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I'm glad that male crying is socially acceptable because it is a healthy thing to do and should have never been a male/female differentiator.

So much of our society is formed by what we see on TV which has caused some of these problems. When I saw John Wayne as a child I thought, "I want to be like that". When I saw Bill Cosby as Cliff Huxtable, I then wanted to be that kind of person. Then I wanted to be Colombo and so on.

TV today is very confusing. Is it any wonder young adults are so confused when the TV that has raised them says, "you can be anything you want. You can be a boy today and tomorrow a girl. Your gender is fluid!" And this from people who don't know what a boy or girl should be to begin with! How in the world can you then suggest to them that they can be both?

The beauty of the human experience is our differences, not our sameness. I meet more and more women that I can not tell what they are. They are dressed like Tim the toolman. Then you see men dressed up exactly like a women: long hair and a dress on!

Wouldn't it be nice if we could appreciate each other instead of requiring the roles to change and then call that progress? Find the common ground, enjoy the differences, celebrate each others humanity.
> For developers? I think they are quite capable of deciding for themselves.

Sorry, to be clear on this I mean devs building the stuff users use, as in no more need to support older, less standards-compliant, less fully-featured browsers. It saves an incredible amount of effort, time, money and stress.

I'm not even saying Edge is good, I'm just saying it's evergreen and regardless of its current state you'd hope it will only improve in these areas over time, and getting users on it removes the upgrade issue now and forevermore.

As for the three categories, I'm emphatically talking about the last one, which is absolutely massive. I used to work at a company where a significant proportion of our userbase was composed of this type of person. Lots of money is wasted on this problem, which is so easy to fix. It's a hugely important consideration, unless your market is developers or technologists, in which case this isn't an issue at all.
I'll be an anecdotal, but verifiable source.

"[...] since whenever you restart or shut down your PC, the next time you use it, the machine will start installing Windows 10".

This is absolutely false on at least 2 PCs I manage (one Win7 home, one Win8.1 home, both have had the tray icon offering the free upgrade for months). They have both been restarted in the past couple days and neither has upgraded itself to Win10.
you just explained why low dose chemo/radiation works
Although it's certainly subjective, I don't think what we call the middle class is such a fine-grained entity, and I do think the distinction between "working class" and "middle class" is useful.

I would define "working class" as people who are resigned to whatever paid labor they can find on pain of hunger and homelessness. Anyone in this class wants to get out of it.

The middle class, on the other hand, expect to get to pick the labor they perform, and in return expect a comfortable and secure existence as well as a good amount of leisure time and luxury to be attainable through their labor. Many in the middle class hold no ambition to climb still further, but are desperate to not fall out of it.

The distinction is useful for shaping policy - we want to help as many people as possible into the middle class and out of the working class (as defined above), and then do everything possible to keep them there.
I guess this is one of those issues where Hillary won't find herself "evolving". I fully expect her to continue and expand all of Obama's surveillance policies. Remember Obama at least seemed to be against all of Bush's spying in his campaign. Clinton is not even pretending to do any of that. That's bad.
Despite the totality of his radical opinions, this to me seems like one of RMS's more valid arguments against non-Libre software. Especially when it comes to something fundamental like an OS, being at the mercy of a corporation is highly problematic.
Has, even the US done something like that for members ofRussia's or China's intelligence services?

Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Soviet_intelligence_p...
I grew up in the kind of area that specializes in what this article is talking about. I had a lot of friends in high school who were forced into honors and AP classes by their parents. Who were forced to do anything and everything to set themselves up for college. Who would stay up til 1am on a Tuesday just to make sure they got all of their homework done and had studied properly. I can tell you that "helicopter" parenting has not ruined any children and it never will. What it's done is it's pushed children into schools where they don't belong. Meanwhile it's pushed a lot of smart kids out. What this dean has experienced isn't kids becoming less self-sufficient, but instead less self-sufficient kids getting into college because the kids who are pushed by their parents have a higher likelihood of getting in.
The conversation about grit needs to be balanced by a careful critique of the work we're asking students to engage with. If a school has a great climate and academic rigor, then by all means develop resilience and grit in students. But if a school is giving largely meaningless busywork, that needs to be addressed before telling students to work hard.

Here's a great critique of the current conversation about grit:

- http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/classroom_qa_with_larry_fer...
Type systems are a burden because (a) a programmer needs to think of the types he or she should design, (b) a programmer needs to actually utilize those types to write his or her program, (c) they can only act as a safety net.
As a parent, I would a thousand times rather my child be a mentally stable barista than a questionably stable Stanford student. In fact, having recently interacted with the Standard undergraduate body, I feel quite sorry for most of them because it's such a terrible pressure cooker stress environment. My primary goal for my child is for her to be a whole person. If she can do that at Stanford, fine. If she can do that at Starbucks, fine. Instead of helicoptering her into an Ivy League depression, I'm focusing on making sure we're financially stable enough to be a cushion for the inevitable times when she fails while trying to find her own way in life.

I say this from experience, coming from a family where ivy league tier educations are normal--and so is depression.
Jenkins is nice but you should be careful.

Once I had a job that went stray and got the disk full with logs. Since Jenkins couldn't write to the disk anymore, it stopped working completely and thus no jobs and more importantly no notifications. Funny thing, there was one job to monitor the free disk space but the stray app wrote ~100GB in less than 15 minutes (damn SSDs :p).

Another time (times actually), I had the OOM killer kill a jenkins related process. Being a JVM based app and starting with about 1GB of RAM use, doesn't help I guess. This lead Jenkins to hang on a job; timeout didn't work, I couldn't even stop the job manually. Other jobs wouldn't start and no notifications would be sent again.
Dell,Lenovo and HP have completely dropped the ball with drivers for Windows 10. Its not horrible but at the same time not perfect. I will be ordering as many Surface book's as I can get once they are available. I think an office with 50% Surface Books and 50% Macbook Pros is progress. Not saying it will fix it for sure , but a bios update and complete format/re-install (after you already activated Windows 10 from an upgrade) remedies the blue screens for the Dell/HP/Lenovo laptops we have onsite.
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Chelsea Manning's case may be a very different one for many numerous reasons, but it should at least give some hint as to the general direction proceedings would've taken had Snowden remained in the US.

"if convicted" is even a fantastical phrase in this context, without even going on to consider the outrageous idea that there would ever be any vague hope of a pardon.
Every one knows Duff drinkers are good upstanding Americans, it's Fudd drinkers who are rednecks and hillbillies.
At least where I live, I've been noticing the craft-beer scene gravitating a bit more towards "beer bars", bigger places with a lot of beers on tap, anywhere from 20 to 100+ depending on the size of the place. I could imagine the quasi-craft beers from the big companies doing ok in that setting, depending in part on who runs the place and how they label their beer lists.

However I think what the big companies are more worried about is mass-market settings, like restaurants, "normal" bars, and six packs in the local liquor store / supermarket. Craft beer has been making some inroads there, vs. being restricted to only people willing to explicitly seek out craft beer. Those account for higher volume, and threaten the big companies' market share, so they'd like to develop some alternatives for those settings to counter it. I think the small-volume local brewer who's only found in one shop doesn'd really threaten them. But they're very worried about the amount of sales national players like Lagunitas, Sierra Nevada, New Belgium, etc. are getting. Plus higher-volume regional companies like Goose Island (Chicago, bought by InBev), St. Arnold (Houston), Sweetwater (Atlanta), Brooklyn (NYC), Green Flash (San Diego), etc.
If I can get a nuanced presentation out of a slide deck with no audio, you've built your slide deck incorrectly.

If I can't get a nuanced presentation out of a slide deck, then maybe an article or corresponding speech is required!
No that's not what I said. I didn't imply that newer is more secure. I said if Microsoft spent its efforts on securing just Windows 10, instead of Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista and XP all the same time the results might be better. That's not newness - it's resourcing. The same would be true if they put everyone onto Windows XP instead.
>If photons and electrons travel at the same speed

"If" - they do not! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_mobility

Quoting from the above source...

>Typical electron mobility for Si at room temperature (300 K) is 1400 cm2/ (V·s) and the hole mobility is around 450 cm2/ (V·s).[2]

However this is besides the point since electric fields in a conductor do move at the speed of light.
I would disagree, I work with kids aged 8-14, and a new shiny phone is an object of fascination and status. They're enamored with the object itself and the interaction therewith. Of course at some point (like all new shiny) it become more about what you do with the phone, but initially that is a secondary attribute.
Nope, so, the goal here is to reduce how many machines (each with their own RAM limits) are used. The task is holding open bidirectional SSL wrapped long-lived websocket connections. They're held open for hours at a time, since we need to send notifications when we get them.

Every connection has a base cost of the TCP kernel send/recv buffer, which in our case we dropped a bit to 4kb each. So that's still 8kb per connection right there. If we terminate the SSL on a separate machine from where we handle the connection, then it means we'll be using 8kb more memory per connection. Probably even greater because nginx has its own send/recv buffers for data.

I'm sure our use-case is a unique one, most people care about raw through-put so the majority of SSL optimization has focused on lowering CPU use under high load rather than memory use under massive amounts of connections.
You can with various levels of success with a few "freeze" programs. They basically bundle up the entire environment into an executable, so the executables are stupidly large (more-or-less the size of your /usr/lib/python directory plus the python binaries), but they mostly work.
Let's see them upgrade my XP

Switching to osx at the end of year anyway, never realized how linux-like the back-end was, I would have switched sooner.
Exactly. Scientific Reports (and Nature Communications) is sometimes used for papers that don't get into Nature or any of its siblings (Genetics, Methods, Protocols, Biotechnology).
Textbooks can be good for this kind of thing. We read Operating System Concepts by Abraham Silberschatz in an OS class I took and it has a whole chapter on threads.The entire book is actually really good, each chapter reads like an essay discussing the topic in a natural way.
I would like to see objective numbers. I know it feels good to think that individuals who make it into Ivy League because of helicopter parents are somehow undeserving or damaged or whatever.

But I am pretty sure that getting into an Ivy League leads to statistically better live time earnings and more career success (in part because of the connections.)

I would like to see some objective numbers rather than a story that resonates because it jives with how we want to feel about those with success.
I'm terribly sorry for providing context for the rest of my comment. My sincerest apologies.

EDIT: On a less passive-aggressive note, I'll stop announcing my blocking of JavaScript by default when static content sites stop requiring JavaScript to read them.
The article refers to lower power requirements. One of the problems of higher clock rates is heat dissipation; if this runs a lot cooler, then it might be able to clock much higher.
Wait, is this a ycomb sponsored startup or why are they allowed to self-promote on HN ?
Although to a lesser extent (it used to be much worse 10 years ago), that's what it often looks like in Poland - and today's Poland can hardly be called a third world country. One particular example of such content unavailability I've recently experienced was when I tried to order an album of a German (!) artist some time after it's been published. I'd heard a few samples on Soundcloud some time before and I loved them to the extent, that I was desperate to get it when it's ready. And I couldn't. The album was available in all of the western Europe and the USA, but when I tried to order it from any source (be it Amazon, iTunes and a few more digital stores), I was just presented a message explaining to me that they do not sell music in my region. Another example is that there is quite a high percentage of music normally available on Spotify or Apple Music that is disabled in my country. Why? Because.
>I don't think you can say that someone broke real laws and then excuse it because public opinion or a subjective idea of public "service" somehow trumped the laws.

What, so hiding Anne Frank couldn't be excused?

The espionage act is bullshit and needs to be changed. It's pretty clear that he wasn't spying and what he did shouldn't have been covered by the act.
If you can write a scraper which performs against any real world data, chances are you're not in the business of selling yourself by the hour.

The type of scraping projects you see on the freelancing sites typically require minimal skill and can be completed with off-the-shelf tools, many of which are open source. Folks doing these kinds of projects are not realistically going to build a book of business filled with clients paying $100/hour. You can find decent freelancers in the United States charging less who are capable of doing more sophisticated work.
What they are actually saying to you is that they can't verify that you are an authorized reseller of anything with the Apple brand and they are not willing to take the risk. They really should have just said this to you but this is what they mean. If you are not an authorized reseller, it is possible for Apple to sue them for processing transactions for products sold with the Apple brand without legal authorization from Apple. If you can prove you are an authorized reseller, they may allow you to continue to use the Stripe service. I hope something can be worked out. Third Party payment processors come with their own set of weirdness.
I and several engineers I know had recruiters from Theranos contact us. They would not tell us anything about what we'd be working on, what kind of people we'd work with or how much we'd be paid. Needless to say we were not interested.
People believe what they are told. People are tribal and abdicate their beliefs to external sources of "higher powers" of their approved tribes, including what they perceive to be powerful people.

Happens in politics, happens on HN. Be more manipulative to change the world.
I'm always wary of upvoting a comment like this , but being from India and experiencing the difference getting into a good college makes , he has a point.

Ofcourse it's not a stark choice between getting into a Stanford and serving coffee at Starbucks but still . And I can't digest the snobbery in saying that a Starbucks worker is devoid of any dignity . But the comment still somehow resonates with me.

Perhaps it's a reflection of my own inferiority complex of not being able to study at an elite institution. It's a little hard to get over such feelings.
Let us all remind ourselves that Clinton is under investigation by the FBI for her email server handling and they recovered classified documents from it
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The strike price for common stock is lower. So a company whose valuation might had been trumpeted in the media as $50 bil would issue common stock at, let's say, $15 bil valuation.
Electrons have mass they can't move at the speed of light.
Photons also have other nice properties such as wavelength which open a whole suit of possibilities e.g. like having a logic gate which can operate in different mods based on the wavelength and polarization of the light.

While this is technically possible with electronics as well by setting a different voltage limit it's much more effective with photonic computing and doesn't not increase the complexity of your base components as much.

The current designs for a photonic computer are also much more parallel most of them basically layers of LED's and detectors with a very fast LCD matrix which serves as a mask between them. if you have a 256x256 pixel screen you can perform an operation on 65536 bits in a single clock, if you stack them up you basically getting 1 order of magnitude with each layer this isn't something you could ever achieve with current solid state electronics.
Exactly. Our society is quickly bifurcating into haves and have-nots, and the middle class is disappearing. If the trend continues, by the time my daughter is college-aged, middle class lifestyles will be all but gone. Her only shot at not living in poverty will be an education, although already we're seeing a good education does not guarantee anything. If it takes "helicoptering" to help get her into $PRESTIGIOUS_SCHOOL you bet your ass I'll be firing up the rotors.
The main reason I drink craft beers almost exclusively is that I could never drink the more commercial stuff, way too fizzy for me, and there arent many macro black beers (and I've never found a commercial scotch ale)

Helping local business and the festival scene is a big plus too. (The festival's are where the major beer vendors really seem out of place, they are loud, abnoxious and they give bigger glasses, thus helping those who are only there to drink get drunk faster)

So I guess that make's me a beer snob, but whatever, I'm in Quebec, we won most of the prizes in last year's world beer festival (along with brazil, which is damn good), so I'm in the right place to be a beer snob.
Why do you think that's disappointing?
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He gave a solution for a specific problem.

The "but your whole security will break down if you miss a year of security updates" argument is lazy and counterfactual.
Most people only want the security updates. You can tout the new features of Windows 10 all you like, but most people don't actually need them and the short-term value of the new features is less than the retraining cost of learning how to use them. Incurring that up-front retraining cost on a frequent basis causes you to never come out ahead. This is why everyone kept using Windows XP until it was completely unsupported and Windows 7 is the new Windows XP.

If anything what people want are less frequent releases with longer support periods. Or at least designate specific infrequent releases like Windows 7 for multi-decade long-term support -- if they would do that then they could reduce the support period for the non-LTS releases and end up supporting fewer versions at once.
No, not opposed to those women, but the wording would be "family" instead of "women and children."
This is so similar to 1999, when there was a meltdown in the job market a few years later. :-(

It is a quite old insight that when even mainstream media starts writing about stock tips, then it is likely that a bubble is so big that there will soon be a correction.

I humbly propose something similar for code bootcamps and the software developer job market.
In my small town in South Carolina, we're just about to get our third new independent brewery in 3 years. The oldest of the three is already talking about moving to larger premises, and both those currently in business are canning their beer with sales already in hundreds of retailers across the region, in addition to selling beer on site.

All of them brew at least one light American pilsner to appeal to newcomers and also offer a decent food menu and regular special events. I don't think these kinds of places are going away any time soon. They offer an ambience and clientele that's distinct from a regular restaurant or bar, and I've found myself visiting them more frequently as they continually experiment and improve their beers.
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I'm way younger but this sounds about right. Every once in awhile I get a recruiter trying to add me on LinkedIn but nothing like the harassment and weirdness described in the article.

Then again I'm also in the US. Sounds like the UK could really use some help with these guys, assuming the source is good.
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That's the proof of concept prototype. If they achieve their stated targets, it would be a leap in computing capability.

http://www.hpcwire.com/2014/08/06/exascale-breakthrough-weve...

"The analysis unit works in tandem with a traditional supercomputer. Initial models will start at 1.32 petaflops and will ramp up to 300 petaflops by 2020.

The Optalysys Optical Solver Supercomputer will initially offer 9 petaflops of compute power, increasing to 17.1 exaflops by 2020."
Presumably your referring to Prof J. Scott Armstrong, whilst he is a professor of marketing, his university profile[1] details him as having carried out alot of research with regards to 'forecasting' (presumably data forecasting uses the same techniques whether your forecasting climate patterns or business/election patterns?), so much so that he's testified to various U.S. governmental committees. So I'm not sure why you find this as a reason to dismiss them.

Don't get me wrong, It's a long read, with many citations, I'm sure some of them (most likely one of the youtube videos) may be horribly misguided/biased, but the one that you've decided to point out seems reasonable to my untrained eye. Given the strong feelings on both sides around topics such as climate change, I'm usually wary with regards to what is said (due to the potential for stretching the truth), but there are enough citations to seemingly established persons within this essay for it to atleast justify consideration of some of the points.

[1] https://marketing.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/226/