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Hey man thanks for this...one thing I never want to do is to make a spectacle of myself and my predicament, so I am always really hesitant to bring it up bcuz, yeah, I get it I fucked up my life pretty damn good and people in general have plenty of problems themselves.

Yes I'm looking into perhaps putting together a classroom on one of those pretty killer live educational apps that are available these days. I used to teach guitar 30 years ago and I really enjoyed it, although I'm not sure I'm the best teacher ever.

Due to my BG check issues, I am currently quite poor. I can't really afford housing so I sleep outside on land owned by the Post Office.

Why they don't kick me off is something I haven't been able to figure out, but I'm grateful they let me stay so I clean up their parking lot and common area 3-4 times a week.

Trust me...the poor get the barest of scraps already, so of course they get nothing "when cities grow". What I've seen is that a few people with very large hearts and a ton of compassion make regular stops with a big pot of pasta and ice cream and maybe a pack of socks, under ware, and t-shirts.

To be honest, I've always been very much a loner so I don't really make friends with other poor people as most poor do in order to keep up to date on where the free places to eat are and all that kinda stuff.

I really don't want to be poor like this, but I guess it's no one's fault but mine why I'm in this predicament.

What I want more than anything is a job, but at last look I have 7 felonies (6 possession charges and a 2nd degree "Escape" charge that's always kind of fun to explain), but when you run a BG check on me thru some of the very popular and cheap apps out there, due to bugs in their systems and the way I've moved around a lot, it literally looks like I have about 50 felonies because apparently these sites create duplicates that are missing info and then since they don't "match" to the real charges, the database logic inserts them as different charges.

I tried contacting the companies, but they refuse to even look at the issue and I'm sure think I'm a super junkie who has 50 felonies.

I don't really think it's fair to not give me a chance to work because of stuff that's happened 30 to 8 years ago. Don't you guys feel like a totally different person than you were 8 years ago? Like aren't we supposed to forgive people who have been through a lot of pain and suffering and who have learned new ways?

I mean...these possession charges are a life fucking sentence!

It's SUCH a shit grind to go thru 3 to 4 long interviews, and to feel like you did well enough to get hired, and then never get called back about what happened. The last 10 jobs I've applied for I've gone through this same exact thing, and even though I hate being poor like I am more than anything, being the victim of a silent discrimination is worse.

> But the article isn’t about re-litigation of that election, or the next one. It starts from the premise that the result of the election was unprecedented, and that someone like Trump would not have had a chance in earlier times.

I'm supposed to blindly believe everything I read in highly pollical magazine like that one?

Millions of people loved Trump because of the way he spoke so directly to them, and not like a typical politician. There is nothing at all "unprecedented" in that election...inferior candidates have been losing elections since the beginning of the US.

That article was so full of FUD and wrong-headed nonsense I had to refute its assertions.

So let me get this straight...

Facebook is the reason that Trump got elected?? This is possibly the most asinine thing I've heard in a very long time.

Trump got elected for several reasons, and Facebook had nothing to do with it.

1. H. Clinton was perhaps the worse presidential candidate in the history of the Republic. She rarely if ever campaigned in the all important Rust Belt states, she could not even articulate a reason, when asked, about why she wanted to be President.

2. She and her husband were sitting on a very suspect war chest of like $168mil US...remember, these were the same people who complained 15 years earlier when Bill left the Presidential digs that they were like totally broke with little or no savings.

So this couple had earned WELL over $160mil (not counting their quite significant expenses) in 15 years since Bill left office? Why? Why in the world were so many people just giving them millions of dollars?

To many a hard-working US voters who have struggled their entire lives to save a small amount for retirement, this smelled of "pay to play" on-the-come corruption...and she didn't even try to hide it!

For these reasons, and several more but I don't have the time to post them, H. Clinton did not get elected President in 2016,

Just to keep the record straight.

browser validation keeps honest people out.

I am completely baffled by the imposter syndrome talk.

Guess what? We are all imposters, all of the time! Our whole lives are filled with times we are thrown into situations that we have no idea how to handle, and the act of just living them makes us imposters.

Like who wasn't an fucking "imposter" the first day of kindergarten? Do you stress about that? How about first day of high school? Your First date? Yes without a doubt you could be classified as an imposter in all of these cases.

And yes...at times during work you are going to be expected to know more than you do, and its your fucking job to deal with those feelings and get shit done. That doesn't make you an imposter, it just makes you someone who need to learn something they don't know yet.

Why in the world would you bother to think that your being an imposter? I don't understand why you would waste even 5 seconds stressing about this.

You were almost surely hired not only for what you know, but for your perceived ability to quickly realize what you DON'T know, and then to research options and select the one that solves the current issue.

It's called "learning",,,not "imposter syndrome".

How amazing...great job sir the site/app looks very promising!

Being a mid-50s dev with 35 years of programming experience, I'm finding ageism (or something) blocking my ability to get hired these days, so teaching is something I've been seriously thinking about. Your platform could very well be an ideal way to explore this path.

So a practical question...do you have any way to gauge course interest before one spends the time creating it as to make sure there will be a profitable number of students when the course starts?

As someone who is needing some income, I would hate to blindly spend a few weeks creating a course on, say, LAMP-stack + Bootstrap webapp development...only to find out that only 2 people are interested in this tech and I just spent a month to make $100 bucks or whatever.

I'm sorry if this is perhaps coming across as "crass" or something like that with simply focusing on the income side of things, but in general having a list of course topics that potential students have expressed interest in sure could be a useful thing to help one build courses that people actually want.

Anyway...congrats on the launch. So far the site seems really easy to use (LOVE the single email registration/login prompt! You have no idea how much I've argued for this sort of thing with past clients) and hopefully this will be the start of something mutually beneficial.

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Sounds like your the type of person who most definitely shouldn't be renting any property to people.

The simple fact is...when you start accepting money to allow others to use your stuff, things out of your control are going to happen. Of course, I'm not excusing these "certain type of people" you are discussing (I think most of us call those people "assholes"), but as they say...shit happens.

Am I a total idiot as I am completely unable to get any output from this?

I mean, I spent about 5 minutes reading the various inputs and trying to modify them, yet I am baffled as what to do to actually see, or even know what's going on, what the system is producing.

Very frustrating.

I believe that scenario totally depends upon OPEC's ability to keep prices artificially high by limiting production of its vast supplies of oil.

I remember a few short years ago when fracking was dominating the news about oil supply all the talk from the Middle East producers were about just that...limiting production in order to "break the backs" of all the American wildcat frackers,

I guess with a President in office who seems to want prices to go through the roof, its much easier for them to do just that.

I am almost positive this depends upon how socially active and adept the individual is, and if they specifically seek and join internal societies that work at promoting this sort of post-grad networking.

I graduated from the Florida Institute of Technology and although I notice that Amazon is currently loaded with alumni from there, when I applied I received absolutely no "insider help" or whatever from anyone employed there.

Are you saying that a luxury watch costs the same as a luxury car?

If that is true (which I find incredibly hard to believe) it literally makes no sense. The utility and the ability of a car to give you a ROI compared to a watch is almost infinitely more.

Well the obvious issue here is...how do they truly know you wrote the code? Its pretty much impossible to source where OS code comes from, and it sure wouldn't be hard to find an obscure OS project and pass off the code as yours, if you were that sort of person.

And this takes me to my 2nd point, and that is they current hiring model totally leads to companies hiring people who are good at interviewing not necessarily people who are good at doing the work required. There is no doubt t that interviewing for a job is a skill that can be learned and improved upon, and lots of crappy programmers have learned to be damn good at being I interviewed.

Sounds pretty close to RSS to me...what do you see as the difference between what you envision and existing RSS?

I believe you are talking about the Microsoft ODBC API which was language and platform agnostic data acquisition layer. Early versions of it had pretty bad performance issues if I remember correctly, but eventually it became somewhat useful.

I believe that developers back in the 90's wanted a way to "drop in" various low and higher cost DBMS systems to their client-server based apps without the need of hiring full-time database sysops.

ahhh yes...you were working with an infamous "idea guy" where you were expected to do all the work while he sits back and just thinks of new ways to crack the whip with you.

that sort of thing is very rarely a good way to structure a business. the people who do the actual work almost always need to be the ones who decide on new features as only they know the proper work/reward ratios.

if i had a nickle for all the proposals i've seen from the "idea guys"...well i sure would have a lot of nickles.

so in this view I'll ask (with a nod towards Fermi of course)... just where are all these AIs you speak of?

wouldn't these AIs begin to contact and perhaps battle with each other? certainly it seems to me, there would be some tell-tale sign left over from the expected millions of AIs, right?

now of course, it's impossible to tell what super intelligent AIs would choose to do... but I do feel that an extension of Fermi's paradox would be needed with your comment.

really? i thought it's purpose was to take us back to the good old days of sellable proprietary binary blobs instead of the more open HTML/JS/CSS stack.

HTTrack is a powerful package, but unless it can now handle JS-embedded links properly, it still can't take you all the way to. perfect local site mirroring.

Isn't ALL written history somewhat revisionist?

Well it sure is hard to tell because, of course, I wasn't there of course, but isn't that exactly the problem here?

For my entire life I've heard the bot mot that "History is written by the victorious"...well doesn't that mean at its base level that ALL of it bathes in its own bullshit?

I like Malcom's writing and his pod...and at least he has the honesty to call it "Revisionist History" as he is obviously telling us that HERE, yes, narrative story might win out over historical accuracy (which, once again, we have been taught is BS anyway).

Why shouldn't non-textbook history reflect the shades and biases of its author? As long as its well written and presents fair reflections upon this history, why should the author be pummeled by critics for doing so?

Too many questions and not enough answers...as usual.

Bingo...we have a winner.

This issue reeks with the rank smell of base politics and in/out group dynamics, and humans have been fighting, in the abstract, these issues since the time Egyptians were building the pyramids.

How can there possibly be an "objective rating" when career advancement, peer respect, and big money all are in the mix depending upon results?

Why would you believe that both the individual voters and their delegates wouldn't be susceptible to almost all the same corrupting and manipulative factors that plague voting systems today?

The OP is correct...spending in mass media on the various issues would almost surely allow the purchasing of voter mindshare just exactly as advertising today drives sales of almost identical branded products for inflated prices.

Don't get me wrong...in general I like the idea of "liquid democracy" (I remember it being called "Superdemocracy" back in the 80's when MajorBBS creator Tim Striker very much lobbied for its creation)...but it would be foolish to believe that the same forces that corrupt modern politics wouldn't be able to corrupt it as well.

> You can quite literally save millions for retirement as an individual, and have coverage for drugs and treatment under Medicare, and still run out of money due to having to pay extortionate prices for covered drugs.

This is a totally ridiculous statement. Medicare-assisted drug costs are absolutely NOT going to bankrupt someone who has very wisely saved "millions" for retirement.

I have watched both my parents now pass, and I actually helped them both work out which Medicare plan to select based on their specific medications by creating a spreadsheet and carefully going thru the documentation of each plan and doing the math.

2 million dollars can rather safely throw off 3% after-taxes, so thats 60k/year not counting the odd 1800 that the federal government pays everyone with Medicare "benefits", that that is 6800/month someone who has saved "millions" has for income, and that's not even touching the principle nest egg.

There is no possible way someone's monthly drug costs are going to be anywhere even CLOSE to that number..I think each of my parents spent around 1200/month for what seemed to me to be way more "medication" then they could possibly need.

Unless you somehow come up with numbers that are way, way different than mine, your assertation that drug costs could bankrupt someone with "millions" saved is rather laughable.

you cannot possibly be postulating that profitable activities can never be considered useful, are you?

Great job guys and love hearing stories about brothers working together.

So like the main problem with this is like the long standing one of time...while I would actually love to work with a better way to build webapps with modern stack elements, no matter what relearning to do everything in Wasp will take at least a month.

What if after all the time you discover an issue with the framework that prevents you from being able to complete your project?

Is it possible to extend the included base libs and work natively if need be?

I guess as long as devs have the ability to push Wasp aside and work directly with the libs, there is nothing that you could not eventually do.

Just some quick thoughts but Im gonna give this a whirl this week.

My last contract job was to build a 100% perfect website mirroring program for a group of lawyers who were interested in building class action lawsuits against some of the more henious scammers out there.

I ended up building like 8 versions of it, literally using every PHP and Python library and resource I could find.

I tried httrack, php-ultimate-web-scraper (from github), headless chromium. headless selenium, and a few others

By far the biggest problem was dealing with JS links...you wouldn't think from the start it would be such a big deal but yet..it was.

Selenium with python turned out to be the winning combination, and of course, it was the last one I tried. Also, this is an ideal project to implement recursion altho you have to be careful about exit conditions.

One thing that was VERY important for performance was not visiting any page more then once because, obviously, certain links in headers and footers are duped sometimes 100s of times.

JS links often made it very difficult to discover the linked page, are certain library calls that were supposed to get this info for you often didn't work.

It was a super fun project, and in the end considering I only worked for 2 months, I shipped some decent code that was getting like 98.6% of the pages perfectly.

The final presentation was interesting...for some reason my client I think got in his head that I wasn't very good programmer or something, and as we ran thru his list of sample sites expecting my program to error out or incorrectly mirror the site, but it handled all 10 of the sites about perfectly and he was rather flabbergasted because he told me it would have taken him a week hand clicking the site for the mirror but instead the program did them all in under an hour.

> The problem after that is the stigma that follows you around forever.

Tell me about it. Between my prison "stigma" and the discriminatory ageism that is very prevalent in the industry, and even though I have 30 years professional programming experience, I am currently finding it impossible to find any work.

Can someone please tell me...what am I supposed to do at age 55? Find a new "career"...doing what?

I know plenty of you reading this with your secure jobs and paychecks have done illegal things and not been caught...well what if you were?

I mean I hear all day all the "protections" that this group and that group are getting recognized for, and meanwhile all I want is an opportunity to work my ass off in the field that I have loved since I was a 13yo kid riding my bike to the local Radio Shack on weekends so I could literally sit-in the window display and program on the TRS-80 and save my "work" to a cassette drive.

But no...hiring me (or anyone else in my situation) would apparently pose such an existential threat to companies so in need of people with my exact talent stack that I can't even be considered once it's discovered I went to prison some 20 years ago.

I know this subject has been discussed ad nauseum here on HN, so I don't expect any new answers to my questions, but maybe a few of you with open ears and the ability to think outside the box when it comes to hiring could be a bit more understanding if a qualified candidate with past legal issues come thru your interview process.

I have 0.75BTC locked away in an encrypted distributed Android wallet that I am unable to remember the password for.

I received this BTC from an amazing soul here on HN (again, THANK YOU so much for that blessing if you are reading this!) who, after I wrote up a blog post about how I was arrested without any probable cause in Las Vegas, so very generously sent it to me after asking if it could "be of use?."

BTW, the end result of the bullshit arrest was I was released with time served and the felony possession charge dropped due to the improper nature of the arrest, which was all caught on the officers bodycam.

So at the time I read the email, I was literally walking down Fremont Ave. wondering where I was going to sleep that night (remember I had just been released from Clark County Detention Center) as my 34 nights in jail had made me lose everything I owned in the weekly place I had been renting. I was asked for a wallet address, so I quickly jumped on the playstore and dl'ed the first app with a good rating and was highly "secure". At the time I thought he or she would send me $50-$100 TOPS, so imagine my surprise when 0.75 (at the time worth like $600) plopped into my wallet.

I must have fat-fingered the password entry, and of course I couldn't remember the 12-word phrase that the app author pleaded with me to "write-down and store in a safe, secure place"..no matter I thought at the time because of course there must be a password-reset email/text thing. right? RIGHT?

Well, no.

Alas, no happy ending here...I lost my very interesting and well-paying remote LAMP-development job working for a fast-growing company that was focused on lowering the overall cost to everyday people of filling drug prescriptions ( I know the irony of it all has not been lost on me ).

The owner was someone I really respected and was smart enough to know his systems needed a total re-design for security and performance reasons, and to be honest years later I still have not recovered, work-wise and economically, from that night I was illegally (not my opinion, the actual criminal court finding and its' legal outcome) arrest. I still hate the feeling I get in the pit of my stomach I get when I think of the bind I put him in...ugghhhhhhh.

So anyway...I still have the wallet safely stored away on an unencrypted USB (kind of late for that) that is physically locked away. I did contact the app author and fortunately for me, his app code was FOSS on github and I have the archive. Another fortunate item here is that I know I only used lowercase letters and the password was 12 char long.

At approx. $30k in value, it's getting to the point where a concerted effort at cracking the damn thing is in order...however, I am personally very optimistic on the FV of BTC in particular and think I will hold off my attempts at cracking it until 1BTC=$100kUSD.

Finally...the main reason I wrote this up this long post was to ask the community if anyone here knows of any reputable services that crack wallets such as mine for a reasonable fee and that I can feel secure that they will not just steal the BTC if they do manage to open it?

I think a much better, much older, and much more philosophical argument is...

"If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

And actually, the more I think about it, this is a more apt analogue to what's happening with Paler then first engages the mind...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_a_tree_falls_in_a_forest#:~....

I understand that the way my experiences has shaped my opinions and views is vastly different than yours, but since its 100% impossible to discern peoples motives on why they make certain decisions, how you be at all certain what's really going on there?