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I have a different approach to finding contract work, particularly as I don't have much work experience. Upwork and similar websites have not worked well for me.

Instead, I browse job boards and when I find an interesting role I contact the company. If they are interested in my background and the fit is right, I sell them on setting up a contract relationship instead of full-time employee. Sometimes it works, other times it doesn't. The important part is being honest that you are looking to work as a contractor, not an employee.

Job boards to consider: AngelList, WeWorkRemotely etc. If you're looking for a list of job boards (http://nodesk.co has lots and so does this article by teleport http://teleport.org/2015/03/best-sites-for-remote-jobs/)
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What about running the heater to stay alive and defrosted?
Thanks. I'll update the example.
I tackle this sideways by going to Meetup or Eventbrite. Specifically I go to meetups and events that potential buyers go to and let them know what I do (I don’t try to sell my services on first contact). It takes some pruning but after a while my preferred clients are the ones I keep in contact with and we start working. I get less work through this than just by referral though.

Depending on your living situation and time available I’d recommend trying to establish your own identity so you don’t have to go through a marketplace for contract work. Instead you’ll have the contract work come to you and not filtered through a middleman that would take a cut out of your work. I would never recommend someone go through fiverr, Upwork or these other marketplaces unless they were just moonlighting.
Is there a way to reduce the “filter” of information to the brain?
The complexity is still vastly different with cars than any electronic device Apple builds. All those individual items you list are likely in your future car if not already there buried among a hundred to thousand more such complex items.

While Apple may be supply chain wizards in electronics they would need to replicate it many times over to build cars and even then create a whole new distribution and support system.

I think their best bet is to be the smarts of all cars, why restrict themselves to just their own cars. Just launching one car would cost them a sizable chunk of their money trying to launch more than one would be many times more difficult, just ask Tesla. Tesla isn't out of the woods because unlike Apple they don't have the reserves to spend; assuming Apple stock holders would go along with the idea of spending tens of billions to start yet another car company.

No, I think Apple is better at being another supplier and getting everyone into their game. That gives them more flexibility and more penetration for a lot less. They are likely also the only company that could get their logos on the screens of all cars
If you like having media previews in console windows, terminology is also a lot of fun.
At what point are companies going to give up on electric and look at other possible alternatives like hydro or something nobody has come up with like converting trash to renewable energy?

I still have issues with the environmental impact with electric fuel cell manufacturing and recycling. It's horrible on the environment and the recycling issues (hell, we still have problems just recycling plastics) cause me to doubt electric as a long-term viable solution.

Just in case:

http://www.theguardian.com/vital-signs/2015/jun/10/tesla-bat...

In a 2013 report, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Design for the Environment program concluded that batteries using nickel and cobalt, like lithium-ion batteries, have the “highest potential for environmental impacts”. It cited negative consequences like mining, global warming, environmental pollution and human health impacts.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/es903729a

The main finding of this study is that the impact of a Li-ion battery used in BEVs for transport service is relatively small. In contrast, it is the operation phase that remains the dominant contributor to the environmental burden caused by transport service as long as the electricity for the BEV is not produced by renewable hydropower
I question your assessment that the heartland was barely touched by the recent boom/bust cycles. All you have to do is take a look at Cleveland or Wichita to see how bad the economy as ran those cities into the ground. Anyone who thinks you can live reasonably in those cities w/o some sort of specialized/white-collar skill set hasn't lived in either in the last decade. Seriously, the whole nation is hurting except the people with cash in Wall Street.
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Reminds me of the classic quote by Palm CEO Ed Colligan from 2006.

> PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.

Apple is by no means guaranteed success with a car, but I can't help but think they've thought through the company culture challenges. By hiring on so much new talent specific to building a car, they're hopefully changing the culture in the way they need to.
I reply to myself in order to add an example.

I just was told that a proposal we sent a few months ago has been denied due to formal problems (not the content).

Apparently, there is an error of 1.8 € (the price of a coffee) on a total budget of 2M€. And the error was introduced by the software used by the administration handling the call. Our documents were correct.

The work of a scientist is fighting against stupid bureaucrats. Real science? Who wants that!?
The big flaw with this article is that the reality is there really is only one great electric vehicle on the market, the model S. And the model S is a luxury car.

So, an interesting number would be the % of luxury car purchases that are electric over time. I would imagine this is probably trending up, and that's just due to a single model from a single manufacturer.
Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism
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Desert Bus: The very worst video game ever created
Someone drops the c-bomb in the title thinking it will appeal to a technical audience (because like math is like calculus right? and like poker is like math right?) then rambles about watching an online course and going to a casino. Not super exciting.
Link to the actual paper: http://psi.sagepub.com/content/17/1/4.full?ijkey=0GSjhNaccRK...

I took on speed reading in college after realizing I needed to study and learn faster or I would fail miserably. The book I picked up seemed like a lot of common sense steps the first one being to inhibiting subvocalization, the internal voice we are used to hear while reading since we where taught to read out loud. The idea here being that our mind can process information much faster than the speed of speech.

The paper cites several studies that suggest inhibiting subvocalization reduces comprehension. However it takes the result of these studies as fact when they might be flawed. An example in their chapter about the role of phonology:

> First, consider a study in which skilled readers were asked to indicate (with a button press) whether briefly presented words were members of a certain category (e.g., foods; Van Orden, 1987). The people in this study incorrectly responded “yes” to a word that was not a member of the category (e.g., meet for the category food) about 19% of the time if that word was a homophone of a true member of the category: In this example, meet is pronounced the same as meat, which is a food. Incorrect “yes” responses to non-homophone words—for example, melt—occurred only 3% of the time.

I looked a the Van Order paper (http://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/BF03197716) since it shows the highest reading comprehension failure rate (19%). They came up with that number from an experiment studing just 5 male and 5 female undergraduate students (see Experiment 1, page 3)

I think citing this study altogether as a basis of one of their main conclusions (eliminating subvocalization lowers comprehension) is flawed: The study didn't compare regular undergraduates with speed readers (people skilled at comprehending without subvocalizing), it just concluded no subvocalization could lower comprehension by 19%.
Its funny I never read Atwood's post but I bought the same monitor mainly based on the features, amazon prime/reviews, and price... and I have to agree with Jeff.. its the best work/computer investment I have made in a long time. My other recommendation would be the Cambridge Audio DAC Magic Plus but its rather pricey.

I even contemplated blogging about the above products with no interest in making money because I like the products that much. I have feeling Jeff was thinking along those lines as well and not to make money.
No, you use checked instead of blah. If blah is type 'Blah?', Checked is type 'Blah'.

Edit to add: And unless something has changed since I last tried it, you can also just shadow blah so that inside that scope you're referring to the unwrapped one:

if let blah = blah { /* use blah here, it's unwrapped */ }

It looks kind of silly, but I have used it where there was no better name for the unwrapped value.
Didn't the president of Nokia make a similar argument about computer companies entering the smartphone market? I'm not saying a car and a phone are the same, but it's a parallel to keep in mind when framing these arguments in your head.

EDIT: Found what I was thinking of. It was Ed Colligan, Ex-Palm CEO on 16 Nov 2006.

>>We've learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone. PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to just walk in.
GitLab can be self hosted, you don't need to depend on the Cloud.

The downtime of GitLab.com is something the team are committed (see https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/ - 'Disadvantages') to improve this year.
Good point.

Some meetups I went to were the exact circle-jerk/humblebragfests you're talking about.

The one I consistently go to (shameless plug [OpenHack Syracuse](http://www.openhacksyr.com) is a monthly meetup for developers to talk about what projects they're working on and to spend time together working on projects, ideas, and sharing info. It's really just an organized hangout/hack session. And it's these types of meetups which are best for getting contract work (because contract work isn't the goal)
"Real engineers are regulated, certified, and owe a responsibility to public safety and reliability."

Are they really though? I know plenty of mechanical engineers that work for the automotive industry that are not certified in anything.
I've played around with dating apps, but never found one that was even close to being useful.

Finding someone you want to be around is such a complicated thing. Speaking as a dude, what these dating apps all get wrong is I don't want someone like myself. Yea, I verbalized I want this quality, and this, but in the end; I really don't know what I want. People change. People are not their profile.

The long term relationships, I had, were with people who were my exact opposites. People I thought I would have nothing in common with.

When I walk into a room, I just know who I'm drawn to. It has nothing to do with looks. It's just feeling I get. I don't think an app will ever replace this evolutionary mechanism.

Plus, some people just photograph horridly. I'm a Photographer, and there's people who photograph well, and there's people that don't. If I'm doing a free photo shoot, and the model is only going to pay for sent head shots. I always ask for a candid picture of the future client before I shoot them. Before I waste a day shooting them, I want to see if they have a chance in hell of getting a job in the future. (I make money off the sent head shots. Free studio time, but they don't get the negatives/RAW files.) Some beautiful people in person--just photograph horridly.
Wasn't Dopplr mostly a social network and not really comparable?

(A "find overlapping travel plans" is one of the few social networks I actually would use, but I can see why it isn't viable on its own)
>I don't understand why they feel compelled to use stupid animated gifs all over the page

It's a style. It might not be your style, or my style, but I'm sure Buzzfeed knows their audience.
Yeah as nice as Swift is, Cocoa was designed for Objective-C.

e.g. -[NSBezierPath setLineDash:count:phase:] takes a C array in Objective-C, but an UnsafePointer<CGFloat> in Swift.

Apple needs new API interfaces for their new language, and that will take time.
I can't speak to the employment side of things, but the work side of things is disappointing. Their recommended gigs are scattershot and a lot of the ones they push ("in conjunction with gun.io" or similar verbiage--sounds like premium postings) are six-month, monopolize-all-your-time contracts at a low hourly rate. And they don't seem to respect their own site's rules, at least not the spirit of them: every once in a while I'm spammed with a '$1,000' offer from gun.io themselves that's really "we'll pay $100 for a blog post".

Unfortunately I'm not sure that anybody else is much better! I still get most of my work through interpersonal connections and the occasional email from Hacker News readers.
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Understood. However try to reconcile this with the thought experiment I gave above. You would be saying that these Windows exploits would not work because users have IP addresses that are changing too frequently. Is it possible that _in practice_ many "dynamic" IP addresses are actually quite static (i.e., remaining the same for months or longer)? In _theory_ they could change by the day or week.
Descendant of a guy named Isaac Aaron that was askhenazi.

Pretty living proof I am stupid myself and I have a simple answer to your question. I think this theory is stupid. I am stupid, therefore I am right thus proving my claim.

But can help for the quest about the controversy.

My assumption is research trying to prove the superiority of genes is kind of badly accepted by the opinions and that it makes them all very uneasy when they remember the results of this every time it was made : a bloody war that ended badly for the one claiming superiority.

Historical precedent: the axe claiming they were superior races, the brits and frogs claiming to be superior while colonizing, apartheid, the aristocrats famous last words before heing beheaded, the romans ... the greeks, the persians... before collapsing.

I have blood X therefore I am superior has a tendency to create a spontaneous combustion of the claimers in intense ridicule... and often tremendous pain.

I guess people are superstitious and fear to take the risk.

Or more probably the illuminaty are at works since 500 BC at least... or maybe I am in fact smart, and it is a plain stupid idea proven by my own stupidity as a token of proof...

So still convinced it does not worth being researched, or do you hate them that much that you want them dead by ridicule?

You could study from your existence your relationship to any kind of superiority and publish your results. I would be delighted to validate my theory by experimentation.

It maybe stupid, but who knows? Maybe I am smart. Surely because I have blood. Human blood.
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"Duty" is a legal term of art which refers to the circumstances under which negligence can give rise to a tort lawsuit. Police don't have a "duty" to defend anyone from any threat in the same way that teachers don't have a "duty" to teach your kids--i.e. you can't allege they negligently failed to act and sue for damages. But the fact there is no duty for the purposes of an action in tort doesn't mean there isn't an institutional obligation and other mechanisms of accountability.
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Feedback would be great! (PS: Inspired by @jcb's notepad.cc which is unfortunately shutting down on Feb 1)
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you might want to fact check, about 50% of the US has <=0 net worth.

if you sent the top 1 % to the death camps, by the laws of math, there will be a NEW top 1%. and guess what? because of my statements above, they would still be exponentially richer than the bottom.
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With regards to the simplicity implied with electronic propulsion I think far too many people vastly underestimate the complexity that is a battery pack, the regenerative systems, and propulsion motors. While electric motors are simple in theory they are very complex items on their own and long term viability has to be worked out. Throw in the packs weight alone requires juggling of the rest of the cars construction to get weight back down to acceptable levels.

Self driving, yeah I think Google is doing fine for Disneyland type environments but the ever changing world of driving cannot be surmounted by data. It will take systems which can make microsecond decisions and actually know what they have perceived. So identification of all objects in play is key. the government approach of having cars all talk to each other seems opposite of where the car companies went.

Last, ride sharing will likely get surpassed by automating buses of various sizes dynamically scheduled based on needs. Why there hasn't been a nationwide push to electrify school buses is beyond me, want to get a generation off to the right thinking fast, start with kids
I think, that GitLab staff wrote respectfully, in an open manner.

> I think Gitlab has improved tremendously in the last 18 months.

I agree, IMO it's already better then github - I know people will disagree on that, but I find the UI way better - Easier to find things and navigate for someone who doesn't work in github very often (milestones for instance).
Beijing Police Have Thousands of Internet Monitoring Volunteers
I'd like the opposite - IKEA aesthetic at higher quality. I love how it looks, but I'd pay more for it not to be cheap crap.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10924416
I bet you checked to see if that dom was available before posting.
I agree. Thank you.
> unless you have a significant chunk of equity

Actually the better bet is to avoid equity as a replacement for a higher salary. Less risk, (lost value, taxes on negative value), and unless your company goes Google huge and you came in early it's not likely to be life changing.
"Range anxiety" is why I like the drivetrain in the Volt.
Did you find a personal improvement when inhibiting subvocalization? I find it an interesting idea. I'd love to be able to process two streams of English at once but find the inner voice has only one channel it can work with. I can't listen and read but that would be awesome.
Too Good to Go is an app that tries to prevent food spillage in Copenhagen
(a) There is a difference between simply not agreeing with people and "ignoring any comments that counter you with evidence".

(b) The argument I had on this thread was much narrower than the one people seemed to want to have. I had something negative to say about FFTF. People on the thread want to argue about how bad TPP is. I'm not going to respond to "evidence" against arguments I didn't make.

(c) The biggest reason I didn't respond to comments on this thread was that I wasn't home for most of yesterday. Sorry, I don't feel obligated to cancel plans to address comments on threads.

This comment, sadly buried lower in the thread, does a much better job of making my argument than I did:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10921541
I can totally understand your sentiment. I would just note that writing a unit test for a class and designing a metric that unambiguously measures good clinical care are on very different levels of difficulty. In our research group, we've tried to do some of the latter regarding infection control, and there is definitely a tradeoff between making metrics explainable in plain language (allowing mental buy-in by healthcare workers) and measuring attributable differences in performance, which usually requires a heap of tricky statistical corrections that few people can grok.

It would be a very interesting future where healthcare workers have the reams of stats that professional athletes do, and where everybody in the space is literate enough to intuitively understand each number and its caveats, like hardcore sports fans. For example, an ICU nurse is bound to encounter more hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) per week than a nurse in pre-op assessment, and so averaged cases of HAI per primary unit is the proper context for that stat, much like you'd weigh recent rushing yards for an NFL linebacker against the strength of the defenses faced. Then, managers could optimize their teams to each person's strength or weakness and/or supply training in the correct areas, much like coaches in sports do. This would be a sea change in the medical culture, though, and it would encounter staunch resistance, because some of the metrics already being pushed on doctors (# pts/day) arguably incentivize worse care.

To your last point, part of my research now is analyzing electronic medical record (EMR) data, and coming from any other field you'd be shocked at how messy it can be. In a way, this is to be expected, because the "vocabularies" for medical data are huge, and even widely used ontologies have bizarre properties [1]. I really hope that we can solve the data collection problems with better technology, but as of now, the incentives for EMR vendors to overhaul the tech is pretty low, now that most US hospitals have picked a system and those vendors have everything to lose and little to gain from overhauling their user interface.

[1]: http://www.healthcaredive.com/news/the-16-most-absurd-icd-10...
Alternatively, wait for Airbnb API to open up[1] and then make a travel planning website that rides the back of Airbnb.

In general, you shouldn't create start-ups in markets with high barriers of entry. However, the fun part of start-ups is learning how to cleverly bypass barriers while building up your own.

If one website was the website to plan an Airbnb vacation, it would have its own barrier that would grow with Airbnb. This would leverage a popular strategy of growing out of a larger, more successful host.

[1] - http://all-about-airbnb.com/post/127856658166/airbnb-public-...
First step to a million dollar business: start with a billion dollars.
Interesting! I'm not London-based but am London-commute friendly so will check it out.

(I've been contracting for about 3 years now, some in London)
I shouldn't even respond to this, because it can only cause problems, but really...
Hollywood? NY Diamond trade?
I don't really have a problem with them (not being in those industries), but that someone in the US could be unaware is bizarre.
I wonder why it's discouraged? I think it undermines antisemitism rather than otherwise. As it's a benign explanation for jewish overrepresentation in cognitively demanding endeavours.
Not only that, but most lithium ion batteries don't function very well below freezing: http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/charging_at_high_...

This past weekend the high temperatures in large parts of the midwest were below the cutoff point.
It seems like it can switch between multiple cameras, but it doesn't handle multiple cameras at the same time. Still, cycling between cameras every 10 seconds might be acceptable for some people. Or there's the option of configuring the system so that it'll follow motion through the area by overlapping the cameras' fields of view.
Every one of his complaints has a good solution, albeit some not widely known. Except compile time, single source file or otherwise - the compiler is using lots of smarts and lots of library headers on your behalf.

That said, author has done a good job explaining his thought process in taking the rewarding-at-every-step path, given he's not a C++-wrangling junkie.