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When you say, "there is a school of thought which embraces the idea that the universe is senseless" the first idea that springs to mind is existentialism[0]. Are you talking about existentialism? You mention Nietzsche, he (along with Kierkegaard) are claimed to be the fore-runners of existentialism - the idea that life has no (intrinsic) purpose, senseless in the meaningful sense.

Their claim is that one can give meaning to life by imposing or constructing a meaning or a purpose of ones own. I think it would be a stretch to equate this purposeful overcoming of the futility and the absurd with the general pattern recognition and construction that the mind involuntarily engages in moment to moment.

Postmodernism, if it is anything, is the rejection of or going beyond the project of modernism (the clue is in the name). Modernists still believed in grand projects, ideals, and narratives - for instance, the implicit idea of progress. You could say that postmodernism paradoxically rejects over-arching grand narratives and in a way claims to bring to an end the grand intellectual epochs we've had from the renaissance onwards through the enlightenment and finally arriving at modernism. I've yet to come across a satisfactory account of postmodernism beyond the one I've just relayed.

[0] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/existentialism/
It's in the article. Lower regulatory hurdles compared to launching a proper exchange-traded fund.
I think the comment sections of local news sources are amongst the most toxic, especially in smaller communities. Locally, Topix, Disqus, Patch comments, and a couple of others have been taken over by a vocal minority of paranoid individuals. While it is amusing to watch now and then, it basically makes the comment mediums useless. There is no granular oversight, just a blanket remove and lock comments at a macro (article) scale.
HN is as much an echo chamber as any other moderated community; the fact you find it a more agreeable echo chamber doesn't mean much.
It is not an ETF.
>>any real world test wouldn't be a discrete signal.

Perhaps band-limited, because they have a clear start and stop. If they were infinite you wouldn't be able to encode data as you could measure them at t=+/- infinity and retrieve all the signal information. Perhaps HN isn't the best place to have this discussion :-)

>>You think these effects are more significant than noise?

Group velocity dispersion in optical channels, people called it `noise` was at one point treated as noise before the appropriate transforms were worked out, I believe Infinera did this. In the case of remote sensing, ewald's limiting sphere represents a limit on the scattering meaning that you can't simply deconvolve and get better resolution.
I'd love to know why companies even waste time making videos like these anymore. Looking back at past stuff (like the 'smart home' from Microsoft in the mid 90's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V_0xDUg0h0) it's pretty hilarious how out of touch they are with reality.
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While this research is interesting, I'm not sure it quite lives up to the hype of the press releases. There have been quite a few other studies showing potential biomarkers, for example: the cortisol awakening response with respect to ground, and repeat cardiopulmonary tests. In fact, I suspect these other tests might be more useful, as they may identify all patients rather than just ones that have been ill for less than 3 years (although more research is needed).
The Guardian is Fox News for Anglo-American progressives (or at least a certain set of them).
Yeah. Or someone elses...
He seems to me to be suggesting that the added functions of ZFS and btrfs work are a net reliability loss that doesn't make up for the benefits.
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Absolutely. Hell, it's much more of an echo chamber than most communities as it's so tightly moderated. Moderation begets echoes.
What replacement did you mean? Google removed H.264 support from Chromium, and announced that they would remove it from Chrome.
If I had the choice to program in C# or Java I wouldn't touch Js.
I can't take the language seriously when the are languages that does things so much better being offered.
I had an interesting experience with it. When I originally saw it, I could only see the blue-and-black. However, I had the image on the screen when I moved to grab something and went beyond the viewing angle of my screen, and it appeared gold-and-white. I then sat back down, and the dress stayed gold-and-white while the rest of the screen returned to normal. Fun times for the brain.
I still think the alternatives require too much hand holding -- especially if you have members of the family that are not inclined to muck with their hardware (IE, they just want things to work). I'm hyper paranoid about backups, apps, etc. but I'm willing to buy into the general Apple ecosystem as a household for entertainment purposes -- media shared just works. It is often an interesting balancing act.
On front page a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9112145
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Something like gorilla-arm might be good thing: Humans probably aren't supposed to be sitting in front of a computer for hours at a time; gorilla-arm is just a non-dismissible signal that it's time to take a break.
Right. And she wouldn't have acted all butt-hurt about just having had a c-section without anesthesia.
This thread, and even forum, may not be the best place to get salary information first. Reason being, is this is a YC-related forum, full of early stage start ups, who are looking for core team members. A key attribute of key members is to be excited about the problem the company is solving first.

Salary is a very reasonable point of interest when it comes to new opportunities. This may not be the right place to seek those opportunities. Glassdoor, dice, craigslist may suit your needs much better.

Simply being blunt, if all you care about is a paycheck and hopefully writing great code, being Engineer #X at a start up is not for you. Every early member needs to be a natural advocate for the company.

There's also a middle ground between posting salaries on listing and going through 4 rounds of interviews. Companies don't want to waste their time either. You can also easily find out salary ranges for many of the jobs posted by looking at angellist.com.

In the end, if you and a company are a great match for each other, the compensation package will be much less of an obstacle.

Do you really want to miss the opportunity of a lifetime by skipping a company that simply doesn't post salaries?
Users are not permitted to comment freely on HN. Step too far out of line and your comment becomes invisible and you risk a shadow ban. This site offers the most vanilla, white bread, predictable discussion of any forum I frequent. No real surprise about what this user base wants.
Have these "insanely expensive" tests been validated? According to the published research, there are no viral markers for CFS, so I suspect you might have been bilked by a quack.
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> I mean, upon analysis, postmodernism tries to escape or reject the traditional function of the human mind.

I mean, upon analysis, postmodernism tries to escape or reject the traditional perspective on the human mind.
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They are already (in certain states) via the point system.[0] Getting a point tells your insurance company, and your premiums skyrocket. Insurance companies also pull your driving record periodically, and if you've had a ticket, the same thing happens.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_system_%28driving%29#Nort...
I can't speak for everyone who makes these arguments. My problem with his writing has nothing to do with its status as a knockoff.

That said, if I had to guess, the answer to your question would be that faux profundity is always a knockoff of the truly profound.
Not all the time. I saw it when I was eleven and I consider that to have been a formative experience for the better.
CNN and many other major American news outlets got rid or significantly downscaled comments in the fall of 2014: http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/21/tech/web/online-comment-sectio...

I wonder what Disqus YC 07 thinks of that?
My gut feeling is that community voting is more than enough to make HN an echo chamber.

Think about it, if you see a slightly greyed-out comment, that becomes a data-point in interpreting the comment.

Though compared to other places with such strong voting mechanisms, the echo chamber seems to be less in effect. Only topic I can think about where it really comes out is articles on Uber, bizarrely.
What, why, and why is that a bad thing?
It is hard to set aside the fact that Comcast isn't particularly liked. It is a 52 year old company with $65 billion in revenue and 136,000 employees. Saying it has a "startup feel" seems pretty disingenuous. The rest of the post reads like buzzword bingo.
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ETF stands for exchange traded fund. This will trade over the counter (OTC) and won't be listed on an exchange, so it isn't technically an exchange traded anything.

The other problem is that there is no creation process for publicly tradable shares. With a typical ETF, there are entities known as "authorized participants" who can exchange a fixed amount of the underlying securities for shares in the ETF (and vice versa). This creates the mechanism for the ETF price to track the price of the underlying securities. If the price of SPY rises above the price of the S&P 500 index, APs can buy the underlying securities, exchange them for new shares of SPY, then sell the SPY shares. This pushes the price of SPY down towards the fundamental value. That process doesn't exist for BIT because new publicly tradable shares can be created only through this weird 12-month lockup expiration process. It will be interesting to see how it trades!
I used to be someone who defended comments in general. I think they are only good for a certain subset of usecases, such as college campus blogs, where different voices can and should be heard. But other sites often do comments rather poorly, and only on the occasional tech blog will one find useful information in a comment, but not usually.
Btrfs raid7 (3 parities) could be useful. But more parities really doesn't scale very well. Raid10 does scale. So does GlusterFS.

A bigger scalability problem with Btrfs, is its raid10 implementation. Conventional raid1+0 says you can lose more than one devices at a time so long as you don't lose two mirror pairs. Btrfs raid10 doesn't have consistent mirror pairings, so the mirrored chunks for device A1 aren't all on B1, they will be distributed on multiple other drives thereby increasing the chances B1 chunks are lost in a 2+ device failure.

Developers plain n-way raid1 Very Soon Now™ and hopefully will get around to better guarantees with raid10 to make it scale like raid10 should.
Well when Django started out it was this small project for web developers, right?

Anecdotally, I've found the compiler people universe and the web developer universe to be pretty disjoint for a long time.
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You'd think we'd have the technology where we could dramatically reduce this problem without having every single community moderate its own comments - especially given so many of the comment systems are run by centralized third-parties like Disqus, but sadly, that has not happened.

I think we should treat the comment cesspools of the Internet like say, Youtube or Politico like a honeypot. If you comment there, frankly I never want to see anything you ever write on the Internet ever again.
Coming from The Guardian that's rich. Youtube comments feature a far higher level of discourse than their "Comment is Free" section.
My guess, yes.

Further, I'd say Bitcoin will have little to no relevance for the majority of individuals, ever.

The constant reference to "the block chain", just download a mining client, wait for the block chain to "sync" and tell me this scales for more general purposes? It doesn't.
Seems to me that you've written some harsh things about a project that you don't understand. I will humor you:

>Guix, while it claims to support repeatable builds, keeps you in the same restrictive build process as other package managers.

This sentence makes no sense to me. Do you know what "reproducible builds" means in this context? See: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/About

>It's hard to configure how your packages are built

In Guix, packages are Scheme objects, giving you maximum flexibility. You can easily customize configure/make flags, along with many other things, to make custom package builds. It's also easy to maintain your own separate package recipes. Guix makes packaging easy. That said, there are folks that are interested in a global configuration system, so maybe we'll see that some day. Guix is alpha software, it doesn't have every bell and whistle that you might like.

>and hard to maintain a server for private packages

First of all, you don't need a server for any packages. There is no single point of trust in Guix. You can build every single package on your own computer. Now, you could run your own Hydra instance like https://hydra.gnu.org, and soon you'll be able to run 'guix publish' from any guix machine to spawn a server that exposes a Hydra-compatible web service for serving binaries.

>Add in its poor capabilities as a package manager

Transactional upgrades, rollbacks, and per-user package installation are poor capabilities?

>the bizarre requirement to upgrade the distribution to upgrade your package list

The package recipes ship with Guix, so upgrading Guix via 'guix pull' gets you the new package recipes, too. This does not upgrade the system, only the version of Guix for the user who ran 'guix pull'. The "package list" isn't a package list, it's a collection of Scheme modules.
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I'm not saying "plan locking" is not a useful feature in some cases, and maybe it would really solve this particular issue. But my experience is that when people say "I need it" in most cases it's "I've been working with X for a long time, and that's how you solve problems looking like this there." (where X is usually Oracle or DB2).

If you really need nightly vacuuming (and not just analyze), and you accidentally turn it off, you have bigger problems than planning.

This should be handled by autovacuum in modern versions, so either you're running a very old version (before 8.3 when autovacuum was enabled by default).

So either you're running a very old version (i.e. older than ~5 years - sorry, not much can be done here except for upgrading).

Or you don't have autovacuum tuned properly, or you really have strange workload. In those cases you should really talk to people on pgsql-performance.
The site appears to be down. It's in google cache; looks like just a project description with some linked reports. Here's a cache of the final report [1].

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To me, a To-Do list is just about prioritization.

'Stop Doing' the stuff at the bottom of the list.
Your spot-on comment is already getting grayed out. Oh the irony.

If the truth hurts... downvote it so it can be hidden! Yeah, that'll show you!
Too true. It's important not to forget that, at least in the US, we find it acceptable that there are people who have to work more than 1.5 full-time jobs to survive.
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I'm not saying the ratings are always inaccurate, just that they aren't calibrated to most things I care about. Compared to some folks that go "Oh I would never let my child watch a movie rated R" as if that was some kind of determining factor.

People swearing, using drugs, and nudity will get an R rating even if the movie is fantastic. Those three things I'm annoyed that people find objectionable for children, as it only increases the stigma as they get older, for what should be very positive things. Violence, meh, so long it's not deliberately cruel or scary, I don't see why it'd be disturbing. Over-the-top stuff like you say sounds more funny than anything else. (The children's shows, Golden Compass, and RWBY, both contain scenes where the jaw/head of an enemy is blown right off.)

As another poster mentioned, Common Sense Media is a far better rating system. They address specific points so you can make a good determination. Even then, I find my kids often enjoy stuff that CSM rates well over their current age.
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> 1. There is always flexibility in the budget for the right people.

Nothing stopping you from tacking on that caveat after offering a range so people can grok you from a distance.

> 2. Salary is not everything.
> I do believe salary is important, but not everything. There are a good number of people who are willing to take a job with less salary if they feel they can grow there more, the culture fits them better and the potential of company is bigger there.

The only people willing to take that cut are

(a) young enough not to be thinking about retirement, and

(b) people naive enough to think you having a good culture lets you off the hook for being a cheapskate.

Disclaimer: used to think salary wasn't everything after $x quality of living, now I'm a bit older, a bit wiser and looking at retirement. I now think I was a huge idiot in my younger years for not taking every advantage possible. - So take my views with a grain of disillusioned salt.
How do you support self-modifying code like ICs then?
I think you're mistaking a SDK (software development kit) with an IDE (integrated development environment). A SDK is nothing more than a set of libraries that allow you to write code for the target hardware. In this case, the SDK consists of a Firefox extension that you can install, which gives you an emulator that will simulate the phone hardware.

You can totally write FirefoxOS apps in Notepad if you want to. It is just HTML, CSS and Javascript (and a JSON manifest that tells the OS where the entry point for your app is).
> The HN community is also enabled to take action against bad comments and the users that make them.

Though I do like masturbating at how great and perfect our community is, it is not so. Most of the taking "action against bad comments" occurs on unpopular views and comments, just like in any other community, and gets buried.

The sole reason why HN is not as bad at this as Reddit, Slashdot, and other similar sites is that it is not popular enough.
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As someone who rewrote his app in Objective C into Swift, I highly recommend it if you think Swift is rad (I do!) and enjoy substantially improving the quality of your code.

That being said, I highly recommend against it if your primary goal is one of the following:

- revenues

- features

- installs

- bugfixes

It will take you longer than expected to accomplish very little in terms of meaningful improvements which can be relayed to your customers.
Your comment is very informative but I don't think most of the above applies to this BIT fund, since it's just an over-the-counter listing. It does apply to the upcoming Winklevoss fund, which will be an ETF.
For me it was The Exorcist. Watched it at 7 or 8. Had nightmares every night for a week. Didn't really learn my lesson though.
>He ordered the killing of humans because of an assumption? What the shit. Just walk over there and ask the bloke what he's doing, or investigate after they left, or throw in a flash grenade and disable, shoot the legs not the heads. Anything but kill. What are they thinking?

Well, what they were thinking was "if I walk over there and they're enemy combatants, they'll probably try to kill me", and "despite popular misconceptions, a shot to the leg is easily fatal", and "I don't want to die".
So, i've been obsessed with the concept that uber and lyft rates both the operator and rider. Now, it may already exist, but i've never understood the idea of new commenters being allowed equal weight with those of established reputation. Reddit may do well shadow-banning, but the effect that known trolls continuously show up at all seems a problem.

I've always thought we out to be putting people with reputations' comments by people with similar reputations' eyes, and noobs' comments to noobs' eyes. Once the new people have established them as reasonable people, they start showing up more to people who have built a reputation.

Not just gross, net, or average karma, but i think to do it right, you'd need some sort of handicapping system like golf. On a good day, to you provide good content, great. If so, we'll rank you higher in the feeds of others with good handicap. Not every comment will hurt you if it's not helpful (we all have bad days, and everyone is occasionally grumpy), but if more often than not, your comments are terrible you're aren't going to be placed high in the feeds of those who are more socially adjusted.

One downside is that if some lurker who is an expert in the subject comes alone, he or she may no be able to participate in with all, but in communities like reddit or these, if you cannot pass some threshold, then you're not really a part of the community anyhow.

Another downside i see is that lurkers are a major portion of theses websites revenues, and the sites don't really want to remove content from their eyes. I'm not sure how to fix that issue, but for well establish sites, i think filtering via similar karma-type levels would surely bring up the discourse for those who want to have it, while keeping the trolls trolling other trolls (which is rather interesting to watch anyway).
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It seems like most of the things demonstrated are changes to the gloss of interfaces, higher resolution etc... I don't see radical "productivity" improvements - eg. making input significantly easier through BCI. The touch options they show are a scaled versions (larger/more ubiquitous) of what we have now with stylus/touch input and wearables. For example, why is the big drafting table radically better than a tablet or wacom drawing pad and large monitor today? Saying nothing of the holographic 3D table without any HMD or the other "sci-fi" type stuff shown.

I guess to me this looks nice and flashy and all but not really a breakthrough in ergonomics. Maybe I missed that somewhere.