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When my second daughter was born, she had a huge head. We're talking 99th percentile. This is cause for concern, so we took her to a doctor. The conversation went like:

Me: What's up with my daughter's really big head?

Doctor: It's a condition called "macrocephaly".

Somehow, that was reassuring to me, despite realizing that all he did was literally just transliterate my words to Latin—"macro" -> big, "ceph-" -> head—as if that added any novel information.
Thanks for the details; it makes sense to do this well or not at all. You should move the last line of your comment to the top as the perfect TL;DR: If you spend the time and money on setup, you will have an amazing workplace. If you half-ass it, you will be sued a lot.
"Rebuilt" is also pretty vague. Bottom end? Top end? Rings? Whole engine out of the vehicle?

It does seem like this gentleman simply assigns some value to driving around in a Tesla all day, which is fine with me but the article should not try to make it seem economically rational.
I definitely disagree, from the perspective of remaining employees morale. Doing a slow-drip of layoffs is the worst for employees because you basically have to constantly worry if you'll have a job in a few months.
The high healthcare costs are systems issues and the reasons they are so high are because of politics which can be fixed at the state and sometimes city level.

The high health care costs are externalities created by state and city policy (and sometimes federal policy) that create an additional burden for employers such as Walmart which creates an additional burden for customers and employees. The higher health care costs result in lower wages for employees while resulting in higher prices for customers than in Wal-Marts case, many can ill-afford.

For example, most of health care costs are from those with serious chronic disease (the highest category is the 9 million "dual eligibles" -- people with disability that are on both Medicaid and Medicare).

These chronic diseases are from smoking, obesity, lack of exercise, air pollution for starters.

The fixes are raising the cost of tobacco through taxes, banning smoking in public places, hard hitting anti-smoking TV ads, ....), taxing sugar added beverages as Philadelphia has just done, lowering air pollution by getting the highest polluting coal-powered electric plants shut down, and in the Northeast and Midwest, converting buildings burning #6 and #4 fuel oils to less polluting #2 or natural gas.

The more of the healthcare cost externalities that are borne by private firms that are a result of government policy that government must pay for, the better for all of us. Only when the costs to government are high enough, will they implement policies that will reduce the high costs of health care.
Is that like: "The best code is the code not written"?
> Which, of course, is not to say that ideas in and of themselves build companies. But that point is so obvious it seems a little stupid to have to point it out.

It seems stupid to us, but I run into people every few weeks who "have the next big idea if only they can find a dev" but are hesitant to share more than a two-sentence pitch of fear that their coveted idea would get "stolen".

Fixed mindset vs growth mindset is still a battle for many people, especially (would be) first time non-technical founders.
Insurance is actually pretty cheap relatively. They're the safest car on the road which really brings down medical and injury costs. I want to say it was ~$30/mo more than our Subaru.

Tire costs: yeah. I'm at 35k right now and about to replace my first set of 19" tires for around ~$900. I ran the numbers and I actually pay more per-mile in tire cost(0.023) than electricity(0.02).

That said my gas costs still more than make up for it. I was spending ~$300/mo in gas where I now spend ~$40.
> To quote ESR (as much as I hate doing so), "Don't just do something, stand there!"

I tried to figure out what ESR meant here and after a minute of Googling I'm guessing it's Eric S. Raymond[1]. Please consider not using uncommon acronyms on online forums, it obscures your meaning.

[1] http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch12s01.html
The engineer hops in car and drives there.

The cynic figures the cake is a lie.
I think this slightly understates just how sleazy Microsoft were about it, if anything. Before the dialog that interpreted closing it with the X in the corner as agreement to install Windows 10, they rolled out a similar-looking dialog where that was the only way to avoid install Windows 10 - clicking on any of the buttons in the dialog would cause it to be installed.
The mantra of "write less" coding :

"Never EVER copy/paste code. Refactor!"
But people should be submitting the original source, not Schneier's link, unless he adds something useful.
It certainly needs more love - another problematic part is when you have messages open but you want to see stuff on the column to the right of the newsfeed. Its design leaves some to be desired.
> But I guess everyone expects MS to support multiple branches of code forever.

No, I only expect Microsoft to support their software for exactly as long as they promised to when releasing said software.

They can't just cheat themselves out of support contracts like that.
Very nice! For some reason I thought it was for letters, and was wondering why it thought my 'h' looked like a '6' heh
And I, someone who sets these up for a living did not know a battery needed to be cooled.

TIL. But yeah, that does explain why Macbooks' batteries hold up so well.
Went from PHP to UI engineer using primarily Angular. Had 10 years of PHP, but 0.5 years of Angular and only a few years in very scripty/hacky jQuery / JS. Didn't stop me from getting a $23,500 raise though.

It really depends on the company. My company looks for people who have programming experience in general and care about code craftsmanship. Sure, some languages and paradigms are VERY different (e.g. Java vs Haskell) that many skills won't translate well to, but in my case, PHP -> JavaScript, many skills transfer over.

And at the end of the day, the programming is the easy part. It's the problem solving and reasoning skills that make a dev valuable, so if the company is hiring based on those, your (lack of) experience in your reinvented stack shouldn't necessarily prohibit you from getting a job in that new stack.
I certainly agree that Microsoft have been very underhanded in some of their approaches.

What really grinds my gears though is the lack of interest people have in maintaining their tools.
If your computer is central to running your business you should be informed about upcoming updates as computer downtime is a threat to your business.
What I personally find more inconvenient than any of those limits (as a non-power user) is the 3 month lifetime of certs. I am a windows user. Running a VM once a month just to renew my 3 certs is a huge headache. Will it really be that much of a burden to have like a year?

Not to mention the whole process is so very incredibly fugly. For something as important as it is why is there not an official online UI to manage certs? I know of atleast one online client that does exactly that but it's not official. We need the process to be as simple as making a facebook account for example. I am not very knowledgeable in certificates btw, so I may be just about to have a duh'oh moment..

Edit: Forgot to mention, I can't use auto renew scripts because my sites run on shared hosting and I don't have any kind of command line access. I have to manually upload certificates via cpanel.
I agree with the sentiment of this post and the techniques shown are smart(and new to me). I do want to point this out however[0].

0: http://imgur.com/a/v1rbB
If you are going with React I suggest you go all in, i.e. React + Relay + GraphQL.
In FB words "While each of these technologies — React, Relay, and GraphQL — are powerful on their own, the combination is a UI platform that allows us to move fast and ship high-quality apps at scale"

The tricky part is the GraphQL/backend server.
You can roll your sleeves and do it yourself starting form this https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js
Might also try https://github.com/calebmer/postgraphql (PostgREST inspired, open source but no auth and has N+1 problem)

I am also working on a tool/platform that you might be interested for the backend (in beta).
It is based on OpenResty/PostgREST/PostgreSQL and it will give you a REST and GraphQL (Relay compatible) backend with very little work.
http://graphqlapi.com/
https://github.com/ruslantalpa/sub0_sample_app
10) Food Allergies and allergies in general are huge fun. So some kid with a peanut allergy in the day care means no peanut butter sandwiches in the employee cafeteria on the other side of the building.

11) Sometimes kids or parents aren't compatible with day care staff or management or policies, and that's OK when day care management and your management don't report to the same guy and you're not under the same roof, but it gets stressful when you're all one big family. Much like having a company bank or a company store sounds really nice until you look at some historical issues... Now you have employees complaining to their supervisor because the kids aren't getting enough zoo field trips, etc.
The problem I see with that is what if the good things truly are impersonal, specific and/or temporal; what if the bad things truly are personal, general and/or permanent?

Realistically, sometimes one must realise that one is the problem, not others or circumstances.
Their left leaning narrative can't take facts at this point. The sheer amount of lean really comes out of their choice of what to cover. They know it's easy to just offload comments onto another service. Any news source w/o comments is basically propaganda at this point.
A productive day
Hi!

I'm the CEO of an unknown company, amongst the reasons because it doesn't exist yet. And I'm fully aware you're gonna mercilessly delete this post, for one reason if not other, because I haven't posted a link to my site and perhaps true identity.

Anyways, today, in spite of 38 years of experience, I experienced a productive day. By "not doing anything", as technical people as I used to be view it, albeit I spent most of the 14 hours of my workday just as I've spent it in the last 5 years. 10 if you count the moment I've hopped from 10 to 14 and 15 since hopping from regular 8 hours to an average of 10.

So after 15 years of chasing ghosts I'm a bit tired. 30 years, if you count up to the first time I've thought about it.

But anyways again, in all my experience, chasing ghosts was if not a an explicitly forbidden, at least a highly discouraged activity. Try trying to be Richard Feynman by working just an average of one hour, if you're lucky to get that, and you still have the will and macht to do that after cutting, piling and shipping trees for 12 hours.

I did that for 30 years but I'm starting to feel this is the end. I can't do that anymore. I've very little idea what kept me going this far anyways. Trying to understand stuff, do stuff, change stuff, in spite of what every sheeple around me does and forces me to do.

I've got a horibly guilty feeling for not working my personal 3 hours per day. Because I only get those on average. If I'm missing this day then most probably I'm missing this week. Then, likely this month. Then I have to work hard just to fucking remember where the fuck did I start from. And progress exactly three fucking days. The whole month.

So what I'm telling you is that in spite of 'not working', I still feel I've made progress today. I just sat and reflected on what's wrong and what I can do to correct that. And came up with this.
I really don't think it ever went away. It's just not popular for whatever reason.
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Subaru engines are not known for their reliability.
What Manjaro did for Arch, Calculate did for Gentoo. I don't even mind the occasional package compile, as most is binary-based, and everything just works.
Well by that reasoning there's never any need for function purity since you can't eliminate global state on current computer designs.

C easily allows you to have multiple functions. exec_with_current_state or something. And a struct is a way, too.
Smallest VPS at DigitalOcean and Vultr is $5/mo.
Perl fan?
Hours to start up? On what size dataset does that start to become the case?

Been experimenting with BigQuery, and interested in how pricing compares: Usage vs instance based.
Source for safest car on the road? I don't see it on this list

http://www.iihs.org/iihs/news/desktopnews/small-overlap-cras...
To put it in US terms, I don't want Comcast and Verizon to split up the market into their own monopolistic fiefdoms. I want them to compete hard in an open market for my business.
Thanks for the feedback! I will look into it.
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I would have said when a single file is bigger than the maximum size of disk so say 4TB - its whey we used Map Reduce back in the 80's at British telecom for billing systems - the combined logs would have been to big to fit on a single disk
I literally heard that "Big Data is something that is too large to fit into an Excel spreadsheet". The speaker was serious.

I unsubscribed from that (non-tech) podcast.
I'm pretty sure there are letsencrypt windows clients. Which you can run every week to make sure they auto-renew. And you could do this as well by running the VM regularly, automatically.

The point of letsencrypt is to have auto-renewed certificates. It's intended to force you to automate the process.
What can be done to protect the incredibly long-lived Greenland shark?
Yeah, that would be a TL;DR although I just hit the major points, the devil (and several bureaucrats) are in the details.

I did "data consulting" for the predecessor research program to Early Head Start called CCDP when I was first out of college and it turned into knowing every regulation and rule. Its amazing how computer people become domain experts.

I should add that the Denver II screening is now free and you should check with the state your in to find out what child assessment tools you need to teach your child care staff to administer. We used LAP and E-LAP which were pretty easy and focused on what play activities the staff should do with the children.
75k for 300 range is nothing.

Degradation is directly proportional to capacity and early model electric vehicles start seeing noticeable degradation after about 600 full range charge cycles as a rule of thumb (probably improved by 20-30% since then).

That's why you see a TON of stories about degradation on Nissan Leaves (60084 = 50,400 miles, easily doable in 2-3 years of heavy commuting) and almost none for Teslas (600 280 = 168,000).

As you can see, a person would have to drive almost 21,000/year, which most people don't and by that point you'd be outside the warranty period (unless I misread the warranty)
I think the main issue is that most comments (about npr news) are happening off nor properties and the only ones left commenting on their properties are a core not representative of their general audience.
Also literally any table, but that's not what the author meant.
Left leaning sure, but i have heard them blast people on the left plenty of times. If you listen to them regularly you would see that. The problem with most on the right is they hear one news outlet say something negative about the right and they turn off the channel and assume they are all on a right wing bashing spree. NPR is not this way in the least bit. This is coming from a republican.
With all the sites getting rid of comments. I wonder if a market is opening for something like hackernews in other niches ?
Why isn't two nations working together a good thing for their economies?
Oh in the case where they're very publicly known they will, even if the US government wanted to suppress it, they do not have power over all AV companies. So it would be damaging to those companies.

And in any event, when we find out about nefarious state-sponsored software it's almost always super old.
Deep brain stimulation works without having complete knowledge of deep nuclei either. It's possible that by simply increasing the excitability of neurons they manage to 'resurface' learning (has been shown for place cells and DG cells).
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With automated troll armies it's hard to have a reasonable comments section.
Great write up, is N|Solid free or OSS?
Their argument is bogus. It's either cost or a laziness in moderation.

The ability to discuss specific articles and topics regarding specific source material is valuable. Having to search for the hashtag or article link on reddit or twitter to try to debate a topic is much, much less engaging, and is much more separated from the NPR writers and ombudsmen.
It can be any of those or all of those things you mentioned. They all fall under some concept of optimal.
Yup, not an issue. When you're charging at 120kW the whole car hums and cooling system is going full-tilt. Pretty incredible to see 400VDC @ 300A go straight into the pack.
I can't run those scripts. My site runs on shared hosting, I don't have command line access. All I have is a file manager for my 'htdocs' and standard cpanel stuff.
Everyone understands the merits of data-driven design. There is heaps of merit. No point to further discussion.

Everyone does NOT agree on the ethics of force-feeding this model on non-technical users without meaningful and informed consent. Toss in lack of transparent or comprehensive opt-out and misleading adoption strategy and you have a real problem.

Microsoft's market share in consumer computing is still massive and what they decide to do matters. It is worth talking about.
More likely, the people on top of the money chain will use it to improve their minions.
That's not a very good example. Communications is a natural monopoly - the barrier to entry in regional markets lends to less competition naturally. It's why most governments manage their natural monopolies to keep costs down.
Yeah, that's why I said "(sort of)". But in my case, the flexbox features I was using worked OK. I was actually fine with having IE10 see the "block layout" fallback (b/c if you use IE10 the web looks broken for you anyway, so you should be overjoyed that you get a layout that works even if it's not that fancy), but my marketing manager felt differently. Life.
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OP specifically referenced the image, so I think it's fair to focus on the image in this thread.
We could very easily make the cert lifetimes one year, or anything else. We chose 90 days for the reasons outlined here:

https://letsencrypt.org/2015/11/09/why-90-days.html

Additionally, long cert lifetimes are dangerous because revocation is ineffective and things like heartbleed happen.
By default, Windows 10 sends an unprecedented amount of
usage data back to Microsoft... location data, text
input, voice input, touch input, webpages you visit, and
telemetry data regarding your general usage of your
computer, including which programs you run and for how long.

Unprecedented for Microsoft or everyone? This is inline with what Google collects on Android.

...the fact remains that many users would much prefer to
opt out of these features in exchange for maintaining
their privacy.

Which they can do at any time, the initial setup permits opting out of almost all of this.

A significant issue is the telemetry data the company
receives. While Microsoft insists that it aggregates and
anonymizes this data, it hasn’t explained just how it
does so. Microsoft also won’t say how long this data is
retained, instead providing only general timeframes.

Microsoft has been doing this since Windows XP as do Apple, Google, and Amazon for their respective OSes.

Microsoft has tried to explain this lack of choice by
saying that Windows Update won’t function properly on
copies of the operating system with telemetry reporting
turned to its lowest level.

This is interesting because Windows 10 won't let you disable telemetry data entirely which upsets people. But most people probably want updates and the data necessary to determine which updates you've got installed on your computer are considered telemetry data by Microsoft and that information is essential in order to determine which updates are applicable or available. So does the minimum setting in Windows 10 collect more telemetry data than is necessary for Windows Update to function or not?

But this is a false choice that is entirely of
Microsoft’s own creation. There’s no good reason why the
types of data Microsoft collects at each telemetry level
couldn’t be adjusted so that even at the lowest level of
telemetry collection, users could still benefit from
Windows Update and secure their machines from
vulnerabilities, without having to send back things like
app usage data or unique IDs like an IMEI number.

Did Microsoft actually say that the lowest level of telemetry data collection includes that information? That sounds like an assumption.

And if this wasn’t bad enough, Microsoft’s questionable
upgrade tactics of bundling Windows 10 into various
levels of security updates have also managed to lower
users’ trust in the necessity of security updates. Sadly,
this has led some people to forego security updates
entirely, meaning that there are users whose machines are
at risk of being attacked.

Right or wrong, this is what Apple, Google, and Amazon currently. Sure it's nice to be able to look at each and every update to scrutinize what's going in but very few people do that. If you've every looked at the updates in earlier versions of Windows they're usually just KB numbers that you have to copy/paste into a browser to see what they actually fix.
Sure. Take an organization past its prime ( for path-dependent and ironclad reasons ) and raise the mental voltage/head pressure.

Look, just getting activities sorted by precedence should be enough for most things. Organizations all have "hull speed". Adding more motor won't help.

We have to get past making drugs some sort of moral nexus, and only concentrate on the pragmatic effects of them.
Comments are a propaganda tool at this point. Commentary is bought and sold to support whatever narrative the purchaser wants.
Or perhaps they just realized that comments sections are awful places for discussion, and that the kind of vitriolic discourse that happens there might actually be harming the reader's experience instead of enhancing it?
With a quick glance, I got an impression that it wasn't a survey, but this was an actual experiment. They sent 17000 randomized emails to 5000 early-stage investors through AngelList. Emails highlighted either the team, traction, existing investors or some combination of these. Researchers measured how many investors responded with "View" or "Get an Intro" buttons.

I think that is pretty well designed experiment given the difficulty of researching such topic.
This is a totally valid point about my example. Unfortunately for the sake of my argument, it was done by accident (or subconscious).

I have been practicing detaching critical feedback from the person and instead attaching it onto the situation or context for quite a while now. In any form, I think that point is crucial.
> I wonder if a market is opening for something like hackernews in other niches ?

... or perhaps for a browser plugin that allows comments on any web page.