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America was founded by people who fled Europe because they didn't fit in there. I have raised two special needs kids. If you have problems other people don't really understand, it is not uncommon for people to try to help you in ways that are incredibly counterproductive. This is why "Please stop helping me!" is (or was) a TV Tropes page.

America has a political tradition of Don't tread on me. This influences our policies and attitudes regarding a great many things, sometimes in ways that are not positive.

I'm a woman who was one of the top high school students of my entire state and I failed to get the two career couple upper class outcome I expected. I spent my twenties reading boatloads of stuff trying to figure out what went wrong.

I concluded that European women asked society to help them carry the burden of being the one who carries a child to term. American women took the Don't tread on me position and basically told men to fuck off and get the fuck out of my way. The European approach has a much better track record of closing the wage gap and raising quality of life for both women and children.

On the other hand, I spent nearly 6 years homeless in order to get healthier when doctors say it cannot be done, so I am pretty Don't tread on me to good effect. So I don't actually think America is simply dysfunctional and needs to give up its silly ways. But we certainly have room for improvement on quite a lot of metrics.
My childhood was one of extreme poverty. We were never homeless. But my dad worked so much we never saw him. And the toll it took on him was such that my brother and I were basically terrified of him even into our early adulthood. He was brutal, mean, always angry. Our mother died when I was 10 and he abandoned us with our grandparents. I don’t blame him anymore. He had a breakdown. The world finally destroyed him. But life with our grandparents was better. They were kind and in their own harsh way taught us we had to be tough and make better decisions. It didn’t stick with my brother. He’s been borderline psychotic ever since mom died. I think it destroyed him, too. But even now at 30 I count every penny. Every expense is important. Even going on a date with my wife, I’m afraid the whole time. What if...what if..it’s nearly constant. All that to say I think I understand how you feel. And I agree, those who haven’t and don’t have to live like we did just can’t understand it. That’s not a value judgement. It’s just human nature.
Ordinarily I would just write "This." here, but given the context, let me say that I agree with your comment.
I agree with some of the other commenters the Candy Japan is a product that appeals to the soul not our brain. I doubt there isn't a better ad that could have been made to sell Candy Japan more effectively at a lower cost.

This should not be a lesson in avoiding all ads, not all ads are made equal.
I buy things that become more valuable over time. Investing has become a fun way for me to "spend" that cash I otherwise hoard. Spending money on anything else is very difficult for me.
sound interesting, how is the Android Update situation on Asus ? Android 8 anytime soon ?
> The poor and destitute simply need help.

Upvote for the story but "simply need help" is not a policy a government can use to solve the problem. Granted, solving this problem for everyone is nigh impossible but maybe you can give us an example of a policy that would have helped out your individual family to give us some ideas?
You pretty much paraphrased the article. I don't know what was so ridiculously misleading about it.
Suggestion - I'm looking around for an alternative to Google Drive right now - triggered by Google deprecating the old MacOS version and forcing me to "upgrade", but that's largely (for me) a trigger for me to take the opportunity to reduce my reliance on Google.

If there are other people in my position (and I hear people talking about extricating themselves from Google's grip lately) - an alternative pitch might be "Google Drive alternative" instead of "Dropbox alternative"...
At least, by posting on [HN] for free, you can target and engage at least [me]. Honestly, I watch youtube on my TV with chromecast and rarely see ADs, may be google did not show ads on their products.
I made a little Elsagate scraper thingy, scrapes video metadata and thumbs of channels and takes note of featured channels, channels mentioned in descriptions and channels videos that get mentioned belong to; then I go through those, tag them as EG or not EG, rinse repeat. My point is that EG channels link lots of channels showing hands unpacking sweets and talking about them (just like they link to official cartoon channels and whatnot).. I'm just seeing this tiny, random fraction, and yet there's so many it did dent my faith in humanity some more.

I really wonder about the target audience, I can't come up with more than toddlers and Anne Wilkens from "Misery"... as for the creators, they "just want to make some money", and I know I'm mean about something that harms nobody and is voluntary to watch. Though I'm not blaming them at all for being linked from EG, I do find them demented in their own right, and can see why EG would approve of them.
I believe Kiwi underwrites this in that they will rebook you another flight and pay costs incurred hence they pad with long layovers even if a shorter connection is available to reduce the risk exposure. They will probably get better at this over time, it seems at the moment they are quite risk adverse and it's all very manual - i.e. you have to call them to tell them that your flight was late and you've missed second connection.
Shouldn't there be a group of people who maybe care how Candy Japan works and are curious to find out and perhaps buy some afterwards?

Why didn't it work on those people?
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Is the problem really not knowing? Because even you don’t know, is it not enough that virtually all credible scientists are warning us of the very bad things we are at risk of?

I know you are not debating the issue, but to me one of the most interesting questions is why do people deny this even when they have no vested interest?

One obvious answer is that it’s become a party platform issue and those that do have an interest have poisoned the well of thought for large numbers of people.

Maybe that’s part of it, but it’s hard to believe it’s that simplistic and there is no other psychology at play. Whatever lack of respect one has for an opposing political party, you’d think after hearing enough doomsday scenarios it would at least be worth digging in a little to see what all the fuss is about.
Linus has endowed the world with what is possibly objectively one of the greatest, and most historically significant, pieces of software ever to exist. He's entitled to his opinion. To claim he isn't, because the greater open-source ecosystem is fragmented and not user-friendly, is kind of like saying John Lennon has no right to complain about disco, because hippies are smelly.
> I'm trying to get us to open source

Can I assume you're involved with KaiOS development? Android vendors have a terrible reputation about pushing security updates in a timely manner (or at all for devices that aren't the current flagship). Do you have any plans to contractually force or otherwise encourage vendors to push security updates?
How is systemd an 'interface'?
> I am still quite poor. In fact, my bank account currently has zero in it and I don't get paid again until the 1st.

Are you OK? Do you need some financial support? Can you afford to eat? I can offer to buy food and have it delivered to you, or a near by shop (or something) if need be.
Has anyone done a serious analysis of the scalability of air taxis? I assume it would be better than with roads, but air capacity is not infinite, and you can only land a small amount of taxis on top of a building at a time. Many buildings probably can't even support a single landing spot.
Something to consider:

On HN a few weeks back, I read someone's comment that some poor people are poor because they own cheap cars that cost a fortune in repairs because they're always breaking down, preventing them from saving up for a better one that won't need repaired so often, which would allow them to save and get ahead.

Maybe that's not always the kind of decision-making that keeps you poor after all.
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That rule is all but forgotten in American English, sadly.
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Had the same problem with my iPhone 6 Plus, the performance was barely tolerable on iOS 11. I think it might be because Apple skimps on RAM so that a few generations down the road it's just not enough anymore.
Upgraded from the 6 Plus to a 7 Plus that i got for cheap from a friend and it is A LOT snappier. The 7 Plus has 3GB of RAM, the CPU is also twice the speed tough, which makes a difference as well.
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"our wealth"?
>The cult of positive-think is strong - I imagine anyone criticizing him publicly would be seen as 'being negative'.

Are the down votes on this comment a form of irony?
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Do you have any evidence that anyone is "price fixing?" The airline market is about as competitive as it gets. Allegations of "price gouging" amount to little more than complaints that you don't like how the price discrimination works out, like a teenage boy who doesn't like having to pay more for car insurance, or someone upset that Apple charges $100 more for 32GB more of flash on an iPhone.
I'd say the huge moral innovation of the 20th century is scientifically showing the human fetus is neither human, alive, nor a person. In a previous era, society frowned on abortion and contraception due to the old fashioned Judeo-Christian moral views, and so we had over population and widespread violence and poverty. But, thanks to the moral innovation of fetal science, we've discovered that we can stop violence before it happens by eliminating fetuses instead. So, instead of millions of dead humans, we have millions of terminated fetuses. The great gift of 20th century science is an ability to define the problem away, in a sense. And today we are almost at the point where we can completely discard of morality altogether, which will bring about a true utopia on earth because then nothing will be wrong.
See also, https://github.com/ivanceras/svgbob
> It is harder than it looks to fix spelling because ...

Of what you say and lots of things too. Much of the existing mess is caused by spelling "reform" of the ages past, such as when the Norman scribes half-replaced the conventions evolved by Anglo-Saxon scribes with French ones. It's not very different from https://xkcd.com/927/.
> I worked in a job that seems to match the description of computer network architect in high school.

I worked a job like this in high school. Pretty sure I could've done it earlier, and learning the job was pretty easy. In contrast, I did some software work in high school as well and was out of my depth (thankfully it worked out).

> Does a job that does not require teaching (self or otherwise) even exist?

I guess it's a matter of degree.
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Very interesting answer from Suzanne Sadedin. Very odd that "Arush Kakkar, Founder, CorsecoTech", who appears to neither be a physician, nor a medical science expert, nor a woman, is the highest displayed answer for me, with a strained analogy relating women's bodies to software, which is based on Suzanne's answer. I don't know if this is because of user voting, his score, or the Quora algorithm. I wonder if the mysteries of this ranking system are what lies behind the Quora login wall.
My 6 Plus became super slow with iOS 11 and because of the battery scandal i ran the benchmarks but my 3 year old phone essentially benchmarked exactly like a brand new one would.
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fwiw caltrain is not like this at all

used to ride next to a twitter guy who referred to it as the "premium" option...
Do you feel that way about taking an Uber or Lyft?
How Effective is BetaList
Hey HN community,

Just wanted to ask for some fresh info on BetaList.com. I took a look at their front page and noticed that most of the products have 2-4 upvotes with almost no comments..

Is it worth to spending 129$ to post your product there?
It's how you interact with daemons.
> Navigating to the svg seems to run the scripts.

Now that seems like a bug.
I see your point about taking the poor, but when a good is free, demand often outstrips supply, and when we're talking about city congestion, expanding supply is usually impossible, so the natural thing to do in a capitalist society is to increase the price.

I think congestion pricing in NYC is inevitable, I just hope we also get more funding and competent management and contracting reform for public transport.
I understand that this might seem rational from an individual's perspective but to exclude your family from society in this way is a tragedy and does not seem like any kind of solution to me.
I am working on a lora/arduino mesh network for reporting back the state of a large number of traps for invasive predators (mustelids, possums, rats).

The traps are spread around the countryside in dense bush/jungle.

When one goes off, someone needs to tramp in and clear and reset it. Currently, there is no monitoring of any kind, so checking traps is extremely labour intensive.

The trickiest aspect of this project is that each node needs to spend virtually all of its time asleep to minimise battery drain, yet for two nodes in the mesh to communicate, they both need to be awake at the same time. Drifting clocks etc.

The easiest aspect is that the acceptable data rate is 1 bit every 8 hours or so!
Yes but can that code be portable as a compliment you can embed multiple times in a web page?

Separation of concerns is not the same as separation of technologies. Putting JS, CSS, and HTML into separate files isn't necessarily separation of concerns, you're just separating tightly coupled code in different languages into multiple files.
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Except that someone is getting an Uber ride for cheaper than they otherwise would, at the expense of the person who can better afford to pay more.
I couldn't agree more, but these days Arduinos are both limiting and expensive.

Consider checking out an ARM Cortex-M board - you can get an STM32F103 'blue pill'[1] with 20KB RAM, 64KB flash, external oscillators, and a 72MHz clock speed for $5. Plus, it has lots of extra peripherals like a realtime clock which can run off of backup power and periodically wake the chip up from sleep.

The future of embedded development is so bright, you gotta walk around with sunglasses on.

[1]: http://wiki.stm32duino.com/index.php?title=Blue_Pill
You should read "Remote Timing Attacks are Practical" (https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/papers/ssl-timing.pdf) published in 2003 by David Brumley and Dan Boneh.
Ask HN: Openpilot and Remote Control
I've been wondering for a while about self-driving technology applied to trucks. There seems to be some ways to go before we have perfected self-driving technology to a point that can be safely used on semi trucks. Yet there are existing technologies such as Openpilot that allow some level of autonomous driving, my question is can we not combine that tech with an Internet remote control add-on that can be operated remotely by someone to drive the truck?

The remote control is used most of the time but when the Internet cuts out or if there is latency Openpilot takes over. This can be cost effective as an average US trucker makes ~$20/hr and an average remote worker in Philippines for example makes $2/hr.

Adding the 10x cost saving, there should be more attempts at this. What pieces am I missing or what are the things that you can think of that could go wrong. And also what are the things that could make this work if should someone were to try this?
>pay two unemployed people in rural Missouri to make tiny metal sculptures for model towns for 6-12 months.

Wait... what?
When half your country frame it as:
makers VS takers.

Then "simply need help" would be a significant policy change.

Lots of other developed countries have made inroads on poverty. Just look.
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> For instance HTTP 2.0 does not require TLS, but none of the browsers support plain text HTTP 2.0. (So the browsers are ignoring the standard)

H2 requires TLS for practical reasons; without it, poorly-written transparent proxies mangle this protocol that they don't understand. Requiring SSL was the solution to this otherwise intractable problem during the initial SPDY work, and became a hard requirement for SPDY. But due to pressure from certain groups during the IETF standardization process (who didn't want the web to "go dark"), this requirement from SPDY was dropped in the official HTTP2 spec.

But dropping the requirement from the spec doesn't solve the problem that put it there in the first place. You still can't reliably use any protocol newer than HTTP/1.1 unencrypted with many ISPs. It's been demonstrated to fail in ways that are difficult to debug and which would otherwise make HTTP2 seem unreliable. So no consumer-facing implementation will let you try.
If 'memorial' bothers you, you are going to love the an archaic French term: 'Hôtel-Dieu', or hotel of God.
They're not saying that what you point to must not have scripting, they're saying that the agent must not page or script whatever it is that you point to.

So technically, no it's not "invalid" to point to a scripted SVG, but it better not execute the script. So it might not work the way you want, unless your goal is to see what it looks like without scripting!
Poverty is caused by low or no wages. Not a mindset or lack of education or any other BS. I am technically below the poverty line working as a software engineer on a startup and I work hard. If we made some money or got funded then I would be less poor.

The structural issue is unequal distribution of resources. It's not a personal mental health problem or weakness or other BS used to cover for racism.

Also since I have had less money I have made better decisions not worse. Because I have to.
Do you mean that "irregardless" would have to be one of those gotcha words if it did indeed exist?

"Inflammable" is confusing because it sounds like the opposite of "flammable"; but the sad fact of history is that "inflammable" has meant "burnable" for centuries while the synonym "flammable" was made up recently -- so we are stuck with both.

But as far as I know, the word "regardless" has been around for ages, and that's fine because it sounds like just what it means: the opposite of "with regard". Whereas "irregardless" should be chucked in the bin as a confusing neologism that sounds like the opposite of what the speaker intends.
This is the kind of comment I really hate seeing. It is almost always virtue signaling. People genuinely looking to help have zero problem finding my PayPal account or emailing me. The people who publicly offer assistance usually wind up really pissed off at me if I rudely try to take them up on it. It is gauche of me to take them seriously. They were just trying to look good in public for free. I am supposed to have too much shame or something to say "Yes, please." It also just puts me in an incredibly awkward position.

I find the entire thing annoying in the extreme because I have a Patreon account to help fund my blogging and I completely suck at promoting that. I also do freelance writing and resume editing and I can't get traction with that.

I sincerely appreciate it anytime anyone actually kicks a few bucks my way when I am in crisis. But I would much prefer that people take me seriously, fund my Patreon and/or hire me for paid writing so that bitching about my shit life on the internet can stop being one of my more lucrative skills.
I think they would be more interested in the shipping routes and warm water ports it might create.
Given that about a third of the country would identify themselves as progressives, it's hard to see if they gave of their own free will, there wouldn't be plenty of help to the disadvantaged.

But I rarely (never?) see any rhetoric in DNC politics about party members donating of their own free will to anything other than the Democratic party.
Thanks bigiain for the suggestion. Just mentioned so since Dropbox is in the news. We are essentially an alternative to Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive.
You are prob right just after living first hand in society that faced what happens after you run out of "other people's money" to spend (USSR) I am really averse to this line of thinking I guess.
Why does being on a H1B prevent you from getting promoted to management ?

Source : Work at a big tech where several H1Bs have made it to the higher levels of management.
FaceID is far more than a gimmick.

It is admittedly very much like TouchID version 1 i.e. it will need several revisions to be perfect. But you can really see why Apple went with it.

Because when your phone authenticates e.g. banking app without you even realising it you then appreciate that it is a better solution than a fingerprint reader.
Many thanks to Reificator, avyfain, and ggambetta for the string of comments which synthesize so much of how i think about cyberphysical systems, but in a way that has crystalized it and given me a breakthrough in writing for my research. I'll ping you the result of this if you are open to a dm. Either way, you've given me a gift in your comments and bogdamp, awesome post! Quite pure and actionable insights.
I think, but I'm not sure, that at her income level, the Earned Income Tax Credit will let her get a net refund from the federal government? And Texas doesn't tax income.

Savings have to come from the biggest choices in your life. You've already assumed a bunch of poor choices in your model of this hypothetical person. You didn't mention your city, but I found $400-500 2 bedroom apartments on a quick Craigslist search on the outskirts of Houston. Why is this person living in a (presumably expensive) city? The main reason to move to the city is better jobs, but if she's making $9-16/hour, she may as well live somewhere less expensive. A lot of people in that income bracket live with parents or other family. Why does she need 2 bedrooms? My wife grew up sharing a single bedroom apartment with 3 other people and until she moved to the USA, it never occurred to her that it was the slightest bit unusual. Kids adapt; they'll be fine in one room. Why is she a single mom? Where's dad? Is he dead? Shouldn't the life insurance payout cover this stuff? If he's alive, shouldn't he be kicking in support? Maybe don't choose to have kids when you're making $9/hour or have a chaotic domestic life?
Sadedin's post has over 20k upvotes, but that guy has 81. Definitely not because of user voting.
It's your objection so you tell me, if you actually know what you are talking about.