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I got into an ME (Masters of Engineering) program after a non-CS degree and working in the Industrial Engineering field.

I would say it was worth it for me, as I worked on FreeBSD servers to set up a system for deploying experimental modules to test security measures. I had zero experience with anything of that sort before.

I say find a professor willing to provide work (and pay) for your time in a Master's degree and it's completely worth it.
> phone calls are still very much an important part of having a phone

According to the telephone company. SoftBank in Japan kept lowering data caps without lowering the price. (Unlimited > 7GB > 5GB). They made voice calling "free" in exchange. How generous.
Just by entering the Watch market you're doing fashion though. As more tech becomes 'wearable' won't all tech companies become fashion companies in some sense? Technically you could argue Google Glass was a fashion product (just not a very fashionable one).
Based on my limited interaction it seems pretty common among German university students to not own smartphones for reasons other than financial (but I can't tell you whether that's 5% or 25% of all students). Sometimes it's a conscious decision, sometimes they never felt a pressing need for owning one (given that among certain social circles they are not relied upon for communication). Even those that own one often don't carry them during routine days in university as they find themselves too distracted by it. Probably varies a lot by field. Social sciences probably have the lowest number of smartphone users.

(Of course you also see a lot of heads buried in phones as soon as you step anywhere near a university – or anywhere else.)

This also applies to graduates. People in the 25-35 age bracket around me have less smart phone usage than what I experienced in other countries. Among my friends almost anything is discussed face-to-face, via phone, or via email (in that order) and if I have to wait until the evening for an answer that's fine.
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Yea. Came here to say what the previous commenter said. This basically sounds like Revolut.
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> which one is a more accurate representation of the real world

I'd venture a guess and say that most consumers don't care about this. Probably why the S7 saturates a bit more. Makes selfies look better, doesn't it?

The other question is does "camera" mean the hardware only, or hardware + software like businessinsider have assumed?
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I think the author's point stands since they show that the airpods should be expected to have the same fit as the earpods and that the earpods don't fit half of people's ears without falling out. Therefore the $160 headphones are vastly more disposable than wired IEMs of the same price. That's about what I paid for a pair of etymotic er4s a decade ago.
I agree that the variety of distributions can be a challenge for new users. One of the beauties of FOSS is that it's all open and consequently easy for moderately technical end-users to 'remix' and create new. One of the challenges is that many of the distributions have minimal differences between them, in my opinion it's better to get to know one of the underlying system families and stay with that family just adding/changing components as you need them. Changing between distributions because of the GUI feels like overkill to me when you can easily install a different desktop environment or window manager.

Lots of existing users prefer Mint because they transitioned when a roughly equivalent looking GUI existed on the proprietary OS they were coming from. Everyone prefers familiarity - and that's fair enough. Ubuntu uses a GUI that's aimed to target new users [0] - the Ubuntu GUI is far easier to use for contemporary general computer users [1] - if you're an advanced user then the freedom of choice of Linux is still there in the X thousand packages in the archive!

To install a different desktop to the default is pretty simple: install the desktop package and edit the session file, or do it the old-fashioned way and edit a .xinitrc. Any advanced user should be able to do this, in fact it's part of the joy of investigating the options! For example, I use i3.

If you care about high-security then by definition you have to use one of the distributions which has a full-time security team. Looking at CVE dates and when updates are published would be revealing.

[0] Source, I used to work for Canonical.
[1] You may find this surprising (I did) but the vast majority of end-users really don't do much with 'right click' and find virtual desktops utterly and totally confusing, they often don't even know about alt-tab.
>It was the first Game Boy to have a backlit screen, which meant I could finally easily sneak and play on it in the night without alerting my parents

Actually, there was another Game Boy with backlit screen released much earlier -- just a few months before the Game Boy Color, though only in Japan. I remember said Game Boy because a friend of mine whose father traveled to Japan had brought one such Game Boy back with him for his son. It was called the Game Boy Light.

The screen was monochrome with green backlight. Pretty badass.

http://nintendo.wikia.com/wiki/Game_Boy_Light

http://www.computercloset.org/NintendoGameBoy.htm

http://retro-treasures.blogspot.com/2012/04/silver-nintendo-...
I don't think there is nearly as much code review in open source projects as people would like to think.

Then there is the problem of churn if the new committers get confident and rewrite minor things, which is quite taxing on the existing committers.

Wikipedia is a good example that a small number of people either have to guard their territory ferociously or else have everything rewritten.

Now, sometimes a rewrite is in order, but in general churn is a major time sink for longer term committers and in fact one of the reasons they ultimately leave.
It's very sad - I am old enough to remember when HP was synonymous with quality and doing the right thing for both customers and employees. Hewlett and Packard (the founders) would never have pulled a stunt like this. Fiorina destroyed that legacy almost overnight.
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So, if I understand correctly, data is being loaded directly from the SSD to the GPU and then filtered by the GPU before the CPU handles the more difficult queries.

Neat.
I find it crazy that so many people are willing to pay so much for iphones. There are much cheaper phones that offer pretty much the same features, certainly a little less polished but very usable. I know people for whom an iphone is a huge expense but they didn't consider the cheaper alternatives. Apple really did an awesome job marketing their phones.
To offer a different perspective: I did this with a library that's mostly used for short lived hacks, so while there are contributions from time to time, no one sticks with it for long enough to become a real maintainer. So I'm still the one pressing the merge button on new PRs.

A long time ago I wrote PyMouse, which someone added keyboard support to, which became PyUserInput. But then I ended up being the maintainer of the new combined project. So lately I've just been giving contributors commit access. So far the results are OK, but it's not like anyone took over the maintenance.
One friend I made is studying sociology, he runs Linux and it's very important to him to run open source software. I wouldn't call him a geek, just a really conscientious person.
Simply not true. City of SF spends a lot of money on social services specifically for homeless people. So it's not that they don't care if people get sick or die. In fact, it seems like they care a lot, based on dollars spent to try and alleviate a problem that is very tough to mitigate.
Same in javascript:

var fns=[];
for (var i=0; i<3; i++) {
fns.push(function(){return i});
};
fns.map(function(x) { return x.call(); });

Returns

[ 3, 3, 3 ]
That's what I thought. The waves of spam make me think that perhaps I fell into a LinkedIn marketing scam though.
Not necessarily. Their mothers would probably be thankful.
> "Defer" is blind. With "defer", nobody ever finds out that the close failed to write the end of the file.

This is simply false and a misconception held by people who haven't spent a lot of time with the language. You not only can, but absolutely SHOULD handle errors in defers.

Using named return parameters on your method, your error return is still in scope and can be set. This is how you properly handle errors on defers.

See: https://play.golang.org/p/kPx3ipkMhF
Freelancing is not a side project, it is actually a job.
As an engineer and business owner one of my main concerns is how to bring value to my customers. But making anything new or innovative is incredible expensive.

For me expending 159 USD in those earbuds in VERY CHEAP considering that making one pair of those myself will cost me some tens of millions of dollars.

Try it yourself to put accelerometers and gyroscopes, microphones a battery, a digital to analog converter, infrared sensors in such a small space and then tell me this is expensive.

There are professional people who could spend wisely on something so lightweight like this and 160 dollars is no money. For example we have some robots controlled by voice and the current wireless headphones we use weight too much. Cables are dangerous in this environment.

Some people believe that the world and the Universe rules around them. If they have not use for wireless earpods, or they don't have money for it, then nobody in the world has use for it, it it so expensive and "Unjustifiable consumerism".

Apple has a history of bringing things to market that "nobody will use" by the critics and then when they sell like crazy it is marketing and people being stupid.

If you consider people stupid, you should consider that maybe you are the stupid one and marketting in the real sense actually means understanding the market so well you create the thing that people needs before they know.

After someone lent me a Gopro camera, I realize I needed one. That was marketing? Yeah, it was someone who had the same needs I have creating the product I needed before I knew.
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Yes, because for some inexplicable reason almost no one has adopted zero-knowledge password agreement protocols (like SRP).
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So they made a "profitable business" out of homeless people.

Get real, people want convenience and that convenience means paying someone else to address the issue.
Presumably the progesterone bit?
Well yes and no. A part of the Marxist ideology was that the Workers Paradise lay just around the corner if only everyone worked hand and sacrificed for it now, and if you died before it happened, you knew that your grandkids would see it. It was exactly the same delayed-gratification mechanism - and also why Marx was adamant that all other (competing) religions needed to be killed off.
The gameboy advanced SP was the first gaming device, and in fact the first piece of technology I owned. I still remember my excitement of going to the mall with my dad on my birthday to get it + pokemon leaf green. In my eyes, it was perfect.

I never felt like it needed a headphone jack, and my friends at school who had the previous generation which had a headphone jack never used it either.
The Firefox source viewer (not the developer tools DOM viewer) does validation. It will highlight bad tags in red and if you hover over them it shows the error.
Also, Snapchat is simply more fun. Twitter is dull in comparison.
There's even a ros project for that https://github.com/CPFL/Autoware
Eh, those were terrible anyway. I have an ML2525w which should be wireless, but in reality almost never joins the wifi network on boot reliably like all of the ESP8266s I have. I have to re-run setup on it all the time, and half the time it doesn't get detected by the tool. I gave up long ago and just hard-wired it. If I follow the exact turn-on procedure it likes and wait for it to be fully settled before attempting to print, it generally will start printing within a minute or so.

Honestly, I'm so done with printers. If I really need something, I can run to the 24hr kinkos or the office center in my complex. Owning a printer in 2016 seems kind of silly.
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Sure. But it felt effing good :)

To clarify: it was a project outside of my 9-5, which made it feel side-projecty. It was also something that was paid on a contract basis which made it 'somehat official'.

I negotiated almost 2.5 months to get this contract, which also made it feel real.

I may not be answering your question, but I'm sharing this so that others know that this is a possibility and also because I wanted to. :)
And they're an education startup. Udacity has a leg up in that they can make their own robotic car engineers.
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mate you are so far up that ivory tower, you might break ur neck if you ever fall down.
9/11 being an inside job has plenty of evidence for example. You live in your neat little world where everything is fine and the big bad crazies need to be muffled.
Discovering the market-clearing price is easy! Just keep tweaking the offer until your acceptance rate crosses some threshold. This is how markets have operated for thousands of years!

The choice to underpay and offer lottery tickets in lieu is a conscious, deliberate one by the founder/investor class, and hey, if you can't get enough suckers from amongst the Workers you can always lobby Congress to increase the H1B cap and let you import some from overseas...
I've been using the Kozoy Astrapi. A portable amp/DAC that plugs straight into the lightning port like the Apple dongle.
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Thinking about this further, the ACLU and the willing courts that followed its lead were all that was required to create the current even more inhumane system for our most mentally ill:

It doesn't matter if the venue is a state mental hospital or a community mental health center, if neither can force a patent to take their meds and otherwise get necessary treatment, or in the former case even stay in the hospital, then neither has the slightest chance of working.

And once that's true, and you're only allowed to pretend to take care of them, heck, you might as well fail in the cheapest way, which would be community mental health centers.

Sort of like how outsourcing can "work" for corporate software development projects: most of them fail, either outright or by not delivering even if they're declared to be a victory, so failing more cheaply by outsourcing can make sense.
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It should take a lot more than a bit of paint on the road to upset a self driving car.
But the really good people, the people who constantly invent new things and have the skills to communicate their ideas and get them implemented, those people can work literally anywhere and if they can do what they want to do anywhere else, they will leave. So this "tax" of free soda and snacks is just a cost of doing business. And if you look at the revenue per employee, you do yourself no favor trying to maximize that number beyond the value that meets your net income numbers.

Do you have any proof for this paragraph? :-)

I mean, demonstrate that there are 'really good people who constantly invent new things' that are in some way better than other people.

I accept that it's convention (or touch stone) amongst SV participants and developers on HN. And we all like to believe we're especially talented. But, then if this is true it must also be true for CEO's right, there are some that are 10x more talented and therefore they should get Y more salary etc.

I agree with your underlying point "it's a cost of doing business", but not with your reasoning - to me the reasoning is that it's the social signaling for the industry: if everyone else gave away free shoes then company X hiring people has to do the same or be so 'different' in some way that it can go against the grain. As you say everyone totes up the benefits/draw-backs of their work place, team and tasks to decide if a role is good for them - I think that's quite a messy process and more than simply to do with whether there's free soda!

>And if you look at the revenue per employee, you do yourself no favor trying to maximize that number beyond the value that meets your net income numbers.

The challenge here is that's exactly how FD's are incentivised (in the UK at least). It's often a case that their bonus will be defined as a percentage associated with cost saving or margin: it's effective as it gets one department in the business focused on whether costs are delivering real value, the downside is the one this article is talking about "knowing the cost of everything and the value of nothing".
I'd love to see more research about nicotine and schizophrenia. Something like 80% or schizophrenics smoke, and they do so heavily. This is 3 or 4 times the rate of the general population.

The question is: does smoking cause schizophrenia, is it self-medication, or both?

Scott Alexander has an interesting summary [1].

For what it's worth, my schizophrenic brother says smoking makes his mind feel much clearer.

I think mental hospitals should have a strategy to provide nicotine to patients (in the high dose they need) to minimise the harm of the strong cheap rubbish that schizophrenics inhale all day. Maybe e-cigs should be promoted to smoker patients.

[1] http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/01/11/schizophrenia-no-smokin...
I think the problem, really, is mutability, which leads to pretty unintuitive results.

The same is true for javascript. For example at first glance you'd expect

var xs=[]; for (var i=0; i<10; i++) {xs.append(function(){return i});}

to be equivalent to

var xs=lodash.range(10).map(function(j){function(){return j}});

but the first won't work as expected -- it's dangerous because its loop is based on mutation so you need to think of your variables as mutable containers rather than simple values, even for primitive types like integers.
I had the opposite experience when I moved to the US (coming from Europe). It struck me how people consumed more of everything. Tech gadgets, food... I think in Europe we are a bit more defiant toward consumerism, esp. in more educated environments (but we're catching up!).

It reminds me of a cool classic sci-fi movie about consumerism. John Carpenter's "They Live". I watched it as a kid but it started to make sense later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Live

"Nada quickly discovers the sunglasses have unique properties: they reduce the colors of the world around him to black and white and allow him to see that media and advertising hide omnipresent subliminal totalitarian commands to obey, consume, reproduce, and conform. They also make clear that many people in positions of wealth and power are actually humanoid aliens with skull-like faces."
Not trolling, but why do you use printers? I haven't used paper for 5 odd years now. The gov here (Spain) gives me tons of paper; I photograph it and then leave it and have them print it out when needed. Outside that I have not needed paper since the ipad. Why do other people?
Of course, I hope so too. But this world might happen¹.

Sorry for generalizing and not taking account for those few brave that live without facebook. In my country, germany, it's 79% of the people aged 14 to 49 using facebook (69% for all). This is the majority and facebook therfore needs to bring more people "internet" to have significant further growth/reach.

¹ http://qz.com/333313/milliions-of-facebook-users-have-no-ide...
That's a particularly negative take, but would be interesting if true. Do you have any reason to believe it is? I'm not even sure how you would measure this. Suicide rate against attempted suicide rate? Other mental health stats?
Amazing results! We need more of that kind of thinking - GPU/SSD accelerate all the things!
And just to add to that...

I think the quicker and more unpredictable change is going to be, the more we'll realize the benefits of option 3. If you don't know where you will end up in life, you gain a different perspective of what should and should not be. I guess the obligatory reference on this topic would be [1]. But I am also very intrigued by [2]. Sadly, I did not have time to read the book yet but I have had the time to read a summary paper he published in another textbook. If you are interested in the topic, it might be worth checking out :)

[1]: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rawls/
[2]: https://www.amazon.com/Natural-Justice-Ken-Binmore/dp/019979...
The planes will be obsolete within two decades in almost all scenarios except against alqeada. They're already obsolete against Russian missiles and radar defense and soon against Chinese defenses.

I'd diminish orders on these flying pigs and wait for the Japanese stealth scout planes to finish prototype with their better designed and maintenance friendly framework.
Patrick, do you intend to continue doing side projects with you new role at Stripe?

Best of luck at this new role :)
Life based on printed pages would be OK. If you actually print the number pages you promise, I can compare the total costs of cartridges and printers.

But I think some models also have timer. After 6 months or year, the printer starts to complain that the ink has "dried up". To prohibit you from saving up that unicorn blood by printing less.

By banned list is HP, Canon and I'm very cautious about Samsung.
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I've bought a pro laserjet and the wireless wont work (bug is years old), manual duplex won't work, the print jobs like to go disappear into some limbo every now and then...
There is an old parable about that:

https://blog.oxplot.com/i-saw-what-he-meant/
..and they have modified food-grade inks so you can print on latte foam or biscuits/cookies.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Factory-offered-edible-ink-P...

I am assuming it is Epson parts, based on the 1440 dpi dimension
By definition it's hard to quote someone who isn't talking about something :)

I've read speeches by central bankers. They almost never think in terms of high or low quality investments. Instead they only see the negative impact of easy money through the lens of inflation, but this is a problem because the inflation statistics they monitor don't include the prices they're impacting, hence the "mystery" of low interest rates coupled with low inflation. The inflation exists, it's just inflation in the cost of equities, houses, the cost of yield or other things that aren't consumer goods.
It seems to be 0.5% for most European currencies, and from other countries I expect to have good banking systems (Japan, Hong Kong, Australia etc). Perhaps that reflects lower costs for them.

Although it can take days, I've usually found it takes at most a few hours. I transfer between GBP, EUR and DKK.
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Pew Research Center said the following in 2015:

Fully 97% of smartphone owners used text messaging at least once over the course of the study period, making it the most widely-used basic feature or app; it is also the feature that is used most frequently, as the smartphone owners in this study reported having used text messaging in the past hour in an average of seven surveys (out of a maximum total of 14 across the one-week study period). Younger smartphone owners are especially avid users of text messaging, but this group has by no means abandoned voice calls — 93% of smartphone owners ages 18-29 used voice or video calling on at least one occasion during the study period, and reported doing so in an average of 3.9 surveys.

http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/04/01/us-smartphone-use-in-2...