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We have the ability to automate almost everything needed for life. It seems realistic that you could spend all your time working on crazy ideas and cost no one a minute of their time.
Not to defend Apple but I'm not sure there are higher quality options really. I don't think Apple makes good software but it can be the best without being good.
Just a project I put together to make the many notification services out there easier to use. I'd love to hear feedback and/or suggestions!
And without the various typos, to boot.
Here's a simplified and better plan.

1. There's no normal 'filing', instead you just submit a statement of previous year earnings from all sources.

2. Institute a tiered GBI as follows:

0-25k = 100%

25-50k = 66%

50-100k = 33%

3. Then get rid of income tax and institute flat sales tax that can be easily modified by congressional approval, but no more than 1-2% per year up or down.

This tax should be applied across the board. If money changes hands, tax is taken out, kind of like crypto transaction fees, in fact if we moved to all electronic currency it'd be easier to just do that from the get go. So if you're getting money back from capital gains -- that money loses the transaction tax before you get it in your account.

Stop worrying about border control, and illegals stealing jobs, instead make the transaction tax higher if you aren't a citizen. If we have only electronic currency, it can also cut down on paying people under the table with cash, since cash doesn't exist. Furthermore, if cash doesn't exist - we can save a mint, by getting rid of the whole minting process. By making tax more for immigrants, we can stop saying they don't 'contribute', and only citizens would receive GBI, and healthcare.

Worried about whether it's even stevens or not? Everyone is a taxpayer, no refunds, loopholes, etc. You buy real estate, property, pay rent, pay a commercial lease, pay an employee the money is automatically taxed in transit. It's all programmatically controlled and simple, easy for everyone to understand, and doesn't require an entire industry of professionals just to figure it out. (Sorry CPA's).

Benefits: Get rid of most of IRS, CPA's, Fed, Welfare, Housing Assistance, etc... Save a ton GDP-wise, and get more money in the hands of the people to keep the wheels of industry spinning.
Why not just turn on airplane mode?
You seem to be unaware of the economic literature on trade. Without a doubt, trade barriers harm the public, regardless of which government initiated them (or reciprocates them).

The rest of your post recites the American Exceptionalist narrative, which a lot of people believe in like a religion (not saying you do).

But what evidence would it take to change your view? What if the main purpose of intelligence agencies was to conduct industrial espionage on behalf of US firms? What if government intervention in trade (forbidding private firms and individuals from free choice) was making the US worse off every year? What if China’s leaders are significantly more wise and judicious than our own? What if China’s people are actually more aligned with enlightenment values than most Americans?

The values you mention are found only in political speeches and propaganda messages. The US is the biggest state sponsor of terrorism worldwide, the biggest threat to peace, the biggest danger to our natural resources, and the most egregious violator of human rights in many many years.

Our leaders try to instill fear and skepticism about foreigners, but most Americans have much much more in common with the average Chinese person than we do with our own leaders.
> I'd recommend spending some dedicated time learning about layout, not leaning on a framework.

This 1000x. I was at a university that used Bootstrap in their Web Design class(!). And, predictably, it didn't work all that well. I spent some time tutoring one of the students and was amazed at the content they didn't cover. Not even modern things like Flexbox, but basic stuff like sibling/child selectors and the cascade.
lol, our justice system has been a joke for a long time. James Clapper and John Brennan are walking free after violating every American's constitutional rights and then lying to congress about it. Meanwhile Edward Snowden is a wanted criminal around the world for exposing their rape of the US constitution and roger stone has his house raided by 29 FBI agents with CNN filming in the driveway for lying to congress.

There's a Navy veteran rotting in Jail right now for taking a picture of his sub on his last day because it was technically classified info. Hillary Clinton is enjoying life despite having hundreds of pieces of classified info on her server

There are two tiers of justice in our country, get used to it. At least in this case it would benefit the average american
Akka.net is rather good.. Also akka is heavily inspired by the core facets of Erlangs actor model. It is certainly a parallel if not more.
What about updates for people who don't update often or don't even see that there's an update? This is way too critical a bug for people who don't follow the news to not be taken care of (their devices, I mean). Apple keeps pushing major new version iOS downloads forcefully down to devices without any way of opting out, yet what I've seen is that point updates are left as optional and may not even show up unless one checks for an update.

As much as forced new feature updates take freedom away from users, Apple needs to up its game on security fixes like this (that could be standalone) being pushed to all compatible devices ASAP (no waiting for the phone to be on the charger overnight, etc.).
That was a great course! I'm glad it's still accessible. I was not aware of this resource for courses. There was a fantastic course on probability from the University of Pennsylvania that disappeared when Coursera went through a change a few years ago. Maybe I can find that one there too. Thanks for the link.
I wonder how much this applies to any type of manager, not just a software project manager. Is the ageism a problem with tech, or just a problem?
31, married, $362,000 in a variety of index funds (mostly 401k, some taxable). $132,000 in ibonds, money market, CDs. $250,000 in a paid off house. Car is worth $5000.
so about $720,000 net worth.
Well you can do that (pixel perfect layouts) if you really want to or need to, and we often did in the early days, but that's really a failure to adapt to the medium.
I suppose I did suggest trying to convict Apple with aiding in wiretapping, I really don't think being the one they are aiding is a good idea...
thank you. we actually acquired a Shopify app, which already had some customers via organic app store traffic.

more here: https://blog.fomo.com/how-we-bought-a-small-software-startup...

(note, 2.5 year old post)
When you put “sensitive people make me sad” In your HN profile it debases your point of view.
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>And it works, too. Look at the quality of life in China, compared to India... Or Vietnam.

You're basically saying crime pays if you can get away with it. Everybody knows this, the thing is that eventually you can't get away with it anymore, which is what China is learning now as their economy gets crushed by tariffs and the world unites against them
Premature optimization, perhaps. Don’t optimize by sending audio too early (as others have suggested) and why should I be able to add my own number to the conversation if I that number is the call’s initiator? Makes no sense.
It's only a failure when viewed through the lens of application development.

The web platform wasn't initially designed for applications, it was designed for documents.

If you're crafting a document, you can separate style from content pretty neatly with CSS.
So your wife's use case would be : she would create a petition, her users would sign it, then she would download their contact details, correct? What happens to the petition itself? Is there any action on it?
It's not just the tech industry that is concentrated like that. I think more and more industries have these insane levels of concentration.

In 2016, an explosion at a single industrial gas facility caused a whipped cream shortage in the US. [1] I mean in the scheme of world problems, that's one we'll survive, but it does illustrate how vulnerable a lot of our supply chains are.

In 2007, the shutdown of the Canadian Chalk River reactor caused worldwide shortages of isotopes used for medical imaging, with real life consequences for patients. [2]

There are probably countless other examples. In the end, its the direct consequence of the constant quest to lower production costs and increase efficiencies.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/12/the-dead...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/06/business/worldbusiness/06...
> I also combed through the outputs to see what sorts of inputs were succeeding, what was failing, and observe how my program handled various edge cases. It was rejecting some inputs I thought should be valid, accepting some I thought should be invalid, and interpreting some in ways I hadn’t intended. So even after I fixed the crashing inputs, I still made tweaks to the parser to fix each of these troublesome inputs.

I love just looking through the absurd stuff AFL comes up with, even if it's not causing a crash or incorrect behavior. Like this bit of art it caused my parser generator to produce: https://i.imgur.com/VoV7cU9.png
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> Similar to how Nextels cellular "push to talk" fake walkie talkies worked.

Not really. The reason the PTT was virtually instant connect has nothing to do with optimization tricks, but rather is a purpose built design of the network tech it was using.

Nextel PTT didn't go over a normal cellular network, it went over something called iDEN[0]. iDEN provides a trunked radio service[1] which has a similarish feature to a conventional two-way radio. Sprint acquired Nextel and as iDEN wasn't as relevant anymore with the advances in cellular networks (despite those who actually used the PTT functionality), in 2013 Sprint shutdown the network to use it for additional LTE bandwidth in the 800mhz band[2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDEN

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunked_radio_system

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nextel_Communications
The amount of bugs like this, specifically lock screen evasion bugs, bug also disk management bugs we've seen, etc. As I said, this is not specific to Apple. The whole industry lacks security awareness, and because people don't hold these companies accountable, there is little financial incentive to change that.
> Once it becomes common enough the government closes the loophole and the creatives go back to finding the next scheme.

Creatives? Do you mean criminals. I do believe it is necessary to socially stigmatize the crime, if we do want to improve things. Pedophiles can be creative, but we do not go around saying "then, the creatives find a new to continue distributing child porn". (Extreme example chosen on purpose.)

> Politically it looks good to grab money from millionaires that look like they were exploiting your system.

Sure, or maybe it actually is good, because you get funds to use for public projects?
If someone facetimes you and hangs up, that can happen. (I've noticed).
It can be done well as seen with Japanese convenience stores. They keep no stock but never seem to be out of anything.

I’m not an expert but I think it’s a combination of insanely good modeling for each specific store and a super efficient and fast restocking pipeline.
Thanks for the tip. Looks like just what I had in mind.
My friend is a highschool teacher and he is teaching 12 years old kids how to program with Scratch, playing with Arduino and Minecraft. And his school is just a normal school in a small town. AFAIK they are pushing IT and English to be most important subjects in school, a lot of schools I know are recruiting IT teachers. I am amazed at what 12 years old kids can do when they put their minds into it.

Some pictures from the school: https://imgur.com/a/yaeGDCo
In short, they created a tool that makes it easier to optimize for GPUs.

Currently you need a good grip of- https://devblogs.nvidia.com/register-cache-warp-cuda/ to optimize your pipeline which is not pedestrian.

Now you can define what you want to do, and let Swizzle Inventor come up with the best way to exploit the register cache, apparently as well as top CUDA engineers.

Great for real-time computer vision applications that might need to solve large nonlinear least square problems.
I’ve been working with CSS for about 20 years now and it still baffles me at times. I understand selectors just fine and I’ve memorized most rules, but placement and spacing are still unintuitive in my opinion, not to mention all tbe browser-specific rules and overrides. Oh yeah and there are plenty of young devs who don’t understand that SCSS generates CSS and don’t understand actual CSS. It also doesn’t help that so many libraries and frameworks encapsulate all the CSS heavy-lifting for you, never forcing you to actually have to learn CSS, which is in fact hard.
Take a sick day
Saving like that on computers is a difference of about $60/month. I think most developers reading Hacker News can add more value than that with the faster hardware.
If you don't trust the software in the first place, there's no real reason for you to trust that airplane mode is actually effective.
> a perfect OS jewel of perfection appeared today, but with no other support for it...

Sounds like seL4 to be honest, and yeah, it's taking a while to see adoption.
This unrealistic anti-pep-talk isn't helping anyone but yourself.

When you're actually painted into a corner in life, and really are facing a bad situation with no support whatsoever, you get defeatist. It happens. Human beings have feelings, and no amount of vapid self-actualization bullshit is going to make you stop feeling those feelings.

And sometimes there really aren't any other options. If you have no money, and nobody is hiring you, and you have bills to pay, and you have no money, you will have to accept a "lesser" job. This isn't "defeatist", it's real life. You can't wish yourself out of a bad situation. People often have to work hard, from the bottom, until they get a foothold, and then slowly, slowly work back up.

But it's still massively more difficult to do any of this when you're older, because nobody wants anything to do with you. You're the awkward old guy at networking events, in job interviews, virtually anywhere anyone can see or hear you. Nobody - govt, schools, hospitals, banks, enterprises - nobody wants to hire an old person.

Also - "starting your own shit" ? "other countries" ? How is somebody with no money, no contacts, and no collateral, supposed to pull those off? Just wander into a bank and bullshit your way into a loan? Corner some VCs at a cafe in the valley and win $50K off an elevator pitch?
And yet, those people are still alive and well. What is the problem with getting less fibre than recommended?
Thanks. I'm DIY only to get the features I want without lock-in to a system, not DIY for the sake of DIY. If the Ikea suggestion in the sibling comment doesn't pan out, I'll have a look at Lutron.
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>> a presumption that an experienced person will not be "happy" working in what they would perceive as a junior level role. That they would find another position and leave

I have never understood this line of thinking. How long will an inexperienced person, once they have gained a smidgen of experience, be happy in a "junior" level role?

Young people are naturally inclined to be scouting for bigger and better opportunities, while older folks are more likely to value stability and the quality of their work environment, and are usually encumbered in various ways that make them less able to quit a job and move at the drop of a hat.

I suppose there's a valid concern that older people won't be happy with a junior-level salary, but that's something that can be discussed, and many older people would be perfectly fine with a somewhat smaller salary (especially if the alternative is zero income or minimum wage).

At any rate, I would presume young people are more likely than older people to chafe at their role and jump to another company, and I wonder why so many have the opposite perception.
"We must keep fighting for the kind of world we want to live in. On this #DataPrivacyDay let us all insist on action and reform for vital privacy protections. The dangers are real and the consequences are too important." - Tim Cook today in what is now a bit ironic

https://mobile.twitter.com/tim_cook/status/10900017677801799...
"Cleave" can mean both "to split apart" or "to join together".
Let's not forget https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2013-1050/ and https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2015-7496/ and https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-8900/ (to a lesser extent). Check out https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list.php?vendor_id=... for more fun.
The editor links are broken, 'Choose your editor for instructions'.

And it could maybe be a bit clearer what the sites actually supposed to do and how.
I have a lot of time messing with css that could have been solved in minutes using tables instead...
> "It's software" so of course it's buggy, he said. The notion that systemd has to be perfect, unlike any other system, raises the bar too high.

systemd is a PID 1 program, it means it have to raise bar higher. When troubles begin, you would need tools to fix them, and if PID1 is crashed, you are out of luck. If system cannot boot into shell, you'd need to fix it from initrd shell. Or to boot other system, to fix this one. It sucks.

Linux kernel chases very high standards of reliability, because when kernel panics it is even worse than PID1 crash. Init system should follow the same standards as linux.
> I think the idea behind intellectual property is to encourage people to take risks associated with developing something new and profit through their innovations.

No, the idea is to prevent other people from profiting through 'claimed' innovations.

> If all new discoveries were the property of the state/public then there wouldn't be a high incentive to be inventive for any given individual.

Most innovation is not done for money. It's done by people with genuine interest in the subject, often earning less than an average professional in the field. The vast majority of valuable R&D for computer(s/ing) came, and still comes from the public sector.

> It's like if everyone was a farmer but everything harvested was immediately taken from the farmer.

Why is it that intellectual property proponents always try to make analogies using physical property? Copying != moving/deleting. If I was a farmer and along came some poor hungry people that saw me farming, learned from it, then went and farmed their own land, I would have no problem with that.

> Why would any farmer put in effort to increase yield when they would not profit from their extra effort?

If we're talking about innovation, then because it could make farming easier, safer, more enjoyable, healthier, etc.
I thought the original SAFE was on casetext.com. Too bad this wasn't loaded there as well.
An inspirational read. Personally I am at a strange spot in life where I am trying to rediscover my own self worth as a programmer after working for several years as the CTO for a small startup company. I've been out of work for a few months now. It can be hard to wake up and know that the places I have interviewed are not interested (there have been several). It isn't that I am trying to get another executive position because a "programming" position would do me just fine. I am just trying to keep a positive outlook and move forward. So it is good to read about success, I guess, that is the result of hard work. Anyway I feel adrift. I am working on my own project/potential company so perhaps that will turn out to be a way to feed myself. Probably it wont. Am I out of the programming game for good? Sometimes I feel that way, but I can say that I was mesmerized by that first hello world.
> One thing was a movie, the other actually happens.

Fair point on the comparison, but industrial espionage isn't a one-way street.
>>take a proactive stance

What would that entail?
This sort of thing is why I'd prefer devices to come with hardware killswitches for mic, video, and various radio modules.
31, married, $70k in a 401k, $1.5k in a savings account. Don’t get student loans, kids!
Doh! Thanks so much. We just switched over to the new design and the header logo must have switched URLs to the classic home page.

And yeah - the book's been effectively repurposed. We'll get around to changing that up and updating the copy.

Appreciate you pointing these out!
>swatted down by a rare strike from the executive level

Was this someone you spoke to in anyway? Or was there any rationale hinted at?
"So far the only app I released (Autumn) was a bust because I stupidly released it on New Year's Eve so practically nobody knew about it"

Virtually no businesses work like this. Maybe NY Eve wasn't the best date, and it's great if you get a boost from the announcement, but you need to follow up with marketing, continue talking to customers, sales, calling people, etc. Most users will not hear about your business from the initial announcement.

A lot of times when you see a business take off after an announcement, it's because they worked for months prior to build an audience. Sometimes that's the developers audience (if you have a lot of twitter/blog/etc followers), or it can be because you preannounced it, collected emails, and kept them engaged as it was being developed. You still need a game plan for after the announcement though.

Good luck... try not to get discouraged if it's not an immediate success. (Your other point, about it being too niche, can be a problem if that niche isn't valuable enough.)
I concur. Do you concur?
I have to say, no matter how hate php gets. it's a great environment to get the shit done.
Thanks! A lot of political or social action groups have embraced us including Students For Liberty, PragerU, and Rescue Agency.

Hopefully more to come, but thanks for the tip!
If you visit a campus with your (or as) a prospective student, be sure to take and register for the guided tour. Signals of interest like these are absolutely a factor during admission season. If you go and dont let them know, you are wasting part of the opportunity. Already taken the tour and want to go for a second or third visit then arrange to speak to a faculty member about the departments you are interested in. Your department of interest almost certainly has prospective student days. Try to time your visit with one.
Professional resume writer and career consultant here, approaching 50, and I’ve helped rehabilitate careers of many clients in similar situations. The line that caught my eye was his quote “I have been unemployed for a long time." I believe the stigma of extended unemployment is worse than ageism.

What I do is a mix of marketing (maximize assets, minimize liabilities, optimize everything), strategy for job search (beyond “spray and pray” resume broadcasting), and building confidence for interviews and the general approach. You have to believe you’ve earned a seat at the table.

There is always more to stories like this. Qualified candidates can overcome ageism with proper understanding of the market conditions.
People always ask me why I have the camera on my computer covered. There is still far too much trust in technology.
Thanks! We're proud of that one. Also shout out to Webflow for being an awesome tool.
> Apple keeps pushing major new version iOS downloads forcefully down to devices without any way of opting out

iOS upgrades are not mandatory by any means.

> no waiting for the phone to be on the charger overnight, etc.

This is how you get phones running out of battery halfway through an update.
The Mystery of the Missing Moon Tapes
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