance. I am curious about this topic too.

I think it depends what you are selling and who the users at the fin services company will be (IT department? compliance? everyone? etc...)
What is the average rate for a senior dev in NYC?
I was thinking more like is transcendence even an actual thing?

Transcendentalism is a philosophy espoused by Emerson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendentalism This article is basically just trying to hilight some good points of that philosophy.
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> The short comings of npm are very real.

NPM seems to be continually addressing their short-comings, as you would expect from any software project. It's come a long way.

Specifically, what are the existing short-comings of NPM, and why couldn't they have been addressed via pull requests?
Heh, I have a decent DSO, but I'd still love one of those Keysight/Agilent scopes they are using as they have all sorts of useful bells and whistles worthy of electronics nerd lust. They just cost somewhere between $5000 and $10000.
Thanks for the explanation. I try to steer clear of the law, as the only thing that I do know is that the law doesn't have to make intuitive sense to non-lawyers.

But in this particular situation, that sort of due diligence makes sense.

If you'll forgive me for a horribly mixed metaphor, this seems like a hail mary pass late in the fourth quarter. I don't think Gawker has much of a chance in any other way, so they're just throwing stuff against the wall to see what sticks.
Ask HN: Suggestions for chat bot frameworks?
I need to develop a chat bot, and I'm wondering if anyone has suggestions for a good framework to use. I've taken a look at this https://dev.botframework.com/ from Microsoft, and also there are alternates from startups like massively.ai, meya.ai and reply.ai.

Has anyone had an experience with these? What are the pros / cons, and which would you recommend?
The latency is higher than I had hoped. I wrote 10,000 files with 10 kb in each. It took 23 ms per file on average. Then I read them back. That took 8 ms per file on average.

That's way too much for the use case I was contemplating, so I didn't investigate further.
The southern strategy was for pro segregationists in the 60s and early 70s. It's a historical tactic from almost 50 years ago for the old white conservatives of 1968.

Those people are far dead and there were many Republican primary contenders who tried these antique tactics and fell flat in the 90s onward. Coopting some dusty historical strategy as starting to work again doesn't sound like a plausible story.

Many feel that the modern political machinery had left them behind. You could say he "dog whistles" to saying he cares about poor whites and those who don't have a college degree, but he actively talks about them and how he'd like to secure opportunities for them to succeed. It's safety net and opportunity politics.
They do share a common root in the Latin brūt, meaning heavy, animal, raw.
I almost installed Wire this afternoon. Unfortunately this part

> does not need a copy of your contacts

is not quite correct if you read the fine print.

From https://wire.com/legal/

> 5.1 Account ... You agree that if you give the App permission to access your address book, anonymized phone numbers and emails from the address book will be uploaded to the Service for the purpose of connecting users.
> The IR code itself is "portable", but the C to IR compiler is using target specific information?

Right. Consider how you'd compile something as simple as printf("%d", (int)sizeof(int));
sort is a bad example: to support sorting in-place, it has to know the file name. Pity the user who typed

sort < bigfile > bigfile

for said user just lost a file.
I will also add https://www.cloudorado.com/ for those who want to also compare against other clouds.
> Note that even the 65c816 isn't good enough to run most C

At least they added stack-relative addressing, which is a huge improvement over the 6502.
Windshield fluid is made from all sorts of various formulae. In areas with cold winters it may be methylated ethanol, or ethylene glycol. In Southern California, it's mostly water.
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Interesting. Which code of yours are they using now?

After the last flare up on Twitter, I thought they wrote their own implementation, using the Signal code as a reference.
You clearly do not understand what objective means.
> Feels like you're inside the Death Star inside.

Is feeling as though one is inside a soulless death-machine a desirable quality in a legislature?
Traded in my S3, that had been doing well over the years but started losing charge more quickly, for an S6. First one overheated so badly when running updates the first time I thought I would burn my fingers. Traded it in thinking it was a bum phone. New phone heats up but not as bad. Lost charge very quickly very fast though and will freeze with video at times. I use a quick-charging cable now to keep it 'topped up' to take to work each day.

Looking forward to trading it in ASAP for a non-Samsung phone.
It might also be worth checking out http://sourced.tech/ as they seem to be doing something similar.

I know of sourced.tech as they contacted me about a position recently, but the job they contacted me about wasn't relevant enough to my skills and experience.

Your competitive advantage will probably be in the quality of the target lists you create. If you can nail that on a broad scale you'll have something with a lot of potential (this is probably also the hardest problem).

I'd consider starting by running some experiments for how to create relevant target lists.
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I think the essay is misnamed. It should have been "Why Should Transcendentalism Be Taught?" or "Is 19th Century Transcendentalism Relevant to us in the 21th Century?"

For more on what Transcendentalism is, see:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/transcendentalism/

(with the caveat that the Internet is a pretty poor place to learn philosophy)
so, how to avoid parsing ls? maybe use cat *, or something?
Good luck with that. Most Android devices stop receiving updates after one major version upgrade. It will never, ever happen for all these extra devices. Stop dreaming.
I think the point is that police etc should not behave in such a way that many people immediately assume that an encounter would likely be antagonistic.

Basically, if you're afraid to go ask a police officer for help (which, apparently, is fairly common among black people in US, for example), then something is very wrong about police, and needs to be fixed.
2011, Australia, iPhone 4 (or 4s)

> "The airline says the flight had landed in Sydney when the phone started emitting a "significant amount of dense smoke, accompanied by a red glow"."

Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-29/iphone-catches-fire/37...
My favourite annoyance is using the option syntax for things that are not optional.

If it really is a command, then require a command without the -- or -.

Today's examples:

1. centos6/redhat6 /sbin/chkconfig; it needs one of --list or --del or ... so why not just list or del or ?

2. the kafka command line tools, e.g. kafka-topics. It requires --create or --delete or --list ... So just use create/delete/list/... !
What could be the reason Sony dont contribute back. Surely it is a tiny amount of money. May be there are problems they have in minds we are not aware of? Just wondering.
If you're looking for a sensor platform that will let you quickly deploy a sensor that will run for a few years on a pair of AAs, check out what we're putting together at Helium [1]. We just rolled out the presale of our Helium Atom Development Board [2] which uses the Atom - our drop in connectivity and compute module - as the basis for a sensor development board that is actually fit for production. The OS that runs on the module - cleverly named Helium OS [3] - is the basis for our edge programmability and abstracts the annoying, hard things like battery/power management, wireless, and security. Also OTA upgrades are built in. :)

mark@helium.com

[1] helium.com
[2] https://store.helium.com/
[3] https://www.helium.com/helium-os/
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Team: 8 full-time remote; 3 backend, 1 frontend, 1 designer; 2 PhDs & 2 Brits; see AngelList for more

Product: broadly future of work; building a blockchain-based collaboration platform to make work more open.

Interview Process:
- apply via AngelList (https://angel.co/colony/jobs)
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- submit code samples, preferably react
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- make decision / make offer

Apply: https://angel.co/colony/jobs/171420-frontend-developer
His knowledge didn't die with him... it's still in all those books.
[REMOTE] Frontend Engineer (React + Redux) | Colony.io

--

_Company_: https://colony.io; early stage (pre-product, pre-revenue) seed-funded startup

_Team_: 8 full-time remote; 3 backend, 1 frontend, 1 designer

_Product_: broadly future of work; building a blockchain-based collaboration platform to make work more open.

_Interview Process_:
- apply via AngelList (https://angel.co/colony/jobs)
- screening interview with co-founder (me, Collin)
- submit code samples, preferably react
- code challenge
- additional conversations w/ team you'd work with
- make decision / make offer

_Apply_: https://angel.co/colony/jobs/171420-frontend-developer
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Couldn't boil water? Sounds like vapor where?
When your metaphorical language involves violently raping your grandmother, I am not sure your cigars are just cigars.
Honest question: do you need Apple hardware? Or Apple OS?

Nowadays linux can certainly run on Apple hardware without any extra effort
I prefer the former to the latter. I don't dislike the latter. But, I like the brutalist one better than the imitation English style you've linked (I think the one you've linked at least used local stone, which is nice).

You clearly very strongly dislike brutalism, and that's OK. But, you aren't the dictator of what is and isn't in good taste...some people are going to like things you don't like, and you're going to have to accept that.

I wonder how age factors into this question. I'm just over 40, and I suspect I might be a little too old to be part of the next generation that seems to have a revived appreciation for brutalism (but, I like it anyway). But, my parents definitely didn't like it, and from what I can tell there's a generation that's about my age and older that may always have unpleasant feelings about brutalism, while younger folks don't have the same baggage about it.

So, if you don't mind me asking, are you younger than me, or older?
on by default. If it's too noisy, you can look for how to make it shut up, and you will find it. If it's too quiet, you will look for why it's hanging, and not find it (because it's not hanging, just slow).
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After about 30 seconds or so your device should be up and connected to your local network, you should see it broadcasting itself as resin.local.

Why does it take so long to boot? Is it limited by the speed of the SD card? I wonder how it would do on a Zynq platform with QSPI flash.
Meaning the police ought to earn that expectation, not that people should think that way right now.
http://engine.so/ -- quite a nice list of small, fast, in-process databases.
In addition to the Metro, another structure that I recognize as wonderful brutalism is the Hirshhorn museum. More than just visually unique, the space works well for exhibits as you work your way around the donut (one way or the other) with large interior windows (but also windowless exterior space). It's very different from anything else on the Mall, and also from much of the other typically rectangular brutalist (waffle) buildings in DC (exceptions for Watergate and the lovely Canadian embassy). From within the surrounding garden it feels at home, a smooth, geometric, vaguely alien singleton resting behind the hedges as any other sculpture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirshhorn_Museum_and_Sculpture...

As for brutalism coming back, I haven't seen much new construction. I suspect when it does make its resurgence it will be with some recognition of how it was received in the past and how those structures are regarded today.
> return a non-zero status in certain non-error conditions, like when `grep` doesn't find a match, or in other cases where output is valid but empty

This has bitten myself and several colleagues when trying to use grep with hadoop streaming. If any of the input splits doesn't have a match, grep returns an error code, and hadoop interprets that as a failure. We switch to awk in those cases.
Ask HN: How do authors discover when others post their articles on HN so quickly?
Curious as to how people find out their article was posted on HN and respond with lightning reflexes in the comments.

Do people watch Google Analytics Real-Time all day? Setup alerts? Are there other tools that everyone uses and I'm oblivious to?
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Limited lifespans have nothing to do with resource constraints. There is just nothing to select for longer lifespans beyond the time it takes to reproduce.
Can I ask why you disagree?
The array length is zero in that code.
The length of a tweet would be a fantastic constraint on most resumes.
We used to release anually in the data centre too. If the benefits of incremental and iterative deployment don't move you, consider all the iot security issues recently. And if that doesnt do it either, consider NASA's Mars rovers, Tesla, nest, and the multitude other embedded products that use updating to great effect. You may disagree, but gibberish is a bit harsh don't you think?
...and that's why my Emacs finger habits are about 40 years old. Scary.

I miss ITS and TWENEX every so often...
I had the same thought. And I wonder, if we assume we are in a simulation, are we "in his/her/their image"?
Are we save to assume VSCode has supercede Atom?

P.S - Do VSCode team contribute back to Electron?
Exactly. Brutalist buildings are in their large majority giant pieces of shit.

Please no more of that.
The brutalist MacMillan Blodel building in Vancouver served as a (CGI-enhanced) Nazi party HQ in Amazon's adaptation of The Man in the High Castle.

https://www.google.com/search?q=macmillan+bloedel+building&n...

Most of SFU (Simon Fraser University) is brutalist.

https://www.google.com/search?q=SFU+brutalist&num=100&client...
My presumption is that circuits designed to limit charge rates and voltage to the battery are built into the "battery pack" thus replacing this would be all that is required.
I know someone building a tool with https://api.ai/ integrating with Facebook chat and other APIs. It's been working well from what I hear. I just noticed it's now owned by Google.

Edit: he also just suggested https://wit.ai/ which is now owned by Facebook.
Does he need OS X in order to test that his code works on OS X? Yes.

Edit: macOS!
You could spin the station at half that speed and still have half a g and mitigate those other issues.
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I don't think resinOS affects that either way, but I will check and come back to you in a few hrs as the team in Europe wakes up.
Yeah, I tend to agree, I just didn't want to be a total jerkoff on the thread.

250ms we can live with for many things, but not 5x.

But yes - it should be under 50ms at all times I think for people to start taking it seriously.
Another option is that someone says they will post it, or asks to post it, and invites their friends to up vote. So the author may be standing by.
Q's re:

#2 - If Congress were convinced of that, would that help lower medical costs for patients or possibly increase it? That's assuming without some sort of tax increase to pay for it.

#3 - I guess this why I've heard that dermatology is one of the most competitive fields to get into - good hours, not as much stress, and good pay.
To make matters worse, each package gets its own node_modules directory. Do a grep for 'async' in your node_modules. Mine contains ~20 instances of it. Some of those, probably, are the exact same version.

Going further down shit creek, each project I work on has its own node_modules. Which duplicates all of this crap, ad nauseam.

Do I really need React and Babel and jQuery and Webpack installed for every goddamn repo? You're not a package manager if you're not managing packages!! You're a glorified wget.