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"And however difficult life may seem, there's always something you can do and succeed at."

-- Stephen Hawking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrVVvXOIwQc
Microsoft may have been able to use the threat of book piracy to push publisher to it's system, in the same way Apple did with the iPod and MP3 piracy.
That might very well continue to be a theme. Every time there is a significant tick upwards in EV usage and a corresponding drop in demand, the price of oil drops significantly. It's extremely sensitive to fairly small changes in demand.
I believe his main point is that a client that doesn't know what he wants also doesn't know how much to spend, and sure doesn't want to over-spend.

If you find someone that doesn't know what they want but is throwing cash around, sure, be the expert that leads them to digital nirvana.

Generally though, if they don't know what they want, they don't realize how hard it is and so will be in for some serious shell-shock when you tell them the price tag. At which point you're either lowering your rate to still do the work or you've wasted a lot of time talking to them (which they generally don't expect to pay for unless your forte isn't writing code but "being the expert that tells you what you want").
Snapchat runs on Google. Dropbox ran on aws for a long time. Instagram was on aws before Facebook bought them. Netflix has basically everything but the actual video content on AWS.
It WILL become a problem.

The biggest issue with RSI and other repetive-use injuries (which happens in many professions and even athletics, especially with bad form) is that it happens slowly, then suddenly. It's so slow that it's discomfort. And you ignore that discomfort, especially as your concentration is on a computer monitor with important stuff to worry about being displayed on it. Also, sometimes inflammation happens later (later that night, later that week, etc.).

Start now to reduce your RSI (and RSI isn't your only problem, more on that below):

Get an external keyboard either that has an ergonomic design is is comfortable for you, and a mouse too. A Mac keyboard will be nightmare, don't use it. A Mac 'Magic Mouse' or trackpad will cause damage. It's not made for serious long-term work (there might be a lawsuit one day).

Pro tip: this may sound crazy, but get two mice, one left, one right. Change often. Learn to use the lefty even if you're right-handed, or vice-versa. You'll be surprised at how quickly you get used to it (and you'll laugh when someone tries to show you something on your workstation).

Get a desk that moves up and down. Spend some time standing, some time sitting. Again, change often.

Next, other than RSI is your neck and back. As your rhomboids get stretched and weak from forward rotation of the shoulders, the rear neck muscles get stretched and weak, the serratus goes unused, the chest and front-neck muscles get short and tight... You arch your head forward which causes your head (which already weighs about 8 pounds) to exert a lot more than 8 pounds of force on those muscle groups. And you also look at your phone all day, which you hold down below you. Well you're in for a world of nightmares and headaches that'll make the RSI a distraction by comparison.

Start early to avoid these things, before it becomes too late.

Sincerely,

A guy with some greying and screwed up wrists/hands and neck.
Off topic: Is it RSI or tennis elbow? I got really bad tennis elbow from my Macbook (my theory is the copy paste using a key four in from bottom left rather than the corner key of a windows computer is the issue, as it changes the position of your hand when doing it from pinky to thumb).

Anyway, if it is tennis elbow, you can buy a strap that alleviates ALL of the pain. https://www.google.com.au/search?q=tennis+elbow+strap My mate couldn't life 1kg with a bicep curl, put the strap on and did 10KG. It is like a miracle!

Longer term, you need to loosen out your bicep and upper traps. But really, just try that strap and see!
User found entire call history and SMS history in his Facebook ZIP file
What about sandstorms?
Agreed this is the biggest change... Those days are over.
Obviously local dictionary support, I'd prefer to retain the privacy of the words I use and look up.
This is a whole lot of conjecture. Auto manufacturers were investing in alternative fuel way before Tesla came around. BMW lost some ground on electric because they made a huge bet on hydrogen in the late 90s/early 2000s that didn’t pan out (which is too bad because it probably would have been better and easier to transition to). There will always be nostalgia for the “purity” and raw mechanical feel of older big gas engines, but car people tend to like better cars, regardless of tech. Gas engines are getting smaller across the board. Many of the newest hypercars incorporate electric motors, and they’ve been generally well received.

I think what’s most likely is that they are right: they can’t reliably produce electric cars at scale that meet all of their requirements and customer expectations. Tesla is having trouble doing it, why wouldn’t BMW? Musk is charismatic and well liked. He is able to speculate wildly and miss deadlines with little consequence. I think BMW is right that they wouldn’t be given the same affordances by investors and consumers.
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>Tesla is _trying_ to ramp to five figure weekly production.

For context BMW produces 40k cars a week in total vs the 2k of Tesla. So when BMW says "not profitable enough to scale up for volume production" - they probably know what they're talking about.

Sure it's 40k old fashioned petrols, but they seem pretty knowledgeable about scaling.
> Google might know a lot about you but they have never exposed that to third party apps

It depends on what you mean by exposed. In the context of Cow Clicker (or even the CA stuff) the data wasn't really exposed, it was shared. Google shares your private data all the time. Ex 1. Google+ APIs. Ex 2. Android APIs. Ex 3. Gmail API.

Allowing app developers access to information about a user is standard procedure (because otherwise apps would be terrible).

Many of these platforms (Android, Facebook, etc.) have, over time, tightened up the access to this information.
True, but "politics distort prices" does not imply that "without politics, prices are accurate", which is what you claimed.

Bubbles existed before Keynesian policies.
Now, can they make one that harvests drinkable water from the ocean?
“STEM gender-equality paradox” – in fairer societies, fewer women enter science
An accident like this only occurs with multiple failures: a person crossing the road somewhat carelessly. a driver not paying attention to the road, and in this case, an autopilot system that didn't do what it's supposed to do.
I'm starting a career in accounting and would appreciate a recommendation or two on what outside-of-school resources you used to better your understanding. Recommendations?
> I see a workplace that has become shockingly inhumane.

A thousand times this. Very few of the lessons my parents taught me apply in the corporate world. Be honest and straight with people, assume good intent, take responsibility, etc.

All that behavior will do is paint you as naive. Sure there's room for honesty and responsibility, but only when used appropriately (strategically). Strikes me as acutely inhumane every time my career is rewarded for suppressing those behaviors.

I am not even allowed to tell a candidate (another human being that probably NEEDS a paycheck) why I didn't hire them and what they can do to improve their viability.

Just because the company has discarded this person it also means I must discard them as well? It kills me every time, but I NEED my paycheck more than I prefer to help my fellow human.
Must be nice living in a fantasy world where markets are perfectly rational, enjoy.

Companies that are not under direct threat, i.e. most can do just fine working sub-optimally. There are hundreds of variables regarding why a company is successful or not. Many work way less efficiently than 5%, and will continue to happily screw folks unless we work together to keep a reasonably level playing field.

You've not been discriminated against yet I gather. I hadn't until recently either, so it's become less than theoretical. Your time will come as well, put out to pasture at the top of your game right when you're trying to put children through college or similar.
As I understand it, protectionis and mercantilistic policies were the norm in the USA until the close of world War 2. Same with Britain.
I was "managed out" and nobody cares.

https://www.ft.com/content/356ea48c-e6cf-11e6-967b-c88452263...
It doesn't goes both ways. China is not a democracy and Mr. Xi is increasingly more powerfull. Trump is way below 50% ratings and Republicans are behind in the generic polls.

This trade war is not about who gets hurt more. It's about who can sustain being hurt for longer time. There's a major election in 7 months, so I'm betting on China.
Apple was able to do that because MP3 piracy was already rampant. e-book piracy was not.
If you're suggesting fewer people would sign up to be paid killers if we didn't lavish them with hero worship, then I'm okay with that. In fact, I'll go so far as to state that as an intended consequence. The other, larger component, is that the false dichotomy between hero worship and villainization robs the general public of the ability to rationally consider what our military is doing.
Though the S&P 500 is beginning to finally decline now and interest rates are rising (even bitcoin is not rising all that fast now), so this advice may be getting outdated.
Oh that really makes me sleep so much better. /s

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-legal-case-for-striking-nor...
> I do know that some legal scholars say the 2nd Amendment is poorly worded... Language is nuanced, intent is nuanced, and there are a ton of gray areas.

Can I ignore or rewrite the 14th amendment because I find it confusing?

> I do know that views on how the Constitution should be interpreted have changed over time.

Yeah, people started ignoring parts they weren't comfortable with and finding new parts in prenumbras.

Your argument boils down to, "I don't know, everyone. There are a lot of gray areas, so we better just agree to do what I want."
It's a bad system; it promotes upvoting the already top-comment and commenting on it or the initial replies to it; the best way would be to pseudo-randomize posts order but biased towards those with higher score (e.g. so the top-rated-comment sometimes appears second, some rare times third; and some extremely rare times forth [regardless of how old any of those comments are])
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If you haven't already, check out the Netflix series Ugly Delicious. There's a whole episode about the fusion cuisine in Houston.
>BMW can wait til 2020, but by then they’ll have missed the boat.

What boat? Are people going to stop buying cars in 2 years?

We aren't talking about cellphones here, 2 years, or even 5 years is nothing in the automotive industry. The current 3-series is 6 years old and a good 3-4 years behind competitors and is still selling strong.

Having a 2-3 years lead in this industry is literally less than half the lifecycle of a model.
I started the process of signing up, but stopped when you wanted me to sign up for a stripe account. I would prefer to look around more, see what kinds of things jobs are posted before I go though the hassle.

Maybe you're the best thing since sliced bread, maybe not (there are a lot who aren't) and I would like a better opportunity to see what you offer.

I'm also confused about what exactly you offer. Are you more like an online recruiter, or more like upwork, or a job board?

How do you make your money? Do you charge people to post positions, or do you tack something onto the hourly rate, or?

I don't want to sign up for something unless I know what I'm getting into and out of it.
This is a common sentiment but I don't think it should be the end of the story. So what if people from two hundred years lived significantly worse lives than ourselves? I didn't live then and I'm not a UPS driver. I have all the empathy in the world for people in harm, but the fact that suffering exist should in no way act as a counterweight on levers that tries to improve situations where relief seems possible.
People don't need healthcare, they need social food experiences.
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Didn't some kid in Africa come up with a similar device with spare parts? How come the MIT one needs all this exotic tech?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16652387
Change styles, I guess. I switched to using large-muscle movements to control my mouse, for example, so even switching to a trackball would cause more RSI for me. And if I feel it coming on in my hands, and I cannot just walk away for the rest of the day, I switch to hunt and peck. Haven't had to do that in a while, but you're right, when it's your livelihood you find a way.
> Otherwise, what's the point?

Encourage behaviour change. Same as with Iran. Everyone lost, economically (in the short term), as a result of the Iran sanctions.

Those short-run losses were deemed sufficient compensation for the possibility Iran would agree to limit its nuclear program. Similarly, if China agreed to loosen access to its own market and stop forcing American companies to give up their IP to Beijing, that could be better for all in the long run.
Are you using The Lounge for work? Would you mind sharing which company? It would help me find out if/what companies are (disclaimer: I'm one of the dev). Thanks!
No, for English the thirty series is always "thirty-foo", and numbers ending in three are always "foo-three". It is true that you don't use the same word for the number when it's in the tens place (like Chinese), but that's as complex as it gets (and the teens, of course).

In Hindi 40 and 41 use a different word for 40. 51 and 53 use a different word for 50. 55 and 45 use a different word for 5. Plus there are smaller but still significant differences between pretty much every number -- e.g. it's chauBees, but puchees and chauNtees.
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Work has become a strange thing. I see people foregoing their best years stuck in an office, in the hope they can enjoy their later years. What utter nonsense. I'm not sure what the right answer is, but society has got something very wrong, as our work culture seems to surgically remove the wonder and enjoyment from our days. Hardly surprising that it drives people to ill health. Glad I broke out of that cycle a long time ago and quit my corporate job. The job was torture, quitting was scary and bumpy, but looking back it was an excellent decision.
We also have some tools we use with the Heroku CLI we will be backporting into oclif very soon that directly addresses this problem node has with distribution. Essentially it's some scripts that let you export an oclif CLI as a standalone tarball (node binary into it), optionally being able to autoupdate with github or s3.

oclif is also compatible with pkg (https://github.com/zeit/pkg) which will turn the CLI into a dependency-less single binary just like it would be with Go. I don't like it personally as I find it useful for debugging to actually edit the files. With Go we would have to cut a release just to add extra debugging information.
When I was a sysadmin, I had several discoveries of incidents of employees saving and sharing child pornography. Luckily caught them due to an embedded virus in content. Note: CAN’T UNSEE!! I can’t imagine the guilt if I did not report them to the authorities and supply evidence to the police. Honestly, I’d have felt like I “knowingly facilitated” their actions since I managed the corporate network. Websites like backpage know what they’re doing and should fucking burn.
They can work in conjunction - In the domain of website optimization, where visitor attributes are often greater predictors of value than website content, a system driven by search space optimization can more easily take into account changes in those variables - eg; time of day, traffic source, device type - and incorporate those inputs to climb multiple 'hills' simultaneously.

The allocation of traffic based on the evolving optimal search space (blue button for visitors from Facebook) can then be driven through an MAB or something similar.
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There's also a chance Trump himself might reverse course in the next few weeks. Trump's steel and aluminum tariffs went from "no exceptions" to a handful over the course of a month.
You said it yourself, the Atacama is the driest desert on earth. I imagine that environment would be the most difficult to extract water from.

Develop the tech in easier locales then, once the major details are worked out, target the outliers.
I travel with mouse and keyboard for this reason. Not remotely enough to compensate but any mitigation is a plus.

Or we can develop or dictation programming skills like John Siracusa.
Tesla is currently stuck around 800 Model 3 cars per week.[1] They ramped up to that level in late January. Up and down since then. They clearly have some major production line problem, but what it is hasn't come out yet.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-tracker/#
We have the connectome of C. elegans, yes, but we are still pretty far from understanding how it 'works'. The functional connections are still an active area of research, and it is greatly complicated by connections not explicit in the connectome (neuromodulator effects), as well as the internal dynamics of neurons and non-linear network dynamics.

The connectome is necessary, but far from sufficient, to 'understand' a brain, even one made from only 302 neurons as in C. elegans.
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Yeah, I absolutely agree. So much gets offloaded onto the teachers/TA's these days it's hard to get any educating done.
Do you have a job now? If so how is it better?
I’ve always found it very effective to use a “just say no” policy to out of hours work or more work than I can handle comfortably.

People stop taking advantage when you stop letting them. More than you might expect actually respect it. I don’t think this way of working has hurt my career progression, and it’s certainly done wonders for my mental health.
Manufacturing output may have increased along the curve of a plateau, but it is still much lower than what it would be in an unregulated environment.

https://www.mercatus.org/publication/cumulative-cost-regulat...

Why do you say they are aimed in the wrong direction? They are reciprocal and only in industrial sectors where China already has tariffs on our goods up to 10x larger than our rates.
And the first step to improving their working conditions is taking our own seriously.
Really old news, Jan 11th, 2019..
> " It's good US is crippling this dictator's desire to grow any stronger. Look no further to the uigher concentration camps to see the fate that could befall any western countries around the world."

Fearmongering of the worst kind maybe?
None of that happened, the head and valves are fine. I never missed a shift.

I cut my teeth driving grain trucks so I always heel-toe double clutch. That makes missed shifts highly unlikely as the shifter slips easily from gear to gear, assuming you’re pulling it into the correct gear. Also I’m not an idiot and I have never selected the wrong gate. BMW also puts heavy springs on the shifter to make it unlikely the incorrect gate is selected on accident.

There is no internal engine damage as far as my mechanic can see. The dealer did also do an intake cleaning (allegedly) which involves media blasting the intake runners. It is possible there was FOD introduced at that time. I mentioned that to the dealer and they assured me that is “impossible”.

The dealer did put about 35 miles on the car while they had it for new plugs, maybe they missed a shift but there’s no apparent damage to the engine.

The plug damage appears to be a result of negligent installation.

My most generous guess is they dropped it on the floor. I wouldn’t be surprised if they intentionally re-gapped it to cause a misfire but I have no evidence.

When they told me I needed a new head I called around all the shops in the area that work on these cars. I asked them how this could happen and if they have seen it before. All the shops I talked to in the Seattle area said they have never had an N54 open. They've never seen engine damage on one and doubted the diagnosis. BMW Seattle was the only place that said they had seen this "several times". I think they just use this as a way to make a quick buck or their mechanics are so incompetent that they routinely grenade engines by installing spark plugs and cleaning intakes incorrectly.

What I do know is that the people responsible should be nowhere near a car and probably not allowed outside without close adult supervision.
Did you even look at the article?
I like that model!
It sounds less like workplaces are broken, and more that you're working at a broken workplace. Go somewhere better - don't give your best efforts to the place you're at. There are workplaces where being honest and straight, assuming good intent, taking responsibility etc will move you UP.
It could roll up into a tube instead of folding and creasing.
I intend to try.
Why not do your PhD in the UK? There are lots of good AI programs here - some world class (Imperial, Edinburgh, UCL), some not quite so.
commute. lunch. bathroom.

that will probably take 60-120 minutes of your day.

driving to clients for meetings. may be billable, may not be.

driving to potential clients for meetings, and having those meetings - not billable.

dealing with incoming calls and emails.

actually trying to market yourself - blogging, or some other content work, or applying for conference speaking, or planning presentations for local groups (tech groups, business meetups, etc).

debugging crap that doesn't work.

dealing with taxes/payroll/accounting/recordkeeping/insurance.

needing time away to deal with life emergencies or other events.

6 billable - as in, solid productive - *consistently - as in, weeks or months at a time - is generally very hard to pull off for most people. You can certainly be 'on the clock' for more, but just as in about any mental job, you'll have ebbs and flows, and some of that time won't be terribly productive.
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> free trade is beneficial when you're at the top or among relative equals

Wealthy people tend to be politically connected. Politically-connected people do well in the midst of lots of red tape. There is no evidence free trade agreements effect in-country inequality [1].

[1] http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/6721/1/The_Long_and_Short_of_the_Ca...
No, signing the draconian contract was a condition of receiving the severance, so (as explained by our attorney) by not signing she was not bound by that contract. It didn't amount to much money wise, not even a whole paycheck, and we were fortunate enough to be able to pass it up.
And Mexico used to be part of the Spanish Empire, and Spain...
> Not directly related to your comment but I get the feeling a lot of people complaining about price are navel gazing and have no idea how much a production server costs and how the costs break down.

They're not asking for production servers.

$5k for a workstation, for a minority architecture, is basically a fancy way of saying "no" to the army of tinkerers you need to widen the base.
I dont know enough about the japanese economy to answer this question :(
Ask HN: Research on mobile content for optimal learning?
Has there been any great research on how content should be presented on mobile devices to optimize for teaching a topic?

Ideally I would like to find some best practices on how to present the content as well as some examples.
> In other news, students who study the most for SATs will post the best scores.

Does this actually reflect some experience of yours? It certainly contradicts the existing research on "test prep".