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It is gratifying to see so many developers have kids and achieve amazing things simultaneously.

I put myself through grad school in economics (5 years), learned C/Fortran/Python, learned data science, all with two young kids. Ungodly hours and sleep deprivation were the norm for months at a time. Prioritization of that precious little free time became so important. Milestones, project plans, etc. Recreation consisted of kite flying after exams for the semester were complete, and the student-apartment barbecues on Sundays.

How do I keep learning? I keep Netflix off as much as possible, code on projects (sexy or not) instead of firing up steam, and focus on good enough instead of perfection. In other words, tradeoffs.

Do I have everything down? No, I have a list of things to learn or understand better as long as my arm. But I'm working towards it, and my kids (now tweeners with a toddler brother) work with me occasionally too. Just last week we worked together on an invention convention with me as a SME. I learned about circuitry, my kids built an awesome LED light/clock/bookmark. One wants to be a video game designer when they grow up, one wants to be a musician and deejay like Tiesto, and I'm tickled that I get to share the things I learn with them.

Tech and coding really are and can be a family affair. It's not only a good source of income, but for kids the idea that they can fundamentally change the world, push boundaries and improve life for people builds on their already optimistic imaginations and, frankly, is really cool to see.
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The Guardian used to be a "serious" newspaper, but since they went after markets outside of the UK, including online, they're more of a "classy tabloid". Farming clickbait. A very unfortunate turn. Used to really enjoy their culture content in the 90s
It is very picky on the hardware it supports out of the box. That means you'll get problems with Hardware that came out after Haswell. It works ok on my Lenovo X240 (that I bought brand new in Juli 2016 in a maxed out version at a very good price). But after a short trial I decided to go with Xubuntu as the hardware support is much better and most developer relevant software today runs on Linux without hassles. I love the FreeBSD on my company's server, totally hassle free. But on the desktop, it is for fans, not the general public. But anyway: try it out, get a feel for it.
This post on Deep Voice seems a little off-the-mark. In fact, I would say it is completely misleading about the technical accomplishments here.

From my perspective, Baidu's approach is a little embarrassing, with the use of many modeling stages in their training and production of TTS. When the rest of the community is moving towards end-to-end training, their usage of this many stages sounds excruciating. Merlin[0], which was a pretty good standard for 2016, has this painful feeling as well, with two DL stages (duration, acoustic) followed by some conditioning and then a synthesis step.

The more important technical contribution seems to be the hand-tuned synthesis code that makes their generation faster; cool but not particularly sexy (and there are few details). The details on training hyperparams are nice to have too, of course.

Contrary to the post, I would be very surprised if the voice sample included in the post was actually generated by Deep Voice -- it has none of the robotic qualities pointed out by the researchers themselves in their blog post[1]. More likely it is a demonstration of the loss in their last, WaveNet-like stage. This was also pointed out in the previous HN discussion[2]

Lastly, Andrew Ng is neither thanked in the paper nor mentioned on any webpage -- are we sure this was work he supervised?

[0] https://github.com/CSTR-Edinburgh/merlin

[1] http://research.baidu.com/deep-voice-production-quality-text...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13756489
Meh. People are so inundated with so-called "fact-based" marketing materials, the entire word has become meaningsless. We have created entire "scientific" fields of study that serve no other purpose but inducing people to choose against their own interest (whether in politics, marketing, sales or PR) that this really should not be surprising: the people that still trust "facts" have been selected against for over four generations now.

"Facts" aren't, news at 11.
If I stop the video, then use the "resume video" in the lower-right corner, then I get the audio but it's out of sync by however long it took me to stop the video in the first place.
That is just plain stupid, short of being a giant asshole, you don't lay on the horn cause someone respected a light/stop sign. Sounds like a city to avoid.
I can never have the time back.
I'm pretty sure it supports ICMP, as TCP/IP cannot work properly without it. I guess you mean ICMP echo. Also there are like four kind of Azure load balancers and this is only true for some of them.
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I've never understood why developers criticize OS vendors use of "private APIs". I would go so far as to say there is no such thing as a "private API". The API is a vendors promise to consuming applications that when they call a method, a certain behavior will happen. Whatever they do behind the scenes is an implementation detail that they should be allowed to change anytime without breaking consuming applications.

Apple often uses immature frameworks internally - like the extensions framework - to to polish them or to dog food them before making them official.
Surely the potential issue with this compared to a LSTM+ model is that the average function will have insufficient capacity to capture even comparatively common exceptions in a sequence?
One shouldn't feel obligated to work long hours just to keep up in the first place
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It cost the same as running the war in Iraq for a few hours[1]. Since the two expenses are closely related, I suggest we put them on the same tab and call it a day.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09...
How are you dealing with email? I recently started looking at this and it was a bit more annoying than I hoped for. Currently it seems like I am settling down with Python + imaplib/email modules and a lot of stack overflow Q/A's.
Not counting the fact that the book is old, i would generally not recommend it.
The contents and topics have not changed that much but the book is just rather horrible to read.
For whatever reason the author decided to ramble on for way to many pages instead of getting a point across in a concise manner. The whole thing should have been done in 300 pages instead of 900+. You will just start flipping pages without reading them and then put that gargantuan behemoth of endless words and sentences on the shelf (or return it to the library, delete the ebook or whatever).

That code does not look overly hideous (apart from the split magic string) just reformat it into a couple of lines.
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A crucial truth about parenting is that every kid and every family is different.
The counterargument:

http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/kernighans-lever/

It's worth looking at all the other pages on his site both before and after reading that article. Do you think he would've be able to accomplish all that if he "utilises only syntax and statements taught in an introductory programming course"?

What's funny is that often our future selves is the maintainer of our software.

IMHO if you find it difficult to understand code you wrote years ago, you have not actually improved. In fact, if this was any other skill (natural language, maths, etc.), the inability to do what you used to be able to, would be considered none other than a regression.
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Zoning is inherently racist, designed to keep the poor and working class out of areas of the city. It stunts economic growth to boot, and should be done away with entirely.

That being said, the roadways are public property, and should be redesigned to be on a road diet, but building structures in the middle is perhaps not the best idea. Parkifying some sections, expanding others into plazas (while infilling parking to densify) and selling the edges of the roadway to new development so it may be denser would be better approaches.
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Internally, we tend to call this kind of code, circumventing a procedure, the Volkswagen Code.
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My work is a bit of a mess, we've historically never been that joined up of a business, but on the same floor we have people using Skype, Skype for Business, Slack and Teams.

Skype - Actively getting people to move away from this, fairly easy as new people in to the business don't setup accounts, everyone has experience with Skype, it's not a business tool.

Skype for Business - Clunky, conversation history is there, then disappears, sometimes it appears in your Outlook (in our case in a folder), sometimes it doesn't. Feels like a half-baked platform, but as my office is very Office365/MS-in-the-cloud they force it upon us.

Teams - Better than SfB, but still not usable. It tries to do everything, such as integrate planners, to do lists and so on. It dresses up as a business tool, then it has 'make your own meme' generators, which makes it seem a bit of a confused app. My biggest bug bear is when you're viewing a conversation, if someone replies to an old message, the entire message thread then appears as the 'newest'. I've missed countless conversations because of the funky ordering of chat.

Slack - Awesome. A bit memory hungry, but a really well thought out app in terms of UX. Does exactly what you need it do, clicking a username does what you expect, as does mentioning and so on. You can apply themes, tons of plugins and extra stuff.

Whilst Slack is everyones preferred app, the business refuse to pay for it as they pay for Office365. wORK are, for that reason, promoting both Teams and SfB, because Teams has planners and so on, but SfB has somewhat usable VOIP. Anyone slightly technical uses Slack though on the free plan, it's just a lot better and features like Code Snippets are great for tech teams.

There are a subset of us that are thinking of moving to IRC, which has the added feature that PMs and managers can't figure it out.
You will have less time and have to prioritize. I look back and wonder what I did with all that extra time before children. Turns out not much.

Thankfully babies need a lot of sleep and after six months their stomachs get bigger and they start eating a bit of solid food and will sleep through the night if you are lucky.

Night owls can still have 9-midnight to yourself if you want... I did this for two years with my first child while trying to get a start-up going and still use that time once in a while now.

But there is a better way. Look at your employer or company culture. It turns out the standard hero culture in tech of long hours on your own is not a very effective use of anyone's time. Look for a culture that values learning, collaboration and teaching. If you actually work 8 effective hours a day maintaining a sustainable pace you can get amazing things accomplished.

Techniques like pair programming, BDD, trunk based development with less or no time wasting code reviews can help you transfer knowledge, let teams move faster with higher quality while maintaining a good pace. Try those things instead of sleeping less.
What part of what I said is not true?

Are you asserting both parties are not guilty or one is more guilty than the other.

In any case I don't think what I said is untrue or was an attempt to mislead.
If, in having a kid, you don't suddenly come to a few realizations on what is truly important to you and in all the ways you've been wasting time, then either you're an ubermensch of productivity or you may have some unresolved emotional issues and I would highly encourage seeking counseling.

I'm sorry, that's not meant as a dismissal. I mean it quite literally. There have been three things in my life that have improved it immensely: therapy, getting married, and having a kid. Everything else is window dressing.

I needed therapy to learn how to evaluate myself. I needed to get married to start feeling comfortable with myself. And I needed to have a kid to realize my low six-figure web and database consulting business was never going to have a meaningful impact on the world and I needed to focus on my VR project.

I've learned that commenting on Reddit does not make me happy. Playing video games does not make me happy. Watching TV and reading books doesn't make me happy. They are occasionally enjoyable, but to make these things a regular part of my life is just a holding pattern, a low-grade dopamine hit that just maintains the current state. What makes me actually, really happy, actually making progress towards not feeling depressed, not feeling anxious, is spending time with my wife and son and making progress on my passion project.

And I say "making progress" specifically, rather than "working on". Going through therapy gave me a new set of skills on being more objective towards evaluating my own life, admitting to myself when things are sunk costs, not going anywhere, etc. I come from a long line of "creative procrastinators". We are the sort of people who put off filing taxes at the end of the year by cleaning the house. It stems out of fear of the unknown, but the point is that we are very good at slipping into the terrible habit of being active instead of productive. I've had many a project that I thought was "the one" that was going to be my startup, and I'd inevitably slip into micro focusing on technical details rather than keeping an eye on the goal and focusing on doing those things that make progress towards them.

I got a little lucky in that I was able to find a great, small team of people to make that work my day job. It's "luck" in the sense that I had to be in the right places at the right time to draw their attention to eventually negotiate a partnership. But it wasn't "if you build it, they will come". That movie is about a literal miracle. I had to stop dicking around on code 100% of my time and start focusing more time on marketing myself.

Quit hanging out in bars. Quit hanging out with the "friends" you only sort of like, but you secretly suspect are only in your life because they are in your extended circle. Quit spending all morning on HN, Twitter, Facebook. Be honest with yourself. You already know what is keeping you from progressing. You just have to stop relying on emotional crutches so you can discard them and focus on what is important.
Or just pretend that you are a gmail mail server and store the credentials that are transmitted when people add the account to their mail app.
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You as an end user jailbreaking your own phone is not a "security hole".

I'm not aware of any non-tethered jailbreak for iOS 10
That, and bad science. Especially in medicine where studies with N=7 white college students are somehow considered acceptable.
Having kids sometimes come over while we work is pretty cool. They ask questions about what we're doing at times and we have to ELI5, it's great practice.

My desk has a number of puzzles and they have a ton of fun playing with it. Sometimes they draw on the whiteboard or write a quote.

A++, would definitely recommend bringing kids a couple of times a year.
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I have four kids and I still find time to speak at conferences, write the occasional blog post, and work on side projects. One thing for me is that having kids has forced me to be better organized. So even though I can't spend an entire Saturday working on a project anymore, I get a lot more done with the time I have.
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Ok. Are you in a B2B business?
One of my colleagues has a large dog who is often asleep, snoring, during conference calls :-)
It's much nicer when you cycle to work. Many parts of London are not built that densely, at least compared to other European cities.
(And concerning "territories they claim as their own", it takes a lot of "down-with-whataboutism-lalala-hands-in-the-ears" for US to point to Nepal and forget Puerto Rico, or for that matter Hawaii. And let's not go further back...)

What about Nepal?
Already started, several lines run on electric buses. But you'll only see improvements once black cabs are electric, too.
What a coincidence, I am also working on a language that uses three letters for instructions and every single line starts with one, same concept as Uno:

say 'hello world'
let list = [1,2,3]
for item in list: say item
def add(x,y): ret x+y
is? a=1 say 'ok' no? say 'wrong'

Easier for the compiler and for the human.
The argument applies just as well to each member of a team.
An engineer will say a bridge will fail, or a foundation they designed 20 years ago will give way under 4x the load it was designed for, but the politicians and businessmen at the top will overrule them, people may die, and the only person blamed will be the engineer, despite the paper they wrote and published years before saying to tear the 60 year old bridge with spalding concrete and rusted girders down.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink it. The same goes for accepting reality, hence why many choose to live in an alternative reality.
Tolls to subsidise busses is the solution to any gridlock issue.

The problem is buses are now run by bus companies and not a public service so the public are still charged too much to get on a bus and if they have a car it might still be more tempting to take the car to work.
Maybe with HDDs, but SSDs are so fast that zstd would be the bottleneck
It was just amusing to see such a formal engagement labeled as the opposite. It can be a good idea, beneficial for both parties, etc. But if a candidate can fail it, it's certainly not normal or informal.
That might be the case :)
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Actually after Enron was exposed, most former employees head a very difficult time getting hired. It was a major black mark, made worse by the fact that many employees had significant savings in Enron stock.
For me it's helped me _really_ come to terms with the KISS principle and avoiding needless stuff. Understanding the value of proven and stable technology, and convenient, flexible, yet fast workflows. Spending a bit of extra time to get things right from the beginning, and then settling.

The past me would have messed around playing with Linux distros trying to find what's most cool and best for me, totally wasting a lot of time in the process, perhaps kept building websites using more obnoxious workflows because I never saw a need to change.

Now I'm using a combo of gohugo and surge.sh to build my site, on Debian Stable Xfce. No distractions and stuff just works, man, with a minimum of fuss. Xfce on SSD is just laughably fast and slick. I think I audibly laughed. It's not just for low spec PC's! Anyway, then came the realization I could evolve my new site with these new tools to build a better face to the web for my career. I'm blogging in convenient, fast near-prose Markdown and I type one damn command to puzzle everything together and deploy. Now I realize these new insights will probably be good for me as a professional too, not just sparing time at home. It's not only at home time is considered valuable...

It's especially good to get this thinking into the "core" of yourself, you know. That it's automatically part of everything you do. It's honestly too late I've had that happen but kids probably helped.
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I imagine that there's some other code in travis_wait to help deal with possibly stuck builds, though, shrug.

And well, it's not flipping off a company that does a lot for free to OSS.
It is dangerous. This guy's (Alexey Navalny) brother is in jail on a fabricated lawsuit as a hostage. Alexey himself was also convicted guilty and the only reason he personally is not in jail is because he will only get more rating points from being a political prisoner.

There was a massive smear campaign against him on all major government controlled mass media where they were blaming him to be an US agent and also a corrupt person.

The only reason Putin has good approval rating now is because he managed to convince the majority of TV owners in US conspiracy.

And Ukraine crisis, sanctions, ISIS, and oil price drop did actually convince majority of Russians in that.
So as long as people blame US Putin is safe.

One similar thing I see here in US: when facts are too painful and too obvious - blame another country.
I know the song well, but it's the first time I've really read the lyrics and ... wow... (running my own business with 3 small children, one a son)... listening to it on Spotify now.
It's really hard for the first few years while the kids are very young but it gets easier. I wouldn't worry.
Thanks for your reply. It helped me get past the problem.

I want to the %TEMP% folder and looked at dd_setup_2017??.log and saw that it last executed:

Running: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe with parameters: -NoLogo -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -InputFormat None -Command ...

I then went to Task Manager and noticed the powershell.exe command hanging with 0% cpu consumed.

I remembered that sometimes those commands hang on network paths so I ran "vs_Enterprise.exe --layout" again to local "C:\VS2017_RTM" instead of mapped "Z:\VS2017_RTM".

It then completed without hanging. The completed target folder has:

1,901 Files, 765 Folders total 22,171,951,890 bytes

It seems strange that the successful completion results in less files & folders but 8 more gigabytes. I assume some intermediate scripts cleaned up some files.
Here's how to pass most startup cultural fit tests:

Avoid strong opinions even if you're asked. The interviewers themselves may be crapping on emacs, PHP, design patterns or whatever so you may be tempted to voice your own, but it doesn't go both ways. Don't get too comfortable.

You'll be offered coffee. Drink it. Don't refuse beer either. Fake a liking if need be. After work drinks are mission critical.

Make sure you're not too fat nor too old nor too Indian. If you're a woman, look your best and practice your natural makeup skills.

"What are your hobbies? / What do you like to do on your free time?" don't mean what you think they mean. "Spending time with my family" or "reading" are not valid answers. The only valid answers are the ones that imply you like working for free (Github, OSS, and the like.) Bonus points for consecutive green squares.

Don't talk badly about former colleagues. This is the biggest red flag.
Yeh as I recall Jeremy Howard was chief boffin at the start, and left some time later to start his own biomedical data analysis company (also in SF).
It's not about scrappy vs not scrappy.

It's about putting a "merit"ocracy in place that encourages people to backstab and generally act like jerks in order to get ahead.

It's about priorities. I'd rather work in a slightly less-profitable company if it didn't have a toxic work environment.
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