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Are There Parts of the Internet Today Similar to Old AOL/Forums/Communities
Hello,
I am in my late thirties and seeking to meet new people.

In the late 90s and early 2000s, I would meet people the following ways:

1.AOL Member Directory. Starting a conversation based on a common interest and talking for hours with a person out of nowhere. It was almost like a magical link to another dimension. The interests ranged from careers, stock trading, cooking, my obsession with retro 80's cartoons and my religous/political ideology of the month ( From 18 to 25, I was everything from a communist to Fundamentalist Christian to Libertarian to New Age progressive). After speaking to these people for a few weeks, we would often move on to related topics and eventually reveal more personal details . Some of these people became lifelong friends that I met in person.
2. Chat Rooms: There were often chat rooms. In one chatroom, we would meet for one hour each week to debate political ideology, religion, and philosophy. We got to know each other first and foremost based on our dedication to debate and ideas. Later on, we got to know personal details and met in person.

I am interested in meeting new people again.

Does anyone have any suggestions of any parts of the Internet where the "old rules"still apply. i.e:
Writing essays and/or message board forum posts that actually get read, discussed in depth, and responded to personally, in depth conversations either by email, private message or live instant message, chatrooms, etc.
In other words, are there any parts of the Internet where one can meet new people based on shared interests and ideas, engage in depth discussion, resulting eventually in RL friendships, career contacts, etc.

I would appreciate any thoughts or suggestions.
Thanks
What's a "bypass scanner"?
I thought your comment was funny too. But alas we have tons of experience with Wolfram threads collapsing into nothing more than "wolfram wolfram wolfram" in an outraged mirroring of the very thing they're criticizing.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

It's just another black hole, and one of the most trivial. And since (Wolfram being Wolfram) there are also interesting things in the submission to discuss, that's what we should focus on.
> many white collar workers also don't want to be associated with the image of people in hard hats, even though their power relationship with their employers is not that different from those of blue collar workers

I'm not sure that it's reasonable to bucket the bargaining position of all white-collar workers together. The negotiating strength of an employee is strongly tied to the supply and demand of other workers with a similar skillset, which varies widely within "white collar" industries.

> Acknowledging this would mean acknowledging the existence structural impediments to their career advancement that make the chances of their entering the C-suite very low, and that's a bitter pill to swallow.

No amount of collective action is going to significantly increase an individual worker's chance of making it into the C-suite. It's a simple question of numbers.
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well if you need indexed lookups, then use a database

if you're doing "table scan" processing of entire datasets, sure just-a-bunch-of-files would work too.

Databases can be surprisingly fast for things like that, since high performance file i/o is full of tricky/annoying stuff that databases have already optimized for.
You are pinning an awful lot on that missing request (as are Yelp, probably). Before we continue, are you a lawyer or do you just play one on TV?
Place to stay in exchange for a small equity in the Company?
San Francisco, CA
This. Their customers are buying into the brand.
Same in the UK mostly (although there is a bit of this culture in London). I remember my first job, it got to 5pm and my boss gently prompted me to go home. He was happy to let me stay if I wanted to on occasion to finisb something off, but made clear that it wasn't expectsd or the norm. It's something I've stuck to ever since.
Probably the closest thing to what you are asking for is pgBadger [0]. If there is a better tool I'd love to hear about it.

[0] https://github.com/darold/pgbadger
Sorry if it came off as asking for sympathy. I mentioned my compensation only to highlight the fact that I'm not cheap labor that's taking American jobs away. I happen to have some skills that top employers in the country deem enough to be worthy of half a million dollars per year.
Look at this paragraph a couple above the one you quoted:

> In the mid-Nineties, in my mid-twenties when I was working as a journalist in London, I took enough recreational drugs to keep me awake for nine days, at the end of which I was psychotic, sectioned, sedated and held in hospital for four months. That might sound dramatic, but I did it to myself and for all I know the treatment (including drugs since withdrawn from use) and the incarceration saved my life.

So, mid-90s, freaked out on recreational drugs, ended up in the hospital for four months.

Went on legal brain-altering drugs for a decade. Which would have him going off of them somewhere in the 00s.

...and then if you look at the paragraph right above the one you quoted...

> It seemed clear to me that if I could reach such an altered state through intoxication and insomnia once, and then do it again 20 years later through silence and concentration [...]

...we can pencil in about a decade of being off the legal brain-altering chemicals. Whatever triggered this, it wasn't the result of going cold turkey off of something he'd been taking up to the last day before starting the meditation course.
Yes, I come from an 'untouchable' country. :)
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>only a card-carrying electrician is allowed to do that!

Had I not experienced it directly (multiple times!), I would 100% think it was hyperbole.

My first 'real' job was flying around and recording conferences for a little shop. Chicago and Philly were by far the worst places to work. I was literally not allowed to plug my little hand held recorder into the wall without paying for a qualified union electrician to come in and oversee me.

Ignoring the over absurdity of it, on a personal level, how is it not completely embarrassing and demeaning for the electrician that gets called in? Is watching somebody plug in a cell phone charger fulfilling? I mean, I guess getting paid is getting paid, but damn, it just felt Kafkaesque every time. You take someone with talent and an actually useful trade, and then you make them watch other people plug things into wall sockets.
Sane words. However sometimes life pressures like building a nest egg for a family while advancing in age and having to support them through a tough (non US) economy, with few jobs sharply reduces available options in similar situations, piling up the misery.
Three meals a day including breakfast is basically lobbyist propaganda to support the cereal, milk, and egg industries. I'm never hungry in the morning and breakfast is unnecessary for me.
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That's part of what mirceal just said.
> I think it's fair to say that people are acknowledging the problem: it's possible for a large company to use the rights offered to them by an open source license to create products that effectively end the financial viability of smaller companies that lead core development of the project.

That's been true since the MIT and Apache license came into existence.

Your third item just reeks of justification. "not-quite pure open source license" is nonsense. This is not an open source license, at its core. The goal here is to prevent use.

So I don't think the third is a valid option when we're discussing "fixing" open source. It's a valid option for protecting a companies revenue stream, but in doing so that company is no longer an "open source company" by definition.
This article is an important read for any meditation enthusiast who isn't aware that it's not all rainbows and ponies. Intense meditation does affect brain structure, and how it affects different individuals can be unpredictable. This is why some people will need extra support.

I have done intense meditation before and became a much calmer person. I experienced a level of peace and harmony that felt like my mind was a spontaneously orchestrated symphony. I also experienced the so-called "dark night" that was as deep and expansive as the universe itself. I experienced what arises from "the void": anything and everything. I was able to reconcile all of these experiences by coming to my own understanding of what the "The Middle Way" in Buddhism is.

Mental journeys (or 'spiritual journeys') can be just as treacherous as physical journeys; they can be transformational in many ways, but sometimes people get lost and cannot find their way back.
ublock origin can sync between machines meaning once ever for an entire range of devices.
With the current hiring process mess I'm a strong proponent of more universal credentials. I would happily pay and test through some licensing option once than invest similar time for some of the current interview processes at each company. My time is more important than playing continual ambiguious and inaccurate qualification games.
I made this because I got sick of seeing passwords copied around in emails and on slack. Normally I would say "we should use GPG," but that's not always super user friendly for non-technical folks.

It encrypt's the body of the "secret" using a default passphrase, and you can optionally set your own to encrypt and "lock" the secret.

I opted to not add in any support for creating users at this point since my intention was to have a company run this internally on a private WAN, although I am sure my position on that will change.
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Posts like this make me want to remind people that there ARE good places to work. If you’re stuck in this kind of BS, there ARE alternatives. Just like relationships, there are many job fish in the sea, so don’t get discouraged, just find a way out.
The usual definition of open source is the Open Source Definition,[1] which was adapted from the Debian Free Software Guidelines[2]. The sixth item prohibits discrimination against fields of endeavor, which this new license would violate.

It's more like an especially generous version of shared source than open source.

[1] https://opensource.org/osd
[2] https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines
> At that point it's just an ARM linux box.

Fondly remembers Nokia N900
We should all spend a moment to really take in the fact that Yelp is a website that has reviews of restaraunts and other services. That this person needed to be on call 24/7 for a review website.

Not a hospital. Nothing was burning down. Not even transportation or infrastructure related.

A review website. 24/7/365. For a review website.
Nothing changed for me.

I will use Redis if I have to thanks to my circumstances, otherwise I will avoid to use or contribute to restrictively licensed ("fake free") software.

Redis has a business problem and they are trying to solve it. Fine. If need be just make it proprietary and move on, but don't waste our time on trying to persuade me that Open Source always means free. Today they're targeting Amazon, tomorrow it may be the rest of us.

If it's not BSD, MIT or Apache-licensed, it's likely restrictive so treat it as proprietary (nothing wrong with that, just don't waste my time by selling me your fake Open Source fairy tales).
I'll be honest. I was left feeling that the author has mental health problems and that this experience happened to trigger it. I'm coloured by past experiences as I've had a very good friend suffer from psychotic episodes that sounds very, very similar to what the author suffered. I think the idea that it was drugs, insomnia, or meditation that caused the problem is a rationalisation - one that my friend made as well (minus the drugs).

I witnessed one of my friend's psychotic episodes and it was probably the most terrifying thing I've ever seen in my life. They went from being the completely normal and wonderful friend that I'd known for years to (over the period of about 8 hours) slowly feeling like they could see and understand more and more about the universe. Finally they felt that they were a god and had a duty to overthrow a consipiracy against the world that only they could see. I luckily managed to persuade them to go to a hospital and after restraints and drugs they were perfectly normal again the next day.

Even as I say that the meditiation experience may have "triggered" the episode in the author, I don't understand enough about the condition to even say that this is probable or even likely. One of the things I learned about my friend's condition is that this feeling of knowing more than others, or "seeing the world as it really is" tends to bubble up leading to the very rationalisations that are used to deny the illness. My friend is very, very bright (and this seems likely to be the case for the author as well). Creating a running dialog of plausible explanations is easy for them.

I guess what I'm saying is that meditation may or may not have a dark side, but I'm relatively sure that the author's experience is not related directly to the meditation. It was an existing medical condition.
I second the Wire recommendation because you can sign up with an email address, and conversations sync across devices. Its feature set is also good (not as good as Telegram) and improving. I wouldn’t recommend Signal as it is still poor in features, speed and stability.

With Signal you cannot carry your chats to a new device (this is prohibited by design in the app on iOS)!

If you want to experiment, try both Wire and Signal at the same time, and you’d observe the differences quickly.
Until the introduction of Cloud Function support, I believe that was essentially the execution model for Firebase.
The Authorise / Charge thing has been around for a long time - it's the same thing that hotels do when you check in. I'm reasonably sure that all terminals have the feature.

It does, however, require that the machine operator is aware of how to do those operations - it's probably easier for them to just charge the card for the set amount, and refund in cash.

Though this slightly increases their risk, as any chargebacks means not only do they lose the product, but the cash too.
A retreat is more than just meditation.

As others have point out in the discussion here, a retreat typically includes at least some of the follow:

1. Sudden and drastic change in sleep / wake schedule than you might be used to

2. Sudden and drastic change in diet

3. Sudden and drastic change in level of autonomy vs collectivism

4. Sudden and dramatic deference to authority / leadership

5. A lack of, or complete absence of, trained mental healthcare professional

6. Potentially bad actors, presence of people with malicious intent. This may be subtle, and the agent may not be aware of what they're doing.

7. You may not even be aware there is an ongoing investigation to past wrong-doings[1]. I personally know people who attended ashrams connected with [1] who were not aware of the active Royal Commission investigation. Of course the Ashram didn't advertise the fact, so if you didn't happen to see it in the news you may not have been aware.

Call me paranoid, but I'm highly suspicious of anything and anyone connected to (quasi-)religious organisations.

1. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-14/children-lived-in-fea...
Soldering would make the toy permanent into whatever configuration it was soldered into. This allows for undoing, redoing, rinse, lather, repeat. That's what makes it fun. You do it once and use solder, you learn that you can follow directions and work a soldering iron. These type of "toys" can lead to experimenting by undoing, and then connecting to something else.
article != headline

I don't disagree that more information is often better than less, but you haven't really made the case for overstuffing the headline.

Imagine a potential developer equivalent - "man-tasked-for approving-pull-request" : reads to me like an absurd amount of detail for the title of a general audience news article... even if failing to merge in a PR is 100% the reason said developer was contacted beyond standard office hours in the first place.
The attitude that salaried employees are expected to be available at all hours is such a US labour market thing.

So much so that a (US headquartered) multinational I worked for gave up trying to get their EU employees to do weekend on call, as the team didn't want to get treated that way.
If you never ever need to selectively disable adblocking dns based solutions only suck in that they either work only in the lan, don't work with vpns, or require rooted devices to work. No downsides to be seen.
Sooo.... Glassdoor?
Historically this doesn't seem to be true but obviously it was a much larger group of people polluting the water.
What jobs? How can the developers get other jobs if no one is paying for their open source software in the first place?
If your kid for any reason including swim diapers sucking can't keep from shitting up the pool your kid just has to wait until this isn't true to swim doesn't seem like a hard choice.
Do what Jira does - your license is good for support and releases out to one year (or whatever) from renewal, but the core software and the entire ecosystem built around it is constantly moving. Nothing stops working if you don't renew your licensing, but the world moves on without you.

Why should your customers subscribe if the current one-time fee gets them everything they need? that's just poor business. But if it brings value, and the cost is reasonable, they'll happily keep renewing.
My point is speaking early on doesn't help with learning the language and isn't a barrier. On the contrary, it slows down progress. You shouldn't try to speak or even attempt to write sentences until you have large enough vocabulary in your brain with all the proper pronunciation and spelling associations and patterns, like to understand 80% of the words in a random article large vocabulary (or more, it takes many years to get to 99% and higher). Otherwise you will learn wrong things and form associations with wrong pronunciations because you had to make assumptions due to broken methodology and those take a long time to get rid of and relearn.
The one I did was breakfast 7 AM, lunch either 11 AM or 12 PM (I forget), and no food after that. I didn't find it an issue since I ate a big lunch then used little energy and went to bed early.
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I don't think that analogy works at all. Pets are cheap and easy to replace, but a favored pet is unlikely to be replaced sooner or later.
There's never been any sleep or food deprivation at any retreat I've been to. They keep an early schedule because that's what they used to. The routine that parent described is basically normal for your typical early bird.
> I mean, I could even understand implementing it initially out of convenience, but it's been years and they still haven't provided a means for authenticating with the service without using a means that will publicly identify you. As much as I wish to believe otherwise, I do not think this is unintentional :-( And if it's not unintentional, I'd really like to understand the reason.

That’s precisely what bugs me about these platforms. They all want to create the “social graph” based on phone numbers without giving the option to the user on how they want to expose themselves and how they want to construct their social graph.
Exactly. Few people get the difference.

Speculative trading is not investing.

Professional trading, esp with leverage, is extraordinarily difficult to gain the required mentality, discipline, knowledge, and skills be consistently profitable. The common saying is that 90% fail, I believe it's higher, perhaps much higher. Learning trading was the most difficult thing I've done in my life. It's hard in a way most people don't grasp.
The problem is it's "not a better option", because the outcome is poorer. There are plenty of people offering hacked up versions of Android you can put on Android hardware. If you want that, it exists. Purism is aiming higher, and creating something we need to replace Android, not just leech off of it.
Quite a big increase in price for the mechanical part. The kinesis is a good split starter board, or for office drones.
Yes, where needed, but I suspect for most people it's just a trade off of getting buzzword compliance in exchange for slow cold start responses
Other than what others mentioned (Cognito with temporary credentials) I think AppSync might be close to what you are looking for
https://aws.amazon.com/appsync/
It has a GraphQL API and supports DynamoDB as a data source
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A more comprehensive immunotherapy approach to cancer (which in my unqualified opinion is the real path to "cure") will probably require custom treatments specific to the patient's genome and cancer biochemistry/gene expression.

This does not match any sort of modern drug/device delivery method, which is all the corporate types want. It probably takes lots of labor and tests, not necessarily expensive, just not extremely profitable.

Which doesn't make me optimistic for its near term implementation.

Anyway, I've had a mother and three friends die of cancer. Basically, if the drugs and radiation failed, it was game over.
> they're rarely enforced in any meaningful sense

Your church sometimes enforces its rules about what you do outside of church in a meaningful sense? How does that work?
Ask HN: Should I Remove an Online Pseudonym?
I've gone by a pseudonym online for around 8 years, but now that I'm older (over 18) I've considered replacing it with my actual name so online work I do can be easily attributed to me. This includes social media, GitHub, forums, and normal conversation. This is not a nickname, per se, but rather an actual name different from my own (like John Doe).

My primary consideration is GitHub - I would like to have projects I create hosted by my real account used in these online communities. Any form of migration I do would involve changing package name (com.mypsuedonym -> com.myactualname), so there is also a bit of a development aspect to this.

Has anyone gone through something like this before, or is able to offer resources on the process? Is this something that is a good idea, or should I prefer to keep using the pseudonym for as long as I'm involved in things online? My opinion is that if a change is to be made the sooner the better.

Thanks!

Note: I don't have anything online that's sketchy, illegal, inappropriate, or anything to hide from a potential employer or grandmother.
Like the Goat Simulator?

Seems like we are there?
I'd claim to do the same, but I never really close the tabs, I'll just fire up a new window, and maybe come back to the old window mañana.
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How many meals do you eat a day and how many calories total? I eat 4 "meals", including right after I wake up. But they are usually 500-600 calories each.
no, it's not. bigger deal is that single letter vars make it much harder to search for variable usage in files using arbitrary editors.
Well step one is figure out how to import it to QGIS. Then learn enough to make a map you like ( which is pretty much the getting started tutorial). Then if you know python you can probably write a script to automate it for other chunks of your choosing.
For my work laptop, I don’t care if my laptop is running an Intel or Apple chip, but for my home laptop, I regularly dual boot to Windows for gaming. Without an Intel chip, I’ll stop buying Apple laptops for home use.