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Every postmodern retail shop in the US already does this. Have you been to a Lush, Rituals, matress sales, or any clothing boutique lately? Their peppy, pseudo-personal sales staff has a perfectly crafted script and they know it cold. They'll interrupt me when I'm obviously happily browsing on my own. "Just to let you know, everything in the back is 5% off, everything with a red tag is 6% off, and if you sign up for our email newsletter today, we'll give you $2 off. What is your name, by the way?" I want to ask them if there will be a quiz on the material. They also ask for your phone number or email at checkout. When I politely decline, they often act like that has never happened before
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I was in Corvallis a while back for the first time, heavily dependent on GPS. The robo-directions sounded like a mental DOS attack at first - "Head South East on North West Western Ave." Took me a bit to be able to parse it.
Ah gotcha. As for finding a lot of seemingly qualified programmers who can't pass fizz buzz, yea idk how you get around that. Fortunately for me I work at a big company and can just not do the first round of interviews if I get fed up with it... but as the only person hiring, ugh.
I agree. I’d love to read an article about this!
TL;DR "Its the charging, stupid"

Until they have a fast charging option like Tesla's, then all the other auto makers will be "also rans" in my opinion. Case in point: The Chevy Bolt is, on paper, a Tesla Model 3 killer. It is cheaper, has better range, and it is available now. However, there is no way to charge it on a road trip (unless you're a masochist, and want to depend on flaky 3rd party charging networks where the chargers might not work, or might charge slowly). So, because of this, Chevy can't unload the cars, and have so much inventory built up that they've idled the Bolt production line.

And don't say "fast charging is only important for road trips." One of the barriers holding back EV adoption in cities is the lack of charging options for apartment and condo dwellers. At home charging mostly depends on having a garage that you own, and that you can have a charger or 40A outlet installed in. Good luck getting a landlord to do that, and if you have street parking, you're totally hosed. Tesla recognized this, and is now opening Superchargers in urban areas in advance of the model 3 being generally available.
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I don't wanna be that guy but ... the iPhone isn't mentioned as vulnerable in the article -anywhere-.
Huh... Looks like they have a whitelist that allows Bing, Google, and Yandex (among others), but not DuckDuckGo: https://yelp.com/robots.txt

Does DuckDuckGo respect `robots.txt` files with	onerous implicit restrictions like that? If I were them, I'd probably just write it so that if Googlebot is allowed then DuckDuckBot is too.
Chalk one up for Windows Phone. Security through obscurity, on a more serious note does the flaw happen because of a common opensource implementation?
As a slightly related side note, I pretty much only turn on bluetooth when I actually need to use it (which is rarely, such as syncing my Garmin every now and then). It's a waste of battery power to keep it on, and Bluetooth is also often used to track people. For example, it's used by traffic monitoring systems to measure the speed of traffic[1] by storing and tracking the MAC address.

It would be nice if Android and iOS provided a convenient way to activate Bluetooth temporarily, only when needed.

[1]: http://www.tyco-its.com/products-and-services/urban-traffic-...
Aha. Several non obvious steps there for me :)
The German car companies are usually great at weight distribution, BMWs are almost all 50/50. Mercedes are pretty close to that, not familiar with VW models. I'd worry more about the battery capacity than where to put it.

I'd argue it's a harder engineering challenge to distribute weight in an ICE than an EV.
I'm curious why you would divide by .75 there (?)
As much as I hate all of this bullshit, it makes me happy that I refuse to let myself be abused like this.

The number of recruiters I have contact me for temp and contract-to-hire positions is insane! Even when I was unemployed a year ago, I told every single one of them the same thing. Temp and contract-to-hire is immoral and I am not interested in working for a company that sets their bar so low.

Sometimes I would feel a little too "holier-than-thou" saying that to a recruiter, but then I read stories like this and am glad I have at least some principals.
>However, what surprised me in this article is the following:
>> VW has earmarked 50 billion euros for batteries for its electric cars

You have to take these announcements with a grain of salt and in the light of China's announcement. The big car makers who have been criticised for being late to the party, are making these claims now mainly to prevent sliding share prices as investors begin to draw conclusions.
yes, but those workers will at some point retire and live off their investment income, no?
It's already patched

Well, yes. But how long has the exploit been effective? It's certainly noteworthy.

A coworker once demo'd a metasploit module capable of taking over a Windows 7 machine. The vuln had long since been patched, but apparently it was still useful in the field sometimes because people hadn't bothered to upgrade every workstation.
... on a 20 year old product. This was not a market-driven need, this was an investor-driven push for profit. It is their company, so their call to make, but it needs to be made clear that this was a calculated risk by the business owners to make money, not a launch strategy for a new product.
Only in the SV bubble does $5b in profit on $250b in revenue constitute "pulling in."

And if you believe their accounting, then they're trading way under their book value.

If they issued bonds to finance $84b in electric car research, they'd be rated thoroughly junk.
Mercedes has a lot of help in this fight: the writing is not on the wall, it's in the law. That should be quite helpful in convincing employees to not only not fight the change, but to push for the change. At some point survival instinct kicks in.

ICE cars will be banned (either already law, or being discussed) in: Norway (2025), Netherlands (2025), India (2030), Germany (maybe 2030), France (2040), China (date unknown yet).
Look at what other OECD states spend per capita. Compare to how much the US spends per capita. For a real WTF look at how much public money the US already spends per capita. This is all a google away. The safe bet based on available data would be that moving our system to be more similar to any of those used by other OECD states would significantly reduce our spending while having little effect on health outcomes.

It's possible some other reforms that differ radically from those systems would improve things, and maybe even be better than anything other OECD states do, but since we have a wealth of real-world data about how the existing systems work and only speculation about most others, it's a much safer move to base reforms on the ones that are observably better than ours in the real world.
> In a NOAA reconnaissance mission, a plane flew through the eye wall to gather data on the storm, recording winds of 139 miles per hour at sea level.

What kind of planes can safely fly through a storm like this?
Or is the eye a lot safer to go through?
This is too naive.

a) Companies will even do illegal stuff as long as they can do it and the lawsuits are not too expensive.

b) You can't make everything illegal. Smart people will always find a way no matter how strict your system is.

c) Yes, many people/companies will exploit others if they can. If you evaluate statistically that's actually "normal behaviour".
> Will men consider beautiful girls a risk to the workplace

this isn't just a concern at work, but also when hanging out with male friends also.

adding an attractive female will instantly change the dynamic. some men completely change their personalities when an attractive female is around. they'll start subtly insulting other guys, etc. i'm sure all men do it to a certain degree but some just are not socialized well enough to handle it.
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that's a different issue. To the extent that they have funds and do investing, their ability to save for retirement will be hurt by raising taxes on investment income.
That's eerily similar to what's happening in Australia - our opposition (which will probably become the Government in the next election because the current one is polling terribly) has announced some measures to close off some tax loopholes around family trusts and property speculation (negative gearing of residential property combined with the capital gains tax discount). The measures are well thought out and I believe have even been recommended by multiple independent reviews of our tax system.

But the current Government and part of the media are attacking it on emotional grounds, like talking about how removing tax dodges that mostly only benefit the highest income earners is an attack on something used by "nurses and teachers trying to get ahead"...
that is totally what it like for me. However I have not been able to put my finger on it until you just spelt it out just now. other characters such as £$& are a pain to do whilst writing.
So great, let's make a system of government where fringe groups can get more things done.

Your fringe group wants to reform the tax code. Awesome. Another wants to build a wall with Mexico. Another wants to ban immigration by non-whites. Another wants to take away voting for women. Another wants to legalize the right to carry AK-47s in public.

How do you get your "fringe" change through, but not other crazy changes through?
It is recognized to some extent. Thats why interest has a different taxation rate than capital gains on stock investments.
There are several reasons, but not specifically to do with code signing. Code in a distro repo has been at least cursorily checked to make sure the install script (or "scriptlets" in something like an RPM specfile) doesn't do anything awful. Some of that's automated, some of it's manual, but at least it's there. An exploit would have to get past both the author and the distro gatekeepers to become operative. With code on GitHub, it only has to get past the committer - who might, unlike distro packagers, be totally clueless about security or even basic bash-scripting safety rules. That's just too easy IMO.
GM has had skin in the electric car game for decades (although a flop, the EV1 was still a try). They've sold a healthy number of Volts, Sparks, Cadillac ELRs, and now Bolts. Whether or not you are correct in supposing Mercedes can embrace the change, using GM as a counter-example is a bad analogy because from the GM perspective it is Mercedes that needs to catch up.

That said, I'm not expecting GM to set an aggressive EV pace either such as VW's 2030 goal, but they do expect to be the first to high volume electric vehicle sales [1].

[1] http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1110469_gm-goal-profitab...
The diagnosis may be very important. Recent studies are showing evidence that early (age) interventions offer effective therapies that lose effectiveness if started at older ages.
No link, but the gist in the US is this:

1) Start Business

2) Get Real Clients to buy your stuff

3) Deduct Expenses

4) Pay 40%* of whatever is left over to the Government

* The 40% number can go up and down depending on your income amount [and local tax commitments].
Sorting seems like a memory hard problem where the computationally optimal, merge sort solution, is heavily branched, two things gpus have never been terribly good at. Furthermore, the synchronized program counter per block of threads, presents a considerable road block to getting optimal thread occupancy specifically in the cuda architecture.
I went to grade (actually, "grammar") school in a similar place. We were something like "Rural Route 3 Box 39" or something like that, but we really on the Old Highway, first on the left after where Maynis' barn was before it burnt down as you're headed out of town. I am not making that up, and yes, the locals delighted in giving directions like that to visitors. I didn't like that town.
Wired headphones are superior anyway, IMO.
Right, that's why I recently started checking people's profiles before posting a dissenting reply, and not making the reply if they've enough karma to downvote me.
I'm definitely not giving to somebody else my /var/log/mail.log, IMAP/Mutt
access, sieve rules, nor ad hoc dedicated aliases for every website account
I create. And on top of that, I would land on some US-based server for ease of
illegal spying and my mail would be harvested for some advertising crap, all
to solve something that is not a problem for me. Not happening.
Wow, just wow. I didn't realize there finally are more cameras that can provide this image quality in space, beyond the one that is (was?) on the ISS. Also kudos to NYT for the way they put it together. I'm mesmerized by the globe video.
Why are none of the CVE vulnerability ids from that paper coming up for me in the CVE database? Eg http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-14315/

I tried all 8 of them, none found.
A well built technology solution can sell it self in many scenarios.

I don't think this is actually true - and in fact I'm loathe to come up with any examples where it was the case. In some cases fewer active sales efforts are required, if the product is really perfect, but even those are exceptionally rare and generally are utilizing pre-existing networks where the high touch process is already done.
"Distrust" doesn't imply that you have never trusted them, but it does allow for you never having trusted them, and so communicates less.
I don't understand what you're saying here at all. Are you under the impression that money someone needs to live has something to do with compensation? Labor is a market like any other. A sales salary has nothing to do with how much a sales person needs to live but rather perceived value of a sales role.

In my personal experience, sales people tended to have higher salaries along with strong commission.

Maybe your comment is constrained by your idea that revenue is shared equally between engineers and sales people, but why would that be the case?
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Actually, older versions of iOS are vulnerable (before iOS 10). I have no idea how many people actually run that, however.
> And other approaches are significantly more useful? They yield massively more predictive power? They are more tested and less theoretic?

Steve Keen's own theories (well, he builds on Minsky, mostly) can predict how great moderation suddenly bursted into debt deflation, explain high empirical correlation between debt acceleration and unemployment, show that quantitative easing works better than austerity in debt deflation (and predicts that helicopter money would work even better, although nobody tested that) - this was empirically proven comparing strategies of Japan, U.S. and EU in crisis. He can also explain other things that leave most macroeconomists puzzled.
> convenient way to activate Bluetooth temporarily, only when needed

the slide-up menu in ios is pretty convenient.... you can do it when the phone is locked, even. i use it all the time to disable and enable wifi and bluetooth and use the flashlight.
Presumably almost nobody visits the verboten sites, and so if you answer "yes", it's far more likely that you answered "yes" because your coin came up tails than because you actually visited it.

Or, in other words, the question is not "Did you visit this site," the question is "Did your coin come up tails or did you visit this site," which is a perfectly safe question to say "yes" to.
Disclosure: I work for a fintech company that utilizes HTML emails almost exclusively for customer communications.

I think one thing that is not being considered is that for most customers, branding and the consistency thereof are key indicators of trustworthiness - especially when dealing with financial information. HN users are rare creatures, they have technical context the average end user does not have. The rise of phishing has lead users to pay a great amount of attention to subtle hints of impropriety, like being taken from one sort of visual experience to a vastly different one. We saw vast improvement across all meaningful metrics when we switched from plain text to HTML emails that utilized branding consistent with our website.

As with everything that humans deal with, there are tradeoffs here. And I'm extremely concerned that this position taken to it's logical extreme would lead to the web being transformed into something that is "safer" but much less useful and dynamic. One outcome of this could be the slow death of the open web in favor of siloed networks and platforms serving actually functional content in "safe" ways.
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I have plenty of experience with Mercedes, Audi, volvo, jeep and BMW cars - driving, renting, test driving them or being the passanger.
I would say Mercedes is at least 5 years behind the competition at approx same price point. Disclaimer: I'm obviously not qualified to talk about suspension technology, combustion engines etc. But tech (e.g pilot assist/autopilot), Driver interface features and multimedia, yeah Mercedes is very very very far behind.
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That is probably it. I sometimes underestimate just how many people are looking at any given thread simultaneously.
> what other ways do we have of increasing the bargaining position of labor?

You tighten the labor market.

It's not coincidental that unions, which depend on a tight labor market for a bargaining position (striking is fundamentally their real weapon), have been on a downhill trend since basically the same time that trade laws were changed to favor capital, via removing barriers to both foreign labor and foreign trade. In some cases the labor supply is slackened by bringing in more workers, in some cases by just offshoring production to a place where the labor market is already slack.

Most of the reasons used to justify this were related to the West's perceived existential struggle against Communism: it was necessary to open the door to China trade because that was a wedge against the Soviets; NAFTA was necessary to secure America's standing "as world champion of the free-market cause" ([per the NYT](http://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/09/business/worldbusiness/09i...) as a hedge against an increasingly multipolar world in the 1990s; continued rounds of deals, up until very recently with the failure of the TPP, have always been justified similarly.

Though I am not intimately familiar with Canadian politics historically, I assume that the justifications there were similar (and with significant arm-twisting from their southern neighbor).

Intriguingly, the necessary sacrifices for American leadership (let's not call it 'hegemony', it has such an ... imperialist ring to it), in the form of the cost of economic subsidies to Western allies necessary to keep them toeing the free market line, have always seemed to fall on American -- and Canadian, apparently -- workers, and benefited American businesses and business owners. Workers are constantly reassured that these deals have been good for the country, but this explanation is starting to wear thin, as it becomes more and more apparent that the gains have gone to a small portion of the country at the expense of a great many.

Free-trade proponents have managed to extract a great deal from labor, but the gig is seemingly up.

Pro-trade, pro-business parties such as the British Columbia Liberal Party should take note of the current state of the US Republican Party, and take steps not to overplay their hand. While the gains made by businesses and capital owners at the expense of industrial workers are historically audacious (in the sense that they didn't result in getting anyone killed by an angry mob, which should be ),
Protein sequencing is the practical process of determining the amino acid sequence of all or part of a protein or peptide, which can be used to identify the protein or characterize its post-translational modifications. It mainly refers to the determination of the primary structure of the protein. The primary structure of the protein comprises the number of polypeptide chains that make up the protein.The main strategy for protein sequencing is to divide the polypeptide chain by chemical or enzymatic digestion and then determine the amino acid residue content and composition.
I would imagine this works in your terminal too.
Funny thing: I keep getting left and right mixed up since I moved from the UK to the US. It's as though my subconscious understanding of "left" was always "the side cars drive on". Flipping that also flipped the words in my head.
Protein Sequencing Steps
1. Cleavage of polypeptide chains. Protein molecules which is consisted of multiple polypeptide chains must be resolved first. Several polypeptide chains are linked together by noncovalent bonds, called oligomeric proteins, such as hemoglobin tetramer, enolase dimer; can be treated with 8 mol / L urea or 6 mol / L guanidine hydrochloride Separate polypeptide chains.

2. Determination of the number of polypeptide chains in the protein molecule. The number of polypeptide chains can be determined by measuring the relationship between the number of moles of terminal amino acid residues and the molecular weight of the protein.
3. Disulfide bond. Several polypeptide chains are cross-linked by disulfide bonds and can be treated with excess beta-mercaptoethanol in the presence of 8 mol / L urea or 6 mol / L guanidine hydrochloride to reduce the disulfide bond to mercapto. The resulting thiol group should be protected with an alkylating agent to prevent it from being reoxidized.

4. Dertermine each polypeptide chain of the amino acid composition and caculate the molecular ratio of the amino acid component.

5.Analyzing N-terminal and C-terminal of the polypeptide chain
Peptide chain end group amino acids are divided into two classes: amino-terminal and Carboxyl-terminal. In the peptide chain amino acid sequence analysis, the most important is the N-terminal amino acid analysis. N-terminal analysis (Sanger method; Edman method; DNS-Cl; enzymatic degradation), C-terminal analysis (hydrazinolysis; enzymatic degradation; lithium borohydride).

6. The polypeptide chain breaks into multiple peptides. The peptide sample can be broken into two or more sets of peptide fragments or peptides by two or more different fracture methods.

7.Determining the amino acid sequence of each peptide.

8. Determining the order of peptides in the polypeptide chain.
The amino acid sequence of the entire polypeptide chain is interspersed with the overlapping of the amino acid sequences of two or more sets of peptides.

9.Determine the position of the disulfide bond in the original polypeptide chain. Generally, pepsin is used to treat the peptide chain without disconnecting the disulfide bond. And the peptide is separated by two-dimensional electrophoresis which can analyze and sequence the the peptide group that may contain the disulfide bond after treatment with formic acid. Methods were analyzed for peptide comparisons to determine the position of disulfide bonds.
Oh my god. Take my story for what it is: one guys story. It's purpose is to share a way forward for people who want to start their own business but don't want to bet the farm. That's it. It couldn't be any clearer. Stop putting further narratives on it. I'm not attacking whatever you think I'm attacking.
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