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> I've hired half a dozen female employees in the past four years, and living in Europe, this "issue" didn't cross my mind.

Maybe not for you (Is your maternity leave government paid? This isn't.), but for many european entrepreneurs this is a very big issue. See the first few paragraphs of the "This is why I don't give you a job" post, which went viral a while back (linked below). Even when leave is government subsidized, you still end up with massive problems on employer's side since managing labor supply is suddenly very complicated. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that maternity leave is a bad thing - I just think your "It's not a problem for anybody, Americans are irrational" attitude is unrealistic.

http://andorjakab.blog.hu/2014/03/02/this_is_why_i_don_t_giv...
There is something terribly manic about this post. It seems like the present moment is never good enough for him. There must be something better to do somewhere else.

I was like this once. It ruined my marriage.
@pc86 even when you don't have to pay people through their extended vacations, it still is a strain on many companies. You have to be very disciplined and thorough. Single points of knowledge (SPOK) are difficult to get rid of and they creep in all the time (sorry, not all of your workmates will be as enthusiastic about work as you probably are).
Which becomes even more mind-boggling when, if your insurance declines it for whatever reason or there is a problem processing the insurance and it's not caught in time, you get a bill for $6,000 after a "discount." But typically by the time those letters arrive you've already got $1,500 in fees and charges.
Nice job on the graphics for the post. Thanks for taking the time to animate and annotate well.
There does appear to be significant momentum in leaping forward in fixed broadband speeds. It helps that there is now an immense, growing amount of political pressure coming down on Comcast, AT&T and Verizon. I don't see that pressure letting up.
Jon pls, do you even Lisp Machine? Seriously, you can't base your opinion on kernels/OS:s written in Lisp on this guy's hobby project. I know what you think of GC, but history shows what an industrial Lisp OS is like and it's awesome.
This is true in my area. Not all over the world, of course.
Not really.

The first 20 weeks or so are paid by the company 100%. Those 20 weeks are also your rights as parent by law to take off. Then you can take more time off (there is a maximum discretionary number of weeks), and in that case the company doesn't pay for that leave, but the government subsidises x% of the income. Maybe since our last maternity leave the law might have changed slightly, but not materially.
Wouldn't it make more sense to try to use something Lispy as your base, encoding sexprs into folder structure, considering that sexprs afaik can already be considered trees.
Strawman. It is not necessary for employers to "be forced to subsidize reproduction" in order to provide paid maternity leave. A lot of countries that have paid maternity leave covers it out of tax payment, or national insurance funds that are often predominantly or wholly paid by employees.
Yeah, just to take a tiny colony 100 ships makes no sense. The English colonists were frequently fighting with the Aborigines, so were fairly well armed and defended against them, but not against cannon. I would think at most a dozen frigates, and perhaps a half dozen support ships would be plenty, even carrying a strong contingent of marines. The colony was still new and small. Perhaps they expected the British navy to show up.
I second this, at least in theory (rarely do I game). At this juncture in space/time, what is the "real world" that is contrasted with video games? As you stated, various forms of consumption, work, social media, in general, essentially, scripted interactions between groups of people-- family members, friends-- comprise the bulk of "real world" experience.

Can lifestyle choices be destructive? Absolutely. But most of the perceived destruction arises from the delusion that one has more time available than one actually has, and makes false promises across various domains (for example, to a family member, and a boss, and a WoW clan leader). In a sense, life is being rapidly fractalized.

At the risk of sounding cynical, most family interactions revolve around the television anyway (i.e. an average American watches approximately 5 hours of television a day). Together with an 8 hour work day, plus prep time, bathroom time, meal time, transit time, that leaves very little time for 'authentic' interaction. One could say, if you upset your family, because you play video games, or sit in front of a computer for long periods of time, it, more or less, means that you didn't watch television with them.

The tragical quotes (like some mentioned in the article), along the lines of "if I hadn't spend so much time with x, I could have spent more time with y", often arise in moments of introspection (which frequently tend toward the depressive, by the very nature of introspection, or at least by what spurred us to introspect), or during a period of grieving after the loss of a loved one that manifests as regret or as an overly-romanticized view of a fictitious past that might have been, and often the regret would have emerged regardless of what the x or y was, due to the finite and possibly Kierkegaardean nature of being a human being.
I've got an even shorter program that plays a more reduced version of chess. It's 0 bytes.
I had a chance to hear a discussion with the Durham City Manager about this last year. Basically the cities that are most willing to work with Google (favorable laws/willingness to guarantee removing construction red tape/etc) have a huge leg up. There are strategic reasons too, but Google wants to come in, lay down a bunch of cables and move on to the next.

They have the leverage to ask cities to actively pull down barriers that other ISPs would face, and the cities willing to do that are the ones who get consideration.
Yes, your idea is validated, like everyone said. So that's good. But there's more...

Make sure your version of the idea is differentiated in a way that's not too easy to reproduce.

You make a good version of your idea => they have more money => they clone what you've done and market it more effectively => not a winner for you.

"Do it better than them" is the right idea, but they should be thinking the same about you.
That could definitely have been a factor as well. Thanks for the compliments!
Small, incremental upgrades are something I'm finding are essential to maintaining sanity as the only dev at my company doing what I do. Waiting to upgrade only increases the pain. Now instead of having one potential issue to troubleshoot every now and again, I have dozens when I finally do buck up and upgrade.

So I get in the habit of upgrading the dependencies of all the apps I work on, every time I work on them. Issues happen, but only to one dependency at a time. It's manageable.

What I would love is to eventually have a CI server do it for me. Every single day, it would run bundle update, run the tests, and deploy unless there's a problem. If there is a problem, it drops me an email with the trace and fixing it becomes part of my morning routine.

If subtler problems surface this way, then I've discovered an oversight in my test coverage, or an overly complicated architecture that I need to remove dependencies from.

I'll probably implement this sometime this year. I'm thinking I'll want to redo deployment instead of relying on Capistrano, then finally growing my own CI solution. I'm slowly moving away from big monolithic apps to smaller, homegrown solutions that do only what I want them to do. I've already reimplemented provisioning and configuration management. I believe in DevOps as code.
You are being incredibly hostile throughout this thread.
Steve Jobs predicted this in 2010 - https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
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On the plus side, think of it as a type of market validation. A bunch of investors think your idea is solid.

On the minus side, try to avoid focusing too much on competing and not enough on listening to the market directly and reasoning from first principles. It's good to watch this competitor and learn from them, paying particular attention to their weaknesses. But it's not good to fixate on them and direct your attention to trying to "beat" the other guy instead of giving the market what it wants. The market is your customer, not your competitor. It's also good to try to do things a little bit differently so your product doesn't end up being a mere imitation -- if you do that, you'll probably lose.
I was listening to a podcast the other day where the presenter asked their listeners if anyone hadn't heard of the ridiculously successful Serial podcast - he was bombarded with responses!

Unless you're Microsoft or Google, there are always audiences in your niche who haven't even heard of the other guys. I encounter this all the time in my own business.

So unless your business was something specific like creating a scheduling system for vetinary surgeons based in Utah, you've just had your business idea partially validated and you still have a huge audience who are not yet your customers. Be agile, outinnovate your competition, and use all the advantages you have. There's room for both of you.
Well, I'm only down here for a relatively short bit. Just starting the second year of a postmasters at Oak Ridge National Lab, and at the end either there's funding for me to stick around and be real staff for a while or I'm off to some bigger city.
That was the old version. The new version has no mechanical key backup. Most of the other lock manufacturers selling remote-controlled locks have retained a mechanical key. These things run on batteries, after all.

Their site still says "Any smartphone can control Lockitron through our mobile website." What could possibly go wrong with a website that can unlock thousands of doors?

Do they offer "lawful access" to cops? Do you get told when that happens?

Agree on "sheer amateurism". This is version 2 of their product, they've been in business for a while, and they're only taking "pre-orders".
When we had our first, and thus far, only kid there were some complication that resulted in my GF had to be hospitalized. Then it got worse and she was moved to a hospital which specialized in her condition. I moved into the hospital and stayed there for about 2 weeks with her and eventually our newborn son. In the end she was out of her job for almost a year.
Direct monetary cost to us? Zero. The downside is a high income tax so thanks to all my country men for helping us.

Mom, dad and son are all doing great now.
I'll just repeat what I said at the start: If you are hiring the right people that fit your company's needs, team, skills, etc, this is not an issue.

Then, how can you assure me that a male hire won't take paternity leave too? They have a legal right too, and you can't stop them.
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I just checked mine too and they doubled it. It was 30 and now it's 60. Not as great. They said it was already upgraded and I didn't need to call, but my speed tests were 30 before I called and 60 after I called....hmm.
And today on HN one of the posts asked, "what are some alternatives to Gmail?"Every single one of the posts recommended a U.S. based provider.
There are only a handful of places where you can thoroughly crush a human competitor and be celebrated for it: Wall Street, court rooms, MMA, and video games. And since the former three require a significant amount of money to engage in...

Additionally, in cultures where video games dominate, testosterone is either entirely illegal or extremely steered into market positions. (Production countries steer testosterone into conquest and expansion, consumption countries steer testosterone towards emasculation and shrewdness)
You make no sense at all.

I simply asked a question prompted by this bit:

"Keep in mind that they didn't "tell" you that you'd be on call every night. They asked, and you said OK."

GGP did not suggest in any way that there was a dialogue, he simply said that he was told that he had the bad shift and that was that.

So either JasonKester knows more than is apparent from the comment or I don't understand where he got that knowledge, it's not as if walking out was on the list of viable options for the GGP.

Please indicate why you think I'm hostile, or is asking questions the new hostility?
Here's a quick writeup I made with all of the information I found in this thread.

Feedback welcome:

http://product.reverb.com/2015/01/28/patching-cve-2015-0235-...
The economic argument would be that some of the benefits of creating new people are captured by the rest of society, not just the parents, and so to maximize efficiency, some of the costs should also be borne by society. Interestingly, this implies that the more enjoyment you get from your own children, the less you should support subsidies for childbearing. Another interesting angle would be to say that most of the benefit clearly flows toward the child themselves (over their lifetime), so the best solution would be a large, universal subsidy, coupled with a per-person tax (independent of income, etc.) so that every person pays for their own birth and childrearing. Why should your parents pay for something that you get most of the enjoyment from?
Hi @pikzen, thanks for the comment. One of the advantages of our platform is that you're actually paying for us to run it---so we don't have to sell user data to get by.

We don't specifically support end-to-end encryption in the base email API because a centralized holder of keys is little better than no encryption at all. End-to-end encryption is something we'd love to see built on top of the platform though.
If the company folds, everyone else loses their job. So, why is your family more important than everyone else's?
I suppose it all depends on how you define "source code". For me, source code implies that it was authored by a human or automatically generated to mimic human authorship. Any automated translation step that does not result in executable "object code" or "machine language" is "intermediate code".

It may be usable in the same way as source code, but since it was produced as the output of a program that had an input closer to the source, it cannot be the source.

I imagine the compilation process like a stream. The source is the origin of the flow. All changes made there propagate downstream. Some streams are short, like those with M4-processed assembly. Others are longer, with MSIL or JVM intermediate code. Linked libraries are like tributaries; they have their own sources. The end product is a single river, which fans out into a delta for each supported processor architecture as it nears the sea of end users.
Economists might focus on that, but the point is that in actuality companies do not focus on 'providing the greatest possible benefit to the greatest number of people'.

Partially it's because that goal is far more difficult and complex than the simple aspirations of Greater Taylorism: to increase shareholder value. It's much easier to increase a stock price than it is to actually provide value for a large number of people, which leads to cases like IBM who spends billions buying back their stock while the actual value of their products declines to near zero.
Just to put a number on "tiny": if there are 10 buttons and the code is 5 digits long, there are 252 possible combinations. If it takes you four seconds to try a combination then your expected time to brute force the code would be about 8 minutes.
We have a queen mattress with a pillowtop - so its taller than a standard queen. Would this work with the queen size Luna product?

It likely wouldn't reach the bottom of the mattress, but it seems like that shouldn't be a big deal.
I've noticed my sleep quality is strongly correlated with my room temperature, but being in a moderate climate I find that I need my bed and room colder to sleep better. Looks like this only provides heating.
I don't think [many/most] gamers consider gaming to be "a real addiction" - especially FPS games. I definitely have friends that I don't want to play games, I don't talk to them about games, and when the subject of games comes up I actively try to move it elsewhere because when they gamed that's literally all they did. As someone who enjoys going out, it's so weird to ask someone "Hey, wanna go do XYZ" and have them be like "nah dude, let's just hit up ABC game like usual - I played all weekend to get us set up for tonight".

People don't realize that it's like you wouldn't invite your now-sober alcoholic friend to the bar unless you knew they were absolutely comfortable with it.

I'm glad you got outside of it. Games are awesome and a lot of fun, but there's a lot of other really awesome stuff out there too.
The product is wifi and we approach integration with partners in two ways:

- some products will be integrated directly to enable a very specific user experience (in particular thermostats and smart locks for now)

- for other products we are integrated with IFTTT so that a user can customize even the most complicated scenario (we are also looking at other integration platforms, ideas are welcome)

Aaand... ticket created for the links, by tonight those logos are going to be links.
In the meanwhile:

- http://www.emberlight.co/ - turn any light into a smart light

- https://www.thisisbeep.com/ - bringing music to every room of your home

EDIT: fixed formatting of lists
Most soldiers are conscripts. My monthly salary as a conscripted soldier was 8.92 euro and when I became sergeant I got 11.15 euro per month.
I'm not suggesting that there was meaningful competition before - just that there's no meaningful competition now, contrary to the comment I was replying to which asserted that "the competition got serious".
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Remember when you would see someones Windows XP system, and they had 40 systray icons all running and blinking in the lower right ?

You know those people that have 20 different OSX extensions all running in the upper right ?

That's what I think of when I think of having 50 different networked computers all chattering away on Internet/bluetooth/wifi/zigbee/whatever throughout every room of my house.
The other side of that coin: Why should a business owner give you 30% of their runway to raise your child when it could be used to achieve market fit and reach profitability? What if it takes that last 30% to do so?
For interesting contrast: Toledo Nanochess http://www.nanochess.org/chess3.html is the smallest C implementation of a full & decent chess program.
Great, thanks for putting it on github so we can read through the code! Are there instructions for building and running in VirtualBox?

Edit: found the instructions
That "sticker price" isn't a real number. It's used so when uninsured people don't pay it, they can write it off.
> but for many european entrepreneurs this is a very big issue.

You are preaching to the choir.
If your browser supports VP9, that will be forced whenever possible.

I'm not sure if switching to CPU-only video decode will be a net gain for most.
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It isn't really an issue of privacy, it is an issue of consolidated power through a monopoly on certain types of information.
His reasoning makes sense but, as all developers tend to do, he spots an error in a system and wants to switch to another or invent a new one. You know the xkcd.

Often times the solution is just to work together and fix the old one. For me the logical fix would be to patch all kinds of malicious, undefined or non-spec behaviors in LTS releases in short cycles regardless whether the developer thinks, it is security-critical or not. To make this more feasible you could either pay for it or use a minimal base system separated from the user-space. Both exists today.
Point taken, it's a problem and a very serious one and one that we will likely have to face in the relatively near future.
The first example in https://raw.githubusercontent.com/venantius/ultra/gh-pages/i... is a bit annoying though. The key :gamma is the same and the nice diff you get on maps aren't applied to the thing inside :gamma that is actually differing.

That being said, this seems like a HUGE improvement for every day clojure development.
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> "if you forced companies to pay through their leave, that gives them an incentive to hire people who they don't believe are likely to have children soon"

This is already done, though it is never admitted for obvious reasons. A portion of the gender pay gap, especially in tech, is due to employer perception that hiring women who might have children is risky.

Federal law already allows employers to charge their employees higher health insurance rates if they are smokers [1]. And why not? Employers have an incentive to do this because they are required by law to provide health insurance to their full time workers (if they have > 50 employees, anyway). If you are paying for a significant portion of someone's healthcare, and they are making voluntary choices which will cost you more money, any kind of working market will lead to increased healthcare costs in such a situation.

Childcare, as you mentioned, is usually a voluntary decision. Maybe, as a society, we decide that we want to subsidize procreation as is done in many European countries and have the government foot the bill for parental leave, but if we decide to leave it up to employers (who don't care if you have kids or not) we shouldn't be surprised if parental leave is lacking.

The entire U.S. health and insurance system (I certainly wouldn't call it a "market") is rotten to the core. The bulk of the costs are typically paid by employers, so employers--whose incentives most definitely do not serve their employees' health--get to set the policies under which an individual's healthcare may be provided. It's absurd.

The only two sensible systems are a completely individualized system with no employers as middlemen, or a completely socialized one where the government accepts ultimate responsibility (and therefore control) for the health of the people. What we have is a monstrous catastrophe that would have already bankrupted other nations.

[1] http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obamacare-penalty-could-...
> Perhaps it's time to go back to the drawing board, and figure out what's wrong with these purely mechanistic models of society and the market

I've always had the impression that it's more a matter of timescales. Places do what's best for them in the next year, not the next 50yrs. If companies thought further ahead and building long term plans and potential would be a reason to spend capital, then I think we'd see a very different market, in many markets.
A breakthrough!
For the Linux version they can use extended file (folder) attributes.
I don't buy that. They managed it with Turing, didn't they?
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And then make an OS out of it.