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I used the example of "can't renew driver's license" because it's already something the government uses to punish people for failing to pay various fines or file various pieces of paperwork that have nothing to do with driving. You can't renew your license if you owe on your taxes and fail to file; you can't renew your license if you get caught riding the MTA without a transfer (until you pay the fine for that); etc. It's a general "the government won't do anything for you until you do something for it" manipulation tactic. (They'd probably stop your mail, too, if building the whitelist to let them keep mailing you wasn't a Sisyphean task.)

But I'm not really suggesting exclusion. I'm more suggesting a sort of... hold? A delay. Because, under this model, you will inevitably be able to vote; it'll just take time.

For example. Imagine attempting to register to vote, one day before the polls open, and finding yourself redirected to attending a two-week full-time paid-attendance civics course (that you can't get out of, just like you can't get out of jury duty; but that your employer legally can't fault you for attending, just like they legally can't fault you for attending jury duty.)

Now imagine you pass the course. The polling date went by while you were still in the course. But you still get to vote! Two weeks late! And the votes aren't actually counted, until the people who were delayed by the government's failure to educate them, get to vote.

Of course, that's a silly implementation; it's easier to just open and close registration two weeks earlier, such that you can't register on a date such that that date + 2wks would overlap the polling day. But I think it gets the point across the best: you're not punishing these people. You're sequestering them, like a hung jury—and you're not letting the mechanism of democracy move forward until you have heard their very important voices.
This is simple.

All you need to know is that men stand to gain more, genetically, by accumulating prestige and power. This is because there is no upper limit on how many children a given male can sire, whereas women are fundamentally limited in how many children they can bear. This wikipedia page starkly illustrates this difference (it is a list of the most prolific men and women, by number of offspring):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_the_most_c...

The most prolific woman is at 69 children. The most prolific men are in the hundreds to thousands. Also, most of the women on the list are not notable aside from having given birth to many children. But the men are almost all notable primarily for things other than having sired many children (the exception being a handful of sperm donors and fertility doctors).

> women have universally faired worse in societies

Have they? While they may not inhabit positions of power, women generally survive conflicts between clans, tribes, and nation states. Look to the genocide of the Yazidi at the hands of ISIS: the women are taken as sex slaves, which is terrible, but the men are all dead. This is the fundamental tradeoff between male and female (in humans): women have a narrower normal distribution and men have a wider one. So, women rarely do great, but they also die less often. A few men do incredibly well, but many more men than women die trying to climb the dominance hierarchy.
We built a closed network platform that encourages people to save and leave notes on places they've been to or want to try. We also don't use star ratings like GMaps or Yelp. Our approach for ratings is similar to that of Netflix. We want people rating their experiences for themselves and for their friends who they are connected to on Etch.
> The whole prestige of academia isn't access to information: internet has more academic content than any university

This is not the case at all for many fields. In my branch of linguistics, for example, the majority of important literature is not available online. A person cannot teach themselves this field; you need access to the print resources in a large library at a handful of universities. Now, since the dawn of ebook sharing sites, my colleagues and I have been gradually scanning resources and uploading them to Libgen or the like, but progress is slow and we have barely scratched the surface.
Underrated advice. As they say: "it's not what you make, it's what you spend". Personal expenses will inevitably determine financial stability, for the vast majority of folks.
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It is easy, just use setuptools and create your own setup.py then ./setup bdist_wheel and you have a single easy to deploy (pip install <package>, or put in an internal PyPi repo) package.

I especially encourage to use virtualenv too keep your application completely disjoint from the rest of your system. It really helps when in the future you decide to upgrade the OS.
Or you know, you don't have to be average and can do 300k * 60% consulting or doing some other slightly more ambitious method while still not living in the bay area.
this attitude will destroy the west
I don't think it ever went away in larger companies.

A few months back I was looking into tape hardware, and I was disappointed to find that the barrier of entry is too high for consumers with only dozens of TBs. Based on my calculations at the time, for my desired data size it ended up cheaper to just buy a bunch of HDDs.

How do HDDs compare to tape when it comes to long-term storage? I've read lots of mixed reports.
> If you listen to the same station again and again you
start to see a pattern. That's what the numbers monitors
and enthusiasts are very good at doing. Usually when that
pattern starts to emerge it fits the profile of the kind
of cypher called a one-time pad

What did I just read? A true one time pad by definition is truly random without any patterns.
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Java finally made it on my iPhone.
"Java uh.. finds a way." -Goldblum

This is actually pretty cool, though something about seeing my taskbar containing a window that contains an jvm that contains another window drawn in swing makes me think we've lost our way somewhat.. better we make the computers do it than rewrite everything by hand I suppose.
Vaadin [1], a fairly popular open-source Java UI framework, is still using GWT on the clientside, but it's more of an implementation detail given that the whole point of Vaadin is that you don't have to care about the clientside that much. And when you do, you can write your frontend stuff in Java. Of course that's less of a selling point than five years ago, and Vaadin has also been moving towards more easily interfacing with native JS code without GWT wrappers. (Disclosure: I'm a former Vaadin employee and core devteam member.)

https://vaadin.com/ [1]
this is a fallacy, at least in the bay. start-up salaries are lower because you're working for a start-up, and rents are exorbitantly high everywhere. even with roommates living in the living room, no car, and making your own meals will you be able to save money in the bay area.
Cleaning is not emotional labour, and the article doesn't claim so.

Being in charge of cleaning is the emotional labour.
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It is better to run components in separate containers instead of one container that runs everything together. You'll likely have a single proxy but multiple copies of application. Also, you don't need to deal with getting Envoy and Python application built together, or even care about how the Envoy image is built since you can use the provided one.
it's a carefully-curated roundup. I appreciate not everyone likes my style -- you can't please all the people all the time
The comic's author addresses this:

https://emmacliten.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/you-shouldve-...

https://emmacliten.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/you-shouldve-...

https://emmacliten.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/you-shouldve-...
And yet, he's 100% right.
It's also not sustainable since, you know, most people eventually start families and settle down. Roommates don't work then.

Even if that's not you, you have to realize that everyone else needs that option if we're going to have a functioning community.
OK, cool! In that case, I wish the article title was different, to reflect that the issues detailed in the article have all been fixed in TLS 1.3. I think it wasn't until the end of the first issue that "fixed in TLS 1.3" was mentioned.
>(cf. Volkswagen emissions scandal)

I'm not sure that was the best example for your point, the few untrustworthy people in Volkswagen did cause cars to not work as advertised. That's an example for not trusting any of their products anymore.
I wish they wouldn't have blocked out the email information. There's very little to verify this is legit.
That's an interesting comic and I enjoyed reading it, but wow those comments are hard to take..
it's all about aligning the tape consumption with the size of the arrays/tape storage so groups of tapes need to be rotated at the same time.

if done properly, it's as simple as grab this 'row' in the robot and replace it with this 'row' from the storage area - when not, it becomes a confusing hodgepodge of shelves and containers and which-tape-is-where.
If it's a conventional war and China has his back there's no guarantee he'd be overthrown or even killed. Assad is alive and well after all these years.

That said, nobody wants a land war in Asia (one of the Classic Blunders) so it would take a lot of stupidity to get there.
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Congratulations! Sounds like the 90s Java applet experience to me.
> "the package manager (NuGet) is pretty bad"

Have you had a chance to try Paket? It's meant to have overcome the common issues with NuGet, as well as provide new features that NuGet doesn't provide:

https://fsprojects.github.io/Paket/index.html
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Linux version?
"We have fulls in the cloud - and the initial seed took forever but we have a big pipe that made it feasible."

We (rsync.net) now have multiple customers that have allocated 1+ PB of storage and are using our 10gb connections[1] for the initial sync.

It's 1.2[2] cents per GB, per month but it's fully online, live, browseable storage - not a nearline/offline solution like glacier/nearline.

We'd be happy to serve you ...

[1] We use Hurricane Electric (he.net) for our connectivity in Denver, Fremont and Hong Kong.

[2] and dropping ...
How cool - it's also interesting that there are a handful of massive undersea plateaus marked on one of the articles' maps.

I wonder if it'd be possible to build a sealab on one of them; it looks like there are often small atolls nearby, and it could be a good environment for testing concepts related to building and maintaining livable underwater environments.
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People usually don’t express their goals. And what’s the harm in being defensive? If you’re wrong they c an explain that to you
> I don't think it ever went away in larger companies.

Or smart companies.

heck, I evaluated tape storage for personal use. It cost way less than I expected.
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And in some cases satisfy the need/desire despite it seeming unnecessary or illogical (or even problematic). This is something I struggle with immensely, and ironically for no logical reason!
I won't mind IntelliJ on the web - even if it takes some time to load, or CLion - which targets emscripten/webasm/something

Imagine a bit more powerful Chromebook with that..., but then where the files, projects, etc. would get stored?
After ~8 years living in the Bay Area (mostly Oakland & SF), I'm obliged to strongly disagree with you.
Prism is an American thing, not Chinese. Not really relevant here. Also:

> http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/01/21/nsa-leaker-edward-...

"Later leaks revealed that the NSA had created spyware targeted at the iPhone, which would have given intelligence services access to SMS messages, on-board data, live microphone feeds, and positioning information. It remains unclear how successful that program was, and Apple again denied involvement."

It seems likely the problem is resolved by now.

> Fappening occurred because Apple left the law enforcement backdoor open

No it didn't. https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/15/prosecutors-find-that-fapp...

"From the court documents, it became clear that the victims of Collins’ attack fell prey to a phishing scam. Collins allegedly sent e-mails to the victims that appeared to come from Google or Apple, warning the victims that their accounts might be compromised, and asking for their login details. The victims would enter their password information. Having gained access to the e-mail address, Collins was able to download e-mails, and get further access to other files, such as iCloud accounts."
Kind of throwing the baby out with the bathwater here...IKEA might still be great for you as long as you avoid all the subcontracted installation services? Unless you don't know or care to turn a screwdriver, I guess! :)
It depends on what you are doing. If you are trying to build something like a database kernel, you want people who have done it before, very specialized. There aren't lots of them outside of the tech hotspots.

I don't necessarily mean there aren't smart people outside of the hotspots, but there isn't the specialized skillsets that get built from working at the Microsofts / Googles etc. edit: In the number that you need.

Champaign obviously has lots of smart people (my parents went there), but you may have issues finding specialized senior people there.
How about freelancing? I've been doing that since 1995 -- and my income and happiness have never been higher.

Pros:
- Work on what you like, with the people you like
- Potentially very high salary, definitely more than you would get as an employee
- Want to work on side projects (e.g., software, books, and courses)? Go for it, and benefit from multiple income streams.

Cons:
- You're running a business. That requires time, as well as skills/knowledge (often learned the hard way) that are completely separate from programming.
- You have to market yourself (until you're good enough that people contact you). No marketing, no work. No work, no salary.
- It's harder to do when you're married and have children. (I started when I was single.)

In many ways, freelancing is like the "founder" described in the article. However, the article also talks about teammates and a financial plan (including funding). Plenty of successful freelancers make good money just by themselves (or maybe 1-2 junior people). And I definitely never intend to take investment money.

Not everyone is cut out to be a freelancer. But it's a very viable option, beyond being a founder, executive, or employee. And I can tell you that many of the founders, executives, and employees I meet as I travel the world teaching Python are quite jealous of my satisfaction.
There's a good book I read recently called Developer Hegemony, and I think you might like it.

It breaks down the archetypes within companies, talks about what it takes to succeed as an employee or an executive, and then discusses an alternative route that we software engineers might be able to take.

Here's a blog about the book [0] and the book itself [1].

[0]: https://www.daedtech.com/developer-hegemony-the-crazy-idea-t...

[1]: https://leanpub.com/developerhegemony
The Soviet Union also turned Russia from a vast industrial backwater into technological superpower. I’m not sure about your point.
> It's worth pointing out that men also tend to outnumber women significantly at the far left end of most bell curves.

The lack of understanding around the implications of normal distributions is such a problem when discussing this topic. Another thing that most people miss is that, if you're zoomed way in on the very end of the right side, things are going to look very different than if you are zoomed out and looking at the entire curve.
Considering the size of that home, you could probably build a similar home out of almost any material for about the same price. You could probably pay a contractor to make you a traditional wood-frame home of the same size for the same money in less time. Still, that's an interesting and remarkably practical home that guy built for himself.
I overall agree with your sentiment.

I would though not agree fully about where you assume value is created. Usually, developers / middle managers do not create value. Mostly they are implementing ideas of others and in these ideas is most of value concentrated. I would say they deliver value but don't create most of it.
> you just said if you ever are infertile you're not "male".

For a computer person, your logic sure is weak.

"If you've ever produced small, motile gametes, then you're male."

"If you've never produced small, motile gametes, then you're not male."

P → Q does not entail ¬P → ¬Q. Literally 100-level propositional logic, here.

> Fertility and reproduction have very little to do with 'gender' except where people attempting societal manipulation try and force it to. From a scientific perspective the correlations are minimal and difficult to measure.

Who's talking about gender, here? I'm not.

I'm talking about sex; specifically, the material basis for reproductive roles and the exploitation of female (sorry, AFAB) reproductive function for the advantage of male (sorry, AMAB) people.
Another option: find a company that is more willing to have people switch roles. Get job there as full stack developer with understanding you'd like to switch over time.
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It also is the #1 force fighting against basic biology education in the US, the #1 safe harbor for patent trolls, and a state that is single handedly leading the charge on making inexpensive women's health clinics literally illegal.

So no. The fact that Texas can fund state schools of reasonable quality with the spoils of these actions does not dismiss the fact that it's one of the most frustrating states in the union from the perspective of modern education and industry.
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By argument above, you'd still expect to make significantly more in the Bay Area.
By the time you get to the bottom, it's pretty damning. Hard to imagine him finding investors, but who knows?
I'm also always having to perform the manual translation in my head from shader effect when I read this term.
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That sounds like normal labour to me. Just a more administrative/managerial type instead of the hard physical type.

If my boss asked me to call some cleaning companies and arrange a schedule so they come clean the office, all on my "free" time, I'd expect extra payment because that is extra labour.
For someone who recently graduated and quite clueless about financial planning, do you have some resources to get started?
Ask HN: Have you ever been a victim of chargeback fraud?
Hey all,

I'm asking for some input from any of you that have ever been a victim, or know someone that has been a victim of chargeback fraud, and can let me know under what circumstances it occurred.

I've built a money transmission app for virtual goods, and the core focus (other than the fact that it is for virtual goods) is chargeback fraud prevention. I applied to YC with my app.

Some background:

I used to flip video game items in high school, and this was a big problem I and many others faced. People would send you money through an app like PayPal and you'd give them the goods. A couple of days later, you'd get a chargeback. Unless you gathered some kind of transaction proof yourself, you'd be out of the money as well as your goods. This led to many subpar solutions, like dealing with trusted middlemen with high transaction fees.

Here are the most common chargeback scenarios that I am aware of and have provided solutions for/working on providing a solution for in my app:

1. Buyers remorse

2. A family member stealing from another (a form of identity fraud)

3. Elaborate reseller scams

4. Infected computers which are used to make payments through some kind of remote-controlled software like TeamViewer, or other remote administrative tools

5. Dishonest buyers claiming it was not them that made the purchase (another form of identity fraud)

Thank you in advance for your input. Feel free to give some really constructive criticism as well.
How do you spend $41/day on food and another $41/day on transportation? That's pretty ridiculous budgeting...
Um, what's cheaper than a studio? Anything with one or more bedrooms is going to be more expensive.

Perhaps you're not familiar with American apartment terminology or I'm missing something? A studio apartment is as cheap as you can get normally.
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There are plans, yes. Lots of artillery, but it's aging, and as was pointed out earlier, the number of pieces they possess that can actually reach Seoul (the 203mm Koksan) is not very great.

As soon as they open fire, the counter-battery game begins. You can be sure the allies have photographed and analyzed every strip of dirt along the DMZ, looking for prepared positions so they can anticipate where the guns are and where they'd move to after a salvo. They'd be tracking the rounds as they come in and plotting where it originated from. 72 hours is a good estimate for how long that artillery battle would last; same estimate I've seen elsewhere.

But the concern of casualties are not necessarily from shells impacting, but the panic and disruption in order that comes from it. NK can cause enormous hardship just by flinging a few shells. They can hide many of their batteries and string out the battle by revealing pieces on day 3, 4, etc,. Even if they get destroyed, and even if they only get a few shells off, you'll have a news report saying shells are still falling on Seoul, and it will be a tremendous morale hit.

But the window is closing on how well the NK artillery will continue to be a credible threat, hence the rush for nuclear weapons.
> But there's a problem with how that stuff is bundled.

Sure. I wasn't endorsing the system, just explaining it as I see it.

> schools have to make sports programs accessible to women and men ... might be a better allocation of resources if they simply opened teams to both sexes rather than creating sexually differentiated teams.

I think that only works in a world where women and men are both physically capable equally in all aspects. That's not reality though, and at the high performance levels these teams play at, that difference is likely exacerbated to the degree that for many sports mixed teams would really just mean a starting lineup of one sex, which is not exactly succeeding at making it accessible if that's the goal.

Interestingly, if there were enough variation in the peak mental abilities we might see a similar segregation at peak performance levels. I suspect that while there is evidence that men and women often have different mental aptitudes, that's on average and at peak there is little difference in potential (even though there may be a difference in occurrence). E.g. There's plenty of evidence and reason to believe the strongest person that ever lived in the world is male, but there's not a lot of evidence to believe the smartest person that ever lived in the world, or even in any one field, is male (even if it may by likely to currently be one sec or the other based on ratios of interest).