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Well you don't even necessarily need to relieve student loan debt, you could start by making it forgivable. Right now student loan debt can't be discharged through bankruptcy, and it creates a perverse market incentive for college tuition.

Not to mention this attack ad is right on the website for the Washington State Republican Party:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOYX3TBZEM8
Isn't there an inherent economic fallacy in the idea that "virtually every degree - regardless of the school or the major - could more than pay for itself because college graduates would command premium incomes"?

If everyone has a bachelor's degree, how is everyone going to command a premium income?
This article is not hitting on one of the directions we can go to continue Moore's law. Namely, upwards. Intel demonstrated a 3d pentium 4 back in 2004, the High Bandwidth Memory packages on AMD's latest chips are 3d, nVidia's ramping up their own HBM technology for their next GPUs, and there are a ton of active research programs on how to keep yields high as dies are stacked. It may be the end of Moore's law on a flat surface, but there's still quite a few places to go.
I've read on Glassdoor that Musk interviews every interview candidate.
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I tried pressing Alt with my left thumb, and it felt like playing Twister using my hand.

Hats off to your dutiful fingers.
Doubtful. At the very most, it'd be considered a war crime, if intent can be proven, which it probably can't be to the standards of a court. And even then, the US won't send anyone to be prosecuted to international courts, so the best we can hope for is internal military discipline, which probably won't happen meaningfully.

I assume this strike was a mistake; hitting a civilian hospital from a multinational organization is begging for bad PR, and PR is what wins guerrilla wars.
I've had 2 taxi drivers steal my credit card info in the past 2 years and taxis are still more expensive than Uber or Lyft, even through Flywheel.

Polite is great and all, but I've never had a Lyft driver steal my credit card info.
You can't just talk as if "red tape" is this thing that is just hanging around getting in people's way. Red tape usually exists for one of 2 reasons:

1. Corporations have done something bad that wasn't illegal, so regulation was created to prevent them from doing that.
2. Corporate interests have paid off politicians to make laws that favor them.

Ideally we could reduce red tape by cutting out only the laws in category 2, but in practice, corporate interests cut both ways: they screw things up when creating laws and they screw things up when removing laws. Moves to reduce regulation almost always cause more harm than good, letting big corporations go back to doing bad things they were doing before. History is rife with this kind of deregulation: the repeal of Glass-Steagall, for example. No move to deregulate that I know of has resulted in a better situation for small business. Deregulatory movements are almost always driven by monopolistic large corporations.
I can't imagine the stress he goes through. Not surprised that it gets to him from time to time.
Terrorism is an agenda sought through terror. Nobody ever claimed terrorism was rational or effective. It's just the physical implementation of hate speech.

I think The Westboro Baptist Church is a great example of a terrorist organization. Sure, they haven't blown up anyone with a pipe bomb like other extremist christian terror groups, but you can see in their bumbling intimidation tactics how they're just acting violently in hopes that they get what they want (in this case mainly violent speech and intimidation through picketing). If anything they're more focused on inflicting pain than successfully achieving their objective.

In this sense, terrorism is about terror.
I pay for the website and phone subscription. I'm probably going to get a tablet soon and it's annoying to me that I have to pay additionally for a tablet subscription. I have not seen this model anywhere else. Is it wrong that I think there should only be one digital subscription that covers everything? Is there something about he NYT tablet app that I am not aware of compared to the phone app?
404 @ https://www.meteor.com/why-meter/pricing from the article
Oh boy! I just finished calling the USCIS and they took like 45 minutes to take me through all routing and finally the call was terminated (apparently because of a network issue). $2 to save some frustration? Sure.
If someone threatens to rape or kill her (which seems to happens to pretty much every woman who works in tech who speaks out against sexism) then fart noises is mild.
They obviously work together very closely. I'm just objecting to the idea that the UK spy agencies are just American outposts and that each agency is responsible for the mistakes/crimes of the others.

Maybe they are really pushed around by the US, but I'd have to see more than Snowden making unfounded statements about it. In the past, he's made some illogical leaps based on some of the information he took. It's very easy to do that when you expect the worst of someone/thing.
When work is a choice, it isn't really work. This guy can take a vacation whenever he likes. He doesn't have a boss that will fire him. He doesn't have to worry about making rent each month. His concept of "taking a vacation" is very different then mine, yours, or most anyone else who isn't a billionaire.

If Elon Musk is stressed, he has the option of separating himself from that stress. He works because he wants to work. Employees suffer stress from which they cannot separate themselves without, in short order, creating new stresses. Elon will not be homeless next month if he stops going to work today. A psychologist might say that his stress is therefore a product of his ego, his daily choices, rather than of his environment. It is internal to his personality. That's probably why he finds it so hard to separate.
Wow! An Alan Kay talk from the heyday of PARC. This is really something.
" they are free to pass a law like TPA that sets special procedures."

Agreed.
However my point was: they can only do that to the degree that these procedures do not violate explicitly promulgated constitutional requirements.

Ie they cannot decide to give a senator two votes, or declare that votes are decided by something other than yeas and nays, etc.
This is because the constitution says that is what is supposed to happen, and you can't override those requirements.

The no amendments appears to possibly run afoul of that, if what i quoted from the constitution is read the way i read it :)
Looks like a link typo in the article. Here is the right link: https://www.meteor.com/why-meteor/pricing
There are different types of vacation. I don't like just laying on the beach, either. But I still take a break away from my work to be able to do other things. It's during these times I work on my other hobby projects. From the outside, it looks like I'm working, but for me, it's all fun and I'm more relaxed than I would be sitting in a hot tub somewhere.
We saw some folks start working on PostgreSQL support here: https://github.com/nylas/sync-engine/pull/132

It's not something we're likely to support officially in the near future since we don't run PostgreSQL and don't have the ability to test it well with production loads, but it'd be neat to see a working community fork.
Friend worked at one of the US's biggest law firms clerking for a few years. He was there during one of the largest patent suits of all time, so they were billing an insane amount of hours (he was easily putting in 100 hour weeks the six months leading up to the trial).

Anyways, case settles weeks before trial was supposed to start. Law firm gives everyone in the office a free two weeks off to unwind from such a massive stretch of work.

He enjoyed the time off, with only one minor detour to the office for like 2-3 hours one day during the time off and almost everyone above him was there working. He asked his boss what was up and the guy basically said he had nothing better to do so he just decided to work during that stretch.

I love working hard, I love being productive, but I really hope I'm never at a point in my life where I can't take two weeks off to enjoy doing something other than work. Of course I'm not inventing electric cars and space rockets, so there's that.
Allow me to quote the first sentence from the Wikipedia article linked to below:

Apple Inc. has developed a range of
"System on Chip" (SoC) as well as
"System in Package" (SiP) to power
their mobile consumer devices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_system_on_a_chip
Ask HN: Burnt out in job after 9 months
I feel burnt out after just 9 months in what is my second job after college. My first job lasted 2 years and I loved it - for the most part and worked hard.

With my current job I got disinterested after about 8 months. Lack of a real challenge, no deadlines, no scope for further development of my skills - e.g. formal testing (unit/integration). My counterpart developers are in another country/timezone with nobody to really learn from.

I'm using all of the above to reason why i've become absolutely allergic to the place. I have become demotivated during my working day and what I think is the onset of depression - There have been a lot of days where I just can't get up out of bed to go to work. I have missed a lot of days now and is becoming problematic.

Has this kind of thing happened before? I'm just a little confused now, not sure if a work environment can do this to somebody or if I just have my own problems?

I'd love to hear from fellow developers who may have experienced the same.

Thank you.
the problem is that you are only looking at the surface level, and thats why it doesn't make sense to you. bombing a shitty dessert country doesn't provide any single large benefit, but it does provide many smaller benefits that add up to be worth it (if viewed in a certain light):

the government pays the soldiers/airmen/marines/sailors a wage for their services. Those service members and their families then use that money to purchase other services. This helps bolster the overall american economy.

the government pays contractors to provide all the food/water/clothing/bullets/office equipment/communication equipment/whatever needed to conduct war. This creates jobs, which helps the american economy.

the government contracts flights from airlines to transport troops to and from warzones. this creates more jobs and helps bolster the airline industry.

the government purchased those bombs from a manufacturer using tax dollars: also could be phrased as the government creating jobs in the bomb manufacturing industry. Those people working in the bomb manufacturing industry then go and spend their wages on other things, like food, clothing, apps, computers, etc. That is useful to the nation.

another benefit: intimidating other countries. Don't go to war with america, we'll bomb the shit out of you and you will die. to use a common phrase, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." this is beneficial to the nation.

another benefit: the military gains experience in war, which will be a large benefit if the US ends up going to war against a real country. veteran armies historically have a large advantage against rookie armies.

another benefit: the threat of force (or protection against other forces) can be used to enter into treaties with other states that are not directly involved. Look at NATO: literally a treaty between nations in order to gain protection from America against the Soviets. NATO has provided a large benefit to the nation. Pax Americana is a real thing.

another benefit: technological development. DARPA is a government program that is designed to fund new technologies. Its overall goal is to keep the US military at the technological forefront, but its side effects are greatly beneficial to the populace at large: GPS (a single example among many) is a direct result of DARPA. this provides a huge benefit to the american (and the world's) people.

so yes, you are right that the purchase of that single bomb at whatever cost probably wasn't worth it. but the overall system of purchasing and using bombs and the logistics of delivering those bombs to a warzone and the entire network of individuals that are needed to invent, manufacture, deliver, load, use, and whatever else is needed, is what really benefits the american people.
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I am completely clueless about cars and their technology, so let me ask a stupid question:

From what I understand, VW didn't technically cheat the benchmark in the meaning that all the readings were truthful. What they did was enable a benchmark mode in their engine software, so the engine ran differently under those conditions. Or, framing the problem differently, they didn't let the user run the engine with the same parameters as the benchmarks ran under.

So, what's stopping them? Why not give the users what they thought they paid for?

I take it the engine would deliver less power with the economy parameters, but isn't those values easier to get away with? You could even have an economy mode button inside the vehicle (or perhaps they already do?) in which case all they wouldn't have been liable for anything as all the benchmarks would have been truthful.
Unfortunately it won't happen. As an IBMer, I see how quickly IBM sheds anything that is not a top earner, and hardware (especially consumer hardware) will never be a top earner again. The recent partnership with Apple (replacing employee ThinkPads with Macbooks) doesn't look favorably on them making consumer goods anymore either.

If you want IBM approved consumer hardware, it's not even the Thinkpads anymore. Apple makes the modern day IBM hardware.
I think that qmail's design is based off of being super modular. So much that most people don't actually run the qmail-smtpd because it had some security issues (It's been a while but this was around the time they started work on the OpenSMTPd).

I assume 5 years later it's much improved but at the time forking the code of an SMTPd that had security vulnerabilities didn't seem like a worthwile investment and everything else has a OpenBSD prohibitive license.

Edit: It was all pretty thoroughly discussed on various mailing lists and whatnot if you're curious
I'm sure these engineers weren't acting on their own here.
You make the comment "... by charging for the article, you are going to certainly get less viewership than if you publish it for free. To earn the same with a pay-per-view model as you would with free-but-with-ads, you are going to have to get paid more per viewer."

I don't believe this has been established yet. Sure there are lots of people who won't even give up their email address and they run AdBlock and they whine everytime an article to the WSJ or NYTimes is linked to on HN.

But that preference for "free" information is being proven unsustainable as we type. And Apple's moves are going to make it that more obvious. And like Netflix which showed piracy was a service problem not a content problem, so is written text on the Internet.

Imagine there was a service that you could pay $25 a year for, that in exchange for your $25 a year, would take all annoying ads off every page of every website you cared about to read. Think about that. And if that $25 got distributed, a third of a cent at a time, to every web site that participated in this, and you read their articles, that money flowed to them, for providing the content you wanted to read? It changes the dynamic, it changes the parameters of A/B testing, and I suspect that a large chunk of the 40 million AdBlock+ users would sign up for it. A web site with a million of those page views a day, would bring in $90,000 a month.

Piracy, and articles on the web, is a mismatch between what the content provider thinks something is worth, and what something is really worth. If you artifically price it above what people think it is worth, you get piracy. If you provide a way for market dynamics to price it and capture the value you can see what it is really worth.

So rather an author saying "This article is worth $10,000" you throw out that article into a networked system which has millions of "small" votes, all articles compete for votes based on their value to the community. Value wins.

And like Netflix where a movie that is a dog may not make any more revenue by being part of the instant catalog, articles that aren't actually valuable won't suddenly have value by participating in this market. Conversely, articles that do have value, will automatically do very well financially.
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Can you even disable Now on Tap while having Google Now enabled? (as a user)

The who should not be enabled together. One is about giving your Google services' data to Google and the other is about giving all of your other data to Google as well.

I can't wait until real privacy laws arrive in the EU.
Have them sign a contract, there are lots of samples online.

Try to do the work hourly or set a fixed fee for a well defined scope of work (break this down in to milestones). With Rails you could probably package up one or two milestones of the auth, models, etc that you can complete quickly to show good progress, and good profit to get things started.

If they change anything from the initial scope send them an authorization to add a milestone and cost for that addition, before starting on it.

Set everything up with incremental development/review/ok/payment (even if it's hourly).

You should also require a retainer/initial payment to make sure they are serious. 50% of milestone 1 or what your first invoice would be.

Break the project up in to parts you can complete in a week or two. Then invoice incrementally, get his ok on that portion of the work and the payment then move on to the next portion of work.

DO NOT work too far ahead without sending an invoice, invoice often especially early on (for hourly I would invoice at least once per week till you're more comfortable with how easy the client pays you).

Getting their ok/payment is important, occasionally you'll get near the end of a project and maybe it's not turning out like they expected or they didn't include everything they needed in their scope and they will start trying to say it's unacceptable and start talking about a refund. That said, be prepared that they might decide not to continue the project after a few portions/milestones, which is ok, as long as they pay for the work you've completed.

Also if they are difficult to work with you might want to pull the plug on things after a couple milestones.

Also set it up so the source code resides on your hosting for his review until the project is completed. Release it on final 100% payment. (You can email send them a zip of your repo after each invoice is paid before starting the next milestone).

You can note these things in your contract.

Get an EIN number (Free from IRS), you can use your name as your business starting out. You use your EIN in place of your SSN. For your W-9 that they should request you fill out if you make over $600, regardless report all consulting income on your taxes next year whether they send a 1099 or not.

http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Employ...

For payments you can use paypal. They could always try to do a charge back so keep that in mind.

Checks are typically ok, just keep in mind they might take a week or two to clear their bank, if they bounce those funds will be pulled back out of your account.

Typically you won't have an issue with people, most clients pay on time, occasionally you'll run in to a bad apple. Usually you'll get a bad feeling about a client, or see a red flag, it's best to pass on those projects/clients.

Good luck with your first freelance gig.
Anecdotal, but at least M preview 3 on my Nexus 6 is much worse. Hangs for a second some places, etc.. I'm a developer so I had to install it to test the new permission system in my apps, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. They also broke most of the mock location provider apps out there by changing that developer setting for no reason.

The number of settings in general seems much less (I'd kill for a setting to disable that immersion mode that hides my back/home button, personally, but no luck) so I think they are going full steam toward Apple style, they know what is best for you.
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The real story should be: why don't consumers have full root access on their mobile computers so they can do whatever they want? It shouldn't be controversial for Apple to let consumers have a little more access, it should be controversial that no major mobile OS allows full access.
At first I thought this article was Greenwald getting a bit overzealous, but after reading what the NYT/CNN actually wrote, I can agree that they were intentionally trying to hide the fact that the US bombed the hospital.

There's absolutely no question about who attacked the hospital, and yet both the NYT and CNN seem to hem and haw and use distracting, meaningless language to distance the US from the slaughter of civilians. I expect about as much from both of those news rags of course, but still, it seems as though for some reason they are getting their strings pulled specifically to obfuscate. Based off of the evasive language they used, I'd suspect some kind of Ministry of Culture to be patrolling-- of course, there is no such overt thing.

The bewildering part is that other mainstream media outlets that are usually of poor journalistic integrity in favor of government interests are reporting that the US was in fact the striker, unambiguously, with no pretense of deniability. Even the US military accepts that it called in a bad airstrike! This makes the exceptional effort expended on deception by the NYT and CNN very confusing.
The ads are in the paper and not hosted on some third party paper that's doing God knows what to my paper, and that's a big difference.
With both iOS and Android both going to white backgrounds I've got (seemingly) no where else to turn. These devices are really hard to use at night, and I despise them every time I use them after 7pm or so and have to squint.

Who decided that the world shall enforce white backgrounds for everything, while eliminating user control? Even Windows 3.1 had themes.
> "premise ... that virtually every degree — regardless of the school or the major — could more than pay for itself because college graduates would command premium incomes"

I'm curious when this started. I graduated from undergrad in Dec. '99. At no point was I told the above. My parents had always pushed for MD/lawyer/engineer with business as a fallback. Keep in mind they were none of those things, and as a family we understood hardship. Maybe that is part of the equation?

When I originally started pre-med the potential salary at the time certainly drove my choice. I found programming as a side elective and switched majors the next semester. Even though I love technology and programming if the salaries didn't match up it would have remained a hobby and not something I majored in.
> Did you not notice how the policy of replacing messages with farts is not limited solely to intolerant and disrespectful ones?

Why do you presume that the author is going to take that action with any messages that aren't intolerant or disrespectful?