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tbh you're preaching to the choir here, i believe in 2-parent models for the sake of spending more time with the child and nurturing it better.

that said, ill add that single parents of the past are often a result of a broken house hold. the single parents of the future will do so by choice, this will give rise to interesting dynamics, i think.

it isn;t replaced by anything right now, but crises leads to break through, we might/(most likely will?) deal with is, as nature would have us, by either coming up with a new paradigm, or breaking then reverting to (a better?) version of the old.

maybe im an optimist, but ive seen so much shit, and the world is knee deep in shit these days that i need to believe that we'll make it.

to deal with this issue i personally would suggest community (kibutz style?) child care, which ironically echoes a communist tint, to deal with time-not-spent with children. top that with corporate/workplace restructuring (ala sweden with mandatory father-time as well as mandatory mom-time off for birth) and we'd be on our way.

one issue i do see is old age and loneliness. i see so many lonely old people here in europe. for now, females are growing older and finding it more difficult to find a partner after choosing not to marry. the men are reluctant to take an older woman as a partner, and while i understand hypergamy, im not sure i understand why the older men are not taking mid-30-smth women as partners.

also, i dont understand why can't couples marry and support each other's careers and just have kids later. is it so unnatural? it might boil down to the socioeconomics of hypergamy, which is a thought that leaves a bitter taste in my mouth, to think that our females are "programmed" as such is no comforting notion.
People use more Windows laptops than Mac laptops everywhere. Apple's marketshare is like 25%.
Note that in the case of Stripe, the site doesn't hold onto "financial information" per se - they hold onto tokens where Stripe is the holder of the information, and they can't access the card number or CVV after it's been sent to Stripe - so all fraudulent transactions would have to be requested through that Stripe account.
I wonder why it is that articles like this, which cover issues relevant to heterosexual middle aged white men are never flagged as 'political' when they appear on Hacker News?
This sort of occasional oversized impact is not limited to economics. Take bsdiff for example: I wrote it because I was a poor university student and wanted to make sure usage of FreeBSD Update didn't push me beyond my free bandwidth tier; making updates faster wasn't really a priority (the speedup from downloading binaries vs. recompiling dwarfed everything else) and I wasn't at all sure if anyone else would want to use bsdiff. It turns out that bsdiff has now saved thousands of lifetimes of people waiting for software updates to download.

Even a small impact becomes huge if you scale it up to billions of users.
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By that logic, isn't iOS byproduct of OS X? I think people are overblowing the situation. I still rember Snow Leopard being best desktop OS I have ever used, but Sierra is still far far in front of Windows, and I realized that just when I sat in front of the computer with Windows 10 on it.
Ask HN: What can I learn now to get a job programming in 6 months/year?
Looking through job boards and listed requirements, I'm at loss: If I were to plan and learn some technology to get started to work in programming, what would they be?

Additional/Personal info----

If there are varied options, I'd like to optimize for those that would most likely to grantee me a job and/or best salary - given the time-frame.

I live in NYC. I already know basics/intermediate C++, less Python and less java and have familiarity in working in linux, taken undergrad level data-struct course, discrete math course, taking algo course -from low level university and overall poor GPA. General intelligence level: in range of [slightly below to street-average]. Interpersonal communication and corporate-speak level: projected: significantly less than average. No previous jobs/internship experience. I do occasionally program simple personal-use projects for fun but they wouldn't impress anyone. I've also learned that -just learning core language as I have -is more or less useless by itself, so any specifics on frameworks or libraries would be most helpful. /blog

(Ideally I'd prefer -a clear list of general subject/matters to learn towards a programming job in a year, this post to be not flagged and be receiving serious replies)
I will second this. I have two of these very cheap VPSes from OVH mentioned in the article, one in France and one in Québec, and in my experience they have been very reliable and have good performance for their price. In my experience, for "hobbyist" use cases having more RAM is more important than having a 1 Gbps connection - most of the time your stuff will not be that popular to the outside world, but you might want to experiment with different tools which will explode if you only have 512 MB of RAM (as Vultr offers on their new 2.50$ plan).

I will also second the comment on the confusing offerings of OVH, though. Their three brands are one thing, the other thing is that even their main OVH website looks totally different (with different products being offered) depending on which country you select on the top right. I have the feeling they are working on this right now (their different country websites are beginning to look more and more similar), but it can be really confusing. Also, chances are high that you will end up in some French configuration menu eventually. (I can understand that they will find this a bit unfair, as all the other players of course can just develop their websites in their native language and don't have to worry about this. But still it's not that professional.)

On the other hand, for a German test I find it interesting that they didn't include netcup, which also offers very cheap and high-quality VPSes from Germany (although they suffer from the same confusion regarding their websites - when you switch to English the products are different and for some reason much more expensive than on the German version).

And then, of course, there is also time4vps.eu if you want to go really cheap.
That was definitely not possible on Windows XP version of Minesweeper, they would regenerate the board if you clicked on a bomb in the background and used that one instead.
Last time I tried that they needed a card on file to pay with bitcoin. Sigh.
Hoarding of inner city land occurs because inner city land is valuable and naturally scarce. It is valuable because it is possible to leverage it to effectively levy a privatized tax on others for its use (rent).

Gold is also hoarded and not used because it is scarce and valuable, not regulation. It feels odd to have to point that out.

There is basically one (good) solution to this problem: tax land values higher (e.g. raise property taxes). That doesn't eliminate scarcity but it reduces the incentive to hoard and it reduces speculation. Increased land value (which in cities is created by the community) would instead accrue to the community via taxes. Hoarding and not using land would lead to heavy losses.

Property investment would become more of a normal business where high quality construction matters more than making lucky gambles (like the kind that made Trump rich).
I think you should also add another table for hosting services that offer load-balancing.

I read recently that Digital Ocean added that but not sure about the others. It is one of the reason why we're still on AWS.
One of my perennial favorite HN comments: you, the professional reverse engineer, could not possibly do what you do. I've never tried to do it, but I know you can't.
Maybe I misunderstand the parent? He says "You can't find women unless you have a job, while women have made outstanding progress in education and the workforce, and for some reason they have a hard time dating people who have a less comfortable situation than themselves" - I'm interpreting the core of his argument as "men have an inordinately difficult time finding a mate if they are significantly lacking in social status." I disagree with this fundamentally - my assertion is that the most reliable and broadly applicable way of attracting women is to be charismatic, and that charisma is a trainable skill. Does this clarify things, or am I still offbase?

e: a broader point that I touch on in other comments is that the bar to having a partner in general is low-to-nonexistent. However, doing the above opens up the most options.
e2: Yes, having status also expands options. However, it's neither broadly applicable nor helps maintain the long term emotional bond. Parent expressed frustration at the economic tension involved in middle class relationships. The answer to this is emphatically not wealth or status, as relationship-wise, that only trades one class of stressors for another.
This is a great article but only really covers half the issue. The other half is why journalists should use secure messaging applications, and not email.

Sometimes the most succesful attacks are phishing attacks that no device will protect against. As an example, it is rumored that John Podesta used an iPad.
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That is so cool! Thanks for bsdiff.
I'm using similar plan from Ramnode as a sandbox for 2 years already and very happy about it. Ramnode is a highly underrated hosting provider but it has the outstanding support and great features/speed/reliability. I'm not using it for production though.
ptaipale is the one who made the assertion, the onus is on him to provide evidence, not the person questioning the assertion.
> GPUs are still niche compared to CPUs, GPGPUs even more so, and AI specialization is a fraction of that.

Yes, that's definitely AMD's thought process. The apocryphal IBM quote "There's a world market for perhaps only five computers" is why they're wrong.

My main point is this: AMD needs a new CEO; they had an opportunity that they've completely fumbled so far; this piece is so much fluff. You're free to disagree of course, but I don't think my opinion on this is going to change based on your arguments.

> If you're that confident of the market being so absurdly off base, some simple bets should put you in the Forbes 400 within a year or two. Get on it.

I'd be buying put options if the market couldn't stay irrational longer than I could stay solvent. Unfortunately the quality of their decisions as a company has nothing to do with their stock price right now. They were priced right a year and a half ago.
> I wonder how many individuals there are in the world who have sufficient space for this, something to use it for, and the ability to maintain it? A bit like musing about the potential global demand for high-end yachts.

I can see someone like Wayne Coyne buying it and getting plenty of use out of it, but I'm not sure if he's got quite "fuck you money" enough to pay the inevitable selling price.
> First, they were a computer company driven by a man who loved computers ("first" here is the Jobs return era) ... then they became a Computer company who also made a phone.

You missed the most important stages in between: when they became a company that made cute, candy-colored computers that would match your Volkswagen New Beetle, then when they made a totally awesome mp3 player you could get to match it.
Do you know why AMS is faster than FRA (ping- and speed-wise), although FRA is quite a lot closer to me physically?

What was your experience since you are in Germany too?
Thanks. I will
> Work to change the cultural baggage around one's value being tied to one's day job. Make it sexy to be a poet, writer, singer, househusband, whatever, derive personal/interpersonal value from something other than a career. (And again, work at a local level to make it OK not to have a big thriving career, since it's not gonna happen for a lot of folks.)

I really hate (nothing personal) this "wishful-thinking" type of activism ("we really need to do...!". You want to change women's sexual preferences? How, through CRISPR? How will you "work at a local level" to make fat 50 year olds with high school diplomas more attractive to women?

> "men are worth something because of their career" is broken, and will never come back

Instead of saying that, how about saying that everybody, including 50 year olds in mainland America, deserves the opportunity of a good job? It's like saying "fat people should be just as attractive" instead of just losing weight.

The current situation is not a refutation of "men are worth something because of their career", just a confirmation. It doesn't "have to come back", because it never left. This is how it has been, is, and will be. You're saying men without ambition or money are entitled to relationships, which they're not. Some people just can't compete, doesn't make the competition obsolete.
Impact of adolescent marijuana use on intelligence
I swear i ran into a clone of that game for either DOS or early Windows at some point. Would love to find it again.
Some of it seems like overkill. Now that Google Cloud Shell is a thing, the correct answer for small teams of people who are not security engineers is usually just "chromebook".
For us the requirement is hourly billing and being able to get a working machine within a minute, so no Netcup :). Also, only the network test was performed mainly in Frankfurt. All other tests were Frankfurt, Strasbourg, Haarlem (Location 1) and New York, NJ, NJ, Canada, Paris (Location 2)
I'll take the Pepsi challenge for unorthodox views with you anyday. Go train on Twitter.
Cooking for the Pope
Depends on the drug of course, but since the vast majority of these substances are both highly addictive and also severely impact your ability to operate heavy machinery, people who test positive for (certain types of) drugs are obviously more of a liability on a factory floor. I don't think it's stupidity that makes employers hesitant in this case.
For "PC" (laptop and desktop), the market share of Apple worldwide is somewhere between 6% and 10%. Linux is ~ 1 to 2%. The rest is mainly Windows.

Interestingly I could not found Germany on http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/ but here is Switzerland which have one of the highest OS X penetration of the world (the highest?)

http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/switzerlan...

I don't have the figures for laptop only, but I don't believe for 1s that OS X is above Windows in any country (of a non-trivial size)

Maybe in certain extremely local areas, you see a highest concentration of mac laptops. Even then, I challenge you to count carefully and come back to us if you still find that mac laptops are more common than laptops running Windows. Of course there are some factors that can bias in favor of mac laptops, depending of where you look at. However, while that can be interesting from a socio-economical POV, keep in mind that Windows market share is, on average, consistently largely superior to OS X, regardless of if running on desktop or laptop computers.
That person will always be the "Goldman alumni" or the "ex-Googler". Couple that with a semi-prestigious degree and they'll be set.
Jeff Bezos on the importance of expanding into the solar system
Mmm. I'm sure our marketing would like to know why it feels strange. Would you care to state it even if it feels obvious to you?
Do you have any of their cheap ($10/month) instances? I follow them for some time and the cheapest ones are always out of stock.
What's your ISP?
So to prove your point, you take a non-standard folder view on OSX, and a non-standard view on Windows to make the mac look simple and the windows version look convoluted.

A+

While you can argue about whether or not the option to modify folder settings belongs within that window or on a title bar, taking screenshots like that is dishonest, at best.
I'm from New Zealand and we are having the exact same problem in our largest city, Auckland.

It's now at about 20% Chinese population as well.

I have no problem with immigration and foreigners buying houses, but they are making it basically impossible for the average Kiwi to consider purchasing in Auckland, and it is somewhat of a problem when a single group has been allowed to purchase in such intensity in a single area.

The wider New Zealand population is quite angry about it, but the government seems to be denying a problem. The problem was they were happy taking in foreign money, with complete disregard for the inevitable consequences.

They are now going to be implementing much increased tax on foreign buyers to try and stop the problem.
As a Linux/Windows developer, Swift remains a toy language as it cannot be used to do develop useful applications for Linux and Windows, where I make all of my money.
Some variant of the Apple II sold into the early 90s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIGS
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Explicit backdoors are a tiny part of the risk you are exposed to, so even if the risk of a undiscovered backdoor in a product is higher than in another, it can still be more secure overall. The article we are commenting on explains quite a few points counting in favor of iOS. An adversary doesn't care about backdoors if the thing you use has plain old unplanned vulnerabilities they can exploit instead.
Merci bien.
You can both be correct depending on sampling.

UK Birmingham: 0700 trains to London (corporate types), Thinkpads, Dells and a few HP laptops all with Excel/Outlook in operation. A few hours later (students and younger people), it changes to tablets and Macs. Mostly watching films or doing Web stuff. And lots of phones.

I'd imagine a large percentage of Windows licenses in any country are for desktops sitting in offices (1000+ in my fairly small organsation alone).
The last time I got a referral from an old co-worker, it got me past the resume screen and no farther. The rest of the interview was identical to what you'd face if you had applied cold off the street. YMMV.
My family is fully invested in the Mac and iPhone ecosystems for productivity. I recently purchased a 2012 Mac Pro. It was easy to justify as my wife is a photographer and uses the Mac versions of Photoshop and Lightroom.

I forgot how awesome it is to have a desktop/server online all the time at home and how much performance I had given up for the convenience of a laptop.

The lack of a used market for the 2nd generation (2013+) Mac Pro leaves me frustrated, but it's no surprise given that it was targeted for the designer niche and the rest of the desktop market has largely been subsumed by laptops.

I'm really encouraged by the growth of the Hackintosh community and all of the problems they have solved. That will likely be my next computer.
An information leak is an information leak : we still fail to realise that it's something that's happening daily.
There's no drama in it.

Criminals are taking advantage of opportunities like this every day, still no one cares too much about it (HN bubble & friends excluded).

Things like this may have a strong impact or not in the press/popularity circus,
but in this particular case it seems they promptly monitored the situation (thanks to their competent staff).

What most surprises me is that their highly competent staff is thoughtlessly violating one of the security principles in sw :
SECURITY BY ISOLATION .

No one (no matter how able you are) can write absolutely bug-free algorithms :
even when dealing with formal verified software you can still attack the assumptions.

Security by correctness is a laudable effort, but computing customers data with a single process is not sane.
I'm aware they're doing this for performance reasons, but a well implemented isolation layer would have prevented this (even while dealing with a bug like that).

Their architecture is vulnerable.
You seem to be under a mistaken impression of what this site is about. HN exists for the gratification of intellectual curiosity. That's not the same thing as following the political latest, critical though the issues of the day may be. Since HN can't be both kinds of site, this is an important distinction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Marinus van der Lubbe, the man who set the Reichstag fire, at one point tried to cross on foot from the Netherlands into the Soviet Union. He had a varied life story, full of bizarre ideas and aborted plans, that I stumbled on here: https://joepwritesthehistoryofberlin.wordpress.com/2013/06/0...
Ah, okay, I overlooked the "spin up a new virtual machine within seconds" in the article, sorry for that, and the requirement of multiple locations makes sense too! That way the choice of providers makes much more sense to me (as it also excludes Hetzner, for example).
Thanks for this comment. I was about tell my team to investigate Vultr as an option for our next website, but I guess we'll first do some more research into this.

We're still on AWS too. Currently spending about $50 / site which adds up quite quickly when you have 20+ sites. Our current breakup is something like (2 x t2.micro - one for website, one for cron created using Elastic Beanstalk, 1 x db.t2.micro for RDS + Elastic load balancer cost). I'm sure we can bring it down to $10 / site if we were to move to Vultr or Scaleway but it's a very small site to pay for the reliability AWS has provided to us all these years (apart the recent S3 outage). So guess we'll too just stick to AWS for now until.
You know what fans (the real ones) do? They try to know more about the thing they are fans of, and to understand it. Your comment shows nothing of the kind.
boys suck at school not because boys are bad at school, it's because school sucks and is today fine tuned for women.

there's a distinct need to revise all schooling before it's too late, tbfh. the men of old were very well educated, those who could get an education. but it was a harsh education, so the world today isn't willing to deal with it.

if boys sucked so much at reading and writing, we wouldn't have had all those male authors or male scientists. the system's whacked now, and it'll crash and crumble before it's fixed, especially in germany with their switch to MBAs, worsening school systems, and neglect of young boys (have nothing against trying to push women forward, just don't forget the boys)
Interesting read. OS X and magsafe are the only things I believe Apple did right. With their overpriced proprietary hardware, awful EFI implementation, and lacking opengl and Vulkan support, why would I want a MacBook?
The good news is "to get lobbed our way" doesn't mean much to a culture that can do distributed projects all over a solar system. A problem along the lines of whats the ideal cannonball size to genocide the common mosquito?

There is also a really nice MAD effect where the window where you can hit a solar system without getting hit back is extremely short, like a century perhaps. Longer than that and we send a probe to the cannonball and turn it into diffuse gray goo that the solar wind blows away when it enters the system, and we return fire 1000 times over, so any logical civilization would send in the asteroid weapons much earlier, like the first time they sniff RF transmissions or the first dark side of the planet electric lights.
I don't think your analogy is very compelling; if a regular person untrained in driving race cars bought a new race car, crashed it on the way to the grocery store, and then blamed the car rather than their lack of experience driving race cars, I'd definitely find it a bit silly.
While we only have a sample of 1 (Earth), we have do millions of samples of interspecies behavior that lean strongly to conflict, and often the cooperation isn't necessarily pleasant for one species either.