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It is not easy.

While at university, I once went to the university shrink and said, look, I have no motivation, I can't get myself to go to the gym and exercise, I don't manage to get a good sleep rhythm, I eat crap, I don't study enough, I have no discipline.

The guy says, well, I know exactly what's wrong and what you need to do: you need to develop more discipline, study more, eat healthy, develop a regular sleep rhythm, go to the gym and exercise, and be more motivated.

No shit! Thanks Sherlock.

So, here my attempt to give slightly more useful advice. I read research concluding that behavioural change can come about through three means:

1. an epiphany (eg someone you know develops cancer, and you suddenly realise what's important) - rare.

2. a significant change in surroundings (eg you move to a different country) - rare.

3. baby steps, but sustained baby steps. Like an oil tanker - you change the direction by just a degree (and even that is hard), but over years you end up at a better place.

The latter is realistic. (Found the source: https://www.tinyhabits.com )

I'd try:

* be compassionate and benevolent towards yourself. Sure, you have flaws, but nobody is perfect. Do not compare yourself to others (particularly not to Instagram caricatures or Nobel laureates or Fields medalists or so). Depending on what motivates you, you could consider this effort (taking care of yourself and being good to yourself) as a duty, or as a challenge, or as a commandment, or an axiom, or a tool. (This does not mean that you should be egocentric and selfish, just the opposite: you have to be healthy and strong so you can better help others!)

* recognise that bias in self-perception is ok, and both overconfidence and "underconfidence" have advantages and disadvantages. Now, for you, it's the way it is, no need to beat yourself up for it, now let's work with what's there.

* read the book "Mindset" by Carol Dweck. (Someone recommended the Stoics ("A Guide to the Good Life"), but not sure how applicable that is here, though it is a great book. It emphasises the idea that you should not care so much about things, but about your response to them - the only thing you can change is yourself, your own behaviour.)

* set some small goals (just say hello to someone at a conference or ask someone a question in supermarket, wake up at 8am for a week, read 15 mins of documentation every day for something you want to learn, ... ), try your best, and don't beat yourself up if you don't manage one day - just get back on the horse. Just get back on the horse. Take a smaller horse if need be, and get back up.

* check out Martin Seligman and "Positive Psychology", "Authentic Happiness".

* maybe do consider going to a psychotherapist employing CBT.
You just always start with the base case. It could be recursion is just so simple that your mistake is thinking there must be something complicated.

Also, if the algorithm is not tail recursive, you may be missing that there is an implicit call stack where intermediary results are pushed to.
I think a lot of people have seen that SOLID principles sometimes actually have the opposite effect of their intention, i.e. they make the code hard to reason about and thus less maintainable and harder to extend.

There are quite a lot of articles out there with valid criticism of SOLID, you might find that you don't disagree that much after all (or not). At the end of the day, blind adherence to dogma will likely result in negative effects.

If strict adherence to SOLID principles works for you, then great. Not been the case for me.
Because when the courier is Fedex, contacting them would be even more futile than Google.

I also use Project Fi; I also ordered a Pixel3 when it went on sale last month.
Fedex attempted delivery when I wasn't home; I had important meetings the next day and couldn't stay home again, so I used Fedex's "hold for pickup at Fedex Store" feature to re-route the package. This was a crucial mistake.

Fedex then refused to deliver the package to either my house or the store; they sat on the package for TWO WEEKS, all while their "Customer Support" lied to me about what the status was (It will be delivered EOD today; it's already been delivered; it's going to be held for pickup...etc).

In the end the only way to get them to deliver my package was to contact the shipper, Google. It was delivered two days later.
This may come off rude, but I certainly don't mean it to be, but you have a choice to make. It sounds like you're chosing to have a kid and your wife go to school. If you want to do the startup, skip the kids, have your wife work and support you while you do the startup.
Not everyone can have everything.
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Health care is not needed. Undergrads are mostly young, and without kids. It is unusual for them to visit a doctor - maybe they get an infection, a $30 visit to a "minute clinic" and $20 in antibiotics, but that is a one time thing.

For the cheaper universities you can support yourself working 30 hours a week, if you make your degree a 5 year program you can cut your classes down enough that you can live on your income and have enough to pay for class. You don't get any "fun money", but all your time is focused on class so that won't matter. You are also living in the cheapest room you can find, and cooking your own meals of rice and beans (the cheapest food).

Maybe you don't want to live that way, but you could.
This sounds very familiar to me. About two years ago I wanted to switch to google fi. Ordered a phone online, which I paid on full for, then waited. The phone never arrived, when talking to google it was very similar to the article's situation. The only "solution" they offered was to (after a month!) refund me (which it would take 2 weeks to go through) when they could confirm with FedEx the package was not delivered (which I had already done, but it would take them days to do), and then I could buy a phone again. But they just wouldn't send me another phone. So I would be forced to wait almost 2 months to get the product and service they had initially promised to deliver in 3 days.

I ended up having to call my bank to get a refund. It was a very frustrating experience and I really wanted to like Google fi.
The basic idea of Google Circles - that we have small circles that we share content and engage with, was basically sound.

Google+'s misstep was to overlay a clumsy UI and load a lot of the work of setting up and maintaining those circles on the user. Neither do a lot of users have the clean line between "Close Friend", "Friend" and "Acquaintance" clear in their head.
I always assumed the NSA only did industrial espionage for the defense sector.. but it would make sense for them to steal e.g. foundry processes to hand to Intel. How's the hand-off work? How do they keep the (Chinese-American) engineers from realizing where the ideas come from?

It makes strategic sense to do industrial espionage but there's so many ways it can go wrong.
That's what happens at airports. The drivers are there anyway. While they wait, they coordinate to increase pricing just before an airplane drops off a bunch of passengers.
Pretty sure it’s just 70 years after death.
Because it would be more financially beneficial to just not submit fake reports.
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If the soil was taken from the garden there should be hexapods within it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springtail
Well, not for long...
> It's easy to take risks when there's little to lose.

> If the only fallout is wasting some family money and at worst delaying your entry-level career by a couple of years for some experience that many employers consider valuable anyway, there's little downside to throwing the dice.

This, in no way whatsoever, resembles the conditions of the poor.
We had group chats in IRC, MSN, AIM, ICQ, etc. What's new?
Sure we pay for their support. In fact, we pay them quite alot of money, but this "support" is horrible frustrating nonsense of dealing with email after email with clueless reps. When we complained about this basically we were told we need a TAM to avoid this.
Not quite. Real taxi corporations have approval of city/state assembly to do business so that they control the amount of taxi cars being part of daily street flow. (Im ignoring the fact that this system is broken and corrupted)
Also, if this doesn't need any significant storage, there is also the option of realizing it in MCML, which kills CMOS in dynamic power and signal speed, while being very inefficient for SRAM (you don't want an L1 cache or a register file as large as current generations in that technology).
Yeah, agreed, but these guys are going for maximum rate, so they have to get as many as possible.
This is really curious, in that it appears to be a normal strike for higher wages, except it's being coordinated on an hourly basis for just a few minutes until the company agrees to pay more!

Contractors can decide when and how they want to work, and therefore determine the price at which to sell their labor at, so to me it seems they are simply exercising their rights here. Like others have mentioned, if most drivers don't choose to participate, then this "scheme" wouldn't function.
From how you describe this, it sounds like a personality issue (rather than acute depression / anxiety), particularly in that your anxieties relate to your self-perception more so than your situational perception. The most prudent thing for you to do would be to get a therapist (specifically a psychotherapist, rather than a counsellor or psychiatrist, although the terminology may be different, depending on your location).

Rather than simply addressing your symptoms, I think one of the most important things is to understand what's shaped your personality this way. While I expect cognitive behavioural therapy (as others have suggested) would be beneficial to you, I think some amount of psychoanalysis would be very useful in helping you figure out why you have developed the emotional responses you describe.

In preparation, I would suggest thinking hard about any adverse experiences which may have contributed to your current patterns of thought. Quite often these are memories which do not initially seem abnormal to us, and may be patterns rather than isolated events.
Maybe that’s all true, but it doesn’t really make sense for Uber/Lyft. They could go back to their job driving whenever they wanted.
Google's 'shipping & receiving" seems to have a logistics problem. Fi support shifted to s & r, but they did nothing. The depts sound to be butting heads. Would love to know what's going on internally there. The CEO should step in.
> It's a China vs. the world issue. China has been spying on everyone, for years. Political, military, commercial, makes no difference.

So has the US though, even on it's allies as Snowden showed us.
Which is much like the Harvard or Yale study (it's usually one or the other) that shows people with specific goals and an action plan do ten times better than those without. Nice to know, except, it's all made up: https://www.peer.ca/Singles/MM255.pdf

There have of course been studies on goal setting and achievement (one of which is mentioned in the above pdf) but while they show an effect, they don't show the spectacular results of the made up study.
PG seems worried that tweets saying you have to be rich to do a startup will discourage non-rich folks from trying a startup.

This doesn’t give those folks much credit. It implies that a few tweets will have a bigger impact on their decision-making than their own detailed understanding of the constraints and anxieties of their own lives.

I don’t think PG is in a good position to understand those constraints and anxieties. And he is somewhat incentivized not to, since YC benefits from having more startups to choose from. But YC does not experience significant downside on the startups that they reject or which fail. Unlike: the founders of those failed startups.
Trump now threatens “the official end of Iran”
https://github.com/greghendershott/wffi is what you want
The only economic model that make Uber and Lyft make sense is if drivers are willing to take low pay (considering all their other costs). If they make more money than cab drivers, the whole model falls apart, because then cabs will be cheaper and the service won't be competitive. (Granted, the lack of having to pay for medallions saves them a bunch of money)

I think the only long-term business plan that makes sense for them is black cars, or people who don't want the hassle of Taxis.
FYI - this looks like it may be a valid claim before you all go grab your pitchforks and torches.

https://twitter.com/roomieofficial/status/113018091135248793...
This is a kind of No True Scotsman fallacy. Anyone that is successful was 'advantaged' because her family was rich, or she had two parents, or she had a parent, or she was born in America, or she was born with the right number of chromosomes... The whole conversation strikes me as just snarky and reductive. I don't see the point. Why not try to promote a conversation to lift people up and empower them rather than writing off the hard work and perseverance of others?
You get 50% of your parents genes, the other 50% isn't passed on to you at all. They might be passed on to your siblings.
No problem for a full stack entrepreneur to do that.
This bit

>Article 12(1) GDPR requires that the information provided to an individual in response to an access request is in “a concise, transparent, intelligible and easily accessible form, using clear and plain language”. At its most basic, this means that the information Facebook provides in response to a request should be capable of being understood by the average person. Highly technical data in its original form is likely to be meaningless to the average Facebook user and providing such data would be inconsistent with Facebook’s GDPR obligations.

is reflective of the scorn with which Facebook treats their users.
That's about the process in Texas. Incorporating is a different story, but you don't have to incorporate to register a business (and it's probably a waste of money if you are the sole owner with no employees).
You are applying the 'no true scotsman' fallacy wrong.

Depending on the definition of X, you CAN say that something is not X

Only if you define 'science' as 'the thing that people labeled scientists do', can you arrive at your conclusion.

I would define scientists as 'people practicing the scientific method'.
Fukushima was the result of two unfortunate circumstances: very old reactors and a tsunami. The technology has improved immeasurably since Fukushima was built.
It's called "second preimage attack".
I literally just left Fi last week and got an iPhone XS Max and god do I feel justified. Been a Fi user for about as long, if not longer, than the author and I can affirm the fears of having to deal with customer service and the shakiness of the trade-ins, getting account credits, and poor communication overall.

What happened to the Google that made things that Just Work™?
Indeed. And as the rate grows higher, there’s ever more incentive to defect from the scheme. This should be a case study taught in Economics 101, it’s so pure and clear!
I'm not a lawyer, nor do I agree with what I'm about to say, but the drivers need to be careful, because they might run afoul of collusion.

Since they are all independent contractors, they are "rivals" in the same industry, so with all of them cooperating to increase fares for their benefit (and based on my understanding of the law), they are technically colluding.
Don't forget he wants to bore underground cities on Mars. https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-use-boring-company-tunnelin...
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You still might like to consider giving some more context and explaining it, for the benefit of people who may be lacking it. I myself personally never played MGS, so I'm still not clear on what was your actual intention, even with the link you provided in the other comment (which looks like a loooong read).
To be fair "global security" has been cried wolf about enough given its use as a scurtiny terminating cliche for reasons that are irrelevant like embarrassment to officials that it could be replaced with "nothing" and have approximately the same meaning. If you don't trust the message the argument goes the other direction it becomes "compromising nothing for a little profit". Why leave money om the table for the sake of a known bad actor?

If you sincerely believe it that loss of credibility should be deeply troubling. If you don't it is as it should be - they lost their abused cudgel and can deal with it.
> IT doesn't (and shouldn't) need to know about employee pay

Project Budgeting, is one concern. You may not need to know the exact cost, but, having a hourly rate is useful.

"A,B & C 80 hrs a piece, how much for the budget ?" Don't know have to ask HR for ....
He specifically says later in his replies that he's debunking "the meme that you have to be upper middle class to start a startup." But his chosen example is exactly that, three upper-middle-class kids (Harvard and RISD grads).
The traffic planners put the crosswalks where they are in order to balance convenience for pedestrians with smooth flow of traffic. Jaywalking subverts the deliberate design and overall efficiency b
Software is eating the world, automobiles included.

I'm a huge skeptic when it comes to Tesla, but JLG raises a good point here. Apple had all sorts of problems in 2007, so many that established phone manufacturers largely brushed them off. A focus on software rewrote the mobile phone industry, and every day I get into my car and watch the onboard computer struggle to handle bluetooth properly.

I need to look beyond the obvious inanity of Musk and remember this shift: software will eat this part of the world too.
This looks phenomenal. I guess VR headsets aren't popular enough to support a VR tourism market yet? This entry makes me want to get a Vive for just that purpose, though.
why act surprised? HN's voting system is broken, and anyone talking about it gets downvoted!
Everyone from my country (NL) has a safety net to start with (you can screw up but still) and that goes for many EU countries anyway and yet all the entrepreneurs I know from NL are extremely risk averse compared to the US ones. Most of my NL friends are entrepreneurs but more of the lifestyle kind than even wanting to become the #1 in their field with the monetary status that comes with it. I dare to say that I only know Chinese and US entrepreneurs that look beyond getting more than few million on their account and that is it.

I wonder why that is.
Simulators are effective only as their verisimilitude. Certain neurosurgical procedures are well-reproduced using simulators (most notably the insertion of external ventricular drains[0] for hydrocephalus). Surgical simulation have also shown to be be effective in systems where the principle goal is to get the trainee used to getting visual and limited tactile feedback in specific settings, such as laparoscopic procedures. One thing that has been extensively explored is providing trainees biofeedback about their roughness of manipulating tissues. This in itself is useful; but, to use a musical metaphor, it's more like practicing scales than practicing a performance.

It turns out that recreating tissue in a VR environment that looks and feels like real tissue is a really hard problem. This is a growing industry, and I have no doubt that developers / biophysicists / clinicians will continue to produce more and more realistic systems. Frankly, we're just not there yet. Right now, there is no substitute for the real thing.

Put another way: imagine using a flight simulator where one couldn't reproduce the physics of a real plane. This would be somewhat useful, but have limited transference to actually flying a real plane.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26115472
> long-term efficiencies in following every step the great teachers of the past have laid out, in moving slowly albeit with rigor and confidence.

I always return to this [0] diagram when thinking about learning. Am I taking shortcuts that'll actually stunt my ability to progress further in my development. The "Expert Beginner" is a dead-end development wise - it might be a perfectly reasonable place to end up, but not the right way to expertise.

[0] https://daedtech.com/pics/ExpertBeginner.jpg
Some people actually do not want to be at home (I once had a taxi driver who drove us from Manhattan to Brooklyn, then waited for us to go home, hours later, all the while texting his family that he had to keep working).

Also, leaving the car turned off and waiting in a lucrative parking lot saves gas, wear and tear on the car, and drastically decreases the opportunities to get into an accident. All in all, it is not a bad plan. Taxi drivers have done this for years (which is, ironically, probably one of reasons Uber got started in the first place -- in SF it was almost impossible to get a cab, because so many cabbies just wanted to get airport fares).
I can share some tips and hope you pull yourself out of this

1. Mediate (seriously do this to better get hold of your thoughts)

2. Do small tasks that create positive feedback loop. Cleaning your room, feeding pets, etc etc

3. Quit social media

4. Make friends out of your department, or simply meet new people. Sometimes it's some unknown (unnoticed) thing in surroundings that causes these issues

5. Lastly (extended 2nd), volunteer!
As an engineer my value is VERY tied to my time, and when I'm doing dev on my own business/products I am fully cognizant of this.

If you believe your time is worth $250/hour then you're going to leave a lot of money on the table when a customer comes along who values the solution you can implement at $500/hour.
The demoscene is dead.

\inside joke
For what it's worth, a lot of free tools already offer this type of thing in them, for free. Droplr [1], for example, has blurring ability built into their screenshot grabber. Not to mention, they use a more advanced technique of blurring by obfuscating what you select.

[1] https://droplr.com
> Over here studies are basically free, about 100 EUR incl. public transport per semester. And even then working full-time to be able to finance all of that is hard.

Who needs to work full time to afford €200/year?
It's not a miracle, it's self-sustaining. Mine has been going strong for 1+ year now. I got it here: https://www.ferrarium.nl/
> At least with iOS there's usually two modes: it either connects or it doesn't.

Those two modes aren't quite good enough, though. One recent fun episode occurred when I walked up to our house and started doing some work outside, while both I and someone inside were listening to music. For some reason, my phone automatically disconnected from my headphones, and connected to the bluetooth speaker inside, somehow disconnecting whatever it was originally connected to. So, for the person inside, the bluetooth speaker stopped playing their music and started playing something random, which proceeded to start and stop a few times, and then get louder and louder and LOUDER while I was standing outside, fiddling with my phone and headphones, trying to figure out why my music stopped playing.

My guess is that the root cause is that there's a crippling design flaw at the root of the Bluetooth spec: Its original designers apparently never considered the possibility that multiple people might share their electronics.
Cost to live in a decent sized city are much less than that in most cities. Sure Silicon Valley is going to be more. Also every city has rich areas that are more. However in most cities there are poor neighborhoods where rent is under $1000, and you can share that with a few roommates. If you tastes are to a stove that you don't need to light with a match, sidewalks that are even, and other nice things: that will cost you.
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