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> “Most of my colleagues are unjustifiably ashamed,” she said. “They take this personally, as if they’ve failed, and I’m always telling them, ‘you haven’t failed, the system has failed you.’”

While I sympathize with these people and I know in my heart they are treated unjustly, I still cringed at this quote.

Was there a US president coming at your graduation and promising you a bright future if you pursued your academical ambitions? Were there crowds of businessmen coming there and assuring you all that you will get funding until the rest of your life?

I'd reckon no.

Let's put it bluntly: you failed to adapt and now it's finally coming to haunt you, and you most likely ignored many signs along the road. I know it's easy for me to talk being a programmer, and we are gonna be in demand for quite a while still. But I wasn't always well-paid. In fact, most of my career has been spend with very toxic employers, colleagues and freelance customers. At certain point of my life, I realized I had to make tough and big changes -- changes I was not emotionally okay with but I knew I had to do them because otherwise I'd end up on the street. And I did. And it hurt a lot. But I am not threatened by living on the street for a long time now. And years later, I am now proud of myself for having the courage to recognize it was time to move on from a few toxic / non-constructive areas of my older life.

The writing has been on the wall for a LONG time that the educational jobs are on the decline. At least for 15 years now. (No I won't cite studies; I am talking about a general feeling related to the tone of many news stories over the years, plus tens of anecdata from people in the area I happen to be well-acquainted with, including my brother.)

I will not make this into USA bashing but I can't help but notice that many Americans are finding themselves helpless after believing in "the system" their whole lives. Same goes for people I knew in Germany, UK, France, Netherlands and Sweden.

This is much less so in Eastern Europe where I am from (although it still happens to quite a lot of people; percentage-wise though, it feels like they're much smaller group compared to USA).

You have to believe more in your own abilities and trust less "the system". The system has been devised to help keep things in a relative order and nothing much else. The system doesn't stay awake at night, worrying if you will end up homeless. That's one of the harsh truths in life that many people, and a lot of them much older than me, refuse to accept and live their lives in accordance with.
I am referring to those. If someone just tries to make Swift the platform, I think they will have to put as much thought into their tooling as xamarin, cordova, etc.
Hmm, I set it to crawl our little Ghost blog (e.g. blog.example.com) and it immediately jumped to spidering our main site (e.g. www.example.com). Now, I imagine if I had properly poked at the Advanced settings I could have limited it to the initial subdomain, but I would have expected that to be the default...
That's why they say "I can tell" and not "I must tell"
This was a little vague... does anybody know how exactly degradation and disturbance cause carbon emission at such high levels? Is it just decomposition of dead organisms? If that's the case, this doesn't seem much different than other forms of carbon release due to human activity in rainforests, like burning the forests down.
Amazon's HQ2 isn't a headquarters. So what is it?
Do such clients actually exist in mainstream usage? The one crypto bug which you are actually protected from by using IE on Win7!
>>>At this point I will not engage with your comments any further, as you have demonstrated you do not meet HN standards here.

Do as you please - how about this - I'll stop engaging you after this comment as well.

1) We haven't discussed finances at all. Not sure where you are drawing that I "don't know anything about finance" other than the fact I disagree with you. Again, making assumptions.

2) Again stop putting words in my mouth. I'm in my early 30s and never said anything about people not working hard. All I'm saying is that it's a little rich for tech workers to be dramatizing their struggles in the Bay Area when they at least have a shot at attaining some things that lesser off people will never realistically have a shot at - as you've mentioned. We should definitely be trying to improve the system for everyone as it's not beyond reproach, but ironically you're the ones being emotional in that regard which is why it was met with an emotional response.

Sometimes I feel bad when I get down voted, but this particular theme is ridiculous and an example of how self centered tech workers are. I haven't used memes other than two lines in my previous comment that I already admitted were inappropriate. Who made you the HN police by the way? You seem to have a habit of commenting on the quality of other people's comments.

And by the way, this is all made even more ridiculous by your previous comments in other threads about not wanting to make everything in the tech industry about diversity.
I'm 33, have been working professionally for 10 years and have had roommates the whole time. Different ones, too.

Unless you're strongly introverted, and/or suffer from social anxiety, having roommates is a great way to a) meet new people and b) save lots of money.
>An alternative explanation for 1/2 is that your VPN provider is not isolating you from other VPN users (less surprising than giving you your own public IP) and someone else on the VPN is trying to conduct NTP amplification attacks using you:

This, I think, is most likely.
I'm pretty conservative and I can't imagine how having someone understand their constitutional rights would be unpalatable to anyone on either side of the aisle. I want to be tough on criminals but you are only a criminal after you have received your due process and have been found guilty of a crime.
It's really weird to me that you've caught some downvotes for this benign and not innaccurate remark. I've upvoted you to compensate, but to no avail.
Lots of stereotypes here. In fact longevity was high, for example. Labor was light the vast majority of the time (since food availability was highly variable) until agriculture came along, etc, etc. Civilization sometimes seems to mean that people just get to create whatever "facts" they please without consequences.

If you want to find out about the reality, "The Old Way: A Story of the First People" by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas is a fine start.
Needs a consultant path. I think once you drank the koolaid too many times, you just get apathetic.
$3000 to plop a container on her property, paint it, and redo the floors. It's not a livable space. No windows, no insulation, no plumbing, no electricity, no heating or cooling. She calls it a "glorified tent".

But yes, if that's what you want and you can get a good price on the raw shipping container and don't mind doing all the labor yourself, the final price isn't too bad.

Edit: Actually, they have a lamp, so they must have some sort of electricity supply.
This is one thing I can't stand about the Bay Area. Roommates are for college kids. It is not normal to be 30 years old, making over 100k, and living with roommates. But everyone I know lives like this, including myself.
That's what I was thinking too. You have to have decent air exchange with the outside or you're going to suffocate or poison yourself.
Ha ha - OK that's funny. But realistically it changes the value proposition for owning your own charger at home, or going to a Tesla charging station where the cost is 20p.

I mean when I lived in the UK Gas was something over a pound per liter (roughly $5 USD/gallon)

So on a typical mid sized car with a 15 gallon tank we're looking at about a $75 fillup.

Compare to the cost of a full charge electric with an 85kwh battery. $58 USD to fill (at 50p ) $23 USD to fill at a tesla charger and $10 to fill up at home.
Kubernetes Ingress Controllers for HAProxy already exist. A nice one is at https://github.com/jcmoraisjr/haproxy-ingress
Other examples of usage are spread around in the examples section of the ingress repo, like here https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress/tree/master/examples/d...

The DNS-SD code will ship with HAProxy 1.8, and we will gladly help out by adding it to the above ingress controller after the release. A WIP of that code is up on github in case you’re interested. In fact, HAProxy is full of surprises and little known features (like the dynamic scaling via haproxy runtime api we already contributed to the controller) and we're happy to share them with everyone!
The industry may be trying to build a virtual Jeeves, but i fear that they are more likely to create HAL...
My father has a higher standard of cleanliness than my mother. When my father leaves for work trips I've noticed that my mother will do the dishes once every couple of days, whereas when my father is around he does the dishes daily. My father tends to do all of house cleaning because he likes things to be clean. They do not quarrel about it, they do not even talk about it, my father simply does the cleaning (I think he enjoys the act of cleaning to be honest).

Sounds to me like the partners in the article have a dysfunctional relationship and this isn't really a gendered issue but a "people issue". My experience probably isn't the norm though (both of my parents are engineers with careers) so I understand that this probably colors my perception of this not being a gendered issue, just wanted to offer a contrary perspective to the one posed in the article.
NChain and Bitcoin Unlimited Launch Gigablock Testnet
Agree - it makes sense to roll this out to everyone, particularly as you can't always tell if an individual is mentally impaired in some way.
But the consequences of remaining silent or not remaining silent might be lost on anyone, regardless of their age.
In my experience, getting involved with an employer to work on your side-project is not a wise decision unless you're 100% sure it won't go south. I've done it and regret it. I asked my employer if they would help me on the marketing side of things for an app I was building on the side, and allow me work on finishing the app on company time--fast forward 8 months and I was the only one putting any work into it, and they also owned over 50% of my app (yes, I know--I was super dumb, overly excited and way too generous!). I eventually burned out and moved on, and it sucked to leave behind a project that I liked due to my poor decision-making and bad co-founder fit.
Ohio, rural Utah.
If there's a "trick," it's to have an interesting, playful discussion about it, previewing and anticipating all the choices and their potential sensory impacts and feelings and emotions of the whole experience, including the trip there and back.

With both of you visualizing and making connections and learning about each other, you're making fun, exciting memories to the point that the dinner just restates or cements the pre-experienced sensorium. :)
Because Paw is GBP 39.99 and a browser is free?
To be honest, it's kinda mediocre, the gameplay is ok, but really linear, the color filter feels grayish and the characters are really two-dimensional
I'd imagine it's a large codebase and they're trying to maximize the number of people that can access it while minimizing the number of supported browsers. There are very few platforms where firefox is available and Chrom(e|ium) is not.

FWIW, it actually does work on Firefox Quantum; it's just not guaranteed to work.
Please don't take HN threads in ideologically inflammatory directions? That's flamebait if not trolling, and the HN guidelines ask you not to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yeah, try convincing 8 billion people that we should all hunt for rabbits.

Case against Civilization is case for extinction of all animals 6000 years ago.

I would rather be living now and enjoying this earth, than be someone who thinks that he can take on the wild if there weren't as many other people around.

And I don't think "human" become "humans" because things were just swell. Precisely because of evolutionary pressure humans evolved. I would rather have us evolved than not.
Consultants: people who borrow your watch to tell you the time.
ClojureScript does very well despite the parent Clojure having a big runtime and largish stdlib. Good tree shaking
(dead code elimination) helps a lot.
Thanks for the response. Seems like there's a lot of work to be done on refactoring, but I can appreciate that E2E stuff is still in beta.

As for that last remark, perhaps it's a good GSoC proposal?
https://www.google.com/search?q=Levandowski+arbitration

Details: https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/29/waymo-pursued-arbitration-...
>Someone has to think about: lets go out for dinner tonight @ restaurant A. Women generally do that thinking, because like you said, you just don't care. The point is, she is still doing the emotional labor, because she has to think about dinner tonight for both of you, and if it should be a restaurant, or making it at home or whatever.

You say that someone has to think about it. But do they?

When I'm suffering from decision fatigue and I have to make a decision on something I don't find too valuable (where to eat), I'll literally flip a coin or use a random generator.

It offloads the burden tremendously.

The issue the author has is not that the burden isn't being shared. It's that the values are different. I don't know about her, but I've met people for whom flipping a coin is not an acceptable answer - because they care, and they don't want a flippant method of deciding.

The conflict is that one side cares and the other doesn't.

And part of the problem is that not everyone takes ownership of the issues they care about. If you care about a lot of things, then yes, you will feel the burden.

I like a clean house. It makes me feel much better than an untidy house. But I also feel that burden of cleaning, and the burden is worse than the feeling I get in an untidy house. So I keep it tidy enough such that there is a balance. Not too overburdened, and not too untidy.

In my experience, most people do not understand this tradeoff. They'll have high standards, but will not to bear the burden of those standards, and will be impatient with everyone who has lower standards.
> They have a very good idea of how far they can annoy everyone else before it starts to hurt them,

I wouldn't overestimate their knowledge. Just as Saddam Hussein thought he'd be allowed to annex Kuwait and generally behave like an ass and nobody would dare to lift a finger, Kim is probably under the same impression. People think that various totalitarian regimes feed their citizens propaganda, but deep inside the inner party circle they have rational (even if evil) people that operate on correct information and capable of making correct (even if extremely self-serving) decisions.

The reality is usually different. The inner circle may have access to more information, but they are also largely ignorant about how politics works in the Western countries. They are as prone to biases and misjudgment as any human, and the absence of robust feedback circles usually present in open society amplifies their errors of judgement. And of course, somebody can only be told he is a unerring genius and supreme being for so long before he himself starts believing it, and once that happens, huge errors of judgment are inevitable.

Thus, what they expect the West to do may be completely different from what the West would actually do.
One-time refers to usage. They could be repeating one-time pads to ensure they are received. The intended recipients can probably not be counted on to be listening at any particular time.
I really wish he didn't make [0,1] one of the windows, because in floating point arithmetic the range [0,1] contains approximately as many floating point numbers (a billion or so in Float32) as the range [1,∞). There are "windows" [2^k,2^(k+1)] for positive as well as negative k. Just creates unnecessary scope for further confusion.
Fidelity is mining cryptocurrencies
It would be interesting to actually know what Pullkee will output -- this is not written about in the README at all.

Also, fails in windows, I've created an issue :)
Anyone that says

> "we do not give your info to 3rd parties"

instead of

> "we have designed it so it is impossible for us to give your info to 3rd parties"

is simply selling you privacy-cool-aid
My IKEA kitchen was around 12k plus appliances, and it's quite nice. We installed it ourselves though.
I agree with you. The third group is also the first people to get laid off and thrown away when there is an economic downturn.
‘Living’ at SFO cheaper than renting in the city?
This breaks the HN guidelines, which say:

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.

So would you please not comment like this? It takes effort not to, but it's effort we all need to make if this community is to not suck. I'm tempted to call it emotional labor but I suppose that would be trolling.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't really understand significance of this insight easier. Floating point number is just stored in scientific notation base 2. That's it. And kids learn scientific notation in 7th grade? 8th tops. I mean, swap base 2 to base 10 in this image, and the effect changes from "woah" to "duh, obviously".
That is absolutely false. Since I have my computer science/math degree my linkedin inbox has been flooded with messages from recruiters. I can guarantee you that they are not looking for an English major.
> the world moved on.

I also tought that, long before Google shipped some new GWT applications in 2017.
I think that GWT is still in big use, but it's probably not trendy, that's why you probably won't see much talk about it.

I think that transpired ANY Language is actually the future of most web applications. yes there will still be a lot of javascript users, but I guess other languages will soon have ways to build web application with a shared code base.
And actually I think there is a benefit in doing so, well sharing everything is maybe not the best idea, even GWT made integration with JavaScript stuff better in the last releases. But Models and Utilities are a big win if they can be shared.

Actually in my company we use a lot of Scala, and it would be really cool to share the models, but sadly it's really hard to get a good toolchain (ScalaJS works, but integration in our "legacy" tooling sucks). that's why we still duplicate a lot of code in typescript, besides the fact that most models are just 1:1.
Ha is that a joke?
If I had to recommend any path, contractor would be at the bottom of the list. The stress, constantly shifting from one company to another, not knowing when you're going to land another client or if your contract will be extended, having to constantly look for new gigs, etc. Finding a new job is like moving. It just sucks all around. Being a contractor is like constantly having to find a new job.
> And by the way, this is all made EVEN MORE ridiculous by your previous comments in other threads about not wanting to make everything in the tech industry about diversity. Liberal when it's convenient I suppose.

You done taking things out of context? I'll repeat this for you here again:

> At this point I will not engage with your comments any further, as you have demonstrated you do not meet HN standards here.

This includes you trying to say some is or isn't for diversity. For those that are confused, he's referencing how many users including myself felt that a "diversity" comment didn't fit a story which can be found here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15358785

At this point I have to flag your comments, act like a professional already. For being in your 30's you are not acting like it.

I will not engage your trolling behavior, which has resulted in you stooping so low to dig through a user's history. I stand by my HN comments, and will continue to disengage you when you spout further misinformation.
Passphrase in phabricator. No browser integration but it works for us.
I often write little helper apps for our business. If I want other people to deploy them they want a windows exe to run, because thats what they are familiar with. Not just your average user, but also lots of IT support have no knowledge whatsoever of tech that wasn't on their Microsoft course.

Being able to package as an MSI or exe is a fundamental requirement for adoption of Windows client side applications.
Firefox 56 Release Notes
My Moto G (3rd gen or something like that) definitely has slightly rubbery texture, more so than thinkpads I think. So they do exist to some degree. Not aware of current models though.
> Could you explain how the mortgage interest deduction doesn't help homeowners?

The mortgage interest deduction helps mortgage lenders by subsidizing mortgages, which increase demand for them; and it helps people who owned homes when it was passed by increasing the market-clearing price of homes. It doesn't help people become home owners, and people who become homeowners while it exists are hurt as much as helped by it, but would face a one-time additional hit if it ended (both from increased total mortgage cost and the decreased home value because buyers would no longer be subsidized.)

Essentially, the deduction increases the nominal price of homes by encouraging (compared to not having the deduction) getting into and remaining in debt to own them.
Pathological cases aren't amazingly interesting for sat solvers. Everybody uses more or less the same base algorithm (DPLL) and its easy to exploit its search strategy to create exponential runtimes. All sat solvers explode for pathological cases but they still have practical use, so people care about real world inputs much more than ones designed to blow up your implementation.
On android, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... supports a bunch of languages (and emoji).
> "It came naturally to her."

Did it though?

A lot of life admin isn't satisfying or enjoyable, it's just a drudge. Are you suggesting that relentless, menial work with no end in sight comes naturally to anyone?

I'm single, and I've found ways to keep life admin to a minimum, but when you're running a household there's tons of small jobs that add up. It becomes hard to switch off. I've seen it happen multiple times.
I was curious, too, so I created an example: https://gist.github.com/rndmh3ro/6fa36c5dad7d14285757b2afe62...
I just saw on a catalog the 20 or 25th anniversary of a certain Bic pen. It was on the cover page

I thought it signified some milestone in printing where component pieces combimed with easy logo/name printing changed the logo game

Thus, more pens made with plastic (rubbery) grips had to do with manufacturing

Now i am enlightened
Plus if something isn't right, you really only have yourself to blame, which is nice.
I love that even admitting that bullying exists, somehow makes people want to attack you.

As if I somehow endorsed it, or thought there was "logic" behind bullying, or that I wasn't the one on the _receiving_ end of the bullying.

We live in hilariously odd times. Better to pretend bad situations don't exist.
counter anecdote -
I moved from Atlanta, GA earning $70k/yr ($4k/mo after taxes) to SF earning ($6.5k/mo after taxes).

In Atl, I saved $2k/mo.

In SF, I saved $3k/mo.

Its hard to save $3k/mo if you're only making $4k/mo. In SF, I took a huge lifestyle hit. No car, no apartment to myself, eating out less. which let me save a lot more.
a few people have been called crazy for pointing out bubbles... prematurely. it does not change the fact that its still a bubble. as i said getting the timing right is pretty much impossible. time and market will be the ultimate judge ;)
I agree with your general point, but:

>Was there a US president coming at your graduation and promising you a bright future if you pursued your academical ambitions?

Yes, it's pretty typical for a prestigious public official to speak at graduations and say basically that.