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"Cash Rules Everything Around Me." -- Wu-Tang Clan.

I'm old and jaded, but salary should be your primary metric. Stock options are worthless. I took a 50% cut at PagerDuty (YC10) for 2% of the stock options, they're now worth $1bn+ and screwed me pretty hard, the day after my father died. They didn't even offer any severance pay until I pointed out how much damage I could do to their reputation, then they gave me a week. Start-ups, especially run by new founders, don't know how to treat people humanely. Thanks guys. Since then my attitude is, "Fuck you, pay me". You will not win the start-up lottery. If they don't offer an 83(b) election, you could end up in the red if they do exist. This happened frequently in 2001, it even lead to several infamous suicides.[1]

Are you 200% sure you will last the 3/6 month signing-bonus waiting period? If not you could end up with a liability greater than the value of the bonus. I had this when when a start-up outsourced ops to LoudCloud. They contested our unemployment claim and I spent $3k in legal fees fighting them, in the middle of the start-up recession.

Start-ups will not invest in you as an employee, and will drop you without a second thought. Expect to spend all of your free time learning new skills just so you don't get fired.

[1] https://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=17123680

(edited for spacing, and to add the anecdote about severance pay)
That was it for me. I hit the uninstall button. Enough!
I find the behavior of HN’s community as a whole, and its effect on submissions and comment scores interesting. I wish there was a way to discuss it, in like a meta-HN.

A few days ago I posted an article about how the EU proposes a new law that could give up to 6 years in jail for social media posts. A discussion got started but for some readon the post was immediately “flagged” and that put an end to all discussions and upvotes on it. Yours, I notice, was “dead” so probably flagged as well?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18051432
$5500 is not a realistic rent option for someone living alone. You can get one bedrooms or studios in nice neighborhoods for under $3000-$2500. You can also live 45 minutes away from employment centers and pay less. So the math is significantly different from that inflated price he is talking about.

Also by commuting you can use company busses if you work at bigco, subsudizing living far away.
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Oh really. Thanks for this. Will check it out.

We are heavy users of Google Sheets and Docs already so I know these will be used immediately.
Sounds like Chrome 69 really sucks. Would kick out of laptop for not deleting cookies.
99% confident that Atiyah's proof of Riemann Hypothesis is wrong, hopeless
Here is a good read on how the snitches do it properly, in this case the Metropolitan Police 'Special Branch':

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/29/undercover-sec...

Here the story is about going undercover in the former anti-globalisation movement.

Regarding the name 'Margaret', for me it is a bell-weather of name popularity, a reference point for other names to be compared by.
that's the one, thanks
"Messrs." is fairly common in British English, although it would be considered quite formal by most people.
But if the diagnostic code were correct and it were just a grey listing, that would be okay, wouldn't it? Just clashes with the mentioned five days.
From my POV it screams of, "If I can't have it my way than nobody else will have it their way!"
Tech employees and maintenance is more expensive on the margin than cookie bakers
MBAs are for social connections. If you want business knowledge, buy some textbooks
How can GDPR apply to processes running locally on your machine?

At best, you can claim misleading advertising (which, is often handled by the fair trade commission or something similar, and often has to show damages before they can award anything).
For a primer on the Riemann Hypothesis and the zeta function
After 5 years there, my conclusion was that the Bay Area runs on human souls. It might not be like the black lung, dirt-faced dangerous mines of old, but if you end up working 10 or 12 hours a day, are caged, distracted, annoyed (but fed!) at work, go home to a meager existence, have zero friends, zero romance, and your mind is hijacked to the point where you literally cannot think about anything else and relax, then your soul is being pretty much sucked dry.

Get out if you can.
It sounds like they didn’t understand your goals.

If your goal was to write some software or to learn something, then your approach was sensible.

If your goal had been to use a tool to accomplish XYZ efficiently, then their approach was sensible.

Most people - even software developers - are perfectly happy using software other people wrote or hosted. This allows them to do other things with their time that they find more enjoyable or higher leverage.

There’s nothing wrong with the choice you made as long as you’re aware of the reasons you made it.
Property values will certainly go up where mosquitoes had prevented enjoying an otherwise beautiful outdoors.
I recommend this read: https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/am-i-logged-in-or-not-gdpr-ca...
I would hope it's not like that. Not after reading a quote someone posted about Lowell just yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18060336
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We're going full circle here. The EULAs, licenses etc. of US companies that try to restrict how you can use the Hardware/Software you bought are void in Germany (probably most of EU too) and can be ignored. In many cases they void other (legal) parts of those licenses too since the license is partly illegal.
Democrats apparently didn't have the votes

Democrats had the only votes and the only say in every element of "Obamacare". Republicans were not even allowed to see the bill before the vote was taken, hence zero Republicans voting for it.
> Last time I checked baking my own cookies is more expensive than just buying a bag at Walmart.

Yes, but most likely they aren't of comparable quality
Only a small fraction of Chrome's user base will notice, and not even all of those will care. There are likely tech-savvy people reading this on Chrome 69 right now.
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In 100 years, the chance of anything running any contemporary software is zero (outside of museums). Except, maybe, for some old piece of Cobol on a banking mainframe.
Wrong. Plagues still occur unfortunately in the developing world as the Gates Foundation has been gloriously struggling against. And even in the developed world as AIDS and flu epidemics have shown. Even more insidious is that microbes have been suggested in the common scourges of the 21st century such as artheoscelosis, cancer and Alzheimers, though far from proven.
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Not be particularly salty, but Hacker News is not where I expected to face a slew of downvotes without commentary.

Anyone care to point out what I said that was so offensive, or nah?
I'd recommend supporting https://noyb.eu/ though.
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Worked for me. Switched to FF because I just can't trust Chrome anymore. FF feels like a breath of fresh air.
That's some story, thanks for sharing.

You took an analytical approach to finding a cure, and eliminated causes. I think this is something that is missing in medicine, with (for instance) doctors prescribing SSRIs and counseling for every depressed patients that enters their office. It's great that you created your own personalized approach and got help with it, but it still makes me feel sad for the people who are less lucky, and for the state of medicine in general.
GDPR can apply to personal data on a piece of paper. What matters is the data, and what is done with it.

Does that cookie get read by Google? Of course, or there would be no point. Does it enhance their tracking? Most likely. Is there a GDPR compliant opt-out without loss of features? At first glance it seems not.
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Ha, this does not affect me personally, because of the way I use Chromium. Instead of calling it directly, I call a script which copies white-listed files and directories from the main Chromium data directory to a new data directory in /tmp, and then starts Chromium with the new data directory as data directory. After the directory in /tmp is deleted, there are sure to be no more cookies from that session.
I don't understand why something like that would be illegal under the GDPR. You are told when you wipe your cookies that Google cookies won't be deleted. Also your browser letting you wipe your cookies is not some kind of human right.
You're forgetting the cost of fighting IT in a bureaucratic corporation to get them to let you buy/run non-standard hardware

Much easier to spend huge amounts of money of Azure/AWS and politely tell them it's their own fucking fault when they complain about the costs. (what me? no I'm not bitter, why do you ask?)
> 90% of the posts are garbage spam that takes the form of meme/image macro hybrid abominations designed to get likes.

I'm very active on Instagram and 90% of my feed is various electronics, art, and software projects, and family and friends' travel photos and photos of interesting stuff they come across in their day-to-day lives. If you don't like the idiotic meme accounts don't follow them!

What's missing vs. the Facebook experience is the politics, the rants from elderly relatives, the absolutely excessive poorly-targeted advertising (even in Messenger now!), and completely irrelevant posts that I'm only seeing because someone I know has liked or commented on it.

I expect all of this to change and for IG to be brought more in line with Facebook now there's nobody left to defend it from Zuckerberg. A sad day indeed.
I guess there always will be some masochists.
Yup, same. Switched to ff and bing. Was surprisingly frictionless. Next week I'll be off gmail too. Up yours google. The week after, I'm getting rid of my android phone.

I'm a high school IT teacher and have some influence over hundreds of students each year. I've already started to sprinkle in some discussion about privacy and will be sure to inform my students about the issues. Of course I won't brow beat my students, but i will encourage them to make informed decisions.

In aggregate, over time this kind of behaviour by google will hurt them. No such thing as too big to fail in tech.
It's absolutely infuriating that you can, with a simple NFS, cause an unkillable, unremovable, always there process to exist. There is simply no reason to require this.
In EU at least you can switch mobile operators and keep your number; also there is some bank account porting system (not sure if you keep your number). Same way E-mail porting should be also required, so I can keep my gmail address. If mobile operators could forced give up "their owned" number prefixes, and create (pretty expensive) technical solution, then why email domain holders cannot be forced to do same?
Ha, this does not affect me personally, because of the way I do not use Chromium. Instead of calling it, I don't.
This morning I opened Hacker News and two threads sat next to one another. This thread I'm commenting on now and another thread titled "Police forcing me to install Jingwang spyware app, how to minimize impact?" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18060543)

How poignant, and yet startling. Australia is seemingly following in the footsteps of China, a country famed for their strict censorship laws, oppressive and authoritarian nature and far-reaching surveillance powers.
I think the analogy holds. The numbers in the article assume constant usage (there is a nod to the cost of static storage, but all the math is done on $3/hr gpu usage, not $0.1/mo/GB storage).

So if your usage is 4 hours per week, 50 weeks a year, you hit $600/year of gpu. If your usage is 24 hours a day, you hit $27k.

So it's not a clear-cut "buying metal is cheaper" - you have to decide how your usage amortizes. As pgeorgi says, if your demand is a pack of cookies a week, buying a bakery isn't the most cost-efficient way to satisfy that demand.
Just got the update at work, and miraculously my uBlock adblocking extension was removed and DuckDuckGo as the default search engine replaced with Google. Looks like all my customizations were replaced by defaults. Now I'm wondering whether it was our IT's fault or due to Google actions.
Did that guy who binned his hard drive with his bitcoin wallet ever retrieve it from the garbage dump? Last I heard he was planning on digging up the entire dump to find it.
Thanks, this looks solid, with a really extensive documentation. I will give it a try for my next crawling/bot project :)
but the reply brings up a really good point - the purpose of the legislation is not what is stated (or implied) by the legislation.

Using this mechanism to achieve a chilling effect on activism has a huge detrimental impact on democracy.

We must be careful whenever a politician attempts to trade liberty for security - for fools who agree will soon have neither.
Get the tree style tabs plugin, it's an essential.
Computer scientists close in on a proof of the Unique Games conjecture
It's more like the opposite. journalctl -k displays the kernel messages, but with a considerable amount of extra overhead because it has to go though the journal daemon.

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/9afd5740391980fee5d8...
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/9afd5740391980fee5d8...

Whereas dmesg reads the kernel messages directly from the kernel.

https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/blob/99c92a4820569970...
I agree, but running Chrome on a Chromebook is not so easy to avoid :(
Because the cloud has economies of scale and benefits from specialization (cheaper power, bulk buying prices, remote land prices, etc)

Hence, some of these saving should be passed on to consumers and it should be cheaper.

The counter argument is that the cloud is over-engineered (redundancy, backups, better software) for enterprise customers. You u are paying for all these benefits whether u want to or not.
> rest of your electorate to be blaise about the subject matter.

This is definitely the root problem of democracy of today. Lives are comfortable enough for most that they don't really need to care for these issues (until it's too late).
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.6 m is quite devastating, but less so for US housing than for food security. Some of the world's producers of food are almost at sea level. If you'd like a hard nosed data and finance driven look at what global warming means, I'd recommend taking a look at this

https://fi.intms.nl/fi_43a1c02c/files/downloads/201808-jerem...
"General Relativity describes gravity perfectly everywhere we've ever looked. From the smallest-scale attractions we've ever measured in a laboratory to the expansion and curvature of space due to Earth, the Sun, black holes, galaxies, or the entire Universe, our observations and measurements have never deviated from what we've observed. "

So correct me if I'm wrong, but the rotation of galaxies completely defies even Newtonian principles, right?

So we invented concepts of Dark Matter / Dark Energy as a placeholder, crossing our fingers that we're right on that?
But its kinda useless because you can't remove the tab toolbar? Or so it seems to me.
I’ve never seen the movie but I read the book a long time ago. The description in TDOTJ of how to get a legitimate passport with false information is almost exactly the same as what the the police spies did for infiltrating political activist groups in the UK. I wouldn’t try it in the UK now though. Death and birth cert records are now collated at a national level. That’s not true in the US so it’s still possible. The record keeping procedures vary by state. Some states do it centrally, some are stored at the county level. The rest is left as an exercise for the reader.
The list of what's left after you "Clear all cookies": https://twitter.com/ctavan/status/1044286636991877120

Even YouTube's stuff are left, that's crazy.
It's hubris. Right now Google know they have the power to shape things the way Google want. That's true, but it's also true that users are more powerful than Google, becoming increasingly aware of the value of their privacy, and that Chrome is paid for with their data.
My guess was that standards of living were drastically lower back then, so the accumulated factory wages could make a difference. Back then, people lived in crappy little houses with no electricity, no water/sewage, obviously had no cars etc. There was relatively little stuff in their lives, so, as long as the land provided you with food, you didn't need much money. My grandma used to live like this in rural Poland - they occasionally bought something with money, like salt or matches, both mostly were self-sufficient.
Chrome 69 on Mac puts Close/Minimise/Maximise buttons in an additional bar when in fullscreen mode. It's super irritating to see an additional bar when you move mouse to top of screen.

I have downgraded to Chrome 68 and disabled auto updates.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/D0dB6j...
Probably because the site you linked sucks. Also the 'discussion' was pretty disappointing, some whining about the site and some inflammatory trolling. By one and the same person.
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Seriously don't know why anyone is surprised that a browser built by an ad-tech company pushes the user tracking tech of that company.

Just use Firefox and have done with it - there's been a series of these kinds of posts over the last couple of days with people suggesting insane workaround hacks instead of just changing their browser.

P.S. if you keep chrome because some websites only work properly there, maybe y'all should follow standards at work instead of targeting a proprietary browser like its 2001/IE6 again.
What's a default account?
If an organisation gets to a certain size, is it inevitable that it will eventually turn bad and disregard it's end-users' interests?

Is this just the nature of the beast?
I'd recommend not using chrom{e,ium} instead. They might be 'forced' by a court to apply bandaids, but they'll just find some new area to exploit.
This is my two cents, I've asked something similar a while ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8946451), there's some really good answers there. Unfortunately, I've tried them all but there was always something kicking me back in the "old night owl habits".

To give you an idea, my typical (great) day in the holidays was something like bed around 1am, wake up at 9am/10am.
Same as you this was difficult to accomodate when you have to wake up at 6.30am-7am the latest to go to the office.

What drastically changed everything was the discovery that I could wake up at 4am "like a breeze". I've started reading more about sleep cycle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_cycle) and circadian rythmn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_clock) and by that I mean trying to take that on account and apply it.

After much experimenting, I've found out I have 3 "wake up slots" where I can wake up with no efforts and feeling refreshed. During the last months they changed a bit but finally stabilized to : between 4.30am-5am, at 6am sharp and between 8-9am. Same with falling asleep, I can fall asleep in 20min or less if I'm in bed around 10pm or around 11pm. Anything after that and I have trouble to fall asleep - the owl is still around! :)

List of benefits is quite long but here's the best 3 for me:

- I'm in an "auto-piloted equilibrium" ; if I go to bed a 10pm I automatically wake up at 6am. If I go to bed at 11pm, I will still wake up at 6am but the evening after I will feel the urge to go to bed at 9.30pm already. I'm just not fighting it and oblige.

- Since my sleeping pattern is balanced, I don't feel worried or gloomy about sleep anymore (the "pff i will wake up late feeling like shit again" thoughts). I know that it will welcome me (which in turn makes it better). Mood improved a LOT.

- I don't need no stinky alarm clock in the morning. I set one up just in case but I haven't heard it for a long time.

Aside of that what helped also was to use a light box in the morning and having something to do right away ; I usually look forward watching a lecture on youtube while having my morning coffee.

Interestingly, it's been a month that I changed jobs for a full remote position. I thought the owl would come back (with a vengeance) but actually it is not the case at all! I've now completely ditched my alarm clock and I'm always up between 6-6.10am and slowly using the previous commute time for other things (sport mostly).

As said above, the owl is still there, I just give it free reigns over the weekend and not the week days =)
You can, you just have to mess around with styling manually. There are quite a few pages on Google telling you how to do it
which registrars are these?
It shows just how much better Chrome is on every other aspect.
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No it doesn't. Press Ctrl+Shift+Del and it takes you directly to a screen that lets you "delete cookies", which it apparently doesn't. What's surprising about that being illegal? They are literally lying to their users about their privacy.
Everyone developing for the web platform should keep in mind if their business actually supports their competitor.

Every time a user clears their cookies your site will be at a disadvantage if your business depends on ads or account login, not Google.
> Democrats had the only votes and the only say in every element of "Obamacare".

That's not actually true (Republicans had a significant say, even though thet universally ended up voting no), but even if it was the public option had long been controversial among Democratic politicians despite it (and even moreso simple single payer, which had a majority support ) long being overwhelmingly popular among Democrstic voters and having stronger support nationally than the purchase mandate w/o public option approach.

> Republicans were not even allowed to see the bill before the vote was taken,

Yeah, they were, they were also involved in the Committee process in the Senate in which it was drafted. They also filibustered it for quite a while, which gave them even more time in which to read it.

And of course Republicans in the House had still more time to read it, since it was voted on in the House after the vote in the Senate.

There are lots of reasons you can argue might have been behind Republicans voting against, not being allowed to read it is not one of them.
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I will be considered old by some youngsters, though in my head I'm still 17. And as an "elder", I'll concur that what said here by "old and jaded" is true:

Cash is king, startups will want you to feel "family" but you'll never be one. In the unlikely event equity is worth anything, converting it to cold hard cash is not always straight forward. In other words - take the money.
You can see him, talk to him, ask his name - and still not know who is it. Is he a super-rich former founder? A VC? Chinese agent? Inherited money? Etc.
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Yep. Google Chrome is not a web browser anymore. It is a portal to Google's services.

If you want to use a web browser, then use Firefox.
What about chromium? Can anybody confirm if it has the same problem? (I know it shouldn't, but come on, who trusts google?)