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Tell HN: I'm Rebooting My Life
Edit -- Killed. I'm not surprised. Thanks anyway, I suppose.

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I've chosen to keep this anonymous, but I've been on HN for a while.

I've recently found myself at a crossroads. My job is gone (failed startup), and my personal connections to my current location are sparse. Binding agreements (leases, etc.) are done soon in a few months. I'm not in the Valley, NYC, or any other tech hub, so job prospects are slim (I am in america though, FYI). I'm not tied to a specific industry. Quite frankly, my skillsets are almost too broad to be marketable anyway.

So, I'm proposing to "reboot my life." Go anywhere, do anything, provided I can make ends meet. I'd prefer a startup, if given the choice. But, I'll do anything.

My whole life, everything I've gotten is though hard work and learning quickly. I learn faster than many, and work harder than mostly everyone I've met. Enlist me, and I'll bring these to your table.

Here's what I can do:

-Sell: open, close, lead gen, big biz, small biz, presentations; I can go full stack on the sales side.

-Code: I'm not great, but I can build what you need, do it as well as I can, and I'll do it on time. I prefer a ruby/rails stack, but with some time I can learn anything out there. The resources are endless, and I've already taught myself jr level skills. My relevant laundry list of skills: Rails, git, mysql, postgres, mongo (tiny amount), js (mostly within APIS and Titanium), html, css, haml, less, scss

-Marketing: Copy, customer research, promotions, adwords testing, etc. You name it, I've probably done some of it it.

-Customer Support: I'm good at turning angry/confused/frustrated people into happy people over the phone and via email.

What I can't do:

-Design: Other than basalmiq mockups, no valuable design chops here.

What I'm looking for:

-The ability to specialize and grow: as I said, but current offerings place me as a jack of all trades, master of none. I'd like to be able to become a pro at what I can do.

Ideally, I'd prefer a development role. But, I'll do anything, while learning it quickly and working hard.

If you're game, email me at HNLifeReboot@gmail.com and I guess we can go from there.
I wouldn't rate particle filtering, localization, object tracking and filtering in AI. They are enablers, but not the intelligence.

Policy search is AI. =)

Eyes not only have great resolution and depth perception, but are attached to an amazing pattern processing machine that looks forward in time to estimate the next set of perceptions. They're also very environment-invariant - sun, snow, heavy rain, fog, etc would screw a camera, but human eyes can handle it relatively gracefully.
I also hold three passports. I think that having multiple nationalities does make you see how arbitrary the concept of a nation state is (getting privileges solely because of your place of birth or who your parents are), however I don't see that changing anytime soon, because there is not really a realistic alternative.

EDIT: In case people are interested, my nationalities are: Dutch, German, Canadian. I was born with all three of them (even though I found out only much later). I would loose both my Dutch and my German citizenship if I were to acquire another one.
Sweet, let's unabashedly support more sexism! That's what the tech industry needs.

Somehow, an article describing caching of web applications manages to denigrate women, for no reason.

The underrepresentation of women in tech is caused by this mindless sexism, like body-shaming women. Douche bag is a sexist insult. You're insulting your target by associating them with feminine care products. It's a direct associating between "This thing is womanly so it is bad." Even after several other stories these digs at women still get publicized!
thanks for the retrospective, eli.

we have a wide array of students to cater to and better setting expectations and providing challenges at the right level to the right students is something that we hope to iterate on and improve over time.
I think what he means is that car companies are good at making cars, but they're not as good at making the kind of AI you need for a fully autonomous car.
Thanks for this great information. I'm stuck at the jury duty cattle call this morning but will try to put this into action later.
Spend some time studying what current auto engines are, and how much software they embody. I'm not sure how much of it has been developed by the auto companies themselves, but there's quite a lot of it, and it's pretty robust: how ofter has your car OS crashed lately?
I don't know about the wording of the law but in the actual implementations I've done it does provide a measure of privacy and accountability. HIPAA-compliant companies are required to keep your data from being seen by anybody you haven't allowed to see it and for like the programmers working on the HIPAA system who might be exposed to your data you're required to not provide raw access to the data and keep a auditing log of who saw it and when.
He's a big data consultant, and all he has is a hammer :-).
Because Aardman stop-motion animation has a niche fanbase? :)
Because if he did he would be in trouble. Renouncing citizenship for the purpose of tax avoidance is not something US govt. likes very much.
Swiftype (YC W12) Builds Site Search That Doesn’t Suck
EAP-SIM is deployed on the Free network in France.

Pros:
- It bypasses your monthly fair-use quota
- Offers a higher bandwidth.

Cons:
- You need to leave your WiFi on, which drains battery.
- Support on Android is very poor.
I'm not painting with a wide brush here, I'm just acknowledging that blind faith in PG's stamp of approval is insufficient to make any determination of whether a particular company is worthwhile or not. I'm sure there's quite a few well-run YC-funded startups; I just have to make that call myself.
This is pretty silly thing to watch out for. Being a zealot about anything, especially something like unit tests, is certainly not a good idea when searching for a good job. Setting aside the fact that whether unit tests exist and how they are managed often does depend on the project/product/client (and the fact that many good web start-ups don't do unit testing for very good reasons), it's just a bad idea to discount a company based on some technical aspects you may disagree with (especially if you only have a few years of experience and really don't have a strong foundation for evaluating this).

Instead, you are looking for good co-workers, good management, a comfortable work environment, and a compelling or at least interesting-enough business. You are not looking for a company that merely subscribes to your pet programming philosophy.
Ask HN: How do you organize your bookmarks?
I was wondering what kind of structures you guys use? How do you organize your bookmarks? If, for instance, you have topics, then how do you manage to keep those folders, well, manageable?
iOS hackers - be the first tech hire at a YC (S12) company 
We are building the hands-down best shopping experience for the iPad. And we need one more person to help us do it.

Our 3 co-founders all have technical backgrounds and have spent the last 10 years at the top names in tech and finance. 2 still code full time and 1 handles business & product. We have 2 designers, a community manager, and the backing of both Y Combinator and some of the top investors in the valley - including Ron Conway, Yuri Milner, Andreessen Horowitz, and General Catalyst.

We can't reveal all our plans and secrets here, but if you live and breathe iOS and want to be the first tech hire at a YC company, let us know at stealthYC12company@gmail.com.
New focused radiation treatment effective for gynecologic cancers
Five years ago, cancer specialists in Florida began a study, taking a cutting edge radiation delivery system -- stereotactic body radiation therapy -- and using it on patients with advanced gynecologic cancers, who were otherwise out of options, for the first time. This treatment was successful in 80 percent of women and years of monitoring have now found that it also prevented recurrence or cured the women altogether.
Personally I think a combo of one of EU countries and Australia or Canada is nice. You get pretty much all of the first world benefits, can live anywhere in the EU while it's still together with minimal hassles, have Australia/Canada when you're missing an environment a little more the U.S., without the crazy that's U.S. citizenship and corresponding tax laws. (But of course I'd think so as a dual CA/EU citizen.)
I think the grandparent post meant this as a replacement to DVD, not all sales. So you're replacing the 120M component of the total, not the total 500M. So we're talking closer to 40M people who feel the film is worth $5.

(Admittedly grandparent did acknowledge that this could affect the theater ruin, but to suggest it would supplant it is a bit much. Conversely let's consider some may sample it at $5 who may not have otherwise. The people who usually wait for rental or cable. Those people now have the opportunity to go see it in IMAX 3d or whatever.)
My little world of web apps there are 2 types of testers, both valuable.

1) Programmer testers that write reusable, and automated tests, as well as encourage & assist the dev team to write their own tests. These folks work through the entire project , usually on product type projects.

2) Manual Testers (there must be a better name) These folks are good communicators that focus primarily on the client perspective. Developers, and their tests, tend to evaluate code in a rigid & consistent way that may not reflect the end user experience. These testers are also used on products but more commonly on turn-and-burn projects for Agencies or startup MVP's that are not huge yet.

If you did want to get into programming I do think that QA is an outstanding way to bootstrap a web dev career. I've laid out a plan here
http://www.robertspeer.com/blog/no-degree-no-problem-some-ha...

It's not how I got got into making web apps but I think it's a solid way to get into a well paying career.
Yes, we should definitely encourage people to present their writing with unreadable formatting and notorious grammatical errors.
Since SPDY is layered beneath HTTP it's relatively easy to roll out. At CloudFlare we plan to roll out SPDY when it is available as part of nginx because it will mean that can enable it for our customers with a simple on/off switch in the control panel (as we did for IPv6) without them making any backend changes.
Somalia 1991. [two-digit]k per person. Do the math.

(I need to ask the family, I remember it being more than 30k)
>I don't know why I keep bothering to point this out, but the notion that "America no longer makes things" is absolutely, empirically, unassailably false.

Too many things wrong with your argument.

For one, employment in that sector (as well as overall) is still down, because fewer people are needed to produce the same things.

Second, that the US produces, say, "more than it did 1985" is meaningless. A better metric would be what share of the domestic and international sold goods it produces, over time.

Third, an ever better measure would be the trade (import/export) deficit over time.
I am just now today experiencing this exact thing for the first time! The so-called "addiction" is strong too—I just did a long run on Sunday and am sore and tired and am already looking forward to my next run. I'm a new runner, and thinking about it, I am drawn to it more for the alone time + weight loss than I am the actual running (which is tough for sure). Thanks for the post—it was fun to read and think about.
Infographic: How Mobile Technology is Changing World Travel
"FB playing with the vulnerability" - https://facebook.com/?-s

They really do have a sense of humour...
Comprehensive study about social technologies on enterprise world
Who owns ACH? The banks do.

Who owns Dwolla's replacement? Dwolla.

Banks are smarter than that. Adoption of this will be zero.

Instant transfers mean that someone can bankrupt an entire bank - instantly. If someone hacks this brand-new untested system and issues 100% withdrawal orders for every customer account, B of A and Citibank and Wells Fargo and HSBC can all be bankrupted between 10:32:24 and 10:32:25. Ooops!

ACH is slow and revocable on purpose.
What? This is most certainly not the best option.

As a U.S. citizen you are required to pay taxes on income earned worldwide and from my understanding you can only deduct up to ~95k in 2012.

From what I've read, being a US citizen and working abroad is expensive and one of the main motivations for people to renounce their US citizenship.
I'm a little disappointed that this would be posted and not include a commentary about the number of reasons that he would have for doing this.

It seems rather useless to simply troll government websites for "revealing" data and make no other comment about it. We can add nothing to this data point beyond conjecture without understanding why a person makes this decision.

EDIT: So people have figured out that he's moved to Singapore and married a Singaporean, which makes perfect sense given their stance on citizenship in general.

I know a Singaporean - they don't like losing citizens. Namely, because of the extensive government involvement in their lives in the form of everything from social services to national ID cards to military service. The approach is a much different path of democracy than what we'd be used to in North America.
Now it's late, you should read http://www.jailfreebook.com
While I agree with you about the Liskov Substitution Principle, I don't think that would have helped in this example. If your assumptions about the behavior of the base classes are wrong, your code is wrong. Substitute a wrong super-class for a wrong sub-class, and it's still wrong.

What the LSP does do, though, is help you know when you really shouldn't be subclassing things. If your implementation leaks beyond the class interface, it shouldn't be a subclass.
Sell it the same day as release, as well as DVD and Blu-Ray copies. The home and theater versions then become effective cross-promotions for the other, plus you hit the market at the peak of your advertising campaign. Nobody's had the guts to try this sort of thing though.
I think we will see a Datalog made faster by parallel reduce/combine real soon now. :-)
Great explanation here for those of us who didnt quite understand at first

http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/web-intents/raw-file/tip/spec/Overview...

What are the security concerns?
It's not the app revenue, it's the locked content stream. Open web apps would be able to sell content directly, as they never signed the app store contract. Long term Apple's growth model requires content sales. Hardware sales only grew 7% over last year if I remember their filing correctly.
>Aside from the fact that this story is clearly made-up, the idea that a profit-seeking corporation would favor "shutting down" an asset rather than selling it because it fears an uprising of the working class is just about the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard.

"Made up"? Those kinds of stories play out all the time. Study a little international labour history.
> Rant time: I despise what political discourse in this country has become.

Maybe not being associated with that (or at least not as much) is another of Sivers' reasons for renouncing...
All of this awesome US payment stuff makes me sad to not be in the US :-(

Please make Dwolla available for HK customers. Pwetty please. Heck, we've seriously considered incorporating in the US just to be able to use Stripe/Dwolla...
Xcode is also a hard part, for it is a pretty crummy IDE.

And of course, while Objective-C is easy to learn it's not necessarily a fun language to express yourself in, much the way M4, ColdFusion or MUMPS aren't usually considered fun languages to use (no offense meant to Objective-C's designers or people who like it, just drawing on the languages least likely to have any fan out there).

> On the flip side, I like seeing experimental tools like this to promote new ways of thinking and coding

Ruby isn't exactly a "new way of thinking and coding" now is it?
For those of you who want some background on why big publishers have mostly abandoned the midlist, this article[1] by Kevin O'Donnell is a good summary. Short version: A Supreme Court ruling related to tax markdowns on slow-selling books made it too expensive for publishers to hold paper inventory of midlist books from year to year. On the other hand, since e-books don't create excess inventory, there are no tax penalties for Amazon (or Apple, or B&N, or whoever) to keep a midlist book "in print."

[1] http://www.sfwa.org/bulletin/articles/thor.htm
I wonder it if it stems from entities like corporations and individuals being treated in a similar fashion by some law. So they don't want to all of the sudden to have every single US company to end up headquartered in the Cayman Islands.

Also if they don't do this. It pretty much guarantees that any wealthy individual will leave the country for a tax haven. Say you reach a $10M/year income if your tax rate is 30% in US, given your financial status, it would be very easy for you to move to Mexico or another country and just say "Well, I am not in US anymore, can't tax me".

Now in actuality this is already happening. They are just making it harder. They are trying to plug the holes in hunk of Swiss cheese.
Says jbooth? Irony much? :)
Not all languages lend themselves to formal certification, which is why such mission-critical software is typically written only in C, C++ or Ada.

And while the specification process is obviously extremely extensive, it's only a part of the total process and not a guarantee of bug-free code. Many of these projects have gone pear-shaped during the implementation phase despite having good specifications.

So that's why having good programmers, a good development process, solid libraries and great tooling is so important for the implementation phase. Especially because the requirements always change during development, even for mission-critical military avionics software.

One of the main problems with the F-35 program is that the implementation phase for the development of the plane's software has gone badly wrong. It's already by far the most expensive avionics program ever.

Finally the testing phase is super-critical. ATE designed their own extremely thorough testing setup, ranging from software verifiers to full-scale test-benches to simulate on the ground the full range of software functionality in flight.

It's a difficult process that's very easy to get wrong as a result of the incredible complexity of modern avionics and weapons systems. I am in awe of those teams that get it right.
You think that "my money" is an inaccurate term in some way?
Not yet. Any suggestions are welcome!
It's an interesting concept. how do you guys plan on making money?
RubyMotion should be able to invoke any existing Obj-C library. It already has documented support for CocoaPods.

New iOS SDK release support is a valid concern, but I don't think library usage is a big problem.
This is a good point. It's a shame, I liked the name.
Google listed on 8/19/04. Q4'04 revenue 1031.50M, Q4'05 revenue 1919.09M. Cost of revenue doubled too, 362.10M to 655.16M.
If you call reduce on it twice, then sure, it would do all the work twice.
I might be dim but I fail to see any connection at all.

One is about metadata and machine readability whilst the other is about linking web app capabilities.
(1) Don't take jobs where the company isn't willing to
tell you what you'll be working on. That usually means
you're going to be allocated to the least desirable
projects.

I passed on a job at Google precisely because of this fear. I wonder if they've since changed that practice.
> There are silly startups because people (for one reason or another) are willing to invest in them, and generally those folks aren't the founders.

I don't think I'd be happy at a company whose own founders don't believe in their mission and are only in it for the money. Built to flip, right?
Apple doesn't care how you write your apps (well, they'd probably prefer you used their tools), and they've come out and publicly stated they have no problem with things like RubyMotion, Corona, Adobe Air to ObjC conversion, etc.
You forgot to mention that the Federal Reserve is involved (as with domestic wires)
I really like dwolla, but I think this particular innovation should have been implemented differently. Instead of giving this product away for free to banks, et al. It should have been release open source for everyone to use for free, with support costing banks, et al. No requirement to use Dwolla as the vendor between banks and consumers. This would really have been disruptive. As it stands, Dwolla has just figured out how to be a better Mastercard. Still some progress is better than no progress, so I extend a heartfelt thank you to Dwolla.
Progress on queue algorithms to defeat bufferbloat
Your "thin sliver" idea is intriguing. Maybe we can call slivers "simple components" and build bigger things out of them.

I wonder if there would be any benefit to that?
Cluelessness and red tape are the symptoms of the dysfunctional relationships he's talking about. If the relationships were working properly, it'd be easier to get your 15-minute procurement job done, and nobody would be trying to standardize you on a crappy tool.

Don't worry about missing any boats. If you like a job take it, if not, don't. If you want to start a business, start it, and focus on making money rather than chasing techcrunch headlines and VCs.

If you're evaluating work at a startup, look at it like you're your agent:

1) What's the comp package? Equity, unless very significant, is basically a deferred bonus that you can't count on. Don't overrate it.

2) What skills will you get to develop? It's usually not worth taking a lower salary for X,000 shares of "i don't know". But it can absolutely be worth taking a lower salary now in exchange for higher skills later.
I'd love for iOS UI interactions to have less ceremony around them in general. This is a step in that direction. :)

But you're right, there's a lot of work to do to support the concerns in a real app. I'm looking forward to it.
I can't afford not to be a U.S. citizen. I'm a non-millionaire atheist black man with a Muslim name and an American accent. My kind don't last long in the wilderness, I will be traded by intel agencies like a baseball card.
Being non-deterministic is a non-starter for safety or mission critical systems.

One of the foundational concepts of safety-critical design is strict scheduling of resources. The schedule must be strictly deterministic. The process must get it's work done in the time allocated because the scheduler will move on regardless. It's why you don't do recursion in safety-critical systems. Strictly speaking, you're not even supposed to use while loops in safety-critical systems. In the five years I worked in avionics, the only time I saw a while loop was in code review where the person who wrote it (always a new person) was directed to take it out.

All that being said, safety-critical software production is more about the processes than coding. Even crappy programmers can be taught how to write good safety-critical code when the company adheres to best practices.

As far as the original post, Ada and C. Ada has tremendous support for concurrency and is stable as the day is long. Not much in the way of libraries, but honestly not that important on the kinds of projects you would use Ada to build.
Yep, unfortunately I don't know which OS they went for but it was one of the commercially-available RTOSes on the market. Those don't come cheap.

Avionics software certification is phenomenally expensive. Both Airbus and Boeing have warned in recent years that it has become such a big part of their development costs that they're concerned about it becoming unsustainable.