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I might be jaded but this sort've depends on your point of view. I grew up in San Diego, would weekend with friends in LA, and I've got family across the country. Most large cities that don't have overly deadly weather seem to have a visible homeless population.
This is actually the first time I've heard of this. Interesting, but I find it hard to believe the gatekeeper wouldn't just decide to turn into an obstinate 3-year-old and thus win the challenge :)
https://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/content_ma... says now is the peak so far.
The quote is not wrong. If you aren't paying for something, then 100% of the time you are the product. If you are paying for something, then <100% of the time you are also the product.
The article makes it sound like a lot of them are service and retail sector type workers not exactly remote job material
And I have sat many times beside a guy who has no qualms against pumping $2,300/min into $100 slot machines, only to walk out of the casino with far more than he came in with.

He talks to the VIP slot hosts, and to other VIP players. Then he picks the machines that are "loaded up" and "are due to pay out". I've tried to explain that this means nothing. But in his mind, it makes total sense.

In the limited experiences observing him, I cannot say his (unfounded) beliefs are not accurate. That said, I've explained that slots are designed to pay out a certain percentage in a year, based on millions of plays. One high roller weekend is just a drop in that bucket, so _anything can happen_.

It's quite a scene to have several machines tied up because they're on the jackpot, and the slot host is busy working on 1099 forms while you play another "due" machine.

None of this is near as exciting as the MIT blackjack stories, but it is still pretty cool to see what $161k looks like in neatly wrapped stacks of 10k.
It is indeed a devious AI.
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It's not just SF and NYC. The rust belt was gutted and what remains of those Union jobs are now slave wage jobs at places with suicide nets in China.
Her income is highly irregular and fairly scant, so my income is paying most of the expenses.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
They aren't at all. There are some electric devices that can do both. A regular, old school pressure cooker is in essence a simple pot with a lid that gets affixed and has a vent to regulate pressure. It goes on your stove top just like any other pot.
That’s not typically how things usually work.

When a government agency (think IRS or FAA) decides on a specific interpretation of a law, rule or regulation, they don’t go after a random guy to prosecute. They publish an opinion, a guideline, or interpretation and a compliance deadline. The industry is given a choice to comply or present an alternative interpretation (through courts, lobbyists or legislative representatives).

It’s one thing if one company out of a hundred doesn’t comply, and somewhat different when the standard industry practice goes against new interpretation.

Selective encorcement is more typical of countries with weak judicial systems and endemic corruption, where “friends” of the current government get compassionate understanding, but everybody else is subject to the strict rule of the law.
There are certainly ways to play Vegas and win more than you lose. But doing so in a way that doesn't require a lot of time is not really possible.

Ultimately, it's just another job. But if you enjoy the social aspect, then it makes sense.
so write a blog. I'd love to be schooled on when to use MW, MWh, KJ.
According to Pew, 67% to 200% of the median income defines middle class. For a $78k median income, middle class is $52k to $156k. For a family with both parents working for identical salaries, middle class starts at $104k.
It might be time to stop looking for the WeChat of the West
The ones at the big tech companies and hot unicorns are.

The ones at your rando tech startup are not.
I agree, but for different reasons. Jobs went to third world workers, while the majority of the productivity went into shareholder pockets. That's an internal policy issue in the US, not a globalization issue (or rather, it's an unchecked capitalism issue). You can use policy to prevent unfettered blood letting of jobs to the cheapest labor sinks in the world. Globalization is not some foregone conclusion we have no control over.

EDIT: First world workers aren't competing against third world workers; they're competing against first world owners/shareholders/capitalists cramming down wages, working conditions, and living standards.
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A little warning stackingthebricks is a semi-advice site designed to get you to need the rest of the advice, buy buying the course. Which isn't cheap.
I ask for one (1) example, that does not include any software hubs that mimic the valley (this includes Austin, New York, Boston, and Seattle, but is not limited to), that has an equal, or close to equal, impact on your career in comparison to the Bay Area.

The only thing the valley has going for it is the saturation of talent and people who hire talent. The bad, is that without it it's got nothing to really show for itself (save a few niche items). The good, is the lack of any other notable qualities is overshadowed by the overcompensation of the only ones it has.
The casinos are very well designed to identify people who win unnaturally often. They will shut you down if you become a threat to their business model.

If you are satisfied in demonstrating at some low dollar amount that you can predict the outcomes reliably, then enjoy the success. But you won't get rich from it.
> European companies are just as capable of violating the law as American companies.

I never said they aren't capable, I said that they would generally choose not to (not to mention that "hosted in Europe" is actually now becoming a bit of a selling point because of the pro-privacy regulations there).

> Part of the argument being made by critics is that there's been little sign that comparable effort has been made by European governance to investigate its domestic companies as rigorously as it's been investigating America's.

European regulators are very strict with European companies in a variety of ways. Just because it doesn't make international news every week is not proof that it doesn't happen (I work for SUSE remotely and my impression is that the German government is very meticulous about verifying that companies aren't breaking the law.)

> The counterpoint would be that the companies are only breaking the law because the EU decided that its laws can be applied globally.

Facebook and Google do business with people in Europe (provide a service and use them as ad-fodder). This is similar to exporting goods to Europe -- you need to obey the laws of the country if you want to do business there. They actually have an even better deal than than that, because there are no tariffs for online communication! Not to mention that Facebook and Google have physical hardware in European countries.

They aren't enforcing their rules globally, they're saying "if you want to engage with our citizens you have to play by our rules." Facebook and Google can always choose to block those countries (like they do Iran).

> Because it's difficult to believe that there's only enough resources to prosecute a handful of companies at a time.

This case was by a privacy watchdog, a private organisation. I find it very believable that they don't have enough resources to sue the likely several thousand American companies that are potentially violating EU laws. I also would be surprised if the Belgian government had enough cash lying around to do that too.
You're fighting a strawman, just in the same way the opposite of you would do. Just like you, your opposite will build up a straw man of you, throw together some sophistic logic to claim your very existence is a threat to society, and the next thing we know we have people shitting all over each other in a self righteous frenzy each equally and thoroughly convinced they're protecting society from its imminent destruction at the hands of the quixotic windmill turned man they're fighting.
It's not materially different from how I've always lived -- sharing a house or condo with 1 or 2 roommates. I currently share a bathroom, kitchen, and living room with one other person, and I have my own bedroom. We're both well-paid professionals in our late twenties who are friends and happen to be single right now. It's way cheaper and less lonely than living alone.

I don't think there's anything unusual about this. I guess the difference is this company will pick your roommates for you, which sounds worse to me but I guess it's easier for some people.
Because many of the key networking connections made in casinos tend to be of a fleeting, salacious nature. Perhaps you have a nice clean mind and didn't realize what you said ;).
Seattle's so full, it's budding into Portland.
Tons of young adults live in "family" housing with friends or Craigslist strangers. It's standard in SF to convert the living room to an additional bedroom when doing that, so there's really no common space.

Although having my own studio is ideal, I'd vastly prefer a relatively impersonal dorm with generous common areas to a traditional 2-3 roommate situation.
That's only somewhat true. It will smooth out living standards as it crushes working people down by exploiting the lowest wages anywhere in the globe. Simultaneously, the wealthy bourgeoisie will become richer and richer until the internal contradiction in capitalism, that profits come from consumers that must work for wages, tears the system asunder.

The system that follows will likely be fascism, the seamless merger of corporations with the state to force exploited workers to work, or socialism, the people taking control of the government and using it to expropriate the rich in favor of workers. EDIT: Note that this doesn't require central planning, the rad idea these days are socialisms based on co-ops where employees own the organization they are a part of.

If the system is fascist, living standards will sharply drop for everyone subjected to that system. If the system is a form of socialism, then yes differences will even out. The GDP of the United States divided by its population is roughly 55k in today's dollars, though certain services like medicine and housing will have their profits expropriated so 55k will go much further. If we look at world GDP, the income of all people will be closer to 11k USD, which might be barely livable, but will eradicate extreme poverty across the globe.

We have a lot of work to do to treat humanity well and in a way the planet can survive.
It's one of the social norms on HackerNews that "low-value" comments like "Love it!" and "+1" are discouraged. Although such comments are polite to the poster, they add nothing but noise for all the other readers of the thread.

Instead, it seems to be preferred that you simply upvote the post without replying.
It turns out that people in general buy airline tickets based almost exclusively on price. Airlines are actually showing very long term thinking given that they have very high capital costs and need to make those investments pay off in the very long run. People are rewarded in the long term with profit because they have built a business that their customers want to patronize.

Even as a very technically savvy person I am not sure I would stop flying an airline because of this. While I agree these are awful practices would I be willing to do an extra hop with an airline that had better security? Nope. So while I sympathize with the article if Emirates was my main airline I would probably still fly them. It turns out many companies suck at securing their customers data. If that is important to their customers they will be reward/punished accordingly.

Ironically this is one of the reasons I prefer to buy things online through Amazon and why I think they have 50% market share. They are a trusted counterparty to my transactions and I would rather buy something through them than a small companies website.
I've seen higher uptime my VM's at DigitalOcean, Linode and Vultr than AWS. Their network speeds are all faster than AWS as well.

People go to AWS because of their vast API's and services that help make automation at scale easier. That said, they expect you to design your applications to be fault tolerant. People could run all the same applications and the other VPS providers, but then they would have to build more of the supporting infrastructure code themselves.
OneNote is probably not working as KB software for you because it's not meant to be that. Consider it as a personal scrapbook with pages you might show to other people, and get a proper KB platform.
Maybe I should amend my advice to include a warning not to look for someone who's looking for someone. Thinking about criteria and whatnot, trying to control or assert rationality on the process never leads to anyplace good, in my experience.
This is a complicated question, because GS Tech Division is really no different than working at any other Not-FAANG bigcorp. If you led key initiatives, definitely; if you were just a programmer, you haven’t really proven yourself yet.
It didn't really go to shareholders. Maybe a little at first but a global market meant that prices of goods just dropped to compensate for the 'savings'.
Every time I looked at OAuth I found it overly complex for what I wanted to do. Thus, never actually implemented that, maybe I am missing something on that, though.

JWT is great until you get to the point where you want to have things like token revocation.

A simple session mechanism we use for our apps:

- Upon sign in, generate a session token, e.g. 32 characters. Session tokens are unique and fully random, not derived from any actual data

- In our scenario, a user can have multiple session at a time. We store two mappings in a Redis database; user-id=>user-object (for caching purposes, serialized JSON) and session-id=>user-id

- The second mapping has an expiration time which is the session length eventually, e.g. 30 minutes

- Upon every request, we take the session id from the request (header or cookie, cascadingly) and look for the session-id in Redis. If found, we prolong the time to live of that entry. From Redis, we got the user-id (because of the mapping) and thus we can retrieve the cached user object, too.

So we have a meaningless token (at least externally), our backend is still stateless (at least the application itself, Redis is stateful in nature) and we don't have to reinvent any wheels for automatically terminating sessions. In addition, it's easy to cancel session on demand and build a blacklist.

We wrote the handling ourselves (except for the crypto of course), because no express.js related library/middleware was flexible enough. And eventually we kind of trusted nobody.
I hope so. If they aren’t then they would be better off finding work in some other part of the country.
"Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice."
You're saying you make ~200k/year 2 years out of college? That is not normal.
I don't get it, how would you identifity someone with their wifi turned on ?
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His psychoanalysis maybe outdated but even now you can find orthodox psychoanalists (not just modernized version). Also there are a lot of schools that derived from orthodox psychoanalysis and moved away for some distance small or large. I believe that any psychoterapist know at least basics of psychoanalysis, can explain about id/ego/super-ego, psychological defence mechanisms, psychological resistance, transference and countertransference.
There are bunch of theories of human development derived from Freud's theory psychosexual development. Even if psychoanalysis is dead (which is not true) it exists in derived works.
That was my immediate reaction as well, "decontamination is impossible" um, why?

I deal with 'unusual' payloads all the time and I've never seen anything that has this potential, I don't see how anything could be built to be so, without obviously being so.

EG: the progression would go from something being some form of plain text, to it being encoded in some way which is very very likely.

On the extreme ends say something is sent as machine code. Firstly, this is very odd and suspicious for a lot of reasons but even still you can run untrusted machine code in a very safe way. Assume its resistant to existing types of disassembly for whatever reason. Let's say you want to take an absurd level of paranoia (which, really, is justified if an alien civilization sends us machine code), rut it on an entirely physically disconnected (battery powered) machine inside a Faraday cage. If the code still won't work (ERR: must be connected to the internet to proceed) you can basically assume its malicious.

And, after all that, there are far easier ways to kill us all. Send the plans to a massive superweapon but only send it to the USA (or just to Russia, or just to China) but send the other side a message telling them what you did. The snubbed nation may feel the need to make a preemptive attack before the other nation can develop the technology.

Send plans for an ultimate bioweapon to the right/wrong people.
A few decades ago, before China enforced strict gun control laws, gun ownership were also quite common in China, and it was also a big problem. Now China is way more safer than America (in terms of violent crimes)

Well, I was being sarcastic and don’t actually believe it would work that well for US. But gun control laws certainly saved many lives in China, and there is at least hope that it could actually save some American lives. It would make it much harder for new outlaws to obtain guns at least
What you fail to realize is that a lot of Android OEM's contribute code back to AOSP. That is being a good open source citizen. Amazon has yet to contribute anything.
Ask HN: What else can you do?
To all wonderful people at HN - most of us develop a professional skill at work and continue with it switching jobs around the same competency all life. Did anyone manage to find out what else you're capable of and what does it take to pursue it professionally?

P.S. Im in the software services world since a long-long time. Im bored now, but don't know what else to do.
Just because you found a good situation doesn’t mean that is typical.
> It didn't really go to shareholders.

Data does not support your claim. Consumer excess was definitely realized due to cheaper labor in China and retailers like Walmart exerting influence on vendors, but shareholders most definitely have been receiving the majority of productivity gains.

https://www.cbpp.org/research/top-1-percent-of-americans-rea...

http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/07/news/economy/compensation-pr...

http://www.finfacts.ie/irishfinancenews/article_1021787.shtm...

https://hbr.org/2014/09/profits-without-prosperity

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/jan/22/...

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/apr/...
If any of the previous experiments with socialism are any indication, fascism and socialism have the same approximate outcomes.
Not OP, but I live without adblock. In Chrome, I disable Javascript on all sites by default. Rarely do I need to unblock a new site. I have a paid subscription to the Washington Post (which grants access to articles, but doesn't actually hide the ads...), and the ads on other sites I visit aren't too oppressive.

More than anything else, over nearly twenty years on the Internet I've developed the mental reflex to "tune out" and automatically ignore any Internet ad, anywhere, unless it's literally shoved in my face to the exclusion of all other content.

I've previously used adblock extensions, but my reasons for going without mirror the link author's. I simply can't trust Google/Chrome not to autoinstall a new, broken, malware-infested version of my favorite extension. I don't feel I should have to mess with directory permissions or application sandboxing in order to achieve some half-measure of extension security, so instead I eschew them completely.
That's only true if you are testing with Heroku but deploying to something else. But if you use Heroku for production you still only have one provider to maintain.
Host blocking at the OS level. No need for extensions.
Per capita world GDP is about $16K/year. That's significantly more than $10/day, but it's also significantly less than anyone in the Western world is accustomed to living on.
> for a “real” language making an iterative parser that is readable is incredibly challenging.

Not to mention if it is defined in terms of a character-classifying read-table which dispatches functions, which can be patched by the user program (as in Common Lisp).
I think that must've been 30% of the total bandwidth.

While this is probably talking about number of domain names.
I was diagnosed with ADHD as a child and given medication which made me feel numb and completely changed my personality. After a year or so my father decided to stop giving me the medication and I returned to normal which must’ve been hell for my teachers.

Besides science classes, I received Ds in every class through my sophomore year. At the time I looked like a failure but today Id consider myself happy and successful as I’ve travelled the world, become a father and started a number of innovative businesses.

ADD is a gift as it has enabled me to make creative connections that others simply don’t see.

If you have kids please focus on their long-term well being. Please love your kids and support the things they find interest in. Getting good grades being well behaved in class aren’t everything are not necessarily an indicator of future success.
Huh? Google Maps on PC to Android? Are they using the same WiFi router? If so, Google probably has that router's MAC address in its geolocation database. But anyway, using VPN services on machines with WiFi is rather pointless, if you want to keep your location private.
You would be wrong. I am a regular backend coder. I'm good though, but most of my coworkers make around the same as me. My friend is very talented which is why he makes that much. He has an unrelated MSc (he's from India), but he's a principal engineer. The point is 150k is not a barrier whatsoever, at least in Silicon Valley.
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I like the art style and the overall appearance a lot. My only suggestion is to make the actual dollar amount on the donation page more apparent. Personally I would expect the price to be in the same box as the multiplier but instead it's all the way down in the button, in a faint color. Makes me hesitant like I don't know what I'm getting into. Good luck with the site!
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I switched from a RAV4 to a Fiat 500. I will admit I sometimes miss the old vehicle, but day to day the Fiat is just so much more enjoyable to get around in. It's quick, agile, and fits in spaces that others won't attempt.

On the very rare occasion that I need something bigger there are always hire options. The difference in running cost is appreciated as well.
It really is a drawback. But I somehow get by spending two weeks in tahoe yearly.
They're nice, but I feel that these communities will evolve into success porn unless actively checked.
I never said SF was the only way to launch a career and tend to agree with you. Still, there is no denying the power of having a big name on your resume when looking for the next job.