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Location: Athens, Greece

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Node.JS, PostgreSQL, medium web frontend (HTML/CSS/JS)

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GitHub: https://github.com/danmilon

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=====================- WHO AM I -===========================

My name is Dan and problem solving is my thing. I use my cognitive skills in

order to solve a given problem together with my co-workers. I despise no-brainer

work and repetition. Ultimately, I believe in being able to provide solutions

and cooperation, rather than technical specialization on specific software. The

latter everyone can aquire sooner or later, but not the former.

I look for remote full time employment on interesting projects with broad

responsibilities, somewhere I can use my creative thinking, not tedious

web development every day.

====================- EXPERIENCE -==========================

* Lexiful (Software Engineer (Web & Machine Learning), DevOps)

* Photiq: Mobile e-commerce SF based startup (Backend Web Dev, DevOps)

* SlideMe.org (Analytics platform architect & developer)

=====================- EDUCATION -==========================

Computer Science BSc from the University of Crete (1st in Greece, 145th UNI in the world).
Most of them, not all, avoid serious hacks. There's not major disruption. Plus there's deniability: "people only hack mainframes in movies damnit!"

I always thought ancient interface and barrier-to-entry (esp price) added to it given it's hard to otherwise explain hackers ignoring such high value targets. There's at least one that's publishing mainframe hacks now. Blood in the water. More sharks will arrive over time.
I'm sorry. I wasn't clear enough.

The point I was really making was that you, him, and a thousand other misinformed idiots raised on a diet of Ted talks and the belief that complex problems can be solved with some kind of snappy single-action magic solution have no idea what you're talking about.

Everything you come up with will have a counter-example and a means to demonstrate that you're talking nonsense, but we're sick of trying to deal with you. You reached your conclusions through something other than reason, so a reasonable discussion on the subject is impossible.
In general with these kind of paywalls, you can paste the url into google and click it from the search results to bypass the paywall.
Prhaps the alto recorder.
Sure it is... their external CDN account was compromised - no 2FA in place. Proper 2FA (read: 2FA reset key stored offline and safe, not done via mail) helps against spearphishing.
This is why we have 2FA enabled on mission critical systems these days.
I can't speak for the OP, but the Nordic countries seem to be pretty progressive in this aspect. I'd gladly relocate to a country that doesn't have this invasiveness (hint hint, 20 odd years in software and devops, hook me up).

The chilling effect is bad enough, but having agencies that sit outside of the light of public/democratic scrutiny is a foul thing.

How much you can trust the alternatives? That's a trickier question.
Dutch company makes central heating system with sound waves (written in dutch)
with dnsmasq

address=/pagefair.com/127.0.0.1
address=/pagefair.net/127.0.0.1

seriously, this only strengthens my argument for blocking all sorts of 3rd party crap
How to reverse desk job health issues in 3 steps
Dual boot works fine, as long as the windows machine is the host, and the linux machine is the guest, since only on the host will you get reasonable gaming performance.

EDIT: Yes meant to answer the "Why dual boot when you can use a VM". My post meant to say "VM is cool is Windows is the host". Sorry.
Is this using WebGL? I'm on my tablet and it actually works though at very low frame rate.
What your comment is implying is that these $8 billion will be gained at the expense of the workers in Chinese and Brazilian manufacturing base.

I don't see TPP as conspiracy. It is perfectly clear what is going on.
Again, I'm not trying to devalue the work of the author here, I just say that his choice of units is non-scientific.
I think this is the first post that's a DH5 on pg's How to disagree scale (http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html). Not only that, the OP is charitable enough to explicit state why it's not a DH6:

Paul Graham wrote an article about an idea. The idea is generally correct - bias in a decision process will be visible in post-decision distributions, due to the existence of marginal candidates in one group but not the other. But the math was wrong. // That's ok! Very few ideas are perfect when they are first developed.

I'm not good enough at statistics to check that OP's math is sound, but this is the mindset of a scientist. OP reasons rigorously, finds a way to salvage the core insight and improves on it. As readers can see, it took quite a lot of work and prior knowledge to do.

If I were pg I would consider putting a link to this post on both the disagree.html and bias.html as a note for posterity.
"Nothing wrong"?

- The ads are almost never useful for the consumers

- Companies keep shoveling money into ad campaigns just so that marketing teams can justify their budgets

- Ad publishers are incentivized to completely undermine the idea of private data

- Thomas Watson is often mocked for saying "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers". If we look today at Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple, we are not that far from that reality. The "ad economy" is at direct odds against an open web.

I'll give you that Google's breakthrough came because they could find a way to revenue, and that without ads they would never bring many useful things for fruition. But the best way to justify their wealth creation is that they manage to make the social function of advertising (connect producers and consumers) and make it more effective.

There was almost zero progress in that regards afterwards. It is just a race to the bottom. I can actually bet that we would be better off without these products, services and media if they were gone. Case in point: one of the links on the front-page right now is http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/04/no-spooning...
Show HN: Pop the Lock game clone in HTML/JS/CSS
So what hypotheses so far don't have a counter-example? Who exactly is "we"?
There are a number of apps in the App Store with the same functionality as Snapp (Better Snap Tool, [0], [1]), but afaik none of them are free or open source.

[0] Cinch: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cinch/id412529613?mt=12

[1] Divvy: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/divvy-window-manager/id41385...
Tadaa ... . The surprising fact for me is when I was talking with mostly programmer located in USA in Reddit (I am not from us), they didn't even care about NSA/etc agency collect their data. They act in a way I thought they think their data belongs to NSA. that really got me to thinking. This is my right as human being to have privacy.
Same here, I only use it because I have to make my applications work on OS-X and to me it is the worst operating system that I've ever had the opportunity to try. I took my time to learn how to do things the OS-X way, but I prefer Linux or Windows a lot. There are things like about it though, like the self-contained application packages, although you can have them on Linux as well, just not as unified.
Yeah. There's no upside for me to share the name of the business. I would love to, but it's not in my best interest.
semi-off topic, but the guy who wrote the style guide needs a little more experience in the real world. Not using braces is an accident waiting to happen.

https://github.com/flutter/engine/blob/master/sky/specs/styl...

if a flow control structure's statement is one line long, then don't use braces around it, unless it's part of an "if" chain and any of the other blocks have more than one line. (Keeping the code free of boilerplate or redundant punctuation keeps it concise and readable.)

For example,

if (children != null) {
for (RenderBox child in children)
add(child);
}

...rather than:

if (children != null) {
for (RenderBox child in children) {
add(child);
}
}
> it is possible that malware, disguised as an Adobe update, was downloaded onto your PC.

If you weren't affected by this you can still download genuine Adobe malware from:

www.adobe.com/creativecloud.html
Show HN: Sublevel – separate sections for leveldb in Go
I couldn't find the source - only the .stl files

There's a repo on GitHub, but it looks old https://github.com/matthova/hovalin
I do not feel this belongs on Hacker News?
Not if the firmware updater enforces digital signatures like the ucode update does on CPUs.
50 Data Science Applications Area and Uses
Absurd nonsense.
4 Big Data Analytics Advantages for the Retailers
That API looks a lot like Cordova.
Top 50 industry area where data science is used.
The next evolution from clickbait lists is intentionally provocative stories like the one discussed here.

What alternative model can work aside from measuring pure clicks though? Even "the time on site" solution they mention here (if it were even workable) has problems, just because I spend a few minutes reading something doesn't mean it's high quality. Equally high quality content need not necessarily take a long time to consume.
Thanks for the reminder to go back and see all the comments I missed. Unreal.
Well I thought it might generate some interesting discussion on what alternative revenue models might work.
Pretty cool achievement. The prices ($300, $450, $600) for the different kinds of kits make this seem like a poor investment if one is just looking for a violin.
Interesting write-up. Still, why even support BMP?
> so why not switch to OS X or Linux?

Did you ever consider that some of us actually like Windows?
Why was this downvoted? Even if you don't believe in alternative modalities the link is actually quite interesting and so far the content presents some intriguing content.
Digital Marketing and Traditional Marketing- the Difference
I think he meant dual booting as in installing two operating systems side by side, and running one at a time on bar metal - not virtualizing anything.
You're thinking of virtualization. Dual booting is when you have both OS installed on different partitions/drives and you restart to boot a different one.
Grit beats Talent
Skia is already used by the Android UI stack.

IPC is usually slower than JNI specially on ART, because ART can optimize native calls across the boundaries better than Dalvik since the interpreter/JIT execution mix no longer happens.
Did I ever say "college education"?

I'm talking about all of the existing tiers of education, with the early school being the most important. And the very fact that all the shit like "practical skills" and "employment prospects" are starting to corrode even the primary school is extremely worrying.
Other articles trending on The Daily Beast:

> "The Alabama Granny Murder-For-Hire Plot"
> "Attack Of The Kate Upton Clones"
> "The Internet Is Just Broken"

...oh wait, that last one...
It's not an issue with the internet, Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster style intriguing/bizarre stories have always been popular. Hyperbole brings people in, and it's not just about clicks – people will read stupid stories in The Sun or The Mirror depending on their political leanings, and feel entertained. Because they're fun, silly stories. I'd hate to write one myself but that's a personality trait I have, and not necessarily a positive one.

Also:

> Advertisers have wised up a little bit. There are now party tricks like branded content—wherein advertisers pay for stories that are sort of about their product, but are also about, say, travel or sports—and advertisers sometimes take into account unique visitors within specific demographics, based on age, race, and location.

> Tony Haile, the CEO of Chartbeat—the kings of metrics on the Web—tried to warn us about this last year.

I'm inclined to think this is a Daily Beast writer and Chartbeat being a bit cheeky! Hiding in plain sight. Not that I would begrudge them at all. It was a fun read. Although I disagree with the central premise behind writing it, most of the actual ideas seemed fine. Time on site is hardly a new concept though, and engagement in general has been somewhere on the priority list for (for example) Google for quite a while now.
See also Visual Studio Code: https://code.visualstudio.com

I love and hate that name at the same time :-)
Memory Corruption Through One Definition Rule (ODR) Violation
Well I certainly hope someone learned to sanitize their database inputs!
This.

Of course I would love to see HN data, but I believe that there is a fair amount of users that are not located anywhere near Silicon Valley.

An indicator of this would be the fact that many people I know from the EU startup scene have an HN account. Different age group, background, and profession. Of course, the sample size is not that large here.
Backwards compatibility. There's too many of them around
The interpretation is still somewhat unreliable as in many cases there's still another hypothesis, which is that $UNDERREPRESENTED_MINORITY actually overperforms due to favourable treatment after the selection process

Of course favourable treatment can't make people into superstar startup founders or baseball players (and I'm sure any special treatment afforded to black baseball players in the 1940s was the complete opposite of favourable). But more generally it can make an organisation with fair selection processes look like it sets a higher bar for $MINORITY because it addresses low numbers by being very keen to promote and very reluctant to fire/deselect members of said minority, so these kind of studies still have to be considered with care.

(Of course even if an organisation is proactively treating a minority group favourably after selection doesn't mean that conscious or unconscious biases don't exist in the selection process.)
Comments from earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10514599
One of the people working on ITER compared it to a cathedral: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/03/03/a-star-in-a-bot... (been on HN a few times)

The Long Now Foundation also thinks about this kind of thing.
Had to search for what it is.

https://github.com/domokit/mojo

I doubt it is faster than Java ART for access to Android Frameworks.

Call JNI from C++ it might have delays around 300ms or more per call.
"[Flutter] is familiar to anyone who has done Java or JavaScript"

At a superficial level, seems like a strange statement to make since those languages are quite different. Unless the point is that Flutter is C-like?
"It’s a view that carries weight because of Inamori’s success."

This bloomberg sentence fits well to my understanding of many businesses: their leaders don't use their brains, they follow the crowd. The author does a puzzling thing: he asks us to follow the good example but then wants to point out the special approach of Inamori. What is the advice? Follow Inamori and do what too many businesses do (follow, don't think)? Or do something original (and don't care about what everybody does)?

And what about statistics? Here is a report about one single success that worked and its leader tried to make his employees happy (perhaps both things are unrelated, tbp). That does not carry any weight, until there is a meaningful statistics about the success of leaders who did it like this.
Currently, it is just another success story.

Even the hen-egg example is broken and the author did not see it. Take it literally: do we care for hens? No, we torture them until they die early, take all their eggs and make a good profit. The hen is dead? Get another one, she'll lay eggs too. The farmers who care for their hens are the ones in trouble: they have to compete with much cheaper eggs. And who really understands or pays for quality? A minority!
Yep, that's what they do. They do a good thing, and they do it well. I know a number of people in and around GDS, it's really, really, strange for me to see their name in that list.
Well there is no Linux security.

L4 provides that.
The basic idea, that software is a set of decisions, is insightful. I'm definitely going to borrow this concept when talking about software design to non-technical people.

However, a less insightful decision is to have yellow text on a purple background. I can't force myself to read the whole thing.
There is a (probably not entirely legal) consumer solution: http://unvis.it

"What the tool does is to try to capture the content of an article or blog post without passing on your visit as a pageview. Effectively this means that you're not paying with your attention, so you can read and share the idiocy that it contains."
I find hnrankings.info very useful. See, for example, http://hnrankings.info/10506422,10514729/
How many features from PHPStorm does Atom cover?
Uhm? No. You seem to confuse dual boot with virtualization. Dual boot means 'Reboot, pick a different OS in the bootloader'. Both Linux AND Windows would run with full performance, but never at the same time. There is no concept of host or guest.
Thank you for suggestion. I'll take a look.
Countries That Don't Exist
Microsoft aquires MileIQ
Puffins are definitely a tourist attraction here in Scotland - so I was pretty appalled at the idea of people eating them but it turns out that they were eaten here:

http://scottishfood.tumblr.com/post/9415330365/the-puffin-on...
> just because I spend a few minutes reading something doesn't mean it's high quality

Precisely. Attraction to spectacle results in not only clicks on that "Outrageous Statement X", but also so one can firmly applaud/smugly disdain it.

And I'm not just pretending its only other people who do this; I'm not proud but I've fallen into that hole myself.
Toxic Air in India Worse Than Singapore Haze a Test for Modi
Even their subscription management site is terrible, it's really much more complicated than it needs to be.

I love the paper version of The Economist, but I never read their online content. Partly because I can't be bothered to login.
Maybe people fear that personal data might show up in the collected minidumps? Doesn't sound unreasonable.
Agreed. I've used Windows since 3.1 (MS-DOS before that) and I bought a Macbook a few years ago to learn iOS development. I dabbled with Linux as a desktop OS for a few years too (but that's another story for another time...).

As a generally keyboard-centric user I've found OS X to be awful. Inconsistent behaviour when using Cmd+Tab (which switches to most recently used app) versus Cmd+` (which cycles through app windows instead) is frustrating to say the least. Finder is vastly inferior to Windows Explorer and I find myself dropping into the shell way too much just to do simple file management tasks (cut and paste anyone?). Being unable to tile, snap or maximise windows is also rather frustrating; yes, you can fullscreen an app and yes, you can drag and drop another window onto a fullscreen app [in El Capitan] to tile them side by side but that's so clunky it's almost a joke when on Windows I can hold down the Win key and use the arrow keys to snap windows to the screen edges.

I could go on, but I'll stop there...
6 topics on starting and running a User Group
The blatant contempt they have for their people is astounding.

> The draft bill's measures include:

> Allowing the security services to hack into phones and computers around the world in the interests of national security

> A new criminal offence of "knowingly or recklessly obtaining communications data from a telecommunications operator without lawful authority", carrying a prison sentence of up to two years

In the same breath they threaten prison sentences for doing exactly what they state they're doing.

> The Wilson doctrine - preventing surveillance of Parliamentarians' communications - to be written into law

Come on guys, now you're just taking the piss
To be fair pg's scale isn't perfect. DH1-DH5 is something you can improve if you want to refute a given argument. DH6 is about choosing the "main" argument you want to refute. There is nothing to improve between DH5 and DH6, especially if you agree with the main argument but you disagree with some minor argument.
As a Brit, it's weird because unless you're one of a few kinds of activist or visit Northern Ireland, it's pretty much invisible and a largely theoretical threat compared to, say, regular malware or driveby hackers. It's a lot like refusing to go to the US because the risk of being shot by the police is far higher there: statistically true, but as a white tourist it's very unlikely to be a problem.

The other weird thing is about how the war on terrorism is being carried out as invisibly as possible, including what it might claim as "victories": actual convictions of people for terrorist offences. They're not being paraded around in the papers.

The concern lies at the political level: are the security services being deployed against Corbyn? After all the PM did call him a "threat to national security".
The tyranny of the majority. If you can control what they watch on tele, you can basically control what they think.
i think is because most people don't know how far Qt has come in terms of mobile development.

most people hear Qt and immediately think about heavy desktop applications. its a shame really, Qt is pretty awesome atm for mobile development.
preventing surveillance of Parliamentarians' communications

.. except when authorised by the PM. Who recently called the leader of the opposition a threat to national security.
Brazilian here. A professor who taught me engineering once quipped that Brazil needs a monument to the unknown smuggler, because, if everyone were to follow the law, Brazil's high-value-added industries would have disappeared at the 80's. No one could legally buy world-class computers in the middle of their revolution. Talk about unintended consequences.
Generalizing a bit, the legal system isn't quite as efficient in India as in the US or Western Europe. Disputes can take years or even decades[1] to settle. This Bloomberg article[2] calls it "horribly dysfunctional" and having worked there I agree. You do not want to go to court. There's many reasons for this, there's about 14 judges per million people and the justice system is run like it's 1940 - no computers mostly, massive piles of paper, etc.

The World Bank ranks India 178 out of 188 in contract enforcement[3] -- essentially if you have a dispute, especially a small one, you may be better off cutting your losses. If you're up against someone with patronage/influence your chances are even dimmer (which is why you need to have your own patrons/influencers if you are serious about doing business in India, which just perpetuates a bribes-and-corruption culture). It also causes people to take matters into their own hands, because if you suspect your employer won't pay your salary, you can't file a suit. It actually makes more sense to lock him up (as long as he isn't harmed the likelihood of a criminal case is remote) until he releases the cash.

For companies for whom this is feasible, one common workaround is to add boilerplate to their contracts to be subject to Singapore courts for dispute resolution (much faster!).

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=court+case+taking+decades+in...
[2] http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-11-25/speeding-up...
[3] http://www.doingbusiness.org/data/exploreeconomies/india/enf...
There must be an error on that page. It is missing the part where they apologize and explain how they'll make sure that this never happens again.
Oh, that part isn't there? Well...
Don't block Windows updates. Don't be retarded.
An inside look at our UI/UX design process – Zoho Inventory
This is the Washington Post interview he wrote this for: http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2015/11/05/net-of-...

Source: https://twitter.com/grsecurity/status/662393322699415554

> Very fair article on the topic of Linux security: [...] … Was a pleasure talking with @craigtimberg
Exactly. I visited in April and used my phone to buy a ticket while sat in the park opposite.