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As someone who is about to reenter the job search after 7 years at my current place, this resonates with me. 7 years ago I was young, carefree, and had a lot of free time. I spent a good deal of that time coding and releasing code because I could and I enjoyed it.

Now I've spent 7 years building a great product, accomplished more than I could have imagined, learned much more than I thought I had left to learn, and am generally happy with what I've done and the decisions I've made. However, in the meantime life has moved on. I feel like I have a lot to offer, however I feel totally out of place when looking for jobs.

The details why I haven't been able to code as much as I used to, or why I haven't been able to release what I have coded are not that important. That's just the way it is right now. With that in mind, it is very discouraging when most jobs expect to see my personal and professionally embarrassing github account.

I'm not complaining, it's still totally up to me to present a good resume and showcase what my strengths are, and I can do that. I've also decided to use this as motivation to learn something new, and build something with it.
In a year Rust is like C with a better type system and ML syntax. Not that interesting as a language anymore, but more useful in practice.
There is JNA, though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Native_Access
We've regulated the hell out of stuff and left bits relatively unregulated.

Hence, more money going into bits. And more instant billionaires. Also no cure for cancer, or flying cars or (insert 1950's projection of the 21st century here).

edit: I'm borrowing Peter Thiel's "bits and stuff" metaphor here.
I think the subsidies make this worse. When you hand over $200 for a phone, it doesn't feel like it's a $650 piece of equipment.
Looking at the bitcoincharts link, why is the going rate a MtGox (~440) so much higher than BitStamp (399)?
Why do most people think the founders still have a saying in this?
nice try, nsa
Now that YC has worked with at least one nonprofit, do you have any suggestions about how this post might translate to that field?
To clarify: It's my right, if I so choose, to keep my salary and any other personal financial information private from the rest of the world (minus of course, my employer and the IRS). So your releasing that information is a violation of my privacy.
Great writeup! I enjoyed reading it. As someone who moved to the Bay Area last year, I think most American systems are geared toward utterly fast and effortless everyday use at the cost of steep initial learning curves.

Which probably makes sense, I take the Caltrain everyday and almost 99% of the passengers on the express trains are everyday seasoned commuters.

Airports on the contrary are geared toward first-time use rather than everyday efficiency -- which sounds sensible too.

However, none of this explains the awful analog Caltrain ticket machines.

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Fairly obviously because you're saying those in this thread have some kind of inside track on the future of BTC.
It's definitely not a fair price at 0.83 per hour.

That's >1,500 a year PER USER for a typical business app

No way this is going somewhere at the current fare imo.
You can't borrow bitcoin right now.

The only way to go short is to use sketchy futures and options exchanges.
As a practical matter, with limited data, you can't do A/B testing. You have to just move forward, guessing on each step -- yet carefully tracking whether the change brought an improvement.
Sounds to me a little like the Semantic Web and something like Heroku together as a cohesive system. Sounds okay!
It's funny, because I don't think it's the same. And I think this is a good example of why I don't agree with the article.

Even in 2nd and 3rd grade (American elementary school system), any time we had a "spelling test" I got 100%. The first time I looked at any word, I remembered how to spell it perfectly. To this day I still have the ability. I can read a 5,000 page essay and immediately notice every typo and grammar misusage; and when writing anything myself, the only reason I ever misspell a word is due to an accidental typo, not a result of forgetting the correct spelling.

I saw many classmates struggle with trying to remember the correct spelling of various words, and I never had to do any of that.

However, in contrast, I've always had to put in much, much more effort than some of my peers to properly grasp math concepts. Some people could basically be introduced to a concept once. I wonder if this may be due to dyscalculia on my part, becuase the math I struggle with the most is basic arithmetic and algebra; I'm ok with the more advanced concepts, generally, except when I have to do the real number crunching.
Rate-design wars are the sound of utilities taking residential PV seriously
What separates the "billionaire entrepreneurs" and the "other entrepreneurs" is that the billionaire entrepreneurs know something others don't (market insight).

With this being said, I believe if you knew something others didn't understand you would not be doing a) or b).
> I shall continue to believe that you're blowing smoke.

Well fuck off then, we're done. I'm not going to waste my time reiterating Microsoft's crimes to someone's who apparently blind to them and continues to throw out red herrings.
So the key is never to keep the private key decrypted, anywhere. And to make it extremely hard to brute-force.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0038

You could also split/shard it into pieces where M of N pieces are required to reconstitute the original key.

http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/
Wish it had Mercurial support, but at least it has TFS.
If being "like java" was so important, then why didn't it just straight up lose to "actually java"?

I don't think that JS+DOM beating flash/java has much to do at all with "gee, this looks superficially like java, but is different enough to trip me up in rather weird ways".
Isn't there something in the Windows (the client versions I think, not the server versions) license about the end-user having to at least own the hardware the OS is running on if the OS is offered via Desktop-as-a-Service? And if not, then having to have a full license (not discounted) outright / that cannot be time-shared?
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It'd be more interesting to see if a CA would issue a cert for something.local — sadly, you're probably right to fear the worst…
There was more to the article than just that, like the fact that some people seem to think hiring decisions should be greenlit only if that person has shown a willingness to work outside of normal work, for free, which changes contributing from OSS to be a thing people do out of passion to a thing people do because of an externality.
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Can you say where `go fmt` gets it wrong -- give an example. Or where a consistent formatting has gone wrong, in any language? I prefer 2 space python, but I don't have a better reason than my team, as a majority, prefer condenser line lengths, but it can be a problem having to gear up to work with a lib that follows PEP8 to the t.
> IE on XP

In this case, that's also going away hard next year when Microsoft discontinues support for Windows XP. At that point it'd be really tempting to suggest switching to Firefox or Chrome, both of which do support SNI.
Serious? I have like 2 of those bottles in my closet on 5 feet away from me.
Someone always brings it along from Brussels... (live in Belgium), so this is quite awesome. Really didn't expect this :-D

Great hot spicey sauce!
Wow. That opening tweet: "Advice received on hiring software devs: reject anyone who doesn't have a @GitHub profile (the more active the better). Agree?"

It is terrifying that anyone would ever think that was a good idea, let alone someone respected enough to have 128K Twitter followers. How much more plainly can you say "we're not interested in anyone who wants to spend evenings and weekends with friends and family"?
That works out, if individual cores are nice and low power. An 8-core 600MHz, for example, would really live up to that ideal. But a 1.2GHz 8-core?
Aha! Physical fluids aren't Naiver Stokes, which is just a continuum approximation that was invented before atoms were even a scientifically established idea. Which of course you know already, but it means it is begging the question a little to say "you might be simulating something but it sure ain't a Navier-Stokes fluid".

For Galilean invariance, I've previously waxed philosophic about why I think that's a feature, not a bug (at least, pedagogically): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5931434
What is your job role? What technologies do you use to fulfil that role? 
What resources would you recommend to become proficient in those technologies?
Why Ben Rooney is wrong. A response to "How Entrepreneurial is Europe?"
My very speculative theory is that lots of "bandwagon miners" who started GPU mining after the price spike of April were unloading their coins as quick as they were making them therefore keeping the price sort of stable.

But now, with mining being 50+ times harder only serious miners with their multi-TH rigs are earning any significant amount of coins and they are likely holding to them.
I think programming is much easier to "learn on your own". I would define "learn on your own" as without an instructor - so with books, tutorials, etc.

Two reasons:
1. The desire to create something or solve a real problem

2. The interpreter
Or pretty much... all engineering.
If you thought that article was only about sexism, you need to go back and read it again.
What's a TWC? Where were you?
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Having "product, customers, revenue, and whatnot" does not a successful startup make. You have to continually execute, improve, and grow at a very high clip. YC is probably one of the best, if not the best, resources for advice and direction on how to do just that.

Startups are so hard you have to take every bit of help you can get.
Warm intros have a built in safety net, too. In a downside, the credibility of the referrer helps to blunt the damage to the VC's reputation. Also, the potential upside from other deals coming through that system, which is lost or diminished by non-investment, offsets the immediate loss. These are some important political dynamics. So, as a result...its not just the "information" efficiency that is at play.
Users would not use this 24/7.
Oh yeah? Is it a new Segway?
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I was referring to James Joyce's magnum opus, which is short of newlines, not to the Greek epic.
It is actually quite easy to integrate your app/game into AppStream, with minimal changes to the code. EVE Online integrated their Character creator in 3 days, with a team of 5 people, and they had to add touch.
Oh can you finally top up Clipper at the friggin station?!
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In a single line I can get solutions to complex problems that would take days in Ruby, Lisp or Haskell. It is the same distance again as Lisp is from C.

In fact, many of the failures you see write-ups on HN I've been able to model and solve in a few minutes with MMA. In particular the rap genius Heroku queue issue.

Can you elaborate and/or provide a thorough example of this? I'm curious.
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> We think this product will be extremely useful to high-level athletes since it will allow you to optimize your training by quantitatively measuring and tracking the impact of different exercise regiments on your muscles. You'll be able to see when you're plateauing, for example, so you know it's time to incorporate some muscle confusion.

You know literally nothing about strength training.
I was hoping to sign up to their training program using our Microsoft Partner Network MSDN but alas that is also excluded :(
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Is the language Mathematica and Wolfram | Alpha now use not called the Wolfram Language?
Hey, isn't any service that people are willing to pay for something that "helps humanity"?

What's with the greentech/meditech/charity work?
It is irrelevant that you have seen this article before. I, for one, have not -- like many others judging from it hitting front page -- and I really enjoyed the article! Thanks for resubmitting!
Existing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6726070
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Thx for the warning. I was unaware.
Thing with Amazon is that when it enters a market segment, it drives the price at a point where no competition can stand in the long run.

That said, that's a service I don't understand who would wanna use. There's no place like 127.0.0.1 (or ::1)
Does this mean that the current investors of snapchat (or maybe the board members) also believe that snapchat is worth far more than 3 billion dollars? Basically, was it just the CEO of Snapchat who made this decision or were there others involved?
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What you call a "return ticket," Caltrain calls a "day pass." It costs twice as much as a one-way ticket, so is actually a good deal if you plan to ride the train back and forth all day.
That was the biggest "product release" disappointment I've had in my life. I was a naive kid ... huge fan of Kamen (actually, I still am a big fan of the man). IT was going to change everything!!! Bezos and a bunch of other big wigs are investing in it!!! I grew up a bit after that ...
Actually, I agree with you. But for some people at least, when your contribution to the human species is visible and direct, it makes a difference.
24/7 would probably get you fired
So what exchange should you use? And what type of assurances do they have in terms of not losing your money?
To cross check your claim about the author, I did:

1800 miles ~ 2000 miles
5280 ft/mile ~ 5000 ft/mile
So 10M ft / 2M underpants = 5 ft/underpant. 12*5 = 60 in/underpant, which is close to 57, so I trust your statement :)

I think this sort of "back of the envelope" calculation is something that just comes by practice/habit and is not some innate ability. I love this article by Jon Bentley on the topic: http://www.csie.fju.edu.tw/~yeh/research/papers/os-reading-l...
Turns out most men are social proof whores. They are much more likely to date somebody who has been introduced to them by a friend they trust.

Oh, and women too.

C'mon. Weak argument here man. Newsflash: We trust the people that... we trust.
Did you write your mappers and reducers in java using the hadoop api or does this translate into hiveql or some other higher-level language? Great job btw, this looks super helpful for the business types to get useful reports on their own rather than interrupt the workflow of someone with more formal training (huge issue typically).
Ben Rooney is wrong :-)
Go with a Short one. A Resume is a way of giving a basic idea about who you are and where possibly could you fit within their company/environment. Longer Resumes are hard to read. Employers do not want to sit through pages of a Resume that you might think is worth reading. They want "instant gratification" which means "is this candidate good enough to call for an interview" and nothing more than that. A long Resume would be great if it could decide whether you should be hired or not but that is not the case (barring some exceptions). So keep it short and simple. The bigger (read bloated) your Resume is, the more chance of the employer passing on it because they cannot find the bottomline.

"There's only so much interview time and a bad hire can destroy a team."

You can write anything on a Resume to sell yourself initially. A bad hire is not due to resume filtering capability but it is due to bad interviewing in person and depends on the judgement of the interviewer(s) at the time.
My impression is that Engineering majors take as many Physics and Math classes, but they tend to be more on the practical side.

For instance, a math major can take a bunch of set theory, number theory and topology that an engineer wouldn't see. The math major could also take a curriculum that is indeed more similar to what the engineer takes.
You're poking a $4B bear, so prepare for the C&D.
Are you talking about Sebastian Thrun's AI class on Udacity [1]? I haven't yet taken it, but I have on my todo list.

[1] https://www.udacity.com/course/cs373
Why and How H264 Won a Long Time Ago?
Sounds like an amped up Wolfram Alpha so more like...

A New Science Of Kinds.
That would be incredible. And they could use their test cloud infrastructure for automatic testing upon build..
To be clear, you wouldn't pay $100 to get half of his signing bonus at Facebook?

All of those factors (risks) have to be taken into consideration, and you price it as such. It's still a > zero figure.
Time Warner Cable. Probably.
Didn't Microsoft demo something similar a couple of months ago. Running halo on windows phone via cloud?
... but still being labelled a felon, who cant vote, and is a second class citizen.
Yes. They can already do this more reliably by disabling your domain name, though (not to mention your hosting).

Edit (T+16 minutes):

I said "more reliably" because not all TLS clients perform CRL or OCSP checks -- as mentioned in other comments -- so it's not 100% effective. Web browsers probably mostly all do, though. Certainly enough of them do that running a website with a revoked cert is impractical.

As for disabling your domain name, if you don't know, that really does happen. US law enforcement seizes domains on US TLDs (such as .com) all the time. Edit (T+23 minutes): ... and registrars have been known to cave to strongly-worded letters from civilians, too (see e.g. Go Daddy, MySpace and seclists.org several years ago).
We need a web in which information (both questions and answers) finds you based on how your attention, emotions and thinking interconnects with the rest of the world.

This article sounds like it was written by an ad.
The Mathematica language is usually simply referred to as "Mathematica", at least from what I can tell from my experience on mathematica.stackoverflow.com. Probably because the only frontend that allows doing actual work is the Mathematica software (excluding development of own modules).
It's not photo-oriented and you won't be able to browse your photos on-line. But we are building a secure long-term personal digital archive at http://longaccess.com/

We would appreciate any feedback, as you are obviously someone that could use our service once (very soon) it's commercially available.
Warning: snark ahead.

"The result is an inherently boring web of data. Google’s Knowledge Graph promotional video is a great example of how boring this web can be. “Let’s say you’re searching for Renaissance Painters”…. Really? Who searches for that?"

Somebody with a brain that is used for more than gross muscle control over a TV remote?

" I really don’t care what Leonardo DaVinci’s height was or which Nobel prize winners were born before 1945. I care about how other people feel about last night’s Breaking Bad series finale. How did they find the ending? What other series or movies might I enjoy based on those experiences?"

This made me throw up in my mouth a little.

I can understand that the author wants results to be more applicable to the everyday life of the searcher, but I don't see his vision of a Semantic Web any more useful than the current one.

Finding out what other like-minded people think about my favorite TV show improves the Web, and thus my life? Really?

I'm all for more accurate classification of online data. What I don't want is "boring" (in the author's words) data being pushed aside in favor of what somebody thinks is "interesting".

We've already got companies doing that, in the form of "targeted ads".
I work with smart people...Lots of smart people who make critical components for computers. Trust me, you still need desktop management, with corporate standard images.

By corporate baseline, I imagine it's corporate standard image with the standard loadout of software (encryption, antivirus, office, etc)
Hackaday gives a nice synopsis, but the meat is here:

http://www.righto.com/2013/11/the-z-80s-16-bit-incrementdecr...
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Maybe Wolfram Alpha will receive a bunch of bug fixes and finally move up to Beta version?

</joke>
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As a prospective employee, it's a good filter, though.
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> We're just saying games do better than other projects on KS.

Monetarily, sure. I'd be interested in knowing if games are successfully funded more overall, regardless of the actual funding amount, or if it's just that the money games get is larger.

> We assume people are interested in what succeeds on KS, so we're only talking about the top projects.

Well, people are interested in what succeeds, but that's different from what succeeds and what's popular. Most projects that succeed on KS fall short of your 100k minimum. How do games fair there. Is their a correlation between what a game asks for and whether it's success.

For example, it would be interesting to know if 95% of games fail if they ask for less than 50k, but over 100k, only 50% fail. And of course, their is the question of whose involved with these projects.

Anyways, I didn't mean to imply you are wrong, only that your perspective is just one perspective, and possibly self-selecting.
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> SSL has a significant number of required packet exchanges at startup

This is improving, however – see e.g. http://www.igvita.com/2013/10/24/optimizing-tls-record-size-...

> SSL blocks proxy caching

This is only true for involuntary transparent proxying, which is also a huge source of reliability problems. After seeing how many times JavaScript is broken or images are degraded by "helpful" ISPs I'm quite happy to change the model to something which requires the client to opt-in to enable a proxy.
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If you don't have time to read all of the way through, the "coming soon" portion is ready to take your e-mail at http://www.wolframcloud.com.
Are we about to reconcile gravity with quantum mechanics?
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Is the price of the g2.2xlarge instance included? I couldn't find that anywhere... that would be another .767 / hour.

They REALLY need a killer app here to demonstrate the use case where this is worth the price. You need an application that has very high computation needs that is being used on a platform with limited computation ability BUT has a solid internet connection (preferably low-latency, if you want it for "twitch" type gaming, but not necessary in all cases). The example in their video is a FPS. I don't think that's a good example, as it is way too expensive for that market.
I absolutely agree. I can see this article being reposted on HN in a few years as a laughable cautionary tale for unrealistic entrepreneurs. Snapchat gained a significant user base quickly with very few resources. The next popular app will do the exact same thing and curtail Snapchat's growth and prospects.