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I'm 28 and I work in mainframes. Or rather, I write compilers for mainframes and I have to say that I disagree with the top voted post.

Mainframes have an amazing CPU architecture that is different enough from x86 to really open your mind. Ever move 2GB of memory with 1 instruction? (Well 2 really if I'm being pedantic.) It's got what's easily the industries most complicated branch predictor, and runs at well over 5Ghz. If you're interested in that, you should check out the slides from Hot Chips. Oh right, and it's got hardware transactional memory.

Now I'll readily admit that using z/OS through a 3270 terminal is quite painful, and using USS through SSH isn't much better, but thankfully mainframes now run RHEL. That's right, big iron runs linux. Yes, you'll likely have to recompile your favourite software, but you can run vim, emacs, bash, zsh, and whatever else you want, and you don't even have to deal with EBCDIC.

As for the comment that there's no development on mainframes, well that's just plain wrong. There's a ton of development, to the point where nearly every single financial transaction you make in a day goes through a Z mainframe, and nearly all major retailers use one.

You just can't beat the security and stability. Can you think of another platform where you can hot swap EVERY part? Reportedly, the Z in SystemZ stands for Zero downtime, and that includes OS upgrades and hardware upgrades.

No, you're not going to write PHP, Ruby, or node.js on a mainframe, you're going to be using C/C++, Java, or COBOL (surprisingly good language in some cases). But you're also not falling behind technologically.

This might come off as preachy, but I really do enjoy working on zLinux, it's a really nice environment, and I think that young people might actually enjoy the experience of working on something that's not x86.
Kaspersky Lab uncovers "Red October" a huge Diplomatic Cyber Attacks Network
Be,

Are you also passing video or just audio for now?

Also, are you doing any encryption on the signalling or media? Great job rapidly iterating and building new products. Always nice to see innovation in the voice apps business.
Love the Gibson one. Another classic opening line, one of the few that I can still quote verbatim, is from Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude:

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
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Nope, that's not private and not restricted. Essentially everyone in the world is invited and everyone in the world (even those who don't speak) can listen. In practice the number of participants is much larger; at a table you probably have 2 <= N <= 10. And there's no presence information: if someone "gets up from the table" (stops looking at the thread) you don't know that. There's no visible distinction between being silent and not being there at all.
It's an assessment of your Windows expertise based upon the specifics the experience you relayed, not ad hominem. By your own admission your familiarity with the Windows landscape is based largely on experience gained more than seven years ago and with an obsolescent version of the OS.

Dunning-Kruger effects are the result of one believing that they have more expertise than the do. With regards to the Windows ecosystem, this seems to be the case.

One of the salient features of my experience with the Dunning-Kruger effect is that I don't recognize situations in which I am exemplifying it - and logic would dictate that I exemplify it more often than I am aware.

As a crapware vector, partition magic is akin to Nigerian spam. Those who seek it are the ideal targets just as those who respond to the Nigerian banker's uncle are ideal candidates. Both pursue something too good to be true.

I am not claiming that your experience isn't real. I am saying that its conclusion is not that of a Windows expert.

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I am not a mainframe guy, but AFAIK mainframes are very special beasts. Especially they guarentee very high aviability and have special hardware features to support this guarentees. So you do not use them in the first place if you are not more scared of downtime, than of hardware costs. And with this comes a specific very conservative style of software development. If it ain't broken, don't fix it. So a lot of the mainframe code is very old and will only be replaced, if the company is replaced by a competitor. And therefor compatible hardware will also stick around until the end of business operations.
I download it and get:

.../Playground-master/Playground/PXViewController.m:9:9: 'PXEngine/PXEngine.h' file not found

The framework file is not included...
There is a difference between public domain works, non-public-domain works, and value-added services. I've made this distinction clear in my arguments.
So YC is like the crack dealer who also runs his own rehab clinic. Pretty smart.
Show HN: Passive Stock Symbol Monitoring (beta)
The prohibition against retroactive laws only applies to criminal laws. See Calder v. Bull (1798).
this is pretty great, I wonder what Twilio is doing in response
Considering Heymann has a history of badly under-estimating the suicide risk of young hackers he prosecutes, I'd say he either has "emotional deficiencies", or he's just incompetent. Replying to a suicide risk with "well then we'll lock him up, he'll be safe there" is callous in the extreme.

In both cases, this reflects badly on him and his boss, wouldn't you say?
Then let's suppose there's a study that shows children who grow up in a rich family grow up healthier and happier and have better education and better jobs. Don't we owe it to those children to make sure that as many as possible are born into rich families?
Raising children as single parents is already hard enough, a financial disincentive for them will only make matters worse.
I built this out of my own needs late last year. It has helped me save (and make) a measurable amount of money trading. After showing a few people, it seems that there is a demand for a passive stock monitoring service like such. With this feedback, I decided to continue building the product into a consumer friendly version now known as SymbolStalker.

I am now looking for some early beta users who want to be a better trader with less effort. I am also looking for feedback about the product & concept as a whole.
I only read the first Sherlock Holmes novel, but he didn't strike me as an incredibly smart character. This is because the author was keeping lots of critical information from the reader. Reader has no chance to figure it out on his own. Yes, there's a moment when he looks at a muddy path where you can suspect he's seeing some interesting traces - but it's not said what it is.
Will Machines Ever Master Translation? They have a long way to go still
The problem is not with the book, TETS, but rather then web is only now becoming able to deal with some of the advanced typographic treatments that physical books have been using for 100's of years.

The book opened my eyes, and has certainly affected my ebooks and the css I created to style them.
Same here!

After this incident - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4866677 - we gave it a try and its now in production!
Foundersync – An entrepreneurial match making platform
totally agree, my best dates/relationships always came from meeting through friends. it takes the pressure off and you know they are not freaks/psychos, and you already have friends in common. hence, Link4Love! still new but check out the video, make sense right?
Instinct – A faster and easier way to learn guitar
I've just upgraded this machine and lasted about three hours before I couldn't take Unity any more. Cinnamon is a really nice lightweight alternative which still makes a nice and (to me) sensible distinction between applications and instances of them.
On Media Player Classic you can easily download subtitles for whatever movie you're watching by going to File>Subtitle Database>Download. It will search a DB online somewhere then let you choose and automatically load them into the player. This is something I've not found on any video players available on the Mac. It would be an awesome if it was coded into VLC.

http://tothepc.com/img/2010/02/movie-subtitles-media-player-...
or How to have a grandiose title and come a cropper?
https://github.com/Pixate/Playground/issues/1
Payments by SMS to launch in UK in Spring 2014
I personally found Fedora 17 with KDE really awesome. It was both easy to install and configure, and is a pleasure to use. I would definitely recommend it as an alternative to Gnome.
Maybe it was a joke, but you missed the implicit hyphen between mis and starts. So, not Miss Tarts, but rather Mis-starts.

Maybe @nmcfarl meant to say near-misses? or rather, just misses. But not as in ladies, but as in horseshoes.
Incidentally, there's a chapter in the first Sherlock Holmes novel where he does exactly that. When Watson meets Holmes, he boasts about his reasoning skills by showing people walking on the street and saying who they are.
I don't think it's as much as a compromise, just that we should focus less on the language aspect of it. Technical details like implementation and syntax are easily learned. Passion for development is more of a character trait that can't easily be taught.

Out of your 4 criteria, I'd say (personally) that the important ones are "Loves what you're doing" and "Loves your team". If you hire someone who is a Ruby god but has no passion for the problem they're solving, or causes problems with your existing company, culture, or team, you're probably going to have a net loss. Working remotely is a different topic and can be done well (http://blog.davidtate.org/2013/01/companies-that-support-rem...)

I did want to talk a bit about finding those passionate developers, but thought it'd make for a separate blog post later on. One key quote I've heard good recruiters say: "The good developers you want to hire aren't looking for jobs, they already work somewhere".
My number one tip is "Don't give a about what people tell you in the internet".

Seriously, you'll get confused with so many holy wars... "Don't use C++, use C!", "No! C++ is safer", etc. etc. ... just pick a language and use it, if you don't like it pick another and try it.

You learn more using a language for 1h than reading about that language for 3h in HN.
I worked at a mainframe facility about 20 years ago in the financial services industry specifically a service provider for brokerages. For multiple generations since about 1975 when the Altair came out, everyone both in and out of the field is certain they'll all be perma-unemployed in about 5 years, yet here they are and there's even a shortage.

Its a close analogy to nuclear engineers.

The next thing is its MOSTLY a single company ecosystem. The private companies are all "How long did you work for IBM? Never? Then why are you even applying here?". Also if you think buzzword bingo and crazy inflated requirements are an issue outside mainframes, its much worse on big iron.

Finally it tends to be very poorly understood. 20 years ago it was all full screen editors and IDEs and automated testing and such but even today all you'll hear about is how 2013 mainframe programmers still have to punch physical card decks. I'm sure there are places that haven't upgraded their mainframe dev tools since MVS/360 in '68, just like you'll find PC places that require devs and/or journalists to use "notepad.exe" as their primary editor.

This closely ties into weird ideas about "power" and a demand that "the mainframe" is one individual thing from 1960 which has never advanced since then in any manner, therefore a modern mainframe must be hilariously underpowered compared to a modern iphone. Its actually pretty funny to watch if you have a window into each world.
How can you be a prisoner of conscience when plea bargain requires that you admit your guilt?
We can't effectively manage a budget, give us more money!
Are you on an OS that hides the scrollbar? I scroll any time I hit a webpage anyway, but even if I didn't I would look over at my scrollbar and see that there is plenty of room to scroll before getting frustrated.
Pet hate: light source at the top left for drop shadows. The iOS light source is at the top…
Doesn't help that whenever I read/hear "Metro" I flashback to the police in my living room collecting a statement about being assaulted on the train or an early morning ride through paris after spending the night filling out police statements for the same.

Maybe they were going for the "I love inner city public transport and its positive, upbeat experience" demographic. I must be one of those outliers who finds the act of being crammed like sardines into the sweaty, infectious mess of sheep to be just like Microsoft's attitude towards its customers, especially with Metro.
I feel the same way about the sitcom Cheers. Both are great works, but now seem cliched!
Ask HN: Inline assembly. When do I need it?
I read the article about the beauty of the Doom 3 source code and stumbled upon the mention of inline assembly parts.
When is the C or C++ compiler not sufficient and you actually need to write assembly code?
It's something I wouldn't have expected.
From the SDK example it looks like I am supposed to put my Plivo credentials in plain text in JavaScript. Am I missing something? Because that seems like a really terrible idea.
Iran v USA - the world's first cyber-war has started
Ex post facto is not synonymous with "retroactive."

See the post by David Redden in this thread: http://www.connorboyack.com/blog/ex-post-facto-law.

"Secondly, while there’s some evidence that some of the “framers” thought “ex post facto” included civil laws, it’s well-established that the most influential federalists in the late 18th Century understood an “ex post facto law” to mean a law that was 1) criminal, 2) functioned retroactively, and 3) worked to the detriment of the accused. (See Crosskey, The True Meaning of the Constitutional Prohibition of Ex-Post Facto Laws, 14 U.Chi.L.Rev. 539 (1947))."
'You remind me of Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin. I had no idea that such individuals did exist out of stories.'

Dr. John Watson Quote

-A Study in Scarlet
Does this apply to a Delaware corporation which happens to have offices ("do business") in California?
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The Supreme Court ruled in Calder v. Bull (1798) that the prohibition on ex-post-facto laws applies only to criminal laws, not civil matters. One could argue that shouldn't be the case, but it's not a later shift away from the 18th-century interpretation.
If spamming and message quantity is the big problem for women I wonder why OKC doesn't just limit the number of first contacts or non-reply messaged a user can send out in any given time period. Add a notice to users encouraging them to use their first contacts wisely and to take their time in composing messages, you might see an improvement in messaging health.
> I have to say adding repos in Ubuntu is much easier than in Fedora.

Hm, could you elaborate? Adding a repo is usually "wget .repo file into /etc/yum.repos.d/" which doesn't seem harder to me than editing sources.list (about the same, really). What's soured your experience?
I think he committed no crime other than maybe trespassing.

* MIT network was open
* Everyone on this open network had access to the JSTOR articles
* No EULA or any other agreement or license was presented to the user that would define what constitutes abusing the above mentioned privileges

Nobody is discussing whether he did the things he did. What we are discussing is whether anyone in their right mind would consider this a crime.

So there.

(edited to expand on my point)
One of the most difficult things (for me) has been finding the appropriate balance (which changes depending on the context) between doing things myself, and delegating them to others.
Name that font.
The more troubling part is that he's claiming that they are charging interest and penalties on the 'unpaid taxes.' To retroactively change your bill, then charge you interest and penalties for 'late payment' seems well over-the-top.

If I didn't know better, I'd say that they was a blatant money grab. </sarcasm>
Come to New York! We're rolling in so much finance money we don't need to hit up small businesses.
But not Quebec, which just retroactively increased taxes on Liquor. http://www.crfa.ca/aboutcrfa/newsroom/2012/restaurants_oppos...
RIM's Mike Lazaridis Takes A Quantum Leap Of Faith In Waterloo
Virtually every year TurboTax tells me I can't submit my return because they're still writing the rules for the year that just finished.
Yes, I changed my UAC settings under Windows to require the admin password before sudoing (or whatever MS calls it).

It was just too easy to me even as a relatively experienced user to knee-jerk click the "Allow" button.
It read to me as if you were accusing the prosecutors of not having any empathy to Aaron in this case. I believe the default human reaction is to feel said emotion, and such I think it's reasonable to assume they did feel empathy unless we have evidence that directly contradicts that. Sorry for any confusion.
Does anyone know of a html template or framework built similarly to this? It's a unique layout.
As a business owner this crap terrifies me. Washington State was looking at changing their tax code retroactively to get more money from Microsoft, luckily level heads (and I might presume, extensive lobbying) prevailed.

I can't plan today for what yesterday's laws will be tomorrow.
So, theoretically speaking, could California retroactively increase the state income tax and claim billions from most of the populace?
> It can certainly be uncomfortable for someone who is brought up as an atheist, but I'm not sure it's outright illegal.

I'm quite sure it is illegal according to federal law. The question is whether state law trumps this. Because if it does, no doubt Alabama has passed a law making it legal to teach creationism in schools.
According to his Linkedin profile, he works for Microsoft Singapore, doing some "Master Black Belt" six-sigma synergy "Global Process Solutions" MBA-buzzword bullshit. And only since December 2011.

He's not working on real products.
Despite being a long time (and happy!) Linode user, the prices and SSD are just too interesting to pass over.

I'm running a small Zarafa based mail server on a 2GB plan with Linode and it could do with more RAM. Perfect opportunity to try out a 4GB "droplet" :)
I'd argue the short and long term gains of this approach. If you hire someone who's really good at Python, you're going to get good quality out of the gate from them. But if they're not a good fit for your company or team and/or if they're not passionate about what they do, you might be damaging progress or performance in the long run. In that case I'd take a .NET developer willing to become a good Python developer over a Python developer who's there to collect a paycheque anyday.

That being said, if you can find a great Python developer who is also passionate and a good fit, you've hit the jackpot!
6 mos and being labeled as a felony for life for a young man for nothing but BS is OK for Tom Dolan? Why doesn't he try to spend six days in a prison for nothing? This guy even states "...enjoy supporting the inspirational students at Roxbury Prep." in his Twitter profile. Is it how they teach kids there? Sicko.
Cusco: land of the Incas and the golden place.
Cusco comes from the Quechua word Qosqo that means navel of the world. Cusco lies at southeastern of Peru, near the Urubamba Valley of the Andes mountain range. Currently the population is 380,000 three times more than 20 years ago.

Cusco was declared as the cultural heritage of the mankind by the UNESCO in the 1983.

As you know Cuzco was the capital of the Inca Empire. Cusco was created with as an effigy in the shape of a puma; a sacred animal of the Incas, Under the Inca, and the city had two sectors: the urin and hanan. Each was further divided to encompass two of the four provinces, Chinchasuyu (NW), Antisuyu (NE), Qontisuyu (SW) and Qullasuyu (SE).

According to Inca legend, the city was built by Sapa Inca Pachacuti, the man who transformed the Kingdom of Cuzco from a sleepy city-state into the vast empire of Tahuantinsuyo.

Cusco is a major tourist destination and receives almost 2 million visitors a year. It is designated as the Historical Capital of Peru by the Constitution of Peru. Cusco is the most beautiful place in Peru with lot kind of touristic places like Cusco city tour, Sacred Valley of the Incas, Machupicchu tours, Inca Trail trek, Inca Jungle trek, Lares trek, among others.

The most important that we must know before you arrive to Cusco is to know the weather condition in Cusco, Cusco has a varied weather, has a couple of season, the rainy season (from November to march) and dry season (April to October), the best time to travel to Cusco is from May to October however in rainy season is also good.
Business success demands honesty and courage
Twilio already has a WebRTC bridge to SIP and the PSTN with its Twilio Client SDK. I should know better, but I'm actually disappointed at the complete lack of fact-checking in this TC article.
This is working data, so you'd keep it in a register if possible. Sadly that just happens not to be possible on the 6502 :)
Of course, Sherlock Holmes was based on a real person, who was extremely observant, and very good at deduction, especially as applied to his profession of medicine. See: http://www.diogenes-club.com/joebell.htm
Facebook account unavailable?
Anyone else having the same issue? Could be related to the FB announcement in 45 min?
The Power of Simple Prose
The funny thing is that this isn't even the only one that CA is imposing, the entirety of Prop 30 (voted on in Nov 2012) is retroactive for the entire tax year.
You're mixing things up.

I like software with ads (well, sorta. CAN you like software with ads?). I don't run AdBlock on all my machines. I have "free" ad-supported Android apps. Bundling ads in an application is not the same thing as installing utter, total bullshit.

Your point is still very weak in my books, because you haven't explained in half a sentence why someone would like to release software as 'free' and still make money off it. The notion that this certain someone is too shy to ask for donations is .. weird. Believing that it's a viable alternative to bundle software that the end user with almost 100% certainty DOES. NOT. WANT. - seems crazy to me.

So many solutions. Shareware. Donationware. Free/Premium models. Just .. not releasing a software for free and putting a price tag on it, even if just the 'app' style 99 cents.

Installing crapware, toolbars, switching browser search engines and homepages etc. is an attempt to cover cost that is absolutely demonic.
RMS' comment on Aaron Swartz's death
I doubt it - although you would still need to pay CA franchise tax ($800 minimum yearly). That's always been the case.
Sorry, I think it is that simple. You can chose if and when you would like to speak. Period. Cops can ask anything they want and you can pick and chose what you want to say. You have the right to remain silent so as not to self incriminate. If simply remaining silent is admission of guilt. Where does that leave the 5th?
Atlantic apologises for running Scientology advertorial
Wow. That sounds like you've just found a clique of terrible people. I have bunches of of female friends in a couple different social circles and have never seen this behavior.

The closest I've seen is a woman being friendly with a guy while being oblivious to the fact that he's flirting with her and then not knowing what to do when she realizes he's got a crush on her. Until he actually asks her out, I'm not sure there is a way to resolve this that isn't wicked awkward. Just saying, "Hey I'm not attracted to you.", out of the blue is kinda odd.
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