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OK, Tough love time.

You are probably not that good. And that's totally fine. You are not your work, and you shouldn't define yourself by your job alone. You are a multifaceted human, complete with all the inherent complexity.

You're still young - you need to get some experience under your belt. That means spending 1 or 2 years at a couple of middle of the road jobs. Unless the role is clearly really poor, then you shouldn't be turning stuff down.

Get some experience, be poor for a bit, spend your last £10 on tequila and go and find somebody to love. Live a bit while you're young, you will grow through time.

There are no shortcuts.

I agree with your family, stop being spoilt and lazy.
Every company has it's misfires - before Glasses was Wave, Microsoft Bob, Win ME, Apple Newton and that hockey-puck mouse.
Do see any material difference between these next 2 statements?

"50% of people today make more than their parents"

"50% of people today make more than people a generation ago made."

If yes, do you see how the difference might be relevant to whether people today have it easier or harder than people in the previous generation?
Ah sorry, I wrote my first answer before seeing your edits. I'll just number my responses here for convenience.

2. It shouldn't change much early on... it would probably be premature optimization to think about it early on, to be honest. The shareholder limits can lead a company to go public, but I think the laws have changed since Microsoft's time to make this less of an issue. Of course, you still have the issue of shareholder liquidity, so I suppose you will want to plan to be able to buy back people's equity :) Also, VCs will usually have demand registration rights that can force the company to go public at some point (never seen those negotiated away though).

3. Usually startups are more forced into more exotic corporate structures due to having some pre-existing business that is hard to convert into a DE C-corporation. So it's usually not something they sought out. I don't know of any good resources for these types of setups unfortunately - in general, the less standard something is, the more I think an attorney should be involved. I would only recommend DIY approaches in areas where there is a ton of standardization.

4. It sounds counter-intuitive, but for startups, I don't consider there to be any special things to look for. VC backed startups are all setting up to be massive successes - if there were any significant issues with respect to highly profitable companies, they would have likely been addressed.

Which is not to say that you won't need to change things later on - but the optimizations that are not done up-front are skipped because the opportunity cost in the early stages is not worth it. Many startups do not get off the ground because too much time was spent on hyper-optimizing legal / tax up front. It's usually better to just go with the beaten path on the legal front, and focus on the business.

But yes, ultimately, there will probably be some off-shoring involved in optimizing that kind of massive success.
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Yeah... I usually develop with babel-node (babel-cli), then do the transpile as part of the publish for integration/production... Which works out well enough imho. It's also not too hard to script[1] if you're doing that. The script itself is a work in progress, and will probably change it to stage-3 since I think everything I am interested in is at that stage at this point.

[1] https://github.com/tracker1/react-redux-materialui-boilerpla...
Any chance of seeing what happens if the needle is moved the other direction? That is, see what happens if you actively discourage people from flagging stories simply because they are political, and reserve flagging for comments that are incivil and abusive?

I think user 'opsiprogram' describes it well here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13111900. It's unlikely that the outcome will be ideal, but like this experiment I think there might be useful lessons that can be learned in a short time.
I'm guessing ADA Programmer was getting phased out anyway (it disappeared in 2002). Or was there another programmer MOS around that time period? I don't know of any subsequent programmer MOS's. Some soldiers and sailors program now but those are very limited cases for the "Cyber" Brigades, and not on any table of organization.

In that case it sounds like the recruiter barely knew what went into O-level avionics so he or she guessed and said it was electronics-heavy. You now know that it's the I-level or Depot level techs that actually do troubleshooting with multimeter/oscilloscope, but only because you were involved in the Avionics field.
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> Step 2 - Resell for profit.

From the bill itself:

> (1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in paragraph (2), it shall be unlawful for any person—

> (A) to circumvent a security measure, access control system, or other technological control or measure on an Internet website or online service that is used by the ticket issuer to enforce posted event ticket purchasing limits or to maintain the integrity of posted online ticket purchasing order rules; or

> (B) to sell or offer to sell any event ticket in interstate commerce obtained in violation of subparagraph (A) if the person selling or offering to sell the ticket either—

> (i) participated directly in or had the ability to control the conduct in violation of subparagraph (A); or

> (ii) knew or should have known that the event ticket was acquired in violation of subparagraph (A).

Unless they outsource even the selling to foreign countries, at which point what good are they as a middleman anyway?
I'm well familiar with Awk RS="" paragraph mode and all, but I'm scratching my head why f = 4 to fetch three paragraphs.

[Edit]: Indeed, I ran your command verbatim and obtained one more paragraph: When they needed are more flexible language [...].

You sneaky devil!
Is that really true though? I remember when me and my engineering peers were in our teens, some of us dreamed of working for a gaming company, but now that we're older no one does. Most actually have a very negative perception of employment conditions in that industry.
>ITT was making promises it couldn't keep

I've never been in the military, but from what I've heard from those who have, this is exactly what military recruiters do. They tell people they will get $XX,XXX signing bonus, but the reality is only a tiny portion will pass all the required training and get placed in a specific type of unit to get that money.

Granted, there a lot of real benefits that they can sell recruits on, but recruiters will tell every 18 year old that they can be in special ops when its not the reality.
>> Android is a loss leader to drive ad traffic.

If one gathers all of their businesses which sell ads under "ads" , well, sure they have one business, the same as microsoft has only one business: "software".

But i'm sure their different ad businesses might have different risk factors, so in totality, they're stable. And BTW, Android made $33B (probably mostly indirectly) according to the oracle trial. Also youtube is a $9B business growing at 20%(probably waiting for the shift of brand ads from tv).

>> Automatic driving may pay off, but that is being a component supplier to an car company, not a high-profit business.

Having control on Android, Google Maps, and Waze puts them in right place for people ordering transportation. Couple that with possible network and data effects, and brand of the self driving business and Google's possible big advantage on self driving cars could put them in a good place in the future self driving ecosystem, not just a component supplier.
Plane crashes have been going down not only in the U.S., but worldwide, which is commendable.

A bit unfortunate for this to be posted a few days after the Chapecoense crash shook the world (noted in the postscript), but that was a regional charter flight, not a major U.S. airline.

Interesting infographic:

http://www.ibtimes.com/how-many-planes-crash-every-year-how-...

Edit: the Chapecoense crash shows exactly why the FAA's work is so commendable - disregard of proper procedure and safety measures led to that accident.
Ask HN: What is the most hacker friendly drone kit available?
I really want to get into building my own drone over the winter break and I'm looking for recommendations.

I have some hardware programming experience from my college days so I'm not afraid to work with raw hardware that I have to code from the ground up.
I think I follow what you're saying. It's a framing issue, similar to the pro-life/pro-choice, which encourages false dichotomies. I agree that "anti-diversity" is sub-optimal. Do you have suggestions for more neutral terms to apply to the topic?
But at the end of it you get a free house for hardly any labour. Yes you have to do a bit now and again but it's hardly a full time job that your tenants have to do to cover your mortgage.

I never understand why you guys are doing it if you don't gain. You are doing it because it is easy money, an easy way to extract labour.

What are you expecting anyway in terms of an ongoing income stream from this endeavor? It's very low skill, to borrow you need a pulse and a job. To administer you need basic numeracy. Hardly any labour required, certainly not skilled. Sounds like minimum wage for the basic admin required, so what, a few hours a month?

The only "value" here is the ability to borrow to exert monopoly control over other wage earners in order to force them to give you a portion of their labour. That is the main ingredient in the majority of cases. Yes we need a rental sector but as I said it's low skill and the rewards should reflect this instead of dividing society into have and have-nots.
Huge pop-up over the whole article after two seconds.
Surprised the article didn't mention it, but he was the last living member of the Mercury 7.
This is my professional career. After two hours of digging into both emacs and evil to try and find the appropriate word boundary combination I realized I had better things to do with my time than fix a broken editor.
You sound like you are being spoiled and lazy. You want your first job to be something where you are highly praised and valued every day, you only have to work on the things you want to with the people you want to work with?

You are young so you are still learning and thats ok. Try to grow up a little and realize that life is uncomfortable sometimes. That's ok. What's not ok is shutting down and giving up.
Wow, all those rejections sound painful. I'm sorry.

So a few things:
First, feeling down, rejected, etc., sound pretty normal to me given what you've described. That's not to say that I think that you should simply ride it out, suck it up, etc. If it was that easy there would be a lot less suffering in general. You're clearly cognizant that something's not right, though, and the fact that you're acting on that seems pretty healthy to me.

Try reddit. I can't suggest any specific subs, but I've found the communities that are supportive to be very supportive. If you're struggling with simply reaching out, that's one place I would start.

Yes, please do consider a therapist (or a career coach, etc.). The thing with depression is that it horribly distorts your perspective, and as you've touched on, begins a wicked feedback loop. It can be difficult to dig yourself out of that hole, and digging in can have serious consequences. Getting in touch with someone who can provide accurate information and context about your experience, and how you want to sort things out.

Sunshine and physical activity, as well as getting out in public are excellent moderators of depression. But they're not fixes.

Finally, if you take only one thing from this, I hope it's this:
There's nothing wrong with feeling the way you do. There's nothing wrong with seeking out expert opinion on how to manage your life. Depression is manageable, especially episodic depression, such as you describe. Please please don't let yourself fall into the trap of thinking that it's a weakness or a character defect.

I sincerely wish you the best of luck on your journey. Hang in there.
Not if you stay at the same job, but the days of working at one place for years and years being the norm are over.
Does it support JS Modules? (I don't think the kangax compatibility table has a test for that, but the last time I looked, no browser supported it yet.)
It might even let you naturally do a "soft retirement", gradually wind down the workload as clients move on to New Tech.
Fi feeds in to growing android and fiber being scaled back is pretty much proof of exactly that.
Would you mind talking about your passion for radio? It's not something I've really thought about (beyond a general, taking-it-for-granted "hey this is handy, I'm glad we have this in our repertoire of technology"), so I'd love to hear about your love.
Is your news feed a bubble?
Ask HN: Do you freelance?
What types of skills do you have?

How much time per week do you spend on it?

How do you find customers? personal network?

Do you use a marketplace?

How much do you charge?

What kind of Software Services do you use/pay for? for invoices, etc?
The other classic (and definitely an HN-appropriate book) is "Failure Is Not an Option," which gives an awesome look at the engineering and management challenges they faced from Mercury to Apollo.

https://smile.amazon.com/Failure-Not-Option-Mission-Control/...
To live half the live that man did is to live a hell of a live.

Godspeed.
Plenty of companies make so much money. Google didn't have to worry about financial discipline, not because it had so much money, but because it has an unassailable competitive position that is not aligned with its cost structure. Put simply, if you had the mandate to bankrupt a company through competition and had an infinite amount of money, I believe it would cost more to bankrupt Google than any other business.
a lot of it is going to facebook & others.
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Thinking it through, I think a happy middle ground would be to have a 'this is political' button that, after a certain threshold, would flag the post as 'political', and would only be visible to those who have 'show_political' enabled in their profile.
> that it is one giant bubble, and the people living in that bubble don't comprehend what it is like to not be in it.

It's the same at other places. Apple and Microsoft have constantly had that claim made about them.
Being enlisted in the military is a job with pay & benefits.

More importantly, this is what Glenn said in response:
https://library.osu.edu/documents/ohio-congressional-archive...

Unclear how editing Glenn's own words pays him any respect.
I thought this might be interesting to see how many different types of freelances on on here.

Me personally I don't, but I've been thinking about starting.

Any recommendations of where to start looking for information on freelancing. other than fill out an upwork profile.
OVH is French-speaking too, so they will probably have the advantage for now.
That's the last of the Original Seven from the Mercury program.
I'd rather not share the actual repo, it's a mess and also has some semi-private stuff in it. At some point, I may go through and clean some of this up and publish it, but for the moment it really is an extension of my brain--imagine publishing a feed of your thoughts directly to the world (Twitter notwithstanding).

I can, however, give you an idea of how it works. There are many personal wiki programs out there; I settled on Zim[1] as it stores everything in plain-text files and supports a basic markup. On my phone I have the repo set up with Pocket Git[2], and I view it with Coastline[3] (which is just an arbitrary text editor; I don't mind reading the Zim syntax). The Git repository is stored on BitBucket[4] since they offer free private Git hosting, though I now have my own VPN and am considering moving the repo there. Syncing is done periodically (roughly once a month) by committing, merging, and pushing, usually with a few minor edit conflicts to the more popular pages.

Pages are organized into a very loose and fluid hierarchy; for the most part I put things someplace that seems reasonable and then periodically merge, split, and move pages when they grow too unwieldy. The major parts of the hierarchy are:

- Project:(Active/Complete/OnHold): major projects (anything from Barcamp2015Presentation[5] to NewCellphone to BetterWorld[6]) get a page, which collects a narrative about the progress of the project, a summary of the current state, and any relevant links or quotes; this page may have subpages as well.

- Entity:* collects links for anything related to someone or some company I've been involved with; mostly this is backreferences to projects I've worked on for them etc. For example, Entity:Person:JohnSmith could link to Project:Complete:JohnMidiController for a side project I did for a friend.

- Hardware:* collects everything hardware-related, for example Hardware:Computers:RaspberryPi has links to pinout diagrams and the like.

- Software:* collects software-related pages, with subsections for Software:Protocols, Software:Programs, and a smattering of loose pages.

- Snippets:* covers code snippets, such as Snippets:Bash, Snippets:Python, and so on.

This covers about 75%; the other 25% is somewhat less organized and consists of things like fiction ideas, links that don't fit anywhere else, the aforementioned LifeSkills namespace, and Miscellaneous:Quotes:FunnyPhrases ("you there, wear these groceries"[7], "Turns out I'd just existed inconveniently at you"[8]).

Hopefully this rather long post answers your questions, but let me know if there's anything more you'd like to know.

[1]: http://www.zim-wiki.org/

[2]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aor.pocket...

[3]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rumsunrise...

[4]: https://bitbucket.org/

[5]: http://www.linestarve.com/blog/post/A-Mad-Scientists-Guide-t...

[6]: A Grand (Semi-)Unified Plan for improving everything, encompassing BetterUserInterface to BetterGovernment to BetterEconomy.

[7]: http://www.wildelifecomic.com/comic/195#comment-2550773663

[8]: http://suburbanjungleclassic.com/?p=1207
I had a management visa linked to opening a company in the US in 2010. It sucked, because the company was so successful we sold it (for a nice profit), then I became aware that the US basically treated me as an illegal immigrant 10 days after my job finished. This is normal there - you have no stability in the US as an immigrant worker unless you go the green card route, which was never something I wanted to do personally (as an AU/DE/NZ citizen).

My first question would be why do you want to go to the US as this is a more important question for figuring out an appropriate strategy.

IMHO, honestly there's not much point in going to the US these days. You can get superior access to capital in China, superior access to far cheaper western education in Australia, New Zealand or Europe, and equivalent earning potential jobs in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the UK.
I think it's good to have society influence military recruitment towards practicing integrity.

That will be secondary to fulfilling requirements to recruit an extra few thousand servicemembers to fulfill a military objective, e.g. The Surge in Iraq. Congress and the Executive will demand results if the military isn't keeping up with recruitment.

I see military service potentially fulfilling all of a person's ideals/goals, but this is primarily based off of that person's willingness to work hard, exploit opportunities, and luck. I could have mixed up the importance of those qualities, maybe luck is the most important.
Isn't that because you're using Edge, which doesn't support ActiveX?

You can't use acrobat with the browser you're trying to download it with.

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/display-pdf-in-browser...
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I have been expecting a single central computing unit which serves as a phone, docked to a living room computer serves as a media player and gaming console for about two decades now (I believe my first article in Hungary's biggest computer monthly outlining this vision was published in 1998). Eventually it will happen. It's too logical not to.
I am not a lawyer, but getting something like this in requires that you have a very strong hand in your negotiation position with potential investors. If you have dozens of investors all competeting to put money into your startup and you don't need the best valuation, then you are in a position to ask for this, otherwise it is just going to be another reason for investors to pass.

Very few startups are in a position to negotiate super-voting shares - it is a bit like a group of teenagers in new punk band worrying about what they are going to do with all the millions they will make when they release their first record.
If you want to keep the repl running this is fine, but for scripts, you should be using planck[1] or lumo[2]. Planck in my experience has nice command-line args parsing by default, both should be fast enough not to be annoying when running scripts.

[1] http://planck-repl.org
[2] https://anmonteiro.com/2016/11/the-fastest-clojure-repl-in-t...
It's fine if you keep the good, throw out the bad and make some improvements. But very often the good parts get forgotten, like the roundness.
Make this platform "extendable" - a la Motorola and Moto Z Droid - and MS might be on to something. It's silly how much redundant hardware each of us own.

It's then just a matter of apps. If that's dev once for all Win 10, then the future looks bright.
It might be simpler than that. Array syntax is not built in in Haskell therefore the array implementation needn't be built in.
I've nothing to add to the thread.
Just wanted to say nice idea, it might have revenue potential if allowed for branded themes for companies. Maybe a paid level for encryption and document sharing etc.
Possibly a more action oriented name rather than Locus too, something that encapsulates the nature of the service.
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I think the Google voice recognition service (triggered by "Ok Google") on my phone already does something similar.

When I used to say to call a particular person, it would ask "which number, home or mobile?", for example. Over time, I usually always ask for the same number for a particular contact (mobile), and it learned that when I ask for the first name of the contact, it usually always means a specific contact.

So whereas initially I had to say the full name and pick a number, now all I say is "Call <first name>" and it starts dialing the exact contact I wanted. It also knows that this first name is my wife... so I can even say "call my wife" and it also works.

This lends credence to the model you're describing, and maybe that's exactly how it will work in the future. I think machine learning sorts this out quite well.
I can never tell anything about person's mind without giving him a chance to work 2-3 months

I would enjoy such a relaxed pace.
I wondered how SVB was getting around the know-your-customer regulations. It appears they aren't :(
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Funny, Microsoft used to talk this way in the 90s when IE and Windows ruled the roost. While they are still strong, they do now appear to worry more about financial discipline. Worrisome predictor for today's darlings?