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EdX has this - courses are free to audit, you only pay if you want a certificate (but you can always screenshot your progress page)
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all developers in New York simultaneously quit
Sorry but what on earth is this demo video blathering on about? half way through it's still setting the plot to some hypothetic bad day. Get to the point!
I believe education and testing/certification should always be considered 2 perfectly separate things and, ideally, done by different parties. There should be companies that educate people seeking to acquire knowledge and there should be companies that test people seeking a formal confirmation of their knowledge and issue them certificates. No exams should exist in an ideal university, their job is to educate you an this is what they are to specialize in. But this hardly is a good idea for MOOCs from the financial point of view as charging for certification is the way MOOCs earn money to fund the whole operation so they can keep the actual education part free.
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Those views are only in tension as long as labor is a significant fraction of the cost of farm output. But the most labor-intensive part the supply chain (per pound of apples) is picking it. This source [1] gives 1000-2000 lb/hour as a typical output rate. At $50/hour, that would only account for ~5 cents/lb.

Even if you had policies that firehose-flooded the labor market, that still only saves you a trivial amount on the price of farm output. (I'm guessing most of the cost of apples comes from the price of the land and capital.)

It just doesn't look like there's this huge tradeoff we're facing that could justify massively increasing the labor supply.

A better explanation would be that, if everyone else uses unauthorized[2] labor, then you have to do it yourself to keep up.

[1] https://www.thepennyhoarder.com/make-money/side-gigs/like-wo...

[2] "illegal" is apparently taboo now, but "undocumented" is Orwellian.
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Today Google popped up a little survey in the corner of my account page, with questions like "I trust Google to keep my data private", "It's easy to find out what data Google has on me", that sort.

Answers were one-click response buttons: Strongly Agree, Agree, Neither Agree nor Disagree, Disagree, Strongly Disagree (top to bottom, in that order).

The first time I clicked "Strongly Disagree", a few questions in, the next question had the order of the answers reversed so that Strongly Agree was on bottom. Submitted an opposite sentiment before realizing what happened.

Strikes me as manipulative, like the survey really isn't so much for discovering my opinion as it is for collecting favorable ones. I wonder who will get the results, and to what end?
It sounds like a fan describing a celeb. Saying this isn't musk pscyche ignores the clear and consistent pattern his business and his business decision have.
programming organic farmer here, we live in a 7 acre organic farm north of Berkeley. The robots aren't going to win in agriculture, maybe you could do with with pot; but not with lettuce. There is lots of stupid money in the system and this is just one example.
Might be an unpopular opinion but it's 2018 and you can easily find front-end developers with enough design sensibility and UX common sense to not need designers at all for building an app. I've been doing this for 10 years, in different companies, with different people, and I've seen many front-end developers being very successful at designing apps on their own.

I personally enjoy it too. I usually draw wireframes on a piece of paper and iterate, if necessary, with the product team and/or the users. Then I directly implement the wireframes in React or whatever technology the company uses. Some developers like to use Photoshop or Sketch, but from my experience, a digital mockup doesn't add much value over a drawn wireframe so I just skip these tools.

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PS: Building a company's website is different than building a company's app. Your CEO/marketing team will want logos & branding colors (reusable by the sales & marketing teams for their presentations), illustrations, videos, animated menus, complex layouts, fancy gradients, parallax scrollings (ew!) and so on. A designer will probably be better at this job (and more interested in) than a developer.
Anything manufactured, non-perishable that is donated will just be flipped online for a profit. If it still doesn't sell when being flipped, then that confirms that it absolutely is junk that nobody wanted.

I'm just opposed to the lying; don't tell me that unsold goods are going to the landfill if they are really being donated. I will still buy it; I'm not going to join some hand-out lineup to try to get it for free, which won't even happen if the stock moves.

The overriding problem with the analogy is that we can't compare manufactured goods for which there is a demand to stigmatized produce that is viewed as inferior and met with low demand.
Could you explain #3?
My point was the asked for standard already exists.
I would add to this the following. You are the person you spend the most time around. You have power to affect your own outlook in small ways on a day to day basis. Added up over a long period of time can result in real change in outlook. I'm talking really tiny things like instead of saying "I'm bad at X" say "I haven't done X well before". Sort of brainwashing yourself into a growth mindset.
Agreed in general, although I do delete unimportant email.

Also, make a local archive. When laid off you will lose access to company email before they notify you.
+1 and extra credit if you arrange so that it never occurs again. (Could be adding tests, could be improving communication to faster identify requirements gaps, etc)
25 years after, definitely. 20 years after it might be brutal and personal.
Right, like Astronomy is Astrology 2.0 and Chemistry is Alchemy 2.0.
We've been hunting for leaked keys, broken IBB's and ACM's for a while, but no real structural thing found so far.

There was a Gigabyte implementation that had a broken HOB response meaning you could boot even with unsigned firmware because the BootGuard handler always returned true. Then there was the lenovo one with BootGuard not even enabled, and there was one compal designed board that had BootGuard enabled but no keys fused. (MFG mode open as well)

Most of the implementation don't use Intel's reference with the logic bug, but an AMI or Phoenix or Insyde implementation.

But still hopeful to find a way to serve a bad ACM, mod the IBB (microcode update attack vector perhaps), or find a way to have the ME report fake values for the fuses (since the values are communicated buy the ME OS to the CPU).
Today, I need to connect my device directly to the wi-fi source, then I can use a TOR browser (same goes for VPN). I am still connected directly to a an unsecured wi-fi network.

In my scenario, you would use a mobile router to make the initial connection to the open wi-fi, then connect your personal device to the TOR router.

Open wi-fi -> my device

versus

Open wi-fi -> TOR router -> my device
In Asimov's giant underground cities, robots toiled on the exposed ground above to produce food for the masses. Interesting step in that direction.
Personally, I don't think this kind of magic is a good thing. But to each their own.
Two things:

1. Airplane wings are designed not to "push" forward on the air in front of them. That's drag and airplanes are designed to minimize it.

2. What little air is pushed forward is only going to be affected by the oncoming wing a few inches in front of the wing, and at 230 mph closing speed that doesn't provide nearly enough time for the force of the oncoming air to move the drone out of the way.
If you want to buy something and it will require you to run monthly balance on your credit card, you can't afford it. On the flip side, credit cards are a very powerful tool that should not be ignored.
The closer you get to death:

- you care less about work and money

- you care more about family and relationships
Does this count?

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/1522614
The OP is asking for somrone to do work for them for free... I think asking the OP to do the work themselves is fair
Yes, but in our imaginary world of perfect capitalism, the inherent market flaw is that farmers should simply stop growing ugly vegetables, and only grow beautiful ones. Problem solved!
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Your acting as if job change and apple accepted him back. No apple crashed and burn without him as his became more of what he was. He never "grew up" he just proved that his current attitude was correct and the people saying he need to
"grow up" were wrong.
I asked the founders of one of these agri-robot startups at demo day and they said that leafy greens are just the easiest to automate and so they will start there. What makes it easy is that they can be grown in a greenhouse rather than outdoors, and the main task that needs to be automated is moving plants from a smaller to a larger container, not the mechanics of picking a fruit off a plant.
My parents spent a lifetime barely making ends meet as organic vegetable farmers, and will be living the rest of their retirement in what amounts to basic poverty.

Anything that increased their revenue on their hard work is a good thing. Asking them to give away otherwise sellable produce is simply asking for someone else to perform charity on your behalf. And if you work in tech you would be a (relatively) rich person asking some of the poorest to do so - which I find both immoral and despicable - since this attitude is so prevalent in these circles.

The moral thing to do if you care, is donate to the food bank or otherwise directly support charity - not asking someone else to do it on your behalf.
Many MOOCs are beginning to address the "expertise" and "other students" issues that the article mentions.

For example, in my spare time I've been taking music production and gamedev courses. In both cases, the courses are still at your own pace, but they provide official ways to contact the instructors and they respond within 24 hours, and they also provide either a discord/slack channel or a facebook group for sharing/pairing/asking questions with other students.

While I'm typically the 10% completion type of student the article mentions, I've found both provided forms of communication to be very helpful in keeping me motivated to work through the courses. When I get stuck on a concept I can take a break and reach out to the instructors, and I find the ability to share and see others music/games gives me some inspiration to continue learning and working.
Maybe there's someone with a sense of humor there and Wifi 9 will be skipped as a dig at both Microsoft and Apple.

Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10

iPhone 7, iPhone 8, iPhone X

Wifi 6, Wifi 7, Wifi 8, Wifi Ten
And management. Look for quality management.
Can’t read the full article due to paywall. Two important points:

For anything team based, skill, beyond basic competence and trainability, doesn’t matter very much. A team full of mediocre team players is going to perform better than a team of selfish rockstars. Implication: focus on soft skills, organization, facilitation rather than picking the best people with brain scans.

Job aids are a really significant factor - see the checklist manifesto. It doesn’t matter how good the surgeon is, they’re still human. Things like checklists, automated code analysis/testing/fuzzing, best practice review processes, pair programming, and agile can make or break projects regardless of the skills of those involved.

Another implication: as a manager, you have a lot of control over how your team performs. When you say that you need to hire Johnny because he has the best brain scan, you’re totally ignoring the fact that Sally can totally learn to do the work.
People need food, so fund a food bank

So they can buy produce from Imperfect Produce?
Program in multiple languages.

Try frontend, backend, write random Bash scripts, try multiple paradigms, try every language out there. Try multiple databases too. Don't just write toy stuff, write something substantial that takes you 2-3 weekends to complete.

All of the best developers I've worked with have mastered at least two languages, if not 3-4.

Will you necessarily use all that in the field? No, you might end up at a Python shop and decide you love programming Python. That's fine.

But you will gain so much perspective on what is possible in programming, and avoid getting stuck in the idioms of certain languages for the rest of your career. It will give you a great design sense. It will give you the ability to dive into any problem, in any language, and be successful.
I don't know much about GM's Supercruise, but I'm still in the camp that Tesla's Autopilot is dangerous and irresponsible.

More specifically, I'm against anything less than L4 autonomous self driving cars.
And yet another part of the company is creating a censored version so that the CCP will let them back into china.
> Even if the infrastructure is put in, the current battery technology is only barely adequate for daily city driving.

Barely adequate? We are reaching almost 500km on a charge now (around 300km is more common). This is Denmark we are talking about, not Russia.

> and it's especially banking on invention of fast recharging

You mean under 30 minutes? How often do you need that? Road trips?

Note that they are not banning hybrids, which will take care of your road trip needs just fine.
Fun little learning tool.
Security Update for Foxit PDF Reader Fixes 118 Vulnerabilities
If you're curious about this, check out Planet Lab's. http://planet.com/

They have a fleet of almost 200 cubesats now, in addition to higher resolution satellites from TerraBella. There's an api that you should be able to experiment with.
Sort of. He didn't get fired and he is really highly cited and respected within his field.

Most of his life advice constitutes a rehash of stoicism.
I'm an American and consider myself good at accepting criticism and using it to better myself. I'm not sure what you're trying to say, could you explain?
I'm afraid too of a discontinuation of Docker swarm mode... And agreed about having Kubernetes on your resume being a good thing.
Congrats on it taking just a few months. Some of us spend years in the "lifestyle" hole before waking up and getting a grip on finances.
There are a few possible scenarios where a national alert makes sense: ICBM launches that they either can't yet predict the target of or on a scale that is targeting across the country, massive cyberattacks targeting national infrastructure, supervolcano eruption, foreign invasion, etc.

The idea is that it would only be used in the most extreme of scenarios that affect the country as a whole.
Interesting. For me, it's exactly the opposite. I hate web interfaces which are embedded in a device with passion. Maybe that's because I have never seen a good one.

Before I switched to Unifi I had a couple of these devices. Managing each of them with their own crappy web interface was a nightmare.

But I guess this boils down to being a matter of taste in the end. After all, the Unifi product line is not primarily targeted at home users.
I think in Europe this might be possible. But in America cost of education is prohibitively expensive.
Write a LOT of unit tests, a good bunch of integration tests and enough end-to-end tests.
You'll be more confident in refactoring and with your developer experience in general.
And this is how you get people who would agree with you and try to help and drive them away.
Thanks for all the hardwork. I used this library when I worked at Uber and Netflix.
> There is a horizon on the future, finally thanks to the convergence of more accessible connectivity, devices and capabilites of digital experiences in the next 2 years.

For services and apps to emerge, to make things less abysmal? I don’t see what you are hopeful for, what the given things would change.
I don't think the whole idea is bad. Market based public housing schemes can be quite good, for example.

I do think that making stuff more market based to avoid "picking winners" is probably a bad idea. We know what the winner is here, more or less. The winner is non-ICE vehicles. We should be backing that, not 25% more efficient engines.
Hmm, maybe i didn't clearly communicate my opinion.

What I wanted to say is that I can't see how you could learn (without being exceptionally dedicated) challenging topics. Things you normally go to university for. Things where you constantly have to do difficult exercises, where you find yourself wanting to quit, but you have to keep pushing yourself through it. In the end, it's fun. But the path you have to travel to get there is not (always).
I might give a softer version:

1) Never assume people will respect the value of your time and the fruits of your labor. Some people in particular are looking for related arbitrage opportunities. It isn't even necessarily malevolent, it can be just a frequent human limitation in how value is perceived. Though sometimes it is predatory to the point of malevolence.

2) Assume any future promised reward is unlikely to materialize when making your decisions (if it is not specified via contract, assume it will outright not happen). If a given course doesn't make 90% sense if a possible upside doesn't happen, then it doesn't make sense.
IME, Macs connect faster when the signal is strong. But on a weaker link, it takes just as long as my Windows and Linux machines.
The Ask HN article is formatting weird on Android Chrome, all the text is shoved to the right hand side. Other articles display fine. Cool site
It was more the removing access to a course that I paid for if I didn't follow their schedule that really upset me.
Self-directed learning is a mainstay of developers. With every job being affected by digital change, this behavior is having to spread.

It's not uncommon for curriculum to be out of touch with what has
Because the 2006 law authorizing this mandated that Presidential Alerts not be able to be disabled.

https://www.congress.gov/109/bills/hr5785/BILLS-109hr5785ih....
He got fired? That's news to me. He's still on the U of T directory.

http://home.psych.utoronto.ca/staff/undergrad.htm

As for his views on SJWs, that's a small part of what he does. He's an evolutionary psychologist. He takes the long view of things, and discovered that some religions got some things right, and that's reflected in the stories we tell each other.
If this means I don't have to sit through annoying whiteboard interviews, or talk to HR bots, and all i have to do is just send them a link to my brainscan on linked in. Nice!
That seems to be the contract model supermarkets operate with.

Of course if supermarkets still took "ugly" produce it would sell just fine. Just like it does at the local greengrocers.
I hear this all the time when listening to almost any voice that has more than the minimum expression in the form of varied pitch.

I wrote a program to detect the most apparent rhythms from arbitrary sound input. It was based on the Echo Nest API. I was able to extract a few lines out of spoken word texts that had clear 4 on the floor rhythms.

But my project left pitch alone. We unconsciously vary aspects of our prosody to reflect our meaning, intention, mood, etc. You can even hear the children (at the bottom of the page) embellish the woman's loop with more consonant tones, e.g. on the syllable "strange".

If you listen very, very closely you can hear them alternate between strict reproductions of the tenser tones and their own re-editing to make it sound more consonant or friendly. I posit this is their mind playing along with a game of how they want to make it sound vs. complying with their leader.

NPR and most advertising makes me very uncomfortable as they're parroting each other's attention-grabbing prosodies, imitating tones of danger, confusion and great curiosity.

And of course, one of the great modern masters of hearing inherent pitches is Mono Neon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA2-eKbfaWI
Problem with unsold stuff is that people don't want it at any price. Even poor people. Before stuff is unsold, it goes on sale for 50% off, or maybe 75% or more. Poorer people can afford it at those lower price points.
Maintainer here: the folks at dolphin-emu.org politely asked to be removed from the app because content monetization is how they keep their project alive.
I learned the hard way that sociopaths and psychopaths are real, they're not all monstrous murderers, and some of them you may even call friend or family.
If you use a compiler do not ignor ever ever the warning messages. Aim, from day 1 to have a compilation warning free. Write code to be read by humans, and do not ignore writing testing code, more or less you should have twice code in testing than real code under test.
Are you actually asking? If so, I think you misinterpreted my post. Please re-read, we agree. If HR has anything to do with any part of the technical interviewing process, the company is already misplacing their use. I won't touch HR with a ten foot pole unless absolutely necessary.
This is a great article explaining how an Iraqi was largely the mind behind putting all the oil money in a state-owned fund as to avoid the damage that oil usually had done to any country that had discovered it.

https://www.ft.com/content/99680a04-92a0-11de-b63b-00144feab...
Most of us will be extremely handsomely rewarded to carefully build something that will be torn down within a few years and replaced with something new. Usually because someone made a PowerPoint where a made up number was smaller than a different, slightly less, made up number.
Gaza doesn't vow to destroy Egypt and to conquer their country, they do when it comes to Israel. If Gaza recognise Israel and agree to have normal relationship with it nobody will close their airspace or port.
> if you want your social cause to not be a victim of market forces, you either need to work yourself into the market correctly...

Social enterprises aren’t responding to a market opportunity in the same way a for profit business is. They are filling a gap that the for-profit market has created or left unfilled and are often doing so by using fragile mechanisms that can easily be destabilised. They don’t really have many options to adapt and they can’t ‘pivot’ to a new customer base to adapt as that would be leaving the original problem unsolved.

In short, I don’t think you can fairly use free market thinking for social enterprises.
> If an object would react to mass outside it’s light cone.

That mass was not outside its light cone in the past. (This is one of the main points given in favor of inflation models: that they solve the "horizon problem" because the inflationary expansion means that mass over a region much wider than our observable universe was within our past light cone at the end of inflation.)
That's roughly in line with my experience using one of these services.

It really wasn't much of a money saver for us, especially after factoring the delivery fee into account. Worse, it was a terribly inconvenient service. We'd need to place our order the better part of a week before our delivery date, which really threw a monkey wrench into our weekly meal planning. And, for anything that was sold by unit rather than by weight, we had no way of knowing how much food we were actually buying - sometimes you'd get a 2lb head of cabbage, sometimes you'd get a 1/2lb head of cabbage. Again, really threw a monkey wrench into our meal planning. The box wouldn't necessarily contain everything we ordered, either. Which really. . . you get the picture.

I wouldn't have considered it a service that was even the slightest bit compelling, if not for the whole pitch about saving food from the landfill. If that turns out to be inaccurate or exaggerated, that really does kill the whole value proposition as far as I'm concerned.