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> It doesn't matter.

The person who claimed otherwise disagrees - he said that it was a payable debt.

> You get nothing directly, but that's not the point

Except that it is. If the answer is "nothing", than a 20 euro note is nothing more than confidence in competence of the financial system.

While you may not see any alternatives to said confidence, that doesn't mean that it is justified.

How much confidence do you have in them?
I'm not really sure whether to agree or disagree. I have asian parents and went through the whole ordeal.

I can honestly say that, as a kid, I didn't enjoy it, but then again, I can't imagine anyone would.

However, I definitely would not be as knowledgeable, intelligent, or well brought up without the asian schooling.

This article and most people against asian parenting's viewpoint is from the outsiders viewpoint. They all see the brutality of it and think "how could you treat your child like that." On the flipside however, it is undeniable that asians outperform westerners. Parenting likely has something to do with it.

I'm not saying one side is right or the other. I'm just noting that there's a statistical imbalance and unless we're all willing to admit asian genes are superior to all others, outside influence must be responsible and parenting/culture is the most likely culprit.
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In my opinion, as a Bump developer, a lot of the negative comments reflect our biggest problem: branding. In many people's minds, Bump is a nothing but a contact-sharing app. Long ago contacts were eclipsed by the many other types of things that Bump lets you share. The people who are downloading the app are using it in ways that we couldn't imagine when building initial version. The app's "gimmick" of bumping is still an incredibly useful, and admittedly fun, way of establishing a connection between two strangers, or even two of your own devices.

Obviously, my views are biased, but it is quite clear to me (and our users) that Bump is more than just a contact-sharing app.
More important than getting the sleep is whether or not you are descending into the proper sleep stages and getting down into REM sleep.

http://www.popsci.com/gear-amp-gadgets/article/2009-06/rough...
AMD64 isn't called AMD64 because it was designed by Intel.
Yeah. There are several nosql backends which offer resistance to corruption under sudden failure. Bitcask, for example, is structured for on-disk data durability using some of the ideas for log-structured filesystems.
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a sample size of 91 people is insanely small.
This bubble is very close to bursting.

I'm sorry but the bubble banter seems to have gotten a little out of hand. Yes, there seems to be a rise in startups receiving high profile investments. Yes, the flow of acquisitions has increased lately. But this talk of a bubble seems little more than fear mongering to me. Concentrate on the things that truly matter and if there's a bubble, you'll likely weather it in one piece.
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> AMD always just seems to be a little behind the next big thing.

Not really. They were the first to vectorize - with 3DNow! They were the first x86 with the on-chip memory controllers on the Opteron, which Intel were able to copy only 5 odd years later with Nehalem. They were the first to 1 GHz. They were the first (by a small margin, but still first) to build a CPU+GPU chip. They're also going to be first to build an x86 with an FMAC instruction with Bulldozer. These are just a few things off the top of my head, I'm pretty sure I could come up with a few more given some time.

The real problems AMD has are (1) Intel has way too much money because of which they can afford to screw up royally like they did with the P4 and now Larrabee and still not suffer any serious consequences and (2) Intel has always been ahead of them in the technology scaling game.
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It's not only less of a hassle, but veritably good for the web.

If only we could essentially rely on all our users' browsers being up-to-date!
Turn on the 'noprocrast' option [1] in your account settings.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Indeed, you can now share with any other user you are friends with, whether or not you are physically near each other.
My favorite book was probably "Surely Your Joking Mr. Feynman." I liked it, because it was fun to read, especially when he played a practical joke.

A bit farther down the list would be the newest Wheel of Time books. Brandon Sanderson annoyed me at first, but once I got over that I was pleasantly surprised to discover that it had a very similar style to the original. I enjoyed it immensely.

Somewhere after that are a few of the slightly more technical books I read. Maybe Coders At Work? It gave me a better sense of the history of the industry, but I don't think you should read it if your goal is to learn how to be a better hacker.

Finally there is The Bible, which I would recommend to anyone.
you could say something similar about twitter not so long ago. It's a lot about expectations of what can possibly be.
Hey, I never actually knew what those away options were for. Cheers, thanks for the tip!

... but please don't tell my boss.
Come on, now! Achievement and having fun aren't mutually exclusive, like you seem to believe. If anything, they should go hand-in-hand. In your world-view, you seem to believe that you either end up like Andrei Agassi, or some middle-aged loser.

I teach chess to this 12 year old Chinese boy. He clearly has zero interest in progressing his game. And yet, his mother is there, always pushing him senselessly into a vocation he will be, at best, mediocre. Their time (and money) would be better spent on finding something that the kid really enjoys.
> I believe that female sports should be given as much attention as male sports.

Why should they be "given attention" and by whom? What about folks who don't provide said equal attention? (While the majority favor male sports, there are folks who favor female sports. Surely both are in need of correction.)

For example, why shouldn't womens' preference be given some weight?

I note that women are less likely to attend women's sports than men are to attend men's sports. Heck - women are more likely to attend men's sports than they are to attend men's sports.

Be careful - the "provides valuable diversity" argument requires differences (in aggregate). If there are differences, then exact duplicate treatment is inappropriate.
> There's no real reason they also shouldn't be fabbing PowerPCs and ARM chips in bulk. At least in order to extend the life of older fab facilities.

I believe the reason is money. Margins on x86 products are _way_ higher than those on ARM products. AMD doesn't want to get off the x86 gravy train and invest on a product with many more competitors and much lower margins.
It also appears from the abstract [1] that the participants were all from a single company.

[1] http://www.springerlink.com/content/h2287x387r248223/
I think that the temporary loss in productivity due to a few minutes reading instead of coding is more than compensated by the inspiration and intellectual stimulation that I often feel while participating at HN.
Yes and no. I spend a lot of time on HN because it's one of the best places to spend my time when I'm not being productive and in that sense it does hurt my productivity.

But if HN didn't exist I'd just be spending the time on other sites instead (like reddit).
What I think western culture values more is internal drive. Sure you can beat greatness out of someone or you can inspire it. Inspiration can be a hit or miss thing, but when it happens, it is a beautiful thing.

There are only a few top spots. Only so much space in Ivy league schools, so these other people are needful, and they should be allowed to have their own brand of self-actualization without being seen as inferior.

Success that can be counted, does not count. We should aim as a society to redefine success as something that everyone can attain, such as happiness, tranquility and good health.
At this point, AMD doesn't own any fabs. They spun that part of the business off as Global Foundries, which then bought Chartered for good measure and is now a close partner with ARM: They've even abandoned the tradition of making a full wafer of SRAM to test and demonstrate new processes in favor of making test wafers of ARM SoCs. (Apparently SRAM cells don't do a very good job of exposing the kinds of problems that will crop up when trying to make CPUs.)
> Come on, now! Achievement and having fun aren't mutually exclusive, like you seem to believe.

That's not what I said, not what I meant, and not what I believe... c'mon now, mis-summarizing someone's point of view leads to total breakdowns in communication. Let's not do that.
Besides federal income tax (as noted by another commenter), there's local sales tax, state property tax, and who knows what-all else. Income tax is sometimes one piece of a state's tax system, but it's never the only piece.
Bravo! You, sir, are an artist.

[Edit] What I originally wanted to comment on is that the metaphor this article uses seems invalid. Google is no stationary target. I presume the engineers working there are not just sitting around getting massages all day long.
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thanks Matt! recently CMS of the Year 2009, and in my opinion, every year! :)
Well, a couple of things. If you look at a branching model such as that described by Vincent Driessen [1], you start to appreciate the amount of information encapsulated by branches and merges in the history. In a fast-moving project with several developers, glancing at the history becomes the easiest way for each developer to keep track of what the rest of the team has been working on.

Thus, anything that introduces noise to the history reduces the value of the information it contains. But 'git pull' is even worse than this - it actually creates 'misleading' history:

Each merge commit has (at least) two parents, the first of which is special in a subtle way - it's the commit you were _on_ when you merged the changes _in_. So, with a nice history, you can follow a branch back in time by following the first parent of each commit.

When you 'git pull', the merge commit has your local changes as the first parent, and the rest of the team's changes look like a separate chunk of work merged in.

Git-bisect is an extremely useful tool for searching the history for the commit that introduced a problem, but a history full of misleading merges dramatically reduces its usefulness.

Still, YMMV, the costs of keeping a good history may outweigh the benefits for you and your team. For me and mine, it's definitely worth it.

[1] http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/
I tried that once but I couldn't handle it. It was like being locked out of my house, it was terrible.
Check out the post for some of their plans. They're looking to become a platform for helping businesses/bands/venues connect with patrons.
> it is undeniable that asians outperform westerners

[Citation needed]
Very nice!

I think I got to level 35 or so
I just didn't let the baddies get close ... but once you let them in an little they start shooting letters at you
> They don't do that at any schools in the United States, actually ... at least not at any in compliance with Federal law.

Actually, they do. The Supreme Court decision involving the University of Michigan Law School explicitly allowed that practice.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grutter_v._Bollinger

* The Court's majority ruling, authored by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, held that the United States Constitution "does not prohibit the law school's narrowly tailored use of race in admissions decisions to further a compelling interest in obtaining the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body."
" This bubble is very close to bursting. Too bad for those pension funds and university endowments. "

Not even close.

As someone who lived through the very end (and hence the worst of it) I think this does mark the return of the bubble. Bump is a nice idea but they've now raised $3 per active user and still have no real path to revenue. That's bubble mentality.

BUT at least Bump is a good idea. Good ideas that VCs over estimate is the beginning of a bubble not the end of it. Its when ideas like ecommerce stores that just sell pet food or devices that allow web sites to smell start popping up. That's when its about to burst
Assuming virtualization makes physical servers more efficient, it should actually increase the demand for physical servers according to Jevons paradox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
It's possible to be strict and take some parts of Asian parenting without taking it to an extreme. I had math homework everyday during the summer, but I enjoyed it and my mom was smart enough to not force me to do it for hours a day. I also had a lot of free time to run around outside and play. With one or two exceptions, my parents rarely forced me to do schoolwork or practice piano. I think I turned out ok.
MMX came before 3dNow!, so you would have to qualify that as shipping the first vector floating-point extension to x86.
There are way too many content sharing apps out there attracting attention right now, even though Stumbleupon or Facebook or even Twitter can just overtake the entire market overnight. That to me, along with the overvaluation and lack of revenue models, tells me this is a bubble, and it will not end well.
You mean former economist. He's now a columnist and since seems to have abandoned most of his critical thinking skills.
> I attempted to point out that skepticism is not enough; one must also apply skepticism consistently to all sources in order to free oneself from unconscious cognitive bias. As evidence, I use the author's treatment of global warming

Likewise, I use your treatment of his examples. As I pointed out, he provided better support for his global warming skepticism, which you rejected, than he did for his other skepticism, which you accepted.
I set it up as my new tab homepage
I replaced the Twitter and Facebook crack with the HN Codein2
Why don't more people use google reader I wonder?
Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but AMD's GPUs have been almost neck-and-neck with NVIDIA's for quite a number of years, since before they were AMD's --- although in the last couple of years AMD's have fallen behind quite a bit. I have the impression that Intel's GPUs are dramatically inferior.
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Software Engineers, reduce or eliminate that caffeine intake.
Yes, during normal times. However, we're in a global economic recession, where most countries are bankrupt and overnight any country/US state can default on their debt, causing massive failures in many markets. Any other bubble bursting (education, real estate, stock market, government debt) can cause the other bubbles to burst right away.
(roadnottaken's subtle point is that you have a typo in your first post when you compare the 1-5 times vs. the 5-1 times, missing zero.)
Yes it absolutely does, and I don't see a way to solve it or if I even should be solving it. It doesn't get in the way of my work, but I can't help to scan the front page every 30-60 minutes or load the front page on my phone at an idle moment.
The plural of anecdote is not data. The story about Agassi is nice, but a red herring. Most people do not succeed in such a spectacular way. They remain mediocre and still 'hate tennis and their father'. A prime example are Chinese olympic teams. If you've seen the documentary about the rowing team, hand-picked, drilled in military style and note they still losing to Western teams, you can be nothing but sad for them and resent a culture that thinks they can force every kid to be succesfull.

For one Agassi, there are a thousand Chinese children pushed as hard that don't make it anywhere. That's the kids you should be considering when choosing a parenting style. They will only resent tennis and their father. There was no time for anything else, so mediocre tennis players is all they are. Thanks mum.
I think you might be thinking of the Looxcie - http://www.looxcie.com/
I just skim the rss when I'm taking a break. This usually only lasts a few seconds unless something actually looks interesting, plus there's a clear indication of what's new and what isn't (constant reposts aside).
For a second there I thought the two options were 'Yes' and 'Yes'.
That is well said.

I was chatting with a friend who is studying education for her PhD about the article. We were unimpressed by Chua's approach and think it's quite too extreme.
No, because it gives me ideas and helps me to know what others are doing
It compensates for that by giving me a lot of new insights.
There's a difference between saying that you're concerned with the level of inflation we might face if the Federal Reserve decides to do more quantitative easing, and saying that we're going to end up like Zimbabwe because the Federal Reserve will inevitably have another three QE packages. One is a reasonable argument to make. The other is a political prediction that is very well may not be true, attached to some scary comments about what could happen if your prediction is true. The thing is, we haven't had zimbabwe-like inflation yet, more quantitative easing is not an inevitability, and even if we had more QE we wouldn't necessarily have hyperinflation.

You're trying to pick a fight with people who don't think baseless predictions tied to scenarios of doom have no place on HN by calling them names. That's why you're being downvoted.
I know I've asked this before, but is there anything I can do to make HN less of a productivity hit? Slow it down in some way perhaps?
Most countries are very far from being bankrupt. We haven't been in a recession in a quite some time (more than a year ago). While there are lingering concerns over a couple of specific countries, economic news has been mostly pretty bright for quite some time.

Jobs, particularly labor jobs, continue to be a really big issue. Lets not be hyperbolic, however.

Also, lets keep this in perspective. The amount of money totally invested in startups is (in the scheme of things) pretty small. So yes those endowments and pension funds stand to lose, but not a lot (they tend to be well diversified).

Not all bubbles are the catastrophic crash of the housing market or the general tech bubble that began last decade. Those both saw huge amounts of money invested by millions of individuals dry up overnight. This is very different.
As usual with issues of civil liberties, Richard Stallman called it a few years in advance of TechCrunch: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10054253-92.html

But his stance on this issue goes back further; in 1999, he decided to publish this essay I wrote on the GNU web site, which calls out some dangers of depending on proprietary web services, although not specifically the privacy risks: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kragen-software.html
We can't know what you believe, we can only guess at what you meant, and what you said is obviously open to misinterpretation. If someone misinterprets you, it's not necessarily done out of spite, it could be because you need to clarify your viewpoint. If the comment you're replying to is wrong, don't just point out that it's wrong, explain why.
Hate to say it, Sebastian, but this whole comment seems built on the back of a false dichotomy. You don't either berate your kids and force them to toil for years at something they hate OR they turn into listless, lifeless middle managers who just fart along. Plus, you're completely ignoring survivorship bias (in some cases literally): for every Andre Agassi, there are probably thousands of parents who told their kids they'd be #1 at tennis...and none were. You think those kids have now achieved self-actualization? Not to mention the fact that lots of people who ARE #1 haven't achieved any kind of "self-actualization" either, and are completely miserable people inside.

On this topic, I intend to teach my kids the three things my father told me over and over and over as a kid:

1. A job worth doing is a job worth doing well.
2. Winners concentrate on winning. Losers concentrate on getting by.
3. You can do anything you set your mind to.

If they want to use that to become #1 in the world at tennis or #347 at being a middle manager in a warehouse in Nevada, that's great. Life isn't about being #1 in the world or being a celebrity or marrying another celebrity. It's being secure in who you are and the choices you've made.

Here's to all the middle managers in Nevada who love their jobs :)
Not too much of a time sink for me. When in the office, I only really go on HN when I want to get away from the task at hand for a moment. This is either because I'm stuck on a problem, or just finished something big and need a quick break. Either way, I wasn't going to be writing code in the next few minutes.
CA's sales tax is county/city dependent, starting from a 8.25% base. It's 9.25% in San Jose, 9.5% somewhere nearby, closer to 9.75% in SF, and less than 9% some places.

see http://www.boe.ca.gov/sutax/pam71.htm .
It does take away from actual billable hours, but between HN and Google Reader (my two major timesinks), I learn new things or discover new products/services that end up being very valuable to myself or my clients (or at least just stretch the ol' brain muscle a bit).

One thing my clients have said they love about me that they can present me with a tough problem and I always have some service bookmarked that will solve it.

So yeah it's distracting, but it's at least somewhat productive distraction.

Edit: At least that's how I justify it
I would like to bring up a possibility, which is possibly controversial: a lot of these kids let themselves be trampled on by their parents.

What are they supposed to do when they are beaten and locked out of the house for 24 hours with no food to eat?

A not unrelated issue is the high rate of Asian American girls/women who refuse to date and marry Asian guys. It's so blindingly obvious as to why, I'm surprised anyone ever has to ask the question.

Your hypothesis is incorrect. Asian females greatly prefer middle eastern, and whites over asian males. Both of which presumably do not have a background of strict parenting.

http://cdn.okcimg.com/blog/race_affects/Reply-By-Race-Male.p...
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I think it's more valuable than other ways I might waste time. That said there's another advantage that I think is more important.

I'm passionate about technology. The people who work for me like technology but aren't as passionate as I am. So I require a half hour of HN time of them every day and I've found it makes them much better employees. Conversations around the office focus on technology rather than "what you did last night" and everyone is better in touch with future trends (something that many code jockeys tend to ignore)
Maybe we could find a Coen brothers movie community to be a part of.
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Personally, since I am not an expert in shell commands and always work using python, I use IPython for all the shell needs. Works pretty awesome.

Here is how you go about it, for those interested:

http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/stable/html/interactive/shell.h...
http://magazine.redhat.com/2008/02/07/python-for-bash-script...

Seems like, Rush is the ruby counterpart of what IPython is in python.
its in my bookmarks bar in Chrome ... when I'm bored for even 5 seconds or ahem waiting for my code to compile ... clicky clicky ... then ... 15 minutes gone!
To raise that big of a round from Sequoia AND Horowitz, Bump must have clearly shown them their numbers. Sharing alone is not the single most valuable part of Bump. Bump could very easily replace the paper anything for a lot of stuff - event tickets, p2p payments, etc.

The use cases can go on and on. From what I'm guessing based on their trajectory, I wouldn't be surprised if Bump used iOS's safari browser's accelerometer to implement in-browser Bumping. Go figure!