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Ask HN: I am 30yrs and never had a full time job, now suicidal. Any life advice?
Hi Hackernews,

i am seeking for life advice.
Right now, i don't know what i should do with my life. I feel trapped. Forgotten. Not part of society. And the part that worries me the most : i have become suicidal.

Context :

I am almost 30 years old.
I studied Bioinformatics, still doing my masters. That is one of the main reasons i never worked. It took me 10 years to study and i feel my life doesn't progress, while others buying cars or getting married. Even though i only have to attend 3 more exams, with my current depression, it feels sooo hard to even pass one of them.
The reason it took me so long was, that i had to work next to my studies.
I am broke as hell, in fact, i have a debts of 20000€.
I am based in germany.
I applied for 20 jobs so far. Already got 4 rejections.

I feel unwanted and even though germany has a social security net .. i imagined my life not to be so bad.

I feel like, i can never "start a life", because i studied so long and no one wants a quitter .. at least in germany.
I don't know what to do. I am in a unhappy place and i can't get out :(
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Latest Chrome on Linux. Clicking on source code links doesn't change the example. Clicking on Java / Scala does change to the corresponding language.
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For me personally, my email is a kingpin of my online presence. Gaining access to my email would provide overridable access to a good portion of my online accounts. Not to mention if my email was hacked by a bad actor, my identity could easily be stolen with all the emails I keep in my archives.

A motivation to Migadu as a service would be the ability to attract more enterprise customers. I know that at my company, MFA is required for all email accounts. Offering MFA would be very attractive to companies wanting to move their email over to Migadu.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/well/eat/how-the-sugar-ind...
Oh, I see what you mean. Page finally loaded, thankfully.
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I don't think it's an unreasonable position, and I have read similar arguments on the mailing list. I think you're correct that there are much better game engines out there. But, I like that BGE is open source, I like how well it integrates with Blender, and I like that it has Python as a first class citizen. For that reason, I don't know if it necessarily has to compete with other game engines, especially AAA ones. It could just be something which integrates well with numpy, SciPy, etc.
Oh. Well then, yeah.

Besides, you don't have to worry about the worst of x86 in those cases.

I'm pretty sure everyone has to learn at least that much x86 at some point, like it or not.
The NHS would grind to a halt without Lucozade.
Just because you think the message looks like it suggestions a Russian hacker doesn't mean that it isn't in fact Russian. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
FWIW, this is exactly how .NET does this. Generic instantiations are shared between all reference types (at runtime, you can sometimes see this leaking into visible abstractions in form of System.__Canon pseudo-type in call stacks etc), but separate instantiations are produced for every value type.
One of the better articles I've read on why US election forecasts are inaccurate. And written by a couple of guys from Brazil.

While beyond the scope of this article, it would be great see more research done into the relative strengths of each bias, i.e. which biases are skewing polls the most, rather than just using lumped bias terms. Though I did see after Brexit forecasts got it wrong too the British Polling Council is "looking into it".

What's most interesting is there wasn't more of an effort by the media to get accurate vote forecasts before the election. Granted, it's more expensive and takes longer but it's not terribly difficult to do. It does involve a research team and statisticians spending time in person in the state and getting deeper data from people. But the time/costs aren't as outrageous as one would think because it only needs to be done in the handful of close swing states. And a sample size of just a few hundred people is enough to get significant results. Seems obvious and worthwhile, maybe in 2020 they figure it out.
It's been a while, but the trueSpace UI (the "classic" version that went back to Caligari on the Amiga) would be a pretty good match for that. It got a bit hairy with deformations (which is why a different UI mode was added to later editions), but basic geometry, extrusions, lathing, booleans and bones were a breeze either numerically or by click-and-drag. Simple things really were simple.
The true issue is not the "rights" of American citizens in their own country (thats of no concern to most people around the world) but how the US government systematically and perennially denies other people these same "rights" or "rights" of their choosing. That is the point.

Leave other people alone to determine their own fate and destiny that's what the world asks
This is such a weird argument. You're basically saying "our political wisdom has not caught up to our technological prowess, so we should avoid undertaking this great technological challenge." It just doesn't follow. If the 20th century taught us anything it's that technology doesn't wait for politics to catch up. If anything technology tends to drive political change (for better and worse), and so the notion that great projects should wait for some political utopia before proceeding is disconnected from reality.
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Perhaps there are advantages that other planets have, that we don't have on earth.

There are certainly massive disadvantages, life support, ect, but there could be things like large amounts of plentiful fuel.
Walgreen's lawsuit shows Theranos is worse than thought
Perhaps I'm misreading your comment, but do you have actual insights that these particular power plants are properly maintained, components replaced, and there safety systems being improved in any way ?

There seem to be a generic feeling of "nuclear is fine" in reaction to all the anti-nuclear bashing going on, but few people seem to be really paying attention to the case at hand.

From what I read these reactors are not just old, they are built on an area that can have up to M7 earthquakes. The
seismic risk was taken into account when building the power plants, but after a new security audit following Fukushima, it appears the risk was vastly underestimated, and from there all plans of building replacement plants in the area got nerfed.

Basically these reactors are not actually deemed to be safe, it's just not practical to shut them down now without any alternative plan to cover for the electric needs of the whole country, when there is enough chance of no major earthquakes until they get decommissioned.
Looks really interesting, thanks. Does anyone know if there is anything similar to Hammerspoon out there?
Poland broke codes during WWII, wants to break codes now. No changes here!
that anime is the only reason i know about John Titor
"Sustainable", if you conveniently forget about the extinction of the Woolly Mammoth, Woolly Rhino, Giant Sloths, Sabre Tooth Cats, Glyptodonts, Elephant Birds, Giant Lemurs, Giant Otters, Cave Lion, Cave Bear, Cave Hyena, Irish Elk, American horses, Diprotodons, Neanderthals, Denisovans etc.

It wasn't until we finished extirpating the majority of the non-African megafauna and apex predators and the totallity of all other human species that we could even be bothered to settle down and invent agriculture and civilization, et cetera.

All the indigenous people who we have any evidence of from historical times (eg. the last 5,000 years) are already living in a post-ecocidal world, where every species that could be rendered extinct with relatively simple technology already had been.

Sustainable, my ass.
do you have a ping pong table?
It is both.

Passing collections of subtypes where a read-only collection of supertypes is expected by the receiving code is fine, because the receiving code can't do anything that would break type safety.

But Java decided to only have a single array type, as a matter of expediency. But they also wanted covariance, because, as you point out, sometimes it's just convenient - more expediency. And so the trade-off was to enforce safety at runtime.

It's still a defect in a sense that the design itself could be made sound, if there were a read-only array reference type in Java.
I've no idea where to start with this. Prices are set by what the market can bear.
This is off topic, but is the traffic from HN really that great?

It seems like websites are dead pretty often on HN, but on sites like Reddit where I assume there is a magnitude more traffic they seem to hold up pretty well (with some exceptions).

So what's going on here? Does HN really have a bunch of silent viewers? Or is it something more benign like sites that get submitted are often smaller?
I have no substantial evidence to speak of. And I thank you for knocking me off my horse, I was being hasty. Have my upvotes.

Now I checked Wikipedia about those laws, it appears France (my country) has a similar law since 2001. Bummer, I guess.
Another good one for learning is the 6502. Don't forget to buy a copy of Lance A. Leventhal's "6502 Assembly Language Programming". Great book for learning not only assembly, but also the fundamentals leading up to assembly.
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This happens every time the identitarian left narrative stumbles and gets torn apart in subsequent comments. LambdaConf was the most memorable example. Perfectly reasonable post, intelligent discussion, flagged and memory holed by those who claim their side is rational and fact-driven.
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> But I want the best education for everybody.

You don't get that unless you pay a lot and subsidize. A lot of people are not willing or unable to pay that cost. Your wants have nothing to do with the matter. A lot of people want the amount of education they can afford, no more, no less.

> Everything else is IMO pointless.

This is why your viewpoint is pointless. No point in learning your times tables or how to read, just because you're not being taught finger painting or how to play a violin? Grow up.
Nope. Loose money (low rates) mean yiu can borrow more for the same cost on the interest portion.
Sure, but I'd consider those edge cases to be situations where the treatment is worse than the disease
I understand your concerns, but I am not taking my ideas out of thin air. Here are some references to corroborate my claims.

Ways to address climate change:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/people-still...
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837709...

Way to address the supposed food crisis:
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2012/aug/26/f...
Although the atmosphere lacks oxygen, water ice just below the surface could be used to provide oxygen for breathing and to combust hydrocarbons as fuel.

Red flag! It's a nonstarter to extract oxygen from water, use it to burn a hydrocarbon, then try to come out with more useful energy than you started with. This might have some use as an energy storage scheme, as storing hydrocarbons can be cheaper and more energy dense than storing hydrogen.

The weak gravity—similar to the Moon’s—combined with the thick atmosphere would allow individuals to aviate with wings on their backs. If the wings fall off, no worry, landing will be easy. Terminal velocity on Titan is a tenth that found on the Earth.

A 12 mph collision with solid rock or packed dirt is survivable, given the proper technique or circumstances. It's also still potentially fatal.
‘Korea’s Trump’ Rises in Polls as Voter Anger Fuels Populism
There's no lack on clarify on why this happens. The point is that getting a ClassCastException with no explicit casts in the code is bad in and of itself. Java (and other similar languages) is normally assumed to be sound wrt types in the absence of explicit casts.
I'm european and while I share your attitudes your policy prescriptions come off as shallow and naive. It'd be hard to find a forum where people are more aware of things like the upsides of renewable energy than they are on HN, for example. You think the answers are simple, we think your answers are well-intentioned but simplistic.
My absolute favorite part of this is exposing controls as a localhost tcp listener, making it easy to control from any tool.
Let's see.

-SQL Stored Procedure Languages, .NET (used to be), Delphi, Coldfusion, Objective-C, RPG, NEWP, and AOT Java are valid examples, IMHO.

-C++ Builder kind of qualifies, as the UI language is unique. So I guess we could count most UI designers as this.

-Ada, (most) embedded C/C++ compilers, and COBOL don't count, because open-source implementations do exist.
Not really that influential in the early years of computing, though. As with Turing, she came to popular attention long after the technology had progressed beyond her point.

(The real history of early computing is more like "OK, we can do arithmetic and logic with gears, relays, or tubes, but we need a cheaper memory device." Memory devices were a long struggle in early computing. Things tried in the early years: lots of tubes (huge and very expensive per bit), paper tape (slow), mechanical wheels (expensive and very slow), rotating wheels of capacitors (small), mercury delay lines (messy, hard to keep in sync, temperature dependent, slow), magnostrictive delay lines (same problems as mercury delay lines but less messy), Williams electrostatic storage CRTs (expensive, but the first real random-access device), magnetic drums (slow), magnetic tape(slow, but big), and finally magnetic core memory (fast, random access, but expensive). Then came RAM, and 128 bits per chip, and 1K per chip, and 4K per chip, and 16K per chip, and 64K per chip...)
In case it makes reading easier for people, here's the code with the "A, B, T, U" replaced with what they would expand to. The "that can't work" comes out pretty clear with the equivalent of "Integer-superclass which extends String" which is obvious nonsense.

class Unsound {
static class Constrain<AString, BSuperInteger extends AString> {}
static class Bind<AString> {
<BSuperInteger extends AString>
AString upcast(Constrain<AString, BSuperInteger> constrain, BSuperInteger b) {
return b;
}
}
static <TInteger, UString> UString coerce(TInteger t) {
Constrain<UString, ? super TInteger> constrain = null;
Bind<UString> bind = new Bind<UString>();
return bind.upcast(constrain, t);
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
String zero = Unsound.<Integer, String>coerce(0);
}
}

I left the T, U, A, B as part of the name, so it's easier to map back to the original.

I wish people would stop insisting on single-character type variables. They have a purpose - name them meaningfully, like everything else.
It's a metaphor and meant to be tounge-in-cheek. There's nothing mystical about the actual content of the post.
The Japanese have the word Gaikokujin (Foreigner) but it doesn't really mean that. It really only applies to whites or blacks. If you're American of Oriental ancestry they dont really see you as gaikokujin. Also, you get treated way differently. I'm a Hispanic American so I mostly got the gaikokujin treatment but my friends of Chinese ancestry got something different when we were studying in Japan for 2 years.
(Duplicated, and I didn't submit it twice. Second time in the last week that's happened.)
I think we have to look at both side of the story here, as you say CNN presented one. But the other is really lacking in depth.

Fake news has influenced the US presidential election.
We know that the british government recently shut down Russia Todays UK offices for spreading propaganda.

Information is a very powerful tool. And school is one of the places where children can be largely influenced by what they learn.

I am not saying its 100% true but I think there may be some element of "western" ideals embedded in the school literature that makes the Ugandan government react.

So again, we have to look from both sides here to understand the issue entirely.
At the moment, 8, but pretty soon they'll want me to help out with Delphi again, and it'll be hell (1). I'll probably start searching for a new job then.

I wish I could just make my own sw and make money that way, but 1) I don't know what my product would be and 2) it's risky with kids and all. It'd be great to pick the technologies and environment and tools that I prefer.
Against 2FA
margaret hamilton was another highly influential woman software engineer; she directed the team of software engineers that wrote on-board flight software for the apollo missions.

she was just awarded presidential medal of freedom.

interesting article she wrote on the concept of "development before the fact"

http://www.htius.com/Articles/Inside_DBTF.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(scientist)
Apple prior to iPhone was very indeed very different.

To demonstrate value in their hardware they kept cobbling together the OS, bought/integrated professional software, and offered a small halo of hardware like printers and monitors to extend utility.

Then Steve came back and readjusted the playbook.

They settled on the OS, created consumer software, bought iTunes, polished up the pro software, then played with the iPod to double down on the halo, then a push into retail.

The headcount was around 15k FTE/5k contractors, I believe that's about how much Steve was capable of managing at the time without tilting. Steve was Castro of his little island. Ask him to manage an empire would be different, he's not IBM.

The pre-iPhone strategies and mentalities worked until it didn't. Post-iPhone headcount doubled or tripled all across the board. With pipelines ranging from partners in China and Indonesia to remotes in Sacramento to Texas to Ireland and mini outposts all around the world. This is the type of game that Tim Cook setup and likes to play in. A complicated contracted-out, partnered-up Rudeberg machine that makes it so Apple is forever an ephemeral freshness deliverer.

In that sense, it does deserve the question.

In a world where the largest cab companies doesn't own any cars, the largest hospitality company doesn't own any hotels, the largest seller doesn't own any inventory...

And the largest company doesn't own any factories, instead relying on the tens of thousands of engineers and designers hogging up Cupertino to come up with the specs, designs, and followthrough, why can't they deliver?

The culture has changed.

The employees priority have changed. From being focused overworked underpaid underdogs trying to resist the dominators, they are now overworked overvalued underpaid distracted dominators. Worried about how better to upgrade their luxury sport cars for racing instead of fixing bugs.

The management is also top heavy and aging. The first and second gen approaching my grandma's age that are gonna be lifers, only looking to retire when they get their 30 year letter. They leave little room for the subsequent generations to climb up the ladder. This lock up is gonna play out interestingly in the next five years.

Apple is changing.
The point of going to Mars is to give humanity a plan b, not as a vacation with lots of hiking and other outdoor leisure stuff. Considering how much time an Earthling spends indoors, it's not a huge leap to spend all of one's time indoors. Building underground and staying inside. There, problem solved. Makes a whole lot more sense than making our first attempt at colonizing a whole new would at the distances we'd be looking at with Titan.
Having Puns with CSS
>I think the jury is still out on that one.

No, the jury is very clear that SSBs are harmful, and very much more harmful than artificially sweetened drinks.

No one credible suggests that artificially sweetened drinks are harmless.
The best thing about this is it doesn't hector readers about features of their individual consumption or production (e.g., licenses). The call to action at the end instead is:

> The government can help us by making software companies distribute the source code. They can say it's "in the interest of national security". And they can sort out the patent system (there are various problems with how the patent system handles software which are out of the scope of this article). So when you chat to your MP please mention this.
Negative. But storing liquid H2 is hard, vs (CH2)n. Carrying around O2 and Propane is easier than putting a nuke on wheels.
"What do we want?"

"Time travel!"

"When do we want it?"

"That's irrelevant!"
Nor does the pusher force his marks to start smoking his crack.
If time travel is possible this may well be the state of the art
You are only focusing on the drawbacks of titan, and not on its significant benefits.

Titan has practically limitless amounts of fuel in the form of oceans of flowing hydrocarbons.

Titan should be though of as a resource, not necessarily as a sprawling multi-billion person supporting planet.
Hmm; I've not tweaked that one -- I'm using:

options i915 semaphores=1 i915_enable_rc6=7 i915_enable_fbc=1 lvds_downclock=1

And things are fine graphics wise -- I'm going to give it a proper run in tomorrow @work and we'll see how it goes.. Played a 1080p film on it earlier with mpv and it ate about 20% -- had brightness at about medium.. Not sure if that's good or not..

4W seems a bit optimistic though doesn't it? I've tweaked things quite a bit, but maybe I'm missing some extra magic or I just don't know the machine enough to know what the baseline is...

I've got skype, spotify, maybe 20 firefox tabs, dozen terms or so, dwm, wpa_sup wifi, and some other stuff, and i'm currently at:

System baseline power is estimated at 11.8 W

Freq Throttling (this isn't controlable, seemingly, and handled by the intel_pstate driver) currently has me on: current CPU frequency: 526 MHz (asserted by call to hardware)

Don't really have a baseline yet -- I can drop a reply in here tomorrow if you're interested in how it holds up with some real use?
Exercise for you: join the actual conversation instead of preaching from above like a schoolteacher and wielding the red marker that is the flag button when it doesn't follow your orthodoxy.

It's funny though, because the other day there was a free speech debate at the University of Toronto where a gender ideologue explicitly denigrated her opponent's outreach on Youtube as amateurish videos unworthy of consideration. Despite him being a tenured professor. [1]

Then again, both his opponents also expressed how dismayed they were that this debate was taking place at all, after they reinterpreted its topic as being offensive to common decency. They ignored the indecent actions from their camp that led to it though. It seems liberal academicians do not like debate of any kind, official or otherwise, they'll just bang on about empathy and care while denying it to those they disagree with.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDvj6DQd93o
better link:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2x...