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> Speaking from my own experience, I really wonder how I would have developed the way I did without being allowed to handle (very dangerous) tools from an early age, roamed all over Amsterdam from the ripe old age of 6, toyed with chemistry, explosives, electronics, household power and petrol engines all of which could have easily killed me.

Neither, but that does not mean that your parents did not bond with you. Here is what happened in my generation: the time I spend with my parents and family was significantly bigger than most children today. For me personally the reason for that was that my parent took me to their office and I could spend time there. For many others in my generation it was because one of the parents stayed at home. Here is what's happening right now: children enter Kindergarten at 6 months of age or when they turn one. The only person that can tell them what to handle or not is most of the time a randomly assigned caretaker.

Note that when people talk about bonding they do not talk about a 6 year old child, they talk about a newborn to toddler of less than two years of age.

You're from the Netherlands where there is a proper maternity leave. Not everybody is in that fortunate situation and I assume the article is written with this in mind.

//EDIT: also to leave another note on older children: I'm not sure how it was for you in the Netherlands, but parents and teachers used to be proper authorities to me. This is something that is becoming less and less the case. There are brats around our flat that would not even listen to police if it came to it.
These people seem crazy to me, since 40k is a pretty manageable amount to pay off in 10 years. Even with interest, it's not more than 6-8k per year, max. I was expecting this article to have examples of people who were 200k+ in debt. I'm more sympathetic to those people, under the argument that they were too naive and should never have been given the loans in the first place. But 40k? That's reasonable, if you ask me. High, yes. But perfectly possible to pay back.
Just for tests and stuff, but I specifically remember memorizing tree rotations and the like. I've forgotten all of them by now :)
There's a pragmatic difference between recovering the booster over some period of time, vs literally parking the booster right where it took off & ready to re-launch within hours/minutes.
I'm a moderator here; sorry if that wasn't clear. You're most welcome to continue commenting in the thread, but it's important to follow the values of civility and substantiveness when doing so. Instead of telling people negative things about themselves, such as that they didn't watch a video or aren't educated in psychology, edit all that personal stuff out and use the freed-up space to teach the reader specific things. That's what we're here for.

For example, I'd love to learn more about what Heinz Kohut specifically says about empathy. That sounds deeply interesting, and if your comment had contained a neutral description of that, it would have been a fine contribution.

And yes it's true that moderation comments are off-topic. They're also tedious to read and (let me assure you) to write. Unfortunately they're a necessary evil. We do have some ideas for changing HN's software to make fewer of them necessary, but it's hard to say whether that would work.
Sorry.

That's all any of us on Google Cloud can usefully say about the damn VAT issue. We've got people working on it, but it's a Google wide issue (and I honestly don't understand the last mile enough to know why we don't do exactly what you describe AWS doing).

As a side reply to the poster below, it's not true that we're trying to exclude individuals. There are lots of happy, individual customers all over the world. We unfortunately just didn't get out ahead of this personal service / VAT thing as a company. So again, Sorry! And someone is working on it, but don't expect any immediate fixes when taxes/regulations/laws are involved.
This is an extremely complex issue that can't be broken down into a few bullet points and fixed. Beyond generalizing all parents, the author of this article overlooks many factors that form children relationships with them and others. For example, how is the parents relationship with there parents, economic class of the family, culture, etc..
No. There's pleasure.
As a (student) pilot, I agree. You aren't landed until stationary and stable.
and the "explosion" is borderline, it's very close to just "burns really fast", especially when you see what's left after the fire goes out: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CY8-PdyU0AABqaa.jpg:large (there's quite a lot of rocket left)
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I changed the downvote line, thanks.
" The competition for scarce funds will intensify..."

That's a bold misreading of the macro environment. Competition for funds expresses itself in higher rates, not lower. If the author's "competition for funds" intensifies further I think we may be in danger of being crushed under piles of money.
I see the case for having a disclosure section that informs about affiliate links and don't mind adding that. But quite frankly, everyone who knows about affiliate programs can see that the links to Amazon contain that tag. No redirects or whatever fishy techniques I've seen to hide that.
It does depend on perspective. There's a certain contextual ignorance to anything. One perspective appreciates the manicured, soft, growing carpet that kids play on; and another sees it as a crop that gets watered, fertilized, harvested then thrown in the garbage.

Now, consider that 1950's lawn still exists today in cities like L.A., experiencing extended drought. That's approaching grotesque, at least the judgement is coming from the same era that the aesthetic is being executed. Thing is, lawn irrigation (and other resources that go into landscaping) is a lot more efficient than typical "flood" agricultural irrigation, and it's in agriculture where the efficiency gains by reducing evaporation loss has the most promise.
That's a depressing thought. The AI revolution replaces management instead of the workers. :(
Takes too long to recover costs? Requires larger footprint (shadow behind the wall unusable)?

The pessimist in me says "because these things would last centuries with a little upkeep, and we don't build that kind of thing anymore". Too hard to take advantage of short-term opportunities to repurpose or sell the land if you've put expensive, permanent(-ish) infrastructure on it.
I'm exactly as worried about haitans as about new yorkers. Not much, because I don't know them :) But yes you should fix the situation with haitans. It doesn't make sense.

I just think introducing new borders is painful (I can speak from my family experience with new borders - I live in Poland), and dismantling borders is great (personal experience with EU).
> raising brand awareness about autonomous vehicles.

IMO this is Uber's biggest strength. Once autonomous driving becomes even remotely real, investors would just be able to buy a bunch of cars, build a thin framework around some fleet management software and some payment processing, and have an Uber clone all of their own. Very little execution risk; the only requirements are capital investment. Uber has a built a powerful brand though, and will likely be the first choice of consumers.

But Uber will still likely be at a disadvantage in this scenario. Companies able to offer only driverless cars will have a huge advantage in cost structure: not only does a startup not have to pay drivers a share, they also don't have the overhead associated with hiring, managing, interacting, dispute resolution, etc. with drivers. They can just ignore what amounts to an enormous part of Uber's operations.

Sound familiar? It's exactly what Uber did to the taxi companies. Dispatching, metering, scheduling, etc. are all huge parts of taxi operations that Uber completely automates or ignores.

Of course, the whole industry will probably just end up going the route of the airline industry -- hedge funds and investment banks put up the cash for the airplanes (cars) via a holding company, then insure them and lease them out to airlines, which actually operate them. The only people who will make anything from it will be the banks.
I read it like you the first time but now I think he means the remote account password. As if I have password auth enabled in sshd.
It sounds like an externality to me, so "no".
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I find myself searching for this Linux kernel mailing list thread about once a year, when I need to reason through what, exactly, sched_yield is supposed to mean, and currently accomplishes. The root problem seems to be some people want it to mean "I am not doing useful work, please schedule someone else and deprioritize me", yet others want it to mean "I am voluntarily allowing others to be scheduled now so that I can get more slices in the future".

The conclusion I've gathered is that do not use it in a busy-wait loop, as it has the opposite effect of what you would want there. Perhaps an even more important conclusion is that sched_yield is confusing, there is significant disagreement over what it should mean, so don't use it.
Paul Graham's essay on plausible, but ultimately bad startup ideas comes to mind [1].

"The danger of an idea like this is that when you run it by your friends with pets, they don't say "I would never use this." They say "Yeah, maybe I could see using something like that." Even when the startup launches, it will sound plausible to a lot of people. They don't want to use it themselves, at least not right now, but they could imagine other people wanting it. Sum that reaction across the entire population, and you have zero users."

[1]http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html
A simple way to solve this. Have two cameras (C) facing straight ahead with a known distance (D) between them. When the spot they normally see (X) is blocked, mark the time. (t1-t0) / D

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My impression of the general trend is the opposite. When I think of parenting 50 or 100 years ago, I think of it as more formal and detached. Children addressing their parents as "sir" and "ma'am". Fathers who were emotionally distant and leaving much of the parenting to their mothers. Discipline that involved respecting the authority of all adult figures.

When I think of parenting now I think of extensive concern with kids' emotional well-being, parents who take kids sides in quarrels with teachers, etc.

I don't know if these impressions are broadly true, but it's interesting that my impression is of an opposite trend.

I agree with the overall premise of the article, which is that kids are more fragile than they have been in the past. I'm just not sure that a decreased parent/child bond is the right explanation.
I would hope it becomes more niche. I'd say it will be a lot like the performance desktops that gamers build right now. Most people just get an off the shelf boring old laptop, but then the hobbyists who are into tinkering build custom machines that look sexy and run like hell. Hopefully we'll get to that point with cars in my lifetime.

The thing with the infrastructure argument is we're not funding our infrastructure right now enough to maintain what we've already got, let alone upgrade to roads and highways capable of keeping autonomous cars on the road. I'm sure this kind of thing will be huge in California, Texas, New York, etc. but for the rest of the states I think a Google car is going to have a hell of a time.
Interesting, I thought that one of the reasons for building greenhouses was that they trapped heat.
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"Being expensive anywhere makes you a target."

What CEOs frequently forget is that "expensive" isn't absolute - it's relative to the value you provide to the company. If I cost $200K per year but make the company $1M a year, I'm a much better deal than someone who only costs $50K but only makes the company $100K per year.

Of course, some CEOs wouldn't be able to figure out how much money a developer actually puts on the company's bottom line.
Lame and unconvincing.
30 years ago when I was 13, I experienced all the things described by the author. I over valued my peers' opinion, I disregarded my parents' words of advice.

Isn't it normal to feel these things? It's how an individual grows.

My secret to good parenting is compassion, consistency and honesty - the rest is just detail.
Instead of having an arbitrary number as a nonce... let's say you chose the next prime number to create the hash. This itself will help us discover lots of prime numbers :)
The Death of Common Sense, Philip K Howard (1994). So not exactly the newest idea, by HN standards anyway.
I, for one, shudder at the thought of Facebook getting my banking messages. Telegram has been a great alternative although it's not perfect.
Refueling a gas powered vehicle at a small town is much simpler than looking for a supercharger or spending the night waiting for a normal outlet to recharge your battery.

Small towns (which for Montana I'll define as towns with a population of around 1,000) with gas pumps are plentiful. Small towns with hotels, a bit less plentiful. Small towns with superchargers are nonexistent.

> You wouldn't have left if your destination wasn't within 80 miles of I90 or I15,

Bozeman to Great Falls, 180 miles. A supercharger on one end of the trip, a hotel on the far end, and lots of nasty winter driving in-between. Also known as Tuesday for many folks I know.

Limiting yourself to 100 miles from a Supercharger knocks out a lot of space in Montana. Most of the interesting parts of Montana are well over 10 miles from a supercharger. Yellowstone, Glacier National Park, the reservations, the feed lines into southern Idaho, Wyoming and North Dakota... No southern Idaho.

There's a joke that says that on the east coast, 100 miles is a vacation, but in Montana, 100 miles is a grocery trip. That applies to a lot of the non-coastal US as well. Have a look at https://www.teslamotors.com/supercharger?redirect=no, and look at how many huge open spaces exist.
As productivity numbers go, 2% is huge!!. The actual number is 2.46% (from Bob Gordon's own figures) [1]. To put this in perspective, this is one of the highest growth numbers in the entire history of the US. Decade wise the only period that had growth larger than 2.46% was the '30s. The economy has grown about 15 times (in real times) since then. If we can get 2.46% on a 18 Trillion economy we will double our per capita in less than 30 years. This is in real terms. A truly astonishing accomplishment.

More importantly though, Bob Gordon is predicting that this number will drop to 0.2% due to six headwinds. In turn he suggests our per capita doubling will take a CENTURY going forward.

[1] http://www.voxeu.org/article/us-economic-growth-over
Your blog and twitter feed are very helpful. I was doing part time consulting, mostly web-related, for a number of years. Getting myself focused in this new phase of life has been challenging. You are clearly focused in your online presence. Clear "Hire Me" call to actions among other things, too. Time for me to do them. Thanks!
>That was really really dumb. They should have gone from 0.25 to 0.3 or something.

That's not how interest rate setting works at all. Plus, the Fed is still using a banded window that encapsulates your five basis point rise.

What company is borrowing at Fed Funds rates? If - theoretically, because we have to be quite theoretical to operate under your assumptions - a company was that exposed to interest rates and had zero hedge against interest rate vol they would not have the credit to hope to get funding anywhere near Fed Funds rates.

If you're surviving at the edge of loans (i.e - you're in a potential distressed scenario) you'll have bonds trading at a significant discount. This is exactly what began to happen during the early part of 2015, when Fed Fund futures had little chance of the Fed moving priced in.
I would take a step back and identify a customer identity. Find some people that are those types of people and ask them about their pain points.
Why do marketers choose to make their advertisements loud and obtrusive, even though consumers say they'd prefer for advertisements to be quiet and out of sight?
Oh yeah, feudalism!
I struck a small blow for better security today.

Good old ESR. Taking a bow for writing an expect script.
One of the big problems is to find a lower bound on some cryptographic algorithm. We think that factoring is hard, but there is no proof of this. The knapsack problem, used in the first public key system, was thought to be hard, but isn't.
Sorry how is this relevant to heap allocation? alloca just allocates memory off the stack - it's literally just bumping the stack register by the number of bytes you requested (and hence it's freed when the stack pointer is reset on returning from the function call). Alloca should fail when your current thread runs out of stack space - which will generally be only a few megabytes. The total stack for a new thread is allocated from the heap at its creation, not during its execution and certainly not as part of a call to alloca.
Teenagers go out of their way to do dangerous things. This is mostly anecdotal; I've been a teenager until pretty recently. But one thing I simply don't understand is the notion that safer playgrounds leads to a poorly calibrated sense of danger. What real life dangers truly appear in the playground? I haven't recently gotten a nosebleed from being hit on the nose with a rubber ball. What has mirrored the real world is all the diseases I've gotten.
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Is that the reason they've been using the barges for landing? I'd always assumed they were just being extra cautious since it could endanger civilians or crew if the reusable stage was supposed to land on solid earth.

I'd imagine that the barge landings introduce a lot of uncertainty and complicating factors that are impossible to completely nullify. High waves and (comparatively) strong open-ocean winds seem (to me at least) to make consistently successful lands much harder.
I hear you. Those of us that care regret the shutdown of Reader, as it has almost certainly cost us more business dollars than running it in perpetuity may have.

That said, Google (like most businesses?) hasn't cancelled any product that is making lots of money. At Google, that means Ads, Apps, and yes Cloud. We're here to stay, and unlike on the consumer side Cloud has an explicit deprecation policy for products that have "gone GA" (graduated from Beta).

Big picture items like Compute Engine, Google Cloud Storage, etc. aren't going anywhere. We might deprecate our v1 API after we're on v2 of course, but we're not cancelling the product (again, it makes us money, and that's a pretty key distinction from the consumer products Google has historically shuttered).

Disclaimer: I work on Compute Engine and haven't personally cancelled anything yet ;).
I work at a major mobile gaming company and we don't have any company wide policy on commenting code. A lot of my code tends to be proof-of-concept or rapid prototyping stuff and I work with at most 1-3 other engineers. In these projects I rarely comment. However, when I end up working on large scale codebases, I comment the more obscure parts of my programs for maintainability (most people here do the same) - its more courtesy to your future self and colleagues than an imposed requirement. I think the choice really boils down to maximizing your coding efficiency while still ensuring some maintainability into the future, especially when the code will be maintained well into the future by lots of people.
The problem when you start throwing around empathy alongside such concepts as 'helping' abusers 'mend their ways' is that one rather feels that anyone whose views do not rather closely match your own political angle, especially with respect an issue you are deeply invested in, will be singled out for this 'help.' Being offended has become a weapon in popular debate - and I find myself remarkably disinclined to further structure things to its advantage.
IPython notebook with all the workings here:

https://github.com/BuzzFeedNews/2016-01-tennis-betting-analy...

Bravo, BuzzFeed.
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I've worked with two bootstrap grads, the ones that come from the 8-week program. One of them I hired directly onto my team.

It's been a great experience! The developer I hired is moving on because he found a better paying position (as a coder). I view this as a success and I'm happy for him. It took him 8 months to get to this point and I'm sad to see him go.

Things I learned:

- They come in excited but they have so much self-doubt that needs to be tamped down.

- Pair programming with everyone on the team is a must. Even the neckbeard in the corner that hates chit-chat needs to help out. Why? The BG needs to learn it's okay to talk to anyone about problems.

- I had to be on the prowl for condescending talk when the BG asked questions. It needs to feel like a safe environment to ask questions without being ridiculed.

- I noticed a huge jump in productivity when I had the BG design an onboarding presentation for new employees. Basically a "this is how our applications work here" Powerpoint. He loved working on it and it forced him to learn more about all the moving parts.

TL;DR In my experience BGs are great. They need plenty of room to fail and grow, but it's equally important that the whole team plays a role in their growth.
Sad to hear that - though that's the point :) There's so much pop culture around, deeper culture isn't appreciated as much. Check out our weekly archives: http://www.culturejoy.com/archives/ :)
How do you incorporate this re-use into your contracts?
better purging of identical topics. I see the same article or topic appear several times over a few days.
> we're not funding our infrastructure right now enough to maintain what we've already got

We don't maintain our infrastructure because businesses aren't complaining loud enough. If it starts to infringe on some company's ability to make a profit, they'll start up and fund an astroturf campaign to improve the roads. It's kind of laughable how cheap lobbying actually is relative to the amount of money corporate America can throw around -- I'd bet you could make great strides in a localized area with even $100,000 to spend (a lot to an individual, but any decently large company spends more on alcohol for a holiday party than that). If we're going to have corporate money in our political system, let's at least try to make it work for us.
You might be excited to learn that MUME (multi-users in middle earth) has been running for almost 25 years now [0]. I have been playing off and on for twenty years. I met my wife through that game. PvP is legendary, and specifically used as a model by early graphical MMOs.

[0] http://mume.org
Thanks for this, it's a much needed reminder. I'd like more of an experienced programmer's view of table flipping. I only know it from the emoticons.
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As you say, this entire situation has been supported by massive infusions of printed money intended to support the economy dating back from the last collapse.

And the massive bailout followed by quantitative easing/money-printing was already touted by Bernanke in his helicopter speech.

Which is to say that one can't imagine any response to the present embryonic crisis other than even more money being thrown at the problem.

And it seems like this money restore the status quo even as the 2007+ money didn't restore the previous quo. Rather the primary trends - printed money concentrating into the hands of the already wealthy, seems likely to simply accelerate.

How long can the circus keep going? It might collapse at any moment yet I don't think anyone knows for sure.
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