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It hit a tree at like 70-80mph - no car is going to have doors that work properly after the entire frame is deformed like that, it’s not about the handles

Yea AirPods transparency is great, but Shockz is another level. It’s even better than the ray bans because other people can’t hear the audio, and way more comfortable than any in-ear ones.

Interesting to get a vibe check on the Apple model via chat.

Any plans for RAG across Notes/Email/Calendar?

The areas with higher rates of left handedness on the map seem to correlate to the more progressive areas where you’d expect parents and teachers to not discourage it. Was kind of surprised they didn’t mention that, given they started with that anecdote.

Whether you like Tesla or not: this blog post is a perfect example of how clickbait headlines twist things around. Nobody reads anymore - if you made it down to the nitty gritty of each actual example, it’s painfully obvious that many have almost nothing to do with the self driving software at all, other than how humans can interact with it to screw it all up. There’s:

- A drunk driver doing 100 in a 45 (by pressing down on the pedal) through a yellow light

- A driver who “didn’t see the motorcyclist” because he was looking at his PHONE, but who had the go pedal pressed down at 95-100% for as many as 10 seconds after hitting him, to the point where witnesses say the front wheels were spinning while up in the air

- Others with no detail- not the authors fault but from the ones we have, clearly there are often circumstances which would require more analysis before coming to this conclusion

“This study was funded in part by meat industry consumer organisation The Beef Checkoff and meat producer Vion Food Group.”

Agree with others here that you should check out Sales, Sales Eng, or Product roles. You can make quite a bit more money than a lot of engineers if you do well with sales, particularly as someone who deeply understands tech that they're selling.

Military experience could actually be somewhat relevant for sales, and the courageous kind of attitude ("I'll perform well and make it work regardless") is pretty much the main requirement.

Starting in Sales Eng could be a good way to get to know a particular Sales team and get them to know you, quickly see what its really like to be a seller, and then potentially work your way into a Sales role. Constantly being in the room to see how lots of different sellers work is like getting paid to do sales training, if it turns out to be interesting to you.

When it comes to school, even if the tuition is free, you're still investing a lot of time and effort. For someone who already knows how to program and has meaningful real-life people/leadership experience, my suggestion would just be to be realistic about what you want to do, what you really want to get out of school, and whether or not it's really necessary. Don't know about you, but I know people who seem to fall into the trap of making that kind of decision as a punt on making any real decisions.

Being able to show a bachelor's degree is unfortunately still a big deal for a lot of hiring managers, but "going to school" is also not really a binary decision; there are ways to very quickly test out of a ton of classes and get a bachelor's degree from a lesser known school, if the key rationale would be to just stamp your card. Also keep in mind that typically, Sales and Software Eng are two of the best examples of roles where being self-educated/naturally talented makes it very easy for everyone to overlook the lack of a degree... if you turn out to be kind of a natural fit in sales, AND already know how to program... having a degree probably isn't make or break for you. Learning and giving yourself room to explore can be very satisfying in its own way, but that could also just be stuff you get paid to do in a new role.

I know replit has something similar built in, and they’re even making it at least somewhat usable on a smartphone

Happens to me quite often with searching for apps on iOS, it almost seems perfectly timed to switch the icon you’re tapping on right as you’re tapping it

There wasn’t any mention of how much free hard drive space this machine has, which I believe is more relevant than ever now, isn’t it?

Particularly if your time horizon is like 3 months. Seems like they’re making two huge mistakes now by selling. Home values will almost certainly rise from here over the next 10+ years, and even the most casual market watcher/Zillow user knows that their “zestimates” are crap, they weren’t going to nail it that precisely. Literally everyone intuitively knows that it was a bad time to buy and now an even worse time to sell… except for the analytics company with all of the data. They should just hold and rent the properties via their app, if they can’t make the math work otherwise.

I find that every time I catch myself thinking this way I’m typically wrong- nobody knows anything, big orgs in particular are dumb, and a little common sense usually wins out.

Arweave! Its a 200 year storage endowment https://www.arweave.org/

Even if they aren't, Uber will likely be able to survive the burn rate until the cars drive themselves. Uber just placed a "long term" order for 100k S-class cars.

Also see- http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/dmca

Congrats!!! So great to see.

From someone that learned The Hard Way- just do it. Everyone here makes great points, and the connections you make really will serve you well for a lifetime, but also consider that you'll probably have a blast.

Have you visited some of these campuses? ;)

It's funny that this shares the HN front page with this Wired piece today, proving many of the Times' points: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1683618

Despite the ridiculous punctuation and formatting, and Indianized English, its really refreshing to get a different perspective. Just pinch and zoom;)