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I was allowed many hours on the computer(albeit often having to take turns with my brother), but I concur that the emotional labor of listening and understanding is the number one thing my parents never "got." As I got older, their vicarious-living tendencies became more obvious - they wanted me doing things they personally liked and that was the farthest they could see.

That would be fine, but if it wasn't on their radar of likes, they saw no reason to bring it up or discuss it - and if I brought it up, they had a pattern of dismissal with no pledge of support or further discussion - sometimes using the Grave Serious tone, sometimes using the Explanatory, That's Nice, or Maybe Later tone. If I escalated or presented work to them, they would categorize it as a "career", "hobby" or "skill development" and position it relative to their preferred activities in a way which induced anxiety and discouraged me from continuing. The only thing I wanted was basic interest or acknowledgement, and they consistently messed that up by wheeling every conversation directly towards their comfort zone. To this day, if I try to talk about a personal issue, they rush to provide unsolicited solutions and explanations. I finally managed to unlearn the explaining pattern myself as I got into my later 20's, as my friends brought it to light.

So, at least at that time, I gave up on parental engagement and hid my life away in the computer instead, since at least there were people online, while weathering the (relatively mild, compared with others) storms of their own fancy. So too, I think, is the role of all of today's devices - when the family doesn't care, the screen fills in. It's a symptom.

I think it's right to set down rules at an early age. That is one thing I think my parents did do right, and the early years are probably more crucial overall. But they had no idea how to proceed from there - kids aren't going to be exactly like their parents, and that requires a lot of listening when they get into adolescence and try to speak for themselves.
To each his own. I plan to retire at 40, 42 at the latest if everything goes according to plan. I won't be a couch retiree though, I plan to spend perhaps 20 hours a week coding on various things. Or even bootstrap a company, and if it fails I can just go back to being retired.
I'm not quite sure if you watched the whole video, he says let's get rid of everything (HTTP, HTML, CSS) but JavaScript.
You should report this scenario to PyPy - they're waiting for and love examples where Python is faster than PyPy.
http://sdf.org/

Apparently, you create a shell, and have this free:

USERS (free)
200MB disk quota / 5,000 files divided into 4 areas

mutt, pop3, imap, icq, twitter, bsflite (aim), local irc
games, mud, lynx, gopher, TOPS-20
http://yourlogin.sdf.org
(over 50 domains to choose from)
traceroute, ping, whois, dig and more
- after account validation -
inbound ssh, ftp and sftp connections
elm, pine, alpine, mailx and rmail
webmail interface
bash, ksh, tcsh, rc and zsh
ed, ex, vi, pico, nano and emacs
shell, awk and sed based CGI
USENET access (read/post), ClariNET access
hundreds of shell/network utilities

They have 'paid' services also, which you can pay for in cash.

http://sdf.org/?join
RSD Blueprint by Tyler. Really life-changing stuff.
I see that most of your comments are of the same kind, and that you get lots of downvotes.

The reason for the downvotes is that the Hacker News feels like appreciation is best communicated through upvoting: it helps sorting the comments in order of relevance, and avoid cluttering the thread with +1/-1 comments.

It is perfectly okay to upvote (and often downvote) without commenting; don't feel forced to participate either, it's perfectly okay to lurk until you find a topic you can actually contribute to.
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What will happen to changes coming in from LibreSSL or BoringSSL?
Just getting started here and wondering if there's a way to choose the region all this stuff is being installed to?

Can apps be launched in specific regions?

edit: Looks like it defaults to us-east-1. I'd much prefer to use Sydney due to the latency here in AU :)
Totally not going to happen during peacetime, while there is zero pretense for live-fire open warfare.

This sort of posturing is likely to occur, before any actual sabre-rattling or actual shots fired in anger.
I get that this is how it works and maybe for some reason people like to treat www as any other subdomain and send it somewhere else - but is there any reason beyond not configuring dns to just blackhole www traffic like that site does?
You're not sure why, in a forum ran by the paragon of SV, an opinion critical of SV culture is being downvoted? :)

Besides, michaelochurch probably has a few downvotes by reflex at this point.
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Be that as it may, leasing vs buying is always bad, IMO. We just installed our PV system in SoCal - I get the rebate, I own the system, when selling the home eventually the new owner knows what he/she is getting and isn't encumbered by the lease.... However you slice it, biting the bullet and buying your own PV system is way way better than leasing it.

Maybe there are cases where leasing makes sense...but those are few and far between...or maybe SolarCity counts on people being uninformed/clueless, which is why this 'lease' model works. IMHO, it's total ripoff.
Perhaps that's why they're doing things like this (enabling P2P delivery of updates by default). They're not worried about what the consumers think because those who would leave Windows for another platform over decisions like this have already left. The ones remaining are going to stick with Windows no matter what, so they might as well go ahead and (attempt to) slip in whatever they want -- the consequences will be minimal.
>The typical home PC was not bought with a tax credit.

A tax credit isn't the only way to give a subsidy. In the case of the microelectronics industry, much like aerospace, subsidies were (and still are) supplied via enormous levels of government spending on military/space technologies - all the way from the Manhattan project, to defense funded Bell labs projects, to the space race.

No NASA and no ARPA and no Bell labs = no PC.

>If government-directed industrial policy were the deciding factor in a sector's success, we'd all be in awe of the massive, globally dominant Japanese software industry

No, we'd be in awe of the massive, globally dominant Japanese automotive industry.

Oh wait...

>or the French Minitel business.

Minitel may very well have been the dominant 'internet' today had it been an open technology like Arpanet. The technology landscape of the time is littered with the corpses of companies who tried to own the Internet.
First Exploration-ship with ulifted clients launches towards shallow cluster?
Seriously more user-friendly and faster than node-inspector
I guess 32.7 meters above sea level is reasonably uphill.

I'm too lazy to calculate the approximate volume of fresh water that represents, based on the lake's surface area. Pretty safe to say that the rest of the lake's volume, at and below sea level wouldn't be rendered brackish too easily.

Although, given China's penchant for environmental accidents, I wouldn't put it past them, if all that additional lake water above sea level were to get skimmed off the top by an accidental spill into the ocean.
It is penalized, but we overrode the penalty in this case, thinking the article was substantive. From the thread here it sounds like that was wrong.
Christian Slater and Sam Esmail: “USA's Mr. Robot”
Where is the comment section? I don't see it there.
Ryu Murakami is the better one of the two. Haruki s books make it easy to fall asleep.
> A) exception/panic on overflow: this is preferable to overflow but also undesirable behavior.

I don't find this undesirable at all. I have worked in languages where this is the default (Standard ML) and it's quite nice. You can always explicitly use a word-type if you actually want overflow. With hardware support, it is even fairly cheap to implement, as you just connect the overflow bit of your integer ALUs to something interrupt-triggering.
Stateful?

https://github.com/roots/bedrock
Host Gator? Really? Let me guess, the domain is purchased and controlled through GoDaddy too
If anyone here would like an invitation to the Convox #public Slack channel please email me at matt@convox.com.
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> There were a few web interfaces, but apart from the hatred the old Usenet users had for web users, there were technical difficultiers that were never overcome.

To expand upon this a bit it wasn't all just knee jerk elitism. Some web clients were terrible and did terrible things.

WebTV in particular would add animated gif backgrounds and MIDI music. Since Usenet was a text medium those messages would have the gif and midi encoded as text (UUENCODEd?) and added to the post, with a bunch of raw HTML as well. Other users got huge amounts of HTML and uuencoded "stuff" or they got animated backgrounds and MIDI music - either one was pretty awful.
That's Michael Moore, not Roger Moore. The latter is an Englishman who played James Bond. And it has nothing to do with what Americans believe, but everything to do with the fact that money controls politics in America. And moneyed interests want American healthcare to stay exactly as it is.

Thanks for comparing us to North Korea. I appreciate it. Also, the reason people stay in North Korea is because they will kill you if you try to escape, and will kill your remaining family if you succeed.

I will also let you know when I meet the first American who thinks our healthcare system works.

I really do hope you continue on your path of caricaturing others in order to make yourself feel better.
Yes! We have formed a business behind convox and current have a small team working on it full time. We are very confident that it will hit 1.0. Thanks for your interest :)
Thanks! Yes right now we have a small team working on this full time. We do plan to commercialize it, but intend to always keep it open source.

We're super confident it will get to a more mature state. We have some resources to keep working on it ourselves, and we're seeing lots of interest and participation from the open source community as well.
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IIRC the argument for the lease is not having money up front, having someone else bear the cost of installing PV, and getting a "free" discount on your PG&E bill in exchange for a monthly payment.
That's not anonymous with the amount of google cruft on there. At least google will know that you instantiated something there and google is within the US so can be subpoenaed to reveal the details of whoever visited your site.

Note how the sdf page linked elsewhere in this thread is completely clean in that respect. They do have some other issues but at least they try to keep third parties out of the loop.
Yes, but the point of pension, for average people, is getting the freedom to decide what you want to work on without economic pressure, as a reward for a life of contributing to society.
Correct. It does default to us-east-1. The main reason is that we are using some fairly new AWS services that aren't launched in all regions, but we do want to and expect to expand to more regions.
Ont thing that hasn't been mentioned yet is that it is essentially closed now. You can't just set up your own USENET server easily, because you have to pay someone $$$ to get federation (if at all possible). They will try to keep competitors out, because they sell access to newsgroups for a lot of money so people can download warez.

I think it should be possible to get replicas of non-binary newsgroups, but a quick search hasn't found any free option.
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Perhaps dang should answer this, but is flagging these kinds of comments a good use of flagging? I generally find the rules governing flagging a bit murky (even after searching around HN for dang's posts on this).

I would much appreciate an answer as I've tried taking up the responsibility of doing my part in keeping HN a great place with valuable comments and insights!
>Right now to fly to Portland I'd have to drive 120 miles to Medford, OR , then fly down to San Francisco, then fly to Seattle and connect a fight to Portland! And back again.

Or, you could fly from Medford to Portland? My first search shows Alaska Airlines flies multiple daily flights between MFR and PDX.
I like the Merriweather font on her blog, very easy to read. This is now my fav serif font. The #444444 color helps too. I suppose she's a book historian - she knows what she's doing in that regard. I wish more bloggers knew the value of not making text completely black on white.

On the topic, what more can be said? She's spot on with "don’t confuse popularity with engagement." It's not just special collections that end up as entertaining "wink wink nudge nudge nudge" content currency, but pretty much anything. Social media eats it, processes it, and spits it out as trivialised "what's new" click-bait. On the flip side, maybe that's exactly what social media users want/expect/enjoy. A sort of intellectual breakfast pic, anything more serious doesn't belong.
Fictional myth building around Elon Musk is a recurring activity.For example, the hyperloop:

"Two weeks before his Hyperloop announcement, Musk quietly met with the founder of ET3, an even-faster, already patented[since 1999] tube transport system."[1].

That's not to say Elon didn't help the hyperloop - he helped greatly by exciting the public's and investors imagination. But he didn't invent the thing.

[1]http://www.fastcoexist.com/3015704/futurist-forum/how-much-d...
Flash a Cynaogenmod or other open android variant on a mid-tier phone you like?
You might also look into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolla
Hi Thomas,

Thank for following this up.
I think you are right. RH SWS was EOL before the Dual_EC default switch was made. If the only public banners for this product are from before this time, I will conceed that DUAL_EC likely never saw use on the Public Internet.

Pls unblock me on twitter ;-)
> With hardware support, it is even fairly cheap to implement, as you just connect the overflow bit of your integer ALUs to something interrupt-triggering.

You can exploit the IEEE-754 inexactness exception with doubles if you're okay with 53 bits of integer precision. Tim Sweeney showed me this trick a long time ago, which he combined with run-time code patching so that an arithmetic operation would be speculatively compiled as either fixnum or bignum based on observed run-time behavior. It'd compile it to fixnum by default with an overflow trap using the FP inexact exception. The trap would patch the fixnum site with the equivalent bignum code and resume. With hindsight inspired by modern trace compilers like LuaJIT, the better approach is probably to compile entire traces speculated on either case, so you can hoist most of the guard predicates and not speculate based solely on the proximate call site but on longer traces.
You could run Wordpress today, afaik. Anything that can run in a Docker container can run on on Convox. You'd just need to use some sort of hosted database service like Amazon RDS to persist your data.

edit: Just looked at Wordpress a little closer. I didn't realize it expects a persistent filesystem, which I guess is what you're asking about. Convox follows the 12factor.net philosophy of ephemeral filesystems, so you'd need to figure out a way to persist files to S3 or similar...
> Convenience store workers in the US earn about 20K USD per year - that is double the salary what a comp sci fresher from a tier 2 college (non-IIT) would earn in India

Pretty sure Japan is more like USA in cost of living than India.
There's something about the HN users that makes them enjoy taking a shit on other people's work without including positive or at least constructive feedback.

I've been a member for almost four years and I still haven't figured out what it is, but it makes me shake my head every time.
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As far as I understand, it's getting harder each time. Besides, I thought there might be flashed phones to buy already because I don't want to invest a few hours until it works.

But you're right, I suppose that's my fallback strategy.
Please note that this is article is part of a special section of the Economist this week called 'What If'. It is highly speculative and more about the potential of scenarios and alternatives rather than a real article. As an example another article is a retrospective on the first 100 days of Hillary Clinton as president, having won against Marco Rubio.

I love the Economist and find the section thought provoking, but hope it is not a trend to soften up the paper.
If all it takes to make you not read something is one negative review, you probably never read anything.
Hijacking: how do I read Usenet for free, if there is such a thing? I'm only interested in non-binary content.
My employer just switched to an Office 365 solution for Sharepoint (Sites), Email, Word, Excel, etc. It runs on anything with a web browser. No Windows required.
> I have a problem with the wording because it's basically all about pretending that YC companies don't get any special treatment

This is false. No one is "pretending" anything of the sort, not now and not earlier. That ought to be clear from my second post, if not the first.

If we wanted to pretend something, we'd hardly specify its exact opposite in the FAQ.
On that idea, there was a very interesting lightning talk at EuroPython 2015: https://youtu.be/Tt-R2KdQUFs?t=2772
Quite right. As with the "Draw the rest of the owl" idiom, it often looks like people just "realise" what they want to do, then suddenly become that thing. Whereas anyone with remotely complex thoughts and dreams, will generally be taking plenty of steps and introspecting along the way.
Looks really sketchy as well.
I think I have a handful of negative numbers in hundreds of thousands of lines of C code. It's quite rare, IME.

By the way, an underflowed/large unsigned number used when a signed number is expected in most contexts (e.g: when adding as an offset) will behave correctly. It will fail when you try to compare it using < or >. If you use enable gcc warnings (which you ought to for every conceivably useful warnings :-) ), that will be caught.
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What would be a good introduction to his work?
First, college is used as a proxy. The significant drop coincides with the drop in participation in industry, the data is just cleaner.

Second (and unrelated to the discussion, really), I don't know where you get your assumption that learning to code in college is too late. I've been in this business for twenty years and some of the very best developers I know only learned to program in college. If anything, I'd say that not going to school at all and having a weak background in algorithms/mathematics is a much greater stumbling block for some software achievements than not programming before school, but even that is probably a bad generalization. Excellent developers come from all backgrounds.
A very nice introduction indeed. I wonder if a tool for visualizing traits as a Venn Diagram would be useful for inspecting an unknown crate. Also, I have a feeling that visualization techniques are underused in programming tools.
I know plenty of people who retired and lived well into their 80s and even 90s.

The trick is to find something else to dedicate oneself to. One old man I know is an avid gardener, and gets up in the morning to tend to every single plant in his garden. Another one dedicated himself to Olympic sports and probably learned the name of every single athlete who competes in the games. I also know an older lady who joined a volunteer organization and found meaning in helping those in need.

While I respect people who continue to work after they retire, in my opinion they do that simply because work is their "safe zone" and they're afraid of letting go and branching out into other things. This tends to be more likely for people who own a business or practice: they feel they need to be at the helm at all times to prevent it from falling apart.

There are also people who have been workhaholics throughout their career and haven't developed any meaningful hobbies. For them, life is work, and work is life. So they chug along until they die. I have less respect for those people, because for every old person who refuses to retire, there's a younger person who isn't getting promoted to their spot, or hired.
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No provider would carry all groups, and when you looked at particular groups most providers would not carry all posts.

But you still had some people saying that providers should do zero filtering at all, ever, and that doing so was evil censorship of the worst North Korean kind. Filtering was strictly something for users to do.

That's impossible for providers to do when people are using groups to distribute images of child sexual abuse.

Many customers were happy that sporge was filtered. Most customers wanted some kind of spam filtering, even using the very tight definition of Breidbart Index.

So there were conflicts in the userbase, which got pushed onto ISP support. Since ISPs were already paying for huge storage requirements I can totally understand this being part of the consideration to cut usenet.
Agree fully. To add: print out an agenda of a meeting, take down any points on that, take a picture of that and email yourself.
It seems that the magical realism that make his work potent also runs through his self-narrative. As is always the case in honest fiction, the line between the words and the wordsmith is quite blurry.
> but what good is that if the program isn't prepared to deal with the sudden jump to a large value

Aaaand you only need to care about this case.

For an unsigned int just check: x < (your max value)

For signed ints: x < (your max value) AND x > 0

Oh, the downward counting loop example. Because that's done very frequently no? I really don't remember when was the last time I did that (I'd much rather have an upwards loop then y = MAX_VALUE - x (adding 1 if needed)

Quite funnily, if you do a loop in x86 assembly, it is naturally downwards counting, if ECX is zero the loop ends

Don't use a for, just i = (n - 1); do { i--;} while (i);
As I said, I'm moving on now :)
Continued Discussion with Steve McConnell
I bemoan the disaster that is happening with the BBC archive of radio and TV (about 1,000,000 hours of content!) - they didn't manage to place it online completely, thus, it is not shared, commented upon, put in collections, and integrated into this living fabric that is the social media.

In the meantime cat videos, art videos and all sorts oddities flood youtube, FB and reddit, and get the lion share of attention.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9843681
Not a profitable investment on a 15-year timescale. Potentially profitable over 25 years (according to the linked estimates) - and this is for a project with a 50-year concession, with a 50-year extension allowed for.

Perhaps it would be silly for private investors to pile in hoping for a short-term return, but over the life of the canal it could potentially be a great investment for sufficiently long-term entities (such as nation states) to invest in.
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I wonder when somebody will put together a book called Murakami's Kitchen - The Collected Recipes From All His Books
Not the main reason. As always, politics really ruled with US-Columbia relations factoring in heavily (Panama was a province of Columbia early on in planning), as well as the existing US-owned Panama Railway.
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> I am not sure in which EU countries you get less?

Normally none, as I said 4 weeks is the minimum mandated by the EU. The only way an EU country would have less is if it recently integrated the union and has yet to transcribe 2003/88/EC ("Working Time Directive") into local law.