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Good.

For context, air pollution kills 200,000 in the US and 40,000 in UK every year.

You have to consider ethics in your work as an Engineer. Refusing an unethical task is your moral duty.
Also, it's happening so often to customers that there is a 3 week waiting period for keyboard replacements at Apple Stores, and sometimes the replacement keyboards are breaking even before Apple can install them:

https://twitter.com/stuartkhall/status/924889375011258369

https://twitter.com/stuartkhall/status/929578083123736578
People don't like it if you tell them they can not feel love.
Ask HN: What is the “new Tumblr”?
I used to get graphical inspiration from Tumblr.
But it has lost its hype.
Which service is replacing Tumblr?
House prices in Australia are insane. We have not had a recession for almost 30 years and most people here under 40 have no idea what a recession means. When this party ends the hangover is going to be horrendous.
I have nothing against acknowledging problems. That's how we fix them. What I take exception to is the sentiment embodied in that sentence.

The gatekeeping behind a paywall issue is not what I was referring to.

But since you bring it up, I don't think that the analysis is so simple.

For one, I agree that there has been an over-inflation in the cost of universities, at least in the US and the UK (less so in other countries).

This paired with the fact that such education is going down in quality, most of that money pays useless bureaucracy and committees and you cannot default on education debt is a serious issue worth considering.

On the other hand, I also think we have to consider other factors.

For one, people value more things that come with a cost. This has been shown in studies. I recommend on the topic, "Influence", by Cialdini, for example.

In fact, raising fees in the UK seems to have increased attendance (1), although data seems to be contradictory on this one (and that's why I think it's a hard problem)

Anecdotally I can also say that in my business people value more the material they pay for and are more likely to follow through. I know this to be the case for other businesses too.

We have always to pay attention to the fact that the cure might make things worse instead of better. This is often the case with this type of interventions.

For example, countries with higher gender equality actually increase gender differences instead of reducing them (2). No one expected that, but that is the result.

(1) http://theconversation.com/hard-evidence-what-happens-to-stu...
(2) http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
Extracting the maximum value from their employees is a core competence of most automotive companies. With no union to protect them, naive low ranking software engineers are exceedingly vulnerable to aggression and abuse from their line manager, It is hardly surprising that the resulting culture is one which rewards dishonesty and fraud above all else.
He's using the word "modest" to mean "not particularly prestigious" as opposed to "poor".
Where are all those people skiing in southern England? I want to get in on the action.
Because he likes watching US Netflix shows.
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So long as you can get your point across clearly, that's the key thing of value to the audience and what they should be grateful for.

Being a German speaker, you're in the fortunate position that the kind of occasional give-aways that you may have in your writing tend not to sound bad to native English speakers.

That's not necessarily true of people with much less closely related languages, where the mistakes can be really distracting and confusing. It tends to cause the worst impact when the writer's confidence far exceeds their actual ability and they do things like utterly misuse clichés.

The fact you've asked this is very thoughtful. Your question text above is clear and well written, so I don't think you've anything to worry about and would encourage you to give it a go (provided you feel comfortable and it isn't a burden).

Purely out of curiousity, I would be interested to hear how it goes - is it something that might be posted here in due course?
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[Hi from Argentina!]

I usually write the articles in Spanish and English. The English version usually has 10x move visits than the Spanish version. So I strongly recommend to write the English version too.

Also, I can read in Spanish and English, some Portuguese and Italian, and a little of French and German. I had some formal education of German in primary school, but I don't remember too much. Each one has a different set of languages, but most people understand English and something else.

In many cases, it's clear that the author is not a native English speaker. I try to pass some spelling and grammar checks to minimize errors, but they are not perfect. For technical blog posts it's not so important, and you may get a few friendly emails with corrections.

[Anyway, while reading articles written by native English speaker, I sometime find errors like using "then" instead of "than" that are annoying because it absolutely doesn't make any sense in the Spanish version. So, being an English native speaker is not always 100% safe.]
Yes ... but as engineers we need to support the professional organisations that in turn will support us when we need to make these difficult and politically courageous decisions.
Edit:

Here's some advice from the English NHS on how to reduce alcohol use:www.nhs.uk/Livewell/alcohol/Pages/Tipsoncuttingdown.aspx

the problem of talking about addiction is that you can be causing severe harm well before you have a physical dependency.

Harmful drinking is over 14 UK units per week.

A hospital based medically supervised withdrawal will happen at maybe 20 or 40 units per day.

Obviously there's a big gap in between where harm is being caused but you don't yet qualify for hospital based detox.

Help for problem drinking can be hard to access, and the evidence base for some of them are not great.

But for this kind of harmful drinking it's important to get help to cut back now, before it develops into dependent drinking.

Some things you can try: only buy wine on one day a week. Start by only buying two bottles. Ration those out. Have a calendar, and mark out when you're going to drink alcohol.

Switch to lower ABV (alcohol by volume) wine.

750ml of 8% ABV wine is 6 UK units.

750ml of 12.5% ABV wine is 9.3 units.

You can find very low alcohol wines too.
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Struggling to find any heatmaps of the globe showing each month's average temperature. Any tips?
None in Australia?
> Australia’s obsession with property is firmly entrenched in the nation’s economy and psyche..

The article's quote seems to be accurate from my anecdote.
I visited Sydney recently, and the tour guide taking me to the blue mountains started his trip by driving through neighborhoods to point out the ridiculous home prices. I thought it was strange, but then everyone I met was eager to discuss the home prices, or asked me the price of my home (in the US). It seemed the housing market is on everyone's minds.
> I have just started ordering more things direct from manufacturers web-stores rather than deal with the stress.

In many ways ordering from Amazon used to be a no-brainer for convenience. But now I have to wade through competing suppliers merely to find the best price. WTF? I'll just go to the store, or order from a manufacturer like you, or some other supplier like New Egg (yay patent-troll warriors!) where available.

But I do still use Amazon to find products and reviews, I just don't order from Amazon.
Multiple dimensions.

The common theme why people get confused about "superior" products not winning boils down to ignoring the multiple dimensions of quality. A product's overall "superiority" is a single score that compresses multiple scores of the various attributes of the product. If one is ignorant (or discounts the value) of the other dimensions, he will be perplexed why the supposedly "inferior" solution won.

E.g. I never understood why bicycles didn't beat out cars. Bicycles are obviously superior because:

+ narrow profile can squeeze through tight alleys or even heavily treed forests that cars can reach

+ requires no fossil fuel that emits pollution

+ costs less than 1/100th the price of a car

+ easily repaired by homeowners in the garage because no computers

+ etc, etc

That fixation on those attributes causes the confused person to totally miss the other positive attributes of the car:

+ travel faster than 25 mph with minimum physical exertion

+ typical size car can carry 5 adults which is ~1000 pounds of weight

+ carry entire week's worth of groceries (~10 bags)

+ occupants don't get wet when when it rains

If one doesn't understand the all the multidimensions of qualities and weigh them in an objective manner that's detached from personal preferences, he'll always be confused why "superior" USENET lost to "inferior" Reddit, or why "superior" Lisp lost the popularity contest to "inferior" C++/Java/Python/Go/etc, or why Mac OS 9 lost to Windows NT.

Likewise, there were multidimensional factors to Betamax vs VHS and "picture quality" was only one of them.
In order to support the second point, more data would be required. Essentially all you’ve provided is anecdotal evidence, which isn’t very convincing.

How would you support the claim that people in the “HN demographic” voted in significant numbers for leave?
Awesome recommendation on Amir Klink. He really is a modern day adventurer and explorer. I love that he has his own mad lab, so to speak.

I interviewed him a while back actually. He was a gentleman and immensely interesting. Check it out if you like. http://www.interviewswithinterestingpeople.com/amyr-klink-so...

His adventures are really great.
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40,000 people are dying from air pollution in the U.K.? Citation really needed.
I'm on a late 2013 15" MBP and I am dreading the day when I need to replace this joy of a machine.

I like the idea of the touch bar, but I don't actually want it for keys. I think it'd be handy as a ticker for notifications, macros, etc, but not common keys.

Having a bar for macros / shortcut keys for Illustrator (etc) would be extremely useful for designers, and I don't doubt that there are hundreds of other applications for other industries. Sort of like those LED keyboards that were kicking around a few years back.

The requirement for dongles is just silly. I actually purchased this late-2013 MBP refurbished specifically because I didn't like the new GPU and read some other complaints about the current systems of the day. Having an SD slot, HDMI, 2x USB, etc is excellent and can easily handle most of my needs when I'm on-the-go. At home I have my laptop on a VESA mounted tray with a second monitor.

All in all, there isn't a lot that Apple needs to improve with the MBP -- they just need to dial it back a few generations and retool the touchbar so its not mandatory.

Lastly, bring back magsafe! Maybe there are some people who hated it, but I've never had any issues with it. There have been a few times where the cable has been kicked (often at a coffee shop by someone else.) Its a fantastic design, even if the magnets could be the tiniest bit stronger.

quick edit: I hope things don't go the way of using the camera for quick unlocking. I always keep my cameras covered, even if makes me look like I'm paranoid. Using touch ID on the touch bar would definitely be ideal.
Is it even possible to attribute a death to single, specific cause like pollution? What is the median age of these deaths? How did they happen? Do certain occupations make people more vulnerable to pollution exposure?
>You have to consider ethics in your work as an Engineer. Refusing an unethical task is your moral duty.

It's easy to say, but ethics isn´t always so black and white. What about yourself. Do you drive a car? Then you are guilty of contributing to the air pollution that kills 200,000 in the US ever year, and you also endanger others' life by participating in traffic and making it more dangerous. You are also contributing to sponsoring the salaries of the car industry overall, which means you are indirectly sponsoring the development of more lethal machines, which also by the way enables murderers to transport themselves more rapidly to their victims.

Did you post a helpful comment on HN or stackoverflow, and this comment helped a programmer in North Korea to develop their nuclear weapons just a little bit further, is that ethical?

You have to consider ethics, but an "unethical task" depends so much on context.
The Kansai one was really good, felt more tech focused and had great talks when I went.

The Tokyo meetup was more of a mixer last time I attended. Personally didn’t enjoy it as much.
And how am I supposed to know or keep track of this? I just want to buy something and forget about it, not keep track of Amazon's logistics.
I've got a problem with mixing 'co-founder' and 'hiring' terms: to me they look mutually exclusive. If you're searching for someone for 'co-founding' your startup, then you're asking for a partner. If you're trying to 'hire' someone, then you're asking for an employee. Partners are not to be interviewed, at least not with a 'coding test'.

Think of the reversed situation: you're a 'business guy' (whatever that means), and a 'technical co-founder' is asking you to join the founding team on the business side, but first he's asking you to prove your business skills by tossing an Excel sheets and saying 'please find the formula errors'? What will you think of him?
But why not get Github out of the equation?
I know it might seem a lot to ask but there are alternatives, Github has their right to ban you but it don't need to be the end. Or am I missing something?
It was already reviewed when they published the arxiv preprint, so there would be no bias in this paper in particular. And as now, everyone and his/her cat has heard about capsules, you'd expect that some others than Hinton et al might write about capsules, so you shouldn't be able to say "hey, it's Hinton because capsules!".
Semantics is important. People are making decisions based on semantics.
That's not Netflix traffic, that's the consumer's traffic.

The ISPs are paid, by the consumers, to ship data to them. If they can't do this they need to fix their networks and charge their customers more, not try to extort third parties.
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Not enough, and I have a feeling that he should've been one of the dozens, if not hundreds.

Fraud in the case is commuted upon the buyers and everyone that breathes that air (cancers, asthma...etc). You're talking tens of billions. Go rob a store and you get a lot more jail time. Yeah the store owner and 3 customer were traumatized but so were the thousands or millions of people that suffered (directly or indirectly) from your fraud.
And one would think the Germans would have learned that lesson.
Wow, this does look amazing!

A shame it's a bit more involved to get working with Windows, it's a pain to have to start a Linux VM to be able to use it :(
> Harold the wheat farmer does buy wheat futures

Presumably you mean he sells wheat futures.
Punishing all because of one
You are wondering, on an Apple product, why it doesn't have a slot?

Apple will (proudly if I may add) tell you they favor products with minimal inputs. This is kinda their thing..
I have a 2017 XPS 15 (9560) and it has been pretty good with the exception of a 1-2 second pause about once a day. I use it for Windows development.
The numbers really vary by source, and the vast majority who do die from air pollution were already on deaths door and it can be blamed for taking a few days to months at most.
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Absolutely - the current site is just a placeholder until the main site is launched, and I figured that it is better to be concise and explain what Trovard is trying to do instead of detailing a lot of background information (since the purpose is just to register peoples interest).
Sure, but Americans eat a lot of crappy fast food too.
Currently we try to avoid "alcoholic" and use "dependant", because it has a clearer definition.

If someone has a tolerance for alcohol; is preoccupied by alcohol; seeks alcohol when they don't have it; and continues drinking even though they know it's causing harm then they are dependent on alcohol.

It's important to realise that a drinker can be doing severe harm even if they're not dependent on alcohol.

Current UK guidance for alcohol is no more than 14 units per week, and OP is drinking well over that.
In Germany the automotive industry is basically the last bastion of high union membership.
How popular are smart home devices using Google Home?
Bitcoin price being manipulated is a popular and cool story. It is not real, though. Bitcoin is traded on a dozens of international exchanges, hundreds of small local ones, P2P with cash, by OTC for large players, against other cryptocurrencies...

You get the picture. It is not possible to manipulate it for a long period. Maybe a spike up or down? But that's it.
That’s why all my blog content resides in dropbox. One text file in the right place, and boom! A new post.
A quick Google search shows these as the fist two results:

* http://www.bbc.com/news/health-35629034

* https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2017/03/06/air-pollution-ca...
In areas with heavy fracking (e.g. northern Pennsylvania around Dimock) there are trucks from companies like GeoKinetics and Halliburton everywhere and they are purposely trying to create mini earthquakes to get access to the shale. It is pretty common knowledge that there have been more tremors and seismic activity since fracking started. As far as damage reports go, the gas companies (and I assume also the oil companies) ensure every settlement includes a nondisclosure agreement so that no one can talk about the damage if they want money. This is why so many homes no longer have safe drinking water, many people have fallen ill from cancers and similar ailments, and yet there is almost no reporting on it.

Source: I ran a site for a while where people posted images and stories of how natural gas drilling had ruined their lives or caused environmental harm. We would try to get as much info from people as we could before they signed the NDAs for the settlement money and never talked about it again
Points 2 and 3 seem (to me, I hope I'm not misunderstanding you) to be "fixed" by clojurescript's re-frame. You get a single queue of events that you define, based on what is relevant for your application, and you structure your app to cascade based on that stream. Creating a loop is some part of the app adding an event to the queue. And you are forced to keep functional code that only stores state in the app store tree. So you can easily know which event sequence makes a bug appear.
Personally, if I may be crude, found the post to be too short and unsubstantiated. I can honestly not imagine this is a "serious" post by a professor (!). It's so short-sighted I don't even know where to begin.

My personal opinion is that "superior" often means "cheap as shit and I'm willing to compromise a lot of stuff".
Cleaning and optimizing a Windows computer safely.
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If you are a road warrior (or you want to bypass security filters at work) you can securely proxy Firefox web and DNS traffic over a VPN using just SSH.

All you need is an SSH server running at home or in the "cloud".

I documented this a few years back:

http://www.foxhop.net/ssh-tunnel

This is also a great way to access resources on the remote network, for example your router/modem setup page or Jenkins, or whatever else is running on that remote Network.
The only thing more important to the Australian economy than China is housing.

Many seem to think that the Australian property market will crash like the US market did during the financial crisis.

It'll be interesting to see. I'm sure the apartment markets in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane will see some falling prices at some point, but few professionals are forecasting a US-style crash. Instead, most think prices will just stop growing.

I see lots of people saying "the bubble will burst", but it seems to me many of them are hoping to get into the market rather than looking at any evidence.
Not if you are working for a German automotive company in the UK ...
What we want to do is completely different. Those websites are barely used in my country. The market here mostly consists of big companies looking for temp employees that will work on-premise. The sites you mentioned are mostly cheap off-shore employees from Asia that all want to work remote.
And maybe less obvious is the start-up that Netflix once was has a tougher go of it because Comcast wants their content streamed nicely and has to keep the Netflix customers from yelling too loud and have to squeeze someone's bandwidth to make profit goals which is perfectly legal as long as they are transparent about it.
The reason I mention making it thicker was because I was under the impression that “too thin” was the reason the number and size of ports was compromised. It doesn’t need to be a monster, the previous generation MBP wasn’t.
It can vary. When earthquakes happen due to the drilling and reinjection, it can obviously displace the ground which could destroy the roads or buildings located there.

Below the surface, the earthquakes and changes in pressure from adding and removing fluids/gas from the ground often cause the aquifer water to mix with the fracking fluids or shale gas causing it to be unusable.
As a native English speaker I often don't notice the subtile differences that could be pointed out as weird.

Everyone has a different writing style, I'm not sure anyone could pick your writing out as being from a non-native speaker but it does stand out slightly.

IMO people who write English as a second language tend to write longer drawn on sentences than someone who writes it from birth. We take pride in shorter, informal, more concise ways to speak, even if it's lazy.

I don't mind reading articles that are noticably from a non-native speaker, it can be very beneficial reading an author with a different background and in technical writing, longer formal sentences is a godsend.
This might sound silly, but there's a subreddit that might be able to help you with this: /r/stopdrinking.
Stagnation is a good thing -- when it happens because all the hard problems in a domain has been solved.
I think that it's because their experience can be moulded and used in popular polemic that they become famous and maintain their fame. The "uninteresting" ones simply disappear.
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Is there meetup specific to machine learning / deep learning in tokyo?
And all this, while the VW share just reached new record highs...
Yeah, until you need to remove an element from the middle in constant time - this is sometimes useful for things like the implementation of an LRU cache.
The context was pretty clear here. This particular engineer got asked to do something he knew was unethical and he did it anyway. That is pretty black on white to me.

Consumer behaviour is an entirely different thing.
>He discusses how the packaged sandwich industry has improved in his perception based upon a single store (M&S)

Britain has a lot more food chains with national reach than the US does. M&S has a huge share of the 'food to go' market in the UK.

But in any case, the overall quality of prepackaged sandwiches definitely has improved over the past couple of decades, as I can attest from personal experience.

Americans eat plenty of equally cheap and gross foods for lunch.

I would personally much rather eat a prepackaged sandwich than something from this:

http://8-food.com/product.php
That would be a "spread", not a margarine. The difference is down to fat content.
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