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Sounded all good until I read this: "email them to friends and family."

You have a weak link there. In today's day and age, most people expect not to send or receive emails. Be that family photos or birthday wishes. The expectations is to share in a pool of social media, for everyone to see (or not see).

I am not a naysayer of your method (I prefer email), but it is practically too much work to select and send emails (takes a lot of thinking and decision making). This is why one-click sharing on social media, has been able to evolve to a point where it has set such an expectations across common denominator crowd.
Prefer the UK system, of which versions seems to work well in other countries too. The US has a strange love affair with using money to solve problems that ultimately require community involvement and social bonds to solve. Brings to mind the Hunter S. Thompson analogy that the quintessential American rôle is that of a used car salesman.
I work in this field (Infection Prevention and Control) and we get a few necrotizing fasciitis cases each year (I work at a large, tertiary hospital).

Very rarely are cases related to each other, and therefore have some common source of infection. More often than not, the cases are completely random and the patients could have done nothing to prevent it. Some may find that worrisome, for example, patients that get infections from such minor injuries such as a cut from gardening or falling on pavement. But other than keeping wounds clean, there isn't much you can do, so it shouldn't be something people should worry about.
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Fact check on those numbers:

(1) This is a 30megawatt plant. An average household consumes 2500watts (including heating). 30,000,000 / 2500 = 12,000 homes ... it's in the same ballpark. But only when the wind farm is operating at 100% capacity. That may be only 25% of the time, with lesser being the norm and zero being a thing at some times.

(2) Homes are not the only energy consumers. US electricity consumption per person = 13,246.27kwh / 2088 hours per year = 6300watts per person. 30,000,000/6300 = 4750. ... These five mills can produce enough power for around 4750 people. But that is only the electricity and doesn't include non-electrical energy such as hydrocarbons burnt for transport/heat. If we all start driving teslas, or switch to electric heat, those five turbines will cover far less than 4750 people.

But let's say this plant does cover 5000 people. 320,000,000/5000 = we need 64000 of these plants, or 320,000 turbines[1]. And again, only when running at capacity. The real number is perhaps triple.

[1]Thanks to dmoy for correcting my decimal error.
I'm still awaiting my updates to my Google TV!
Not necessarily. From my personal experience more Airbnb hosts are renting out places that aren't their primary residences, so there's nothing of value in the apartment (as mentioned in the article).
Why not? People are suffering and we have safe medications which improve their lives.

Not treating ADHD is far more dangerous. People with unmedicated ADHD are more likely to do poorly in school, abuse drugs/alcohol, suffer from depression etc.
Anyone here who tried out gRPC or is using it in production, and can share some experiences?
At a high level, SQS is simple, but there are a lot of additions AWS has made over time such as dead letter queues, message attributes, delayed messages. Some of these settings are per-queue level, some are overridable on a per-message basis. Not that AMQP isn't super complex, but SQS has a larger feature set surface area than a lot of people realize.

There is also a bit of oddness experienced when people try to use the various AWS libraries to hit non-AWS hosted endpoints since the happy path for these is to connect to AWS regions.

I worked on an internal SQS clone in the past (not related to current employer).

From a queue API perspective, I like iron.io's MQ API [0] and Google Cloud PubSub[1].

Disclaimer: I currently work for Nest, an Alphabet company

[0] http://dev.iron.io/mq/3/
[1] https://cloud.google.com/pubsub/reference/rest/
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I'm not sure but I did like one of their features: ensuring your proof-of-concept will work for your client evaluating it as well as it does for you via same box. Previously, I'd have recommended virtualization or simply mailing them a demo appliance if profits justify it. The virtualization software usually is a heavy install requiring admins that digs all into the system. The second option costs a box per evaluator plus they have to put it together on their end. There's also containers these days as evolution of virtualization approach that similarly require configuration and training.

I think a simple solution for two people using the same desktop and configuration with low-latency is a powerful alternative. I could see all kinds of users wanting that combo of convenience and effectiveness for $0.45/hr [assuming no hidden fees]. Potential for lots of growth.
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I'm standing directly on it but it's not doing anything...
The article briefly mentions "hyperkinetic infants" and doesn't address the well known effects on neonates by the consumption of caffeine by pregnant women (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3420441?dopt=abstractplus) and the way advertisers market sugar and caffeine to children.
As I was driving into the office today, passing all these auto dealerships, big, small, and mom and pops small. I wondered if they have an exit plan. In 5 years or less, every automobile manufacturer will have a self driving car. Will it make their inventory obsolete or a lot less valuable? Will it make my car a lot less valuable? On a side note: http://www.visualcapitalist.com/chart-largest-companies-mark...
It's a bit of an older usage than is common today, but it is correct. You'll also find this usage in phrases like "offensive odor".
I was diagnosed in grade school, took Ritalin through high school. Maybe it helped, but I'm sure a lot of folks here had similar experiences to me in school. School just sucked in general: I was always bored, and when I wasn't bored I was being tormented by classmates, mercilessly.

Ritalin might have helped my grades. I dunno, though, as I graduated second to last in my class at a super posh boarding school. Ritalin made it VERY hard to sleep, that's for sure. That wasn't helped by typical boarding school hazing bullshit.

All I know is that when I flunked out of college and got really, really depressed, I stopped taking Ritalin and moved to the Bay Area. I've never felt ADD or ADHD here simply because people understood what I was talking about. Computers weren't really a thing where I'd come from, beyond being tools for work.

I'm not convinced I don't have ADHD or what not, but I do know that I had a massive existential crisis when I first got here trying to figure out what aspects of my personality were really me, and which aspects were just me tweaking on Ritalin... Like, did I really enjoy doing X, Y, Z? Or was I just all Ritalin'd up and doing it because of the drugs? Who was I, really?

If I could do it all again, I feel like me being held back 1 year in school would have accomplished the same thing as Ritalin, but I'll never know. Socially, I was just not up to my grade level, even though I was easily grasping and becoming bored by class work. I definitely move and talk fast, but I am able to do long stretches of work when I have to, and when I care. That's the key, here I think.

Maybe that's the whole problem: kids like me just don't have the patience for stupid busy work, like homework, penmanship exercises, or date memorization. When I actually was interested in something, like Philosophy, I geeked way out over it and could concentrate for hours...

But I ramble (imagine that!). Long story short, today, I don't medicate my ADHD with Ritalin. I've just arranged my life so that my job and world are filled with stuff I care about, and not stuff I don't. Compared to some of the other ADHD adults I've met, I think I'm completely calm, frankly.

From the outside, it's probably way fucked up I was put on Ritalin. Inside, meh... it built character I guess.
We don't have to give up modern education to meet the basic biological needs of children any more than we need to give up our jobs to be healthy adults. Initiatives like http://standupkids.org/ demonstrate pretty clearly that there are plenty of obvious, easy ways that we can address these needs. The obvious answer as to why we haven't tried them yet is money. But that seems like a lazy explanation, because American schools are some of the best-funded in the world. I think it's really a reflection on how we in the West view child-rearing in general. I read a really interesting interview a few months back discussing Freud, where the psychologist being interviewed was basically saying that Freud's model was implicitly based on the shame he felt about his childhood self, how the relationship between therapist and subject is derived from the relationship between parent and child, and that every time Freud was speaking to a subject sitting in a chair in front of him, he was talking to his 8-year-old self. Ironically we tend to see the natural reaction of a child as somehow wrong. If a child can't sit in a chair for 3 hours, the child is wrong, rather than the idea of sitting in a chair for 3 hours. So as the article points out, the conversation begins as "How can we modify the children to fit the environments we've built for them" rather than "How can we modify the environments we've built for children to fit their needs?"
As someone in my 5th decade, with lifelong ADHD (though given my age it did not exist in my youth, and was only diagnosed relatively recently), I'm wary of backing away from treatments until we actually do have real viable alternatives.

It took far too long to get ADHD widely recognised, and even now it's often more likely to be received with humour than real recognition. Much more research, especially on other possible treatments and therapies, is needed before we turn too zealously against the only treatment actually shown to work. We have a long history of over diagnosing and overdoing pretty much everything.

I've only ever managed it with limited success. There's little doubt that the drugs can work. Despite some evidence of over-diagnosis and over-prescription there are many people who have had their prospects transformed as a result. I suggest the ADHD label is being significantly over applied because real awareness, even in the medical profession, is still abysmal. Doctors don't have time to look at home circumstances, or parents and other factors that might affect behaviour. Awareness coming from some TV comedy skit however is high.

I don't actually care that we don't yet have full understanding of how the drugs work, or that OMG they're amphetamines. I often wonder how things may have turned out differently for me had I encountered more GP awareness and less ridicule, or even earlier self-awareness or teen diagnosis and treatment.

If we are too successful "exposing big pharma" and overdiagnosis in the minds of GPs and the public, lives will be ruined once again. Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater here rather than seek wider understanding.
Yeah, too late to edit.
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Sorry, mean't to be a joke. Way past the point of being saved anyway
Overall, I am wary of the overconfidence with which mental problems are handled. I don't know if heavy medication for psychological issues is worth it when we know so little of the long term effects. And looking at the history of these medications, I find it difficult to believe that everything is fine at the present moment. Maybe the future will tell how many of the present prescriptions are dangerous.
From my experience I've found there are 3 types of VCs:

1. The Product VC

These are people who built a great product(s) and exited and became VCs. They know the roller coaster of making a product successful. They can provide great advice. They can identify with the struggle and provide support. They are informed about the industry because they are inherently curious people and like to know about products. They also know what kind of person will most probably succeed in navigating the turbulent waters of a start up and bring a great product to market. These are the VCs to listen to.

2. The "I won a lottery VC"
These guys made a product that for some reason (right timing, right connections, right team, product/market fit) became hugely successful quickly and they exited. They had an idea for solving a single pain point and it was the right pain point to solve. With their new found wealth they behave like @johnwheeler's Shoe Button prince. Suddenly they feel like they can pontificate on any industry. Unless your product is in the same industry that the VC exited from take what these guys say with a grain of salt.

3. The Herd VC

These guys are the spray and pray variety or follow the herd variety. Both these strategies will lead them to seem like they have the Midas touch because a few of their investments will hit the blockbuster league. If you ask them what made them invest in the blockbuster they will spew the generic things. These are the guys whose money you take and ignore their advice because they really don't know what they are talking about. Their well of knowledge is shallow and wide so in your industry it won't be deep and narrow.
The article briefly mentions the issue then moves on.

But is it true that "it’s too expensive to modify the kid’s environment" or simply that established powers make more money by "modifying the kid"?
Working according to this model will make you really unhappy and bring you to burn out. It seems it's made from and for the CEO/CFO level but not to build up a friendly ecosystem.
And there was Chorus back in the 90's.
This is the opposite of what I needed to hear, but exactly what I wanted
Actually the time was 150 years ago, but you do you, economics.
Its important to note that in addition to supply-side forces increasing diagnoses, there are demand-side incentives as well.

I don't know how many parents are eager to put their kids on speed, but there are also accommodations provided by schools that they might very much want their kids to have. Like having the option to turn homework in late, or getting extra time on tests. Its worth noting that the option to turn homework in late is probably useless or worse for actual cases of ADHD, since it just moves the consequences of actions even further into the future, for people who have a deficiency in the ability to handle loose feedback systems (as opposed to tight feedback systems where consequences are immediate).
The environment has been improving. I run foreign owned company in VN and we haven't had to deal with any bribery. Policies have been changed to make it easier to start a company. That's not to say things aren't still messy and inefficient; but in general the corruption isn't evenly spread throughout every industry.
On top of that, I wonder if its effectiveness will be impacted by the fact that destroying a drone and attacking/killing a human have different, legal consequences. Crooks sabotage equipment a lot more than they attack people. Quite a few ways to shoot down or disrupt drones appearing online. Might go from hearing how crooks spraypainted cameras to how they paintballed the slow-moving, predictable drone.
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I'm looking to get better at designing a component based web app UI for some projects I've been working on.

I have been looking for some resources to improve this skill but lots of information is outdated and does not reflect the apps I'm seeing in 2016
Congrats to Paul & InfluxData team! Your stack is so great!

A few questions - nothing extremely important but something that I was wondering about in the last few months:

1. Is there any reason for still using md5 instead of sha256 for packages and archives?

2. Do you have any plans for maintaining proper package repos? E.g. something like packagecloud?
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How does it compare to Tripwire or AIDE? At first look it seems Trailbot is closer to "real time" detection than the others.
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I haven't really considered how short that whitelist might be but you make a good point and I'll likely adopt your approach!
A couple of points:

Referring to an industry as "them" is not constructive. Comcast has a horrible reputation for internet service, does that mean we are all a part of "big tech" out to screw the little guy?

Pharma companies will develop drugs that they think they can sell. If it were possible to create a stimulant variant profitably, companies would do so like any other rational actor.

The epipen story is sad, I agree, and it would be nice if it were easier to get a generic onto the market. The money for more drug research has to come from somewhere, though, so more profitability for the industry will have a positive long term affect even if the short term is highly unfortunate for the patients.
Yep. Dealt with this my entire life. Teachers, doctors, and counselors suggested I see someone regarding a possible ADD diagnosis all through school as my supposed "brilliance" (their words, not mine) came along with a seemingly unbeatable tendency to zone out in class, constantly talk to other kids when I knew I was supposed to be listening, and flat out forget to do major assignments while I just sort of daydreamed or got sidetracked the moment something else came along.

But my father didn't believe in ADD or at least thought it was overdiagnosed. By god, when he was a kid, there was a name for my behavior and it was lazy, careless, or just plain selfish. So all of those recommendations were ignored.

It took me dropping out of college, going off to work in dead-end, unrewarding and un-challenging jobs while avoiding contact with my folks out of a mixture of shame, resentment, and anger to finally motivate me to see a counselor who eventually referred me to a psychiatrist.

Got put on a mild dosage of stimulant medications, got myself about $15k in loans to enroll at another state university, finished my degree with no lower than a B in any class, and finally got myself into something of a career path. It's been weird because I always felt like I'm 10-15 years behind where I should be but then I remind myself that there is no "should" and I'm thankful that I've improved my quality of life.

Medication (and stimulant medication) isn't a panacea and there are obviously tradeoffs but I think that for a very real subset of people, the avoidance of it out of some misplaced ideas of pill-pushers or lack of "grit" is a real shame that causes some very real problems.
>I don't know what kind of programming you do, but he is talking mainly about kernel programming.

This specific rant was about using C++ in git. BTW I work in what could be called soft realtime systems.

> But I think, C++ is more suited for applications programming, where efficiency is not a prime concern and abstraction-costs are justified.

If efficiency is not a prime concern, using C++ is hardly justified.

> [...] the point you seem to be missing is that C doesn't force any abstractions on you.

Nor does C++.

edit:

> Even in such cases, (e.g. git, which is an application program) an excellent programmer like Linus can be very well productive with C and does not need the (sloppy/non-sloppy) abstractions provided by C++.

and that's perfectly fine, if one feels more productive in a certain language, more power to him, but please let's not spread FUD.
How about economics just influencing policy?

Blah blah dismal science and all that, but microeconomics is considerably less hand wavy than macroeconomics and at least in the US there are all sorts of policies that pretend that people don't respond to incentives (never mind if they respond as homo economicus or not).
It's surprising how much of being a good entrepreneur boils down to just applying solid critical thinking skills.
Granted Influxdata needs to eat, which is fine--and it's a product worth paying for--but they handed us a choice between an unanticipated expense versus reevaluating the market when they changed business models after we had selected them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11262318

https://influxdata.com/blog/update-on-influxdb-clustering-hi...
Not being black doesn't mean you're not African.
This echoes the point made in the article:

> One clinician quoted in the book more or less admits defeat: “We’ve decided as a society that it’s too expensive to modify the kid’s environment. So we have to modify the kid.”
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The "Washington Consensus" is a rather recent term. The concept itself refers to policies that were put in place by the 70's.

The IMF and the World Bank both predate those "policies".
And they were giving loans and advise before.

Truth is: they're an easy scapegoat. It's that simple.

Countries have succeded by following the IMF/WB "Neo-Liberal" advise and other countries have failed by doing the same.
Countries have also succeded by not following the IMF/WB "Neo-Liberal" advise and other countries have failed by the same.

Most of the time, local politics is the real issue.
No, my qualification is that I create statistical models for living and I know how flawed they are. What are yours?
> Kids went to school for 7-hours 50 years ago as well, but ADHD diagnosis have been constantly increasing.

There was much less emphasis on doing well in school back then. Most people didn't go to college and didn't need to get the grades necessary to do so. They could have a solid middle class life without even a high school diploma. Not being "cut out for college" wasn't the end of the world.
Yes it is. But it's going to drop quite quickly the more off-shore wind developments there are. Unfortunately, these prices only drop when people start building them. When the banks get more experience with the risks involved the project costs drop and the same will happen with new foundation technologies.
I will check that out.
Why would they? Where's the profit?

Capitalism (even hip tech startup capitalism) can't solve all problems, particularly not the tragedy of the commons on a global scale.
If you think everyone should have access to some meat, you can take some of that tax money and use it to subsidize a minimal amount of meat consumption for low-income families.
> They are the same exact people online as they are on the bus.

Haven't you heard? There are criminals on the internet!
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Thank you and it makes sense. This is a way that economic development (should) work. We are "exporting" entrepreneurs who use the skills and mindset of the US to Vietnam to help with their nascent capitalist market economy. :-)
Whether you consider the opinion right or wrong is beside the point that I was making (that the parent to my post seemed to be "tilting at windmills"). Saying that the author has an inconsistent position of "there are too many drugs" and "there need to be more drugs" seems like a poor reading of that sentence.
Yes, bill means receipt in British English.
I'm amused that you're being chided for citing your local weather as a source of skepticism....yet if you were citing incredibly hot local temperatures as a reason you're incredibly concerned no one would blink an eye.

The core science of global climate change is surrounded by a cloud of toxic subjectivity and witch-hunting. The hypocrisy is sometimes staggering.