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Speaking from experience, most of what you say is wrong.

Most of the contracting positions available in London (where I live) are only available to experienced professionals. There's no way anyone is going to hire a nobody for £500 per day. Good luck finding much work available below this level, I used to contract myself at £200 per day but this only because I personally knew the manager on the project and I had worked with him as an engineer as an intern one year previously.

Showing you have good ideas and that you get things done means NOTHING. The other guy applying for the same job who has 6 years of experience will beat you every time. Maybe things are different where ever you are from but where I am from you don't get to work on anything that anyone cares about unless you have solid experience.

If you want to land a role at some small web dev shop where you will be stuck working on crappy rails or other nonsense things then go make your portfolio out of $60 a day "contracts" and have a great life. This does not exist in the UK and when people say 'contracting' they mean real work earning real money.

The best thing you can do is get an awesome internship then leverage that to get a good perm role somewhere else. This is exactly what I did. I didn't return to the place where I did my internship as I landed a better package elsewhere.

If you can afford to work for $60 a day and you are lucky to live in the Valley or somewhere where these roles are available, then lucky you. I prefer something a little more rigorous where I'm not a slave working on crap.
It's on connections like this where Peer-to-Peer systems like BitTorrent really come into your own. While no one server will saturate your 100 Mbit connection, 50 peers on your same ISP surely will.
I think it's important to note the difference between giving away your password, and allowing others to access your information. I'd give someone my password for £10 if I could instantly change it to something else - But it would take a heck of a lot more for me to allow someone to access my files & identity.
I bet windows is the place to be if you're developing grandma-proof applications which you hope to see widespread use (such as clients for file sharing networks.)
OP here. I wrote this blog post to help the community - to share what I've learned and have done to get some traffic and have a fairly successful launch of a side project. Most of the discussion on this thread has been around resumes themselves and the business itself - which wasn't what my post was about. This really drives home one of the points that I made in my original post: Loft Resumes is polarizing. People seem to either love it or hate it. For some reason people seem to be passionate about resumes.

All that said, I'm really appreciative of the suggestions that people have shared both here and by email. I've learned a great deal from commenters on HN in general (a few have inspired another venture I'm looking at starting...) and appreciate the community, even though it can get a little harsh!
YouTube founders working on Zeen, to let you ‘discover & create magazines’
> > For obvious reasons, that’s not the case with Lisp dialects despite their superficial similarities, but I think that catches many neophytes off guard.

> I don't know. Doesn't most of the programmers program to a particular scheme or lisp implementation(sbcl, racket, clozure, gambit, clojure)?

Common Lisp libraries seem to be getting much more portable across implementations, so within the CL dialect the language implementation is becoming less of an issue I think. And QuickLisp is one counter point to the OP -- it has broad community support.
Looks like a beautiful site. However I was disappointed to see that nothing about the 10k figure in the link title was mentioned in the article. I would be very interested in another article if you'd be willing to detail your revenue, expenses, profits, conversion rate, and such. I understand that is sensitive data and you may not want to, but it can't hurt to ask.

Best of luck, and your resumes look beautiful.
I'm having a hard time understanding what the usefulness of 'messaging' is. Could someone point them out or point me to a few real world applications? I've checked the wiki and I'm still puzzled.
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I think your points about young people are right on the money. To be more specific, there is a history to his views. They have evolved over time in reaction to specific events, just like everybody's ideas. People who have not experienced the same events will not understand how his views are shaped without this background being explained. In order to understand how the building is made you need to see the scaffolding. Many times Stallman's(and others) views are presented without the proper narrative in place.
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We can extract a little bit of parallelism that way, but nothing even close to the scale of what a GPU does.
Exactly, if he's using Microsoft technology (C# and .NET), that was NOT made to work on Linux or Mac OS, he shouldn't be saying Linux is not a good development platform. It obviously won't work so well if he's using a language that was made for Windows by Windows guys.

I think Linux is the best development platform of all, and I don't think he has the right to say Linux is behind Windows n development tools.
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Or he have an MSDN subscription which covers both Windows+Visual studio, and dont want to pay extra for an OEM license to something he already has the right to use.
While I certainly agree with RMS's reasons for being so committed to his philosophy, I just don't know if it would still be possible to practice in today's world.

Almost every system out there, free software or otherwise is monetized one way or another, either you pay for the software, or you are the product being sold.
Thanks for visiting. Is The Apprentice showing us the lean startup way? can we learn anything?
I noticed in the HTML source that they credit Cordova:

> Thanks to Yohei Shimomae and the Apache Cordova team for the original design....
> According to AT&T, the iPhone you want to unlock can't be associated with a current active term commitment, and you must already be out of your contract terms (usually two years from purchase) or you must have paid an early termination fee. Your account must be in good standing, too—no $700 overdue phone bills for you.

I don't see anything that seems overly strict here. You finish the contract you signed up for, or pay the early termination fee and also make sure your bill is paid.

What is overly strict about this?
This seems to be more common sense than anything.
I find it odd that he choses to dump platforms that also support Windows. Manufacturers adding Windows support (realistically the other way around with Linux being supported after the fact) is about giving consumers choice in how their product runs.

I feel this is somewhat core to the FSF movement, a choice for how your computer runs. Why should Stallman criticise a company for allowing someone to pick the OS that best meets their needs? If a person picks Windows over a FOSS aligned OS then there is clearly something wrong in the feature-set or user interface of that FOSS OS.
Ask HN: How do you find development positions in other countries. 
I am curious how you find computer science related positions away from home. I am soon to be graduating from university, and have found myself very interested in outsourcing my employment opportunities. The only way that I have found is by checking Universities in the desired location for job fair participants. Do you have better sources or strategies?
unions certainly do nothing to protect the students from the teachers, if the NYC area is any example. They exaggerate the costs of educating students and usually exert too much influence over local elections thereby insuring their continued existence and near immunity to control. Unions operate to serve themselves, their political contacts next, then their members; they certainly could care less about the business.

There are more than sufficient laws and with our well connected society there is means to protect both teachers and students. We just have to get the bureaucracy out of the system and that includes the unions.

public employee unions should never have been allowed.

The Department of Education is a good place to start when it comes to fixing the system, it needs to go. Since Carter implemented it the only noticeable increase in regards to education has been cost per student, it certainly has done little if anything to improve their outcome.
A slightly off-topic thing, but I'm curious as to if anyone else here with a FB account has tried to download their FB data, but never actually received the notification email or data itself?
It seems to me they'd be able to get a lot more metadata for their recommendation engine if they worked on allowing multiple personas per household account. Analyzing the viewing behaviour of people within the same household would give them a treasure trove of more data to make better recommendations for other people in similar households.

"You watched and liked XYZ, your 38 year old wife hates ABC, and you've got 3 daughters 8/10/12? They'll probably like these shows ...."

It seems they missed out on years of awesome data by not allowing for segmenting by persona from the early days.
With the full disclosure that I used to work for muvee Technologies (muvee.com), I'd like to point out that muvee Reveal's "styles" are authored in a scheme dialect. Yes, that's a commercial consumer level fun product featuring scheme.

Incremental exploratory development of the DSL for authoring these "editing styles" was made pretty easy using macros and if you ask me to reimagine it, it won't be easy for me to think of another easier route.

For those saying "macros aren't useful for day to day code", please consider the possibility that you wouldn't have to write much of that "day to day code" if you had macros in your toolkit.

Impromptu, (fluxus) and DrScheme itself are some cool dudes where the productivity per person on those teams appears disproportionately high compared to other projects.
> since the atmosphere and magnetic field of Mars provide little shielding, the martian surface is bombarded with high-energy radiation comparable to that in free space. Thus, our intrepid explorers or settlers must stay under a few feet of dirt most of the time if they plan to stay long and remain healthy. The fantasy of domed cities under the martian sky thus shrinks to pressure vessels buried under martian dirt.

That is a big problem, but it is not specific to Mars. The author seems to prefer settlements in space, so I tried searching the site to find out how the space stations are to be shielded from radiation, but failed.
Thanks for your comment and link, I'll read it tomorrow. As to choice-free supermarkets, isn't Aldi somewhere in the ball-park of choice-free shopping?
After reading yummyfajitas' comment, I wish I could take back my upvote, because he's right: it's one thing to say the structure of the process itself is so byzantine and brittle that schools suck, but it's quite another to say we should remove measurable goals as well.

If I didn't know better, I'd call this a disinformation piece: deliberately conflating two concepts into one large rant in order to try to join the two. The subtext goes something like this:we know Joe Sixpack has finally figured out how terrible the education system is, so let's throw together a big pile of things we don't like, stick a label on top (something like "bureaucracy") and that way we can get rid of pesky measurements at the same time we free up execution.)

The author isn't good enough to pull that off, though. I think it's much more the case that it's just a populist rant from somebody who already has a big label he wants to stick on things that don't work. That is a non-starter.

To continue the programming analogy, as a customer you guys are delivering crap all the time. I pay ten times as much and the crap just gets worse. Now we can sit around and dicker all day long about the process you have for making crap, but one thing we are not going to do is remove the testing at the end that makes it obvious to everybody just how shitty the whole thing is.
Ooops I ment the Falklands! Yep I know what you mean about respect and I think that facebook lack of "respect" is because it was the first socual network to pick right how people want to know everything from their friends and relatives. But as the first one also is imperfect, maybe google+'s circles are a better aproach. Time will say.. I also think that a kind of circles is the way to fix the email ( in the way PG asks)
The Atlantic ought to read this NY Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/business/college-costs-are...

Busting unions and destroying bureaucracies isn't going to change the way teaching is done fundamentally. What it will do is make teaching even less attractive as a profession. Most teachers I know value job security in exchange for salary. Take away security and you are left with little economic incentive to stay. And economic incentives are essential:

Some of that [tuition] growth has resulted from a phenomenon called Baumol’s disease, after the economist William J. Baumol, who described it in a 1965 article he wrote with William G. Bowen. The basic idea is that while productivity gains have made it possible to assemble cars with only a tiny fraction of the labor that was once required, it still takes four musicians nine minutes to perform Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 4 in C minor, just as it did in the 19th century.

College instruction more closely resembles a musical performance than an auto assembly line. Although information technologies have yielded some productivity growth in academia, instruction still takes place largely as it always has.

To recruit professors, universities must pay salaries roughly in line with those made possible by productivity growth in other sectors. So while rising salaries needn’t lead to higher prices in many industries, they do in academia and many other service industries.

While the Atlantic story seems to comport with the frightening startup idea to "Replace Universities", it is crucial to recognize and deal with Baumol's disease.
Yes, but you wouldn't want to measure lines of code.
Ask HN: What do you do on your commute?
Hi!

I'm busy building an iPhone app, which is optimised for commuters and I was wondering what sort of things people like to fill their commuting time with? If you use public transport - are there any apps that you find particularly useful or enjoyable? If you drive, do you usually switch on the radio or stream music from your mobile?

Just a curious bee, me.

Thx :)
He simply does his best. That is all he, or any one can do to follow their ideals.

If that is not good enough and one gives up the second there is a challenge or compromise involved, then there is no humanity left, and generally no point to life. Evolution and education would be dead.
This is now the second comment I have received on this thread that somehow seems to feel the need to point out that checks are insecure, when in fact a) that is obvious and b) I personally abhore checks (and thereby need no convincing of their ineptitude), and refuse to use them for anything I have control over (including paying contractors: if you require me to send you a check you will not be hired). I am highly confused by this, as my contribution to this thread was "funny anecdote that backs up someone else's comment about how people outside the US realize checks are stupid".
For better or for worse, the Free Software movement has a strange notion of "choice". They believe that the user is entitled to complete control over their computer, which precludes Windows. To someone like me, that would mean that the user should be free to waive those rights and use Windows anyway, but to the FSF that somehow is an infraction. Who the victim is and who the oppressor in that case, is unclear to me.
But making a multiuser-interface complicates a design and ease of use tremendously. Think about password protection (and recovery). And you don't want to administer another computer system, you just want to watch TV.
Was having a chat with a friend a couple of days ago about something similar. Essentially having my own 'app' (ie I'm the only user) and seeing what data I can obtain about my network through it (assuming I give it full access).

Of course, the simpler solution is just to ask friends who develop FB apps what they can access.
In Europe 100 Mbit/s speeds are quite common and for pretty low prices.
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I commute by public transport, and I mostly read books on a Kindle. If I was to use my phone, I'll probably solve sudoku or something. Or maybe read RSSes.
I think that's totally fine. He doesn't have to influence everybody. He just has to influence enough moderate people to in turn influence the rest of us. I argue this happened with the "Open Source" movement he hates so much. I think he's got to hold the goal post, to define the ideal, so we know what to aim for at least.
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I don't think there are specific written rules for many countries. One hyperactive Romanian border officer requested me (in a threatening tone) to remove all the "large electronic equipment" from my backpack - even my SLR camera and all the lenses. This never happened in ~10 other countries where I traveled with the same backpack and contents.
Sounds great, checked out your trackme app. Who is your targeted niche? Would I use this to track my daily jogs?
our officers are trained to look for anomalies to help keep air travel safe

Number of times air travel kept safe by TSA: zero.

Please show me the list of incidents they have saved anyone from. It would be a huge public relations bonus so that list must be somewhere right? I mean you cannot take hundreds of millions of dollars and criminally hassle that many people without results - or can you?
I suspect most people, if they left the camp of Facebook, would not be able to round up as many "friends" by the campfire on their own, and that is why they stay. The culture of Facebook is not very exclusive. Many people will add you even if they have never spoken to you, simply because they knew who you were and would like to increase the size of their network. Excellent way to lull people into a false sense of community.
RMS should be proud because open source has already won. His focus should not be on software freedom, it should be on data freedom.

So, where is the "Free Data Foundation"?
Maybe the question is asked from the wrong perspective - it's not that designers of cryptographic hash functions ask themselves "Hmm, so how fast/slow do we want this thing to be?".

They go the other way round and set a "security parameter" that should hold for a particular instance (all the parameters fixed) of their algorithm. That "security parameter" determines how hard it should be for an arbitrary adversary to break the scheme by brute force, and in addition the scheme is only thought to be secure if there is no polynomial time algorithm that can break it in time significantly less than the brute force algorithm would take.

Given such a security parameter, the art is then typically to design the fastest primitive that upholds this same security margin. For example, if two (unbroken) algorithms would take O(2^80) for a brute force Birthday Attack, then you'd conceive the faster of the two as the "better" algorithm. ("Fast" of course can be subjective, e.g. fast in HW or fast in SW etc.)

For one thing, that's simply just because making an algorithm slower is always possible (PBKDF2), but in practice there are a lot of applications (probably more) where a hash should be as fast as possible rather than as slow as possible, as in digital signatures for example.
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"Lessons of Amish Hackers" a chapter in What Technology Wants by David Kelly.
Some subjects of QM are discussed, for instance, in high-school chemistry (at least were, in my school), but the joke I was referring to is more targeted, perhaps, at how different it is from the day-to-day newtonian experiences our brains evolved to deal with. I'm quite sure my cat is alive, regardless of whether I'm observing her or not.
Indeed, my university uses a service called Turnitin to rate the percentage of coursework that is plagiarised, along with giving where from etc.

It's pretty nice actually, can recognise when things are quoted and not passed off as your own.
Agreed. If you're running mingw and cygwin on Windows, you're getting closer to Linux, but I'd still much rather do development work on Ubuntu or some other Debian distro. And I say that as someone whose work requirements him to sometimes work on Windows.
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I own a Kindle for about one and a half year and I thought, it is time to gather all my experiences and tools in one article.
Instantwatcher and streamingsoon are far better than any netflix recommendations in my experience.
Nor would you want to measure student performance by class attendance. What's your point?
By in Europe you mean in some districts of big cities and by pretty low prices affordable but rather expensive in comparison (to cable or lower speed Internet connection)?

Most people have decent connections from their cable providers or phone operators but nowhere near full duplex 100mbit and in most areas lousy DSL is all you can get (or mobile which also leaves a lot to be desired outside of large agglomerations).
It lets you keep track of above Dunbar's Number of friends.
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Yeah, no problem there, but when I first signed up and clicked the link in my email it said I wouldnt be able to use that link to login again. I wasnt ready to provide my AWS info at that time, because I didnt have time to do it but I did have time to make an account. Now I dont have a password and I cant get back into my account for good?
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Statsd and NewRelic are very different.

NewRelic gives you mainly a predefined set of metrics, where you just have to install the agent to get them. Then. There's an additional module where you can send your own set of metrics and display them.

Statsd on the contrary is 'only' a tool to collect and then display metrics. You have to define everything you eant to measure yourself (or use plugins to your app).

So these two are definitely related, but better used for different (although overlapping) jobs.
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I would guess most employees even give away their passwords for free, by just using the same one for every account they sign up for - you would just need to guess the correct username for their corporate account...
If you happen to "really" need a Facebook account, let's say to be in contact with your classmates, then you should consider adding only your Name and email address to your account info.
I've added not religion or political info there, no one should care what my religion or political views are.
I've always assumed that the laptop rule was because it blocked X-rays, and so you could hide something under it. In that case, the size is irrelevant. It's just to prevent having to check manually too much.

Besides, rules just change depending on the airport/country, simple as that. I've had situations where I've been asked to take out "all electronic devices" (phones, tablets, ipods, I had like ten of those). In other cases, I passed with the laptop still inside (or even a bottle of water in my jacket ! I'm definitely a terrorist).

I wonder why people care about this, though. Can't you just accept that you will spend five or ten minutes taking out your laptop ?

I find the interdiction of liquid/razors much more annoying, because it actually costs me money. The inconvenience of empty your bag is pretty harmless.