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Managers with her attitude annoyingly unrealistic, but there are some truths to it. It's difficult to convince a brand name company to hire you if you just graduated from a no name school or some bootcamp. I went to Berkeley and MIT and worked at Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. I never have to convince anyone about my passion. This article isn't for me. People with less attractive pedigrees need extras to land interviews and jobs. I give the same advice to my friends who are new to programming.

disclaimer: my opinions are entirely my own and not endorsed by my employer.
We didn't 'choose' - but having a child was the best accident that ever happened to us.

I had a miserable childhood, and having an awesome and joyous time with our three children has redeemed my hurt - it's part of my memory, but no longer important.

Having kind, wise, and creative children has given me hope for the world that comes after me - and I'm grateful that have the responsibility to raise them.

It's also helped cured many of my neurosis - I don't procrastinate, I set goals, I get up in the morning, I'm not a gloomy pessimist and I'm not at irrationally angry.

And even though children are expensive - I'm richer because I have better character traits.

My kids saved my life by taking my own greed for my own life away from me - I live for them and my wife. I never knew that existed.
It doesn't have disadvantages apart from the code to manually manage an explicit stack. The actual space used will be reduced.

And yes, it should be possible to successfully read any well formed sexp that can be created in a text stream and held in memory. That's why quality parsers use an explicit stack as well.

Recursion is a useful development tool in some cases, but when iterative algorithms fail because they use it, the implementations are buggy.
The condom broke.
Is Bitcoin identifiable? Or is an association to a Bitcoin transaction in a payment system identifiable? Which would mean the personal info could be removed in the payment system
It's true. There are so many more things I'd rather be doing than writing code. I think after 8 years in the industry, things can get boring unless you land on the right teams and the right projects.

One thing I think a lot of us struggle with is keeping our skills and minds sharp even when the code we work on for our day jobs is old and rather routine and uninteresting.
What happens if your service lets users manage their own customers’ data? I mean, for a product such as Airtables, FieldBookApp, Sharepoint Forms or, simply, Google Forms: Are we, cloud app providers, supposed to ensure our users don’t put PII data in the spreadsheets, and if they do, are we supposed to manage their users’ consent and process their users’ requests for edition and deletion? At the extreme, what should Heroku do for the Postgres darabases they provide to their customers ?

I could only find GDPR blogs about apps facing the final users, but they generally don’t talk about compliance for B2B apps.
Duty and support. As a Hindu we believe that it is impossible to pay the debt you are born with to your parents for looking after you and raising you unless you have children yourself. Hence we are bound by duty for society, to parents, ancestors and also for support later in life.
xoogler here, one of my teams implemented cast functionality in google photos. IIRC, this was definitely not the reason; the protocol was initially very limited and it was changed to make it more secure while also adding capabilities.
I have my fingers crossed for snap packages. I've only installed the spotify 'snap' and it works flawlessly. I haven't mucked about with any other packages yet
Don't have kids yet, but my partner is pregnant now. I know I have wanted kids for a while, but I think it really kicked in in the last year. I have thought about why we both kind of felt that way. My best guess is that I have reached a point in my life and career where I can recognize that my utility to the world has peaked essentially.

In maybe a non-sensical way, it seems like having children is my best remaining contribution to the world. Maybe I can make a slightly better version of myself and teach him how to be a better person than I was. Otherwise, it seems like what I have learned and all the knowledge I have accumulated will essentially be wasted. What was the entire point after all? If I don't pass down all of the things I have learned, then what was really the point to ever learning it or experiencing it? And I am not talking about things you can learn from a book, I mean the lessons of life experiences.

Not sure if that is a great reason, or even if it is really the reason. Just my guess from introspection on it. Why is it that I felt now was really the time?
> I think most people these days are too cautious when it comes to having kids though.

I was talking with a woman just this morning about her kids, one starting having kids at 13 and has 8 now and the other is 14, stays out till 3am (when she comes home at all) and is probably on the fast track to becoming a baby making machine.

I think a lot of people are entirely not cautious enough when it comes to having children.
a) The problem with this is that this practical guide was released in November 29, 2017. And this is unofficial. EU should have released a practical guide two years ago in my opinion.

If the process is gradual the law should reflect that.

c) Good to hear :). Apparently it's this: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da... - I hope it's not written from the perspective of the UK legislation.

d) The law should clearly define what is required for smaller companies and what is not. There's some disagreement if this is the case in GDPR articles too.
We didn't choose, we just didn't prevent.

However, the impact was much greater than we had imagined. The sense of responsibility increased my work efficiency (income) at least five fold, the affection bound us all together like nothing else ever did before, and brought out the parental qualities I never thought I had inside me.

...and after two years, the second one is on the way... :)
As I'm also an American using Britain's NHS, I was pleasantly surprised to see the article mostly matches up with my experiences using local services (though as others have called out, NHS GPs and Specialists still have regular 15-30 minute delays for pre-scheduled appointments, IME)

The only downside I would call out is that I pay slightly higher taxes in the UK than I would in the US, and I imagine that part of it goes to fund NHS programs.

That said, the small increase is a relative bargain, given the the excellent level of care provided by NHS staff and the avoidance of insurance nightmares I was used to dealing with back in the states.
GDPR was announced years ago, but this pratical guide was authored a few months ago. EU should have released an official guide two years ago.
Fair enough. Here's what I'll promise you: I'll dig more into GDPR for my side projects, and will opt to shut down projects (instead of fire walling them) if it the effort to conform to GDPR is too large, while I bring my projects up to standard.
This is not true at all. All modern societies limit personal freedom in countless ways for the better of the entire society. And those limits are not flaws of the current systems, i.e. you will not get a better societies by abolishing them. There are still some instances where we should abolish limits on personal freedom for the better but this is certainly not the general case.
Yep, "three-true-outcomes" (HR, strikeout, walk) players were seen as undervalued. Much of today's developments can be seen as flowing out of that re-evaluation of the "badness" of strikeouts.

OBP driven by consistent-but-weak contact was the sort of thing that sabermetrics types in 2008ish were shifting away from. Adam Dunn types (high OBP power hitter, low average) were seen as undervalued compared to Juan Pierre types (low power, higher average).

E.g. http://www.firejoemorgan.com/2008/03/this-column-is-eternal....

Fun thing about Pierre vs Dunn - Fangraphs has them practically tied in career WAR in the same number of seasons. But traditional evaluations praised the scrappy Pierre types a lot more than the strikeout-happy Dunn types.
Well, I personally don't like laws to be vague.
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It can, but using it that way is considered non-idiomatic in Clojure. The intent of using variants of map is to produce a collection with each element transformed. Someone who reads the code might reasonably expect not to find side effects inside any variety of map.

Clojure provides doseq and run! for side effects on collections, and both return nil. One might get the impression that these design choices are intended to discourage the programmer from complecting transformations of sequences with performing side effects on their elements.

Most of the time, you can replace one with another, such as pmap (lazy, parallel) and have the program behave the same way. Using mapv for side effects breaks this assumption.
I sort of agree. I wouldn't use linux except for programming tasks unless the major distros like fedora and ubuntu had everything that I needed for the most part. Most people can't compile code and go off and figure out library issues if the build goes belly up.
Why do you believe that?
Do you mean not a lot of people understand or "do not understand"? Your wording is a bit confusing. Apparently more self-awareness is good but indeed I'm afraid if they keep being imbued in the mainstream media who keep feeding them ideological nonsense and agendas from their own elite politicians they'll know very little about the reality. Talking about China, Tibet, Xinjiang all the time without even actually having been there at least once and talked to actual people living there. That's laughable.
Granted it's from wiki, but 79% of 2010 Irish health care spending was by government. And part of that 21% will be from public system co-pays and levies that have nothing to do with private-run hospital visits.

Sounds like the public system provides the majority of care.

Any "public" system still has a private-tier available to anyone that can afford a plane ticket.
It will apply from 25 May 2018
Does anyone know the name of Trustico's CEO?
Uber calls MIT study concluding drivers make less than $4 an hour ‘flawed’
That's the sending protocol (and I've seen those changes, I reversed that, too), but I meant the changes to the receiving protocol.

There's a separate protocol app → Google and Google → Chromecast. Or at least, there was, after countless changes, I gave up attempting to build a raspberry pi with chromecast support.

And of course, Chromecast replaced the dlna protocols and Miracast support in Android. I lost the ability to stream the screen on my nexus devices to open source receivers back then, because Google had to go proprietary.
I've been working on tech inside the Amazon Fulfillment Centers got the last six years. I travel to different FCs every week in my current role. I have never heard of nor seen these wristbands.

Amazon has a tool to make it very easy for any idea anyone has to be patented. If I think it some crazy idea today, I can fill in a form describing it and lawyers will see if it's a valid patentable idea, then file the needed paperwork. Half the ideas may never be thought about again. That's where this came from, almost certainly.

Just because Amazon patents an idea doesn't mean it becomes real. It just means that if they ever decide to do it, they can't be sued by someone else who patented it.
Seems like getting a Linux kernel and a LAMP stack running on this would be a good first step. The technical challenge of doing it sounds fun and interesting. The real payoff may be when a billing and payment system is able to consolidate billing from processing clients and to distribute the payments to the owners of the processing clients based on the work performed
Partner expecting 6th in May. I'd look at it the other way round, does anyone who has children ever regret it? Personally, like the vast majority, not for a second.
I would best describe it as playful thought, not as much slow thought. The philosophical response may be slow, but often because the mind plays with thought in its head before arriving at a response. Play is quite fast and meandering, as the author points out well.
Actually, that's a reasonable statement.

Uh oh. This reasoning is unreasonably self-contradictory.
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Linus seems to inspire a lot of poor and motivated reasoning - since Linux is successful, it must be because of his toxic personality. If a toxic personality is a requirement (or a major contributing factor) for a successful engineering product, in a world of exquisitely crafted engineering products we should expect to see toxic personalities everywhere. That we don't should have prevented a cult of personality from developing in a community that prizes logical reasoning. Maybe the lesson here is that no group of humans is immune to some set of biases.
A chunk of the poor cancer survival is down to cultural issues — British men in particular being socialized to not complain, so they don't go to their primary point of care until it's too late to do anything beyond palliative care.

This is slowly changing, but it's generational. National-level screening initiatives also help: for example the Scottish NHS's national bowel cancer screening program. But when NHS England is facing real-terms cuts in spending, new long-term preventative stuff doesn't get rolled out.
Ah, never mind. Zane Lucas, who is listed as a "director" most places.
They said "authoritarian", not "autocratic".
You'd think so, but the last couple of years have truly astonished me in terms of what I thought was common sense.

I am willing to bet a significant percentage of our population is truly incapable of critical thought, and not equipped to deal with the information age.
I've used linux desktop for years and it has always been stabble for me I haven't tried apple. My desktop stays up for weeks.
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Upvote just for the term Blogchain.
Sure, try this: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/information/.

In a nutshell, you take probability distributions and project them onto topological manifolds, such that the distribution consists of points on the manifold. You can find more by searching for key words like "information geometry" or "differential geometry machine learning".
I wasn’t really into the idea of having kids but I had one because my wife wanted to and I liked being with my wife. I went completely bonkers for the kid and now want to have as many as possible.
I was and am in the best relationship of my life and she asked. Can’t say I agreed without trepidation as I’ve not been around young kids since I was one but it felt right. I think it was one of the best decisions of my life. A hell of a lot of work that isn’t always very fun but ultimately the most rewarding adventure.
Back when I worked at LimeWire, Google refused to sell us search ads, presumably on the grounds of "promoting IP infringement". But plenty of people had taken our open source codebase, added malware, and had no problem running Google ads as "LimeWire". So when users searched for "LimeWire" the first thing they were presented with was counterfeit ad search results for malware and there was nothing we could do about it.
Like Stack overflow?
Chris Lattner led a systems project just as complicated (presumably more so!) than Linus. You don't see whole pages dedicated to "Chris Lattner" rants.
You might enjoy the book How to Talk so Kids Will Listen ... And Listen so Kids Will Talk, https://amzn.com/0743525086

It’s full of useful practical advice about taking feelings seriously and avoiding escalating confrontations.
> How much data will have been collected and stored by then?

It doesn’t matter. If the concern is that Bezos will flip the echo to be a political surveillance device, there is an immediate fix. Yes, the existing cache of data may still be around, but that wasn’t the concern posed by the original poster. The concern was specifically that after Bezos becomes the dark lord, an “innocent” question could result in politically motivated murder.

If your concern with the echo is that you don’t want anything recording anything in your house, that is reasonable and you should not get an echo. Of course, you should probably also not carry a phone.

> Let’s remember a bit of WWII, when harmless census data empowered the Nazis to track down people with Jewish ancestry.

And yet we still do the census because the value is high and the concern low. The fact that a thing can be abused does not mean it should not be used.
Thats a valid point if it has been observed in lab conditions. i still feel its not entirely safe, but if it has been tested as you say on a smaller group then probably this risk can be taken.
This problem is magnified in ClojureScript doing React.js rendering. React.js renders breadth-first in stratas (compared to a call stack which is depth first). Everyone gets bitten by it once.
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Or it's the opposite of spam: it could be a testimonial from paying customers that the content is worth it.

90% of the time I'd rather see a link to a paid source than one to the ad-revenue-hunting blogging-with-a-fancy-name Business Insider, Forbes, etc sites of the world.
The big problem I see to be solved with p2p computation is trust. In the example, the problem to be solved is "Do any of these strings hash to a known value?" An adversary can accept the job, sleep for a second, and report "Nope" and collect their payment, without ever doing any work.

In contrast, I trust that if I run code on AWS, it'll actually run the code I give it.

These are solvable problems, but important to think about.
You're not even replying to the OP's arguments. Such a ridiculous reply. If anything, this history precisely says why their former form of governance works somehow while the current form of "democracy" (forced upon them by the west again), doesn't.
I really agree with this. It's way easier to get into a rythym and just keep following a never ending checklist.

I've recently started meditation again and I'm realizing how hard something simple like remembering to pay attention to your breath is
Expansion does have the appearance of "pushing away". But, as noted, to explain "dark matter", one would observe "anti-gravitational" separations in inert gases at local scale, which has never been reported.
I'd like to see a long-term outcomes-based comparison between NHS England and the Scottish NHS, frankly.

The Scottish NHS is a fully devolved issue and has been diverging from the English system for most of a decade now, with a greater emphasis on preventative healthcare and screening programs (not to mention free prescriptions for all).

In another couple of years we may even have some hard statistical data on what practices work best!
The above comment has been down-voted (!?) despite being factual, according to Sonos themselves!

- Sonos and Alexa integration is available as a beta version.

- "Google Home Smart Assistant doesn’t work with your Sonos system natively" ("The Google Assistant will be supported on Sonos One in 2018") [1]

- Sonos has not yet released their implementation of AirPlay 2 which is what Apple's HomePod ecosystem will be relying on. Apparently Apple themselves are not quite ready with AirPlay 2.

[1] https://sonos.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4251/~/go...
Don't lump all cryptocurrency together. There are plenty of people who are strong believers in Bitcoin's more simple value proposition of electric cash and more simple scripting language than the complicated ethereum system.
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Now, if you haven’t watched coco... I suggest you get on it right away
Seti@home has been doing this for years
Not even books are safe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13924546
I didn't want to because all of my worst memories were with my parents. Now I have a baby I always think about ways I can be a better parent than mine were.
Cynicism is one thing but this ideological matter is another. Many (I'd say even the majority of the youth) do believe that any radical change right now is likely to do more harm than good. Of course they also have a lot of dissatisfaction about the society but that doesn't automatically mean they want western democracy imposed upon the country. i.e. they also don't believe that "western democracy" would be a solution. Those two things have very little to do with each other.
Ask HN: Why did you choose not to have children?
Any regrets?
Whatever it does, I expect Emacs to not crash.

If it cannot allocate more memory, I expect it to throw a Lisp exception that tells me so, not to crash the whole process.

I greatly appreciate Daniel's work to increase the robustness of Emacs, because it means that there will be fewer situations where a process crash leads to lost work for users. In addition, increasing the robustness of Emacs in such cases will also greatly broaden the set of test cases that can be run reliably, and hence help to detect and correct even more issues.
>Another problem of word vectors is that any word might actually have multiple senses, while vectors are just point estimates. If we wanted to be correct, we needed first to find the right sense for each word in a phrase and only then assign the vector. There is research in "on-the-fly" word vectors that adapt to context, but it's much harder to use.

There has been work on representing words not as vectors but as multimodal Gaussian distributions in order to try to deal with polysemy, such as [0], of which an implementation (which I have not tried to use) is available on GitHub at [1].

>It feels different than 3d-space because each point has a shortcut to other points, each point leads to hundreds of other places which might be far apart. It's like a kaleidoscope where a small change can create a very different perspective.

I appreciate that the author of the parent comment has found some sort of intuition, but I would caution others from trying to use the above quote in order to develop their own intuition as it is meaningless in any rigorous sense.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.08424

[1] https://github.com/benathi/word2gm
People far enough up the income ladder have a decent quality of life in North Korea
I hear you, but those failing happen to pretty much everyone who overworks himself too much and don't have feedback. You loose sigh of it, because your brain get it. And you are tired and sleep deprived. Everyone makes mess occasionally and we should not judge people by their worst performance. (Meaning here that he produced both bad and good code).

When he did get initial good reputation, he was able to solve problems, he was able to help etc. I think that we should not expect perfection of him nor we need to convince ourselves that he was completely incapable.

He was unable to estimate how much time will maintenance of everything take and from there on, he could not win.
Young and Foolish...
I'd take it another way. The fact that he has some toxic qualities is likely orthogonal. Or, an indicator correlated with another quality.

This one is kind of fun. Probably Linus' greatest quality is his fearlessness. He did something publicly for the world, that the majority of experts were saying was a bad idea. Specifically, he made a monolithic kernel.

To that end. Yes, he can rant a bit. The question is if his rants reduce the conversations? It is as possible he shuts down thread that would have been more harmful. Indeed, most people he rants against are pushing from positions of power. And he rarely goes personal. (Ever?)