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Ask HN: How to explain why I'm applying to job instead of returning to school
I've been away from school due to mandatory military service in korea, and I'm missing only 3 classes till graduation (I've done 4 years, but I'm missing credits). Military service is over in a month.

However, because of my father's business failure, my family currently is in huge debt. The entire family (including me) has none saved up and barely paying the monthly interest.

Not only do I not have money to pay for school and rent if I were to return to school, just the sheer fact that I won't be making money in itself is critical even for a couple month.

With this background, it's obvious that I should get a job. The tricky part is how to communicate when I'm applying to a job.

Surely, I'll have to explain why despite doing 4 years of school and having only few credits left, I'm not getting it over with. Which means I'll have to mention how desperate I need money. There are couple problems that I can think of with explaining that.

First, "He's only in it for the money". I don't want to give the impression that I'm only applying to a place because I just need the money and don't care about what and who I work with.

Second, my salary could be impacted if they believe I'm the one that's more desperate.

How should I circumvent those issues?

PS. I plan to apply to jobs in Canada because VISA situation would be trickier in USA. Also, I plan to apply to software engineering jobs on levels equivalent to Amazon, Microsoft, etc.
Paracetamol is something to be careful with, along with it's ease of overdose, we are still learning about it's neurological effects. I stick to Ibuprofen.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/04/whats-tyl...
Then seek out an equivalent service that pays their delivery folks more and doesn't require a tip. We have those here in Boston; Peapod's delivery drivers can be tipped and they've said that it's a major part of their income but Roche Bros.'s drivers have literally laughed and said "we don't accept tips, we actually get paid." (I had a $10 in hand--he turned it down. Peapod has a big huge field on the invoice and charges it to the card. Skinflints.)

Or accept that, yes, obligatory tipping is part of the culture, and while you may not like it (I sure don't) it is incumbent upon us to do right by the people whose services we are buying.
There's a very long trail of companies that tried to pay people to refer their connections for jobs. They all fail. People don't seem interested in monetizing their connections.

The funny thing is that people keep building companies to monetize their connections because they see no one else doing it, unaware it's a graveyard.
Maybe it was unrelated and your phone just achieved sentience.
I'm a fan of the Sir Henry Neville was Shakespeare theory. Neville was also a diplomat and could well have known North.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevillean_theory_of_Shakespe...
If it's unauthenticated, the portal doesn't give you any advantage beyond showing a message.

If it's authenticated, you should be using WPA-Enterprise anyway, which supports different logins, and actually isolates the traffic between clients, whereas those "portals" don't, allowing any other user to sniff your traffic.
Other reports put 1% at >$400K/yr, 5% at $214K/yr
https://www.google.com/search?q=1%25+income&cad=h

WSJ's number is individual not household, and ignores people making $0, most of home are likely in a household with an income-earner.
3 months salary
XP always had the option to turn off themes which resulted in a w2k-ish (and by extension w95) look. Is this no longer an option?
> y'all can be singular or plural. Or rather, it can be "about singular", meaning we may not be sure if we're talking about one or a few. But if we want to be clear that we're talking about more than a few, we say "all y'all".

I can't get a straight answer on the y'all / all y'all distinction from you Texans. I asked here before and someone from Dallas said both are plural.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15234742

:-)
"can" != "most"
The War Zone had a good article about the recent attacks that ISIS executed using cheap commercial drones.

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/7155/isis-drone-droppin...

The US Army has had to react by rebuilding short-range air defense capabilities. They used to be able to depend on the US Air Force to protect ground forces from aerial attack but now those days are gone.

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/17747/us-army-rushes-to...
In Japan there is a similar phenomenon. Trains going to the capital (or other urban center) use the word 'going up' (上り) and trains going away from the capital use the　'going down' (下り). This is so well used that signs and station announcements use the words too. It's not just a colloquialism.
Go for backend as a service or serverless:
e.g. ReactJs as front end + Skygear (https://skygear.io) as backend

Disclaimer: I work for skygear (it's a opensource project)
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I don't consider it possible to steal information, because when I make my copy it doesn't deprive anybody else of their own copies. That would be the case even if I had a ridiculously expensive Internet connection and it cost me $1 to download it. Physical goods can't be copied in that way.
Do you also expect HTML or JS to be stable for 30 years?
1) Probably not. People want to produce papers more than people want to consume papers.

2) Also probably not. Because most papers aren't read widely. The folks I know who have things that generate a small drip of royalties (usually licenses from patents) treat it as a nice little bit of fun-money, but it's nowhere near enough to either fund a lab or really change the calculus of "Is this job worth doing" from a monetary perspective.

Especially when compared to "Fuck it, I'll go work for industry."
Yes, but after authentication, all traffic can be sniffed - including unencrypted connections.
It's not immoral to not tip.
Update your Unity3D version and learn how to set your .NET runtime.

Then learn the settings and limitations for your target platform.

Just because you don’t know how to use Unity doesn’t make it doesn’t have features it does.
As a manager I’d probably advice against picking programming unless you love it. In our educational system the increase in short-length programming classes at academy level has exploded and I doubt the market will keep up.

Really great comp science or engineering students won’t ever have a problem, but I fully expect the short-length, autodidact or mediocre students to be entering a saturated market within the next five years.
Leveraging TVs in rooms is definitely an interesting idea, and I considered it many times, but decided against it in the end.

First of all, the product is more successful the more guests use it. Using a TV with a remote is not as good a user experience as using a tablet while you're lying in your bed. I'm hoping that allowing hotels to try the tablets for free for a few months while we're collecting ROI data will be able to convince them this is a good investment, but we'll see.

I'm also developing the client in React Native, and I will create an Apple TV version. I'm planning on first giving in-room tablets a try, and if it doesn't work maybe try to get in with TV apps first.

Thanks a lot for the thoughtful response, I appreciate it.
In Seattle, salaries are definitely bimodal (at least from my experience over dozens of offers from me and fellow classmates).

Many mid/small corps are paying ~75-120k base with x stock which is of course not worth anything yet.

Most large competitive firms are paying more around 115-150 with 15-75 in stock.

So an explicit divide between the mid/small companies and the large tech giants exists here.
As long as it doesn't break local development again like their forcing of https on *.dev even when locally hostfiled. Funny enough they suggest using .test which is fine, except you cant use .test as a callback url when setting up googles oauth... fail!
Because revenues can be an estimate how big a company is. And getting as big as possible seems to be the top priority in the business world.
Yes, but that's because use of a road causes wear. Homeowners didn't want to foot the bill for the road outside their house, and potholes are a real problem to safety. People who use the roads are the ones creating potholes, so why not charge them for that? It's a public service, like the fire service or the national health service.
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I think the GP was referring to competition and resulting price pressure. The Apple device sounds better; Sonos has dropped prices, with journalists interpreting this as a bid to shore up their sales -- sounds "almost" (?) as good while costing somewhat less.
The deal is, I have, I am not assuming. There are a lot of people I have met personally who seem honestly to want the situation.

Many of them are people seeking a little extra money, a way to fund a new car, something to hold them over between jobs, a way to pick their own schedule... I have had a lot of conversations with a lot of workers in the gig economy and never have heard "I wish this was my full time job". Maybe that is the random set of people I've interacted with, maybe there is a bias for what people want to talk about.

What is absolutely clear though, is that a sizable amount of people participating in the gig economy are doing so because they want to take advantage of how it works, not despite how it works.

Many of them had other jobs, many of them clearly wouldn't want a full time job doing the gig.
I’m sorry you did this. Someday, you’ll be sorry you did this. Historically speaking, there is a correction every year. Corrections last on average no more than 54 days. After a correction, the stock market will go back to rising. Timing the market is near impossible, but leaving the market is just asking to lose money. With some reading and some fear management, you could be extremely successful in the stock market. But you have to learn to buy and hold.
Author here - I'm scrolling thru the logs and it is interesting to see that on the first question lots of people try to write "select name, total_weight" despite there only being a weight column which you have to use an aggregate on to get the total weight.

I guess I need to rethink my design a little.
> The floor layout is truly crazy. Some floors are staggered by a full half height at the interface between buildings, there are exterior courtyards on the inside of the block that are roofed over, and buildings are of differing height.

complexity should be no problem for Google engineers
That's still patently absurd for anyone making <$500K/yr (OK, less if they don't have a family)
Interestingly the german lawyers association build a software that does nearly this. Just with a small design change that made it a total flaw:

To communicate out of a https secured web mailer to a local IP and Port where a security card reader driver would respond they registered bealocalhost.de which resolves to 127.0.0.1. To prevent mixed content errors they then shipped the private key for a https certificate for bealocalhost compiled into the card reader driver.

Obviously after someone noticed that the cert got instantly revoked...
Self-sign the certs that expire in 1000 years, then add them to the clients.
AWS RDS doesn't support any of the PL extensions for Postgres. And unfortunately, that's a real killer for a lot of people.

But when I've been able to use Python functions directly inside my SQL code, it is a thing of absolute beauty.
Companies can easily adapt by changing your username to the form of an email (e.g. "jsmith@optimum.net"). Many of those already offer email addresses anyway.
It's surely authenticated, but I don't want guests to use WPA-Enterprise. I just need a way to communicate temporary passwords to them.
There must be ways around it since some captive networks work with https.
HIPAA Compliant

Rigorous 3rd party security and compliance validation.

I worked for a large insurance company for over 5 years. You say you currently have 12 hospitals as clients. My experience in insurance suggests that if you expand your business to include smaller facilities, you will find that small offices can vary a lot in their understanding of things like HIPAA. This can de facto result in more burden on you to make sure compliance actually happens.

​Somewhat random thought: I bet you could expand this service to provide support for people who are elderly and/or chronically ill.

There is a huge market for tech to help seniors maintain their independence by making sure they are safe etc while living alone in spite of declining abilities. People who are chronically ill sometimes express the wish that an app or service might help them stay on track with taking meds etc. Chronic conditions that are well controlled can mean a mostly normal life. But things can spin badly out of control quite rapidly because of a single missed dose of medication.
the lexicon valley podcast did an episode on this.

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley/2013/0...

(the discussion starts a bit before six minutes in)
John Sculley: The Truth About Me, Apple, and Steve Jobs (2012)
Sign up for Alertbox by the Nielsen Norman Group. It's a weekly newsletter of UX articles that they write based on their research. Great stuff.

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Now how the hell do we create a webserver that will work reliably for the next 30 years if we have to embed SSL certificates with built-in expiration dates in the range of 1 to 3 years?

You can use self-signed certificates. Your clients will have to trust them (by updating their stores). That's hardly an ideal solution (deployment and security wise).

More broadly speaking, you can't rely on anything to stay the same in 30 years, in terms of infrastructure. Many companies therefore deliver both the devices themselves, as-well as the systems to control them (ie. custom laptops/tablets). More costly for everyone involved.
It's immoral not to treat people who are performing services for you fairly and well. If that means tipping, because their employer--who you chose to do business with--doesn't pay them a livable wage, then guess what? You tip. If, at the same time and in no way exclusive to the former, you would like to campaign for better worker rights and wage floors that make tipping unnecessary (or, hell, even illegal), then I will join you in that.

You might not like tipping. (Again: I don't.) The person you're rationalizing the stiffing of probably doesn't like having to work for tips. Capitalism kinda sucks and the person-to-person patching is something that more fortunate folks just plain get to do. Sorry.
they are notorious for overworking their warehouse and delivery workers and i have heard very mixed experiences of working for amazon in a dev or biz role.
>Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

https://i.imgur.com/Br00TCn.gif
I migrated a couple of my sites without any harm to rankings. Maybe a dip for a day while it all re-indexed. Best way to do it is to 301 to https it seems
I've seen teams of Go developers shoot themselves in the foot so many times with their hand-crafted SQL. Yes, they should know SQL and be better. And if they think about it, and focus on it, they are.

But it's the mistakes they don't anticipate making that end up causing impacts on their users. Then they create a fix, but the damage is done.

I think the goal behind a good ORM is not to replace making SQL queries entirely. It's to stop stupid mistakes that result from an uneven distribution of expertise. And if they find some area where performance is particularly sensitive and the ORM is not optimal, they can drop down to raw SQL again.

If your team members all have expertise and your test coverage and code review processes are very thorough, it's probably not necessary. An ORM is not a magic bullet for every team. In the same vein, the dogmatic advice to "always handcraft your SQL" is also not a magic bullet.
The simulation hypothesis: intelligent species are destined to invent computing, and therefore also invent recreational simulations (video games). Eventually the generation and detail of these simulations becomes reasonably sustainable and sufficient that the species retreats into absolutely controllable sims and stops interacting with the outside world for lack of interest.
Meritocracy and its discontents: The merits of revisiting Michael Young
The was / is a DNS standard for that: DANE. Sadly DANE was never really adopted. Chrome had support for it but it was removed eventually.
SSL terminating proxy between the devices?

I imagine you'll be able to flip a Chrome flag to turn it off anyway.
You maybe down voted because people here want links and proofs.
If 99.9% of companies could remove those carcinogenic chemicals without reducing the value of the products, I would support that warning too.
A Whole New Meaning for Valentine's Day
I wonder if university libraries around the world could federate their efforts and take on the burden of publishing and hosting articles. The money they currently spend on subscriptions should more than cover the expenses.
Wouldn't self-signed certificates have even more and scarier warnings?
Except it works.

No, it doesn't, unless your goal is to condition users to ignore yet another warning.

There are downsides to doing that, believe it or not.
I'd say they're in the same league as people who say they love flying on airplanes. Once the novelty wears off it's a pretty joyless, tiring experience.
how the hell do we create a webserver that will work reliably for the next 30 years if we have to embed SSL certificates with built-in expiration dates in the range of 1 to 3 years

If there's a requirement that your code needs to run for 30 years without an update then current web technology is probably the wrong choice.
I thought about this for a while before I published it. In the end, I thought it was neat and didn't see a reason not to.
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Suggestion: Could you go "outdoors"? Something that is suitably casual but also doesn't give the appearance you're trying to look an age you are not.

Like you might take a hike later, without changing. Or are spending the weekend at your place in Tahoe.

(Or, with more aggressive selections and attitude, like a fitness type.)

Dunno. But at least I find those clothes both comfortable and age appropriate.

And maybe you'd be buying clothes that you actually want to wear on the weekend, anyway.

As for me, I'm considering a long overdue return to flannel shirts. After catching grief over the idea from a "trendy" friend who subsequently turned out to be a crap friend, anyway, I'm finding my thinking lately reinforced.

Anyway, whether it's suits or anti-suits, some people just want to tell other people how to dress. When I can, I try to avoid them.
> The prices of all of the homes anywhere near the high density area would sky rocket.

Why? I want you to genuinely think about this question.

Why is it that, non-high density areas, that are near high density areas, increase in price?

Is it perhaps because, high density areas, with tall buildings, are so amazing, so wonderful, so in demand, so useful, and so great to live in, that people WANT to live near them?

The NIMBY argument against high density areas, is that people don't like living there. But it is literally the opposite. High density areas are so great, that low density areas NEAR the high density areas, increase in price because EVERYONE WANTS TO LIVE THERE!

Thats why the price goes up. Not because of the increase in cost to live in the places, but because they places are amazing, and there aren't enough of them, and people are willing to pay a premium amount of money to live there.

So if everyone wants to live in these areas, then why aren't we building more of them?

These areas literally make everything more desireable!

And, because of supply and demand, if we build a whole bunch of these super great, amazing areas that everyone is willing to pay lost of money to live in, then the price will go down, and everyone will benefit.

Your argument is literally that we shouldn't make cities and place to live better, because if the places to live are better, then more people will want to live there.

I am of the opposite. I think we should make the world a better place, and we should make everywhere in the world better to live in.

But even so, the people who want to live in places that suck should absolutely have the freedom to do that. 99% of the land in the US is low density, and people who like those areas should keep it. But the OTHER people, who actually want to live in nice, high density areas, that are good to live in, should get at least 1% of the land to do with as we please. I am all in favor of freedom of choice for the low density people. Why can't they give the same freedom of choice to those who disagree with them?
Ask HN: Pricing from Day 1 for a SAAS product
Hi, does anyone have experience of offering a saas product with subscription fee from Day 1? Basically no free version, only paid version from day 1. How was the experience? How did it work out?
> Paper money is a voucher

As further evidence, the Mint prints “Federal Reserve Notes” as currency. OP’s argument is misinformed.
The point is delivering work, not spending billable hours messing with network configurations and having to pay LTE from my pocket.
This is just false though.

The guy who was the creator of a local web design business driving me around on a weekend afternoon wasn't choosing between unemployment and the gig economy, he was supplementing his income while worked on his dream.

The programmer giving me a ride to SFO from the peninsula wasn't choosing against unemployment, we had worked at the same company in similar positions, we had a great time talking about how things were going. He was just making money as he commuted home.

The Afghani translator who immigrated after the war was a student making money over the weekend on his own schedule. Neither of us understood football at all.

A lot of the things I pay for "gig economy" employees to do are things I think would be awful as full time jobs, it would make me sad to support a business that put people in the position where that was their life. When it's optional, people using those bits of work to fill in the gaps or add a bit of extra on top of whatever else they were doing with their life, I am a lot happier to support those workers and those businesses.

Not so say that the businesses are doing everything perfect, but I think it's obvious that the 'lead generation' role (companies like uber, lyft, etc) are going to become more of commodities to the benefits of the workers using them.
Never give up, never surrender.
My favorite is if you're from Houston you call on/off ramps "feeder roads". I don't think people use that term anywhere else.
> Alexa does not magically do the cooking

I've got news for you... http://www.moley.com/
Google fined in India for search bias
I moved dorms almost entirely for this reason when I was in College. The new dorms were being built with a broadband Internet connection straight into the College network.

It was leecher heaven!

That is until some wiseass thought it'd be a good idea to run a private ftp site for a piracy group from their dorm room. The damn thing saturated the entire network until they got caught.
Had a aimilar experience recently after getting a fiber line installed and grabbing a game off Steam. Would have taken me hours on the old DSL, never mind a 33.6 dial-up.

I think my aging LAN gear capped out way before the fiber did, and an upgrade is on my todo list. ;)
You can go up to Aarhus though, right?
What other shenanigans are you concerned about? MITM and sniffing are basically what https/tls are designed to prevent.
How do you communicate "log in with an email address" to a user if you can't display a web page?
Organic is kinda expensive, I'll go with what the other guy said