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I'm not at all saying that the same tactics work for all kids. But there are tons of ways to influence kids' behavior that don't involve corporal punishment, and I've never had to go too far down the list, when I sit down and brainstorm ideas.

It's also essential to think longer-term. I don't know what your brother was doing, or what your parents tried. But part of raising kids is being aware that a child's behavior is going to keep changing, week to week, almost regardless of what you do. So if they're doing something you don't like (but that isn't risky), it's sometimes the best course to just endure it for a bit.

Personally, I'm pretty open about these things, so I remind my kids that yes, they have the power to make me miserable, any time they want. Sometimes they do. But they're clearly not enjoying those times either, so we work together to try to figure out what's going on, and how we can optimize for more fun.
That kind of skirts what the grandparent is asking, in the army for example everyone has to annually qualify with their firearm, and each mos has set of tasks they have to demonstrate competency in. All enlisted have to do this with the difference being more senior are also responsible for training. I think that's what the g
p was referring to.

Also five years in the military you aren't in school, you are doing your job. So if an engineering grad did five years of work study or coop, I think they could be trusted with prod servers as you say.
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How fast can you add two numbers?
I don't think there is any concise secret formula that one could just copy to paper and readapt.

The article gives the impression there was a specific highly custom production system where the materials were selected for the machines and the machines were fit for the materials. And the machines were apparently jury rigged adaptations which probably lack detailed blueprints. Sounds a bit hard to formalize, after the fact, without quite a laborious effort.
The gist is for me: The speed problem is not inherent to the web; it’s a consequence of what passes for modern web development. Remove the cruft and we can compete again.

My guess is, the cruft will not be removed, but will just be sped up with WebAssembly etc. Building a web site that's functional and fast stays an art form that's not accessible to everyone. Native apps are just a quick-&-dirty cop-out from that problem.
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One thing I really like and appreciate is that there's a dockerfile right in the root of the project, which makes spinning up a container a relatively nice experience... haven't run it or looked into the code though... that just struck out at me...

Looking at the dockerfile, it seems pretty big, and it also strikes me slightly that they have dependencies on node, ruby and go, along with mysql and redis. The UI appears to be react based.. not sure what's running in ruby.
I thought he meant France. Anyway, the correct link to the Swiss page was already posted.
The main reason, apparently: "These days, local governments focus on bid prices rather than quality."

High quality commodities are considered nowadays luxury and not bare minimum. Quite sad, really.
Doesn't work on mobile either.
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Source?

The 1980s pressure to divest from South Africa is sometimes credited with pressuring the South African government to dismantle apartheid (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinvestment_from_South_Afric...). University investment funds were in the vanguard, after student protests on campus.

But in that case, as would be true here, change came more from the awareness of the problem divestment brings as the economic effect. Private action can motivate public action.

Regardless, financing the activities of something you find immoral is immoral. Your logic--that if you don't do something, someone else will--is the rationalization for much wrongdoing.
Does anyone know if these or any others have native desktop and/or mobile clients?
Agreed. It's a shame the sequel was such a step back in every respect.
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The "guide" thing is a metaphor, which only goes so far. :)

It falls apart in that a guide is in a business relationship, and that adds a distance that isn't there for parenting -- in that sense a parent can be more of a friend.

But one way parents are not like friends is that friends choose each other, and can drift apart. Parents have a much stronger motivation to keep a close relationship with their kids even as interests diverge, personalities may not mesh terribly well, etc..

The important aspect I wanted to touch on, though, was more about "authority" vs. "friend", and in that balance I think a parent should fall much more on the friend side.
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It's amazing that they had just one set of machines to make all their chalk. I hope the South Korean version would be successful.
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I am curious of what blog-engine they are using. It looks very similar to Medium
So as far as I understand it, indexes mentioned by others are another story, if index fits in mem then it's great. But as far as I understood this is about what in classic db would be called a sequential scan (that is we don't know beforehand what we will look for).

Of course IO is a bottleneck, but it's not that simple even if you have it in mem already. As you said when sharding is possible you can just throw more boxes at it. But on a single machine the problem is checking what's in your own memory fast enough using CPU. That's where GPUs come in.

Even apart from the name of your company, the idea seems very interesting. I suppose I'm not the only one curious, so could just say a few more words? Are you working on some new technology or is it more like scalable RDBMS focused on latency as a service? I really like the idea of the latter btw, I'd like to use something like Amazon RDS or similar solution, but even ignoring the price they don't seem to be able to beat few boxes with fine tuned postgres when it comes to performance on large datasets. On the other hand, with big data often this the data is the money and companies cannot afford to let somebody else store it.

Btw, maybe put some box with e-mails subscription on your website? I'd love to learn how it will develop but of course without it I will forget about it in a few days.
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Is there a uBlock filter to block subscription pop-ups?
Lots of people are stuck on IE8, specially those on enterprise contexts.

I rather access information than complain how it is made available.
I haven't worked for a company in four years that permits the installation of AGPL software because the ramifications are still unclear and largely untested. MongoDB asserts, for example, that just using MongoDB doesn't require you to do anything, even though the license text is in clear contradiction to the assertion. I do not think MongoDB understands its own license.

Chris DiBona has spoken in public about Google's reasons, but he was kind. I cannot discuss other experience I have publicly, so I'd simply suggest doing some research on the large unknowns in deployment of AGPL software underneath a proprietary Web service somewhere, and then think about all the integrations you'd wire up to something like a Slack derivative.

I am not a lawyer and would strongly suggest consulting one before using AGPL software anywhere in your infrastructure, at all.
The IRC protocol might not be pretty, but what protocol is? HTTP? AMQP? XMPP? Protocols are not meant to be pretty, just efficient and robust enough to support the desired feature set. It's a shame that none of Slack, Hipchat, now Mattermost support IRC. They're all just IRC clones, drawing on the same ideas, just giving you a crappy (but pretty!) web interface.
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I definitely appreciate projects having Dockerfiles included, but yeah, that's not a good one. They should simply include instructions about how to link it to MySQL/Redis, or use something like docker-compose.

The way it's done now makes it inherently unscalable. Also, there are so many steps that it makes pushing an image to a Docker repository a massive pain.
Isn't it going to need special pavement to function? Unless they've found a way to magnetize asphalt or something ..
Superconductive magnetic locking is nothing new. Even the "hover board" has been done before.

The whole concept is so stupid it hurts. The superconductors in the board needs to be extremely cold, and the ground needs to be covered in magnets. Or vice versa. The liquid nitrogen needed for this is cumbersome and will evaporate quickly.

As seen the last time someone tried making a hover board it is impossible to stand on it. It will slide with equal non- friction in every direction making it impossible to keep the balance. The only alternative is to keep it locked to a track, like a toy train.
>I read somewhere (don't remember where, so can't give a good cite) that biochemists say we only understand about 10% of the chemical processes in our bodies. We know some things various nutrients are used for, but there are many we don't know. We often don't understand exactly how particular nutrients go from being part of our food to being being available at the places they are used in a form usable to our cells.

I think we know more far than 10% about our own biochemistry, but you are right in saying that there are plenty of processes we don't know enough about. Because the system is too great at adapting to changes that attempts to measure response from a single factor usually fails quite miserably. For example, Robert Lustig has been preaching for years that fructose is bad for you. His theory is scientifically sound, yet we have not observed the apocalyptic consequences he envisioned decades back. Similar debates on fat has been going on for decades and either side is backing up. Throw some economics and politics in there, and we have the mess we are dealing with today.

The main thing that set us apart from the indigenous peoples and perhaps our grandparents' generation is that we are feeding ourselves ad libitum which is very much unprecedented. After all, caloric restriction is the only proven way to enhance longevity in lab animals so it is quite likely that there is no magical diet but to eat and move as little as possible like the tortoise of Galapagos. Whether this lifestyle is conductive to a fulfiled life to open to (another) debate.
Looks like it's only being used for their scss files.
That sounds... uncomfortable. Seriously.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9730573

(Not much of a discussion)
As long as Gitter was copying Stewart Butterfield, they should have named it "Gittr".
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I'm a web developer who's built a few games in unity using their version of JavaScript. Wondering if anyone else has had any luck finding jobs working on any game dev teams and where to even go about it. Any help is greatly appreciated!
> Don't do it.

http://peterdn.com/files/A_JIT_Translator_for_Oberon.pdf

Oberon did it with relative success. Relative to other VMs at the time.
If you look at age structures, China is about 20 years behind Japan. Which doesn't bode well.
> The board uses liquid nitrogen-cooled superconductors and magnets

This sounds like it uses the Meissner effect. If so, it will only work on special surfaces.

Compare with Hendo, which was also way over hyped and only mentioned this little detail in the fine print. Theirs works on a slightly different principle though.
Or, more importantly, GApps OAuth/SAML SSO?
The image stuff works because we have found a way to model a good prior for it : convolution layers are basically enforcing some positional invariance and locality constraints on what our model believes the world looks like. Without this very strict prior, image recognition with neural networks just wouldn't really work.

We haven't found a way to enforce a good prior for temporal data like sound yet.
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+1 for a Docker Compose file
Docking station: Arrive at work, snap the laptop down, work. Reverse at the end of the day.

No docking station, lots of USB and other ports: Arrive at work, plug plug plug look for cable that dropped down below the desk plug plug plug, that was already a lot of work. Prepare to leave work ... aw, fuckit.
Yes, in an ideal world. But as you can see to responses, people still don't understand the point that I'm trying to make.

I would be completely fine with charging personal income rates on capital gains, as long as the capital gains are counted above inflation.
Yeah, this. Don't let a single client run your business and plan your schedule for you. Booting maybe was too much and was probably an emotional reaction but people make mistakes.
Not only that, but on a cursory glance, only the custom invoice templates per customer, and a contacts api seem to be the only issues much more than relatively quick wins...

One thing is obvious, their export functionality would definitely keep me from using their service...
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One thing that bothers me is, can I rely on the compiler making those optimisations? Which ones are guaranteed for me? Those are sort of important considerations, because it can mean the difference between a linear fibs and a quadratic fibs, or an O(nlogn) sort and a O(n²) sort.
On the Nature of Things (De rerum natura) by Lucretius is a fascinating glimpse at the foundation of scientific thought from the 1st century BC. I just finished reading it; it's an interesting mix of combining logic with observation to try to understand physical phenomenon. He gets many things wrong from a modern understanding of physics; but there are many prescient ideas including the idea of indivisible particles of matter and that much of what we interpret as "solid" is primarily composed of empty space.
Or you'll end up making the CEO more of a honorary or figurehead position where your only responsibility is to show up for board meetings once a month, and vesting the real decision making power (and big salary) with for example the COO/CFO/CTO or whatever.
I have mixed feelings about Lustig. A lot of his theories make good scientific sense but the experimental observations just don't add up. Still I agree with him in saying that the fat-free fad have probably done more harm than good since a lot of the supposedly low fat food have heaps of added sugar to maintain the taste and people end up eating way more calories than needed.
This was already posted multiple times:

The US Navy's warfare systems command is paying to stay on Windows XP
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The US Navy's warfare systems command just paid millions to stay on Windows XP
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The US Navy's warfare systems command just paid millions to stay on Windows XP
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The US Navy's warfare systems command just paid millions to stay on Windows XP
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The population bomb went the same way as every other doom and gloom scenario - no where, people just ignored it till the zealots finally shut up.

too many people? too little food? do people even realize how much land in this world isn't being used for people or food? most issues with food and population are caused by politics and usually bad politics. population numbers didn't cause the issues, greedy and power hungry people who went unchecked do.
I think the statement following this is much more important and interesting to HN:

> The tendency has become more and more prevalent under electronic auction systems.

While incidents like this are often used as examples of the failures of technocracy, I think the problem is elsewhere. A decision process has been out-sourced to a machine that is not smart enough yet to make a good decision. The decision might be good in a very localized and easy to measure sense (cheap), but lacks an understanding of other economical signals.
Through all of this, I do understand where hiveage is coming from... just the same, one thing I do see from this, is that given their pretty poor export functionality, I'd probably avoid the service for that reason alone.

Note: I'm not a customer of hiveage or any of their competitors...
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Seriously??? My friend's wife even had to go back to the US to give birth because she couldn't get health care! I wonder if it has changed. That would be great news!
Slightly weird that they didn't use node's module for that (which uses the compiled sass), since the front end is a react application, and seems to use node for building.
Anyone know which of these has an easy integration component for chatting with web visitors?
We're not talking about JITs here. Of course an tree-based representation is better for JITs, and if using a flat VM you may have to promote it to a higher level AST (or at least an SSA-based) form anyway.

But for an immediate execution, a flat stream of instructions (or, better, a threaded code) is much more efficient than any kind of tree. Yes, I'm aware of things like SISC, but I'm yet to see a proof that their approach is more efficient than a flat bytecode, even when JVM overhead is taken into consideration.
Also 'quick wins' require effort, need documentation, needs testing, needs attention. It is not that is a feature request is simple or quick it should be added.

There are to less business that say NO to customers, when what they are asking for is not in the vision of the company.
Yes, japan is split into a 60 Hz (west) and a 50 Hz (east) power distribution systems. They do have four main frequency converter stations that can move power between the two networks, three of them are shown on this power distribution map:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Shinano#/media/File:Power...

Taken together they have a capacity of around one Gigawatt. Here is some more information on the used technology:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higashi-Shimizu_Frequency_Conv...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakuma_Dam#HVDC_frequency_conv...
Aha! I should have checked. They have improved things. This came into place in 2014. I checked in 2012. Serves me right for not checking!
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A lot of the people commenting on the article seem to be pretty adamant that something like this matters. Personally, I've never been confused by a period (or lack of thereof) at the end of a commit message. And if such a time comes, I'll give serious thought to whether it's worth anyone's time to teach the team to use/not use periods or whether I'm better off investing that time to teach them something more useful.
I suspect the easiest way for you would be to get a job in Portugal. Once that's done live/work there for 6 years for the naturalization. At that point you can just use your Portuguese ID card to live and work anywhere within the EEA; visas, immigration laws and work permits will never be a concern again.
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Interesting anecdote. I wonder how the current reddit admins would handle something like this.
I don't understand you reasoning at all. What could be the problem with using a chat software that is released under AGPL?
Insane Clown Posse is going to have a hard time explaining how this works.
I think Hiveage's approach to this was unbelievably unprofessional and unjustified. Even if a customer is demanding, kicking them off your platform is not the answer.
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Slack "supports" IRC in that you can allow IRC connections, and then people can connect to your Slack instance via IRC. This might also be the case for some of the alternatives.

And it's a pain in the neck! It means that some of the participants in the channel are not able to read what's happened while they were away. Some of them get encoding errors. The IRC people do not get the same graphical elements as everybody else. They can't use custom /-commands.

In conclusion, in order to communicate the most effectively, you have to know who's on IRC and think about the differences in user experience for these people versus everybody else.

IRC has weaknesses (namely lack of centralized logging and unspecified text encoding) and fixing these weaknesses means forgoing support for existing IRC clients.
Can I ask you a personal question: why the vasectomy? I get that you're not looking to have kids now, but why make that a permanent decision now when you're not sure what you want in the future? I don't know you that well, but you don't strike me as the sort of person who is likely to get someone pregnant accidentally. What does getting the vasectomy mean to you?
Again, like I showed in my numbers, it's NOT a tax break. It's offsetting inflation. You pay very little inflation on your income this year, but you paid inflation "tax" on those investments from years ago you sold today.
As far as I know WHQL is automated so it's unlikely.
i.e. you test it rather than MS and submit the results to them.

MS then sign the driver package and pass it back.

Don't think there are any humans involved.
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I don't remember so much excitement and fury when it became known that the NSA was spying on us common folk. "Espionnage? Against le prolétariat? Who gives une merde?" But suddenly it turns out that the Americans were not only spying on the unwashed masses, but also our unwashed elite, and it's midnight meetings at the Elysée and general outrage all round.
That may not be first thing on the mind of people trying desperately to keep the dream alive.

Still, it's bloody irritating.
>that's one thing Redmond really cares about

Then why is the Navy on XP?

>other hipster stuff

I've heard security called many things, but I think this is the first time I've heard of it referred to as 'hipster stuff'.
"Good use of bulleted lists"

Sigh.
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For me, only Gitter makes perfect sense.
Because it's based on GitHub repositories, I can see why this should be used instead of Slack.
So take two people, take two hairs of each, pick two random hairs of those two, and compare them. I guess this could work out quite well. Do this for 1000 pairs of two different people, and 10 will fail, so that is 1%.

This is how I understand it now. It's not that he says that he compares one hair to those 1000, and then still was sure to be able to keep them apart. That was how I first read it.

For a good comparison, he should have used a line-up. Take one hair from 100 persons with similar hair color and use that as test sample. If he was still able to tell which was from the same person, he would have a case.
So... it doesn't work yet.

What a giant cocktease video, geez ...
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Your president's ideology is American Exceptionalism which he uses to give grounds for the murder, rape and torture of all non-Americans, and daily acts of terrorism and genocide in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Pakistan. American Exceptionalists are racist regardless of the color of their skin.
I tried to spin up the docker container locally and it worked until it had to send me a mail for registration.

Looking at the README it says that it does not work if my ISP is blocking port 25, which I don't think it is.

But anyway I created a droplet on digitalocean and ran the container there, but "MySQL init process failed."

I would love to try this project, or at least try a demo deployment somewhere :)