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It's not "perception". Recent studies have shown that about half the Romanians in the Netherlands are here illegally, and most of those are criminals. And those that are here legally don't always work under legal conditions.

This royally sucks for Romanian developers that want to work here, because despite being EU members they still need a work permit. The government basically assumes that the odds of Romanians coming here with good intentions are pretty low.
I probably work comparable hours at a startup, and still find time to work out and socialize. You can get a great workout in under an hour if you don't live or work too far from your gym, and a couple workouts a week can go a long way. There have been tons of threads here on strength training and crossfit with tips on how to maximize your time.

Even if you work 9-9 three or four weekdays a week, that still leaves at least one weeknight for meeting up with someone for drinks/dinner/social activity, plus weekends. I find that's more than enough time -- I generally have drinks with my coworkers Friday after work, have a social activity with friends on Saturday, and brunch or something on Sunday, and leave Sunday evening for chores.

I feel like I have a pretty full and balanced life, but of course ymmv.
Actually, both of you, it's "Caltech." One word, one capital letter.

Source: www.caltech.edu
> Was there a public outcry after Fukushima?

Yes. Originally, the social-democrat/green government of 1998-2005 planned to shut down all nuke plants until 2020 or so, but the conservative/liberal democrats government that took over in 2009 stopped that, mostly against the will of the public. After Fukushima, there was such a huge backslash that our dear chancellor decided it might help her popularity more if she changed her mind.

And while tsunamis are rather rare in Stuttgart, the upper rhine rift is an active earthquake zone, and since we unfortunately are not allowed to just sell the waste to Russia to dump in Siberia, we also have to dispose of it somewhere in Germany. If you look at a population-density map, you will find few places with few enough people to accept highly radioactive nuclear waste.

You are right, however, that it is economically somewhat senseless to shut down the nuke plants basically shortly after the subsidies/initial costs paid off, but, well.
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Right - there was a lot of noise about federation being turned off, although it never was.

1) Subscription requests to/from other domains were blocked.

2) Only for a short period (about a month, tops).
Ask HN: I'm a C# MVC guy. What web technologies should I learn for freelancing?
After 5 years doing ASP.NET MVC full time I've started a B Comp Sci degree for several reasons. Since starting, not having that daily programming work has me itching to do some freelancing projects. I might not be ready to commit a lot of time right now, but come semester break I could be in a good position to get some work done.

I've got some smaller projects already lined up without any real deadlines (they are for people I know) but the problem (if it is a problem?) is that I haven't developed many web apps outside of my usual domain (C#).

I'm very comfortable with the MVC paradigm and would love to find another language/framework that matches (or approaches) the niceness of working in C# and Razor-Engine, but doesn't have the same software costs associated with it.

I've toyed around with AngularJS (using mock data in js) and thought that it could be powered by a nodejs backend (or something else). Angular templating is similar to what I've done before, and I like that it's just regular HTML. Even with jQuery-mobile it loads very fast on the smartphones/tablets that I tested.

I also played around with nodejs, Express, Jade and Mongodb. Jade is nice for simpler templates, but after a while the indentation just gets messy for hairy ones. Using a bunch of technologies that are just javascript seemed great in theory, but I was quickly getting annoyed at how messy the code was getting, even for a simple application. Mongodb started frustrating me as the schema got more complicated, but perhaps that is just because I don't have much experience with NoSQL.

The obvious choice seems to be learn Ruby, and then Rails. I've tried a couple of times to learn it. I don't know why but for some reason I just don't get it. Should I stick it out?

What technologies are fellow HN'ers using for freelancing projects?

Oh wise HN, please help me :)
A $2 billion fine (from the article) is hardly "unpenalized".
PHP's documentation is one of the worst I've found. Generally I have to hunt down edge cases and weird behaviors in the comments section.
I don't see anything about affirmative action in that article. In fact, other articles posted in this thread suggest that she didn't benefit from it at all. Regardless your premise is flawed. The fact that she declared she was Native American on some forms is not germane to the topic at hand. Regarding your critique, you're treading the line of of a fallacious argument. Also, have you considered that maybe we should take the banks to court because it's symbolic?
The only thing Google actually did fro mobile XMPP was google:queue, which bunches together presence updates such that the antenna efficiency is improved dramatically.

Facebook also have a private extension, as I understand things.

I should actually submit that extension - I wrote it up as a XEP ages back, but various things have held it up.
Yeah, can we get some moderator title editing here?
well, sure. but i'd bet $9 he wants the _right_ answer... ;+)

-bowerbird
On the contrary, I think he might agree with the characterization. It is a hacker's comic after all.
You need a guy, then you'll find time :) Seriously. You should go to parties, do crazy things, and get drunk sometimes with best friends. If you don't study, go to college. It will be the best part of your life.

Work will not run away anywhere. It will wait for you. So use your time wisely, you have only one life.

Most of the people work, so they can earn, so they can live good enough.
I think that you, like many others, went off a little from that track.

Best wishes.
How do you know GT is lowering the bar? For all we know, they are sensitive to brand perception and are raising the bar - of work to be done, and expertise to be demonstrated, as opposed to butt-in-seat time.

This has no connection to CS research. Terminal MS students (in most disciplines, not just CS) are not on a research track anyway.
Speaking as a student studying systems (particularly security and OS development) . . . the second point sounds really interesting.

Recently I've been working on a simple microkernel (called Sydi) that should actually make this possible. It's a distributed system straight down to the kernel: when two instances of the kernel detect each other running on a network, they freely swap processes and resources between each other as required to balance the load. This is a nightmare from a security perspective, of course, and I haven't figured out the authentication bits yet -- too busy working on an AML interpreter because I don't like ACPICA -- but that's not the issue here. (It's far from finished, but I'm pretty confident that I've worked out the first 85% of the details, with just the remaining 115% left, plus the next 95% of the programming . . .)

Due to some aspects of its design (asynchronous system calls via message-passing, transparent message routing between nodes in the network, etc) I feel that it will be entirely possible to take a snapshot of an entire cluster of machines running the kernel. It would be expensive -- requiring a freeze of all running processes while the snapshot is taking place to maintain any level of precision -- but I'm confident I could code that in during the space of a week or two . . .

I haven't thought much about what kind of analysis one could do on the instrumentation/snapshot results, though. I'm sadly too inexperienced with `real-world' systems stuff to be able to say. Anyone have any suggestions for possible analysis avenues to explore?
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1: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...
I should be fired too... '.' != '\.'.

I'm put in mind of the old Zawinski quote:

"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think \"I know, I'll use regular expressions.\" Now they have two problems. "
Yeah, the question is what if you have a bug - if you thought you were assigning work so that tasks don't conflict but in fact they do. In Map/Reduce you technically can't have this sort of bug, nor can you have it in pure code; restricting the programmer so that such bugs can not be committed is fair enough. If it is in fact possible to have such bugs, as it is with shared mutable memory, then I expect to see tools for finding such bugs.
That's true. I wish I would've come up with a more describing title. Spent a couple of minutes trying to compress what I wanted to convey in a couple of words and this was the result.
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From the PR announcement: "Initial enrollment will be limited to a few hundred students recruited from AT&T and Georgia Tech corporate affiliates."
> Everyone I know who has a windows phone has
> been happy with it.

Yes, and everyone I know who has an iPhone or Android are happy with them, otherwise they'd just get something else.

Whether the people actually using the OS likes it or not is besides the point, it's the actual number of people that use said OS that's the point.
It is when the company in question has a market cap of more than $100 billion.
You can still do voice-only hangouts just fine. Sharing video is in no way a requirement.
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Have you considered PHP? That would be the cheapest alternative, and there are more MVC frameworks for PHP than there are for all other platforms (probably combined). There are many templating solutions as well, but PHP is already a templating language anyway.
Not sure I'd agree with over-engineered, but anyway.

End-to-end privacy with multi-device support has been specified in XMPP for years; the problem is that it's vastly complicated and therefore nobody ever implemented it.

In part this is because when XMPP was started, people wanted different things from multi-device - they wanted to be able to leave their desktop logged in, move to their laptop, and not have the conversation pop up there - there being no message-read state in XMPP. So instead, the idea was that you'd pull the archive from the server if you wanted it.

Later, Carbons were introduced, which basically says that if the message wouldn't normally come to "this" client, tell me about it anyway.

As for end-to-end... Well, the original RFCs include a method based on X.509 and CMS (RFC 3923). Never implemented. There's been various different concepts since (OTR-esque and XMLSEC based). None has yet got traction, but you'd be welcome to draw a line in the sand and implement one of them.
I mostly design small, self-contained visualizations for small businesses. The data I get and the level of "visualization design" I have to do depend a lot on the client.

I have worked among others with data on local traffic (congestion and travel times), interaction between players on a field during a game, computing performance, some internal manufacturing metrics. I think there's quite a few areas where people want dashboards that are both fancy looking and informative, either for their clients or for themselves.

Some people just have a vague notion of some data they somehow want to display, others have quite precise demands (typically: "I've seen this d3 example and I want the same with this and that specific interaction/effect added.")
Just reading your second reference, the bit about expert systems is pretty interesting . . . what's your stance on this? It seems that, given sufficient instrumentation information, one could probably construct a fairly decent expert system that might be able to shed some light onto these sorts of problems. (Keep in mind the fact that I'm still very much a junior software developer!)

The example of FDs from the original article seems like a good one; a properly developed expert system might have been able to notice a lack of changes in the current software environment and suggest looking elsewhere. (Problem is, if I got that response from my automated problem-solver I'd just ignore it and keep looking . . .)

So, any insightful points to crush my youthful idealism? :)
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Well, at least he admits the headline is a lie in the first paragraph.
i find it "interesting" that all the complains are about useability from a "userland" developer pov.
Generally what comes from that are patched up systems to "run stuff in kernel" because "its safe and fast"

Which of course is not true.
There are however various attempts to make a "proper" "modern" OS but all of these have failed due to the lack of commercial backing. There is apparently no financial interest into having a secure, scalable, fast, deterministic, simple OS right now (which, oh, requires rewriting all your apps, obviously)

Even Microsoft tried. Yes, Microsoft did an excellent such OS.
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If I get directions to a destination on Maps desktop (web), then I can use Android Google Maps, press the search button, and that same destination is the first option. This only works for directions, not just looking up a location.

I do agree getting little things between devices still feels hard. Chrome to Phone works for URLs and works one way, but I feel like things should be seamless, instant, and universal. Still missing in every ecosystem.
you do sometimes hear about people with large numbers of adsense viewers being called (real telephone call!) by Googlers offering advice about better results.

I had a fun experience with that call a few years back, when Twiddla was in the spotlight and everybody was calling trying to give us money and free stuff now that we'd proved we didn't need it anymore. I got to explain to the cheerful AdSense Optimization Team guy how I couldn't use his help because we'd had our AdSense account permanently clobbered on a whim a year or so previous and hadn't ever been able to get it reinstated.

As you can imagine, our AdSense account was back up and in good standing the next day. We've never used it since. Fool me once, and all that.
>You are right, however, that it is economically somewhat senseless to shut down the nuke plants basically shortly after the subsidies/initial costs paid off, but, well.

How is it more senseless than shutting them down any other time before the end of their useful life? Sunk costs are sunk.
To quote Scotty from Star Trek Generations, "Well like you always say, if something's important, you'll make the time."
Expect that there's nothing stopping people from using the website.
Hah, that's exactly it. Whenever anyone applies more pressure than needed I normally just try to tense my hand, i.e. immovable object meeting the unstoppable force. I think that might prompt them to squeeze harder, though.
I can't speak for SF since I'm in London, but at the beginning of this year I decided to kick the habit of staying late and got back into regular muay thai training. I have a class 4 times a week at 7pm, so I have to leave the office at about 6 to make it.

At first I felt like I was letting the team down or whatever, because I was used to a) spending a lot more time physically in the office and b) judging other people by how early they left. However, I'm in a much better place now- I realised your brain doesn't just stop when you leave the office anyway, so you are still "working" on things really when you are not there, and you will feel better when you are there. 8-10 hours (I do 8-6) is still plenty of time to get a lot of work done! Personally I also felt a lot better letting my team lead know that I have a class every day at 7pm, and that I feel it has a reasonable priority in my life. Though sometimes things like production issues or late calls do come up, this made it easier for me to be out the door when I need to be.
Why should he be humble? There can be a huge difference in the quality of the work produced by different people. Knowing your real value is nothing to be ashamed of.
>As to Warren's letter, she has spent her entire career in academics and has never worked as a lawyer. She does not know the amount of resources required to participate in a lawsuit and trial.

The fact that she has spent her entire career in academics does not mean she is unaware of the costs and benefits of going to trial. But, even if your invalid premise was correct, that's the entire point of the letter. She is asking for an analysis of the costs and benefits of going to trial.

> As lawyers, we are constantly encouraged to settle cases to resolve issues rather than spend the time and expense going to trial. We should not be encouraging the government to sue people and take them to trial when they are willing to settle.

This blanket statement is ridiculous. We're talking about stakes that are higher than you (or anyone) can count. If banks do not have the proper incentives they could easily wreak havoc on the world economy. A few billion dollar settlement does not provide the proper incentives for organizations worth 100s of billions of dollars.

>To take a case to a show trial in order to make an public example of the defendant is bad policy more fitting of a dictatorship.

Warren is a member of the legislative branch not the executive branch, which balances the power of the executive branch. Moreover, she is not trying to subvert any sort of due process. She is merely asking questions. This is contrary to the very nature of a dictatorship.
Not ever seriously. I've always hated how bloated the core of php is. I've also read too much Coding Horror.
They paid a $1.92-billion fine after laundering $881-million of drug money. Also, dont forget that they helped finance terrorists. [1] No one at HSBC went to jail. If you get caught with an ounce or two of cannabis, you're going to prison for 10 years. That's messed up.

[1] http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2012/12/16/hsbc-executives-...
Credibility shot for doing whatever it takes to get ahead? In America? If she lied, which is debatable, I would have more respect for her. This isn't a meritocracy.

On your second point, going for the most efficient outcome isn't necessarily the best one for the american people.
I'm not really sure this works. My colleague apparently messaged me last night, I didn't get any notifications. So this morning I started a new Hangout (text-only) and he got nothing either.
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Now this does look quite nice. I'm a Reeder user and the current plan for me is to transition to Feedbin once Google Reader shuts down.

The Reeder developer has mentioned that he plans to add more services to the application but I don't know based on what. If Stringer is compatible at some point with Reeder you've got yourself a happy customer.

If things weren't so unclear concerning the APIs etc that the Reeder developer wants to use I would have started working on a patch right now myself. The Feedbin API is documented here: https://github.com/feedbin/feedbin-api#readme so that could be a good reference point.
This. It's all about discipline. I work weird and crazy hours but always find time to work out. To the point that I've completed 4 half-ironmans and 1 ironman in the last 2.5 years. You can always find time, just make it.
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You never really "have" time, you only ever "make" time.

Make dating and gym time something that you actually care deeply about (instead of - "hmm, I guess those are things I should probably do") and watch your schedule restructure itself.

I know this sounds simplistic, but it really is that simple.

You're 20 (something), you will learn and grow, you will need less time to bring 12 hours of your current work value to your startup. Just make sure to start at filling the time before you get there, otherwise you will feel lost once you do (and thus fill your time with even more work, leading to burnout). Add some pressure by taking breaks - try to work less, deliberately, while keeping up the amount of work you turn out. You will end up more satisfied with your work.

Eventually you will find that only the stuff you do outside your work - getting outside and being with people - make you really productive.

(And yes, as others have said, 12 hours sounds like you're already being burned out. Not really a healthy start in any shape or form.)
The framework benchmarks posted repeatedly here have shown PHP can hold its own performance-wise against ruby and python. PHP is not slow. PHP's per request model also makes it easy to build state-free front-end servers which you need in order to scale by throwing more hardware at the problem.

I agree that if you already know another platform there's no reason to switch to PHP, but similarly i've not seen much reason to switch away from PHP, aside from personal preference in language syntax.
As somebody who balances startup life and dating in San Francisco, I'm surprised by the comments on this thread so far.

Like most things at a startup, there are cycles. Sometimes work is 9-6, sometimes its 9-9. Consistency is uncommon, especially at the earlier stages. While you might not have time to date at the moment, you probably will later.

A few points:
1. 9pm is the perfect time to grab a quick bite with friends and head out. There are a ton of great bars / spots which offer a casual environment to be with female / startup / life friends, eat drink and meet guys if you so choose. Ping me for recommendations.
2. The internet (and especially OK Cupid) are great for arranging lots of dates with little effort. 9/10 of the people you meet will be boring or not click, but 1/10 will surprise you. Everyone uses it now, especially as a filler for in between relationships.
3. SF has a great friends-of-friends atmosphere. Go to parties.
4. Learn to love a busy schedule. You can easily cram more into life by going out after work, still getting a good nights sleep, and going back to work the next day. If you're only working M-F, it'll be the most active time of your life.
If they don't have any prejudice towards telecommuting, even if you live close by, it tends to streamline your life. If you're telecommuting, working twelve hours a day isn't that difficult, provided you don't get distracted. Just commit to spending a certain amount of time per day, in a block, and then disperse the rest of your hours throughout the day as your schedule allows. See if you can work from home and come into the office a couple times a week.
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It's not required, it's what Google ultimately would like to achieve, so it's a real issue for them. Being available to only a fraction of the total potential users is a real issue because if they dont manage to expand, competitors will eventually snatch the potential users.
You can't "find time for X while working for a startup", that simply does no happen. If X is important for you, then you'll have to make time for X.

Stand up from your desk and go to a party/pub to meet people.

Schedule your gym times; and if you have no time to go to gym that evening - then go anyway. You'll be better off that way.