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Ask HN: How has having a criminal history affected your career?
Throwaway account. However I wanted to get a feeling for how any of you have dealt with your criminal history (if you have one) and how it had affected your career.

When I was 18 I was arrested for being a stupid kid and was initially charged with armed robbery. When I was arrested, I was facing 15 year sentence w/ a mandatory 5. The charges were ultimately reduced to grand theft where I was subsequently assigned probation for 4 years and a couple hundred community service hours.

I got extremely lucky, finished my community service hours within 7 months, landed a job (was a requirement, although it took nearly ~70 job applications to get one) and was able to get off probation by the end of the first year by representing myself in court for an appeal of my probation.

The experience really shattered my life (especially immediately right after getting arrested) but threw me full force into programming since I had so much free time (couldn't leave the county, had regular checkups by my PO, and was literally just fearful of law enforcement in general).

It's been 10 years since, and I'm happy to say that I've been extremely lucky that I haven't (to my knowledge) been denied a job because of my past. Although it has come up nearly every time I've landed a job. I've been able to get around it by just talking to them about the situation.

This post is inspired by the recent 70millionjobs launch [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14911467].

To me, support DURING the after math of being arrested, would have been a lot more beneficial to my overall wellbeing. When on probation or parole the system literally feels like you're setup to fail, and requires a state of organization and perseverance I've never required in my life before it.
The page shows an error message that the shop isn't connected to your domain yet.

AFTER you uploaded your products you can submit the page to https://news.ycombinator.com/show (basically use "Show HN: <your website description>" as title)

(That said personally I don't see how a generic Shopify shop about huts are relevant/new/innovative to the HN audience.)
I agree. I got deja-vu of a 90s-style "click here to enter my site!" from that landing page.
The quote is fine, but the attribution to "people" rather than an individual is frankly odd. Multiple people said that exact same quote? I believe one person on Twitter originated it.
Let's take a family with two employed parents. They may commute with two sedans to work because either of them might need to pick up the kids or go shopping at a given time.

That's at least one sedan that could be replaced with a ridesharing or 1/2-seater commuter vehicle (based on preference and how shared the route is) and freed up once they're at work. The one that needs to pick up kids can call one a N minutes in advance when they leave work.

Also consider that kids may need to be picked up less often as they grow up and might even be allowed to call their own vehicles as needed, thus freeing up the parents and the need for a sedan. So as the time-window becomes shorter where a family vehicle is needed to be available 24/7 it may become a lot cheaper not owning one.

Autonomous vehicles might also have an indirect impact on shopping behavior if delivery to the home will become cheaper, again reducing the need for large vehicles to transport groceries and other purchases.

There is a lot of optimization potential. But I'll grant that this might take more time to percolate through society longer than tesla can ride on debt, so in the near term they certainly will have to keep delivering owned vehicles.

What I was really aiming for is that the timeframe for tesla to become a global player holding a large fraction of the market share may also be the timeframe for autonomous vehicles to transform the entire transportation sector.
Show HN: Redux middleware to sync state with cookies
Here's a bigger picture of the jellyfish tracker shown in the article: http://goldbogen.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/m_p...

As it turns out, they actually glued it to the jellyfish.
A few questions, just out of interest: Was it raw? What does it taste like? Where in China did you eat it and is it common there?
Thanks for the advice. I've edited the blogpost.
But technically he
/she is the chief technology officer
> This presumes using a framework. Why create a grid system with bootstrap, vs just creating a grid using the CSS that all current browsers support?

Speaking from agency world, big win for Bootstrap it's that its so much more than grid system, so once app is exposed to client's IT, they are able to pick it up and build upon it easier than they would've been able to with custom components.
Also, I am planning to create a dedicated page for the book. I'll likely submit it to HN right before the launch of the printed book.
How I Made $290,000 Selling Books
Gene editing isn’t about designer babies, it’s about hope for people like me
You will most likely need to work on maintaining your monopoly, but having a monopoly position in a small market allows you to extract above average profits without attracting competition. This is the path to quiet success.

From a lifestyle perspective it is much better to be a small fish in a small pond than a big fish in big pond filled with sharks.
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Ask HN: Best OS for a slow netbook?
I have an Acer Aspire One 722-C6Ckk, which has 4GB of RAM, AMD C-60 APU at 1 GHz (apparently it's dual core but I actually think it's a single core with multi threading, but with "modules" instead of threads, as AMD used to do earlier).

It's from 2012. It's HDD died so I put in an SD to CF and then a CF to SATA adapter and put in a 32GB UHS-1 SD card and I upgraded it's battery to 6 cells and put in a new keyboard (but white because it was cheaper) since the old one wore out too much and keys popped off, and it seems like a nice computer, but IT'S SO SLOW!

Windows 10 is unbearable, Windows 7 is also very slow, Starter edition used to be better but it only supports 2GB of RAM and I have 4GB so it seems like a waste. It only works acceptably on old Linuxes like Ubuntu 10.04 or 12.04 but not anything newer, even with 14.04 it's too slow. [tried with xfce and lxde, unity won't even run properly on it]

With Windows XP is nice and fast but that OS is so ancient I don't wanna touch it with a 5 meter stick let alone run it on a laptop.

By slowness I mean it takes long to load websites in Firefox, it takes long to boot, scrolling is unresponsive, etc., I used to use Zorin OS Lite when it was so lightweight but that was 6 years ago, nowdays it's much heavier and slower.

I wish there was a Linux like Windows XP, not in looks but in speed. Something old but supported... I'm currently installing Ubuntu Server 64bit on it and will try to install some openbox GUI or something, but I don't have high hopes...

My ultimate plan is to give this laptop to my dad, but I simply cannot give him something so slow I cringe every time I have to boot it up.

Is there anything I don't know, or has this world just abandoned all old hardware, and nowdays you need a Core i5 and 16GB of RAM just to run Windows 10 and Chrome... ?
Most people don't do what you are doing with PGP. In other words you are not in the demographic they are targeting. For their target demographic (people who don't use crypto, or use it poorly), what they are doing is much better than what the people have now.
I feel like I am in the future.
Same with:

> It is thought to be named after a mythological creature.

This article has some interesting framing issues. Aside from being simply incorrect in this case.
Are you suggesting that bitcoin exchanges keep a fractional reserve? Nonsense.

Also, there's no requirement that you keep your coins in an exchange unless you're, well, exchanging them. That's kinda the point.
While you might be right about some species, the ones typically eaten are actually as 'soft and squishy' as one would expect.

The firm texture that jellyfish has when eaten comes from it being dried and salted, and then only partially dehydrated.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellyfish
I like the idea of looking up Fiverr and Upwork. For several projects I have in mind, I have seen an obvious need for 1 company / party. The question I always had was whether there are more companies who need it and are their needs similar enough.
This is exactly the right strategy but finding big enough problems can be an issue.

I asked this question in Hacker News two years ago.

What problem in your industry is a potential startup.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799007

It was a very interesting experience and I wrote an essay about some of my findings.

https://medium.com/black-n-white/the-problem-with-problems-4...
interestingly this can only works on x86 due to it being a TSO architecture. windows on ARM must be doing something else since it's weakly ordered.
Is it off-topic though? Go has warts and is plagued by poor design decisions, just like most software. I think it is worth mentioning those, and offering recommendations that don't have those issues, so people can make the best technical decisions when choosing a stack for their projects. It also may help Go maintainers in fixing legitimate complaints in Go, thus making it better. I've never used Rust, but I have used Go, and found certain things about it unappealing, so I'm interested in this information, and I'm also interested in Go improving.
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Why would anyone want ubiquitous flying cars?

Look up. Imagine that instead of seeing the sky, all you see is the undercarriage of loud flying cars with people flicking cigarettes, fast food packaging or vomiting out of their windows. Imagine a traffic jam, which would rob us peon pedestrians a view of the sky.
Oh great. Yet another person who throws Buzzfeed under the bus without actually reading their articles.

Have you ever even read their news articles? They are of a much higher standard than anything The Independent has ever put out.
A step by step explanation of Floating Point in Binary (2017)
I'm siding with baybal2 on this one. No matter how much you're wishing to use your favourite language on the Web, WASM is at best unnecessary, as the kind of application it enables (near-native speed) can be had with ordinary native apps as well. Why does something like that have to run in the browser? The only reason I can think of is because software/game publishers want to control your usage even more.

But it doesn't stop there: the worst possible outcome of WASM is that entire custom browser runtimes are being pushed to you [1]. Say goodbye to content linking, sharing, saving, translation, accessibility, ad blocking, etc. Not to mention content will only work on the bundled WebKit version.

WASM is user-hostile and anti-Web. What does it even mean that W3C "approved" a working group? I thought WASM was a WHATWG thing. W3C shouldn't lend what's left of its credibility to it.

[1]: https://trevorlinton.github.io/
Surprised no one has suggested replacing permissions display with emoticons.
The more complex the solution, the easier it is to lock it in permanently. People don't want to learn a new complex thing. Note that this means the minimal complexity (or close to it). If you implement something that could be simple, and you make it complex, someone else will come along and make it simple and kick your ass at market.

Imagine you've got a warehouse automation system (this is not an example of a $25 million dollar business, just an example of a problem that has no simple solutions) that is ten times as efficient for employees as the current pad-and-paper solution. If you arrive first and lock in that industry with the market leaders in owning warehouses, you don't have to worry about a competitor coming along five years later with a system that is eleven times more efficient than pad-and-paper and that costs 20% less than your system. It cost the company a half a million dollars to train all of their staff to use your system. It'd be crazy to migrate.

So...not a monopoly, but a comfortable lock on a significant portion of the market.
raises hand I've been doing 3D modeling and photo manipulation for over a decade. I learned to dismantle these illusions, focusing more on the "how" than the "wow". I've dabbled in making illusions. http://imgur.com/J3kSB1c
The github repo is called racket7: www.github.com/racket/racket7

First and foremost it will mean that much more of racket will be written in racket, and some in r6rs scheme.

If they can capitalize on chez's preformance that would be even better. It is really a state of the art compiler for GCd dynamic languages.
Reading stories like these really make me glad that I wasn't caught for stupid shit I did as a kid. It does make me worry about any future children I have though, with more and more stuff becoming a crime and the authorities penchant for punishment farther than rehabilitation it means they may not be as lucky as I was.
How is it different from “Web Assembly” (aka “wasm”) that has already started to gain support in major browsers[1]?

Edit: Found the answer myself. This is part of the same effort, as mentioned in the official website of Web Assembly[2].

[1] http://caniuse.com/#feat=wasm

[2] http://webassembly.org/roadmap/
I give you Python and Ruby as worse - shared memory and an interpreter lock to limit concurrent operations.

That said, Go is the best of the C-style concurrency breed; having typed message passing and green threads built into the language.
You can't force people to be happy, but you can strongly encourage them to contribute to the welfare of others, thus sustaining the conditions that give everyone a chance at happiness.
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> Your mom is an outlier.

That comment is funnier when you haven't read the parent comment. I imagine it as a statistician's snub.
How so? I don't really get the point of these device keys to be honest.

If anything it seems more complicated than what I'm proposing. People who don't use crypto will probably let keybase manage their private keys (at least at first) so this could be handled transparently.

I mean, you could turn it the other way around. If this system is confusing and unintuitive for somebody like me who is familiar with the details of asymmetric cryptography, how are less technical users supposed to figure it out and understand the trust model?

I doubt the average person on the street would understand what https://keybase.io/travisby/graph means.
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When this story broke yesterday, the BBC was describing him as a hero in their headline.
Not really. The German phone and power networks get quite close to this reliability. I've had less than 30 minutes combined downtime in my life.
When to hire a CxO
Clojure will affect the way you think about programming
They do look very nice. Can't wait to see the other two styles installed.
MDZhB” has been broadcasting since 1982. No one knows why
Your page is Wordpress based, uses a cache (based on HTML comments), all resources are already minified and there isn't much content on the front page.

I'd say use http://www.webpagetest.org/ and look at the time-to-first-byte metric. It may be that your hoster is slow or a hardware upgrade (different cache service, SSD) gets the highest speed boost. Are you using shared hosting and could another 100 websites be on the same server?

Update: asked a friend who works at a Wordpress hosting company. He recommended this guide: https://www.keycdn.com/blog/speed-up-wordpress
The main problem is that there's a lot of content that I like on Patreon, enough to give a small amount of money towards, but I don't like it enough to want to pay $40+ a month for it. And getting constantly beaten over the head with "why aren't you paying $40-60??" just leaves me cold. I know damn well why I'm not paying more, you don't have to remind me all the time.
This is the sort of thing that Silicon Valley (the TV show or the place) produces because they tend to be so out of touch with reality of 90% of the world's population.

It doesn't even grind the salt FFS.
It's probably good for the locals if wealthy people living outside the country don't buy up housing stock for use just in case their country goes to pieces.
It does not change anything substantial about the web today. It will just be a saner output format for compilers than javascript. Unless you write compilers, nothing changes.

It does not matter weather your language compiles to JS or WASM, and it does not matter what the browser executes.
Yeah, that set is a great one. I've noticed the scrolling effect too, it definitely intensifies the movement. I suspect the cause of the movement is the saccades shifting where it is in the visual field slightly, and scrolling is a much bigger shift.
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Damn, that tracker is huge! I'm surprised the thing can swim around with it.
Firefox and Safari also have it on Desktop: https://i.imgur.com/6lDFgIp.png
I have had overwhelmingly crappy support as well: initially verified, but then revoked and impossible to reinstate. identity verification uploads that are never satisfactory, or are "processing" indefinitely. laggy orders that cause price shifts in counterparties favor. messages to help desk that go unanswered.
"Globalization" has probably benefitted most of the people in the US, which is why most people like it. It has cost some jobs but it has also created other jobs and gotten us access to much cheaper goods and in balance is probably good overall (at least for me personally). It's probably to blame for some employment issues but for most of America employment is decently high and manufacturing (and also stuff like coal mining) jobs would probably be on the decline with or without globalization.
Well, I am guilty of using reiserfs selectively (and with research + design) and having a really good experience with it.
Maybe I should have done the same with btrfs but I took btrfs on faith and was burned.
Why not mining marijuana?
Yep. I wrote a piece for TechCrunch about this recently. There are a bunch of "Invisible Unicorns" in the startup world that have built businesses brick by brick, often without capital to start. They often have a compound interest like effect, the $1M business grows year after year and all of a sudden you have MailChimp, with a $400M ARR, which is completely controlled by its founders. Or Shutterstock, which went from bootstraps to a $2B market cap (and $1B for the founder alone).

These stories are often kind of boring. Who wants to build (or read about) a CRM for life sciences companies? Fortunately for Veeva shareholders, there was a founder who wanted to go after this $6B opportunity.

Or Guidewire Software, which powers insurer's ability to underwrite and turned a modest $29M in VC into a near $3B business.

In my post, I found 15 companies that I categorized under the heading "Blessed are the Boring." These are companies that build software to automation injection molding quotations, construction management, corporate event messaging, and have done quite well as a result.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/01/invisible-unicorns-35-big-...

It would be good if more startups studied their examples, rather than reading yet another profile on Elon Musk or Jack Dorsey.
Most of the governance board is in Europe:

http://www.mathoa.org/sample-page/governance-structure/

Depending on the country, the non compete will be invalid. e.g. UK where this would be listed as 'restraint of trade' if the previous publisher was not still paying the editors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause#Europe

Also, they're only valid within the same country so if the editors happened to move country then the non-compete would have been invalidated.
I'm not sure if it was raw but I think so.

It honestly doesn't taste like much. My friend bit into it first and thought it was disgusting but then the people in the restaurant gestured that we have to put soy sauce on it. So I only had it with soy sauce and it basically just tasted like soy sauce.

It was in Shanghai and we were just at a little non-touristy restaurant so I'd guess fairly common.

I actually have a gopro video of us eating it but the quality wasn't too great. Edit: Here's a gif from the video of my friend eating the jellyfish, he really wasn't a fan. http://imgur.com/a/gAAjW

It kinda looked like this:
https://www.foodnut.com/i/Little-Shanghai-Restaurant-San-Mat...

Source: https://www.foodnut.com/383/little-shanghai-restaurant-resta...
>The compiler can also be directed to perform whole-program compilation, which does full cross-library optimization and also reduces a program and the libraries upon which it depends to a single binary.

Does anyone know if this involves "tree-shaking" to remove unused code; or is it simply creating a binary with all dependencies as stated?
(La)TeX is great when you don't want to manually handle formatting your text. I loved writing LaTeX for the simple reason that I could focus on the content, rather than having to constantly work on the presentation. The markup was simple enough that it did not get in the way.

Barring technical problems I much prefer LaTeX to Word or LibreOffice Writer.
Does anyone have any knowledge/experience of brickblock.io?
Violent? Do you mean volatile?
Were you expecting bots to have more free speech rights than humans?
> I emailed them describing the problem and they emailed me back with the boiler plate suggestions about checking your spam folder that can be found on their support website. Which I explicitly said I had already tried in my support request.

I had a similar issue. I posted a clear support ticket, heard nothing for at least a day or two (probably longer) then got boilerplate about checking the support website. I replied saying I did and that the information on the support page couldn't be used to solve the problem. Nothing from Coinbase for a week, then another bot email saying they'll close the ticket unless I reply (again!) saying my issue was not resolved. This back and forth lasted over a month.

It reflects pretty poorly on them as a company and I really can't recommend using them as a result. The underlying support issue was related to their verification software. If their verification software doesn't work for some reason and their support is isn't focused/careful, then you're out of your account for more than a month.
Research Paper Makes the Case for a $5.8M Bitcoin Price
/r/iamverysmart is leaking
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The real question in my mind is if this is just one generation destroyed or spans multiple generations because Smartphones have become an addiction for even my parents.
Yes, absolutely. Most people aren't using it for the UI kit, but for its very powerful grid system, well understood semantics, and browser compatibility. The documentation is fantastic and it has been a boon for writing accessible front ends.
Working in higher ed, I'd say it's more likely your university is filtering it as spam before it ever hits your inbox. Bitcoin and it's ilk are giant red flags for over-protective systems. (I'm not endorsing it, just trying to give some advice).
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> I have wanted to start a personal dev blog myself for quite a while, but each time I think of a suitable topic, I immediately recall an article or a post that is already better than anything I could write myself on the matter.

Sounds like you should be curating a list.
I did this very thing a while back: http://atgreen.github.io/ggx/

The GNU toolchain sources haven't changed that much, so it may still be a useful reference.