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Ask HN: How to get “unstuck”?
I started a business overseas last year. It didn't work out, and I ended up broke, unemployed, and needing to leave the country I was in.

I have been looking for work in the Bay area all this year. I've applied to companies big and small, flown out several times for interviews, and so far I had one offer at a small startup at the beginning of my search (during the brief time I could afford to stay in SF). Unfortunately I didn't jump on it and by the time I followed up they had hired someone else. The companies that flew me out were bigger and seemed to be interviewing like crazy, but maybe not hiring like crazy. I was usually the oldest person in the room (almost 40) for all of the interviews. I'm not sure if it's an age thing or if I was just unlucky with the interviews that I had, but having a job search going on more than half a year, it's hard to stay positive.

It seems like with my unusual background (self-taught, a lot of time overseas, no big names on my resume) and not knowing anyone in the area, blasting out applications isn't working, and I have much better luck meeting people in person, but I can't afford to stay in SF while I look.

Currently, I'm living with family, in a "flyover state." (Sorry for the vague details, but I'm obviously trying to keep this anonymous.) I really don't know how to break through. I know there is supposed to be a talent shortage but I also know the best jobs aren't advertised. At this point I'm afraid my best (only) option is getting a job in a Starbucks here, and save up until I can relocate and get a similar job in SF, and then start meeting people and interviewing locally.

I guess I'm just looking for some alternative ways of looking at the situation, or anyone who has been in a similar situation, or general advice on getting hired in SF with a non-traditional background, or anything else I might be doing wrong or not seeing.

Thanks, HN.
Well, if a car spontaneously bursts into flames. There is no mitigation.

If two autonomous wehicles (by the same manufacturer to make things interesting) crash into each other what mitigation can there be?
> this is merely an error trace, so it should just be called that

It's stricter than an error trace because if it's encountered in a development/testing context, it's a hard error and the engineer must fix it to proceed. Plain error traces should only be used for expected failure scenarios (like a third-party service times out, possibly), not situations that would be considered "unexpected" to the developer.
It gets used a lot in electronics assemblies, and places where you need high temp resistance (reflow ovens, SPACE), and low-to-no outgassing (important in vacuum applications). So it makes sense that they'd have it onboard.

So, uh, that's possibly a 'yes.'
I didn't even know this. That's a great example of how interesting you can get with the incentives system, makes me so excited for the future.
Well then what exactly is a good thing? How do you define a good thing?
I'm surprised that this comment was downvoted so much. I actually work at Google. I don't know if anyone is still going to read this, but I thought I would comment just in case.

I said "for the most part". There are multiple reasons why different users can see different ads:

Ads might be geo targeted ("Only show this to users in New York.").

There is some stochasticity in the serving process. Ads can run out of budget. Different data centers might have cached different things in cache.

Different advertisers that are eligible to show for a certain query can bid different amounts depending on the user, for example though RLSA [1].

But anyway ads personalization is not essential to Google's business model (except display ads and maybe youtube ads).

[1] https://support.google.com/google-ads/answer/2701222?hl=en
Why would a highly hierarchical, centralized organization with extensive infrastructure for distributing and authenticating orders suddenly blockchain it all up to solve a problem (cross-branch conspiracy) they don't at all have?
I am talking about medical devices but I assume it's the same everywhere. You demonstrate that you have done everything possible to analyze the risks and taken appropriate steps. But there is always something risk left that can't be foreseen.

It's like building an airplane. If you follow all best practices the plane will be pretty safe but from time to time some still will crash. There is almost no way around that.
Legalizing previously criminal activities does tend to decrease crime, by definition.
> And when you get rear ended, you're rarely at fault.

It was my understanding that in California, it is (legally) _always_ the rear-ender who is at fault, and not the rear-endee.
It's probably like boxing a beginner. They do all kinds of weird stuff you never have seen and don't know how to categorize.
I have a condition similar to yours and I deal with it by consultations with psychotherapist. I can discuss a lot of situations with her, and to reflect on what I did and (more importantly) what I didn't. There is some subtle code of friendliness, like asking pointless questions ("how do you do"), saying pointless things (like reflecting your current emotional state), and so on. I need to see when it is time for one more pointless action, and to do it. It is not hard to do, but not so easy to discover what and when to do, so psychotherapist is a real help here. For me it looks not like I'm trying to be ingenuine, it's like I'm trying to look a human being for others, so they see me as the person, not as a coworker.

It is mine condition, and my way to deal with it. Seems plausible for me that your case is like mine, because you are saying that your parents are immigrants and very probable that you just don't have some behavioral reflexes. In any case, you can find cognitive-behavioural psychotherapist and discuss this matters with her. If your case is not like mine, that at least you'll know that it isn't. Hopefully you'll find what you can do. But in any case you start with desire to change yourself.
I think you just described the federal reserve.
It only mattered in the last couple of years that you could buy a car that supported Android Auto. So as long as Bluetooth works, I think that gets you 80% of the way there. Maps seems to be the only real UI app allowed anyway, and hopefully Google releases a version for iOS 12.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17886109
I'm not going to say it's possible to do all those things at once, but I will say that the 80/20 effect is real and can be leveraged for some extremely serious productivity if you let it guide you.

It's not just a question of making the time, but also making the time count.
I'm always a little suspicious of the reality of unicorns.

The way that the figure is derived is that people paid $X for portion Y of the company, and therefore the company is worth $X/Y. The problem is that in addition to portion Y, in a large deal the investors also get preferred stock, downside protections, and so on. Those extras are worth something, and therefore some of $Y is for THAT rather than a share in the company.

Therefore the company is always worth less than the figure you see reported.

See https://www.fenwick.com/FenwickDocuments/The-Terms-Behind-Th... for more on this.
Next step: unsupervised word segmentation. That way they could maybe apply this unsupervised translation system to undeciphered texts, e.g. Linear A, Rongorong, etc. I doubt it will work since most of the undeciphered scripts have a very small corpus, but maybe worth a try.
And you still have to implement your own "verify against actual blockchain node" function yourself before actually trusting any query results.
Russia/Former Soviet Union is an interesting outlier, because abortion has been legal there since at least the 1920s(with an almost 20-year gap imposed by Stalin).
So, people living in higher population density regions would care more about environmental issues? Or, vice versa?
Not familiar with airplane building, if you take away the human factor as is the case with self driving car, what risks would would be considered acceptable?
Human drivers are fucking awful. I don’t understand why everybody here is assuming that the self-driving car must have done something strange to cause this.
Those interested (or not interested) in self-driving cars might find this thread quite interesting: https://twitter.com/amir/status/1034442936774258688 "Just out: The truth about Waymo..."
BitChute is a front end for P2P torrents. And then there's Hola and other streaming frontends for torrents.
No its not. Read the authors book, igen. Crucial difference - kids are more depressed and lonely
I banged up my mum's car doing exactly this the first year I got my license. Was a little nervous and in a hurry, saw an opening and went for it. Car in front of me did not see the same opening. Bang.
Their description of PA Semi is a little odd. Yes, I'm sure there was some ARM work but at the time they were far better known for PWRficient and the PA6T, and they still had military contracts for it at the time they were acquired. There were rumours that was going to be the next PowerBook chip until Apple went Intel.
He said in 15 minutes increment how is that the majority of a 18h flight? I believe the purpose is to stretch and for the other person to save a bit of money. So you may book it a few times during the 18h flight maybe every 4 hours for 30 minutes and pay for that.
> without power

Not entirely true, it still needs heat from the Sun, or in cases where the Sun isn't shining (night, or overcast[?]):

> It can even do its de-icing work at night, using artificial lighting.

Lights that put out as much power per square meter as the Sun, over as much area as a commercial aircraft, are not going to be light on power requirements. The article does not actually specify how much light is required to melt the thin film of ice at the boundary.
Maybe there are other mechanisms for revenge :)
I know some people are crowdfunding online courses through crowdfunding sites.
True, Lego degrades in the sun.

Source: I have left Lego outside, in the sun for many weeks. The effect is also visible at every Legoland.
Instead of saying “without incentives”, maybe saying “with external incentives” is better?

Blockchains can function when each participant running a node is incentivized to be honest. The incentive could be that they are a known party in a business consortium and if caught colluding with other members, it would be trvivial to prove during a lawsuit.
Nah, keep it simple. The twentieth year is only up to $380, which is still chicken feed. Don’t add unnecessary complexity: make it simple enough that any layman can understand it completely.
I think this misses the point of what a senior developer is.

Nobody builds a huge thing by themselves better than multiple people can. Being a senior developer is enabling a few other people to do their best work.
Yes. That's just one reason why I'll never use Gmail.
One potential scenario: in an industry, with a problem that can be solved by blockchain, the various participants can come together to create the blockchain infrastructure to solve that problem. They don't need a crypto currency to incentivize the participants as their motivation is driven by the solution to the problem.
I think pounds of beef is a great way to measure impact.

I don't see any real easy numbers, but it seems a pound of beef is probably in the ballpark of 20 pounds of CO₂, so 1 million tons translates into 50,000 tons of beef, or a few days of US consumption (which is above 1 pound/week per person).

So giving up Legos entirely is like getting everyone in the US to eat chicken 5 times a year.
For those interested...

Up until the early 2000's ish, Randall Hyde used to develop a ton of teaching materials and libraries for intel.

You can find most of if here: http://www.plantation-productions.com/Webster/index.html
These are what my happy nieces do.

What is the author's source? A paywalled summarizing study that analyzed data from other studies: http://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Femo0000403

- Was any primary research conducted? You'll have to pay $12 to find out.
No idea. But it's pretty much guaranteed that autonomous cars will kill some people due to bugs and other problems. I assume there will be regulations like we always have for crash tests which manufacturers will have to follow.
You just summed up what I basically wanted to know. Thanks.
That’s a decent length (there’s more behind the camera) with a yield at the start of it. It’s basically an acceleration ramp, lengthened probably due to the speed of expressway. Stopping after the yield sign shouldn’t be happening for either autonomous vehicle or human driver; although it happens.
I genuinely do not understand Apple's move into this space.

They've made a trillion dollar business out of small, high-margin electronics that consumers replace every couple year. Most of their products serve to enhance this business model or have high complementarity from a technology standpoint. The self-driving car project feels like an incredibly expensive diversion from this core business with limited technological overlap to their existing product lines. I'm trying not to see this as "Post-Jobs Apple finally jumps the shark," but I'm just not getting what the vision here is.

This isn't snark, by the way - I'd really love to hear a good model for what they're doing.
I hope you succeed, and I say that sincerely, but regardless of whether or not program synthesis should have been pursued more aggressively in the past, I'm not aware of any support for your statement that "error-free software development methods have been available for decades" for any reasonable definitions of "error-free" or "available".

>Anyway, I think OP's right about assertions being a code smell: an assertion is literally the place where you tell the machine you don't know exactly what you're doing, eh?

The whole point of the original article is that, today, the only thing keeping planes in the air is fault tolerance and lots of redundancy (see also: Erlang). Assertions are about humility and it's good to be humble.

>In 2018 writing "assert", "throw" or "raise", etc. is a code smell: you are doing it worng.

But somehow writing ">>=" isn't? On one hand you seem to suggest that error handling is bad because there shouldn't be errors (what about I/O? user error?) while on the other hand you seem to be defending the position that monadic error handling is a panacea.
No. No. No. Probably.
F-Droid.
Same, the course I took in college 'just for fun' ended up being how I got my first real job after graduation. And I did my best work for my previous employer when I deliberately focused on satisfying my own curiosity.
The replication crisis in psychology started by selecting high impact papers published in reputable psychological journals. Cold hard scientific facts and psychology simply do not go together. And that's not necessarily a condemnation of the field, but rather just a statement that it should be viewed as observations with proposed explanations rather than 'cold hard scientific fact.' For instance I think this little article does a good job of making clear to the reader that what they're discussing is entirely a correlation. There might be reasons for this, or it could just be entirely spurious.
> I'm going there and saying that this is exactly the logic that nazi apologists use to blame SS reprisals against civilians on resistance fighters.

Sigh. You could have pointed at collective punishments that were practiced in schools (some students misbehave, the whole class is punished), or in the military (the whole platoon is punished for the actions of an individual), but no, you would rather invoke the Godwin’s law and drag the Nazis into discussion.

In any case, it’s not even a fair analogy with my example. My example was about collateral damage happening as a result of baiting the authorities; yours is about deliberate hostage-taking.

As for "propaganda for being a coward", well, to each their own. Call Joseph Heller ("Catch-22") or Terry Pratchett (novels featuring Rincewind) propagandists of cowardice then.

(And it is not even a story about heroism or cowardice. Telegram is not being a hero here; it's not as if it is risking anything by defying the Russian government — it is well outside of reach of the Russian law enforcers.)
Perception of time and circadian rhythm are very related.
Are they also requiring 5 years of experience for an entry level corporate espionage gig?
Well, Americans don't have those rights at the US border[0], so it's not like we're any shining example ourselves.

0. https://www.eff.org/wp/digital-privacy-us-border-2017
I don’t think there is too much of a market to spoil. Android manufacturers and PC makers who are just using commodity off the shelf undifferentiated hardware and software operate on razor thin margins in a race to the bottom.
From a PR perspective (which is what Lego is concerned about first and foremost), iterative solutions that have no big splash are not deemed "useful".

The problem is that everything is about perception and there's no followthrough to our myopic/distracted news media.

This probably ties more into the ongoing devolution of journalism into "reportage".
I'd imagine it's a matter of leveraging existing resources (or resources they could recoup by moving back to their core upon failure) for a chance at a massive, global business.
I think you just described everybody.
I don't see how that follows. They don't just waste money, they redirect resources that could be deployed better elsewhere.
Some decent points there. I definitely think the shift towards identity politics as a focus for the left hurt its popularity, and provided ammunition for its opponents to attack policies that would make many people's lives better in general.

That said, I do have a few thoughts about the points raised that make me question them a bit. Namely:

1. Populism isn't only on the right, and I feel we're starting to see left wing strains of it too (see also the support for Bernie Sanders, Jeremy Corbyn, etc). The mistake the parties on that side of the spectrum seem to have made is to try and 'play it too safe', where a more populist figurehead and set of policies may have helped counter the rise of the same on the right.

2. Him turning away from the right because of the Iraq War and 2008 financial crisis seems kinda strange given that more 'left' wing parties also backed both in many parts of the world (like the UK, and probably the US) and how many people on both sides disagreed with one or both policies, which makes it questionable whether they'd be rightly counted as 'right wing' or 'conservative' ones.

3. Finally, it also feels like part of the reason for the shift away from the left focusing on economic issues is because of the demographics of the parties on that side of the political spectrum now. In the old days, it felt like there were more people in that part of the political world who came from poor/working class backgrounds, and hence they had a real stake in improving economic equality. Nowadays though, it feels like the average politician and supporter on that side are from fairly well off families with a decent level of education and a stake in making sure not much of the spotlight is shone on their own background and privileged upbringing. I suspect for these people, the focus on identity groups lets them support a left wing cause while not actually thinking too hard about their own situation or how they themselves benefited from inequality.
Famous Last Words: "It's just a buffer overflow, nothing to worry about."
Trolls tend to own nothing themselves so they can sling out legal threats all day and not get any in return.
Apple does a lot of low level design work in the electronics, sensors, and AI space. They even work in the automotive space already with Apple CarPlay. (https://www.apple.com/ios/carplay/) There are few companies that can afford to invest ~5 billion on a project that might be worth 10+x that or might be worth nothing.

So, it’s both less of a stretch then you might think and less of a gamble than most other companies in this space are making.
Just make Duck Duck Go your default search engine and BANG! role effectively fulfilled by browser.
Or a new field means lots of potential patents to sit on.
There are other possible contributing factors, such as the decrease in testosterone, or the increase in obesity.
You aren’t paying Microsoft for long term support for those three years.

Are you saying that .Net doesn’t have a robust ecosystem?
"But mom, I'm trying to show my Minecraft castle to my uncle!"
I wrote some pages in the Main Concepts section. Maybe a few others. Hope it's not bad.
This is great news. I hope California fights the ISPs hard in court. Surely, the ISPs are going to work up some plan to try and get around this.
That’s a good point. It’s going to be a long time before someone finds the next “iPhone“ that really changes everything and becomes a new multi hundred billion dollar business.

Driverless cars are the only possibility I can think of right now.
It seems to me like as soon as you can demonstrate that the cars are safer than the average driver, they should be okayed for road use. An absolutely staggering number of people die in car crashes. People will of course die in and around autonomous vehicles as well, but the key metric is whether autonomous vehicles cause fewer deaths than the average driver.

Similarly, you could have a late stage cancer drug that kills half the people who take it and saves the other half and it provides a massive benefit if 100% if all those people were going to die otherwise. The fact that a lot of people die is not the only factor to be considered. What matters is how the ultimate outcomes are changed. It would be quite irresponsible to say that the cancer drug shouldn't be allowed solely because it kills half the people who take it.
Right, something like "if you have x% test coverage and use Go, you are not liable for accidents"?
It can happen after a sudden lane change where the person that’s rear ended is at fault.
So I wrote in detail why I think `class` is the right choice here. Hope it helps.

https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/13525#issuecomment-...
So... There's a concept, but no actual product. Got it.
Do you have any source for your claims? The first copyright act in the modern sense was the Statute of Anne in the UK in 1710. The purpose was “for the Encouragement of Learned Men to Compose and Write useful Books”. I included the full preamble below.

As for America, the reasoning on the continental congress on copyright was:

“that nothing is more properly a man's own than the fruit of his study, and that the protection and security of literary property would greatly tend to encourage genius and to promote useful discoveries.”

Again, nothing about releasing works to the public, and everything about promoting more publishing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne

“Whereas Printers, Booksellers, and other Persons, have of late frequently taken the Liberty of Printing, Reprinting, and Publishing, or causing to be Printed, Reprinted, and Published Books, and other Writings, without the Consent of the Authors or Proprietors of such Books and Writings, to their very great Detriment, and too often to the Ruin of them and their Families: For Preventing therefore such Practices for the future, and for the Encouragement of Learned Men to Compose and Write useful Books; May it please Your Majesty, that it may be Enacted ...”

I got the continental congress quote from the history of copyright article on wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright_law
Google randomly locking out users seems to be pretty common. I have had them randomly lock me out of google docs files for "ToS violations" only to have the file unlock a few days later. Ever since that happened I stopped using google services to store my stuff.
> kids are more depressed and lonely
> No its not

Yes it is. More is not "largely different", regardless of study rigor.