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This article is from August.

About a week ago, the situation got much much worse. S4BB, the offending company, submitted another 138,792 apps: http://crackberry.com/s4bb-submits-additional-138792-apps-bl...

BlackBerry is an embarrassing joke of a company for permitting this (and from quotes I've read, even encouraging it).
For the months leading up to production, I had to prioritize and remove certain things, one of them being the gym. Post-production I'll have more time. Still sticking to the same diet plan.
Well, as a contractor you can start selling outcomes instead of selling time. So for example, you're able increase sales for a business by 9% in a month. That's a whole lot of freaking money. Suppose it only takes you 5 hours of work. Maybe you're an expert at conversion rate optimization. Your client won't blink if you tell them it will cost $X0,000. That's way better for you than charging $200/hr for 5 hours.
To each their own. I could never imagine needing to account why I'm getting up from where I'm working. IT/developer jobs are a dime a dozen for the foreseeable future.
I think just saying "do X or Y" doesn't properly acknowledge people will walk different paths.

If you have an idea you are passionate about (like the OP) and think you can make a living off of it, you only get one life, you might as well take the plunge. If you can't, and you want the freedom of contracting, go for that. If you want to work in a team on one project for years under direct supervision (because let us be honest, not everyone is a self-motivated workaholic) that is fine too.

More important is that people realize options exist, and that while your parents and grandparents might have been 9-5'ers who hated their jobs but did it due to a lack of marketable skills to attract revenue in a different way, the immense communication potential of the Internet lets you get a much larger audience for your talents to find yourself a niche with you in charge.
Within 15 or so minutes, someone somewhere noticed the tweets, and informed someone who knew Hayden.

What a dumb story. Former government officials who do a lot of press interviews have staff that monitor the press!
> They managed that by only showing bearded old men on their website

No. I will just say no on the implied statement that schools and companies must drag any women, black, Asian, Hispanic and Latino person they got to create political correct photos for their websites. No.

I approve when school/companies/conferences do sincere outreach because they want to engage a wider audience. That does not mean that they must do so, or for ever be branded as "excluding".

> with "fun" bonding games like taping a student to the trees.

The bonding games is serious, but a) sources? b) frat-house culture is a US concept, while first week hazing rituals in university has nothing to do with "houses" c) almost every university school in EU used to do it, and has resulted in it being commonly outlawed in recent 10 years. Not sure what French law says on the matter.
Why Buffer got hacked? Try to help instead of laughing and enjoying
Pay / prestige / connections / its fun.
Charging by the hour, as the basal form of hourly wage employment or in contracting, is just the worst case scenario when you have no other metrics to effectively predict and judge performance on.

But that means you have to take the fall if you aren't good at whatever alternative payment criteria you agree to. It just ends up being the default because it is somewhat safe, but if I were ever doing contract gigs I'd definitely rather charge by feature than by hour.
Linux Mint is actually a very easy and natural transition from Windows.

A few years ago, I installed Linux on my parents' desktop (dual-boot)[0] and told them that they were "forbidden" to use any other computer for web browsing, document editing, etc. I told them that this would be more secure, and that's all it took to convince them.

I figured that, this way, at least I could fix any of their computer problems remotely (over ssh), instead of helping with Windows on the phone.

It's been 2 or 3 years now, and they've had zero problems. I haven't even needed to ssh in except to do periodic software updates (which, even then, are superfluous for their purposes).

[0] My dad's work requires some very specific Windows-only software
Actually the selling time version is not really accurate either. What you're selling is the product of your time and skill. And if you substitute "income" for "part of the income," well, the grandparent's phrasing is an accurate description of what is happening (in that no part of the description is untrue). You my prefer to emphasize a different set of facts, but that doesn't mean you get to say a true thing is not true.
> I think what really sold the the rest of the management team was how much money we could save in licensing fees.

Come on, ...Microsoft licensing costs are a rounding error compared to the cost of developers.
I see that as consultancy, not contracting. An equally valid and even more lucrative occupation I will probably get into sooner or later.

I go to clients who have a project in mind, they need a team to do it, usually full time for several months, but don't need them post-delivery. I get paid, I get to do novel work, and I get to get the f*ck out on time :)
If I felt competent enough to call myself a "10X developer, marketer and entrepreneur", I'd consider becoming a consultant. But I'm not anywhere near that stage yet, and there's a lot I can learn (and am learning) where I am right now. So, the argument can be a decent one (self-employment brings certain benefits that are inimical to working for a salary), but there are also trade-offs involved.
If suing is too costly or not worth the time for ignoring DCMAs, perhaps shame them on Twitter?
What serious reasons? Some pictures with beards? You're kidding. From the article and the kind of philosophy behind, it seems clear to me that they just do not distinguish people race, background, gender even. When putting pics on the site they don't think "oh let's get some women and some black people for the balance" because they forbid themselves to think in these terms. That's the founding of French laicity and equality and public education. I think it's still the right way to do it. That's why all the IT is sexist meme is so flawed.
I'm not a pokemon expert, but I think they are the product of a human's creative work. If pokemons were real there would be facts about them. I'm not a lawyer either, but I think creative works are covered by copyright law.
What's next for Google, the most successful Internet company in the world?
I can only speak in the context of software companies. But there are many companies who have completely distributed teams and thrive. My favorite is Buffer's story: http://joel.is/post/54284926855/questions-i-ask-myself-about...
London is expensive, and West Hampstead is one of the more expensive areas in Zone 2.

However, there is much better value to be if you move out a bit. I rent a 3 bed double story semi-detached house in zone 5 NW London in an awesome residential area. Its located in a cul-de-sac, we have a proper front and back garden, no 1950's council flats anywhere nearby, near a great high street and lots of green spaces around. Rent is £1350 per month.

Oh, and there is a fast train (no stops) to Euston which takes only 12 minutes.
Docks will take off when you can make them wireless.

My tablet can connect to my wifi when I come home and sit at my desk. There's no reason at all why it can't connect to my mouse+keyboard at the same moment; so someone needs to solve the technical problems of it being able to connect to my large monitor wirelessly, and we're set.
I have to concur on the weather part. San Francisco in summer is like Barcelona in the worst day of winter. Please do not equate sunshine and nice weather. No offense to SFOers, your city is lovely nonetheless.
I saw this video only the other day - can't actually believe this is happening - still a bit shocked by it :-/
free-visit ( http://www.free-visit.net )
It's cool because, I wana see 3d engine inside web browsers. I mean, at last...
> I haven't heard anyone talking about DB agnosticism in web dev for years, it was an odd idea that popped up in the mid-2000s and died the pointless death it deserved.

ODBC and JDBC are both older than that, and still alive and well and popular today.
I think Mint is a wonderful distro, always love using it. I'd set dad up with that, but he's made so much progress with Ubuntu that I don't want to upset the apple cart at this point. Maybe in a year or two.
As I learned on HN a few weeks ago, you can essentially 'buy' EU residency from Latvia. I'm sure there's similar deals in other EU countries.

https://www.rietumu.lv/en/residence-permit
Show HN: Continuous integration for iOS made easy with objective-ci RubyGem
I'm not sure what you're talking about. I know something about AI. A couple of years ago when Watson destroyed the best human Jeopardy champions, I immediately saw its near-term applicability in sifting through the enormous space of medical data/research and correlating it with patient information to yield amazingly accurate and insightful diagnoses.

This isn't after-the-singularity type science fiction where we're adding assumption upon assumption to several levels beyond what is possible.

This is applying a technology (that's already proven at performing similar complex deductive analysis over massive quantities of data) to a new discipline. Any assumptions about what we can do in the new discipline with the current technology are minimal and extremely likely overcomable.

Even if Watson isn't quite there, the way is pretty clear now. Linear improvements in the Watson approach will yield results.
Freelancing, consulting, contracting, it's all the same thing in my opinion. It's just how you want to present yourself. Obviously, going at it as a consultant will net you the most amount of money. But it's only because of how your client will view you. Brennan from Planscope has successfully addressed all these problems and helped people make a ton of more money: http://blog.planscope.io
Thanks for stopping by and taking time to discuss this! (since you appear to be new to HN, please take the abounding hypercriticality with a grain of salt)

I personally think it's great that you are innovating in the field of workplace ergonomics, and, since I've been trying to improve my own posture and general health (and I think the design looks cool, too), I'm looking to back your project.

I have three questions for you if you want to fully convince me of your invention:
(1) How, from your scientific view, does the Freedman compare to a sitting ball or a standing desk?
(2) From an engineering standpoint, the buttock pads (for lack of a better term) are going to take a lot of pressure over time. How did you keep them flexible (since they adjust flexibly to bodily asymmetries), while preventing them from wearing out?
(3) Conceptually, you make the point that chairs are, quite literally, killing people (e.g. your argument above "were we meant to farm or sit?", or in the video "[what the press means by saying that sitting kills] is that in a normal sitting position, which is often slumped, you turn of an enzyme [...]. After an hour, you have 20% more bad cholesterol [...]. That leads to metabolic disorder."). How does your invention, itself a chair, though a completely rethought one, counteract this? The studies you cite (e.g. Edwardson et al., http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna... ; Zderic & Hamilton, http://jap.physiology.org/content/100/1/249.full ), show that any kind of prolonged inactivity (in humans and rats, respectively) will lead to the adverse consequences you list. What are your thoughts on this?

Again, I entirely commend you for putting in the effort and expertise to develop this -- I think the result looks great, and you have my complete support. You certainly seem to have found a market eagerly searching for a solution to the lifestyle diseases of our times (which is a huge expectation, even you citations recommend a "multidimensional" approach, cf. Burton et al.). All the best!
(neat Ask HN!)

Maybe the software guys here will find this cool :).

I'm working on an open source build tool (similar to Ant, etc). Github code:
https://github.com/chrisvana/repobuild

It's cool because:

* It makes it really easy to integrate new open source code. Want to compile against boost? Add one line. Want an ML library? Add another.

* Everything gets automatically pulled in.

* It makes it really easy to share your open source code with others.

* Works with a bunch of languages.

* Proven model from companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

My main project is using large scale computing (data from millions of CPU hours) to change how drug discovery is done. Drugs are very expensive because 98% of them fail. This hopefully changes that, and makes it profitable for companies to go after much smaller diseases that do not currently get attention. Papers forthcoming.
> But it is clearly not the same thing phrased differently. The first is an accurate description of a wage labor relationship, the latter is an accurate description of the relation between members of a labor cooperative. You can imagine that the latter relationship is the case when you are in the former relationship, but self-delusion probably isn't useful or healthy in the long term.

I disagree that this is self-delusion, and that's a thoroughly unhelpful attitude - you are just choosing to emphasise a different set of facts, which does not invalidate the other.

There are absolutely loads of jobs out there for a talented developer at this point in time. You can essentially select any team you want, and name your price - the upshot is that this moves so much power away from employers that the relationship is pretty far away from wage slavery.
There was an article that made this same comparison recently, and discussed why it doesn't matter: http://crookedtimber.org/2013/10/23/the-politics-of-hypocris...

> What is interesting is not whether France (or Mexico, or Brazil, or Germany) is being hypocritical in pretending to be shocked at what the US is doing. It’s whether their response (hypocritical as it may be) has real political consequences. And it surely does
Support for Optimus is horrible. Even if you get it all working, you still can't use both the LCD and an external monitor seamlessly. (i.e. you can see a desktop on both, but you can't move windows from one to another)

You CAN do this if you turn off Optimus and just use the NVidia card... but it cuts battery life down by 40%... :-/
Thanks so much :) I appreciate it!
I think there's something to be said for the general concept. Something to consider is risk vs reward though. If you're comfortable doing sales and the technical part or maybe even harder good at delegation and have some financial resources, you might be able to pull this off. A job is pretty consistent though and frankly can be less demanding even if you are learning new skills or working with smart people.

That being said, I think collaborating on open source still can give you that part of work you might be missing. There are positives and negatives to both lifestyles. Some are better at certain parts of the field than others.

I personally had a product take off, and and now backpacking in the valley for as long as I want. I've been able to meet one new customer a day (literally) for the past few weeks.

What they DON'T tell you is what it can take to get to that. It's ok to talk about the idea of not selling time for money AS LONG as you don't sensationalize it. Everyone has their preferences.
Dude, you don't need to wait to live your dreams. Email me! blog.goodsense.io/contact.
I thought his point was pretty clear, and I am having trouble figuring out how you so completely missed it.
Why so unfairly critical? The founder has been successful in breaking monopolies and empowering p people.

Requiring the same exercise order is the proper way to compare students.

Entrepreneurial skills is an option in real developers life, as it is in this school, and rightly so.
SMS Neighbors (http://smsneighbors.com/)

Cool, because I am trying to bring social networks to people using "dumb phones". By sending text to one number all your neighbors will receive it. Perfect for reporting suspicious person or lost dog, or announcing garage sale or neighborhood event.
"This program has been expanded to Yemen, Somalia,
Pakistan"

So basically once we place a matured Boston Robotic's PETMAN robot on the ground we'll basically have created an analog of the dystopian future from Terminator, but instead of US soil, it will be on Middle Eastern soil. Truly disgusting.

We cannot state that we are a moral/ethical nation of laws with a justice system and routinely deny others a day in court because they are not living in this country. Last I checked, Congress has not declared war in Yemen, Somalia or Pakistan, so what are we doing conducting a war there. Exterminating someone without trial from the skies is not a police action.
Using pam_abl to disallow logging into an account that is being hit sounds like a easy way to DoS a box.
You're wrong. Depending on the laws of the country in which you perform the work, you could be liable for taxes on the income attributable to that work. Location in this context is defined very simply: the physical location of the employee performing the work (see, e.g., the OECD Model Treaties). This definition avoids all of the technological complexities of remote working (i.e., VPN into another country, or through multiple countries). It has also been adopted by the vast majority of countries which you would want to visit.

I.e., for example, if you code a $1 million project for a client, half in the US and half while traveling in France, you could owe France income taxes on 50% of that 1 million. (However, if that income is also taxable in the U.S., you generally would be protected from double-taxation by virtue of the tax treaty between the two nations.)

Moreover, depending on the amount of time spent working in a country, you could be in violation of your visa, which could result in civil or criminal sanctions (most likely fines, but possibly including revocation of your visa).

This issue is a very real concern, and multinational companies go to great lengths to avoid dealing with it. The EU has been aggressive about auditing companies on this issue, going so far as to demand detailed records about the physical location of directors during board meetings or about company operations conducted by traveling employees.
Maybe. For general programming questions like how to loop two things at the same time or combining two lists into a dict, yeah. For particular open source project if you are lucky yeah you can get help from IRC (or fall back down to reading source code). But infrastructure, scaling, security, these are very specialized areas. You can get a general idea from stackoverflow or security exchange but implementation wise SO is not a good place to find inspiration.

In the past when I had to deal with puppet/chef I constantly had problems that the mailing list just couldn't help and the only way I could get help was to bring someone in and had them debug in real time with me.
If you want to see something similar, search for "1st4fans" in the Windows Store. Looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/XlkSF5K.png. I believe this guy has even more apps than I can find here.
One addition that would be nice is incorporating damage-altering abilities: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Category:Abilities_th...
It looks great so far. Will patiently wait for a fix!
This requirement that certain app functionalities may only be provided by Apple's own apps needs to be challenged in court via a class action suit so that they may be forced to unbundle these. These apps should be deletable and you should be able to programmatically assign their responsibilities to another application of your choosing.

We've had this capability on the desktop forever. There is not pro-consumer argument Apple could make for denying a setting that lets you change this.
For Dying Light devs, motion sickness is a serious issue
That is not anything like what I do for a living. I don't approach people with business solutions that will help them, hell, I don't care about business solutions. I work on specific projects that clients already want but don't have or want the people for.
> I know many employers are exploitative.

By definition, they're all exploitative, even the one you work at.

If they gave you the proceeds of your labor, they'd be out of business, and if they don't, they're exploitative.

The only 'logically fair' form of organization of labor is a cooperative, and that only when everyone contributes according to their share.
This definitely looks awesome, I'm in for a couple for sure.

How long does a shirt stay non-stinky? The video said silver is weaved into the fabric, but I'm assuming it doesn't coat the entire thing. So eventually bacteria will start to collect, correct?

Also, when is underwear coming out.... :)
Have you tried http://wakatime.com?
You have to count how many women applied and how many were rejected. A fair policy is to have a balance percentage. For this number of male applicants, there must be this number of woman accepted.
I agree with your argument about 1-based indexing being more intuitive for people with more math than programming experience. I'd even concede that, given Lua's history (as I understand it) as a tool for engineers at PUC-Rio, it would be strange if they hadn't adopted that convention. Lua is not just any "scripting" language trying to isolate itself from the rest of the world, though. Today it is arguably the most popular language for embedding purposes. It's typically used in reasonably large C or C++-based applications as a layer of easily and dynamically reconfigurable glue between components. As such, a large portion of its users are directly involved in maintaining the interface between the C and Lua worlds in their programs, to a much greater extent than with most other dynamic languages. Differing from C's convention for any reason is a small but constant source of annoyance and occasional bugs when working at this level. You accept the difference and learn to work around it, but it's yet another dumb-mistake-causing source of unnecessary cognitive load that seems out of place in a language mostly free of that characteristic.

I think Lua's 1-basedness is a valid complaint for embedders. It's not a huge problem, it can be worked around. However, if the Lua devs (or Mike Pall) decided tomorrow that from then on out, Lua(JIT) would use 0-based indexing by default, it would only make my work easier.
Both my parents are 60+.

My mom is perfectly fine using Ubuntu on my old x61 for email, browsing, and YouTube. To be fair she could probably replace it with a tablet if it weren't for the fact that she visits a lot of flash sites (Chinese TV streaming sites).

Likewise my dad is on another Ubuntu machine at home. His work needs access to some software / printers that can't be run via Wine so he's stuck with Windows there.

I tried to convert my 25 year old brother as well, but he switched back to Windows after a month. Despite being the youngest, he hated learning a new system and preferred Windows.
I figured it was the retina imagery, dang iPad mini and its lack of RAM
I usually enjoy Schneier's postings but this is a little bit silly. There's no evidence that "government monitoring" had anything to do with this incident. Someone noticed the tweets and informed Hayden. We don't seem to have any further information so jumping to conclusions seems silly.