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The wording the article uses is offensive. A dad isn't in the delivery room just to "witness" the birth, or at least he shouldn't be. He's there to support the mother, advocate for her, help her make decisions regarding how the birth goes, support the newborn baby, advocate for him or her, and (maybe) make very difficult medical decisions if either is compromised.

Most of my children were born without a lot of complications, and I didn't have to do much decision-making or advocacy, just support my wife, talk to her, hold her hand, rub her back, cut the cord, take pictures, hold the baby, and all that. My baby girl responded immediately to my voice in a way that she didn't respond to other voices, because she had heard my voice a lot while she was in the womb.

My most recent turned into a difficult birth, with both mother and baby very sick with a rare infection, and an emergency C-section, and then with my newborn son in the hospital for ten days of IV antibiotics. Because my wife was in recovery I had to immediately provide "kangaroo care" -- that is, skin to skin contact with my newborn son, to help him adapt. Also, to hold him as much as possible in the neonatal ICU, while he had IVs stuck in and medication pumped in. My wife was not very mobile at that point.

Once she was a little more mobile the friends we had tapped to watch our other kids were all tapped out and so I had to be a stay-at-home dad for them.

Parenting responsibilities and spouse responsibilities are not like work responsibilities. They just aren't. Anyone who says or behaves otherwise is a sociopath.
Great free overview of 3D printing!
You missed the "quality engineering work" disclaimer. Any reasonably good project manager knows that, between meetings, email, and water cooler conversation, you get about 30-32 hours of actual project work from someone each week.
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I'm mostly just happy that we've largely figured out how to channel driven sociopaths into relatively productive pursuits like building rockets (and, yes, less productive things like finance) instead of conquering, pillaging, and salting the earth.
This happens in cyberspace all the time (just look at any HN discussion about airport security): what reason do we have to believe that in meatspace people would behave differently?
Don't let IT process stand in the way of good ideas
That reminds me of a bug I found during my first internship. The company had it's own niche social network centered around it's main product. On it, you were able to change your display name at any time, and if you added any spaces to the beginning or end of your username, you could hijack another users profile. That is, I could change my username to " snarfy", and if you clicked my display name to go to my profile, it would actually go to yours. A malicious user could use this to make inflammatory posts posing as a high profile user.

The bug was that the display name was first checked to see if it already existed before white space was stripped. Luckily this was fixed very quickly after it was found, as it existed in production.
Oh haha, I wasn't even thinking in that regard, I'd gladly take the pay drop for the time since it'd still be a pretty decent salary generally.
I tend to agree. Without much information on the other side, it's hard to figure out exactly what the context was. I doubt the employee was expected to miss the actual birth but was expected to return to the event/office, perhaps sooner than other employers might expect.
I had this same exact startup idea as well after having issues with customs brokers and all the stupid faxing, bond issues, freight issues, etc. Its incredibly archaic.

I actually did try to use Flexport really early on for one shipment and it was very buggy and basically a total disaster, had to abort and use my old broker. They seem like they're a smart team and they'll get it right though.

I think "re-inventing global trade" is a bit of hyperbolic marketing speak, but in regards to re-inventing customs brokerage they are in the best position to solve this problem because the founder Ryan Petersen is a co-founder of import genius. Therefore they have an incredible database of importers to market their brokerage services to.

And that database and expertise is why I abandoned that business plan :)
That is enough. Anyone that tries to convince you otherwise wants to leverage your Life for their benefit.
What will you switch to? I lost faith in almost all other laptop manufacturers due to poor quality.
Because it provides a decentralized mechanism to verify things without a central authority? It may or may not be the future, but it's pretty much what we have right now.
>Google clearly knows that some users won’t want to install this extension because they are worried that the company tracks their browsing habits.

Er... why is the user using Chrome if that is their concern? That seems an invalid concern for not installing the extension beyond "I don't want to be bugged to spend 2 minutes filling out a survey now and then."
One thing I'm looking forward to with self-driving cars is to be able to step into a street anywhere and have all the traffic stop automatically. Every inch of street now becomes a crosswalk. Even highways.

(This is an ironic statement)
> And, sadly, Musk probably doesn't realize because he is so wrapped up in his own world, but having a child IS changing the world for a few folks. But, ya know, sociopaths don't care about other people, just themselves.

I'm partial about this. The reply (assuming it's true, context, etc.) seemed very harsh and inconsiderate, and struck me as not his style (but I never worked for him so I don't know how he is day-to-day).

But the celebration of family I see in these comments is weird for me as well. Ok, so having a child is changing the world for a few folks. But the work done at Tesla and SpaceX will quite likely change the world for better for hundreds of millions or even billions of people. It's not the typical SV "change the world" = "build a mobile social spyware app", it's actually fixing some of the biggest problems humanity faces. Call me sociopath, but were I working for SpaceX or Tesla on some critical components, I probably wouldn't consider my own family more important than this work. Same if I was working for cutting-edge cure-cancer stuff. There are more important things than myself and my personal life.
no, a good paraphrase would be: dates are a way to get face time with investors. sex us a good way to get funding. I want face time with investors to get funding. therefore, I would go on dates and have sex with funders.

cheers :)
I will continue to order as many Lenovo machines as I need. It is more important to me that the vendor serves my needs than what HN thinks about them. I'm not buying something crappy for my purposes because HN is mad.
It can be, but I think the idea that it should be is probably the biggest misconception in hiring, and the biggest impediment most startups have to effectively hiring engineers.

Consider: there's a difference, perhaps subtle, between "deflating claimed expertise" and "assessing ability to perform a job".
From Justine Musk, Elon Musk's wife during those times:

"Extreme success results from an extreme personality and comes at the cost of many other things. Extreme success is different from what I suppose you could just consider 'success', so know that you don't have to be Richard or Elon to be affluent and accomplished and maintain a great lifestyle. Your odds of happiness are better that way. But if you're extreme, you must be what you are, which means that happiness is more or less beside the point."

...continued at:
http://www.quora.com/How-can-I-be-as-great-as-Bill-Gates-Ste...
(answered by Justine herself)
My parents' birth plan went out the window when my mother had an emergency C-section 4 weeks early because I was breech and there were unexpected complications. Plus, mom had an adverse reaction to the anesthesia that was used. It's not easy to plan for things that could go wrong - which is why I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure that my partner or my mother is there to advocate for me if I can't for whatever reason.
that diminishes my respect for Elon just a touch

You are way more generous than I am.
I'd wager ChristianBundy was referring to device drivers that would come from HP for things like the graphics card or CPU's built-in graphics processor. Often, these start out as an Intel chip but are then slightly modified by the laptop builder so that the base OEM drivers should no longer be used. Many times, these drivers are not distributed via Windows Update. As such, the drivers wind up out of date, continuing to use what was in the base image... sometimes the generic version included on Windows Update. This can often lead to system instability, particularly where browsers come into play on corporate systems (that's usually the most graphics intensive thing they do). Folks like Mozilla and Google maintain driver blacklists to disable hardware acceleration when one of these outdated and buggy drivers is detected (here's Mozilla's: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Blocklisting/Blocked_Graphics_Drive... ). So, the browser will run a bit slower. More importantly, text won't render anywhere near as well... approaching unreadability on some sites.
Guess I did :)
Please tell my boss that :)
Whatever the truth of the matter I think this highlights a specific thing people should pay attention to when they choose their employer: different companies have different values and when considering joining, it's good to make sure those values are aligned with ones personal values. Having a strongly disaligned value base can lead to burnout and depression.

Tesla values seem to be in the extreme end of the spectrum. I am not saying that this is good or bad, just that they are not necessarily aligned with the values of all.

But all in all, having a car is pretty pointless if there is no-one to drive them. Hiring clever people and then hindering their pro-creation is not really helping the society as talented parents usually get talented children, and for children the most important time of their development is their first years. Screw those, and the person is considerably worse off. A healthy child might get well of and by a fancy Tesla in 30 years. I'm not saying slave laboring the father would make the infant a mental patient and a destitute, but discouraging healthy parenthood is hedging the bets towards worse outcomes.

The same argumentation can be said of space travel. What's the point of traveling to Mars unless the needs of future of the species are taken care of as well. This includes resources for nurture and care.
This is easily the best 'glass half full' statement on corporate sociopaths I've ever seen.

Thank you!
That makes no sense. Experts aren't limited to being knowledgeable about one specific topic. It's possible to be an expert on one topic and "just good enough" in many other subjects.

(Compare Stephen Jay Gould, who was a leading evolutionary biologist and writer of popular science, with broad non-expert interests ranging from baseball and Gilbert and Sullivan operas to the size of chocolate bars, to Paul Dirac, who was a leading physicist with almost no interests outside of physics.)

"Steve Jobs is not a better marketer than any of the best marketers in the world."

Being an "expert" at something doesn't mean that one is the best in the world. Quoting Wikitionary, an expert is "a person with extensive knowledge or ability in a given subject." This is also why we use the term "top expert" to distinguish between someone who is an expert, and the best of those who are experts.

If Jobs is as competent at marketing as the best marketers in the world, that makes Jobs an expert marketer almost by definition.

"Barack Obama is not a better lawyer than, say, the Attorney General"

Obama was a constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago. I find it hard to believe that U. Chicago would hire non-experts as professors. While I also find it hard to believe that Loretta Lynch, the current Attorney General, would have been hired as a professor of constitutional law given her background. These are different skills.
Changing the world through government grants, subsidies, and prison labor...
Mars will be there in 20 years. Your kids' childhood won't.
I Still love the Web but we need at the very least something like a distributed open search engine / cache engine...
It's unlikely the employee was expected to miss the actual birth, despite what the book apparently tries to imply (i.e., context is missing).
> Most of the article reads like a pr piece sugar-coating Marc and a16z

Seriously? I thought the article portrayed Andreessen as an egotistical blowhard and kind of an all-around prick, with questionable skills as a visionary and investor; it certainly didn't strike me as an encomium.
Will be really interesting to see how insurance is priced for these cars.
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And, were I employed at SpaceX, my commitment would probably vary depending on that distinctions. Reports can wait, so don't you dare tell me to skip a very important family moment. But if I were deep in the critical parts of the path to making humans multiplanetary species, or in Tesla the electrification of transport process, I'd probably consider this more important than any but most special personal events.
No, that'd be awesome. If I could walk or bike everywhere safely I wouldn't need a car.
> Unless you actually cure cancer next year, collect your $1billion and quit your job to focus on your family from then on.

Why is a hard cut-off date required?

If you take into account that your family extends into the future indefinitely (not just your children) and that there are gradual benefits (not just black-white) then spending time now to gradually improve the world for future generations (including those of your family) then you can come to the conclusion that a little hardship now could have tremendous payoffs in the future.

Maybe a slightly better example than the cancer case:

- spend a lot time with family now
- miss climate change goals by the end of the century, making life significantly worse for everyone.

- spend less time with family now
- meet goals, life continues to be good for hundreds of years to come

I know that this example is fairly reductionist, ignores diminishing returns and has various other problems, but it's merely there to illustrate that it gets a lot more difficult to appreciate the value of a little personal time in the present if you have an unusual utility-function in your moral code that applies a lot more weight to the future than most people do.
This is both ingenious and terrifying...

The underlying “paradox” seems to be that a constexpr is in spirit a compile-time constant, that testing whether certain things are defined is possible using such an expression, but that in C++ whether those things have in fact been defined yet changes during the course of compilation.

So, if you can control exactly when things become defined, for example by using clever template instantiation mechanics as shown here, you can potentially change the value of a constexpr during the course of compilation.

I could see this having some entertaining and perhaps useful possibilities for people who enjoy things like template metaprogramming. On the other hand, the robustness of the technique does seem to depend on being able to very tightly control those instantiation mechanics, which is a minefield already in C++, which I suspect makes this technique a little too clever for production use.

[Edit: Removed reference to this technique being like embedding a compile-time linear type system. That doesn’t seem to be quite the right analogy here; it’s more a system where you can generate unique new values but never return to values you had before once they have changed.]
Pretty sure the ppl of Nasa/JPL who actually put a man on the moon, worked reasonable hours and almost never missed dinner with family.
So, I don't think they're mutually exclusive

EDIT: So, everybody was screwed then? I must have mixed anecdotes :)
Obviously it depends on the recommendation, but assuming both being equal, it's an interesting question.

The former talks about getting a stamp of approval on the team while the latter talks about a stamp of approval on the execution/product.

I would think the latter would be the one to carry a lot more weight by default.

If this were about a16z, I would guess the latter. Since it's about YC, I can't hazard a guess.
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We don't really have all the context of the message. For instance what was the event? (The launch of their first rocket might be classified as an even to Musk for all I know)

What was the message that was sent to prompt this reply? I mean he starts with 'That is no excuse' so he is clearly referring to an email sent to him and I am trusting about the general content of the email chain. But for all I know this guy just got up and left work when heard his child was being born as opposed to actually taking time off. While this is a completely invented narrative by me, it could be that it was that kind of action that can leave a lot of other people in the lurch is what there was no excuse for.

My point is simply that many people are reading things into the quote which do not seem to be explicitly stated, but are being treated as though they are.
Great tool for communicating what changes have been completed. I use this on a weekly basis to rollup and communicate with our customers.
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OTOH the future my kid would live in would be better.

But honestly though, if I knew I'm doing work I consider that important, I wouldn't decide to have a kid in the first place.
Apple used to bundle demo apps and games with their computers. I for example remember getting a demo of a Tony Hawk skating game and a couple of other apps with an iBook.
> HTTP/2 is used 10 times more than HTTP/1.0

Isn't the usage of HTTP/1.0, like, zero? Does anyone (other than maybe some minimal embedded applications that probably won't upgrade to HTTP/2 anyway) actually use HTTP/1.0 instead of HTTP/1.1?
something resembling real information:

https://github.com/namesystem/namesystem/wiki/FAQ
How about: "Your network matters: work at a YC startup"

We are mostly adults here, why so much equivocation?
That "23 hours a day" part is what strikes me as suspect. Unless they're being hyperbolic--and it doesn't seem like that's what they're trying to do--then its not sustainable for anyone.
No more than any other vendor. They apologized about Superfish, not that it matters because such apologies are free. Superfish was pretty stupid, but I wouldn't use the preinstalled OS on any laptop anyway just for reasons like this which are NOT specific to Lenovo
I find the Lenovo battery manager mildly useful; not amazing, but enough that I installed it on a fresh Windows install on my work Carbon. It just gives me more granular control than the Windows power options.
I don't think the parent comment was referring to Liebeck v. McDonald's "as an example of a 'bad' lawsuit." I think they were using it as a point to demonstrate what happens when a company gets sued by a force outside of their control. I know it's easy to jump on someone over this often mis-quoted lawsuit, but please pay more attention to the context next time.
From the comments:

> It's so much worse than that though. It's not for no reason, they actually call this is a best practice. Everyone's browser already has jQuery cached if you load it from jQuery's site, right? So yeah, just load all seventeen of your random javascript things from their original sites. Now your site is fast because all those pages are already in everyone's cache!

Uh, what "best practice" site did that come from? W3Schools? I'm not a web dev anymore, but the best practice recommendation as far as I know has always been to combine and minify assets into as few requests as possible. Unfortunately most of the web still sucks and doesn't do this.
On mobile there's no navigation back to the product page? What if I want to buy it?

Be interesting to hear if this is actually useful for people or just tech for the point of tech. The zoom to see the controls I can see the benefit of, the underside of the washing machine less so!
This is great. I had no idea about the Ska skinheads in China.
Assuming the Business Insider summary is correct (which is an assumption, yes), the book isn't trying to imply it, the book is outright claiming it. It is possible that either the book or the Business Insider article is mistaken -- gets facts wrong, is misleading, whatever. That's not "out of context" so much as it is "being wrong," though.
When the car is too good and fast to respond, it will get hit from behind it seems. I guess they could change their algorithm to be slow-reacting. dumbing down machines so that petty humans can catch up.
There is a difference between opinion eg "taxation is theft" and well established facts eg natural selection.

But maybe you are saying that papers on climate change in peer reviewed journals are only there due to cronyism and corruption. That the theory of evolution has come to prominence mainly do to that too.

I imagine many have not heard the extent of this conspiracy. Perhaps there is a quote from Thiel about it.

I also understand climate change posses the same threat to laissez-faire capitalism theories as Darwin did to bible literalists and that is why it is such a visceral topic.
The article while interesting doesn't even attempt to talk about identifying _WHY_ he is experiencing latency spikes.

It seems to me that the first step is to instrument the heck out of your application. That way you know _WHY_ it sometimes takes longer to respond than at other times. I understand this is harder in a GC'ed/JIT'ed language, but its not really an excuse.

Good instrumentation is helpful for far more than tracking and isolating problems in ones software stack. The project I work on has pretty extensive request level instrumentation which tracks each request at multiple points as they are processed. More than once the first signs that a piece of hardware is failing is the disk or network IO's start to have unusual latency patterns. Often software performance regressions show up as highly variable database requests, etc..
I do think it's an experiment worth trying. My hypothesis would be that it wouldn't work, but it would be indeed interesting to see what happens. I think that we'd learn a lot even from failure.

I suspect it would have a greater chance of being successful on a small scale and then break down on a large scale. Like corruption, I think it's somewhat dependent on the culture shared by the people who are involved, much like with successful companies vs disfunctional companies.
My secret hack for getting accelerator / investor interest is...wait for it...PAYING CUSTOMERS
Just to add, nice implementation, worked smoothly on an iPhone 6.
Given that all the traffic will record you doing so, I don't imagine that this will be a huge problem in practice.

Might need to tighten up the jaywalking rules a bit, but nothing major.
I thought the spirit of Bitcoin is that it is governed only by algorithms. If Bitcoin needs massive proof of work and human governance, that reduces its value significantly IMO.
Well, in the case of Lenovo you can download those drivers.

It's challenging because most people can't install an OS.
I was actually a fan, and to this day use it at work. Mainly because it was a much lighter version of my bloated outlook client, just giving me emails and allowing me to respond to them.

That said, I don't receive more than thirty or so emails a day so perhaps that's the effective audience for the app.
For possible context, Elon Musk's first wife wrote about their relationship during the midst of her divorce[1].

[1] http://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/advice/a5380/millionaire...