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If there was a national scandal in the UK I can almost guarantee the coke CEO would be out placating politicians. Lip service is important in politics as is keeping up appearances.

We all knew that the UK didn’t have much real power over these US multinationals, but Zuckerberg made it visible. A government looking weak In the face of a single 36 year old is a sovereignty issue. It’s a huge loss of credibility at home and abroad. It has shockingly little to do with the underlying issue.
friends who have bought homes are experiencing
a depreciation in their investments

Wait...So lack of affordable housing is a bad thing, and housing becoming more affordable is also a bad thing?
XNA is basically just some high-level APIs. Even ConcernedApe (StardewValley developer) has recommended against using it: https://community.playstarbound.com/threads/game-development...
> Pair up

That could be challenging for many people for multiple reasons. Have you considered the possibility that you found (by luck) a rather exceptional partner and thus your model could not be replicated on the society at large.
Until you are the type of person that is always focused on others and wants everybody to be happy, often at the cost of expressing your own opinion. Then you'd need a dose of Ayn Rand and you also won't be popular on HN, but what the hell.

If you strip away all the industrial entrepreneur worshiping, there is a beautiful lesson about the ethics of expressing what you want and allowing loved ones to do things for you, because they want to see you happy, because they love the real, full you. I guess one can come from many sides but in the end I agree with the writer of this piece, it is about accepting yourself, including the things you don't like. If you've seen Naruto, this is the height of the series for me: [0] (None of the movies will play though.)

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=naruto+hugs+himself&t=ffsb&ia=vide...
Based just and only on Zunger's response to the infamous Damore memo, and his involvement in G+, I'd say that his ethics are highly ideologically situational.
Thanks, not sure if I would read an entire book on it though. What source of data does he use?
As far as I can remember -- my entire adult life -- I've heard about this great real estate bubble in the big cities. Every year I hear NYC and SF are about to crash because the growth is not sustainable.

I assume this myth has been around much longer. Perhaps people know what was being said or written in 90s, 80s, 70s and 60s.

But in spite of all this, in spite of temporary slow downs and slight blips, the broader market just becomes more and more expensive. Numbers that seem to make no sense, or seemed absurd even 5 years ago get blown past.

I don't know what the reason is, but I would love to read a truly satisfactory explanation for this.
> my learning and growth had pushed me out of the space of the "computer for the rest of us." But I'm sadly not quite ready to leave.

This implies that apple started as a layman's computer, and their market position has remained stable over the last, say, 15 years.

I'm not sure that's true. While your capabilities and requirements may have grown in that time, I think Apple made a similar and opposite transition, away from a (relatively) low quantity of high power users to a high quantity of low power users.

This movement has left a palpable void in computing. You can get great tech specs anywhere, but apple's hardware and OS usability are something special, and no longer being the target of that blessing is a heavy blow.

This is an idea that I find comes up a lot, but that I don't feel is common knowledge, so if anyone feels differently about it, or can validate it with some data, I'd really like to know.
Its not like there is much of a barrier there.
It’s slightly more complicated. In most major markets, the dominant carrier wouldn’t agree to Apple’s demands. So Apple made a deal with the 2nd or 3rd place Cartier. People wanted iPhones badly enough to switch carriers. Then Apple was able to make a deal with the dominant carrier.
Sustainable Growth (by Carl Rasmussen)
Anyone know if ALB supports custom authentication lambdas? That's one of the big features that's keeping us on API Gateway.
Not for Linux, but it's how I approach new programs I have to work on.

I can't decipher this 1000-line function, but it came from somewhere. What did it start out as? That's what the author originally intended it to be. What caused it to grow? That's what features someone else thought it needed.
Sure. I used the word ‘feminism’ for brevity, and because I wasn’t really sure what else to call it.

I’ll try to summarise what I mean. Women used to be under great pressure (cultural, religious, family) to find a good man and settle down. They were also shamed for promiscuity.

In the western world, we’ve largely got rid of all this pressure and shame (thank goodness) but the fact remains that women face a very different biological reality to men. Most of them have a powerful urge to be a mother, and a limited window in which to do it.

Anonymous city living, dating apps and the removal of shame associated with promiscuity have made it extremely easy for a young woman to enjoy being a “25 year old sexpot” (her description, not mine). Male attention is plentiful, and as a result there’s no reason to hang on to a particular man, why not keep looking and see what else is out there? Ask any younger guy who has been on the dating scene recently - 20-something women are increasingly flaky and unwilling to commit to anything.

I don’t begrudge women any of this, but the big lie I mentioned is the idea that a woman can just switch into “long term partner mode” when she decides the time is right. Building a relationship stable enough to have kids in takes years, and a man (generally speaking) doesn’t want to feel like he’s been chosen just as a sperm donor. Guys who want to commit, want to commit to a 25 year old sexpot. And the ‘alpha’ guys who will never commit can always find another 25 year old sexpot.

This is what I meant by the big lie. I’m not trying to say it’s all terrible or that society is going to hell, but it has backfired on the women who don’t recognise it.
I believe that the phrase "a stopped clock is right twice a day" is very applicable right now.
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What would you like to know about our company?

The accounting for Norwegian companies are public, ours can be found here:

https://www.proff.no/selskap/scrimba-as/oslo/internettdesign...

We're two co-founders, Sindre and I. Our Twitter profiles are here:

https://twitter.com/perborgen
https://twitter.com/sindreaars

If you actually spend some time researching, you'll find plenty of information about us and the company.

As for "collecting VC money" we've raised around $250K from angel investors and one Norwegian VC and we've also gotten a loan (which we're partly personally reliable for) from Innovation Norway.

Feel free to ask if you'd like more info.
I think you have a point, but I would probably point to Adobe as what Apple should have done in the cloud, or even something like Airtable. I think Excel is such a lock in for some industries and Google is already providing a free alternative in google docs. Apple probably had an opportunity in providing services for its designer/artistic focused customers as a starting point.
> I have no answers. I wish I did.

I think this is something that VR tech good enough to make you feel like you're really in the same room as someone (meaning not just visuals, but sight, sound, touch, smell) will help with. That may be hundreds of years away though.
Adding fuel to the growth spurt. We're opening up a data center in frankfurt and opening up / growing more offices like NYC
I've simply used sbt assembly to create a far jar. It includes all of the needed dependencies.
Preexisting conditions are still a thing if you cannot afford normal health insurance because you are self-employed and have to scrape by on short-term health insurance. It sucks.
The 'government help' being referred to above is specifically help that limits competition between privately held enterprises.

I'm not sure how your examples limit competition.
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I've seen a driver watching porn on a maybe 20 inch screen while on a packed but still speedy Autobahn. One hand holding the screen while steering with his wrist pressed against the wheel (looked rather elaborate and acrobatic even), kinda, while the other hand was out of sight and "busy" somewhere "below".

I've seen another driver having her foot on top of the wheel, cutting her toenails with a clipper, also on the Autobahn.

And the amount of truck drivers I seen reading a newspaper (actual-paper one, usually "Bild") while behind the wheel is astonishing.
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That's cool. I have a small (11") windows laptop that I put Ubuntu on and it took me a bit to have all the display settings to work properly, especially with HiDPI and weird scaling. Nothing ever looked quite right for me.

I had a chromebook for a bit and I really loved it but felt too uneasy with Google having 100% supervision over all of my internet activities.
1. EMBRACEd Linux by buying a board seat on the Linux Foundation

2. provide a Linux-y OS, and EXTENDed it; but require a proprietary lock-in by requiring Windows and VS-Code to code for it

3. Who can guess what happens next?
What times of day are you driving? I can tell you that when I drive 101 south, I get stuck at the construction chokepoint at the East Palo Alto IKEA (between University and Embarcadero), and that adds at least several minutes of slow-and-go driving compared to before the construction started.

The only way I'm driving fast down 101 south is if I'm there at 11 am. Which counts as morning, but is also unreasonably late even for salaried workers in a relaxed company.
Voluntarily serving others through time or money is definitely a good way to find some purpose, or at the very least, just not feel so selfish. A good opportunity that I've found that other HN folk might be interested in is donating your time to STEM clubs at public schools, especially those with less advantaged kids. They're usually after school and the one I'm doing is in the Lego robotics competition targeted towards 5th-7th graders.
Perhaps those languages also enjoy wider adoption in China than elsewhere in the world? Similarly, the software engineering industry has certainly advanced more rapidly in China than elsewhere in the world (as an artifact of China's rapid economic development), so their language adoption is likely skewed toward more recent languages (like Go).
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Buffet basically admitted he wanted to invest in tech, but didn't research very well which company in tech to invest in. IBM was more a dart throw amongst tech companies than any real research.
What "decline" are you talking about? Manhattan is more vibrant and bustling than ever before.

Your home shouldn't be an investment. It's actually good if home prices go down because that makes housing more affordable. Housing can be either affordable or an investment, but not both. There's plenty of other investments you can park your money into so it's better that housing be affordable.

I'm used to seeing HN comments where people who don't live here say all sorts of obviously untrue things about NYC (like how a lot of it is vacant) -- but you've lived here for ten years.

In what way exactly do you think Manhattan is declining? (Except subway service, that's well known.) Why is it a problem if people are not buying second or third houses?! Is this a 1%er problem?
This is becoming a common thread these days; assuming the male is the aggressor. I've heard stories of girlfriends beating their boyfriend so bad as to have him visibly bleeding, yet when the he calls 911, he is the one that gets arrested with the police saying something along the lines of, "Yeah, there's no way a little girl like that beat you up."

I would venture to guess that the majority of domestic violence is male against female, but we have to start recognizing and allowing for the fact that it happens the other way around more often than we might be willing to think.
As a Canadian who moved to the US for work, I've felt many of the same things you've mentioned about your move to Canada!
Personally, my affinity for the free market came when I studied economics in undergrad.
I wouldn't necessarily say nobody questions it, but I agree that it is more socially acceptable to blame the boomers. But... it's not exactly unpopular to malign millenials, either.

Personally if you gripe to me about boomers too much I will probably tell you to quit bitching and take some responsibility. In particular if you are young, I will remind you that you have more voters in your cohort than boomers do, so not only should you quit bitching, you should direct that energy to getting your fellow young'uns to go out and vote. After all, most of the consequences of today's politics will be borne by the young.

I also think that as much wisdom as their may be in old people, there are lots and lots and lots of ignorant jerks who aren't worth the powder to blow 'em up. Same for young people. Conversely, I've met some teenagers with more innate wisdom than most people ever get in their whole life.
Money laundering and export of funds from stricter home countries.

Chinese and Saudi Arabians own a very large portion of our country.
My own view on this is closest to Aristotle, but I will present you (HN readers) the full menu to choose from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudaimonia
We us NATS (and STAN) for real-time IoT metrics and reporting with a high cardinality of subscriptions. The throughput from a single NATS box is very nice (we currently send 100K+ messages/sec using a single EC2 instance running NATS).
I work at Asana - Site Lead for NYC

What I find most fascinating about this company is that something that sounds relatively unsexy - work management for enterprise - can be so well aligned with a truly unique mission. Enabling teams to collaborate effortlessly. For anyone who's worked at a dysfunctional company - politics, low morale, low transparency - it makes a huge difference when you have tools that help you collaborate and get on the same page.
You have a wrong idea about highrise living, and in particular distinction in between main highrise classes.

I classify three that are well recognised around:

1. Standalone towers with chic small apartments - those are more oriented towards bachelor living for upper working class. Think of them in a "starbucks vs a restaurant" comparison.

2. Apartment complexes - these are city block sized developments, with more or less fully managed amenities, some times including daycare, playgrounds, mini-strip malls. These do avail for family living.

3. Shitty box apartments - for everybody else, the cheapest option.

> but attempting a 40 story apartment in Mountain View would be by howls of protests from environmental groups.

I think 40 storey's will not do it in such expensive neighbourhood. It can be economically feasible with 50 storey with modern construction technology, and 60 if you can make it look "high-end" enough.
We didn't have Fortnite but we had many other venues for entertainment on computers: MUDs, Ultima, DOOM, Duke Nukem 3D, Wolfenstein, Wing Commander, etc. etc. The list goes on.

My early family life resembled the parent's. The difference in my case and related to your point wasn't the absence of distractions it was to get at them I had to learn how to make the damn computer work. I once tricked my 286 into thinking it was a 386 so that I could install Windows 3.1. All for the purpose of... playing solitaire. Yeah, that's how bored I was.

I'm not even sure I could replicate doing that today. As a 9 year old I was better with a rudimentary BIOS than I am today with a modern one. I'm pretty sure it was because there was a barrier between me and what I wanted and the only way to get it was to figure out that horrendous system.
Interesting. I did not realize the history behind Chick-fil-A. I stand corrected - that was a poor example. The extent of my knowledge there was the christian underpinnings of Chick-fil-A's founder and the statements made in the article.
I tried to read a few articles/websites about parenting when my kids reached the three years. The problem is that most are about what at that time is the current fad in psych country. Most of that stuff is made up as they go without any scientific proofing what so ever.
Never found a good one tbh.

I tend to follow the following guidelines:

1. punishments generally don't work as a long term solution, only apply when temper is lost :-)

2. Give lots of freedom so they can make errors. Only apply a rule to a situation when you can make a logical argument about it and make that rule situation specific instead of general.

3. Spent time, talk to them, play games with them, make fun with them know what's going on in their live.

It's not perfect but so far they are decent individuals and i have lots of fun
GCJ was abandoned. Is there an AOT Java compiler that isn't severely proprietary and more expensive than a stack of laptops?
Not sure where you live, but "pick a different road" doesn't really work for 99% of the country.
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The lady isn't struggling with meaning - she's struggling with having lived a care-free life and is now realizing that the ability to form a family and/or have a career that earns above average, has passed her by.

There isn't anything to 'do' to solve this - because there is no problem. She's made trade-offs she wasn't fully aware of and now she's coming to see them for what they are. She'll pout for a few days/months/years and then move on with her life.

This 'become something that is worth being' aka Jordan Peterson cult of 2018, is going to run it's course too, because most people are average, and this 'worth being' is always something an average person isn't already doing. When they start doing it, 'worth being' will become something more difficult surely because it's never enough. What a great way to view yourself as above others and continue being an ego-maniac (what Jordan Peterson is)
Interesting. As part of your Comp Bio PhD did you learn the fundamentals of AI research? How are you planning to transition?
The article probably struck a chord with people who either feel the same way as the author of the letter, or can strongly empathize with her feelings.
It is very true that many people can't and won't be able to pair up, but they can group together other ways. You can build a family many different ways. One of the major problems with modern society is that the only reliable companionship any of us ever really find is in our romantic partners and that's a sad byproduct of our alienation from family, community, and work in general. You can find others like yourself, commit to one another, care for one another, and build a home together that has meaning in its own way. I have an aunt like that who never married, but she has close friendships even into her old age that mirror a marriage (maybe she is gay, I don't know or care). But she found a way to build a home like that.
I think people would like to live in a freehold house and take transit to work if given the option between a lease hold apartment with all the extra costs ground rent, management changes etc
Wonderful. I just updated the FoundationDB packages in NixOS to 6.0.15 at the release earlier this month. Will try packaging this up soon as well...
This. We think we can see clearly with our senses and command the world at will, and we can, compared to ants. But what would an ant thinking about a river it's observing be like? Ok tbh idk if an ant is best expample, lets just assume its able to think to the level I'm describing. So the ant is looking at the river, what does it see? Most likely just a bunch of shimmering stuff, just randomness. Maybe it notices there are patterns but, it likely has a hard time even determining that what is in front of it has the same stuff that it finds on grass in the mornings. The thing is, the ant can't really see anything clearly. What it does know, and can see clearly is navigation of its tunnels and working with the other ants.

Unlike ants, we can use our rationality to go beyond our senses. Instead of looking at rivers we look at space, planets around stars light years away.
Thanks for chiming in here. I've been reading some of your others articles. I like the very practical style and results focus.
This would be amazing! At lot of ML use cases are largely unfeasible in lambda on python without serious pruning. Latest version of tensorflow is 150mb uncompressed, add numpy pandas etc to that and it adds up fast. I think 1 GB uncompressed would be pretty reasonable in the current state of ML tools, personally.
The demand side of it is that with every decade, the midwest's manufacturing economy shrinks, and more of their population empties out into the coastal cities. The supply side of the problem is detailed here: https://i.redd.it/ibo81s465yy11.png
Sorry, I wasn't clear.

I meant that women who don't become interested in having a long-term committed relationship until later in life have the option of dating men who followed the same path as them, as well as the option of dating divorced men.
The problem I have with this answer is it basically denies the problem exists.

Sure, in a sense, everything is subjective. All suffering is caused by the lens through which we filter reality. I believe Viktor Frankl writes persuasively on this topic after his experience in a concentration camp.

But that’s a non answer in any practical terms, and telling someone their suffering is all in their head is rarely a solution for anything.

This person made a series of choices over many years that has led to being 35, with no partner, no kids, no career, and no artistic pursuits. This legitimately sucks and is a hard problem that can’t be fixed overnight. It’s certainly not going to go away by denying that it sucks and all you need is an attitude adjustment.

The person who wrote this response has a husband, kids, a prominent column and a book deal. She should be ashamed for her response.

The person writing in can change their life, and all those awesome experiences will be of use and enrich the future. But the change toward the life they want will probably require small, incremental, consistent steps, hard work, and honesty.

Anyway, that’s what I think.
Awesome! I'm so excited to see this support. :D
> I am sorry, but of course there is no hope of a normal family for a woman of this age.

Eh. While we married much younger, my wife and I had our two kids when she was 38 and 40, and we have age peers who found life partners around or after 35. Unless you are involving a simple tautology by defining “normal family” to be one started before leaving the 20s or something like that, you are just dead wrong.
Great! I do not like API Gateway complex setting anyway

haha
May be the only one(?) on here who is hyped for using CFML natively on Lambda. Now thanks to the work of a member of our community we have a proof of concept in Fuseless http://www.fuseless.org as well as the open source CFML http://www.lucee.org folks hinting at a Lambda project. Only six months ago people told me it was never going to happen but I now see that changing.
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But what if you don't have a recent Thinkpad? It was still kind of a pain to get Ubuntu on my 11" Yoga laptop. Hi DPI settings and display scaling never worked quite right and neither did the touch screen.
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