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The ADXL78 series [1] which is recommended for vehicle collision sensing draws 1.3 mA. If it were the only load, it would take on the order of ten years to discharge a car battery, which is well below the self-discharge limitations. I don't know if lower power sensors are available, or if some rule like "enabled for 24 hours after the car is run" would be appropriate, but lack of power for the sensor does not seem like a good reason for the airbags to be disabled.

Bluetooth devices actively searching for devices to pair with could plausibly draw significantly more power than that.

[1] http://www.analog.com/static/imported-files/data_sheets/ADXL...
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See GM and the ignition issue.

See Toyota and the $1.2 billion dollar settlement for the acceleration issue.

Both are fairly recent developments.
Any time you want to groan about a tool's use of info, see if the BSDs have a similar tool. Most GNU tools simply implement an ancient UNIX tool so it's not like GNU has a monopoly on them. So in this case see FreeBSD make:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=make&sektion=1

which points you to this:

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/pmake/

But really, if you just hate using info(1), always remember that GNU also puts the pages on the web in HTML multichunks, HTML one big page, and PDF, so there's no reason to dodge a GNU tool just because you hate info(1).

https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/
> The whole article sounds like a call for regulation based on a fear of change. Like it's the first time the market has faced technological evolution and doesn't know how to adapt.

No it doesn't. It sounds like anticipating and fearing a call for regulation based on a fear of change. Kind of the opposite.
Except for B) having nothing to do with free market. 1)The problem with a long-hours work culture is that long hours don't translate to productivity, and it's rather hard to quantify productivity in a programming setting. It's an emotional/managerial phenomenon.2)It's not avoiding competition either. If the optimal work hours for a programmer are 4-6 hours, then 10 hours surely will lower his/her productivity and just project "more work". As a result, we get a badly competitive micro climate based on "projections" of more work.

I suggest you look at how Finland approaches non-competitive study in elementary and high schools, which propelled them to the top of the world in terms of quality.
Why does this situation exist? I blame regulation.

It exists because you are dealing with humans. Genuinely new ideas tend to not get adopted until the old guard literally dies. They have turf to protect and it is an active disincentive to adopt new ideas, especially new ideas where you can fix things relatively cheaply and easily. There is money to be made in keeping problems alive. And people who don't understand how to fix it themselves tend to look to experts and trust their word rather than being skeptical that maybe the experts have a conflict of interest.

There is a lot that can be done currently and more simply than even your post suggests. A lot of it is "basic common sense." Studies often back up things like just eating right and exercising regularly -- which, really, people mostly don't want to do. They want a magic bullet that lets them do whatever they feel like and then magically fix the problems it creates. But Hollywood stars often already look 20 years younger than they really are and a lot of that is due to diet and exercise because their income depends in large part on their looks.

Another aspect of that is that people tend to discount damage that never occurred. So Hollywood actors and actresses who have successfully slowed the aging process instead of dramatically reversing the aging process are dismissed as not counting somehow. People tend to have a very hard time mentally counting something that was averted. It's just a very hard concept to even explain to most people. So we try to find more fuel efficient cars instead of promoting walking and public transit in part because it is easier to quantify the fuel savings and the difference in how the environment is impacted etc than if we just don't drive in the first place.

The factors involved are complex and do not boil down to regulation.

But thank you for your thought provoking comment.
My girlfriend (who is Taiwanese) and happened to be visiting home during this time, went to observe the protests during the first week. From what she told me (going off memory here), there's many people going to the protests for 2 hours just so they can mark on their Facebook wall that they were there... and many others who don't actually care nor understand, but just follow the vocal protestors. However, there are indeed those who care, as marked by your 3 different groups.

P.s. she also said the police were not a problem for her. The ones they were dealing with were generally trouble-makers and basically out of control or whatever.

Oh well, I hope Taiwan can sort this out, it's a great country :)
Well, as another data point, my MagSafe adapter from July 2007 is still operational and has never had a problem.
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Yep. But I also use Ghostery and ABP, so I figured it was just me.
There are only so many ways to wear a solid plastic shoe. I can't really see the common woman (or man) replace a significant part of her wardrobe with this printer.
This link works. http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/26/pf/taxes/high-income-taxpaye...
It's been going for five years so far, and has yet to get noticeably near the infernal realms.

I know Gradle fairly well, and i wouldn't describe it as particularly clever. The basic ideas in it are quite simple (and actually fairly similar to make!). Most of the complexity comes from specific build tasks for specific purposes, which doesn't complicate the core.
That's the reductio ad absurdum claim that all too many HN posters would read of it. I am saying that when the gulf is wide enough that you can trivially withstand the other party's ability to seek redress (or, in the reverse, engage in barratry to force compliance regardless of the reality of the situation), they have no ability to seek redress and it is in that case that there is a valid reason for governmental action.
When I was a manager, I had a stack of job descriptions for different "levels" of engineers as I prepared a case for promoting a couple of my people. To generalize from what I saw: The formal levels are based on things like autonomy, authority, and interaction. A senior engineer is expected to do things like choosing best practices rather than simply following them. Making presentations to non-engineers, including customers. And so forth.

Granted, making out this rule in an actual workforce might be a challenge, because job titles are affected by a number of practical factors such as the lack of other options for retaining people. A business can become top-heavy with senior titles, but people will seldom be demoted to reflect disparities between their job descriptions and their work. A hot candidate will be hired into a senior level, to put them into a more favorable salary range.
Plausible (creatine is good for athletics, of course, but there's also a scattershot of small psychological studies suggesting cognitive benefits to supplementation http://gwern.net/Creatine which would imply that one's normal levels of creatine might make a difference), but I'm really surprised that the correlation does not seem to be mediated by educational attainment, since that's where I would immediately expect to see some effect to get the increased wages.
This is particularly interesting, because people seem to view this an appropriate forum to let Apple know there's a problem with an individual product, as opposed to calling Customer Care (which is the appropriate action). The same thing happens in the Dev Forums, where angry folks complain about the beta they installed acting badly instead of filing a Radar, or even in individual app reviews despite a support link on every app's page.
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What the fuck are people doing with those power adapters?

I am using the 45W magsafe 2 on a MBA - traveling, unplugging and packing up on a daily basis. frequently changing the outlet adapters from US to various EU and Asia.

Have been doing this since 2012 on this MBA - works like a charm. magnet is strong and stays in place. no cable issues at all.

same reviews though. baffling.
Imagine the cost on that. There will be labor involved to CAD your specific piece, then materials costs, and then machine time. And if the original CAD model failed in some regard you run the risk of being charged twice for the CAD labor.
I can tell you what the difference isn't. It's neither about age nor experience. And I'm saying this as an old fart who has been doing this for 25+ years.

Sure, time helps, if you learn from your mistakes, both in engineering and life itself.

But I've seen 40 year old developers who I would consider juniors in every way that matters, and 20-somethings who I would trust to take the role of lead developer.
I've noticed this on a few different configurations. I don't notice it as much with my personal MacBook Pro, but my work MBP with the US 2-prong adapter as well as my work Mac Mini both tingle when I touch them or shock me through my keyboard pretty consistently. I just had my helpdesk replace the MagSafe brick for the MBP, so I'm interested to see Monday if the shocks go down. I sure hope so - I've become trained to fear the first touch to my keyboard.
>They may have a bad year on their investments and claim losses, which can offset their capital gains.

They hired an account and learned how to hide the majority of their income?
experience. and price :) (which, IMO, is 90% of the reason why older devs have trouble finding jobs, and not so much the supposed difference in ability. young = cheap.)

also, to me it seems that it's more about your position in a company, than skill. i.e. being a senior does not mean being better, it means having more responsibility. being a senior is a position, not a level of skill. although, they would normally correlate.

you certainly won't be a senior as soon as you get out of college.
I thought it looked great, until the Facebook log-in. What an anti-anonymous thing to ask for. Anyway, that's not my problem; my problem is that I don't have a Facebook account, and I don't want one. But I've love to try your app if you add another way to log-in.

Also, the background in the launch page is not very responsive. But I like your ninja speech bubble.
1: Not harsh. I hitch hiked here with no money and lived on Ocean Beach in SF for the first month I was here. I found a job, yes found, no nepotism or anything involved. I knew no one here.

2: There are a lot of startups here if that is what you define as startup heaven. Keep in mind that if you are starting a company you need to execute. If you are not executing and evolving your vision, no one will be interested in your shit unless they just want a paycheck
and paycheck people are unreliable as hell. I have started
and sold two companies here and this is what I have seen
several times.

3: Good, bad, ugly... State income tax? You can make it as ugly or as awesome as you want.

4: Apartments in San Francisco are pricey. Buy vegetables in chinatown or sunset/parkside area. Chinatown is probably more convenient. Beer is good and cheap at the toronado room from 4 - 6 pm (I think)

If you are actually in Silicon Valley then I recommend ISO Beers, Bierhaus, Original Gravity and Whole Foods in Cupertino for good beer.

Beer is important.

Other than that I would say that you alone define your destiny. Fuck the tips. Just move and make shit happen.
Nothing will fuck up your plans as nicely as life happening
while you are planning some shit.

That is my platitude injection for the month.
Your mileage may vary. I've had mostly no problems with any of the Apple products I've owned over the last few decades, and for those occasions where I did, they were quick and happy to replace them - from overnight shipping of a box and next day return in the time before the Apple Store to store-based fixes with loaners.
A lot of times I start something to learn a new language or technology - I made a little Android game to learn about that, a compiler to learn LLVM, a discussion forum to learn PHP and MySQL, a text reminder scheduler to learn node.js.

None of those I would expect to generate a lot of interest, and there are "better" solutions out there for all of them. But that's only taking into consideration a potential customer's point of view. Each of those has been the best solution for teaching myself what I wanted to learn.
It's FUD guys. Scare tactics to make you dump your coins so scammers can buy low. Just please be sure to update your wallets.
(Totally off topic; please feel free to ignore. I ask here because I feel asking via email would be even more intrusive.)

Are the Matasano Crypto Challenges alive? A friend of mine and I sent (first) requests around a week back, and we haven't heard back yet. I understand that real people respond to these requests (at their leisure, I guess) and so turn-around times would be long, but will somebody eventually look at the requests, or is the program on hold/in limbo?
The subhed ("Explaining the genius of Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky”—using music theory") is so much better than the title here, which is so bad that it's no wonder I'm only the second upvote for it.
Patrick is the loudest, but yes, there is a fairly sizable (but shrinking) anti-cryptocurrency contingent here. It's not unusual for cryptocurrency stories to get flagged down, though it's not as common as it used to be.

A voting ring is possible, I suppose. Certainly possible that the detector thought there was one, though the story had dozens of votes and comments before it dropped off.

It actually went from #2 to nowhere that I could find it and then showed back up in slot 119. I've seen stuff temporarily vanish like that before (all kinds of topics), not really sure what causes it.

I've recently seen things that behaved like comment voting rings, but that's probably a lot harder to detect, and I can't say for sure it's happening from the available data.
At times in my career, I've hesitated to do exactly this due to fear of being replaceable. Yet every time I've given up a cool responsibility, I've been rewarded with something even cooler. So I've learned to never fear making myself obsolete.
> Having a system of enforcing contracts is essential to having a working currency. You are basically saying that banks are being evil when they repossess and foreclose on property, but if they weren't allowed to do so, they wouldn't lend money in the first place. And like it or not, credit is essential to the functioning of a society; it's been around in some shape or form since the ancient Egyptians. We've come a long way from having a private army come to your house to sell your family into slavery, but it's the same thing in principle - we sign contracts and are held to them. These contracts need to be regulated with the force of the government. There's a large web of mutual obligations here - the government forces banks to lend responsibly, and in turn the government guarantees through the courts and the police that it will enforce these contracts.

>Bitcoin doesn't have any of this. And that's why it's so volatile and why speculation drowns legitimate transactions.

I don't understand. Bitcoins are just an asset so they have all of this under the law. You can't steal people's bitcoins legally anymore than you can steal someone's tv or gold or whatever.
Of course 65,000' is where the U2 operates :-) I'm a bit skeptical on the 'high power' though. Transmitting at 100W takes probably closer to 500W of power and your drone/airplane has to stay aloft as well. All of that would seem to make for a pretty tight energy budget.
What are we supposed to learn about the power of gamers from the Oculus deal? They can whine on forums and cancel their pre-orders? That has been the only visible "negative" consequence of the Oculus/Facebook deal thus far.
"Indeed, the federal tax return offers no clue to a person's net worth."

Kind of takes the wind out of what the title is getting at
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Nice, that was shot on film right? Love the look. Also, seems like a bit of a light leak... a tip: I once glued some black foam-paper on the door-hinge to my old film camera, because the original one from the 70's had worn off haha.
That is ignoring people who do it for the lulz or to prevent competing coins from popping up.
If you read down the comment threads here, you'll notice something. Many many folks get frustrated with some aspect of Make, and then turn around and say "I can do better myself in [language]". And then they go off and do 30% of Make in their favorite idiom. Sorry, but as an old fart, these all read as "Wah, make is haaard, and inconvenient".

This isn't to say that I think Make hung the moon in radiant perfection, but I haven't seen any tool that has a clearly superior set of compromises and tradeoffs. Gorgeous example: automatic dependency generation. Does anyone really think the identical dep generation codebase will work on 20 year old C and node? It's not hard to glom whatever dependency mapping you want into your make workflow and drop it into separate included makefiles.

It feels easier to write your own. But what that really leads to is re-learning all the shit the make maintainers have learned in the last (look it up.. DAMN.) nearly 40 years.

Or maybe _not_ learning it, and duplicating mistakes which have been solved for decades.
I'm lumping "average daily mail reader" with average person. Surely you are not ignorant to the effects that propaganda can have on the population. The linked article does nothing but narrowly discuss one possible consequence of this type of technology in a manner meant to illicit fear or general negative association. This is by definition propaganda and it detracts from a thoughtful analysis of the larger topic of discussion. I'm not patronizing anyone by drawing attention to the idea that plenty of people use news articles as end points for information; I'm simply drawing the connection between that phenomenon and the type of biased reporting seen in the article above.
Perhaps.

Some things are hard to copy though and would take time to reproduce by others (if ever).

And how do you know it would result in a net loss for consumers? I guess by assuming that iPhone's form factor would not get invented, if others were allowed to copy it. But how do you know that it wouldn't? And what about all the other things that would get invented, because people were allowed to reverse engineer stuff or develop other, currently patent protected technologies?
Yeah, it's Reason magazine, a long-running libertarian media outlet. I seriously doubt they're seeking more regulation.
How about glasses (frames)? smartphone cases? there are tons of small accessories that can be printed which can save hundreds or even thousands down the road with a 3d printer.
To me, the differences between a Jr. and a Sr. Dev are the experiences gained from getting burnt by bugs, quick estimates, production issues, etc.

Essentially the number of battle scars.
Sample size of one, but yes, it is: Years ago I took my work stresses to bed, each and every night. Eventually I realized these stresses were feeding me to a vicious circle: Stressed in bed, sleep poorly, fail to refresh, get less done - and do stupider things, get more stressed.

Eventually I just flipped the switched and stopped it. I wish I could recall the moment (or period?) more clearly so that I could describe what I did well enough to make you believe you can do it too, but it was a long time ago, and I stopped worrying about it pretty soon thereafter.

Will those stressors be there in the morning? Is there anything you can do about them in bed? Stop worrying.

(And stop convincing yourself there is something you can do about them in bed, because you know very well that you need a fresh mind and a fresh perspective to do your best work. And you know very well you are not going to get those things worrying with your head on the pillow.)

Rituals can help, such as commutes: Leave the office stressed, put things out of your mind as you go home. Be mindful of the sky, the clouds, the people around you. Make up stories about them.

On the way in to the office, plan how you will evaluate the stressors.

And use the "will ignoring this get me fired" rule for everything. That really helps with focus.

(I still think for a living - but now I'm quarter-owner of a consulting firm - stressors now are ever so much greater, but my stress is generally less, because I segment and defer.)
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Is a good idea to buy now an Apple device?
Which phones do world leaders use?
Hmm, yeah, I don't know a whole lot about other countries' policies.

If it means anything, one of my friends' dad is an executive at a company here, and is supposed to have a degree, but the company just kind of ignored that requirement because they felt he was the best one for the job. I'm sure there are a lot of cases where that won't happen, but in some cases it can.
Crocs built a billion dollar company on plastic shoes. I think they are actually a foam resin, so you are right about rigid plastic shoes, but a slightly softer more flexible 3d printable material would be practical and useful.
Which coins have been killed thus far?

The reason I ask is because I'm curious: technological artifacts don't usually have the sharp line between life and death that most biological lifeforms do, particularly in the case of software which can potentially lie dormant indefinitely as a static bitstream. However it seems to me crypto currencies should have a sharp line, because as I understand it, the process of block mining serves as a heartbeat; the cessation of the heartbeat should serve as such a line. I'm wondering whether that is actually the case; what really happens when the heartbeat of a crypto currency stops?
Thanks, added to my list. I was currently checking CC, Monsters and Dice.
To you. When I first started, I wasn't afraid of maintaining legacy code at all. It's an entirely different set of things that made me go from "junior" to "less junior".
"everybody else's properly stress relieved cables"

Which, to be fair, are not that great either

I've seen several cables fail with them.

Apple or not, it looks like they're too short or not gradual enough (you want less bending on the part closest to the device and more bending further from it)
Yup, it's actually among the couple supplements I do take. I was going for a point about bullshit meters since creatine is strongly associated with the scammy world of workout supplements in most people's minds.
I like the analogy of the false summit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_peak). The hill that you're currently climbing is obscuring the mountain ahead. :)
Spot on. I'd also recommend having a mentor to help you grow. Someone whose work you admire and want to be like when you grow up :) Mentors are invaluable for your growth as an engineer and as a leader.
At my previous company, I liked their ranking system. Basically, you moved up as you became responsible for larger and larger systems.

A brand new junior employee is responsible for very little--most of what they do is going to be reviewed by more experienced engineers.

A senior engineer might be able to be tech lead a small month long project, a principal engineer might be responsible for a large subsystem, an architect would be responsible for an entire product.

Finally a distinguished engineer (essentially a VP-level position, but on the tech side of things rather than the management side) would be responsible for the technical direction of the entire company and be a strong input to the overall design of brand new products.