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I've had drivers intentionally swerve into me because I'm an "asshole" for taking up some of the right side of the lane. A lot of people are jerks to bicyclists. Even had a guy yell, "pay registration like the rest of us." To which I yelled back, "I do!"

In LA it was common to give extra room to lane splitting motorcyclists, and they'd give you a wave to show their appreciation. Rarely do I ever experience the kind of courtesy afforded to motorcyclists I observed while living in LA as to bicyclists in the city I live now. I did have a gentleman with a bike rack on his car move over for me while stopped at a light to give me some room, but of course, he understood as a fellow cyclist.

My out-there suggestion is to force any able bodied citizen to ride a bicycle on the road prior to getting a drivers license so they at least know what it's like.

Or best of all, cities should model their bicycle infrastructure like Portland, as I can't even recall an incident between myself and a vehicle while living there because of how they designed and implemented bike lanes.

The premise of the article is right in that those students who need extra attention for learning the actual course material fall to the bottom while other disciplined and receptive students learn more. This widens the gap, and you can see it during online course discussions. The former group usually respond later and with much poorer quality, but they fulfill the requirements to earn the grade.

This is where my objection to online courses come in. The checkboxes for what is needed to complete the course are much easier to tick online with far less scrutiny of the actual work than in-person classes. (Then there are those in-person classes which use online platforms for work, but that's a whole other topic)

Even for those who are willing and able to learn efficiently from online courses, a simple search for what professors see on the backend of the platform used administer the course will show what metrics they use to decide whether the student did the work.

For example, in Instructure's Canvas platform professors know when you've copy and pasted, how much time you've spent on the system (and specific modules), which areas of the course have been opened, and other details on students use. Professors use different methods with the data they have access to, and some use none at all. Once a student figures out the professors hidden methods for determining gradable work, that's what can become the focus for the student and not the course material itself.

I do both. I figure out the professors hidden methods, usually after a couple of graded assignments, and then I make sure I check those boxes as well as fulfilling the assignment requirements. So even if a student is good at learning online, they can game it enough to make it easier to get a better grade. This further widens the gap because those who care less about the grade but just passing the course likely never think about these variables.

Ultimately, a student can pass an online class and not learn a single thing, while others can learn as much as the course offers, but likely retains less than an in-person course since they're able to have a crutch with tricking the system.

Needless to say, there's more to the story for success with online courses. Anecdotally, I learn far less from University online courses than I do from high quality tutorial videos that I find for subjects I want to learn online. Oddly, more and more professors are using these videos to supplement their curriculum. I don't know how I feel about that, as it seems to cheat the whole idea of paying them to teach me. Let me supplement the course material with outside material on my own, and don't integrate into your lecture.

I can see it now. "Facebook reorganizes and parent company will be called Appbook."

You're right, most people present the best them, as they see it, to the online world, and some just act like themselves online, "Ooh a piece of candy, ooh a piece of candy." For those who act true-to-self, the parameters (locations and actions) the internet provides for people to bounce around in, never expose that deep of an image of a person.

This also occurs during real life interactions as well. Few are completely genuine even when looking at them directly in the eyes. People omit information, some embellish, and others downright lie to make themselves appear the best possible.

Have you ever had a conversation with someone whom you connect with deeply and for a mere second you can see the true them? You can almost imagine them as a child because their truest essence comes out for a second during a laugh, or a cry. The truest external example of self.

We're a long way from software being able to grasp that level of understanding of a single person. Even if, it would be hard to categorize and sell ads to a person based on that. In other words, I hold out hope for the resurgence of appreciation of the other.

Bandcamp is great. For the artists which I discovered either through Soundcloud or YouTube and have a Bandcamp page, I will follow and receive updates via email. It's a nice system for smaller artists who don't have newsletter support from small to large labels.

I wonder what the net effect is from electronic job applications and the addition of the college degree check box; removing the human element. Then later filters which hiring managers use to set requirements for positions which turn away a fair amount of people from even applying. Is this when credentialism and education inflation began to run away?

Looking at archive.org, Facebook in 2006 said something along the lines of "A degree in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), or equivalent work experience," but in early 2007 job listings contained "BS or BFA in any field" or "M.S. Computer Science or related field" [0][1].

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20060203042947/http://www.facebo... [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070210022307/http://www.facebo...

edit: where->when

All things considered, with a six digit passcode and “erase all data...after 10 failed attempts” turned on, you reduce the likelihood of someone breaking in to the point of having no need to worry. I agree with the article in that iOS11 has taken a position of convenience over security (compared to previous iOS releases), it’s assuming someone gains your passcode. That’s a pretty big assumption.

"Population aging may pose an economic challenge to governments as the number of retired citizens drawing public pensions rises in relation to the number of workers."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility

The clapper and telephone are the only "old-fashioned" technologies mentioned. This is more-so a mini expose on a reporter's personal life. She's getting married and likes to unplug when she gets home; and she's also a cord-cutter.

I was expecting a handheld recorder, or maybe pen and paper, but she uses a telephone and signal app.

As someone who is educating oneself in journalism in hopes to ride the "pendulum" toward "quality content" of the likes you speak of, what do you imagine are the next steps? How can one contribute right now for a better journalistic future?

Is this the stage where all of the "shallow" players fall while "quality" players begin to rise? If so, using what model, as advertising, in its current form, is an insidious factor? Will advertising need to change first? How will quality content creators reach people and make a living once the pendulum swings full?

I find it hard to see. During my recent experience at Thanksgiving dinner, memes seem to have reduced some people's thoughts to a base level. I do hold hope as I believe, as you do, this is cyclical, but the stage is vastly different than it was in the past.

edit: themselves/oneself

>At the time, I was wary–if Apple keeps adding gestures to this simple language, I wrote, “it will kill what made these devices successful in the first place.”

I remember having this thought at the time as well. Then, the gestures became useful after I learned to use them. While most of these gestures (mostly on iPad) weren’t needed by the average user to do the important things, they’re nice to have if you’re a power user. That’s where I thought this UI divide was heading. Power users (gestures) and regular users (no gestures), still able to accomplish the same things but in different ways.

Now, it’s gone too far. Now the ecosystem is fragmented and gestures are necessary to use the device. I decided to pass on the X because I didn’t want new gestures and muscle memory to interfere with the way I use my iPad and iPhone currently. Of course the fragmentation issue will be resolved when this language is applied across the lineup, but for now it’s not.

Still, I doubt I will see an infant pick up an X and know how to use it without instruction like I’ve seen an infant use an iPad.

It appears there are courses just for physicians. [0] Also, the device itself may include a course of some sort. Without evidence, I find it hard to believe GPs aren't capable enough to use an ultrasound device.

[0] https://sonosim.com/who-we-train/

As someone who just had an ultrasound, I think this is the right direction. I had to goto a diagnostics center where they specialize in scanned imagery. I go in, paperwork, wait, wait some more, get scanned, and leave. The technician just had me hold my breath while she put some jelly on my abdomen and moved the device around. Once in a while she would take ultrasound pictures. Snap, snap, move, breath, snap.

My GP had me go in order to troubleshoot a blood test. Now, if the GP had this device it would have saved me some time and effort, not to mention the external factors such as gas, taking up space on the road, and an appointment.

So yeah, please, GPs everywhere, load yourself with these devices as they become cheaper and cheaper.

edit: GP's to GPs

> Exhibit M. Part 03 of 03 pg. 43. The article further discusses the subject of wind, tides, lightning, and water power as a source of commercial energy. The last sentence of this memorandum states: "With my wireless system, it is practicable to transmit electrical energy at a distance of twelve thousand miles with a loss not exceeding 5 per cent. I can conceive of no advances which would be more desirable at this time and more beneficial to the further progress of mankind."

No further details are given, or the exhibit itself, but interesting nonetheless.

https://vault.fbi.gov/nikola-tesla/Nikola%20Tesla%20Part%200...

05:56> as computers graphics get better, we believe all images less

This nugget in the video struck me most. I remember when I began trusting images less once I understood the capabilities modern photo software provided. We've now achieved this with most physical forms in motion picture, short of humans. Which is not to say we won't soon. Once that threshold is crossed, then what's next? Eventually virtual reality, augmented reality, and finally reality reality. We'll trust everything we see (and eventually hear/taste/smell/feel) far less than we do now.

This looks promising.

I'm surprised there has been no mention of Adobe Muse in the comments thus far. Adobe Muse is a similar WYSIWYG website design tool. One which I've used extensively; both pre-responsive and post-responsive versions.

Adobe's Muse has been a blessing and a disaster for me as a designer. I've had to, on two separate occasions, refund deposits for projects I couldn't complete because I reached bugs in the software that would prevent my designs from working properly. Once an "update" is released, sometimes fixing these bugs, new bugs are introduced. I have walked away from the software altogether because it literally reduced my net pay due to unforeseen hours spent chasing issues outside of my control. Not a great feeling when you're stuck in subscription model.

With that said, I welcome and support software competing with Adobe's design tools.

Right when they decided to let the world know you changed your profile picture with no option to do it silently.

"The tricks, hooks, and tactics Facebook uses to keep people coming back have gotten more aggressive and explicit. And I feel that takes away from the actual value the platform provides."

This is why I stopped using Facebook. I really didn't mind the platform until they crossed the threshold of being a useful product to reminding my each time I used it that I AM the product.

I like to fly under the radar and prefer people to find my pictures and posts naturally. Once they started force feeding people my content I decided to stop inflicting my peers with fuel for facebooks social cannons.

If you're interested in this subject, Peter Wohlleben published a book in 2015 called The Hidden Life of Trees, What They Feel, How They Communicate. One excerpt from the book relevant to this article:

"The fungus not only penetrates and envelops the tree's roots, but also allows its web to roam through the surrounding forest floor. In so doing, it extends the reach of the tree's own roots as the web grows out toward other trees. Here, it connects with other trees' fungal partners and roots. And so a network is created, and now it's easy for the trees to exchange vital nutrients and even information--such as an impending insect attack" (51).

I look at groups of trees, and trees in general, very differently than I had before I read this book. I'm happy to see this Yale article make it to HN.

I understand your sentiment, but why can't there be varying degrees? If we fill the spectrum from terrible to award winning; at least we can choose.

I asked my 16 year old nephew 6 months ago how he accesses the news. His answer: Snapchat. I followed that with anywhere else? His response was nope.

There is a lot of potential for using snapchat for news related coverage. Say NBC creates a "become a NBC snap journalist package" available to anyone that requests it. Included is a pin, handheld mic with "NBCx" (or some other visual identifier), something like an AP style guidebook that is simplified, and a concise bit a rules on what is considered news. NBC can sift through these specific accounts, select and publish what's most relevant.

I might sign up for an account if Snap gave me a way to get hyper-local coverage from snap journalists.

Custodial land assignments. Instead of selling lots, which you'll never fully own as allodial titles no longer exist, set up a system which qualifies individuals and families to be awarded land. The idea that we are thrust into this world which requires us to follow a fairly strict path of hurdles just to have a home is a sadly maligned truth plaguing our existence.

I agree. The author starts out talking about the ubiquity of photography as a medium and then uses it more of an example to basically say that one should be prolific. I find the idea similar to the article posted last month, "Stop trying to ‘be original’ and be prolific instead" [0]

[0] http://prolifiko.com/prolific/

Both BMG and CdS have succeeded for so long due in part to their constant tooling with the latest tech. A couple of years ago CdS released a video called Spark exhibiting their take on drones. [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C8OJsHfmpI

Parts of Cook’s speech are somewhat generic, but the point I believe to be important is a CEO of one of the biggest companies in the world is pleading with our future producers to acknowledge the damage certain aspects of online culture, such as likes, have on one’s psyche. It’s a subtle, “hey, somethings wrong. We can fix it by acknowledging it.”

I, for one, am thrilled with Tim Cook and others, helping to bring these issues to light. It is a huge problem. I know someone in the other room right now that is fishing for likes and depending on her success, will determine her mood for the rest of the day, maybe week.

It's psychological slavery that many have slipped into somewhat innocently.

Interesting. I would think the only safe investment in this industry are the ones that don't touch cannabis itself since a dispensary can't use traditional banking and is mostly cash business. What I've seen are vertically integrated cannabis business that start as a dispensary, become a producer, and if successful own head shops, edible wholesale, cannabis wholesale, tools of the trade collaboration, etc. The problem is if the federal government wanted to, that whole business can be turned off overnight. So the only safe investment I would imagine are companies that invent technology used in the industry but detached from marijuana itself.

One external raid (mirrored) that holds information only necessary for when I'm working at my desk. Within that drive I have an archive folder with past files that are rarely/ever needed. The folder structure is labeled broadly such as "documents" "media" and more specific folders within. For the file level I usually put a date at the beginning of the name going from largest to smallest (2017-6-21_filename). For sensitive documents; I put in encrypted DMG files using the same organization structure.

As for all "working" documents, they're local to my machine under a documents or project folder. The documents folder is synced to all my devices and looks the same everywhere with a similar organization structure as my external drive. My projects folder is only local to my machine, which is a portable, and contains all the documents needed for that project.

TL;DR Shallow folder structure with dates at the beginning of files essentially.

As someone who hears the gripes from content creators about how facebook restricts their reach depending on the source of that content and based on that to whom it's shown; it appears that facebook doesn't mind sacrificing efficiency of the web to increase their position of power.

Content creators have to work twice as hard, publish twice as much and take up twice as much storage space because of facebook's walled garden.

Taken to the extreme this is an ugly future of wasted time and resources to bend to facebook's constant tweaks which are not in favor of the content creators, but the advertisers.

I wonder if, at some point, social sanctions will be pressed on one another to consider the use of facebook toxic to oneself and others, no different than smoking?

It may make you feel better to know that the Apple Store was called "the iPod store" by kids and most people visiting before the iPhone was released. To be called "the iPhone maker" is really a testament of the ubiquity of their product. This is a good thing, and if Apple became known as the "the autonomous car maker" would be a huge achievement for them.

I don't see it as Apple trying to compete, but Apple attempting to serve their customers a better end product that ultimately make all other Apple products better in the process. For example, I get into my Apple car environment and so does the rest of my Apple ecosystem. It'd be nice for Siri to say, "I've prepared your documents for you to review for your 10am meeting, enjoy your ride."

The available mega influencers (Jenner and Gomez) are scarce. The dilution of brand image begins with conflicting brand associations with the same influencer. While reach is far and wide, at a great cost, the better approach would be to attach to lower level influencers that have smaller impact when their image begins to misalign with the brands. I have a hard time believing agencies haven't been utilizing multiple approaches to utilizing the varying influence across the spectrum instead of putting all their eggs in one basket with one mega influencer. I don't quite understand the point of the article and how the utility of influencers could collapse? There will always be a new face to exploit, no?