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Agree with you. I absolutely loved my first computer at age 10. It became one of my biggest passions and skills in life (to this day). At one point (13 or 14 years old), my parents sincerely told me they were concerned that I was losing focus/attention on other important things. I took that conversation to heart and I tried to be more cognizant of my use patterns. Sure I stayed up to 3am some nights but I was exhausted the next day and I learned my lesson. It was unhealthy.

As they say "Better to teach a man to fish".

This can be translated to "Better to teach a kid how to know when they are using something in a unhealthy way." (rather than do it for them). May take some time but I think that approach pays higher dividends.
Really depends on the product. They had several iterations of photos before they landed on Google photos which is excellent and industry leading but took a while.
IMHO that's not how a disruption on that level would ever play out.
If a future blockchain replace those companies/services, it will be (again, IMO) because a team decided to create a blockchain who would provide those services, and instead of trying to please the incumbents, it would be the lower tier providers who would see value on it (users, faster time to market, etc), and little by little it would compound into market disruption, to a point where those 3 incumbents would either join the train or launch a new stack.
It's a scenario akin to streaming: it is a model so disruptive from what was standard, that every first mover got in trouble with hostile incumbents (Pandora comes to mind). It takes an Apple-sized company to launch an iTunes with blessings and partnerships of that level. Look how long it is taking Ripple (XRP) to effectively launch in a similar space.
I think Richard Fateman's paper on the subject is a good introduction: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/papers/ADIL.pdf
People change, learn, and grow. We need to be able to forgive people, from time to time, as a society.
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Well, that seems pretty obvious, since there are hundreds of millions of smartphone users, and probably only tens of thousands of HN users.
Uhh, he had The Entire Internet doing that at him 24/7, why do you think there needs to be more?
In your first example, both are exceptional, so really "which is better" is irrelevant.

In the second, the difference is so big that it's obvious for anyone which is better, but that still doesn't make it useful for getting better at painting. "Paint more like a Van Gogh and less like a kindergarten kid" is not useful advice.

People do have art critics and manuals that attempt to write down exactly what made Van Gogh paintings great. Those writings are useful, and many artists do indeed study them.
>>landlords trying to get tenants of rent controlled units to leave in order to get market rates. That seems like the issue.

This is a simple incentive. To expect landlords not to act in this manner is to ignore Economics 101. If you design policies and laws in such a manner that rational actors will... act rationally... and this is bad, then the problem is how you designed the laws, not the rational actors - no matter how "greedy" you think they are.
So, there is no rule that you have to give your kids a smartphone. It won't screw them up no matter what those already addicted to their phones will tell you.

Our rule is the kids can have a smart phone when they can buy it and a data plan on their own. So far our first didn't do that until she was 18. The second was a little earlier at 17, but she was heading off to college and really felt that she needed it. Our 16 year old so far shows no interest in trying to save up for one.
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On what topic?
Were I an addict, I would very much wish someone would treat my addiction instead of enabling it by financially supporting me.

Currently substance abuse is either actively criminalized with enormous costs to humanity (probably millions dead due to the various criminal organizations participating in the trade of prohibited substances) or at best relegated to intervention reality shows.

Furthermore, treatment of most mental illnesses are very superficial nowadays, we have a few volunteer/charitable organizations acting as support systems, but mainly it's pills and some expensive counseling and you're good to go, right back into your old environment, old social circles, old habits, old context.

I'm not saying it should be state mandated, but it could be a lot more state supported.
This would be a phone for the kid that was locked into basic mode during school hours and then maybe unlocked on weekends or for a game session.

Once upon a time, kids went to school without phones, so it is possible...
For anyone in the thread whose Nahuatl is a little rusty, "nixtamal" means corn (after being processed in a particular way).
>greed-driven economic practices

AKA market rates.
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Yeah. If you wrote a comment in the style of Ulysses (at least, in one of several of the styles used there), I'm not going to bother trying to read it. It may be something profound said very well, but I still am going to err on the side of assuming that it's a waste of my time.

And if you write your code in the equivalent of the style of Ulysses, well, let's just say that having PhD dissertations several decades from now that try to explain exactly what your code means is not the same as code readability.
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Hello everyone!

Today, we are launching a major release of Reactivesearch (v2).

Key highlights:

- Compatible with any Elasticsearch index hosted anywhere.

- Comes with over 30 pre-built components which are common in building data-driven UIs.

- Can be extended to work with your own UI components. (Really handy if already have a designed component and want it to work with Elasticsearch).

- We also provide designer templates of all our components, which is helpful for creating pixel-perfect UIs.

- Consistent API for web and native mobile apps (Native version of the lib is in alpha today)

You can see a post for building an e-commerce UI using Reactivesearch - https://codeburst.io/how-to-build-an-e-commerce-search-ui-wi....

A lot of sweat and love has gone into building this, would appreciate any helpful feedback, improvements we can make, or issues you may be seeing. :)
Where do you think those "professional researcher" jobs are, if not at research universities?
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You forgot Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/
This is really cool! The author might want to check on papers on Forms/3, a spreadsheet programming language developed in the 90s (and you can run it if you have a HP/UX or Solaris system lying around). I’m busy designing my own spreadsheet based system ATM, with the idea that abstraction can occur gradually (like gradual typing), so concrete expressions can be turned into more abstract ones via refactoring actions (Jonathan Edwards has been active in this area also, and Bret Victor has that whole “create by abstracting” section in his learnable programming essay). Early work at https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AMMhHFdi9qhLJ6M&cid=51... but I’ve completely changed the design at this point.

Anyways, nice to see more action in this space!
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The issue is that if that statement had not been included than OP would have been accused of being privileged and thus disqualified from having an opinion.
I see it now. I believe that's something every major US Corp that sells to the federal government has to say: https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/tools-and-samples/hr-...
Of course it is about moderation, but how can you moderate yourself when there is an infinite supply available? If my fridge contained an infinite supply of chocolate and ice cream I'd get so fat so fast...
But the mere availability of a radical new information technology tool might cause severe changes to social norms and political structures.

In a lot of ways thats why almost every new media gets attached to a bunch of fears that that later generations laugh about.
You could do that.

Or you could just use --passthrough. It's easy to remember, easy to type, it autocompletes, it doesn't interfere with your criteria.
So how has your experience been so far?
Right, but everyone knows that if you have a spouse or kids you probably shouldn't be living in the bay area anyway unless you a rich. /s
I still see symmetry:

That the computer cannot receive joy from code does not mean that I can't; That the computer doesn't experience joy from Macbeth doesn't mean that I don't.

Reading joyful code is a treat. I pity who has not read some code that has brought them joy. And yet, what brings me joy[1], [2] is what the peanut gallery may call unreadable. What then?

[1]: www.nsl.com/papers/origins.htm

[2]: cr.yp.to/qmail.html

Surely something else must be going on.

Kernighan and Plauger, while otherwise dated, has one of the best rules for programmers:

Say what you mean, simply and directly.

Assume the best of the writer of the code you are reading; assume this was them saying what they meant, as simply and directly as they could.

Was it clear in their mind?

Or does it feel like they were muddling through the problem?

If as I am decoding this foreign thing of other people's code, I find my mind repeatedly would put it simpler, cleaner, and clearer, I can complain about the tedium, and mindless repetition in the code, but I'm still not complaining about it's readability.
You are right to be concerned. My pet prediction is about the current generation of kids growing up.

Some kids will use this thing that, as you say, allows them to access the sum total of human knowledge. There will be precocious kids who learn everything to grad school level before they reach 15. There always have been, but there will be more.

There will be kids who become addicted to games and entertainment, and they will waste their lives in a way that was not possible just a few years ago. There always have been kids who wasted their lives doing nothing, but there will be more.

That depletes the middle ground; in a few decades you will run into more idiots and more geniuses than you had ever imagined possible.

I am mightily concerned. My own experience was that I wasted a fair bit of time doing games. Still made it to a world class uni, but that was on 1990s crack. The new stuff is a lot more addictive and comes in more varieties through more media. I did manage to learn some things from the internet, but it could have been much more.

Now I have two kids with my genes in them, genes that never evolved to cope with this world.
Is Atlassian not considered Australian?

(Well, I guess it's public now.)
> Why would anyone want that

Well, if you are used to physical cards, it's pretty much the same management mechanism, and mass adoption probably rests on maximal familiarity.

I'd certainly like better power-user options on top of that, but it's a reasonable default, and quite usable.
There are two reasons.

First: because it is socially unacceptable.

In the US culture, talking about one's salary is taboo. It is rather as if someone were to post naked pictures. Sure, you are an enlightened person and you probably wouldn't hold it against them. Much. But you'd find it a bit weird. Americans try hard to hold to the illusion of a classless society and treating everyone equally, and hiding salary is an important way to do this. It also allows people to not feel cheated, if they don't realize that others are making more than they are.

Secondly: because my company might not like it.

US labor law actually REQUIRES that employees be permitted to discuss their salary with each other, which is why companies do not forbid discussing it, and to be clear: my company does NOT have any policy against discussing salary. But it is to the company's advantage to be a bit vague about salaries. Cynically one could say that this permits them to pay each individual the minimum they can get away with without having to deal with a sense that this is unfair. As a representative of my company, they would probably prefer that I talk about work conditions and company culture rather than specific numbers about the salary we pay.
Big cables not needed as superconductors can carry more current per unit cross sectional area than copper.

Even one central step-down converter could be 98% (or whatever) efficient, plus you could actually generate power at 3.3V if you wanted to, making step-down not required.

As far as storage of energy, yeah, you can store a lot of energy in a superconducting ring. It is a viable energy storage method.

THAT ALL SAID, the physics of superconductivity mean that even if you ARE able to get room temperature superconductivity to work, you can get even BETTER critical current (i.e. current per cross section area that can be handled while maintaining a superconducting state) so you'll still probably want to cool the cables in some applications, and for a certain current carrying capacity, you'll probably want to use a higher voltage than just 3.3V, even if you don't have any voltage drop, because that would increase the power that can be transmitted for the same cable investment.
There's very little deeply 'intentional' about any picture I take. I tend to take virtually no time for composition, and shoot some large number of pics when something catches my eye.

I'm told by people who do have some actual talent that a small fraction of the pics I take are good.

For this picture, I was actually riding my bicycle, and snapped two dozen shots over 30 seconds.
"Those cheap chinese knockoffs" are the same parts as the GoPro, made in the same factories. Just buy the cameras and compare them and you'll see this is obvious.

As for your prediction of shutdowns and seriousness of pollution, well, that remains to be seen. As someone who does import/export of goods in Chinese factories... I have my doubts.
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Where does your account flack? I use my Google account for almost everything as I move from one thing to another and it is probably one of the biggest reasons I chose a Google service where given a choice.

I hate having to log in and remember passwords. So something like Google WiFi love able to just use my Google account. As well as Google photos, home, email, bookmarks, docs, drive, YT TV, YT Red, voice and even unlocking devices and such. Love even my wifi password being passed by my device instead of having to share.

I look forward to when my Google account unlocks my car and starts it.
> banning guitars because of heavy metal music

My dad did that with one of my brothers. He ended up building his own electric guitar in shop class. He learned how to play it on the sly when dad wasn't around. Now he has a room full of guitars and teaches kids the evils of Simon and Garfunkel.
Don't know if this fully counts since it abstracts away the "programming" part of it but I have found the game Opus Magnum to be great fun (http://store.steampowered.com/app/558990/Opus_Magnum/). The object of the game is to control various machines to make molecules, you control the machines by giving them instructions like rotate one turn or pick up what you are hovering over. I have found it to be like programming but with enough abstraction that it makes me think pretty hard. Plus it is really fun to optimize things after you build them.
I pay for pretty much everything with Apple Pay. All of the supermarkets here in NJ accept Apple Pay. The convenience of using my watch to pay is great - and much faster than the chip card readers.

In London, I was able to use Apple Pay to pay for all of my subway and bus rides directly.
Lol, as the kids would respect it here. I prefer my kid with a mobile. France isn't real safe and the next terror attack is always around the corner
The fact that Azure provides no SLA for functions apps running under consumption plans is clear evidence that it's not ready for production use.
curious, but what do you mean by 'damaging content'; Or would it hurt me if you told me?
There's more than just a credit report involved, though. There might be a ChexSystems report that trips you up, for example.
EDIT: Deleted this comment as it was downvoted for not agreeing with the hivemind.
If you can limit yourself not to eat everything available instantly with a finite supply, you can probably limit yourself in the same way with an infinite supply.
Google Voice was a rebrand of a product acquired in 2009. Google Talk was an XMPP chat service launched in 2005, and integrated into Gmail in 2006. "+Hangouts" was originally a feature inside Google Plus, launched in 2011, just like "+Messenger". 'Google Hangouts' was a 2013 launch to bring Talk, +Messenger, and +Hangouts into one product. This was further blurred by their various apps, which sometimes had differing functionality from the websites.

The latest iteration of Google Voice has chat, for example, while SMS support inside the Hangouts Android App was removed on purpose and users told to use yet another app, first called Messenger, now called Messages.

All their communication products suffer from convergent evolution, yet remain in dizzyingly varying states of integration with each other.
> Pretty much every time her phone is placed out of sight, she turns into a fun, engaging person. But when it's in sight, she needs to have it, to mindlessly scroll, double tap in instagram, or whatever the latest app fad is.

Are you absolutely sure they're "mindlessly scrolling", and not just being fun and engaging to their friends on the other end of the social network?

I hate this assumption - one sees a person glued into an IM or a social feed and thinks they're just being a drone. They're not - they're engaging in an amazing achievement of humanity that is immediate communication that transcends physical boundaries. And quite often, what's happening on the remote end is more important than what happens next to you.
I think he didn't do much to defend or clarify his arguments and instead took exactly the path his detractors (myself included) expected from the minute we read his "poor oppressed conservative" portion.
Completely agreed. But I don't see how that's relevant to the grandparents argument that adsense fraud shouldn't affect Youtube ad revenue.

I mean, extending your point: does the grandparent sound appropriately contrite to you? If you read that comment and had to decide whether or not to sign an ad service contract, would you?

Edit to be even clearer: OkGoDoIt literally describes the fraudulent theft of hundreds of dollars as a "silly freshman experiment"! Is that a situation you think Google should be required to forgive?
I loved that Apple Pay worked so well on the Underground. Especially from an Apple Watch it is very convenient.
The problem with all potential senolytic drugs is cancer. Looking at all the animal models (and spontaneous human mutations) where senescence is reduced there is a corresponding increase in cancer. We really can't do much about ageing until we can cure or prevent cancer.
It isn't just in Chiapas; my understanding is that many indigenous communities in Mexico are autonomous and doing relatively well because of it. Some have always been autonomous and others more recently. At the same time, many communities seem to avoid autonomy as long as they can so there are obviously down sides. I think unfair practices against indigenous communities are more likely to turn violent when the community becomes autonomous. Indigenous communities have been dealing with the worst aspects of government corruption for much longer than the current wave of violence (and not just drug issues) and they are also affected by the current issues.

However, I don't know of a great source for this type of information, it is just the impression I get from a variety of sources that I have been able to find.

In general, the best overall English language resouce on what is happening in Mexico that I've been able to find is Borderland Beat. They translate a bunch of article from Mexican newspapers and repost stuff from English language newspapers as well. http://www.borderlandbeat.com

They had an interesting article about a recent study showing that the recent increase in violence seems to be due at least in part to the weakening of the one party system in Mexico that had stabilized the cartel situation due to long term continuity of the corruption. http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2017/11/study-sheds-new-light-...
If you want an interesting dark view, try Blindsight by P. Watts. It's SF, but it's 10+ hard on Mohs scale of SF hardness, with 100 references to papers in the end. Contains a number of, mmm, interesting social vistas.
The irreverent, and better, version of that story: http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=8223
I agree with this. I was also a calculator-tinkerer who learned TI-Basic on my TI-83 (And later z80 assembly.) I doubt I would have ended up down the same path had I had an iPhone 7 instead. Yes, there are educational apps, but then again there is infinitely more content available than what is available for a calculator.

The limitations on the calculator seemed to be a big driving factor in my interest at the time. The drive to push it beyond its intended purpose. With smartphones...you don't really have that because apps already exist for nearly everything.
I just got back from a trip to joshua tree for a week where none of us had phone service. Our only means of communication was when we met up or posted notes on physical community boards.

Pretty much every single one of us commented on how that made the trip so much better. I personally felt so relieved by the disconnect and wished I could stay that way. Just a small anecdote.
My takeaways: show shovelling can cause heart attacks because of the type of exertion you're doing + the cold weather, and it's much more likely in men because presumably more men than women shovel snow.
It was all about the interface for me- and the fact that I could turn the volume up / down, and play / pause through the outside of my pants pocket. That was THE killer feature.
No, but in-state tuition has to contribute significantly to where you go to college.
Is .Net Core available on Azure functions?
If not, then the comparison is an accurate snapshot of the current status.
I'm not quite sure how to frame your argument-I think appealing to tradition?

> You know your parents said the same about you with your computer games. In reality, yes you played games, you also learned more.

This is quite the claim. I know many smart people who played video games. And I know plenty dumb people who play video games.

This isn't just generation to generation. Many on here are looking at their own generation. Kids are not the only ones playing candy crush.
I wish the day will come where we’ll stop callimg companies “Unicorns” that are “valued” at a billion dollar based on equity negotiations done by investors and founders and instead, call companies unicorns when they “profit” a billion dollars a year. That, my friend, is an achievement worth giving a mythical name.
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That could be.