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SEEKING WORK - Bay Area, CA or remote

Content is king if you want to be heard above the noise of the Internet. But if you're heads-down focused on building a product or making sales, you probably don't have time to make quality content for your inbound marketing program. And if you do have time, the stress of wrangling SMEs, getting consensus and approval, and building content that's as awesome as your company is can be killer.

# I help you solve content problems

I have seven years of experience writing engaging content that helps business persuade, inform, and educate. Before that, I spent ten years learning about, using, and training adults to use complicated technology. Because of this background, I'm able to make knotty, complex subjects easily understood using a variety of media, and enliven prosaic subjects with colorful analogies, custom visuals, and backstories. I write short and long-form white papers, case studies, howto guides, and web copy, and I get projects from concept to completion with as much or as little of your involvement as you want.

I combine disciplined project management with a flexible work style to integrate smoothly with even the most harried product or marketing team. And I'm practically a mind reader when it comes to talking with SMEs.

# I can help

If you have a content problem, or you need new content for your marketing efforts, let me know and I'll gladly take some time to chat with you about potential solutions. If I'm the right fit for your needs, I'll share work samples and work up a proposal.

# Contact
Philip@philipmorganconsulting.com
Ask HN: Payment processing system that available to startups from Turkey?
I checked Stripe and Braintree but they're not available for signups from Turkey, any alternatives?
Yes, this is like calling Sunnyvale a sleepy, post-agricultural city of 100,000. It's somewhere between inaccurate and disingenuous.
I did my 5 years at Waterloo (Systems Design Eng) and I wouldn't disagree with the description of Waterloo being sleepy. Especially these days with Blackberry turning many of the areas near the campus into ghost towns.
The American public wasn't going to want to allocate that 2 trillion dollars for NASA, if we never had the wars. Yes, wars are very expensive, but it's naive to think we were going to Mars instead.

By the way, the US consumer spends as much on pet food as we spend on NASA.

http://www.petfoodinstitute.org/?page=PetfoodSales

We have a $15 trillion dollar economy. Rather than spending all day doing some wishful thinking (if there weren't any wars), dream up a way to fund more research.
This is great.. why dont you pursue further? Looks like some of it is coming from 4sq api, I can help you there if you are stuck.

Kudos on working on it, and hope you find time to continue building on it. One specific feature that will make it so much easier is if there was a way to bootstrap your list. May be display top tourist locations to start with.. you can also search for tiplists on foursquare to give user starting point. Not sure if you already do that, and I just couldnt figure out..
This points to the need for less restrictive zoning. There are cheaper ways to house people than in a moving bus. They are willing to pay, maybe not the full rate, but they are paying something. Build army barracks style residences (which I guess is what homeless shelters are).
Canada still has plenty of talent. U of T has strong CS/Engineering programs. Only a few of my buddies are in the valley.
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Project Azorian V2 - The cold war secret project to recover a sunken Soviet sub
> I don't want the military to have SR71 successors

This is probably a PR stunt. You never, ever, under no circumstances, pre-announce military technology.

Having said that, it's really a shame humans never flew to the moon since I was a kid. I'm not particularly sad about the shuttles - they were engineered by marketing - but I'd like to see some more cool space technology.
Curious if there are any examples of major metros that have successfully tackled homelessness without simply forcing them to go somewhere else.

Anyone know of any examples?

People paying to sleep on a bus clearly shows the problem here is ridiculously bad.
Not sure if I have seen such an elaborated article about a subject ever. Remarkable.
is Waterloo the only university in canada with similar startup culture and recognition from tech companies? i was unfortunately denied admission recently to Waterloo, and I'm planning to try UBC and UToronto. UBC in particular has a special program for people like me - college graduates seeking a second degree in CS, which sounds really good but I keep hearing these things about Waterloo which makes me feel really sad about not making it there.
The Globe and Mail updated this story, but they fell for the hoax.
https://twitter.com/KatzOnEarth/status/396332095196262401

The BBC, Reuters and AP did too. The hoax originated here: https://twitter.com/HeadIineNews/status/396326759966068737
Not quite that simple. Homeless shelters, per resident-wise, are much more expensive to run than an equivalent place housing, well, people like us.

Some homeless people avoid shelters even if there are space because they are frequently giant nests of disease and violence. Besides catching some rather unpleasant diseases and pests, your odds of getting stabbed increase dramatically.

So you'd have to pay for hygiene, health, and security expenses well above and beyond the norm. And that's just if you want to pursue the "containment" side of housing the chronically homeless.

If you want to pursue the "rehabilitation" side it gets even crazier. A large portion of the population suffer from severe mental health problems that prevent them from any meaningful integration into mainstream society, and mental health care ain't cheap.

That said I do believe it should be done, but it isn't "oh yeah just levy a tiny tax" territory.
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We have extensive experience implementing and teaching lean principles.
We primarily handle backend work, but have a designer and UX guy at our disposal. We love analytics and customer feedback.

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Relocating sucks for people with homes, families, childhood friends, etc. I live where I live (Portland, ME) because I LOVE it here. The market for tech is not here (yet, it's growing), so I work remotely for a NYC company.
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The influx of money into silicon valley has many side effects; not all of them are good. People outside the tech industry are becoming relatively poorer across the board, including those at the bottom in this article. What bothers me the most is that none of this is planned. It's just happening and everyone is observing. I would be more comfortable if this 'relatively poorer' effect was part of a plan since it would imply that someone had considered the consequences.
Actually, there is plenty of evidence that LPs are increasing in value. Some are slow but some are growing pretty fast (especially classic rock and punk rock). WSJ been running articles about LPs and their investment value:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732426340...

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405297020457370...

Unlike comic books and baseball cards, there was never a hype of LP as being a collector item. Furthermore, they are essentially not being manufactured any more. They are difficult to care for, and many of them been destroyed by improper use. And they deliver the authentic, and some say the best, audio experience.

How to care for LPs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyl_disc_records_preservation
The bug was reported in February 2010 to the Debian bug tracker, where it was forever ignored, although the fix was trivial (replace the vol_id comment with blkid). In May 2010 Ubuntu downstream is syncing with Debian ( https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-target/67ubuntu... ), sees the bug report and fixes it in Ubuntu. Then in February 2011, a duplicate of the original bug is reported and gets fixed in Debian.

I was impressed by the fact that Ubuntu fixed this within three months even though the bug report was in the upstream ticket system, where it had not been fixed. Debian fixed it nine months after Ubuntu.

I appreciate the fact that Canonical has done things which help Ubuntu which sometimes, inadvertently or not, hurt Debian. For example, Canonical hiring so many Debian developers helped make the sarge release late. As I said in my post, Ubuntu is not that good about sending patches upstream. For a while, I was of the mind that Ubuntu was a mixed bag that in some ways helped and in some ways hurt the FLOSS community. Although over the past year or two, it seems the trend has been more toward the latter way.
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That's for use as a weapon, while I'm discussing its merits as a reconnaissance platform compared to drones and satellites.
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The Waterloo CS co-op program got me down to the Valley in 1998. I wound up dropping out in 2000 to move to New York (I don't recommend this lightly, but it didn't harm my career and likely helped it due to timing).

It was a great program in that it actually tried to teach programming alongside classic CS (this was before the SoftEng degree), and forced you to get out in the real world as soon as possible. The biggest problem was that (due to the grind in years 3 and 4) most of my peers who graduated CS wound up hating computers and couldn't wait to get into management. Also, graduating tends to take 5-6 years due to the work terms. I left in 3B so didn't quite have those scars.
It's not like KDE will cease to exist if KDE is not included in Ubuntu.

I think a fewer users -> fewer contributors -> slower feature velocity -> fewer users death spiral is possible.
I'm not an actuary so I probably can't accurately attest to this, but I would think it would still be a feasible approach. If an insurance agency were to accept the risk, they would have to do their homework and have their lawyers and agents dig through the intellectual property of their clients and do their own determination at the risk of legal troubles and charge the client(s) a fee which yielded profit over a span of time where the mean loss was less than the income.
Not nearly as much as before. I think for the most part, most equities are fairly valued and even over priced. Although, I still do like some BAC warrants. Some of the insurers and reinsurers look undervalued (most are trading at 75% of book value), but the insurance markets have been in a soft market (pricing power) for a while now, and there is no idea when markets will start to "harden". It will take a major catastrophe for that to happen. Some of the better managed ones, like Fairfax Financial, are fairly priced.

So, to answer, no, not really. I'm actually mostly in cash now.
It's also possible that they are completely clueless about what it would take. It appears they live and work out of the same space. This doesn't strike me as a particularly mature company.
I can't help but think that the by-product of this incident will be more invasive and even less personable processing by the TSA in the months to come.

You know, for our safety.
Do you want to hack the healthcare system (in a good way)?
I'm putting my feelers out there to see if I can gather a group of interested hackers in the NYC area to start a meetup that focuses solely on creating and showcasing products that can transform our antiquated healthcare system.

I work for an early stage healthcare IT startup in the NYC area that aims to bring this out-dated industry into the 21st century. If hacking together new products in the healthcare space sounds interesting I'd love to connect with you.
Great idea. Fight capitalist excess with capitalism.
Seems highly unlikely unless the next generation Google Glass is a quantum leap ahead of the existing one.

I'm not a naysayer about the product in general (although I am not a fan of google), but I have used Glass, and it is far from being a usable consumer product.

Iteration will change that. However I have doubt that that have got to that point yet.

If this is article is accurate, then I think the operative words are 'invitation only'. The idea would be to get massive celebrity endorsement to create desire without real consumers actually experiencing the product.

So far Glass has done a great job of making Google not look like a boring copycat. If they can keep this up and launch a great product at some point, it will turn out to be a masterpiece of marketing.
I guess that's for signed in users?
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For anyone wanting to hire students from Waterloo / looking for work in the area:

https://uwaterloo.ca/jobmine/employers / https://uwaterloo.ca/hire/

http://waterlootechjobs.com/en/

http://www.techjobswaterloo.com/

http://www.communitech.ca/
Am I the only one here who thinks Martin (and others) are being way too sensitive?

Here is Mark's comment that (I believe) Martin is so upset about:

> Mir is really important work. When lots of competitors attack a project on purely political grounds, you have to wonder what THEIR agenda is. At least we know now who belongs to the Open Source Tea Party ;)

Really? This is what the uproar is about?
How is this a quantum effect? Clocks can be noisy, so if your board isn't designed to keep everything isolated properly, you'll pick up noise all over the place. It's an electromagnetic effect, sure, but a quantum effect?
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. So far, I haven't seem him providing the latter.
Sweden has acquired much more wealth since 60's than before. Something like 600 times more.
Thanks for the kind words and feedback. I agree about bootstrapping a list. Suggested places feature is a top priority. Do you work for 4sq? If so please email me: hn handle at gmail
I got a chuckle out of that. "Affordable" just means something different to LM. It will only cost 20x the space shuttle.
Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security spending are all within the discretion of congress to change or eliminate; the only difference between "discretionary" and "non-discretionary" is that the latter do not require annual appropriations. The "discretionary" v. "non-discretionary" divide is a fiction created for the convenience of the congress.
KW, like the rest of the 401 corridor, still has a huge industrial base, much of which is deeply involved with Detroit and the rest of the US manufacturing base.

The postindustrial side of KW may be the what gets all the PR and kudos, but as a whole, in terms of pure economic output and employment, manufacturing is still a substantially greater influence in the region.
The only thing I am disappointed is no subtitles/transcripts for the videos. Unless I overlooked it?
We certainly should not be under obligation to maintain bases in Europe. Those are relics of the Cold War and should be dropped.

Then comes the precious carrier fleets. Damn big targets and essentially sitting ducks should we have an encounter with either of the supposed big baddies left, Russia or China. We have spent over three billion on just one new Destroyer class ship! I won't even touch the F35, an aircraft so compromised by committee it doesn't do what it needs to do.

So suggestions, leave Europe, leave Japan, and seriously give consideration to leaving Korea. The start dropping the surface Navy to something realistic, both in size and ability to defend it. In a world of UAVs and drones Carriers are merely a romantic throw back, like the Battleships before them.

As for what to do with the savings, entitlements need to be reigned in because none of the savings taken from the military are going to amount to squat until we reign in the welfare state. There too many support programs going on that fraud is rampant people are not being served. Worse many functions are also done at state levels again duplicating Federal work.

The Federal government should dole out money to states, not run the programs.
I can't believe how presumptuous every one is here. Let's just wait and see. The idea is completely plausible. I like to operate off of facts and right now we just don't have them.
There is something special about Waterloo. We noticed it a couple years ago.
Vinyl has a few properties that allow it to persist as a format.

First, magnetic tape deteriorates over time, so 8tr and reels have a physically limited lifespan. Secondly, playback technology for vinyl continues to improve, and due to the nature of analog recording, the quality of the sound in playback improves as well.

Old records played on new equipment sound better than they did when they were new (given equal condition of the physical object). CDs and MP3s, because they're digital and locked to a sample rate and bit depth, will only ever sound as good as they did when they were manufactured, speaker improvements aside. You simply can't squeeze any more information out of 16bit/48kHz the way you can out of an analog recording.

This is not to argue CD vs. vinyl or sound coloration or any of those cans of worms.
Can someone explain the following page please? (As in what's being demonstrated here.)

https://yoast.com/research/autocompletetype.php
The Verge, Year Two
Unless you verify against a PGP signature with trusted keys.
It's not about that. They say you cannot require the user to share personal info before using your app. Maybe it's because you are registering with a username and not an email.
I'm going to reinstall a couple of servers this weekend with 5.4. It generally is just a matter of printing out /etc/fstab, doing the install (I skip the upgrade on these), install some packages, and laying back down the configs and keys from source code control. It takes about 20 - 30 minutes to put these servers up (gateway, dns).

[edit] I should point out I've had a box running it before release to make sure that any changes are accounted for.
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In my industry (info sec, UK) most people consider 2 years to be the (permie) line. The farther below this you go, the more of a liability you start to look (it costs a lot of money, time, and effort to recruit - I don't want to be in a constant recruitment cycle). Conversely, if you're a "lifer" then you've got work to do to convince me I'm your next butt-groove.

For contractors, the length of time is less directly important, what I'm looking for are people who were extended from their original contract length a few times - this tells me that they're not just purely contract hopping (constant recruitment cycle again), that they're willing to stay in the right place (which I obviously believe we're offering), and that someone felt they were good enough in a previous role to try to keep them.
I think I've spotted the problem: you have an asterisk instead of an IP address. :|
Hey! We love it here. I chose it for family reasons initially but am happily settled in. We've found a fun talented and creative community at http://www.thinktankportland.com/ . There are pros and cons for sure. It's easy to get to NYC (just about an hour flight and the local airport is a breeze to use). But not as easy to get to SF (sadly no direct flights). We've got affordable housing, some good school systems, access to nature and the ocean and the beautiful maine coast, islands, amazing summers, lots of great people, and hardly any traffic at all.

Access to talent may not be as plentiful here as elsewhere but in a smaller world it is also easier to be found by prospective hires. If anyone out there is searching for software development jobs here in Portland, Maine they should be able to find us- although we've got lots of work to do there... But anyway, if you're interested in learning more about this area let me know what else I can tell you!
There is this:

http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/11/21/hong-kong-citizens-l...

Which is not a good way to live, but much much better than riding a bus.

Zoning and fire codes and whatnot means this may be illegal here. But really I think people here are more comfortable with homelessness than allowing uncomfortably affordable housing to be built.
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This guy, Stewart Baker:

"You ask me proofs that it works, I can show you proofs that the lack of it really fails"

That is so flawed from a logic point of view that I won't even bother.

"We can't be transparent .. we have to get comfortable with the idea that we're delegating to somebody.."

There are two things here:
1) Most people agree that we can't talk about the details of implementation of a strategy agreed to by the US people to defend our country. The problem is that the mass surveillance that we've heard of in the last 5 months is not exactly a "detail of implementation" is it? It's a whole gods damn strategy that the US people didn't directly agree to. (Now yes, it's a democracy, we elected representatives who agreed to this. So what? Our constitution doesn't give full power to our representatives. If they didn't think for a second that a question of that magnitude might require some public debate, they are wrong, period).

2) He talks about trust. The problem is that trust is not something that you just ask for. If you are corrupt, lie, cheat, and all around screw up for long enough, people will stop trusting you.
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It's an inevitable slide.

Some wanker tries to make a point by shooting a government officer, and they retaliate even harder. Now, patdowns as soon as you leave the vehicle, with gunpoint attendees at the airport front door.

Think it's outlandish? Just you wait.