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This is one of David Graeber's important points about the way we look at politics, and economics/money. He argues that the 'common' narrative is wrong, namely (very simplified) that we're all (rational) actors trading back and forth, and that we invented money to simplify this, and democracy to allow majority vote to 'win'.

Instead, he argues that historically and in societies around the world, we didn't fundamentally 'trade' in this way, but rather we 'gave things' and 'got things in return' in the same way we exchange things with friends and family ('tribe?'). The basis was cooperation, not cold exchange. The same goes for democracy. Instead of majority rule, most(?) societies operated through consensus models, with majority vote as an undesirable last resort.

I don't know enough about the topic to agree or disagree strongly, but having lived in a more 'traditional' society for much of my life, it does seem that many of the problems in my current society (Holland) are a direct result of the 'transactional' model. The interconnectedness and gift-based economics I experienced in that society had many advantages, and the lack of this here is, in my opinion, a primary cause for loneliness, alienation, lack of cross-class interaction, and resulting increase in individualism and self-centeredness.

It's also interesting to me to see that my younger friends are much more interested in communal living and similar sharing initiatives, engage much more with the 'informal economy', and generally speaking dislike consumerism. In part they have no choice, but in part they seem quite happy with the results (despite difficulties finding jobs and getting a 'normal' career going).
This is quite bogus.

Competition is a very real, and very lucrative phenomenon.

A famous & classic counter-example of how being more competitive than your peers wins out is Toyota.

Toyota won out in the 80s and 90s because their cars were priced more competitively, and were of a higher quality. They didn't make fundamentally different products, they just did it better.

One company practically euthanised both the US and the UK's car manufacturing industry, by producing the same product better.

Similarly, Google did web search, just like Ask Jeeves, AltaVista, Yahoo! They became dominant by doing it better -- by offering better results, faster, and therefore out-competing their peers.

For yet another example, take Apple's return to fame. They did it by taking the portable music player, something ostensibly already done by Sony and Creative, and making it significantly better than their competitors. They also sold an image to go with it, but competing on terms of marketing could be considered a valid competition strategy.

Consider Tesla; although the story isn't played out yet, Tesla is looking strong. Not because they provide electric cars (though that helps), but because the cars they provide are more economical, comfortable, safe, and so on.

Ironically, one of Theil's own businesses is a counter-example to his own claim: PayPal. We could already get money from one person to another, or from ourselves to merchants. PayPal just did it better, and therefore out-competed the banks for consumer and SME money transfers.

Time and again, businesses win, not by being the first in the field; but by looking at an existing field critically, and considering how to improve it. They then enter the field and out-compete the incumbents, beating them at their own game.
Vim. Next question.
Notepad++

Next question
The synonyms for definitive are conclusive, final, ultimate. My advice is not an ultimate one, it is a intermediate strategy (a best one from my point of view) to achieve a definitive answer. So I'll stand by my wording :)
Can you do a Vim vs Emacs one too, please?
I'm working on this framework for my own use. I thought some people may find it useful as well, that's why I've created this online dox (that need to be updated - still in progress tho) and added some examples as well as a git repo.

FW is inspired by bootstrap and some other frameworks. :)

The idea behind it was to create a front-end fw first and then a drag drop theme builder which I'm gonna include into a opensource cms that I'm currently working on, which is inspired by squarespace.com
Actually, we do pretty well at competing with other animals - we have hands that are really good at using rifles and spears, not to mention throwing rocks. We used to have tough metal skins, but our rifles became so good that we stopped bothering with them.

Humans are the way we are because we figure out a way to cheat.
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I think we need a change in the way we look at open source software. It must not necessarily be free of charge. The real benefits of open source are often something other than being free of charge, like in this case. Maybe we need a new licence allowing charge for commercial use and giving benefits or discounts on the amount of contribution made to the project?
This paper (from ICASSP2013) may be of interest to you: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
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The future sure will be interesting.

Maybe Microsoft's API Windows Holographic will be the dominant API then and Google produces compatible contact lenses. Or maybe not.

I'm wondering when Apple will decide which technology has a chance to get copied and cleaned up for its own customers? (I have Apple products. But I'm aware that the ideas aren't coming from Apple.)
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Wow downvotes by the hipsters. Not surprising i guess..
Results come a lot quicker for beginners. If you are feeling intimidated about going to the gym at first, it would be worth getting a personal trainer who can show you the ropes and get you started on a program. It gets rid of the fear of being that beginner who has no idea what they are doing.
The biggest issue for me is startup speed. Atom simply takes too long for me. I'm often quickly having a look at large numerical csv files and Atom startup times plus csv load times are always large enough to immediately switch back to sublime. Still want to like Atom though.
Or 'kids sleeping in the house'.

In a nightmare world someone will target Java to BEAM.
I could, but how would that be better?
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> It’s mostly about the strong typing for me. Nothing revolutionary about that idea, but it’s just as true on the client as on the server: having the compiler type-check your code makes it much quicker to get complex, sophisticated systems up and running.

I used to believe that this was obviously true. Then I went from doing a lot of programming in JS where even with a large codebase, I could see the code fail in seconds to programming in Scala where type errors would not always appear in the editor, but you'd have to do a compile step that takes ages to actually see them.

Now I'm much less sure about the benefits of typing. What is actually useful is fast failure and short iteration cycles. Seeing the errors as you write is the fastest failure there is, but if I have to run a 30 second build to see a type error, that is much worse than dynamic types but seeing the error in less than a second.

Its true that carefully thought about types can catch errors you might not see immediately, but you can fix this to some extent with putting effort into making sure your code fails fast, and adding unit tests and while this doesn't give you proof-level guarantees, for most practical work, with discipline, it's good enough (even if emotionally unsatisfying).

Maybe one day I'll find a system that lets me encode constraints into the type system and have it actually tell me about violations quickly, and I'll happily leave dynamic land behind (for most things), but I've come to the conclusion that arguing about type systems misses the point, and the point is that failing fast is better than failing late. Within a single environment, failing at application startup is better than failing at an arbitrary point in the future. Failing at compile time is better than failing at startup. Failing at edit time is better than failing at compile time. But if your compile time is slower than my runtime, you're losing.
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Yep, but on the other hand it is probably better to give $20 every two years. Less transaction cost.
Funny how IT hipsters are the ones with new toys and non-IT hipsters are the ones with old toys.
No. Your previous comment is simply irelevant as a HN comment. Look at the other comments in a similar style to yours. All downvoted as well. Editor wars are so damn dull without any factual exchanges.
Mozilla is working on a type of array that can be shared.
It's equally plausible that, as you age, you have more contact with people who have contact with children, and therefore use childrens' words. It's not regression, it's effective communication
[This is not to support the idea that phi is related to physics constants. This is only a technical comment about unitless constants.]

It's usual to redefine the constants using other constants. The most well known case is the fine structure constant, aka alpha, aka almost 1/137. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-structure_constant#Definit...

The idea is that in many particle physics calculations you don't use the charge of the electron alone. Every time it appears, it's multiplied by other constants like c or h, so you redefine it as a new constant that is the usual product you have to put in the calculations.

The problem with constants with units is that they mix real physics with the arbitrary choose of the measurement units, like the time the Earth do a complete spin divided by 24 by 60 and by 60 and other complete arbitrary chooses.

It's difficult to say if "e" the charge of the electron is big or small. But in many calculations you can use alpha that is clearly a small number (~=1/137) and try to use perturbation theory to get a good approximation of the actual result. (You can imagine this as a lot of Taylor approximations.) (There are a lot of technical details hidden in these calculations that can make a mathematician cry but a physicist happy.)
Even Alan Turing, in "On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem", practically invents turing machines modelling how a mathematician works: He has a pencil, some paper and a number of different states inside his brain.
It depends on OS integration too. On Linux I’ll pick Atom, on OS X I’ll pick Sublime Text, on Windows I’ll probably use something else.
I feel the same way about Sublime. Notepad++ starts faster.
I have another advice:

Since many and me wrote that you should NOT go out and look for friends since it makes you needy and people smell the neediness it's is important to note that having a few good friends is the key to happiness. Just one or two is enough. People you can call anytime.

Now I said that you shouldn't actively look out for those but I am saying at the same time that they are the key for happiness. Without friends depression comes quick.

Let's dive into 'friendship', what are friends? Is there an abstract concept for it? Or what is more interesting here—how does friendship evolve? It's quite simple and we start with an anti example: imagine you met a guy some night you went out. He has some similarities like same interests und you guys both recognize that you need friends and decide to meet more often to do stuff together. You go a few times out and then you guys realize that you have nothing to talk anymore. So you decide to do some active stuff, you guys play tennis, it's fun but you guys are still not friends, after the match you head to your places without talking too much. You go out more often, chase girls together. Fun but you still no friends, rather competitors. So why did no friendship evolve here? You guys had the same interest, did many activities together and still feel awkward together and have nothing of significance to tell?

The answer in my experience is that the relationship I describes before is based on a voluntary setup that means that nobody forced you guys to be together. Every time you met you had to act to see each other, no external force brought you together.

A beneficial setup for evolving friendship is a forced community with a hostile participant or just somebody with more power. Friendship easily evolves there where people have a common enemy and the need to form alliances. School is the perfect example with the teacher as the enemy. The older the people get there are less forced communities. You office is also a forced community with managers as 'enemies' but since there is a lot of change and office politics involved friendships there are very prone to fall quickly apart.

The bigger/stronger/tyrannic the enemy is the stronger your friendship will be and once the enemy is away you friendship will slowly fade.
This reminds me of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground_mosquito
I've settled on using Atom for my longer-term work, where I can just leave it open and am not too bothered by sluggishness here or there.

Then I use Sublime Text for big files, quick edits, and the occasional stuff that Atom can't do yet.

But after avoiding Atom initially, trying it again about a week a go was a nice surprise. It has almost any plugin that I used Sublime Text for, and a bunch more. It's good enough for me, and I'm pretty picky.
Atom has an ambitious concept and is generally engineered well, but the performance is crippling it so far. I'm not sure whether it's possible in the current web-to-native implementation to actually reach native performance, especially for large files, but so far it's just not ready for the primetime.
Rifles? Which have existed for what 800 years tops? In an argument which concerns evolution which spans at least 210 000 years to 5 million years?

Id like to see you go onto a wild horse with a spear or stick.
>I worked 12 hour days during the summer from the time I was 12 until I was 17.

Wow, honestly just reading that just blew my mind. Do you think that made you a better person or helped you at all down the road? That is a ton of manual labor for anyone, especially a child.

I know that this used to be common practice back before the industrial revolution but I guess I never really thought about it, or heard of anyone who actually went through something like that.

Serious question, no disrespect meant.
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You are right, I had a lot of downvotes until I realized that I am not in reddit and that comments should be made to anrich the conversation, not to express a single word like 'notepad++' that means nothing.
A good website can be hacked together by a single person in an evening. A nuclear bomb is such a huge undertaking that only nations with big economies can afford it. I'm not seeing how a website is harder than a nuclear bomb.
I don't think you should rely on other's opinions when picking an editor. Just try each one (really try) for a week or two and decide after that.

Everyone uses editors differently (hence the big vim/emacs/etc flame war) and it is where you'll spend time coding. A lot of time. I don't think reading someone else's opinion really helps.

When I chose my editor everyone was crazy about TextMate. I tried it out and didn't like it. I was completely afraid of Vim (and all of the jokes about how hard it was) and after I tried it I couldn't stop using it. It's a very personal choice.

Just try them out!

Edit: typo
“was unlawful”, “is unlawful” and “will be unlawful”.

It will not stop just because of the court decision. The rule of law is for mere mortals, and not the alphabet soup of intelligence agencies, unfortunately.
I think the point of this piece is, very good business out-compete the incumbents and then go so far ahead that they become de-facto monopoly thanks to quality. As correctly pointed out in the article, Google did that to search. I'd also say they did that to webmail - as much as GMail has its UX problems, it's still miles ahead of everyone else wrt. UI and spam filtering. And Tesla, since you mentioned it, entered the market with one of the best cars available, electric or not, and it barely has any competitors in the electric market.

So it's not about being first, it's about being so good that you become a de-facto monopoly.
Whilst I applaud the ruling, I doubt it will make much of difference. The British government simply uses extensions to the "temporary" Terrorism Act 2000 and its modifications in 2001, 2005, 2006 and 2008 and/or RIPA.

I'm getting a bit tired of politicians standing up in the House of Common's, stating we need a "temporary" act to reduce liberty and privacy under the guise of terrorism, only to extend the rulings indefinitely. It's bullshit.

Also, with regards to RIPA, the section related to "Use of communication data" requires only "senior member of that authority", whilst wire taps and reading post requires authorisation from "Warrant from Home Secretary or Cabinet Secretary for Justice". The first one should also move under this authority and blanket surveillance should be banned.

Conspiracy theorist me says we should expect another "act of terrorism" on the UK mainland. This government needs to bolster its control, as they did in Australia, France and Canada. After every attack, the direct effect is that politicians start looking for ways to spin that into invasions of privacy and liberty. Every god damn time.

P.S. Interestingly, Germany is one of the few large European nations with troops in "Muslim lands", that has to date not had a major terrorist incident. They have a large Muslim population, which although largely very moderate and westernised, do have a minority of people who are preaching extremism. Also, many of the terrorist cells (including 9/11) have originated, or passed through Germany.
You are not that much better off in Germany or generally North Europe, because pensions are earned through payments during career (three pillars: tax-like mandatory contribution, voluntary contribution, and thirdly a private insurance), and if you are not able to accumulate that kind of savings (which in some cases are more like "years worked for system" than actual money saved) then your old-age pension is going to be not entirely unlike the old-age social security in the U.S.
My 9 year old daughter has recently started getting into it as well.
OMG, another editor war! :]
You have to understand that Atom is repurposed webkit, with all the flaws and benefits that come with a browser engine.

I liked it, the dealbreaker (to say the least) for me was broken support for non-US keyboard layouts, it can't differentiate alt from alt-gr making it impossible for me to type most brackets and pipe.

This has been an open issue for months, with a couple of community contributed "solutions" that don't quite cut it.
Considering they are pretty much ignoring the problem I won't be checking out Atom again soon.
What facts do you want about a subjective topic like editors. I prefer notepad. I use everything.

I dont feel more hip in vim.
Trivially, every species is in competition with every other for finite resources to use to perpetuate their gene line.

> Look at you, your legs, your nose, your fleshy hands, exposed ears ands eyes, soft belly. All soft targets, easily killed, unlike a snake, rhineceros or any animal with at least claws or fangs.

Right. Which is why we have complex language and hands capable of fine motor skills and an innate ability to band together in groups to fight off everything else.

Humans doubled down on the "big complex brain" strategy, then doubled again, then kept doubling until we were making marks to keep track of who owned how many cattle. It was a very short step, evolutionarily speaking, from that to the smallpox vaccine, Neil Armstrong, and the Eroica symphony. It was hardly a step at all, in fact.

Our brains were so successful that we didn't die of not having claws, fangs, or the ability to reliably have multiple offspring at once. In fact, human heads are pushing up on the size limits of what women can safely push out of the birth canal without endangering either mother or child.

In our way, our competitive strategy is just as specialized as a poison dart frog's: Whereas the frog is too toxic to eat, we're too smart to take down.

The fact a lot of our smarts comes down to the ability to cooperate within the species does not negate the fact we're competing with other species. Not so much now, perhaps, but I'd consider our competition with the polio virus to be rather heated. (Fairly one-sided, but heated.)
Are you blackmailing the universe?
Would owning multiple combines disqualify you from being considered a "family farm"?
I would pick Atom editor, just for the free software philosophy.
One of the issue which I feel is the font rendering with these two editors. Text on ST3 looks crisp and beautiful.

For better look see, http://imgur.com/a/yMexQ
Try them both, for at least a week each - and any others you've heard of that seem interesting to you.

Your editor is a very personal choice, and something you'll use a lot, so it's worth putting the time in to try a few before you stick with one.
"If you feel uncomfortable asking that kind of question or if you're concerned that you won't get an honest response, tell them you're gathering data for a study or something."

Tell them you're a student actor trying out some character traits. The character you're playing is supposed to be a bit annoying or unlikeable. Ask them how you went in portraying those traits.
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"Atom 1.0 should greatly improve the performance, so let’s judge it after that."

Oh yes. As fair and balanced as a guide from an Atom fanboy can be. The sort of article that deserves to be linked two or three times.
I would like a "storage" extension that let me choose my own "iCloud' implementation. That way I could point Photos at Dropbox, Amazon S3, or my own SAN, and still use the capabilities of the product. My main concern with photos on my computer right now is how much space they take up and how to securely store them off-site somewhere.

I know that iCloud could do this but I would probably need the 1TB plan with is $20/month - that's very expensive. Maybe there is a way to only store new photos in iCloud and offload the old ones to Glacier or something. :/
I'm guessing this is Linux only? My other plan was to create a custom minecraft server on a spare PC.
Why not textmate then? Its been free for a while now https://github.com/textmate/textmate
The 2mb file limit is a deal breaker for me frankly. For now, I'm sticking with Sublime.
The idea is that any time an electron-positron pair is created or destroyed is a change in direction.

Say a pair is created in space, they move around for five seconds, and annihilate each other. You could also explain that as a single electron in a loop – electron moves forwards in time for five seconds, changes direction (becomes a positron), moves back in time for five seconds, changes direction, the cycle repeats.

You can extend that to a set of two of electrons/positron pairs. Assuming each electron is created and destroyed with different positrons, you can again explain the system in terms of a single electron that changes direction four times. Add a few more in and you have a whole universe with one electron.

(That assumption may be a big one, which is where things fall down, but it's not nonsense. Also, bear in mind that the while idea of "moving" back in time is a helpful analogy, it's not very precise and shouldn't be taken too literally)
> Where exactly does the "looping around" happen, where it changes directions? Outside of time?

The idea is that what we see as an annihilation of an positron and an electron is just electron changing direction on the time axis.