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> I didn't enjoy having to keep Slack open all day to
> make sure I don't miss out on what people are up to.

Why did you feel you had to keep it open all the day?

Just skim the channels for anything interesting and/or relevant and check for new private messages occasionally when you're not in the zone. That could be once a day or few times a day, depending on your rhythm.

For example, I tend to directly continue the work in the morning where I left off the previous day for maximal productivity and it's not until my energy begins to wear out after a few hours when I go check back email, Slack, and other communications. Same for afternoon. I don't let email or instant messages interrupt my flow because the flow is a precious thing that doesn't simply come back when summoned. I always try to give the flow the priority and email/slack/IM are not urgent enough to break that. I can always reply back to messages in detail once the flow breaks down.
Maybe not for the operation they're running, of which VoIP is only a small part.
DOS based BBSes used OS/2 because it multitasked DOS Virtual machines better than Win 3.1 and 95.
Is anyone running production computational fluid dynamics simulations on a desktop anyway? Seems like something that would get farmed out on an HPC cluster with a couple hundred cores minimum.
My five year old is a voracious reader. I feel like this is one of the most important educational tools you can give anyone. We stress to her that if you can read, and comprehend, there's nothing you cannot learn. That's why I included the first two on this list.

How to Read a Book - Mortimer Adler

How to Read Slowly - James Sire

The Personal MBA - Josh Kaufman

The Intelligent Investor - Benjamin Graham

Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill

How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
>If, instead of having a skills-based interview with the employer, you had one with the recruiter, who would only take you on as a client if you matches a certain level of skill/talent, in theory everyone's problems are solved.

There are a few recruiters that try to approximate this; see a list here: https://github.com/vchernoy/dreamjob
We tried and failed on my team. We switched to Basecamp instead. Found it got rid of a lot of the time wasting and helped us focus on real issues.

What drove us was a cultural shift away from immediate responses to task based responses. If you do stay with slack it seems like shifting that culture is the most thing to focus on.
UX problem unless in traffic;
getting rammed by the next car is not my idea of safety (not to mention that slamming the brakes for no apparent reason is a textbook example of reckless driving in many places). Oh well, let's just not drive unless the street is empty, I guess ;o)
> "once Toyota goes all in on electric the world will move to electric cars a lot quicker than most are expecting."

I don't know what the car market is like where you live, but where I live the majority of people only buy used cars (because of the lower cost). This is possible because of a surplus in supply of once-new cars. If we're going to get past the tipping point for electric cars, I'd suggest we'd need to see one of three things happen:

1. New electric cars sold at a price point that can compete with the used car market.

2. An increase in popularity in electric car conversions (whether DIY or done by a professional).

3. Wait until the early electric car models trickle down to the used car market.
Is the article switching half way from talking about login cookies, to ad sales (which presumably is about tracking cookies of other kinds)?

I wish the law would just attack the problem at the root: remove all incentive to track users and gather their personal data. E.g. don’t allow advertisers to show ads to people based on anything they haven’t given that site. If I haven’t told the newspaper I’m visiting that I like fishing, they can’t show me fishing ads because I liked it on Facebook.

And if they can’t risk showing targeted ads, then the value for anyone to trade in this information vanishes.

This would also solve the problem of more and more advertising being harder to block because it’s “native”.
$13000 workstations is a niche market too. One that's dominated by people who want expandability.
That article smacked so much of colonialism and foreign interference. Foreign donors create an organization that goes around giving orders to the Madagascar police so that they can put more if their citizens in prison. I bet if we looked closely at these poaching laws, I bet they also were heavily influenced by foreign money and pressure as well.

It seems like many NGO's believe that brown people don't know how to place the correct priority on their wildlife so the try to use their overwhelming resources to defacto control the government.

Can you imagine the outrage if an foreign organization came in and told the FBI how they should run their investigations and demanded a representative always be with them to make sure they are doing what the NGO wants?
Ask HN: Good resources to learn Java EE
In my new workplace, we have several web projects built with Java EE. I had not done any Java programming before starting here. Two months in, I am able to contribute to maintenance of said projects and develop new features based on the existing code, but I lack knowledge to meaningfully improve the design of the application (meaning architecture / code patterns). There is only one other person who knows more than I do about Java EE (he built the things), but he does not have too much knowledge about the more advanced aspects of Java EE application design either.
So could you recommend any good resources for learning Java EE? Especially about:
- load balancing / HA,
- multithreading,
- developing an API for external consumption (not entirely Java EE related).
We are not using the Spring framework.
Any recommendation about good design patterns in Java EE is also very appreciated.
I also used to think that way. But in my current team we have lots of components that are maintainerless and attentionless since their maintainer left the team for another job. When he hwas still active we all considered this component important because many hours of work where flowing into it. Now it's not maintained, receives nearly zero work, and still the impact to the team and sales is not visible.

One could say finding out which components are critical should be someone elses job, e.g. the manager's. All true, but still I wouldn't want to end up spending the prime time of my day for multiple years on a piece of software that nobody uses and nobody makes money with. So I'd argue that I as a dev cannot interact with just the bug db. I need to see what sales is doing, product management, join meetings, etc.
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> My personal problem with most of this conversation is that
> in bigger teams (e.g. 500 people spread through 5-10
> countries) it is really the truth that you are left
> behind if you are not constantly up to date on emails
> and chat.

That is not a team: that is a department.

You cannot meaningfully follow more than a couple of dozen people at a time, and you cannot deeply interact with maybe at most ten people at time. You also cannot follow more than a handful of subjects with reasonable comprehension: assumedly you work on one or two things full time and that knowledge fills most of your brain anyway. The 500 other people are those from whom you hear summaries from company or department wide meetings once a month or so.

The communication overhead grows exponentially with the number of people. That's why departments form teams of maybe a dozen people and let the managers communicate and filter information back to the team so that the team members can focus on doing what they know best instead of trying to track everything that is happening. You can always talk with specific people when you need to know more about something specific: you don't have to know everything by default.
I find it very useful for those who are quick to reply on slack, there are some who check slack once a day and those for types it's easier to get up and talk to them or email them. There is the downside which I find more common amongst the younger users straight out of uni just using it as a social chat mechanism
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This aims for an even smaller-sat market than Electron. Electron is going for about 200kg, for $6M per launch - a bit impractical for cubesat manufacturers unless they're willing to blow a lot of their propellant budget on an initial orbit change. This is aiming at around 5kg to orbit for about 500k - more expensive per kg, but allows a cubesat customer like Planet Labs to get their preferred orbit per-satellite.

In the space business Electron payloads would be called minisats, while SS-520-4 payloads would be called nanosats.
I have the same problem and the same cause.
Some institutions were even sending the emails for two different people using the same email address. Which was mine and I was not a client in either of them.
Where do you live that bathroom muggers are an occupational hazard? That's bizarre.
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> Instant messaging applications enable communication that is online, synchronous and on-demand.

No. It's totally wrong. One needs to learn how to configure his chat tool that it doesn't disturb one in productive times, but is easily available when free. It's possible. I do it since ICQ. Unread chat messages will also still be unread if you continue to work 4 hours on your current task.

> Without [instant messaging], days are calm, purpose-driven and productive.

How can days be purpose driven if you don't sync your own work with your colleague's work any more? I'd argue that people who act like that are the least productive because they only work on things that are not valuable for the team at large.
I've got a guess as to what the author is talking about, because gun owners have a similar thing. In the case of guns, it's "there's no such thing as an accidental discharge, only a negligent one".

By this reading, the author is probably saying that unless your car malfunctions and prevents you from stopping or steering, or there is some equivalent fluke happening (a deer darts out in front of you and you physically can't stop in time), then "accidents" are caused by negligence (not checking lanes when changing, playing with the radio, not looking for pedestrians) or malfeasance (unsafe passing, driving at an unsafe speed for the conditions, drunk driving).

I have mixed feelings about this, but I've been driving a while and I've seen a lot of truly stupid and/or mean spirited and/or reckless behavior that could quite predictably result in a collision, but it'd be a stretch to call the sad and obvious outcome an 'accident'.
Didn't read? That 85% _mantra_ is mentioned. Yes, it's an engineering principle...designed for rural roads. Blindly applying that to all other road types is not engineering, that's cargo cult.
My wife has a website[0] selling vintage items to Japan that she finds in flea markets, eBay, classifieds, charity shops etc. Mostly fabrics and kitchen stuff rather than fashion items though. Pretty good profit margins on each item, but it's very labor-intensive. Every item is unique, so it takes time to takes photos, upload, write a description ... Once it's sold, most of this effort is gone and you need to move on to the next item.

In that sense, I imagine teenagers might have time and energy for this kind of sales process. The big money is made by those online portals and apps, rather than the sellers.

[0] https://www.frau-vintage.com
I used to work in a coworking space at my old company. I loved it, I had just moved to the city and didn't know anyone, so it was a great opportunity to meet people.

We'd have a great big drinking session on Friday afternoon, get absolutely blitzed, and then head to the bar. Coming straight out of university, it was amazing. Sometimes we'd supplement it with a Wednesday session as well.

As far as actually being productive goes though, it was terrible. You never know where you're going to sit, often you're across the office from your coworkers. You can't have any personal desk space, and it's really noisy. But hey, I had fun.
I am from a university department with mostly high-end Mac users. But no, we do actual computation on Linux machines. Why? It's the only (reasonable) way to cram capable NVIDIA GPUs, large amounts of memory, large amounts of storage and 32/64 cores in a machine.
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But iOS won’t reveal the plaintext password from the keychain to the user (it will only autocomplete forms).
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That's an interesting question! I think the effect would be the opposite of what ChuckMcM imagines: as a (say) positively charged particle inside a positively charged conductive sphere moves from the center toward one side of the sphere, it repels the charges on that side more than it does on the opposite side. It does seem like that would cause those charges to spread out slightly, making that part of the sphere negative relative to the other side, accelerating the particle in the direction it was already going, until it hits the sphere. The minimum energy is thus where all charges within the sphere are on its surface; none are inside. I believe this is consistent with observation.
> still can't figure out why people have so much trouble managing their internet lives.

I know it sounds really crochety, but I 100% agree. It's getting pretty tiresome to see people continue to put most of their blame onto their tools instead of their habits. It doesn't take that much maturity and self-awareness to realize that certain tools can be double-edged, and that their value sometimes requires a little bit of conscious thought about their usage.

I'd say the main difference with chat tools like Slack (vs examples like Facebook) is that I can't get certain people to wrap their heads around how not to abuse them, but it's been pretty easy to ask those people politely once or twice to adhere to basic etiquette around messaging and then simply mute them after that.
Agreed good advice that came from this was to host anything important (API) on www.
The "Dutch" refers to people belonging to the population of the Netherlands. Much like "Americans" refers to people from the U.S.
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I wonder how they verified the physical activity in the study?

I have a weird feeling people lie about the amount of exercise they get.

I would like to see one of these brain studies done where the amount/intensity of exercise is know for certain.

I just have a weird feeling exercise is the most important variable in these "better brain as a person ages" studies?

The only drawback is exercise is free.
Probably an effect of promoting it here, but the page is currently awfully slow.

After load it really does look good - even for me not being able to read Japanese.
We still use email, but not for internal team communication. We have a help article of why Twist is radically different than email https://twist.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003654589-Twi...
Sorry, this is not just a box that you tick off. The CUDA code paths in Tensorflow have been optimized and stabilized for years. Why would anyone drop 5000-10000 Euro on a Tesla-class GPU and get a subpar experience when you can just buy NVIDIA?

AMD has a lot more work to do in this area before people will seriously consider them in GPU computing.
The reasons a lot of people complain about are the same reasons I like slack. First, if i'm intensely busy, I just ignore it. It stays backgrounded, and a little blue or red dot sits there. That's it. When i'm in a general workday, i'll usually try to check red dots, and relegate the others to 'as time allows.' But that's its draw to me. I love seeing the goofy gifs, custom emojis, etc that people come up with. It's a sort of comic relief from the stressful days. In the end, it sounds like a lot of folks just have trouble with self control, so blame a tool. You don't have to click the red/blue dot...just let it be.
That's an awful lot like security-by-obscurity.

In fact, I'm fairly confident it's pretty much the same exact thing.

If you don't build a system with defences against abuse, you will see abuse. It's a matter of scale and time.
We've had this kind of of posts as long as I remember. People blaming tools because they can't figure out the most basic skills of work, communication, planning, division and focusing of attention, etc. It's always a panacea to turn something off completely.

But it's never about the tool. It's just the author learning how to operate themselves. What they did has minimal relevance to others in general, except perhaps for some validating "me too!"-s.

It's much more valuable to step back and think critically about how you approach tasks and decisions, how you feel and what it tells you, and how much you can actually control all of it.
Japan runs with somewhat lower speed limits.

The article is heavy on Celebration, FL, which was built by Disney, but has fallen on hard times. It's deliberately retro idealized 1950s America, and entirely privatized. That's a very unusual community.

The optimal speed for maximum traffic flow is around 35mph. Faster than that, and the cars space out further and throughput decreases. Slower than that, and not enough cars per second are passing. Metering signals are designed to throttle entry to the freeway to keep speed around 35mph.
Aha, so another case of arbitrage between old-school brick-and-mortar merchants and Internet sales. People make their living visiting mom-and-pop stamp dealers (or coin dealers, or used bookstores), run by old guys who don't get the "Internet" thing, buy up suitable inventory, and re-sell on the web. It works especially well when, for example, a stamp dealer in small town U.S.A. has a stock of French stamps (French coins, rare French books). Locals aren't interested in French stamps, but if you sell on the Internet, you can find buyers in France.
As a mid point between DIY and new cars, Jaguar have created a drop in replacement for the xk drivetrain which allows them to (reversibly) convert classic cars to EVs:

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/09/jaguars-restored-this-o...
agree. probably many people find out that it can be really addictive _after_ they've become really addicted :)
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The real health benefit is that you feel better after one than before one. You're failing to find a mechanism, not a benefit.
As a Dutch man living in Germany I take my hat off for how active, balanced and thorough the Germans deal with the war. They should be an example to other countries.
Figured this out at 30. You control the tool, the tool shouldn't control you.
Aren't the foreign smugglers/buyers just as colonial and interfering... only they do it with different money to a different group of desperate people. Once you accept that it's ok for foreign money to align the goals of "brown people", it's not that strange that NGOs and with their diabolical support of anti-poaching laws would compete with smugglers. It's not property rights, because I see nothing to show that those tortoises were rightfully gained rather than grabbed off of public or even other's private lands.

Why find one worse than the other?

Why support corrupt cops more than those enforcing the law?

Why support Thai over Israeli?

p.s. I can read about a foreign power covertly using money and propaganda to control the FBI in the Washington Post.
This was tried in the first dot-com boom. It was called Tradeweave. They were trying to make a market in excess clothing sold off by retailers. That didn't work out.

This is more like eBay - an army of poor schlubs doing all the work while the advertising site takes a cut.
What's good in a definition you have no conceivable way of applying? How would you go about testing whether a bat is conscious according to this definition?

It is based on our illusion of understanding what it is like to be a human, but upon closer inspection it bears no real content.
Or on top of piles of corpses.

If you look around you at various safety systems, they were almost all paid for in souls.

The New London School and oderised natural gas is one example I've learnt of in the past year or so. But that's only one of very, very many.
Can you easily modify Chrome to use a more restrictive list that blocks all known ads?

Is there any reason you would ever want to see anything from DoubleClick?
(This response is quite late, but hopefully it helps at least a bit.)

1. All third parties that a site might pass information to must be listed.

2. The site is responsible for ensuring all the third parties it passes information to support a way to delete that information. So if you ask them to delete something, they have to forward that request to third parties, who then have to delete what was provided by that site. The site is liable, so they have to make sure they have contracts covering this with any third parties they would pass the information to.

3. The deleted information by the third party only has to be the information from that site, not every site.

4. There are a number of exceptions specifically involving things like baking, especially if you have a legal, signed contract that obviously cannot be erased with the click of a button. So specifically in the case of Equifax and Experian, its unclear.

5. I am not a lawyer, disregard everything I said lololol.
I‘m no expert and all, but AFAIK there is true randomness going on in quantum effects. Here is a nice discussion: https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/210609
No, gravity and electrostatic attraction/repulsion are both governed by inverse-square laws, so they act the same.

Also, one of Maxwell's equations (in integral form) says that the total electric field passing through a closed surface is proportional to the amount of charge within the surface. If you consider a spherical surface just inside a uniformly charged sphere, with no charge inside or outside the sphere, there can be no flux passing through this surface (since the total flux must be zero and the field is obviously symmetrical). In fact this is true for any closed surface inside such a sphere.
Not only that, there's also swatting.
Sounds like it's working at intended then? I imagine your reaction to losing everything in your account would amount to much more then a minor annoyance.
Can someone please explain the 85% thing to me? I've read both the comments and article and still don't fully understand what it is. Maybe I'm stupid.
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Amazon Prime Video would be worth it in and of itself if I ever looked at it I'm sure but I only use Netflix
A lot of my friends took his class at CMU. They said it was hard but they learnt a lot :)

He was recently a visiting researcher in my sister team at Google. Even though I didn't take his class, he was very approachable and was glad to meet another CMU person. It was a big loss to CMU when he left IMO.
Yes. I like to call the winter Olympics the privilege Olympics.

Summer Olympics is running and jumping, throwing sticks or stones, and wrestling each other

Winter Olympics is zipping down a multi-million dollar luge track
And some minor irradiation
I don't think that's Austen's point, no. It's more that completely disengaging from a primary communication tool within your company is risky. It might work out for you. There's also a big chance you'll be left out of important conversations, decisions, and been seen as not a team player because the rest of the organization now has to adapt around one person's communication preferences.

Communication is tough. There are so many different, competing styles and needs that you'll never build the perfect tool. It's more about building the right habits and processes around your tools.