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First off... when did medium.com become the source for 60% of HN front page news? Either most of us are failing badly at taking a broad view of the news or these guys have an obscene amount of spam accounts building karma. Either way, we are losing.

Regarding the article... there is no consideration given to lessening our nation's commitment to all its various wars. There is no discussion of whether we should continue to send troops. There is not even the suggestion that -- holy shit -- maybe we should reconsider our current engagements and decide where our existing, and substantial, resources would be better spent.

I'm anti-war, but I'm not anti-military. And anti-war is a ridiculous stance that ignores all of human reality, so it's not something I can honestly take seriously and argue in favor of.

This ridiculous diatribe ignores both the causes of our current situation and the potential results of sending everyone in the damn nation out to fight, or support, regardless of their skills. Yes, by all means, let's inflate the military and support ranks! Not only will it burgeon all sorts of military posts, it will drain all the service industries those people previously occupied.

Another silver bullet with a lead lining, shot straight into the heart of our economy. The author fails as an economist, a strategist, and even a nationalist.

Might be a strong contender for President.
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I occasionally did some consulting jobs. Put it this way, some people make about $500 a month in Malaysia (which is more than enough to survive comfortably on). When you charge $100+ an hour you can make more in a day than the locals make in a month.
Cue a test-how-strong-your-password-is service where security conscious individuals can test how their particular password stands up against these new attacks.
I was shocked to hear he ended up not hiring the pregnant woman, wouldn't that be discriminatory?
> You should think twice about what your motivaions are, do you want to become an entrepeneur? Or you just want to be happy with your job? Dont make the wrong choices for the wrong reasons.

This is a great question. I think my main goal would be autonomy. Being able to go hiking in the morning and then work through the night. I never understood why we're forced to spend the days pent up in office buildings.

The other thing: Since I was a kid with a Commodore 64, I've been wanting to develop games. Just small, quirky, but fun and captivating games. This might be the chance to go after that childhood dream, as silly as it may sound.
Just installed it and my only comment so far is that, when maximized, there is a non-clickable gap between the top of a top and the top of the screen. This is a big usability mistake so I hope they correct it at some point. Firefox does this too and it drives me insane. Chrome is the only one (that I use) that does it right.
If it's a specialised rig then it'll only be good for MD5 I think. Most sensible websites don't use MD5 anymore.
I think those "very few consulting jobs" was enough to offset the expenses
Well the bonehead hashcat program is limited to 15 character passwords, so it can't possibly crack mine.

The hashcat program software in general is powerful, though pretty crappy from a design standpoint. The current version crashes if any input is not what it expects, and it has just about zero help for what it expects. Actually I can't even get it to work, as executing hashcat-lite.exe with arguments causes it to just immediately exit without doing anything nor printing any output.
It was the 90s... There wouldn't have been any structure to the code!
I thought the training images were unlabeled. See the actual paper: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub38115.html

"Abstract: We consider the problem of building highlevel, class-speciﬁc feature detectors from only unlabeled data."
I think we are agreeing with each other.
Perhaps I'm misreading your phrasing... but why wouldn't they?
I'm sure that if the military had a requirement for a few thousand middle aged bloggers to swell their ranks; they would put up recruitment posters.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinsons_Law_of_Triviality
I can't tell you where to go or what to do, but if you just hate what you do, might as well try to find something different.

Many people in this world do not enjoy their jobs, but you appear to have the resources and the freedom to try to find the job you like.

P.S. Here's an idea. Have you considered going back to school for a Master's, if you don't already have one? That could give you more personal time to explore side projects (as well as hopefully working on something cool for your degree), handily explains 2-3 years of gap in employment history, and you come out with a degree. Thus allowing you to hedge your bets in case you have to rejoin the corporate world later.
This is a problem I would like to see a startup try to solve. There must be a shortcut.
Operating system? You should file a bug against Firefox (and Opera, I suppose.)
One notable point is that one mining company, Asicminer, has a bitcoin-denominated stock that dramatically increased in value over the last several months.

It IPOed at 0.1 btc per share, now trading at about 2.5 btc.

Along with the increase in the value of btc relative to the US dollar, Asicminer now has a market cap (on paper) of about $125 million, from an IPO that raised about $200k.

They're based in China, Shenzhen I believe, and have been making the most of their self-designed asics. They currently represent about 18% of the entire bitcoin network, as measured by hashrate.

http://www.asicminercharts.com/live/
I think you are making a superficial analysis.

He didn't really create a false dichotomy. Of course there's a big overlap between nice people (without quotation marks) and "good" people (his take). In the OP he created two models of people, which he labelled "good" and "nice". The characteristics of "nice" are, to the outside observer, socially apt and likeable. "Good" people fall into this category too, and so do people that lack the "good" qualities. To simplify things he simply talked about a "nice" person that was nice in your sense but lacked the qualities of being "good". Obviously they share characteristics, but the point was that he has developed a way of hiring, which I personally thought quite interesting (that it worked/works), of figuring out whether a nice person was also "good" or was he/she just "nice".

Admittedly it's a weird, awkward, maybe even creepy job posting, but that doesn't mean it's just bullshit. His methods will probably fail in a larger workplace context but he never claimed that they would the contrary anyway.
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And have their password added to a word-list.
I really appreciate this. Thank you.

There are good employers, huzzah.
I've been talking to my manager about this. The problem is, after moving to an open floor plan, paradoxically we don't have room anymore.

I'm trying to work standing up for a bit. It does help, but of course is far from ergonomic at a regular desk. It probably also looks ridiculous, me doing a semi-split to get low enough to reach the keyboard and mouse.
You say that like its a bad thing - an imposed government is the problem. A representative government is required. The corrupt system that is currently in place is hardly an asset.
<satire>

yeah, but over 1.8 billion page views.. thats 3px is a _lot_ of extra bandwidth.

Not to mention all those screen pixels gone to waste.. thats 3 times the screen width every time.. say 50x3x1280 px per page view.. jesus thats enough to power a small village in the third world.

Not to mention the Carbon footprint...

</satire>
I didn't find it creepy. I found it refreshingly genuine. To each his own I suppose.
Get your gun out of my face. And stop advocating the needless killing of Americans and the destruction of billions of dollars of wealth coercively taken from Americans.
Referrers have nothing to do with pagerank. It's used in website analytics of course, and, in general is a very bad idea leaking information between websites. Search engines don't see your site's referrer data so the association you tried to create with pagerank is misleading.
Do it, and make sure to use your time off wisely. You have enough savings, you're single. If you're gonna do it, now is the time.
I'm in a somewhat similar situation. I've been working in the Bay Area as an ASIC validation engineer in a big semiconductor company for the past few years. I'm 30 years old. I've also gotten quite bored with work, so on the side I've been doing some mobile development (Android then iOS). I just very recently (Friday) started interviewing and it seems that the demand is pretty high. (I've gotten several requests on linkedIn before even publishing any apps). The transition for you should be even smoother since you have a background in CS. I feel that you can't go wrong by taking some time-off, work on your own projects then decide whether to join a company or start your own.
I don't have as much savings as you, so my goal is to quit my job and find another job in Mobile Development, while working on my own project on the side.
In all cases, best of luck!

Here is the app that I released about a week ago (shameless plug): https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dish./id648176152?ls=1&m...
So, the government already takes half of my earnings. Now, this author is proposing the government gets years of slave labor out of me, to kill members of foreign cultures the government deems bad. Somehow, I have a problem with this.

I have a better solution. Let's only use our military for defense of our country and stop being the world's policeman.
This has been this way for the last few versions or rather since they changed the UI in version 11 I think. This allows you do double click this array to return to window mode or "drag it down" from maximized which will return it to window mode (Windows).
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if you believe beauty [ or even readability ] is a feature
> if you open any history book. It is arrogant to think you can influence anything meaningful there.

On the contrary, if you read any history book, you'll most likely realize the wonders of human progress, achievement, and optimism. The only arrogant conclusion to draw from that would be to underestimate human potential. Luckily, progress has historically come about thanks to the dismissal of such conservative presuppositions.
I heard somewhere that lying to police is punishable by something like three years in jail in the US. Unless you killed someone or are a repeat offender, lying may well get you a harsher sentence than your original crime.

And of course, it's very easy to lie accidentally: You may honestly be confused, mis-remember, make a mistake, or tell them a true fact that doesn't fit with incorrect information they obtained from another source. Especially under the stress of being suspected, investigated, arrested, etc.

Rule one of dealing with the police: Don't help them under any circumstances. Shut up and lawyer up immediately.

For more information, watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
I can't speak to the resume "gap", but I can promise you that this will make you a better developer by a ridiculous amount.
Firefox has the "correct" behavior for me, though the old Opera doesn't.
Ask HN: Educating a child who is severely behind
I am in a relationship with a lady who has a 3 year old son. I've grown to love him like he's my own child.

It's clear that he's behind in terms of development due to lack of attention in the first two years of his life, for reasons I don't completely blame his mother but reasons I don't feel are appropriate to disclose.

I'm currently focusing on helping his speech and potty training as a priority, with helping in other areas and being a general father figure. I believe my efforts have paid off because I've been told his rate of development has been remarkable since I became involved.

I was just wondering if anybody who has a child or has studied this area has any extra ideas for my to try? Are there any techniques or methods I can employ to help his development along further?

I'm asking here because this is hacker news and its going to take a seriously effective and elegant hack to get this kid where he needs to be a d further. I can't stand to see a clearly intelligent child locked behind a wall of impeded speech and behaviours typical to a 1 year old.

I eventually want to to teach him the wonders of computers and how to tell them what to do. It will be very hard if we can't communicate effectively.
Ha! Yes, ten years feels like a very, very long time just lately. ;)

There's nothing wrong with coasting when you know you're moving in a good direction, which it seems clear you are. In your situation, you have the chance to sit back, observe, and carefully consider the environment (in addition to consulting whatever oracles you consider the most wise) and then decide when or whether you should strike out with any given idea.

Unless you're throwing yourself on the mercy of an incubator on the strength of your resume, which in my opinion is a laughable gamble for kids who don't know better, you will want to think long and hard on what you want to do and how you want to do it. Once you can answer those questions for yourself (as you are the only one to whom you answer, and you'll never find a more forgiving situation), you'll have your direction.

Once you take it... well, that's another story. ;)
How about instead your generation just dies and the rest of us will attempt to change the fact that warfare has become a standard of modern human society passed on from primitive generations.

Yea, I know that's harsh, but it's late and that article just rubbed me the wrong way.
Very thorough discussion on the benefits of optional typing in the last 3rd of the talk. Very interesting if you want to learn more about what optional typing means & enables. Very critical audience :D
Ask HN: Why isn't anyone using Openresty
It is based on set of modules and Nginx, as well as LuaJIT. It is insanely fast, and according to http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r5
It is constantly one of the top performing frameworks.

Why isn't anyone using it? Are there pitfalls that i am not aware of?
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Coming from a county where there was a "draft" until 2011 (Germany), I have to say that his view points is very romantic, at least when it comes to the "nation-building" part.

First of all, military service for a small time is a big cost factor: this leads to the military trying to avoid spending, by making less people eligible. In Germany, it happened to multiple of my friends that just before they had to start their service, the military decided not to "pull" them because they made their categories non-eligible for military service. This severly damages the fairness of the service. Had there not been the option of civil service as a replacement, that unfairness would have been even worse: the modern military just doesn't have enough resources to have a whole generation in service all the time.

Second, I feel as connected to my generation/nation before or after my service. I consciously did civil service[1] and liked it, though.

What I _liked_ about the service was that it forces you to do something non-proitable for a while. Even though I had my eyes on doing something in IT and my "straight" career path would have direcly led me to university, I was caring for mentally disabled people for a year. It is an experience I don't want to miss and gave me a lot of insight into and respect the whole "social support" branch of society, which I still hold in very high regard. It is also an experience I would have skipped if I had the choice.

[1]: By which I mean: I did civil service because I saw it more fit for me, not because I absolutely wanted to avoid military.
Oh America.
I didn't test this one, but the new mobile version of Opera is horrible. I like Opera very much and I just can't believe they released this mobile version (also take a look at the latest reviews: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opera.brow...).

It feels like Opera is having a very hard time to keep its head above the water.
Even AeroFS has Dropbox's handicap of 'you have to put everything in one folder' or mess around with symlinks. It ought to have been a little improvised at least.
How about Megaglest? Very active development, very playable, lots of modders.
If you have 12 years of experience, are in the Bay Area, and can do mobile dev work, you should have no trouble finding a new job paying six digits if your entrepreneurial plans do not pan out.
Have they removed bookmarks?
I must say that the site is pretty misleading with having a MacBook Air and iPhone in the mix there, since it cannot compile to Objective C...
Most of the mid-to-high level leaders I met who were in positions to influence policy (CIA, some civilian advisors to military, some military) were true believers in both western-style democracy and, more strikingly, Christianity. There was a distressingly high level of some combination of "white man's burden" and "bring them the light of the lord" going on. Decisions and plans were presented using other language, but when you actually talked to them about their real motivations and what they thought should happen, Jesus came up more than anything else. Kind of terrifying IMO.
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Exactly. It's fairly entertaining to play with this model: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/business/buy-rent-calcula...;

Basically almost anything in the bay area is not going to be profitable, in the south bay for sure.
It's like I'm really using Chrome! Although probably everyone saw this coming - it's just a skin of Chromium. They just took a few months to make a new mail client and put Opera icons everywhere.
Referers are a privacy trade-off though, and personally I have never seen a good reason why the desire of some website to track where I am coming from should trump my desire to not broadcast this information to the world. Therefore I like to switch of referers anyway.
Probably not, 'Taekwondo1983' sound like a password some percentage of people who practice a certain sport and are born in a certain year would choose.
Blink is Google's fork of WebKit, which is being used in the upcoming versions of Chrome. Opera is using plain WebKit.
Oh I did not know this. Very good to know indeed! I too am missing referrers from websites, and since my website also supports https I suppose others are missing them from me as well. This way I can make the internet a very tiny bit better ^^.
Thanks for this link! I've been reading a lot of blogs lately, but haven't seen this article. I've seen the TED talk mentioned in the article, and it was an inspiration to my idea, along with the Four Hour Work Week of course.

Quite a few people seem to be able to make a living as indie developers. But I wonder how many fail, without making their story public. People like to read about success stories, but not about failures.
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Subscribe to the ruby on rails security mailing list if you haven't already: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/rubyonrai....

I also started using Gemnasium which does a good job of notifying me about security patches in my app's dependencies along with keeping me up to date with gem releases.
> Where Wordpress does not scale is the default install on shared hosting or a VPS with little resources.

True for shared environment but WP does fine even on a low-end vps. 2-3 years ago I helped someone setup wp on a lowend vps server which successfully handled ~5million pageviews under 24 hours, the vps had a measly 1gb memory and the memory usage never went over 700mb. nginx/php-fpm/varnish/apc/w3t done. Took me less than 1 hour to set it up.

I don't understand when people complain about wordpress being bloat but at the same time wants it to solve all kinds of problem right out of the box.
Having been in Malaysia on and off for the last few years: you can survive with $500 a month. But you don't wanna put a guy in his late 30s in the kind of accommodation you'd have to put up with for that budget.

Let me put it this way. A 1000$ rental gets you much more luxury than the same amount would get you in the west. But a 500$ monthly budget is pretty poor lifestyle in the long run even in South-East Asia, though I agree not quite as desolate and impoverished as you'd be in Europe or America :))
I believe a krait is a kind of snake if you want to go for that angle.
My 80+ year old grandfather was given an old MacBook. Basically it was handed to him. No instruction of any great substance was given. My grandparents didn't use the simplest computers prior to this. ATMs were off limits. The first call I got (which I had been dreading) was about 3 months later. The gist of it was that he had managed to get some old VHS tapes encoded (dunno how) into some file format and he was after a good way to resize them that would be easy to play back on a friends TV. Since then he has bought another laptop, an iPad and and iPod. TLDR I vastly underestimated my grandfathers abilities.
But it had no precursor. While the project certainly looks nice, it's outside of objectives of this site.

Edit: Hm, I'm sorry, original Glest is from 2004. Maybe I should include this in the end...
After a decade at the same employer, I was completely burned out -- I had worked 60+ hour weeks for many years, with nothing resembling a "real" vacation since ~2004. I didn't enjoy the bulk of the work. I wasn't learning anything applicable outside of my employer's niche. I was being given projects that I was completely unqualified to work on (but I was the least unqualified person, so they fell to me).

After one particularly brutal day that didn't see me home until well after midnight, I did some serious soul-searching. I gave my (pretty generous) notice the next day.

I did the math and figured out my vacation payout + vacation time I had lost over the years due to the yearly cutoff was about three months, so I planned to take a three month vacation. Sleep all day, learn a programming language, drive to interesting places, read books, play video games, whatever sounded interesting that particular day. Recharge the ol' batteries. And that's exactly what I did.

After my three months of R&R were up, it was time to start looking for a job. I applied for interesting-sounding jobs that I thought I was qualified for. Silence. I contacted some friends and asked about opportunities, then sent CVs to the few that said, "Yes, we have positions you should apply for!" More silence. I continue(d) to apply for interesting jobs, resisting the urge to just scattershot resumes at everything I'm qualified for. (I think that's tacky, and I'm not that desperate yet. Plus, I don't want another job I'll hate and/or burn out on.)

My three months turned into six months...and then nine months...and now stands at 11 months. I haven't been able to get a single interview -- phone, e-mail, in-person, or otherwise. My savings and expenses are such that I'm okay for another two years or so, but I will need an income of some sort eventually.

Maybe my skill set is crap. Maybe my CV is crap. Maybe it's my employment history gap. Maybe it's karmic retribution. I can't be certain, but my money's on the gap.

tl;dr: Your mileage may vary, but I'm pretty sure I Darwin'd my career by taking time off without doing anything that I could put on a CV to explain the gap in my employment history.
Eh.

Here is a freely published copy of the POSIX standard:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/

Regarding the "text of some laws", there was actually a story on HN about the city of the District of Columbia asserting copyright to their laws and making it only available via a private company:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/31/ignorance-of...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5251797