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I faced this "existential" crisis of a pretty severe nature in my college years. I kept reading stuff about psychology, philosophy, and physics in the hopes of an answer. The first breakthrough against this existential demon came in the form of a course "non-linear dynamics and chaos", the ability of chaotic equations to exhibit life and nature like behaviour, and understanding that life is chaotic, and so is nature. The second one came when I realized that philosophy and reason itself are handicapped, insufficient, powerless against this existential dilemma. The third one came while reading Carl Jung and his work, the fact that consciousness is a very small produce of the biological system that is human body. Fourth when I read Nietzsche's "On Truth and Untruth", which again showed how our speech has taken the form of animal's claws, we fight, threaten etc mostly by what we say, that's like a higher level of abstraction over the physical equivalent. Then there was Tolstoy, who pointed out that its logical that we humans, if we really want to stay true to ourselves, need a god, or something higher than ourselves to believe in, because logically, if you are going to die, there is no reason to live, yet every human and animal does. Then there was "Black Swan" by Taleb, which drilled the idea into my head that we humans don't know even a tenth as much as we think we do. And then there was programming, actually building systems that exist outside of you and do something.

Over the years, I developed the worldview that as human body is formed by numerous of organisms working together, and how futile would it be for a "red blood cell", in all its consciousness, to ask "what is my purpose ?", the same way its futile for human to ask about his/her place in the universe. I started trying to live more like animals do (or rather, how a human animal would live if it only had nature imposing rules on it), copying nature for decision-making, and general wisdom (it even helps me with my work). We humans are basically nature forming a greater system , the human society, which then again competes with many other greater systems formed by other organisms, and till now, has been doing pretty well.

I also have given up trying to control my conscious thought and efforts too much. I trust the biological system that this consciousness came out of to provide me with a better judgement than I can come up with consciously.

Its been around 2.5 years since i cleared up the existential crisis in my head, and my growth since then has even astounded me. I have become better, much better in all spheres of life, and I can't remember a time I was more happier than these 2.5 years
This reminds of this: http://www.squidi.net/three/ which attempts to define a large number of computer game gameplay mechanics.

Maybe we need more forwarding-reaching fiction in our world. More essays on computing futurology, grand envisioning of what we can achieve with software. Even ambitious prototypes of a new way to do something (like Lighttable)

A lot of what I see are tooling details, lot of boring effort duplication on mostly-identical languages and lot of nitpicking/bikeshedding comments like: well, you may have a good idea for solving world cancer, but your article does not work in my weird mobile browser, so your credibility is shot.

Where's our version of "The Mother of all Demos" ?
How is a lawyer not trust worthy? I have never seen a case where a lawyer screws over a client. Never understood this business of saying lawyers cannot be trusted.

If one means that a lawyer acting against one on behalf of another party cannot be trusted, well, of course. Such a lawyer is not acting for one. In that instance, one would instruct one's own lawyer, and that lawyer would be 100% trust-able.
Well he can go to the witness stand but stay silent, i.e No Comment. He can be asked questions, but surely he can't be compelled to answer them.
Client-attorney privilege primarily protects the communication with the client, not the identity of the client - which is rather counter-productive for a journalist.
Just tried it, cool.
Using ultrasonic seems more promising, because no moving parts are used and one "tactile pixel" is smaller than that air cannon thing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd9DgsI95hc
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Its a marketing/pricing game. Manufacture all of them with 128G of storage. Every single one of them. Then the consumer gets to pay a varying amount to be permitted to use what they paid for.

This is a VERY old idea in the computing world.
Then he's getting locked up for contempt of court because he's refusing to comply with a lawful order from the judge.
> happening behind closed, classified doors

My friend who works in the intelligence community assures me that if we only knew the kinds of bad guys they are secretly protecting us from (e.g. another Boston Marathon bombing every week) we'd be thankful. I don't believe him.

The gov't loves to trot out every single foiled terrorist as a victory of their systems. The gov't isn't quietly foiling terrorist attacks left while it's just too humble to say so.

Or maybe there's some reason to keep a foiled attack a secret?
"Generally", I said.

Authors have never been persecuted on mass for simply being authors. No one refuses jobs, housing, etc because one is an author. Gay people have. Hardly any one keeps being an author secret.

Of course individual authors have been persecuted for specific reasons.
He is not being persecuted for being an author. He is being persecuted for what he specifically wrote.
I had a similar reaction when I came across it 4 months ago. I spent an hour or two refactoring it, including turning it into a valid Ruby gem.

PR here: https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/Rx.rb/pull/1

The pull request sat in limbo until just over a week ago when Matt asked me to sign the Microsoft open source contributor agreement, which I haven't got around to yet.

Unfortunately I don't hold much hope for the library in its current state.
In a similar vein, here in the UK, surgeons return to being called mister once they're fully qualified.
Many people say "You are so lucky" when what they really mean is "You are so blessed". The ways in which you are blessed are:

- Doing something that you love.

- Not being dependent upon "the man.

- Having the flexibility that comes with a virtual product.

But as the article states, luck has nothing to do with it and, to some degree, you have to choose whether you want these blessings or not (there are downsides too).
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I don't know if he's a sociopath or a pathological liar. But he seems to be doing the exact opposite of what he's saying in public. He seems pretty shameless about it, too. I mean he likes to talk a big talk about civil liberties, like he's some kind of Martin Luther King on TV - and then the next day he's acting like Nixon or McCarthy or worse.

And even if he appears to be doing something right, what he's doing actually has an evil intent, like I hear those new DoJ policies that are meant to "protect" the press, actually have a pretty narrow definition of the press, so that not everyone falls under that category and only certain journalists. So he's basically limiting the 1st amendment through these policies, at the executive level.
Freedom of the press protects the right of the press to publish things.

It does not[1] protect any agreements made to secure that publishing. If you guarantee your source anonymity or a million dollars and you later can't deliver because someone emptied the bank account or eavesdropped or a court compelled you to testify, that has nothing to do with your right to publish. It may affect your ability to publish but so do locked doors and I don't see anyone saying freedom of the press should trump trespassing rules.

If bystander Amy is witness to Bob's crime and subpoenaed and under oath she can either tell the court the truth of what happened, perjure herself or not answer and be held in contempt. Freedom of the press, attorney-client and doctor-patient privileges should provide zero protection here.

[1] Generally in the US. Many states have shield laws and protected in various other countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_of_sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shield_laws_in_the_United_State...
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Zsh certainly does something like this.

Here's what my autocompletion looks like: http://leukensis.org/files/zsh-autocomplete.png

The program has to provide its autocomplete files, but it's very powerful. My 'kill' autocompletes with a ps-like output, for example.
Great idea. Generators are one of the features that still seperate coffeescript from python, in terms of productivity/elegance.

Still missing is a syntax to consume these generators, like in "for a in b" or "yield from"
A stand-alone Java application is enterprise-ready if you can convince the enterprise it will support their needs. And as you point out, security and error handling as well as a lack of critical bugs will help.

Note that this is vastly different than "Enterprise Java", where the goal is to create systems that are modular, that interact with each other in defined ways (JMS and SOA). The goal is essentially to allow each module in your system to be a "black-box design". In the BDUF world, this means your ICDs (Interface Control Documents aka APIs) stay the same when you swap out a module's implementation.
It is indeed a misnomer. Services like AirBNB allow for spare personal consumption to be monetized as business would, yet users of it don't want to pay the costs of operating as a business or follow the same rules. EDIT: "The monetizing economy" would probably be a better term, but that doesn't sound as noble.
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I agree that the system makes us think we're a special little snowflake and I've had the whole "I'm not that special" crushing experience, but I do truly believe that gifted children need a different environment to thrive. I wouldn't have lasted long among my peers, socially and academically.
In my limited dealings with lawyers I have seen several instances where the lawyer appeared to be recommending a course of action that seemed geared towards extending their billings rather than serving their client's interests with a speedy resolution. This seems to be a common practice with a small but significant minority of lawyers.
If you're only using a console because you broke your WM config (or something similar) then I imagine it's quite intimidating.

"help" is the most likely first place looked for assistance in such circumstances I'd imagine.
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Hi guys, this is a simple hack I put together last week. Basically I want to create a game in which everyone can learn about music created by anyone while having fun. I'm a beginner in web development, so any feedback is welcomed and appreciated! I hope you all enjoy a little game during your amazing weekend!
I came up with the idea and people are just cloning
Definitely agree with need for iteration syntax and yieldfrom keyword. The iteration syntax will probably have be something different than "for a in b" because that's already used for array-like iteration and adding another case would slow existing code down (all of which wouldn't be using it of course). For yieldfrom the code it needs to generate is something like this:

var generator = g1(), result = {}, send;
while(!result.done) {
result = generator.send(send);
send = yield result.value;
}
What is unprecedented and disturbing is the classification of releasing information to the (American) public, whether that be through the New York Times or Pastebin, as aiding the enemy.

Unauthorized leaks have never been legal but in the past even the government has understood that these people are a far cry from being enemy agents.
This kind of thing proves how much of a genius Osama Bin Laden was when he planned the 9/11 attacks. He knew we would throw away our values and move toward totalitarianism.

With the massive surveillance apparatus in place, US journalists scared to cover many of these stories that RT covers, etc., the US is one attack away from instituting a much more overt police state.

Peter King is one attack away from the White House.

In the midst of all this it's amazing how little dissent there is. I used to think it was mysterious how things like Nazi Germany could have happened, but now I think it's clear that it just takes a series of small steps in the wrong direction, and none of the actors have to be overtly evil.
Suit != style.
> Somewhat surprisingly, hacking isn’t at all about technology. It’s about community.

It's like a Sociology grad student (in this case, somewhat surprisingly, a Law student) read the following from "How To Become A Hacker" and f'd it up in the process: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

"There is a community, a shared culture, of expert programmers and networking wizards that traces its history back through decades to the first time-sharing minicomputers and the earliest ARPAnet experiments. The members of this culture originated the term ‘hacker’. Hackers built the Internet. Hackers made the Unix operating system what it is today. Hackers run Usenet. Hackers make the World Wide Web work. If you are part of this culture, if you have contributed to it and other people in it know who you are and call you a hacker, you're a hacker."

Aha. It's in the credits:

> See Eric S. Raymond↩
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Marco Arment seems to think that this fall will be as close as we can get back to 08/09 for a while: http://www.marco.org/2013/06/11/fertile-ground
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Just swap out Canada for Australia and you get a similar story.

While there are a few smaller tech companies here and there, the only larger home-grown one I can name at the moment is Atlassian (owners of BitBucket, Hip Chat etc). And they have international offices now I believe.

I remember reading a few years back, local startups were either moving to, or establishing a presence in the US to try to secure VC funding.
This reminds me a bit of the short film "Kid's Story" from The Animatrix. It revolves around a teenager who is waking up to the possibility of the matrix who finds himself alone in a world full of people unaware of its existence. He seeks the help of those who are woken up, specifically, Neo. In a way he is like these children, aware of the fleeting nature of life, waking up to these issues.

I recently had a psilocybin mushroom trip that resulted in a bit of temporary derealization during which I needed one of my friends to hold me just so that I knew I was real. It was one of the most intense experiences of my life, but through it I learned that our existence in this world is entirely a perception of the mind, and that we create our reality through each and every action we take and each thought that we make. Particularly one of my most profound insights was that the concept of time is irrelevant, for there is only the now, and when one is able to perceive the now, then one can be free from the grasps of what if and can one see what is.

I find it difficult to convey these feelings with other people, as I often find them saying things like "yeah, that's interesting", but I can see that they do not truly understand. There are some that do however and for those who do I am grateful. For the children and those of you who find yourself in this "existential depression", I can only offer this...

Create. Create art, create music, create life. If you can leave something behind for the rest of the universe, then your life was not for nothing, for you created something, were a part of something. This at the very least is all that we can do, and that is okay, for even if all you can do is make someone smile, you have created a ripple in the world that will manifest itself as a wave in the lives of those who carry on.
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When I was obviously ill and in pain in class the other day (I have some ongoing health issues), I had one of my classmates tell me that Obamacare was going to "destroy the entire country" (exact words) because people like me having health insurance would make doctors become underpaid. I mentioned that my health insurance paid $40,000+ to a certain hospital lately, and he complained that it all went to the hospital, not the doctors.

Then he went on some rant about how all the Canadians have to come down here for health care, and that was why you never hear of Canadians having surgery up there. I mentioned I had a Canadian friend who had a 3 part bowel surgery done recently, with very reasonable waiting times, and that of my several dozen Canadian friends, all but one was satisfied with their system, and he was just like, well, that's anecdotal, the statistics don't bear that out. That's not true at all, but he wouldn't hear of it.

Even before my health problems started, I was pro-single payer. But people like my classmate are everywhere, and seem to think that health care SHOULD be expensive and hard to get. It's inordinately cruel.

I've lived here all my life, but I'm actually moving out of state next month partially because my state's refusing to accept federal funds to cover my demographic next year, and I can't live without the medication I'm on. (Plus going to college out of state is cheaper than going to college in state (!). And they wonder why they have such a brain drain problem...)
The First Amendment:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

The implied distinction between freedom "of" the press and freedom "for" the press is sophistry. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_the_press_in_the_Uni... for several important examples demonstrating this.
A book I recently read and really enjoyed was The Sentinels.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Sentinels-James-J-Layton/dp/147870...
> I still understand "hacker" to mean someone who re-tasks something from one use to another. I dont see it as computer specific.

So, if I beat someone with a phone, I'm a hacker?

> when Apollo whatever number went wrong

13? Or was Zeus with the Apollo you speak and there were wacky antics with a man in a thick mustache? I think that was "whatever P.I.", but I'm not sure.

> I don't see a coder who starts with a blank page and libraries or APIs as a hacker as such.

This I totally agree with you on. Every developer that creates something new is not a hacker. Not long after PG started the site, it became a watering hole for the top minds in development and technology. Then people like me joined (years ago, under different name then), and now it is a more civil form of slashdot mixed with MBA's, lawyers (it seems), and wannabe's. I count myself in the wannabe's group not because I "want to be", but because despite many years in the business, I know I don't pass muster as a "hacker". It's not PG's fault that HN is filled with non-hackers. That is the normal way things devolve with any kind of popular open club. To paraphrase Groucho Marx (because there is apparently no official version of the quote): I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members.
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FWIW I find your light design inspired by rubular to be visually superior. The community feature is great however I assumed from the name that it would just be a forum, perhaps a different label would help show its utility - maybe "favourite regex"?
It depends on what they're signaling with such dress, and to what audience. (Because people socially communicate with dress. After all, few males wear female-coded clothing, like skirts.)

If they merely want to look more romantically attractive in the suit, then it's meaningless in evaluating them as programmers.

If they're signaling conformity to management, then that may impact my goals, pro or con. If they're contracting at a conservative bank, that's a smart thing. In other situations, they may conflict with my goals.

So, these little details may provide topics for further, brief investigation. In much the same way that, when you first walk into an office, you see indications of the power structure. (For instance, is one seat uniquely positioned to easily see what's going on in all the other screens?)
I'd rather have my doctor wear a tshirt than wear a tie: ties are known to spread infection. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=99526&page=1

I suspect the same could be true with long sleeves.
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If you want to go directly to the article to which venturebeat.com links:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/07/app-discovery-firefox-os-f...
Here's where the guy loses me: the sample movie on the phone is Lone Ranger.
they will be at Menlo Park Techshop on the weekends, not at Dear Mom

SF isn't only bars; they could also be at Noisebridge.
>Second, I feel in some sense, the tide is turning the other way on the regulation front

Not to start a flame war, but I think this discussion is pretty prevalent with things like Uber and other 'disruptive' services:
should we spend time thinking about why regulations are in place? I'm pretty sure a lot of the rules in leases about not doing airbnb is because most people don't want their neighbors running a hotel and it can cause prices to go up for people looking to live in an area (because of people potentially running a whole "network" of these).

It's good to hear you're getting terrific guests, but I think it's important to acknowledge that some of the rules are there for a reason too( not saying you don't think so).
We have feature detection for this.

And the site doesn't work for me in Chrome Canary (that supports everything that stable Chrome does and more).

Author of that site is just a troll/fanboy or incompetent at using latest web standards.
The community page gives you examples with the automated explainer they maybe meet your 2. to some extent [or will when the feature has been used more].
I was thinking in terms of testifying against a client ("They leaked me Document X"), as opposed to revealing their identity.
> How is a lawyer not trust worthy? I have never seen a case where a lawyer screws over a client.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jul/18/jk-rowling-anger...

Not exactly a common occurrance admittedly, but amusing you say that given the drama over this the past week.
Those lawyers would be wrong. I can see how they would want that but there is no law to back it. Also, the US isn't governed by international law so they would not be bound by it unless there was a treaty and that treaty didn't contradict anything codified in our Constitution.
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