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Yea I discovered this from the seeking freelancers post, I had to stipulate that people drop at least a link or resume, otherwise I was getting emails like "I write Python. Email me. Thx."

Please folks I get that you are in demand but not pasting even a link in the email is just plain lazy and a little rude. You don't realize it but you are actually competing with 30 other people per listing, HN gets more exposure than you think...
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Dear HN "Who's hiring" posters - Why my job search on HN sucked big-time
I started writing a comment on the other Dear HN, however turned out a bit too long, so pastebin: http://pastebin.com/3EHk9PTK
There is more kinds of crazy than RMS. Also mail server seems self hosted.
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I disagree. What advantage would video provide over magnetic strips?

Magnetic strips are (likely):

- Cheaper than setting up and powering video cameras

- Resistent to harsh conditions (eg. good luck hiring someone to go around town and wiping all the foggy camera lenses during a rainstorm)

- Likely to last longer than a video sensor

- Probably more accurate than video, too

- Doesn't need a huge computing infrastructure to monitor and interpret

- Respects pedestrians' privacy more
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Id imagine that you are attempting to move cars down every street in "waves". It almost might be more helpful to think of it as a series of trains on each street. You likely can stagger the trains going north to south as well as the trains going east to west so that they miss each other. Its probably more complex than this but I'd imagine this is the basic concept.
I was going to make fun of "but it is a hirers' market" but then then then the top-voted comment covers that. That must be the origin of your frustration. Funny, because I agree with you: don't send out pisspoor, thoughtless communications to people. It's shitty and disrespectful. But clearly there's a reason these people aren't lined up at job fairs getting their cover letters proofread.
Well I've had projects where I've written a lot of tests before really having the overall design right (without realizing it of course) and ended up wishing I'd waited a bit before writing the tests, because I had to redo a lot of them and it slowed down the process. Of course if you just do things right from the start this won't happen, but I often don't.
I like the idea of making the cost of transportation negligable.

We'd waste less oil than we currently do.

Crime would be much simpler, too.
Does anyone know of a good service that does backups? I don't much need syncing, but I have a headless Linux server that currently backs up 50 GB of files to SpiderOak every night (they're usually the same files, so not much data transfer). Is there something like tarsnap for around $25/yr? SpiderOak is pretty good for backups like that, especially since I can check that it's working on any computer and restore files, but it costs four times that and doesn't have a decent headless client.

Any recommendations?
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I've applied to many positions (internships) advertised in these threads with a lot of effort to craft each email for each of them. I don't speak english so often so it took me a very great amount of effort to do this. Got only 1 reply, the others didn't even bother saying "Thanks for applying" or anything.

I don't know if this behavior is normal but I would expect a bit more from hirers advertising on HN. Especially when they ask for very specific things that I know I got on my CV.
I asked God if the World was perfectly just. He asked if I was calling Him lazy.

If you make more money, you earn it, or don't enjoy it or lose it or something.

God said, "pride or money, choose one." Advanced degrees cost money and are humbling because you are amongst peers.

God says...
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Just remember, "Thou shall not covet."
That's not their political beliefs, that's their lawyers making a risk vs reward decision. Why is everybody so quick to attribute things to malice when they can be explained by simple pragmatism?
When I saw that quote I was instantly reminded of:

"During the Old Stone Age, between thirty-seven thousand and eleven thousand years ago, some of the most remarkable art ever conceived was etched or painted on the walls of caves in southern France and northern Spain. After a visit to Lascaux, in the Dordogne, which was discovered in 1940, Picasso reportedly said to his guide, “They’ve invented everything.”

What those first artists invented was a language of signs for which there will never be a Rosetta stone; perspective, a technique that was not rediscovered until the Athenian Golden Age; and a bestiary of such vitality and finesse that, by the flicker of torchlight, the animals seem to surge from the walls, and move across them like figures in a magiclantern show (in that sense, the artists invented animation). They also thought up the grease lamp—a lump of fat, with a plant wick, placed in a hollow stone—to light their workplace; scaffolds to reach high places; the principles of stencilling and Pointillism; powdered colors, brushes, and stumping cloths; and, more to the point of Picasso’s insight, the very concept of an image. A true artist reimagines that concept with every blank canvas—but not from a void"

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/23/080623fa_fact_...

Nothing is new, etc.
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Nit: they're inductive loops, not "magnetic strips".
I don't disagree that it's a serious pain in the butt, and that sometimes the stars have to align the right way for it to work. But the only point I was trying to make was that it's possible, even on 100% loans, to graduate state school with merely a "big debt" than the kind of "massive over-the-top debt" that you would incur going to a private school.

In the end the starting salary will probably not be all that different, but the amount that has to be paid back will be much less, allowing those state school grads to reach the benefits of their career much faster if they try and pay the loans off quickly.
Nice, that's not a bad return! I can't even get $2 a day out of mine.

I wonder how difficult it would be to build a ASIC yourself?
When I lived in NYC over the summer, one of the things that blew my mind was how easy and cheap and quick it was to get anywhere in the city. YYMV though, I guess.
Driving in Manhattan is great... when there's no traffic and you don't need to park.

New York can fix those problems easily, but they have some sort of Stockholm syndrome with their unbelievably terrible traffic situation. But when it's not rush hour, you can cruise twenty blocks at a time through Midtown before you hit a short red light. That's pretty nice. Everything's on a grid, one-way streets follow a pattern, and there's a lot of neat stuff to see as you drive.
Ask HN: Difference between Heroku and Web Hosts
What is the difference between the two? On its about page Heroku states that it host web apps, but can't a web site be part of a web app? What is the difference?
First of all, I absolutely agree with the general sentiment of this article. And I don't mean to nitpick, but I just want to point out something about this bit:

But we don’t ask why they know their stuff. How did they get into a good university?

Depending on exactly how you define "good university", I contend that the importance of this may be overstated. For the sake of argument, let's go with the idea that to many people "a good university" means "Ivy League". IF you take that premise, it makes sense to look at where a number of high-level leaders, like, say, the CEOs of the S&P 500 companies, went to college. Luckily, that's been analyzed:

http://content.spencerstuart.com/sswebsite/pdf/lib/2005_CEO_...

Now, as you might expect, a number of Ivy League schools are very well represented. But, equally important is this:

The University of Wisconsin is tied with Harvard for the largest percentage of S&P 500 CEOs, at 3%. This is above Princeton, Stanford and Yale. And the University of Texas is right in there at 2% as well. Now this is not to say that UW or UT are "bad" schools, but are they what most people are talking about when they talk about the whole elite / non-elite dichotomy?

Another tidbit: If you look at only the CEOs of the top 100 out of the S&P 500, four schools are tied for "most well represented". Those four are Harvard, Stanford, Yale, and, wait for it... The University of North Carolina, all with 3% each.

For what it's worth, it appears that it can at least be said that going to a reasonably well regarded State school is borderline just as helpful as going to an Ivy League school, if you plan to be the CEO of an S&P 500 firm.

Of course, this all totally overlooking the fact that "CEOs of S&P 500 firms" is a ridiculously small and overly restrictive set to represent "being successful and a respected business leader" in any sense. If you're the guy who owns 6 McDonalds locations in your local small town area, or runs the most successful car dealership in a given area, you're pretty damn successful and - at least in a local sense - well regarded. And I expect you'll find plenty of those folks who went to schools most of us have never heard of, or didn't go to school at all.

Anyway, just something to throw out there. I certainly wouldn't mean to discourage anyone from going to Stanford, Yale, Harvard or Princeton if they want to and have the opportunity. But the poor sap left to attend UNC, UT, UVA, UW, UM, etc., certainly should not feel like they've been consigned to the dustbin just because they did not go to an Ivy.
I suspect the author may not have read the Facebook terms of service
This is my hope for Google cars. Autodriving taxis -- make them with all electric vehicles that stop for recharge when they're low and are replaced by another fleet vehicle? Perfection.
Maybe it's the contrast between the superhuman pretensions and the base exploitation of their users (as distinct from their customers)?
I imagine it would! You could rob a house and escape to the other side of the world right away. It would also be a great equalizer, as there would instantly be no borders. Countries would break down and lead to a single language before long. There would also probably be no sense of community, at least not based on where you live.
RMS may seem crazy but there's a method to the madness. No one accuses him of hypocrisy or internal inconsistency. The author, on the other hand, is hilariously inconsistent (esp given his comfort with Facebook and the "settlement" copout)
> The purpose of copyright and patent law in the US (as stated by the Constitution) is to promote the progress of the arts and sciences by granting a temporary limited monopoly to creators.

Just because that's what the constitution says, doesn't mean that that's the real purpose.
Cover letters are useless. Really, try to have some empathy for people trying to get jobs in a tough market (I guess this doesn't apply to the currently employed or developers...). You have to apply to a LOT of stuff, and employers almost never give the courtesy of a confirmation or any sort of response/rejection. It takes a LOT of time to put contact info into Word, change around your cover letter template, save, and attach.

Ask for a resume, that's it. You can shoot a note back asking "Tell me more about yourself." if you want to know more. Then it's worth the time to write one up. Then you can ask for references, and transcript, etc., if that's your thing.
Isn't the universe by default a meritocracy? Millions of years of evolution proves this... And society can either have policies that work against this default meritocracy or with it to speed it up.
I speak for all of us at rsync.net when I say that we will be happy to provide you with this. Operators are standing by!
As a student in school right now I disagree with your third point. I have to pay for my schooling and don't have the money to live without a job so I don't have the choice. Working various internships has given me more experience at solving problems without the hand holding that school provides, and in turn makes homework generally easier.

Before I was lucky enough to land my first internship I worked for eBay as a customer service representative. While they had tuition reimbursement the job was so stressful that I felt it was a major detriment to my education. Jobs like this also don't care about your schooling or life outside of work.

Finally getting to program on the job and solve real world problems has been a change of pace. Your co-workers and management actually give you space, a chance to breathe, and respect that you have full time school outside of work. Working during school hasn't been half bad.

So, respectfully I disagree with your third point. I agree on the other points though.
>Farmers are a strange bunch, they hate government intervention but love a handout.

How is that at all strange? Hypocritical, certainly, but not strange. People want the government to take money from others and give it to them but not the other way around. That is basically the entire basis of politics on the question of government spending.
SF does this with the Fell/Oak one-way avenues. I absolutely love them, with the exception of when people stop in one of the three lanes to try to park, which gums up the entire system.
This is why I wonder whether a company will come along and offer point-of-sale BTC to USD (or other). They could perhaps issue plastic cards to their users for making payments, and charge businesses 2.5% of the transaction for their services.
I suspect that by "synchronized" they simply mean "coordinated" -- that they are automatically controlled by a computer that attempts to optimize for flow.

So for example, an intersection will be kept open in one direction as long as there are no crossing traffic. And if the same is the true about the next intersection, the light will be green there too; based on the sensors, the system can gauge the amount of traffic going towards the next intersection, and prioritize the flow. So if there are a lot of cars going towards an intersection, and a single car arrives that needs to cross their lane, the system may favour the group and prolong the green light.

In that sense it's synchronization, as "adjacent" lights will be considered by the algorithm.
Reminds me of a good talk by Alain de Botton highlighting the nasty side of believing we live in a meritocracy whilst ignoring the role of chance.

http://www.ted.com/talks/alain_de_botton_a_kinder_gentler_ph...
I think he meant getting "crosstown" meaning going east to west or vice versa. This requires taking one of 3 subways, a bus, taxi or walking. It is a pain compared to the myriad of ways to get north and south.
Ask HN: Anyone have C++ work?
Anyone have any C++ work?

I am in the Bay Area. I am a very good C++ developer.

I have a lot of OS X and Unix development experience. Not a lot of Windows specific, but I surely can get up to speed. File system stuff, OpenGL I am really good at and enjoy.

Why? I'll admit - I want custody of my kid and I need more money to help get legal counsel.

This is a throw-away account as I am a long time HN reader, contributor.
The wave exists because you need following distance to drive safely.
A few things come to mind, but mostly related to Google 'today' not being the little underdog it was 15 years ago when it started, it's a giant corporation.

You are probably employee #sixdigits counting everyone who's no longer employed and #50000-and-something for current employees and that just isn't as prestigious even if their standards haven't changed.

They make a lot of unpopular decisions - most things with google plus, no more free google apps with your own domain, significantly changing app engine pricing, reader and the long list of other dead services that collectively spell "be careful" even to their most vocal fans - the tech industry who made god knows how many millions pandering to Google and Google fans openly mocked Keep's launch!

To counter that they offer perks and they work on some really cool stuff and they still have a reputation for hiring smart people ... but all of that is normal for any startup today.

I would guess (but don't know) that a similar transition happened for HP, IBM, Oracle, Sun, Microsoft, PayPal, eBay etc as well when they finished puberty. I would be somewhere between indifferent and disappointed if one of my friends settled for a job at any of those companies.

It's great if it's your dream though.
The Hyperion cantos has an exploration of a similar concept, if you are into sf. Although I can only truly recommend the first book, and to a lesser extent, the second.
That's funny, I said the exact opposite to my friends comparing this piece to Gladwell.
Imagine, if banks are using a bitcoin wallet, issues a bitcoin card (in a form of debit, savings card or credit card) with private keys on back and public keys on front, the bank then deposits money into the wallet then the end user withdraw money with the same bank or supporting banks.

This is one of the scenarios I think that would incorporate bitoin into the current financial system.
This almost reminds me of the time that i wrote a fully customizable pacman game back in '09 , The AI was not state of the art (because i was new to Computer science). But the Level were completely custom , you just had to edit a text file in which you set the collision color [1], and provide two new images ( one for food locations and the other for the map) and you had a new level.

The code was a mess [2] ( i didn't even know about OOP back then )but i keep it for historical purposes ( like it was the first game i ever wrote).

[1] https://github.com/fahadm/Historical/blob/master/PACMAN/Sett...

[2]
https://github.com/fahadm/Historical/blob/master/PACMAN/page...
My city has the exact opposite. The signal lights have antennas and communicate with one another, but it only guarantees that a pack of cars leaving one light will always sit through the entire duration of the next light.

It's horribly inefficient, which is one reason I suspect it is like this - gas taxes.
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What is your opinion on onion? It's the only food that has no derivative market, and it suffers from the highest volatility of all. This suggests that futures do smooth things out.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/27/news/economy/The_onion_conun...
Play is a Google service. It kind of smacks of something beginning with "h" and ending with "ypocrisy" when you still use a Google service after going through the requisite self-flagellation to go out of your way to not use them, and then write a tone-deaf article on how awesome it is to do so.

It doesn't make much sense that someone would go through all this effort to ditch a company and still use one of their flagship products. That would be like me swearing off Apple and still carrying an iPhone.
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I love Google. Its services are quite influential in my life and improve it in many ways.
POI: UWisc has 4x the population of Harvard, so it isn't really on par on an odds ratio. I expect similar class size differences for the other state vs Ivy schools.
The density of the LA metro area is slightly higher than that of the NYC metro area.

The problem is vision: namely nobody has any. The folks who built NYC at the turn of the century had vision. They didn't just put in subway lines, they put in mostly four-track subway lines with room for express trains. They didn't just build commuter rail, they built a vast system (again with a lot of four-track to accommodate express trains) with stations in numerous little Westchester and Long Island town. Oh, and it was electrified in 1903 (kudos to Tesla, but all-electric commuting is very turn of the 20th century stuff).

Over 100 years later, we're still using that infrastructure. Today, of the 1.6 million people that enter Manhattan every day for work, 80% ride either commuter rail or the subway. This is a movement of people that would absolutely crush any other city despite their extensive highway networks, but New York handles it very well using ancient infrastructure.
I've seen (co-op) salaries reach $8,500

The pit in my stomach is me remembering interns traditionally get like a 50% boost in wages when they are hired on.
Each Bitcoin can be split into 100 million parts, in addition there is a possibility of the division being pushed further if ever needed (the smallest unit could be split down more if the people accepted this change)

Also there is talk of making the default traded unit a mBTC, (I think) Its a unit that represents a thousandth of a unit. once this becomes the standard unit the psychology is there to allow BTC to rise even further.
And often an advanced degree from a particular set of schools followed by work experience from a particular set of institutions. With the rise of a "professional manager" class, many (most?) companies prefer to recruit their executives not from within, but from places like McKinsey, etc.

When I hear this, I can't help but wonder if the poster is taking an overly narrow view of the "world of companies out there that one could work for". I mean, yeah, if your view of the world is just the big, famous, hugely important companies that everyone has heard of, then maybe that's true. maybe. But... if you consider that outside of the Fortune 500 there are thousands, tens of thousands, hell, maybe millions, of other, smaller companies, I'm not convinced that the statement above holds water.

OK, I mean, I'll admit I could be wrong, and I haven't done a scientific study on this or anything. But I strongly suspect that if you went out and, say, studied all the textile manufacturers with 200-1000 employees, in NC, VA, GA and SC, you'd find a LOT of CEOs, VPs, managers, etc., that did not work for McKinsey, did not go to Harvard, and generally don't fit this picture that is being painted. You also largely won't read about these companies in the WSJ, see them advertise on TV, or really even know about them unless you go looking. But they're out there, doing business and making money, and they're just as real as the "big boys".
The difficulty is not going to be your problem; the problem is the initial mask costs.

PCBs can be made for hobby projects. ASICs cannot, unless you have money literally coming out of your ears.

http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/7042/how-much...