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> I wonder who's outraged by someone else saying something about their own life and feelings?

It's kinda violating a social contract. Everyone's the product of thousands of people over thousands of generations who chose to have kids. By choosing not to have kids you also choose to not contribute the the labor force that will likely take care of you in your old age. You can say all you want about contributing money or inventions, but money is just a claim on future labor and few people's inventions are really that valuable.
I live in a .zip code that spans eastern Emeryville and north Oakland and most web forms these days force correct my address to Emeryville and won’t let me change it to Oakland.

As an engineer I get it, but damn if it isn’t annoying to not be able to have your real address on your packages...if only for aesthetic reasons.
'The desire to have a child never goes away': The Involuntarily Childless
In the end, the stress of remote working or working inside a cubicle is caused by the same group: everybody around you.

You might or might not have co-workers that are cooperative or not, who interrupt you a lot or not, who make everybody's life easier or not.

You might have or not a good family, a good chair and desk, a good headphone, a good coffee break, a good lunch.

And everybody that is on the other page will think that you aren't doing as hard as you can, and if they were in your sittuation (remote or local), you should do better.
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The saddest part of all of this to me it's just how many marriages and lives have been destroyed or severely hurt by the inability to have children, while others can so easily produce them, and either take it for granted or regret it.

I don't think there's anything to solve here, per se, but there does seem to be a massive disconnect between our biology and psychology in many of these cases, but the people most deprived are the kids in these situations.

Maybe the thing to solve is the readjustment of our expectations of genetic continuity, rather than cultural, moral and personal continuity, so that adoption and fostering are seen as a valid alternative.
I know a lot of parents do see this as an option, but sadly, it does seem to be treated as a consolation prize rather than being a decision that benefits society and the parties involved.
The immigration system is horribly broken. My wife, too, is an immigrant, and our experience is vastly different from yours.

For example, they scheduled her for an interview on a date that was impossible for her to make (iirc, that was her first day of a new job). She went to the INS offices to ask to have it rescheduled, and the person at the desk just gave her a flat "no, we do not reschedule interviews". My wife asked to speak to a manager - something that's eminently reasonable, if maybe slightly annoying, at any business - at which point the INS employee bushed a button that summoned to burly guards to physically remove her from the premises, stating that she was a threat to the office's security.
One of my relatives has a house with 2 postcodes unique to that house.
Its obvious that having children must be a positive biological function that prior generations somehow wanted to do, or we wouldn't be here. Any species that doesn't breed goes extinct. So I believe these factors are the root cause of why children suddenly seem like such a "problem":

1. Lack of support network -- many people living as just a couple or alone (and the strain on couple is so high that likely they will be alone soon).

2. Social emphasis on individualism rather than self-sacrifice or community focus.

3. Breakdown of community and trust -- so watching and keeping kids safe is full time job. Must be driven to and from everything, no playing by themselves after school.

4. Increased education -- older parents with more debt and pressure, working in more demanding and/or rewarding jobs.

5. Children need more -- expense of having child keeps increasing. The cost of all goods rising relative to wages, but also the cost of school, daycare, extra-curriculars, etc. Basically having a child is a huge cost, the medical bill just to have the child can be $20K in some hospitals. In most of the world that would mean no one could have a child in a hospital.
> a kind of shit version of Reddit

This!

Intermixed with ads, game invites, racist/populist images, and those silly heart glitter greeting cards stuff...
> like ZClassic renaming to Bitcoin Private

I'm not even mad about that. If anything, it has frustrated me that Bitcoin developers don't seem to want anything to do with implementing privacy features on top of Bitcoin. So I wouldn't mind Bitcoin Private dethroning Bitcoin in the future, even though I don't think they use the best cryptocurrency privacy technologies out there.
I had a friend get refused entry to Australia because they made him open his Facebook messenger, and they found out he was planning to work on a tourist visa.

They only did that though because he just finished a 3 month tourist visa, left the country for a week, and then came back with another 3 months.
Yes sorry I edited right after just to soften the tone.

Yeah I think if anybody thinks that Occam's Razor is anything other than a way to give weight to two competing theories, they're misunderstanding it entirely.

However if we were to apply the same logic to life decisions, you need to note that the premise of the Razor is "given the same outcome...". So even if you were to apply it to life decisions, it would say "given two paths in life that take you to the same place, choose the simpler one". Which I think can still be useful, even if a completely separate idea than Occam's Razor. Having kids and not having kids are not equal outcomes.
Here's a translation of the Saggiatore at the beginning, for those who are curious and don't trust machine translation.

> Philosophy is written in this huge book that is always opened in front of us (which I call the Universe), but you can't understand it if first you don't learn the language and characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it's impossible to understand a single word; without them all you can do is wander around an obscure labyrinth.
My understanding is that the rats chew on the plants to get moisture, since the plants are so well irrigated compared to the relatively dry surroundings. Rats nibble on just about anything.
Would it better be called a "trick"?
This is the way we should be looking at the situation. We should provide "welfare" for all living species whether or not we believe they meet some threshold of privilege within a moral framework. I would argue that the same point could be made for why we should provide all humans welfare but somehow even that is a radical proposition in our conservative moralising society.
I found my suicide note – Matt Gemmell
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

"Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it."

Both from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Nearly all governments fund art currently and in the past and scarcity has never been a defining attribute of art. Also, not all artists in ancient Egypt were sponsored and not all art was for everyone, e.g. slaves.
I'm the only English person working in a German team at the moment, and their codebase takes letters like "ö" and makes it "oe". I think there are a few like that.

Personally I prefer it when they use English obviously (I don't speak German), but it also means you don't get ridiculously long identifiers.
r/slatestarcodex hosts a regular "culture war" thread where this kind of topic gets an unusually analytical treatment.

The SSC blog's discussions are probably higher quality, but the blog's UI makes it difficult to track ongoing conversations, unlike Reddit.
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> How do you guard against just memorizing the questions?

I don't think you need to worry about this. A simple search for "binary search" shows 20 different questions. If you can't do the 1st bst problem and you look at the solution then that's okay! You have 19 more to try it on. Even if you do all 20 then come back in a month and try them again. There's no way you're going to be able to memorize that many variants. And that's just 2% of their entire set of questions.

To really answer your question, I prefer to just hit the "random problem" button and see if I can solve it in 15 minutes with an optimal solution. If I struggle, then I just go read the solution (to understand how I should have solved it) and try a couple related problems to make sure I'm not just memorizing it and I actually understand the methodology behind solving it.

Good luck!
The author sounds a bit defensive. She's portraying self-improvement as robotic self-optimization. What she's really doing is pointing out that there are "get x quick" schemes for self-improvement, just like every other thing. Big surprise!
From the first page of a google search for "reddit parenting": /r/parenting, /r/parents, /r/raisingkids, /r/askparents, /r/newparents, and /r/parentsofmultiples. I suspect it depends on what part of reddit you hang out on.
it reminds me a bit of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIMF8bp5-qg
I remember when Google+ was like that. It was so perfect. You could even set a frequency (with a slider!) for posts from each individual source.
How many bits per second (or kbps, mbps, etc) of memory reading is possible with Meltdown when run from JS vs running natively?

Somewhat related, is it possible to neuter the JS engines in Firefox or Chrome so that they don't JIT JS and would doing so have any real world impact on mitigating this attack? If it relies on speedy execution to be possible maybe a solution would be to have a NeuterScript extension that deliberately slows things down.
But that behavior is true and exploitable for HTTP as well, isn't it? It is a risk if there is no specific vhost config for the validated domain, which means a customer pointed the DNS to the shared host without also configuring that host to serve content for his domain from his account.

I realize in current real-world setups you would normally start with a HTTP-only config and only later or maybe never configure HTTPS for that domain, or configure both protocols simultaneously. And almost never the opposite where you configure HTTPS only and someone else would be able to grab your HTTP traffic. So that's still a good argument to do HTTP only, thank you for explaining it.

I did not know http-01 would follow redirect to HTTPS, that is also really good to know and should be a good way for some setups.
Because we develop in the open and the blog post gives an extra glimpse behind the curtain. Call it code name rather than internal name if that makes more sense to you. Bottom line is, the term isn't expected to make sense to end users, and those who are interested in software development should expect jargon.
Goof site I built for laughs. Enjoy
"personal project that I believe would make a great business"

You are way too early to think of co-founders yet. What you need to do is to validate your potential market first and see if there is any interest. This will not be easy. It cannot be automated in the beginning. Not to mention that Healthcare and Medicine is a real beast to tackle due to the red tape and regulations that you will have to deal with.

My advice: forget co-founder and find someone well connected in the Healthcare/Medicine industry. Or directly approach your target clients. I am guessing they could be Doctors, Hospitals, Clinics ? Use the initial contact to learn and understand the problems that you think you could solve with your software. Start there.
The current economic systems seem to be built on the assumption of constant growth all the time always. If the population dipping for a while leads to economic despair, then fine, bring on the despair; it's GOING to happen.
I see your point, and it looks like I replied to the wrong person. Your points likely apply to my read-later and do-later groups. (I might argue, but should probably take it to heart first).

My point about bookmarks and pocket not filling my use-case (even if I dropped read/do later) stands -- I really do want multiple switchable tab contexts.
Anybody read the comments there ? I did not click, since pretty much expected to see the usual racist and mra types showing up.
Preposterous really, it should be Ludi, not Ludo.
What's the confusion?
AFAIU, Tor has its own browser because it includes various privacy and anti-tracking features that can't be implemented as add-ons. Without these, your connection might be anonymised, but your browser can still be tracked between sites and sessions.

They work with the Firefox team to try and push many of these back into FF.
I think there’s a major distinction between actually improving yourself, and posting about improving yourself. One is true self improvement, the other is insecurity.
I am curious to hear your take on the benefits of suburbia? To me I see people with long commutes, who live in relative isolation. They waste resources and time they lead to sprawl that destroys landscapes. They have made us dependent on cars and high energy transportation mechanisms. They have increased the wealth gap, and increased our segregation. As a follow on to results of their increased overhead they have made it harder for families to operate in a normal fashion. Kids have a lower density of fellow kids, and rely on parents for driving them around to places, parents spend less time with their partners and family's due to longer commutes and more overhead with doing anything, because of that overhead we started to outsource all aspects of family life ( childcare, cooking, entertainment ). In general I see the suburbs as an abject failure.
I did the same and filled it with things that are relevant to me, and now my ads are generally enjoyable — things I might not have otherwise known about.

There was a lot of cruft in there from the early days when it was easy to like everything. But after the cleanout my ads are definitely better.
The timestamp on the source files is updated by sed, when it strips the whitespace. The stamp file is then updated with touch. The advantage of using Make is that only modified files will be fed to sed and, consequently, only they will be caught by the rsync command, that I use to push the code out to the server(s).
The Focus of CoCalc on Collaborative Calculation in the Cloud
Don't cry, dear, I didn't post any bad comments about your game, it wasn't me :)
"Go create your own {product}" is so childish response.
You can pick apart any feats of memory in this fashion. The fact is animal memory is not like computer memory. When we say a person or an animal "remembers where something is" we don't mean they have a detailed photo-realistic map in their head. We mean they've stored exactly enough information to allow them to navigate to the object.
Apple's iCloud in China Set to Move to State-Controlled Data Center
As someone planning to do a "Show HN", understanding what "quite a bit of traffic" means, would be helpful. Can you could divulge more details? Happy you got positive feedback. Seems like a good idea for a tool, and nicely implemented. Thanks.
Laser beams to stop eagles swooping on farm animals
I've solved half that problem by living within walking distance from work. I do understand that it's not possible for a lot of people though.

I've never worked somewhere that I couldn't get to within 20 minutes by walking or cycling.
The world doesn't need more complex economics. It doesn't need more economics period.
Be sure, your attitude is a reason why gamers think that developers are too arrogant to communicate.
As a person who doesn't want children, I still hear much more of the "you're deluded to believe you don't want kids," "you'll change your mind," "you're a bad person for not wanting kids" and (from coworkers) "your personal/work-life balance needs must always be immediately and completely subjugated to mine because I have kids" mentalities.
Oh I can't wait until self driving cars exist for real (zero interaction required, I think you have to keep a finger on the wheel now). The commute definitely aggravates me both to and from work, preventing a good day at work, and a good wind down after work.

As far as workspace, we have that new fangled open office (read: too cheap for even cubicles). Granted it's a startup and there are much better things to spend money on, plus rapid growth, etc. Everyone has to wear headphones and the biz always comes in to talk.

I'd still rather remote. It solves all problems, and I can walk and socialize on my own time. Let's be honest, most work chit chat is either about work, or petty and shallow.
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> What is life but a struggle to become the best person one can be? And who cares if the quest kills us? We're all going to die anyway. What else were you going to do with your short life?

This. But as with many things, I think it's a balance between the two extremes. As the author argues, an obsessive never-ending pursuit for perfection can be unhealthy. But never striving for anything doesn't make for a very interesting or fulfilling life either. We are both "perfect the way we are" in one sense, and also completely imperfect with much room to grow.

To me the optimal path seems to be at an elusive balance between being content with what you have right now, and yet always striving to become better: the difficulty is that this is kind of a contradiction. No one wants to get to the end of their life and feel like they spent all their time looking ahead and never appreciating the present. But I've also found from experience that resting on my laurels and abstaining from continual self-improvement has also not led me to happiness and satisfaction. Quite the opposite, really.

Just the process of pursuing excellence is in itself a valuable thing that seems to give most people a huge sense of purpose and fulfillment. The question I think is at what point does this become obsessive/unhealthy, or detract too much from enjoying one's live in the present moment.
From 2013: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/10177765/Travellers-mo...

Also a case in 2016 of a UK citizen being arrested for refusing to give his password to UK border police: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/25/campaign-gro...
I posted basically this elsewhere on this thread, but:

1. Make sure it's a cloud service that you trust (i.e. audited, self-hosted and you know what you're doing etc.), since they'll probably keep the data on it forever, regardless of whether you delete it.

2. They will eventually ask for your password for that cloud service and download the data from it. For the truly paranoid (which is increasingly coming to resemble "people who care about security at all", sadly), use a cloud service with a duress code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duress_code. Returning fake data with a duress response can get you through security quickly if the people searching your data don't identify it as fake. Otherwise, the response of "I just gave a duress response and was permanently locked out until I personally visit the agency holding it in $my_country_of_origin and re-authenticate" may have a slightly higher success rate of getting you through security than refusing to surrender passwords. But then you don't get access to your data until you do that. There's always the "inconvenience" bluff-call option of "after I gave the duress response, I won't have access to my data for a week", but depending on how petty/suspicious the officers are that can be equivalent to asking for a week's detention.
There's a couple other things you have to consider to think like a medieval monk. Their lives certainly weren't dull, and there was a lot to think about. Probably a lot more than this article goes over.

Depending on the period and place, you may have to consider whether a marauding band of heathens might sack your monastery or local village, raping and murdering nun and priest alike.

But at other times you'd have to consider how to extract more money from the gentry and peasants to support your monastery estate and expand its control over the country. You'd also have to think about how to tend to all the property your monastery owned, such as prisons, inns, brothels, shops, farms. You might have thousands of laborers that you had to organize to maintain it all!

Later in the day you might indulge in one or two sexual perversions as a result of your vow of chastity, to the point of demanding sexual gratification before absolving women of their sins. But this became more rare over time as the church maintained brothels as a public service, to the point of even taking a sort of 'holy tax' out of their wages. (At least the monks paid better than the other patrons)

Most of your time was spent working on some skill that had to do with science, literature, the arts, or a craft or trade, harvesting and preparing crops, creating garments, recording prayers for cash, cleaning, cooking, brewing, eating, sleeping. But all of this had to be stopped immediately at each of the up to eight prayer times a day, and resumed thereafter - coders that value their "churn time" should take note!
Most remarkable are the number of very modern patents that cite this one! How surgical instruments benefit from earth-transmission technology is beyond my understanding.
No, it's not. We don't just throw our hands in the air and say, "I guess we'll never know!"

It's not a tie. There is evidence for one side or the other. And in this case, the evidence couldn't possibly be stronger for one particular side.
That is such a weird combination.

Most Maharashtrians I know from the previous generation (including my parents) are from Maharashtra, and Maharashtrians have somewhat of a reputation for not wanting to leave Maharashtra.
USA is one of the most under-populated country in the world. Even its densest populated areas in the North East is still "expansive". From arable land to person ratio, US has lot of room to grow.

The over-population problem is not of US, or even not of even Americas (North and South) they are pretty much stabilized at around 1.1 Billion. The coming population "boom" is in Africa which will likely grow from 1 Billion to 4 Billion.
That's like saying homosexuals can't be real because all of their ancestors clearly had heterosexual sex.
> I try my best (although it is difficult) to eat mostly vegetarian.

But presumably you don't hold lions to the same ethical standard.

> what we do with live stock and factory farming is obviously unethical.

I don't disagree, but it is specifically the belief that it is unethical that makes us special.
Picture of the engineer, Cory Altheide: https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/43385?s=1488&v=4
I understand the anger, and I understand people wanting to protest.

But why on earth would most people here feel the need to travel with a wiped, or factory-defaulted device? I mean, if you have something to hide, or sensitive information, sure, I guess. But it's not like they stop and ask for a password from everyone. This probably applies to 1 in thousands, if not tens of thousands of passengers. What on earth do you gain by going through the elaborate precaution of wiping all your devices, for a 1 in 10k chance of someone bothering to look at them, especially when they wouldn't find anything?

It is ok to be both angry, even outraged at a policy, but also not let it impact you in a totally crazy way which doesn't make any sense.