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Show HN: land that gig by making a great first impression. Feedback appreciated.
http://impressar.io

Another 'scratch your own itch' MVP, bear with me.

I'm a long-time telecommuter, and my gig-hunting success depends on two critical elements: an email cover letter that is visually appealing, and a corresponding portfolio landing page with content tailored to that specific email. Last year I decided to automate this process, and after months of lost weekends and late nights fine-tuning it for public consumption, I'm launching my MVP, Impressario. Briefly, it solves these pain points:

* Collect and keep track of job listings in one place

* Maintain a set of email templates for specific job titles/requirements

* Be able to create and send out HTML emails (with images)

* Host and manage different versions of a portfolio (with custom domains)

* Track sent emails to gauge response

Thoughts / comments / feedback appreciated.
I really think you should stick it out and learn XCode. I am not a huge fan wither, would rather use TextMate or BBEdit, but once you stick with it, you will get there.

If we do the things we have to do long enough, the day will come when we will get to do the things we want to do.
Welcome Back Kotter.News
Apple 'attacking problems' at its factories in China
I think you're just not looking hard enough to find the quality you're looking for. While there are certainly mass produced bicycles, guitar amps, motorcycles and other things that cater to the need of the masses, there are also craftsman made examples of all of those. Any decent sized city is likely to have a bicycle shop that custom makes frames to order. They're much more expensive, but I imagine they provide plenty of value to the customer who orders it.

In respect to the idea that there are no uniquely American souvenirs I also think you're being a little too quick to jump to judgement. Along with cowboy boots, as was mentioned, a possibility is a hat, or a big metal belt buckle like cowboys like to wear. An American football jersy, perhaps. Military surplus items, especially if branded with a 'US Army' or similar could work for some people's tastes. If the friend a skateboarder or snowboarder there are plenty of companies that have locally well known surf and skate shops with branded shirts (think RonJon) or skate decks.
Thanks for the encouragement!

I agree on the 50% part. I am ready to my part on the next 50%!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threaded_code - vm dispatch techniques
On switching to Arch Linux
Nerds seem to think they can just slap a UI together and users will be blown away by the code's modularity and spectacular unit-test coverage. Devs who ignore Joel's iceberg principle are in for it, because normal people think if it looks crappy, it probably is crappy. Plus potential users probably had no idea what the heck this thing is even for. The more I look at this and think about it, the more flabbergasted I am that it was launched in this state.
I don't think graphine oxide would be as applicable in the near future since these experiments use water vapour and pass it through the membrane, meaning that you already need to expand energy to heat up all that water, and there already exist more efficient methods of desalinization.
You guys are awesome. Nice work!
A short commute from New Jersey to Manhattan would convince people that would otherwise live in the city to move to New Jersey, moving their 10% state income tax with them. (And don't forget the city tax. I'm surprised we don't have borough and block taxes yet!) It seems logical that New York would want New Jersey to spend the money to enable this.
Any advice for getting started for someone without a Mac? I remember once trying to learn and immediately stalling out during setup (lame, I know). I have WinXP & Ubuntu, and would like to take a stab at this again no matter how stupid I feel about not even being to able to install the damn stuff to start with.
thanks james and commenters saltcod and tmh88j for saying that the first few weeks are the hardest. I'm banging away at the google python exercises and nearly crying. knowing that other people are going through this headache too gives me a bit of confidence to truck through.
You should consider ZeroMQ a messaging protocol.

hook.io supports multi-transport messaging protocols.

There has been lots of talk of ZeroMQ as a message transport in hook.io, it's coming soon.

IMO, you shouldn't be worried about messages per second between devices right now. You should be worried about how you are going to communicate between 1000s of 3rd party services. hook.io aims to solve that problem.
I think NJ is a pretty large beneficiary as well; a huge part of New Jersey's economy is dependent on para-NYC activities, ranging from businesses with satellite operations, to infrastruture (e.g. EWR), and property/income taxes from people who work in NYC and live in NJ. Without all that, cities like Newark would be even worse off economically than they already are, and there wouldn't be a lot going on in, say, Hoboken.
Ask HN: An early startup, is it worth to start from IT consultant?
I, copartner and few candidates partner have this very common problem on startup, we do several roller coaster together, sorta lean startup methodology, but falling at the edge or even before its even start. Perhaps one of the reason was living cost, so most of them going back to firm/freelance again, so things getting messed up. and then i taught myself, if only we have bootstrap/small investment and we can just roll over the product without much concern with those problem. but circumstance isn't that easy, our location/network might not be well enough for that (we're too hectic and geeksocial)

So i think it over, one of the way to escape from this evil circle was to build the first stable IT small firm/consultant so that we can bootstrap ourself on the way and start rolling our amazing products

So the main question is (was actually advice), is it worthed to run that way? i would really appreciate for the advice given. any

Short bio: 3+ Ninja hackers who love biking and passion about new technologies, Nodejs, Ror, real-time web apps, cloud platform, similiar.
...and often were a lot nicer for it. Venice? Did you read the other posts by the author?

http://progressivetransit.wordpress.com/2011/12/
partners [at] lollicode [dot] com will work :)
Definitely. In my experience, it gets a lot worse when you start re-assigning variables ("But x = 3, you can't say it equals 5"), and worse again when you have to start using == and = concurrently.

And then weak typing vs. strong typing vs. what the student expects, but at least that's easy to head off at the pass if you're anticpating it.
That was the WORST gibberish I've ever read. I almost understood it.
I find this very sad. I do nearly all of my reading with dead tree books (I simply don't find e-readers nearly as satisfying), and if I want a book the first place I check is the used bookstore up the road. I tend to accumulate books faster than I have time to read them, and by the end of my first semester at college I had filled the woefully tiny (1 meter square) bookcase I brought with me and begun to overflow onto the windowsill and my desk.

Surely there are other people who are the same way?
Spying with the cloud?
The Ubuntu and Mac setups should be pretty similar. It will be easier for you to get help developing through Ubuntu than XP. Stackoverflow/IRC are your friends when you run into trouble.
When people make lists like that, they usually come up with an odd number, like 8, and then think "Hey, if I think of two more I can make a list of 10". That's one of many reasons why such lists usually aren't reading.

With this list, I get the impression that instead she crossed off a few less worthy items to get the round number because it's pretty hard to find any fluff.
I wish I'd seen this earlier... IKIGAI by Sebastian Marshall, of course.
Apply the legal principle of "guilty mind".

FedEx was created, and is run, with the intent of facilitating completely legal activity. They're not going to examine your packages for legality, but there is an intent and presumption of innocence & legality. That a few people abuse the system for illicit purposes in no way warrants shutting down 99.99% legal activity. It's not like the founders started with "hey, let's make a dope distribution network...wow, we can make some money moving legit content too!".

MegaUpload was created, and is run, with the intent of facilitating known illegal activity. Offshore servers just to avoid jurisdictional issues, public behavior (right down to their license plates) from top-level executives radiating illegal intent, and obvious public knowledge that the main use is outright IP piracy. That a few people use the system for legitimate purposes in no way justifies leaving the system up. It's not like the founders started with "hey, let's make an unlimited-file-size sharing service for businesses...wow, we can make some money moving illegal content too!"

Hezbollah doesn't get a pass just because they provide social services.
I like this - I certainly lose steam when having to login to another service to do it. Certainly worth trying. Couple of follow up question: Which wiki do you use?
UK - Hampshire. Python, django.
Had a career in many areas of IT but not development for a long time. Want to get back to it - there are just too many new toys to play with! Developed http://www.jobsmanifesto.com (a work still in progress) and am looking for what will necessarily be a junior-level opportunity to get back into building things. Email address - replace the 'z' in my nickname with 'ley' and I'm at hotmail.com
To be fair, I wasn't running WordPress. My webapp was a lot of client-side javascript and a JSON API backend. So it was probably a lot more lightweight than a big WordPress setup with a lot of plugins.

Did you have something like WPSuperCache installed? That can help a lot by pre-caching all your pages into static html.
Or use only public-key authentication. I've run many internet-exposed servers for years without problems or kludgy obscurity measures like port knocking simply by disabling all forms of password authentication. This is faster, easier and has the advantages of not requiring non-standard client software, being observable by an attacker on the same network, and avoids the sort of rote password entry which causes mistakes and discourages long, complex passwords.
I like the MTR, but I think the NYC subway is better. For one thing, most of the lines in Manhattan are four tracks, allowing for express service. The MTR's coverage is also very sparse; most of the island is not in walking distance of an MTR station and you have to take minibusses.

The Ocotopus card is better-implemented than most of the similar systems I've used in the US, specifically because reading the card is properly debounced. In Chicago, using the RFID card to ride the bus is always difficult because if the card becomes readable, unreadable, and readable again very quickly, you get an error message even though your card was charged for the fare.
Introduction to Big Query (click on the right to move the slides)
On the surface, this appears profoundly stupid. We don't need a unified interdisciplinary theory of life, beyond the one inherent in a proper understanding of physics since life exists within and is made of physics. We need postulate nothing new to explain this. Instead, he attempts to solve the problem by essentially replacing known, fairly well understood science with an all-encompassing phlogiston theory of the universe that can be fit to anything because it is complex, non-mathematical and semi-informally specified. I encourage any one with an afternoon to spare to try and read the paper, perhaps with frequent trips to lesswrong when something seems confusing or otherwise suspect. I don't have the time to read 100 pages of this. I've skimmed parts of it, but it all looks very crankish.

respect_for_case--;
Do yo mind showing us your dashboard?
Filter based on if they're touting the work ethics you want. If they're not touting it from the tops of the hills, they probably don't do it. Places like GitHub and 37signals yell about how awesome their work environment is, if you want the places you're considering working at to be like GitHub or 37signals and these places aren't doing the same, I'd be wary.

If you're looking at bigger companies, find a list like Fortune's 100 best employers (for the US, sorry don't know other regions) and read it. There's a good chance what's written about the best employers is mostly true (not completely true, but it's a good guide). Also, ask other people who work for a place you're interviewing if you can buy them a beer / coffee the day after your interview. Pick their brain about the culture. If you're paying for the drinks and considering joining them, many people will be honest (I would be).

Don't feel you're being rude. I'd recommend telling the places that don't fit your desired culture exactly why you're not going to work for them. Worst it can do is nothing, at best, maybe the people who do work there see some tiny improvement.
I don't want to sound blunt, but I found the installation process of ruby/python/git on windows to be more painful than necessary. (Last time I tried) It might make sense to try it on Ubuntu as it should be very similar to a mac environment. Good Luck!
Gitstats - cool stats about your git repo
I basically followed the Linode Wiki guide to setting up Arch Linux with nginx: http://library.linode.com/web-servers/nginx/php-fastcgi/arch...

I made a few tweaks, but it was pretty vanilla. I also used Amazon's CloudFront to host my gzipped CSS/JS.
That is not the problem here. The problem is that this might by the code piece "x + y" where x and y is in your scope and happens to be [] and {}. The resulting value is then highly confusing to a programmer. A language that enforces explicit type conversion (some call these strongly typed languages) would not allow this, but require you to write something like "string(x) + string(y)" if you really wanted such behaviour.

I think it is rather bad semantics actually.
ATM and the Cloud, what is the Connection?
If anyone is interested in why they wanted Canons it's because they probably used the custom firmware CHDK and a time-lapse script to automate their photo taking.

http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK
Are there rumors that Google might be buying github or dropbox? I doubt that the github guys would want to sell.

This seems like a whole lot of worthless fear mongering about a situation that is unlikely to even occur.
Indeed the problem was that he didn't establish two-way communication with air traffic control. Historically, VFR flights inadvertently straying into a terminal control area have actually killed a few hundred people, so it was reasonable for the FAA to fine him.
Knowing no javascript, I didn't have a hard time debugging my first try at compiled-to-js clojurescript. It's pretty easy to see the naming correlations and conventions used by the compiler in the generated source.
You can do this with policy (or a custom SSH client) but it's really a mistake to treat it as the same situation unless your users are in the habit of sharing their private SSH key files around.

In most situations, getting access to the key file requires a local client compromise - at which point the attacker could simply install a keylogger.
This is what 864GB of RAM looks like now
That makes no sense. Looking at that Wikipedia article, it says lift L=0.5 rho v^2 A C_l. For flight, L = mg. So for a given speed you get a criterion on the density of the air:

rho = 2g/(v^2 C_l) * (m/A)

So the density at which you can fly depends on the surface density of the structure. Which of course makes perfect sense -- if you build a lighter airplane, it needs less lift.

To get that altitude, Karman must have used some typical surface density of an ordinary airplane at the time. Presumably we can now build much lighter structures, so we should be able to fly higher.
I'm going to glom on to your comment to make a personal observation about the ineffectiveness, inefficiency, and frustration of needlessly noisy, distracting work environments.

A full day or even long day of being really productive can be energizing. You can't do that non-stop, all day, every day (meaning from waking to sleeping), but it can be a powerful feeling to really "get stuff done".

Waiting for your neighbors to shut up so that you can actually think things through, for the umpteenth status meeting to grind its way through more or less "reading the memo", and working on far less than optimal equipment? Not so much.

It's all been said before. But if management wants to fix the problem (hint: often they don't, really), best to actually identify the problem, not a symptom.
Scott Aaronson on Elsevier
My advice is to do your development using a Virtual Machine--ideally running the same OS as what your production web server will eventually be running. This gives you the freedom to screw around with your app and server configuration, knowing you can easily roll back to an older version. And it also gives you more confidence that your app will deploy cleanly to your production server and not get hung up on some subtle difference between e.g. Ubuntu and Red Hat.

And, finally, then it doesn't matter whether your host OS is windows or ubuntu; use which you feel most comfortable with.
First of all, nothing works out of the box. You will have to manually set up the driver for your video card, support for your sound card (which can be a little difficult if you use USB headphones), wifi support, Xorg, your desktop environment and/or window manager of choice, etc.

Literally everything mentioned here worked out of the box for me when I installed Arch (except for USB headphones, which I do not own).
JQuery Mobile 1.0.1 Released
a few thoughts for you:

1 - based on the tagline, the picture of the guy managing a server, and the 4 features you highlight, it's still really unclear what your software does, who the target audience is, and what problem your software solves.

2 - your HN comment above does a better job of describing what you do but it's not communicated on your site. the sentence about "all these people need to..." is what your homepage should address head-on, instead of the various technical tag lines you have on the homepage right now

3 - re: struggling to get the first customer - just wondering how you came up w this idea and how you've iterated thus far if you don't have customers or users. when you say maintenance people really like it... what does that mean?

4 - re: maintenance people - are you talking to the individual maintenance man, the guy that is actually in the field doing the HVAC repairs, or are you talking to the operations manager that sends out work orders? i hope you're talking to the operations manager/facilities manager and not the blue collar worker, since the former is your customer and the person who is going to give you money.

5 - as for adwords - if you are bidding on the super generic term "CMMS", that would explain why you are getting a $4 bid rate. but, i also suspect that your "quality score" is fairly low and that also plays a huge role on your avg cpc.

6 - if i were you, i'd focus on on-page factors first, especially better communicating your value prop to your identified target audience. once you do that, then go out and find niche forums that facility managers, hvac professionls, and the like hang out. get in the mix and start conversations and ask them to use your software. once you have a few people actually using this thing and they are integrating it into their workflow, you'll have a better shot of converting these guys into actual paying customers OR pivoting to something else OR iterating to create better tools.
Those are some great links. Do you follow any security related podcasts? I don't work in security but like to stay relatively up to date.
If you enjoy doing that, there is always Slackware or NetBSD or debian-unstable as well.
The other thing I want to add is how much 'else' I learned while running through Michael Hartl's tutorial.

Despite many years making websites, I really had no clue about basic http methods — get, put, post, etc — and in fact, I didn't even realize what they were. The other huge, huge thing for me was finally figuring out what REST is all about.

Basically, the web runs on those few basic http methods, and using the REST approach spells that out for you and cements it in your head.

I had an awesome jump-up-and-down moment when it finally clicked.
http://railsinstaller.org/ makes it really easy on Windows, though you might find that some of the gems don't work properly.

Another option would be to use something like Vagrant, which gives you a VirtualBox server that's mapped to your local filesystem. So you use the editors you're used to but you have a fairly solid server running the code. If you search around for "vagrant rails" you'll find several pre-built images, along with a RailsCast that explains how it all fits together.
text only cache, courtesy google: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

and a duckduckgo tip

!cache http://blog.caplin.com/2012/01/27/the-why-of-wat/
Do CEOs Need to Be Assholes To Be Successful? Yes, To a Point
A comprehensive Infographic on how SOPA and PIPA work, check it out
Out of the box typically means "with no effort after initial install". I'm sure you did a pacman -S gnome or something like that after the initial install.

That said, Arch does have very sane defaults, so I'm sure after using pacman to install your DE or graphics drivers, it worked fine.
>Encourage the death of all hard copies of media, even thumb drives

This is a pipe dream that doesn't think more than 5 years into the future or understand the realities of distribution.

The properties inherent to physical media are some of the most consumer friendly aspects of distribution. Some can be approximated with a software-only approach, provided that the content provider wants to not only take the time to implement, but also wants consumers to continue to have those benefits. There are also properties of physical media that are impossible to duplicate with the internet, and what they do provide relies on them never going offline and never stop serving any each and every piece of content.

I have NES cartridges in my closet that are much more versatile than games on steam. I have a netflix streaming account that I _can not_ use when I visit my father because he doesn't have an internet connection and I can't cache netflix movies on my laptop. I have a friend, who because of hardware failure, can only use xbox dlc if he is connected to the internet (I don't really know the DRM specifics, but on the original hardware he didn't need to be connected).

I put up with some of these limitations because I hope they are temporary and digital distribution companies will eventually get their act together, but they're still a "last resort" option when I buy media.
Yes. Where is the amount, extent, position, size, or value of the pressure exerted on China, that I estimated too highly?
I'm sorry but, this was 100% my first reaction:

Are those I's? L's? 1's? Roman number for 3? Especially since it contains an uppercase I next to two lowercase l's and then a lowercase l.

Maybe if you left the starting I as a lowercase i at least it'd be readable...
Link to his website gallery with more pictures:
http://www.wallygpx.com/#!map-gallery