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I think it's good advice to get a degree in general. I would think about testing out taking a CS course and see if you enjoy it and is something you like. You'll never regret having a degree. That said at this point in your career I'm not sure how many more doors it will open for you and you'll have to weigh the time spent vs knowledge gained. Another option is maybe a BS in Science in something other than CS that you could do online that would take less time/focus, but CS would probably be the best fit for your skill set and future employment.

Grandparents are great and have lots of knowledge. The employment landscape has changed though, previously a degree was a ticket to a secure corporate gig till retirement. Now you have companies laying off employees in their 40s to hire lower cost employees, benefits are being reduced, etc. So I don't see a corporate gig as more secure than contracting or freelancing. Another option is to focus on leveling up to increase your salary/savings. Your grandfather would probably feel a lot better if he knows you have the skills to obtain contract employment easily and are making $50+/hr as a contractor. So maybe share how much you're making and that you have multiple offers when you are ready for a new contract position.

I would recommend leveling up to increase your earning power vs. a CS degree, unless it's something you would enjoy/want to have personally.

I don't think you'll learn video game development at university. That's something you would learn on your own making games.

Check out the startups for the rest of us podcast. It has good information on planning for your own products/businesses while working your day/contractor job . . . most of this will apply to making the leap to independent video game developer.

I would say open your options up . . . success in independent video games (Notch/Minecraft) is a bit like a lottery ticket. So this might be something you strive for but realize it might turn in to a nice hobby or niche with a small following with a chance of a billion dollar payoff or maybe a fulltime income or maybe just something you do for fun/side income.

You probably don't want to do contract work forever. So plan to launch your own products, maybe a SaaS app, some type of recurring revenue so you don't have to chase contracts/projects full time. This could also help give you more time to learn/run your independent video game development studio.

Check out everything by patio11 (lots of great articles/advice), http://startupsfortherestofus.com podcast (and previous microconf videos) and Amy Hoy's stacking the bricks video.

Good luck with the direction you go.

Good luck sounds like you're on the right track.
I don't disagree! In fact I firmly believe that the ends never justifies the means.

But I wonder how many people would consider a major war to be beneficial if it lead to real fusion ie. limitless clean energy for the world, the end of energy poverty, of nuclear fission, and end of global warming.
I think there is a pretty strong case that those are different.

In the case of selling drugs (assuming that drugs are harmful, and so on, which is obviously debatable), then selling and delivering the drugs to users causes tangible harm that wouldn't happen without the sale of the drug.

In the case of child porn, the child porn has presumably already been created - they're not filming new child porn and distributing that, I presume. So the bulk of the harm is already done. The direct harm from pedophiles downloading that porn and viewing it is minimal. The problem with the child porn is that it needs to be filmed/created in the first place, which involves child abuse, a direct and immediate harm, and that people who enjoy child porn are asserted to eventually graduate to abusing children themselves (a more distant and hypothetical harm, which is negated by arresting those people after having identified them).

So, whilst I also dislike the police's actions in corrupting tools useful for free speech, I don't see that letting the server run for another two weeks to identify more users, and actively selling and distributing drugs for two weeks, are equivalent.
This is terrific news! Coming so soon after the Anderson Report[1], this will add to the case for a comprehensive review and redrafting of surveillance legislation, and an open debate about how we preserve privacy while providing the intelligence services and police with the tools they need to investigate and prevent terrorism and organised crime.

1: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-06/11/surveillance-...
I blame Adobe's culture, their culture discourages good programming and their other projects suffer the same problems. For example, bread winners like CS/CC frequently crash, I have a collection of Indesign files that will crash on demand but my concerns have yet to be remedied after 4 years. Internally, they rely on a custom widgeting kit designed to match the functionality found in their pre-OSX mac software (over 20 years!). Build times are said to be several hours.

Adobe is simply not competent at writing modern software, don't forget that if you cant get a flash zero-day you might get one for Adobe Reader!
>Using the Tor browser bundle, there is no protection

Of course not, which is precisely why running Flash is ludicrously stupid.

Nobody is claiming that the "victims" of these other exploits are stupid -- just the ones who installed and used Flash (and probably had to deactivate noscript in the process).

And more to the point, any remotely reasonable person will RTFM (at least superficially) before using a tool to do something highly illegal. Not doing so is the very definition of stupid.
I wonder how many of these driver errors are due to the assumption that the self-driven car will behave just like a human driven one?

It wouldn't take much — an unnecessary hesitation, a slow pull away or (on the other end of the spectrum) super-human reactions to cause me to rear-end someone.

Most of my near-collision experiences have been at a junction where I've judged a situation to be safe to pull into the road for both myself and the car in front, and I start to manoeuvre while doing my one last check into the oncoming traffic to verify its clear. My assumption is that the car in front will do the same but occasionally they don't and I have to stop suddenly to avoid collision. Every time I feel surprised and embarrassed. Why didn't I check? Truth is the other 400 times we all behaved as expected.

My point being, if the cars are still being limited in their speeds and are (as sometimes reported) a little ponderous in the middle of a manoeuvre maybe it is their behaviour that is causing some of these 'driver' errors.
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> Laws are the nation's source code

Not really. Laws are the nation's monitoring server's source code. Further more, the monitoring server is running on a notoriously buggy, laggy and leaky interpreter, and most of the systems interfacing with the monitoring server uses arcane, often proprietary, and always poorly documented protocols.

Amazingly, most of the time it pretty much just works, although the interesting (and severe!) bugs are all surfaced through user reports, never from a monitoring alert.

But yeah, not the sort of thing you'd want to emergency patch a lot. Unfortunately, no staging environment exists.
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It requires fiddling with configuration.

Reconfiguring a security tool without reading the FM, and then using said tool to commit a federal-pound-me-in-the-ass-prison-crime is mind-bogglingly stupid.

These people lack even the most basic forms of common sense.
Arguing in the other direction isn't as persuasive, because Turkish and English aren't the only two languages in existence. French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, German, and many others use the same letter i and have more vowel sounds than vowel characters. That's nobody's fault in particular, though. Unlike Turkish, these languages did not have their writing systems dictated from on high.
Often the airport is in the middle of nowhere that really doesn't need frequent local cab service.
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Mostly used to cheat in higher level physics classes.
Wonder whether there is anything to add to the standard. Isn't this just a devtools issue?
Great work! two points of criticism:

1) The site still talks about carburetors and has no mention about fuel injection systems, while in Europe all cars sold must have a fuel injection system for quite some time now, so this looks quite outdated

2) Diesel engines of course don't have spark plugs, but you don't mention diesel engines.
I strongly recommend following the Kaleidoscope LLVM tutorial: http://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/

It should take maybe a day to work through. Even if you don't plan on ultimately using LLVM as a back-end compiler, this touches on a number of other useful concepts that will make your journey much easier.

I wanted a more flexible parser for the language I'm working on, so I'm using a variant of an Earley parser that I wrote five years ago. ANTLR uses LL parsing.
It's easy to say that now, less so when you're the guy writing the first line of Flash code 20 years ago.
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The one time I rear-ended someone in my life I was doing what you described. It was fully my fault and the result of me trying to gain approximately two seconds on my trip. Fortunately that was over twenty years ago and I haven't repeated the mistake.

I see autonomous cars as the solution to this problem.
Maybe do a "How an electric car works" site/page in the future. I imagine it would have quite a bit less content, though.
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It wouldn't take much — an unnecessary hesitation, a slow pull away or (on the other end of the spectrum) super-human reactions to cause me to rear-end someone.

If you rear end someone it is almost always[1] your fault, and in the examples you give it's definitely your fault.

I'm a little bit surprised that you describe this as the fault of the Google cars.

[1] ALMOST
I really love driving - but I hate the 60 or so minutes per day stuck in idiotic traffic on my way from and to work.

OK, podcasts make live bearable, but I would love to do way more during this time.

I imagine having a 4G network and being able to use this time for working remotely.

What a nice thought - being home 1 hour early and quite relaxed...
>and the scientists just recapture it by force. They actively oppose the animal's attempts to liberate itself, again and again.

I guess you subscribe to deontological ethics? I wonder how would you reconcile it with the following questions.

What's your stance on police actively opposing the [offending] human's attempts to liberate itself?

What's your stance on doctors actively opposing the [considered mentally ill] attempts to liberate itself?

Obviously humans are highly intelligent and inventive creatures. Prison torture, rape and humiliation may not be on the same level of cruelty as laboratory experiments but mental institutions procedures are definitely comparable.
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How many employees with cars does Google have? It could offer a voluntary system where they fit data gathering boxes to every willing employee's car. A bit like the insurance-reducing boxes currently used.
Could you please provide legislation for that? I would not believe, that you would commit fraud when not reporting an accident and paying for repair yourself. At least not in Germany, where I am from.
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The article deserves at least a nomination for bad technology writing, because it doesn't explain why this is such a good thing.

The problem it is trying to solve: wind turbines have a significantly variable range of speeds/energies. The wind speed varies significantly from the bottom to the top. It is desirable to have the generators directly produce power at 50/60Hz grid frequency to avoid needing lots of power electronics. To match this variable but low speed system to the generator you need a gearbox. (There are other systems using low freq generators but I'm vague as to how they work.)

A conventional gearbox (ie cogs) which can handle the massive energy transmission is expensive enough, but one which can change gears to deal with a range of input speeds is even more expensive and heavy. Since the gearbox is at the top of the turbine tower it also makes construction and maintenance more difficult. Many turbines spend time with their blades locked because the wind is too strong - they would turn too fast for their gearbox to handle. Also significant downtime for gearbox repairs.

The alternate solution is to change from kinetic rotational energy to hydraulic transmission, where the blades drive a pump, which pumps a fluid, which drives a motor, which is directly connected to an electric generator. These hydraulic systems have good power density and reliability but typically suffer from low efficiency if not at full load (high frictional losses from un-required piston actions).

The innovation is that they are able to achieve high efficiency in the pump/motor at a variety of input loads through use of computer controlled valve actuators. This doesn't sound that revolutionary, and indeed people have been working on it for a long time, but maybe they have something that works.

http://hydraulicspneumatics.com/hydraulic-pumps-amp-motors/h...
Had similar problem, now I can sustain 10 hours with no headaches. Here is what works for me.

- get your eyes tested. I have small astigmatism, not enough for glasses, but it was causing headaches. I got glasses anyway.

- Recheck your eyes every year. Eyes lens will flex once you wear glasses

- Buy large sound isolating headphones, not in-year.

- Play single song in loop

- Get a bigger screen, even cheap 20" will do. Laptop has horrible ernomomy

- Investigate ergonomic keyboards. Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 or Microsoft Sculpt are good starting choice.

- Try inverted colors. Most editors have colors schemes, try Solarized, Dark Vim etc..

- For browser most sites (github) can be styled black using Stylish browser plugin

- All operating systems (even Android) supports inverted color accessibility settings. Control-Option-Command-8 key combination on Mac.

- Reduce time spend in front of computer by improving your productivity. It is much less draining if you actually enjoy your work and see results fast.
Is there any attempt made to un-distract the driver? Flashing brake lights? Horn?

This sounds too similar to victim blaming. In my opinion any action taken by someone who is about to be hit from behind in a low speed crash is likely to make the problem worse. I don't think that is the time to have a quick jerky motion into the shoulder of the road. Even honking the horn could distract or panic another driver that then causes a crash.

To me the solution is to eliminate distracted driving.
What would prevent them from spending and not reporting it?
I found it ironic that the author talking about web cruft also had some on their website. The header image on my cell phone in landscape mode took up 20% of my screen and stayed even if I scrolled. Anyways I thought that was pretty funny :)
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I have always wanted to make an app like this. Never got around to it.

1. Please add more photos of the UI
2. Show trend lines / moving average
3. Allow users to use it without signing up. If you really want to ask users to sign up offer facebook/google sign up
4. Remove username requirement. Just use email.

Because of (3) I didn't install. The friction is a bit too high
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These comments are a big relief.

All except these:

> laying off employees in their 40s

> hire lower cost

which raises the question: what should a 34 year old developer be planning to do by time he is in his 40s? I'm realizing now that this might be the crux of my situation.
This is probably nothing. An analysis: http://resonaances.blogspot.com/2015/06/on-lhc-diboson-exces...
As others have pointed out, lots of small accidents aren't reported for fear of rates going up. But there also just a lot of people without insurance. Bizarrely, not every state requires car insurance, so some people just don't have it.
Just a quick suggestion as the husband of a woman who does not like tracking her fitness by pounds. She is always more concerned with which size dress she can fit into. Maybe it would be good to have a conversion mechanism from inches to dress size.
"but in my experience in the US, taxis have always provided a vastly inferior experience to something like Uber"

Agreed. But also, taxis in the US have always provided a vastly inferior experience to taxis in other countries. I live in the UK and have zero complaints about cabs here. I've never had a good experience in the USA.
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This. I kept reading, thinking there would be some sort of explanation of the technology. When it wasn't in the article I figured maybe it was embedded in a slideshow that I skipped. But nope. Just not there.
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The ruling itself is available - it's quite a long read:

https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/judgments/david-davis-and-other...
it's pedophiles, not tech experts or even users. I would guess a lot of them don't significantly use their computers, and only got someone to show them the whole tor thing, or watched a youtube video on it or something.
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Fortunately it hasn't been a problem in the last couple years, but I can absolutely remember a time when I had to "prove" myself.

A great resume is key as well as a portfolio site. I always bring my laptop to an interview incase they want to see code; I always make sure I have examples on my portfolio site that are up to date and have to do with the job I'm applying for, etc...

What was funny - my 2nd last job - they need a Wordpress developer and although I'm damn good with PHP, I hated Wordpress - so the weekend of the interview (interview was on monday) I spent about a day reading the WP docs and built a website on my portfolio site with a custom theme, custom plugin, made it responsive, etc... (stuff they would expect) - showed it to them during the interview and got the job (I like to think it helped) - it didn't come out until months later that I learned WP in a weekend (roughly) and everyone was pretty impressed.

My current job - they were looking for a very specific skill set (Rackspace Cloud administration) and actually were more impressed with one of my side projects then any job I held. So you never know what someone is looking for - could be professional experience, could be a side project.
> The Physics of Wall Street covers the history of math from Bernoulli through Mandelbrot and how we arrived at modern algorithmic trading.

The way you put it makes it sound like algorithmic trading is the pinnacle achievement of probability theory. Surely not?
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First of all, take care of your eyes. Use the 20 20 20 rule as previously said, check your eyes to avoid headaches.

If you use a laptop, get a stand and a separate keyboard and mouse, it'll help your posture. If you have a desktop, it'll be easier to maintain a good posture and relieve neck pain by looking to what's in front of you, not down to a laptop on a table.

Walk. Get up every hour or every 45min. Do this religiously.

Drink lots of water or tea. Stay hidrated. Don't eat garbage.

To have better sleep, install flux on your computer.

If you have some spare money, buy a really comfortable office chair that's not too sofa-y and not too hard. Buy a table that has the right height to you.
I'm not sure if you're unfamiliar with the Weev case, or trying to make it sound like it was more complicated, but if you look at the reasons why he was originally convicted, it was specifically for typing in a URL and "gaining access" to data that was publicly available on a website.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130929/15371724695/dojs-...

Unless you're saying that because he changed his browser user-agent, that makes it 'more complicated', but I think most everyone here would disagree.
Yeah, I really did misunderstand you. Sorry. And thank you for the explanation!
Hey, I think this site is amazing and certain appeals to my "hacker aesthetic" even though I'm not a car person! One thing that I'd like to see is some kind of guided tour - I got to the page and instantly saw "how heating systems work" and then "the engine - how power is created" and this confused me a bit. It made it seem like the first thing you need to know about cars is how the heater works!

Then I realized there wasn't rhyme or reason about the order of the Basics and I kind of got a bit of the tyranny of choice and then came back to the Hacker News article.

I feel if there was a path for first time visitors I would have taken it and been lost in engine parts for the rest of the day ;)
How many MPs do you actually know? Or is your opinion of them solely determined by what you read in the Guardian?
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mostly American tradition of buying a new car every few years

The average car on US roads is 11.4 years old:
http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-ihs-automotiv...

The average car on EU roads is 8.6 years old. In fact, in the EU only Estonia and Finland keep their cars longer than the US on average.
http://www.acea.be/statistics/tag/category/average-vehicle-a...
Small discovery: Brendan Eich implemented generators because he found them incredibly important to translate this code in JS.

In fact in the ‘Translations’ section at the end there’s a link to this Bugzilla ticket: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380237
So peltier?

Guess it's easier to make less inefficent than going with a steam engine or a stirling one, at that size...

Also does the video ring some alarm bells in anyone else or am I overreacting?

edit: look like it : peltier with something like a boost converter behind it...
These cars could be so freeing for so many segments of society. I agree with everyone that reducing the commuting annoyance would be awesome - imagine not having to worry about parking your car in the city anymore. You drive in on a highway at 90mph, get dropped off and then the car goes home or onto another task or gets shared out. Amazing. I'm even more excited about getting the elderly out of their homes safely, and getting drunk people off the road altogether.

It's easy to play out the use cases and see why Uber is investing in this area and why it feels threatened by this technology advance.
Thanks a lot. That explanation is excellent and makes a lot of sense. :)
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