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SEEKING WORK - iOS Developer in London

Location: London

Technologies: Objective-C + Swift

LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/danlove

Portfolio: http://daniellove.net/apps/

Email: hn@daniellove.net

Github: https://github.com/4eleven7

Available for freelance iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV application development contracts.
Or full app builds (concept, wireframes, design and development).

Solid experience in developing mobile applications with a strong portfolio of award winning & high profile applications.
Commercial client experience with both Objective-C and Swift.
Working experience of start-ups, fast paced advertising agencies & large corporations.
A strong sense of design, with a focus on user experience.
We already have systems like Condorcet voting that make tactical voting unnecessary. As usual, the hard part is getting them implemented; I'm not optimistic.
> I'd be curious to know if anyone on HN thinks that this is morally and ethically ok?

1. Yes. Absolutely. What could be morally unacceptable about this?

2. I very strongly believe in business ethics. And consumer protection, and worker protection. I don't think that this, in general, rises to the level of even being an issue with regard to consumer protection or worker protection. I don't know what about this would be unethical.

3. If you are going to say "user tracking" then I am just at a loss. This is categorically no different than any of the many dozens of user tracking services already in use. Except that, unlike many of those services who are very, very explicitly shady and fly-by-night, LinkedIn is, overall, an ethical player. When I visit NYTimes.com, my ghostery registers:

* Chartbeat
* Doubleclick
* Dynamic Yield
* Facebook Connect
* Facebook Custom Audience
* Google Analytics
* Moat
* Netratings Site Census
* New Relic
* Optimizely
* ScoreCard Research
* WebTrends

As long as this guy has an appropriately written privacy policy, I see absolutely nothing legally wrong with this, either. Morally - I just don't even know where to begin on how facile a complaint I consider that to be.
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In a word? Control.
Looks like a interesting but difficult project. From the article:

> The question then is to what extent the content of Twitter is representative of voting behaviour and how accurately we can predict the results of an election with Twitter data.

Some demographics (young? city?) are overrepresented than others (old? farms?). In some cases, it's cool to vote publically for a party, so the people is more eager to say it publically or directly lie in the tweets. In other cases, people is afraid to say publically that they will vote for a party ...

I think you will need many magical constants that are not available until you have 3 or 4 previous elections to fit the data.

Can you make a prediction for each province / state?

Good look, and post the progress and predictions before the election, and a post-mortem analysis after.
Ask HN: Branding yourself on your own personal site
What leads to success?

Is it possible to build a personal brand on the side to start?
Have you looked into accounting software? Like you, I de-registered for VAT for a while, but since using FreeAgent I've re-registered and haven't looked back. VAT returns are now just a click each quarter (plus the minimal clicks to upload and explain my bank transactions periodically). VAT nuances (VAT on reclaimed mileage, reverse charges, etc) are taken care of automatically too.

Not to mention all the other time savings (expense receipts uploaded straight from smartphone, tax return & accounts now only take 5-10 mins at end of year using the reports FreeAgent generates, etc etc etc).

I'm not affiliated with FreeAgent (other than my referral code 44gf6bbt, which would give both parties 10% off for life). Just an incredibly satisfied customer; it was by far the best of the 3 or 4 tools I trialled.
You need a new business model.
RSU = restricted stock unit whether you're in the UK or the USA.
Ever imagined how “Big Data” looks like?
Furthermore, integrating anything VMWare without paying extra for their (clunky, limited) solutions is painful.

I say this as someone that's writing a deployment toolkit for internal use. Their API is an ill-thought-out, illogical, and painful mess, and the more cynical side of me believes it to be that way on purpose. It's harder to get commoditized if you're harder to interop with.

Then again, it could just be cultural. It took years of people complaining about the awfulness of their web based admin tool before they decided to take those complaints onboard and deal with them; and those were the admins who have to use the thing every day, a much louder and larger group than annoyed developers.
Indeed. After 5 years the original GPU developed some kind of intermittent flaw so I swapped it out with the board (and cooler) from a mid-2010 iMac. It's an easy swap. Mac OS X identifies it as a Radeon 5750 but Windows calls it a 5850. Either way, I believe it's very similar in performance to the original 4850 that was the top spec in the late-2009 iMac.
There are often very big challenges in the freshman courses. The case I'm most familiar with is the calculus courses (in undergrad I was an engineering and mathematics dual major so I had to figure out how to splice in the coursework and petition to get some courses substituted for others etc).

There is a lot of pressure on the non-majors course to deemphasize the mechanics of calculation and move toward theory and reliance on Mathematica for mechanics (I think this battle has been lost, it was raging in the mid-to-late 90's)--this suits the sciences well and students are happy because they don't have to grind hard. The majors course is more rigorous but needs to be focused on the Mathematics curriculum arc and emphasizes more abstract applications and theorems. This is great except it's challenging and honestly distracting to many freshman engineers who need calculus as a tool quickly for their other courses.

Anyway, the college of engineering was always trying to figure out how to get their freshmen through a rigorous enough calculus so that they weren't having to shadow teach calculus in their other courses. One big option that was always in the air was for engineering to give up and teach it's own mathematics. Of course, the mathematics department fights like crazy to prevent (obviously because mathematics revenue is very teaching dependent, whereas engineering is well funded by grants and industry). Anyway, it's not easy to get the balance correct (nobody was ever happy with the results).

I very much doubt any single professor has enough experience to understand all the compromises these freshman courses must satisfy. It's great to make students happy, but it really puts a drag in upper level teaching if the foundations aren't right.
My favorite math classes were actually structured like that. I don't regard it as a bad structure, just an unconventional one by US standards.

For what it's worth, memorizing proofs is a lot more than I was expected to do when I took Calculus I. You have to remember that in the modern age Calculus I is a very basic class. I'd expect it to be considered borderline remedial at a place like Berkeley. It wasn't even offered at all at the college I went to from what I remember.
general principle was there before apple. but for sure they do cook a 'book' or two, as one of the most wealthy companies in the world, without any strong sense of morality (not saying lack of it, just usual corporation as many others).

If you can invest for example 500 millions USD in bribes to gain 5 billions per year in not paying taxes, that's a damn easy decision for some CEO. And those fictional 500 millions will get you quite far in these times, where lobbyists in capital cities in both EU and US are not even illegal (in my opinion should be shot in sight), but just part of daily life.
> Sadly, you'll be hard-pressed to do direct public funding in anything that is not publicly-attractive.

I think this problem can be solved exactly as it is solved in academia. Since technical things are indeed too technical, even many researches do not understand the precise value of a particular research. And this is why a commissions are created and peer-review is used. So the money from ordinary people should go to this commissions instead.

Upd: of course such a commission should be able to explain/promote the corresponding research to the public. This will be their work, too.
Ah interesting, I stand corrected
Was the protest ever _specifically_ about buses or the influx of tech workers with the ability to push up rental prices? Protesting infront of the bus is the most visible expression of that frustration, but it doesn't mean that people attribute the bus itself as the problem.
That's what I meant by Chrome login - a separate Chrome user profile, and wouldn't incognito mode require that I authenticate each time I visit these sites since any authentication cookies would be disposed of at the end of a session?
'If they hold them for 5 years there is no Cap Gains tax to be paid on the shares'

Why not?
Thanks for the L-39 stories! I don't want to own one, as I'm sure I'd eventually bore of 100gph fuel burns, but I enjoy the rented ride.
Yes I have. It works for tech communities. It works for topic discussions. It works for many things. What it would completely fail for is a worldwide group of people who have a lot of personal connections between them, organise and announce semi-public events (100s a year), have local groups (1000s), and share a lot of information within one of those relationships. Also ~100% of them are already on FB and successfully do all of the above.

So again, no. Monopoly is bad, Facebook is bad/good depending on use case, sure. But this is not possible to migrate to a forum. Very simplified situation exists for developers - with the personal part reduced and with very limited local groups you have this information spread over twitter / local boards / meetup.com / etc. anyway. If I wanted to check events in some area, it's actually not trivial. It would be also a complete pain to centralise. You know what I do for the other use case? Post to facebook, share it in a group that's approximately in the same area in the world, and I get all information I need in a few minutes / hours: links to specific groups, specific events, and if needed I've got FB messenger contact to people who posted it.
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> I was simply saying _tech_ corporations often operate at a loss for a very long time.

Facebook is not operating at a loss in the UK or elsewhere. That's just their creative accounting after diverting funds offshore to tax havens in the form of royalties.

The exact same scheme is employed by the aforementioned hamburger franchises.
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That's interesting. I'll admit I haven't tried it under Windows. Maybe it works fine under that OS.
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It's a matter of social policy. If you want to encourage more artistry one of the available ways is reducing taxes on it.

If someone is against it they're most welcome to vote against it.
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And a great book called Moonwalking with Einstein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRNbcPS3A9c

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardo%27s_Push
I think this is because they spend most of their lives dealing with unnecessary conflict and isolation since most people don't understand them. Being a genius doesn't remove the need for social acceptance built into human beings.

As such many with a genius IQ pretend not to be in order to be accepted. So their talents are wasted.

However, if everyone was augmented there would be no need to pretend to be "normal" just to be accepted. So much more could then be accomplished.

In fact, I think today's "normal" would be tomorrow's "intellectual disability."

There are many successful geniuses as well. And those are often wildly successful. Again, if everyone was that way it would be acceptable, rather than odd, to care about real achievements.
This is also why you should segregate your browsing to different browsers and different browsing modes.

I personally now use two browsers for different reasons:

* Chrome = Gmail, Drive, Docs, Search that I wanted tracked (work related usually)

* Chrome Incognito = Social media (Twitter, Instagram) and sites I stay on most of the time (HN)

* Firefox Private Browsing = Search that I do not want tracked (shopping research usually), shopping, news sites, media sites, LinkedIn

One can also view these in terms of cookie/data retention periods:

* Chrome = +1 week

* Chrome Incognito = 1 day maximum

* Firefox Private Browsing = Session (created and destroyed for a specific purpose, short-lived)

And yes, it's not convenient as if I get an email with a link in it I will copy the link into the appropriate browser and then browse to it. But then the upside is that I don't get tracked relentless by tracking stuff that expects cookies.

Oh, and I'm aware of IP tracking too. I tend to use PIA VPN for this reason and do not autoconnect to the closest place, but instead semi-randomly pick somewhere in Europe to surface from each day.
I wonder how flamable this is? Metal dust and shavings have a tendency to go FWOOSH! and burn really hot and fast; I imagine this would be the same, no?
> Much of the doubt expressed was based on the experience of the previous 10 years of the project

Are you sure? Here's an update from 1998: "The odds of success at this point are not overwhelming. At the end of this month, the project will be halfway through its planned 15-year course, yet only 3 percent of the genome has been completed."

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/10/science/the-struggle-to-de...
Or get an EC2 instance and install your own personal copy
of Oracle on it.

Good luck with the licensing for running Oracle on an EC2 instance. How many different cores will Oracle potentially be running on? Thousands with the way EC2 works. Just wait till Oracle does an audit and watch your back licensing fees skyrocket. But don't worry! There's a way out. Just move it all to Oracle's new in house cloud. They'll even help with the move for a very "reasonable" consulting fee.
Excellent. Paying the smallest amount of taxes one is legally obligated to pay is one of the most noble of endeavors.

If every country got their "fair share" of revenue the total taxes on $1.00 would be approximately $1.50.
Or a particularly enjoyable experience the last two years.
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That sounds pretty fun. Despite not having played fantasy baseball for about ten years, I still have dreams (not aspirational dreams, the sleep kind) about playing, at least monthly. Maybe it is time.
Are you sure? Internet traffic follows a power law distribution.
An RSU is more like a stock grant than a purchase option -- the company provides shares of stock to its employees according to a vesting schedule. The fair market value of the shares at the time of vesting is considered income, and there is no cost to the employee (other than income taxes).

I don't know if this is a US-only arrangement, or if it's used in other countries as well.
Depend on the estimated gains in improved diplomatic relationships with nations that has a political interest in this case.
I don't think so. I regularly response to Amazon recruiters with "your reputation for treatment of your developers is poor, and therefore I'm not interested." It helps provide a data point to drive change, something that someone can point to when arguing with their higher-ups.
its only responsible in the sense that they have to pay the caliber of tallent they want to attract that much. Its not like facebook is paying them more out of the goodness of their own hearts.

Also you can make the arguement that its the employees themselves paying these taxes, not facebook.
The series of tubes comment was completely correct. The internet is a series (well, a parallel) of tubes. They carry light, not tubes pneumatically pushed by air, but if you're a 300 year old senator, whatever analogy works.
> What has annexing to do with it?

Because Putin annexed part of Ukraine.
It is a third party exploiting LinkedIn's tracking to monitor and expose identifiable information about who is visiting their website that LinkedIn probably didn't intend to be public.

Obviously, there are lots of trackers out there. But the fact that those trackers exist, and we're sorta, kinda, maybe ok with it, or at least resigned to it--that doesn't imply that we're ok with any third party using leaks of that information to track us.

Probably the reasonable thing to do is say "if we're ok with X tracking us, we're ok with everyone tracking us, because the information will leak." But that's not the same as saying it's ok for everyone to try and make it leak.

It wouldn't at all surprise me if it's against LinkedIn's TOS, and the author admits as much.

What about this is not unethical?
The other issue this is a symptom of is the terrible public transportation in San Francisco, where it takes an hour to go 4 or 5 miles and three hours to go from the west part of San Francisco to Silicon Valley, plus being packed in like sardines for the entire standing-room-only trip.

The cushy tech buses thus incite further outrage from those who are forced to take public transport to work every day.
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"Investigations in the EU" means jack shit. There have also been "investigations in the EU" about whether Google is an illegal monopoly and whether Facebook needs to segregate all its data on European entities into separate European data centers.
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there is no enforceable way this would work. everybody would just pay some homeless/unemployed to buy him that expensive cool little thing, and give him 10 USD for the job. try to prevent that :)

at the end, poor people would become less poor, but only by screwing with system, and only very few of them. you can put some limits on who can buy what, but this will inevitably create a massive bureaucratic overhead, meaning another set of useless government jobs that create no added value, but draw cash steadily from treasury.
You mean FTP/S aka RFC4217? You ain't kidding about being a nasty hack. When it recently came up in my world, the only place it seemed to be really well supported was in the AS/400 world, where IBM seems to have standardized on it. Everywhere else there seemed to be any number of weirdnesses, incompatibilities and decrepit features. YMMV.
Apple is a different beast... try not to think of them as a technology company. The Apple that was a technology company died 18 years ago and was reborn as a consumer products brand that is backed up by a hell of an engineering org. But marketing/branding makes all the decisions and sets the direction; engineering just helps move the needle of what's possible.

EMC is generally just fucked because their potential customer base is shrinking. While I don't think everyone everywhere will move everything to the cloud, enough migration is heading in that direction that storage appliances seem like a risky business (especially considering the big cloud providers just roll their own rather than buy from EMC).

Don't get me wrong -- I fight the same battles with big companies about how their stupid new $50million data center can't hope to compete with AWS on cost, reliability, security or functionality. AWS runs datacenters at the billion dollar scale. CIOs/CTOs have the mindset of "it'll be better if we control it" -- but then don't realize how expensive it is to replicate all the niceness that you get from AWS like management interfaces, workflow control, etc. All those systems have to be grafted on later, and are naturally behind the curve.
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I really wish someone would come along and go, "Aha! Assange has secretly been living in Ecuador this whole time. Fooled you, UK gov!"

But then again, I like to see government incompetence used against itself rather than against innocent people, like what happens here in the US.
There's the Met Police's £10m/yr communications budget at work.
> It's not like we can't focus on both IA and AI at the same time.

I think OP want to say that AI is a mean, whereas IA is an end. The real goal of AI is IA.

Also I think that aiming for IA will provide small benefits in the short term but a lot of benefit in the long term taking into consideration the slow pace of IA's innovations emergence like it's the case of GUIs (as explained in the article).

Whereas AI doesn't provide benefits in the short term at all if not applied to IA. From my AI enthusiast understanding, what happens is that instead of applying the discoveries of narrow AI, researcher are jumping into AGI which doesn't help to spread IA innovations and lower the chance of emergence of new discoveries not necessarily related to the field of IA or AI.

That's how I understand that aiming for IA provides more overall benefits.
Did they do an analysis of the tech buses in comparison to actually creating new municipal transportation open to all residents? That's what always seemed to be the real problem with them to me.
Latency and cross bandwidth is a major issue with just adding computing power. At some point your going to be better off adding new AI's vs. trying to make the first AI better.
The IA advance which is most obvious to me (yet somehow not yet a reality) is the nomenclator.

In Rome, a nomenclator was a slave who remembered people's names for you, and as they approached would whisper to you that this is Gaius Tullius Castor, his wife is Flaminia, his eldest boy is Marcus, and he owns beanfields.

A Google Glass camera on your eyeglasses and a speaker in your ear, hooked up to Facebook's face recognition and social web, can tell you a quick precis of who you see across the room before they get to you. Add a touch sensor in your pocket or on a ring for unobtrusive control, and a mic to pick up your annotations or commands, and you've got a product that should be a major hit by the second generation.
There's still going to be a large number of small companies that will be needing servers. There might be so many hardware providers as is, but you can't blame Dell for attempting to be the last man standing.

Similarly with Cisco, you can run the internet exchange of a small country on a single stock Cisco switch, and many do. Cisco isn't going anywhere in the near future. Amazon, Google and Facebook might not have a need for them, but thousand of other companies do, even large datacenters.
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And if they didn't, they'll be fined and be forced to pay whatever they didn't, which will probably not happen again in the future as a way to avoid being fined.

If they did? You seem to be dancing around the central point, which is, these numbers, while absurd, are generally completely above board and legal. Nobody is going to pay more tax than they're obligated to, and it's absurd to expect otherwise.
They did ally with Nazi Germany.

Non-allied states are not performing joint military invasions or provide military support to each other in ongoing war.