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My problem with shunting Kafka into post-modernism is it becomes too much a grab bag. Just like they try to vacuum up Cervantes and Sterne, aswell. Kakfa died 40 years before post-modernism; (and Cervantes 343 and Sterne 191).

But it brings to my mind a broader point: McHale's notion:

intractable epistemological uncertainty becomes at a certain
point ontological plurality or instability: push epistemological
questions far enough and they "tip over" into ontological questions.

(I personally prefer the epistemological/ontological definition of modernism/post-modernism, especially here where we have Kakfa who could best be define (if anything) as a modernist writer being shoved into post-modern space.)

So is the shunting of a collective and ancient epistemological and ontological uncertainty an attempt to neutralize its implications? A question I think partly arises from something about your use of 'uncertainty' and 'unformed' here, which keeps occurring to me in terms of the excess of its vital substance and becoming: too much certainty/too much form tipping over into no certainty at all/formlessness. Just as defining the question (and no matter what anyone else argues Hitchhiker's Guide is my favorite example of this in fiction) for the answer of '42' as 'How many roads must a man walk down?' provides a solution, is it any more than a placebo affect? that at its core highlights the instability of our epistemological and ontological positions more intensely than a blank answer would have (and thereby beats us all over the head with a teleological hammer).
I suspect if you buy G4 and better Motorola phones with good random write perf and reserve 10-20% of space, they should last a long time.

This could be verified via benchmarks.

Point of my blog is that if people focus on the right benchmarks they can select phones that will last longer before the lag.
The paper I linked to wasn't done by NBER. They just host a database of research done by basically all academic economists. Your ad hominem attack isn't even aimed at the right people.
So does coinbase.
Interesting, this domain now redirects to:

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Why bother? My ISP gives me a decent router with built-in wifi. The wifi is N, but I wanted AC, so I bought a Netgear and put it in access point mode. Took all of 30 seconds.

If you don't trust your ISP provided firewall/router then you probably have bigger problems. Both big ISPs in my area offer to turn the router into a bridge-mode device I can plug into a box running pfsense if I desire it, but frankly, that sounds like a PITA. Their routers work well enough. I think going forward we will just buy access point, not routers. The router problem has been solved for a long time.

>Abandon all consumer grade gear. Just get Ubiquity stuff.

I'd argue Ubiquity is really consumer stuff, just small business friendly. Their performance, price, stability, etc isn't that much better than a Netgear in access point mode. They just have a java-based controller which is handy for managing multiple AP's. Inside, they're kinda crappy.

>Google just released their routers (like last week), which support automatic mesh networking when you use multiple.

Google wifi is actually a latecomer. You can get residential friendlier Ubiquity-style solutions via Orbi or Eero, which is what Google is copying here. I believe Google's 3-pack beats both on price currently.

edit: modems and routers are completely different cases/devices and performance/stability are different than money saving. Regardless, my ISP doesn't charge me for my modem, so there's no incentive for me to buy my own.
I agree; all those things were added to the bread to make it better --- it keeps longer, is cheaper to make, maintains its nutritional value, etc.

It's just that a lot of us these days have different values than the people who designed the bread (and a lot of the people who continue to buy the bread), which means that what we think makes good bread is not the same thing as what they think makes good bread.
I've been working on a Jekyll-like system for fun over the past couple of weeks. I've tried to make it as painless to install as possible, but it does require Python 3.

https://github.com/fredley/mirage

Was planning on doing a Show HN if/when I'd made it a bit more robust. It makes sites that look like this: http://mirage.mamota.net
No. I'm saying there are forms of ads I will and will not willingly consume. I'm saying that what troyhunt is serving constitutes the latter.

I'm suggesting that he could do something very similar (sponsored content that is clearly labelled and relevant to my interests) and fix his problem. These are the kinds of ads I willingly consume. I like opinion-pieces.

A corollary to this argument is that serving this kind of curated ad content is hard. Therefore: you cannot make "easy money" in web advertisement by just slapping someone's name somewhere. I suspect the mechanism behind this is that I want to know exactly what a sponsor is influencing. If a sponsor is influencing the whole site, it's a turn-off. If it's on an article-by-article basis, I'm comfortable. In economics we call this a demand.
Well, unless they scale it - like for example going to Coinbase and asking for all accounts created between 2013 and 2015 :)
Thanks for sharing.

The compiled binary is just 39KB. Love it.
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Good advice on taking a class.

What if people haven't thought of the benefits that this article is suggesting?
I mean, sometimes it's fun to cook, but sometimes it isn't. We're not a big foodie family so it's just not a priority. I'm sure there's plenty of activities that we do that others see little to no joy or value in. It's a mistake to assume one's own preferences are superior to others'.
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Fair point and rereading the OP post it was stated they do prepare most meals. I read it as they used to prepare most meals. If that is case they do prepare most meals what was the OP's point? No one said one had to prepare all their meals.

The title of the story should be changed... Liquid meals were mentioned but not Soylent specifically.
The key to not wasting food is to determine today's meal based on what's in your fridge, rather than a new recipe.

Also, I'm aware that my plans change frequently, so I avoid buying much meat and fish -- enough for two meals, at most.
I tried that, but it's hard, I'm not a very social person and the meetups I attended here were not very interesting...
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This doesn't count as a civil and substantive comment on HN, which we've asked you for multiple times. Please stop or we have to ban the account.
Don't think so. I assume it is straight editorial decision to cope with the fact that although the organisation calls itself 'Islamic State' it isn't recognised as a state.

If I were to call myself "The world's best lover" they would probably do the same.
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Dunno what happened.

http://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-freed-child-rapist-lau...
Many of us don't use plotting at all. Even in Matlab it's only once in a blue moon I need to plot something.
Wait what? How on Earth can milk and fruit juice cover all your nutritional needs, micronutrients and all?
I'm entirely sure the Culture would name a whole line of ships after the Chuck Tingle books.
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I too came from a cyberpunk reading habit and a friend recommended the Culture series as a change.

I didn't like the first book I read which I believe is the first in the series. I guess I just am a Tech Noir / Hardboiled kind of guy (I like hard scifi as well).

My problem with "world/universe/space operas" books is I don't want to read them in a linear manner. I prefer to read it in a wikipedia like format where I can explore the author's created world instead of going through a story (there are exceptions of course). For example in a story when they passingly mention some alien civilization I immediately want to know everything about that civilization and am annoyed I have to wait 4 novels later to find out.

In fact I have often read one book from a series and just go ahead and read up on wikipedia the plots of the rest of the novels. I often wonder if I'm the only one who thinks like this.

It would be interesting if a world building type author had a wiki style pay to read collection of writings. I know some authors or fan-authors will write encyclopedias (e.g. Tolkien).

The exception of course is extremely suspenseful stories. Those I can enjoy in a non encyclopedia manner.
My Apple TV, Chromecast and Xbox all use wifi flawlessly (with an Airport Extreme). I think your logic is outdated.
Does any one know what data source(s) MyFitnessPal barcode scanner uses?

UK is fairly comprehensive i know. Id assume the US is too.
Whatever price I pay in performance by running my Apple TV wireless is totally worth not having an ethernet cable running across my living room floor.
Are redis scripts still recommended now that redis modules are a thing? One of the pain points of scripting is the lack of test coverage.
If they wanted to actually compete, they would lower prices. Thats what attracts buyers.

That is a dangerously oversimplified view of how markets work. Buyers are attracted by a broad range of factors, only one of which is price.
It used to be just one small neat white box, and now it becomes two less neat boxes: a router with pointy antennas and a NAS. More things to plug, more wires to run, more devices to setup.
Surely that depends on the age of the child, what you're cooking, and the size/accessibility of your kitchen?

Personally, I live with a kitchen that can't reasonably fit more than one person, and all the counters are inaccessible to children.
We discussed a similar problem with regard to the availability of swaggers and providers willing to do so
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11583377
I saw an ad for a kickstarter the other day. It was some durable, spill-resistant, stain-proof, neutral colored shirt that you were meant to wear most/all days of the week, instead of needing to choose your clothes or manage a big wardrobe.

It used lines like "Don't you hate wasting 10-20 minutes every morning choosing your outfit?", "Don't you hate shopping and trying on clothes that probably won't fit?". And no, I can't say I've ever felt like that. I enjoy the time spent dressing myself. I like shopping for clothes and thrifting. That shirt basically wants to take away everything I like about clothes.

I guess this is how other people feel about me "eating" mostly Soylent. They love food and don't understand how someone else would want to not spend their time choosing or preparing food, or how someone could eat the same thing every meal. Someone who would be interested in this shirt doesn't really care about changing up their looks everyday or their clothes looking unique. Just that they look decent and clean, and don't waste too much time or money doing so. And I don't necessarily care about my food being varied or flavorful, as long as it isn't unhealthy and is simple to prepare.
> Others don't, and that's okay.

Something we too often struggle to accept.
Fantastic!

I was looking into this just yesterday to see how far away it was, so the timing is really fortunate for me.

Between this and the VS Code builds we should now have pretty solid support for developing .NET on Pi and/or Chromebook, so I'm really excited to get rolling with it, especially seeing as I have some free time this week. I'll try to write up my experiences too in case it helps anyone else.
sorry, just checking - young black men are statisically less likely to rape than equivalent white (young men)

That is surprising. And given this discussion about only wanting stats that have a valid explanation as well as fitting the facts, is interesting.
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You're absolutely right! A broader perspective, deeper experience, and the ability to effectively analyze and engage with human culture is immensely valuable. So, how valuable do you think all of those are when measured in terms of dollars and human lifetimes?

I'd go so far as to suggest that learning the tools and language to construct a building, treat cancer, or program a computer all may offer significantly upside for human culture and civilization. This is in potential constract when items in that list are neglected in favor of Roman poetry, post-modern art, or dissecting the rhyming schemes of long-dead authors.

The humanities have their place, but the list of things that broaden our perspectives and deepen our experiences is literally the list of all subjects that can be studied. The humanities have no monopoly on perspective, experience, or reasoning.
Ask HN: Fellow Employees quitting in droves. What are my options?
I work at a medium sized startup, as a junior dev. I joined about 5 months ago and at that time I didn't have any other options, the company was close to my home and I didn't have my driving license. Also, we don't a lot of startups here in Australia, and the company didn't look in any sorts of trouble when I applied and got accepted. So I joined in, and at start everything looked really fine. It had like 240 employees(most of them in sales/marketing), but still a lot of tech people. They gave me good work and I was happy to be able to deliver stuff on time.
Things started to take a wrong turn since September, when our main product started failing and our Founder(who btw doesn't care about this company and is in process of building another one) started putting all the money into marketing and sales. In mid-september, Our Founder called a meeting and fired 1-2 lead guys and that started a shit storm, which is totally destroying the company.

Firing those lead 1-2 guys led every tech person to believe that they are next in the line, and so they started exploring options, quickly changing jobs. In the same time, they gave raise to design and sales team for no obvious reason. We had a sizeable(100+) tech team, but now were are left with only a few senior devs, and about a dozen juniors. We juniors have no Idea how to proceed with this. There are usually long meetings happening in secret and even our tech lead is in panic. . Every week 4-5 people are leaving the company, and no one is really talking about "this" stuff.

I actually like working at my company as they are pretty nice to me, and quite understanding. I also like walking to work and not driving, and this is probably the only company near my home.

Have you ever been in such situations, with company failing and employees quitting in droves? What should I do, try to look for other jobs right now or wait for more clues? Most fellow employees are pretty sad and don't know what to do.
These are not questions that should stop you from doing something.

> do I buy "organic"?

I don't know. Try it and see if you find it's worth it. It's not like if you buy organic one time you're locked into doing that forever.

> how cheap should I go?

How is somebody else supposed to answer this question for you? Go as cheap as you feel comfortable. If you find the quality is too poor, buy something more expensive next time.

> how do I compare 20 different ones from the web?

You try them and see how they work out.

And so on.

Seriously, you don't need a detailed 50-point plan for every little aspect of doing something. Experiment, Evaluate, Adjust. It's not that hard and the stakes are pretty low. Worst case scenario: you end up making a meal you don't want to eat and you learn something.
How about teaching people how to fact check for themselves? Seek primary sources, running through the scientific method, and absorbing info without any confirmation bias. Teach people how to think for themselves. This seems like the opposite of that.
> 1995 - circa 2014

Microsoft launched CodePlex for open source development in 2006, and it had released some bits of code before that.

Microsoft also started releasing .NET source code in January 2008 under its MS-RSL license [1], so there's been a long transition, not a sudden recent change.

[1] https://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/releasing-the-source-code-fo...
To those asking about replacements... I built a home router with about $150-250 of parts, an old, small in space HD, and an old comouter case I had laying around. I have wireless access points on 2/3 floors (old Cisco router for the basement, an N ASUS router for the rest of the house). I used PF Sense on the box. I have wired internet on as much as I can and wish I could use it for more. I don't understand the desire for everything to be wireless. My TVs, desktops, gaming consoles, etc. do not move.

I have never been happier with my internet setup. The only time I have had issues was when FIOS was out. The only restarts I have had to do was when my power went out. It has been close to two years now and this is the least amount of maintenance I have ever had to do.
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You're probably paying a monthly rental fee for the router/modem from your ISP. There's a good chance you'll save money in ~12 months or so if you buy instead of rent.
Forgot to point out: I'm piscetarian as well. Which seems like a ridiculous self-imposed challenge ;)

That makes getting ready-made food harder, too: my supermarket only does a couple of vegetarian/seafood ready-meals per category (two curries, three italian meals, no Chinese meals at all!) so I find myself eating a very monotonous diet anyway.

Nevertheless, I don't use Joylent full-time: I just have a box in my cupboard for when I need an emergency meal or just can't face another plastic tub of macaroni cheese.
At least in CS, more expensive hardware/software is often either donated, or part of a research grant.
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But only slightly less ugly was my point.
What about websites without Chinese characters? I know in Asia, having red colored names is kind of offensive (evokes of the Reaper's 'hit list').

Would be annoying if [name].me or whatever is red!
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It's not just the parentheses. It's the whole code-as-data and interactive development thing. Code is different. Programming is different.

Lisp uses different working styles and tools. You have to learn the whole set. It's possible to learn that and to learn it well, but it might take some time.

Lisp code can be very readable, but it's also to write very complex code - more complex that in most languages, since Lisp provides many mechanisms under developer control.
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Quite a few folks are living in places where they aren't allowed to start making holes in walls or between floors to run network cables.
That's another point. A lot of those nasty bad no-good "chemicals" added to food are improvements that ensure the food keeps longer, is tastier, has more nutritional value, etc. I really hate this assumption it's some big evil conspiracy out to poison people through food. It isn't. People used to be very happy about those additions in the past, when they could relate to more "natural" food and its problems.

> It's just that a lot of us these days have different values than the people who designed the bread (and a lot of the people who continue to buy the bread), which means that what we think makes good bread is not the same thing as what they think makes good bread.

That's a fine point, but then again a lot of us these days have the same values as those who designed the bread. Why are we being pushed so hard to reject them, with arguments mostly bordering on chemophobia?
> Not sure how I ended up with male surnames and female first names, but there you go.

A common but subtle sort of sexism in our society, I suspect. I noticed a lot of people talking about Hillary and Trump during the election. Whenever I saw that, I tried to counter with Donald and Clinton, but despite that, I fear I wrote about Hillary and Trump more often than about Donald and Clinton.
What strikes me as interesting in this example is that it seems to assume the classifier is run once and that its decisions have no effect on future decisions.

I would imagine that if we are separating people into groups based on demographic or social factors to make decisions, then those decisions may have an impact on that entire group. (In this example, maybe granting more loans to the blue group alters the group characteristics and leads to higher profit in the long term despite higher immediate risks).

Is there an area of ML research that considers this kind of concept?
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I agree! I have older airport express and airport basestations that have been running for years. I update the software every so often, but other than that never look at them. They truly just work.

I may look into the new google APs, so I can get the latest wireless speeds across the house.
If anyone is interested there was a huge body of work undertaken in the Soviet Union by a now mostly forgotten geneticist: Nikolai Vavilov. He has quite a story of persecution by the Soviet govt, and a great book on the topic may be found here:

https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=2mi7NAOxe-8C&...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Vavilov
That is probably the cutest startup name I've come across.
One of the big themes in the series is how people find meaning in their lives given that they basically want for nothing. When you can have any material possession created for you on demand, what do you do with yourself?

For example, in The Player of Games, Gurgeh devotes his life to games of strategy, and Yay to orbital architecture. Neither character needs to work for a living, so why bother working at all?
No reason for me to try to pick out specific characters. I won't notice. Plus, it won't work for zero width characters, and I might miss it for really tiny ones.

Give me a popup warning explaining the problem when I try to visit the site, same as I get for certificate problems.
My wardrobe consists of 1 pair of jeans, 5 t-shirts, 1 sweater, wear the jeans and sweater everyday, change the shirt.
The problem is most of the router companies have now locked down their update mechanisms on newer hardware, per FCC request... (the FCC wanted to prevent bumping the wattage, but easiest path was to lockdown updates).

Asus was really nice for a while, one of the more open mfg's, my AC3200 unfortunately came out after the lockdown, and is unsupported... would love to get back to tomato-usb or similar.
I work for a well known software company on a SaaS product. We've been using Docker in production for around 2 and a half years, and started integrating with docker in earnest close to 3 years ago. We were mostly drawn to the ease of creating resource isolated processes. We run in AWS on our own brain dead "orchestration" system but we are looking to use something purpose built soon.

To give a sense of scale we have over 1000 containers running at any given time and go through ~15k per day since our containers don't live for very long.

I'm not sure what press is mixed but the industry as a whole has certainly embraced containers. I'd be suspect of any press that determines containers are vaporware and not worth the time.
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