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"seek out other people who are passionate about it"

ding ding ding ding ding. This is what networking is. Purposefully interacting with people whose passions, and goals overlap your own.

It saddens me that so many tech folks do exactly what you did: writing a screed about how networking is useless, in which you explicitly note that you networked, and that your network is responsible for all of your big career successes.
I find it cute that the server's IP address as available in the logs is assigned to an organization named "Digital Fortress Corp"
This story drives me crazy because it pops up on HN every 45 days!

Top instances from Google search:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=161333

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4053296

For novelty, here is the noisy relative:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_(filmmaking)
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I'm your age, with a similar story, and completely understand where you're coming from. 25 years ago everybody wanted to hire me. Now it's depressing. I don't have a solution yet to getting hired into today's market where 6-figure income flow to kids performing skills it only took a few months to learn. Some ideas: (1) send your resume and practice interviewing with someone who will give you an honest respnose about why you're not getting offers (real companies won't give an honest response). (2) spend a couple of months putting up a free website on heroku with whatever are the "hot" products of the moment (arduino? raspbery? node? angular? go? mongo? zurb? etc...) then instead of a resume showing how old you are send a resume showing the stupid-but-well-paying stuff you can do with what's hot at the moment. (2a) put it all on github and show HN (3) go to meetups where the people you want to work with are and talk to them, show something in the lightning talk, and say you're looking for work. (4) go to hackers/founders things, buy beers, and say you're technical. (5) get tattoos, skinny jeans, and a skateboard, stop posting anything anonymously (nobody but old fogies believe in anonymity any more) and pretend you're only 20.

If ANY of those work, please let me know so I can follow my own advise.

As for school, only go if what you want to do is to learn more and if you think that's the way to learn.
I'm not the OP so I can't speak for him but here is why I think it's cool he posted it now:

1. not everyone is familiar with cryptology, actually the majority of people aren't.

2. IMO it is extremely relevant to the NSA. If there was complete transparency but an elegant system, we can have a secure country.
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This seems exaggerated.

"In the anechnoic chamber, you take away the perceptual cues that allow you to balance and manoeuvre. If you’re in there for half an hour, you have to be in a chair."

The average person can walk for more than a half hour with loud headphones on without falling over. People use float tanks and other sensory deprivation methods for an hour plus, all the time.
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This program is largely focused on economic development in New York State outside of NYC. In NYC the program actually carries additional restrictions, while in Upstate NY it is easier for Universities to apply to designate space, and for companies be approved.

Unlike NYC, in Upstate NY rent and required salaries are lower - it's a great place to start a company (though I may be a bit biased).
I haven't run my own kickstarter but have admired a few close friends with theirs...so I'll just say this...unless you have a killer idea that's half prototyped...don't go to KS just yet. There's so much involved with editorial and in particular, video production...and that's not even counting the designing of the rewards...that you will spend as much time being a manager as you will in being a builder. If that's appealing to you, sure, but that doesn't seem like your current aim
Hearing only half a conversation is actually more grating than hearing a full conversation according to research (and my own personal experience):

http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/09/03/095679761038...

http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=its...

And if flights are anything like Amtrak, people WILL take the opportunity to have 3 hour phone conversations when they're on a trip if they can.
By the time I reached this post, the number of translation tiers managed to confuse me. To help others, here's a breakdown.

Notation: T[A,B] : Translates from A to B

The OP wants to develop T[C, Go]. The question is which language should T[C,Go] be written in?

Option #1: If T[C,Go] is written in C, then it can use an existing C parsing library to parse C and then emit Go. Here parsing will be easier, but emitting Go will be laborious to write in C (since C is very low level).

Option #2: If T[C,Go] is written in Go, then the parent claims that C parsing will have to be freshly developed in Go. This will be a pain but the Go emitting code will be easier to write in Go.

However, I think the problem with option #2 (parsing) can be avoided if one uses the parsing library that is assumed to be already available in C. Since Go can interface with C code[1], the parser need not be reinvented.

[1] : http://golang.org/cmd/cgo/
Is there a place where I can read the source of the OCaml Rust compiler?
I've used anechoic chambers of varying quietness for making high-quality voice recordings a handful of times in the last year. I have to say that the effect of being inside always surprises me. The air seems to have such an ethereal dullness to it, it's hard to explain. And even though everyone conversing in the room can hear each other in a literal sense, there is a constant feeling of your voice being lost and an inability to gauge the size of the room (probably the lack of echo reinforcement, I assume).

Maybe I'm overstating the experience a bit because I find it so interesting, but most of my close colleagues agreed it evokes a clear emotional reaction.

EDIT: I should say I've done this very infrequently, so I don't make any claims about people being unable to acclimate or what kind of tolerance variance there is. We had a few subjects that didn't think anything of it at all. (Although they were much older; maybe tinnitus diminishes the effect.)
I wouldnt say "anti-american" but "anti-NSA"..

And its pretty deserved, and im saying that also as a brazilian, cause: would you trust in the software, hardware and firmware of those after all we know about the NSA revelations? worse yet , if you think you dont have access to the source code, or to modify any part of it, as a pure blackbox..

Would you trust your country safety and security to something that its very likely to be a trojan horse(somehow), after all we know now?

How can you trust your defense to something or somebody you cant trust at all?

(and lets not forget that Embraer was on the NSA espionage files too)

So, this is not "anti-american", but a pretty wise decision.. forgeting all the politics involved in the case..
Its pretty rational
I would not be the one to ask. I don't understand the details of the protocol. All I could describe is the general idea of a cryptocurrency.
> ifconfig was deprecated on linux long ago. While it is compatible with other unixes, it doesn't really map onto the capabilities of the modern linux stack well.

Long ago? Centos 6.4 still has it. My Mac (BSD) has it. I never suggested that it is stupid to add software (ip) that is better, but why would they deliberately remove it when it is such an expected command and works across other unixes? I have trouble believing that it consumes much disk space.
"flexibility" is the same reason for why we have software designs that are many times more complex than necessary, an IMHO it's a line of reasoning that should be questioned more.

As a compromise, the indicator could be wired-OR: software can turn on the indicator if it wants to, and it gets turned on if the camera is on, but software cannot turn it OFF if the camera is on.
There is a large communication overhead to this. You have to start a new project, which could take months to develop.
In the meantime you still need to maintain the current compilers, fix bugs and make improvements but all that effort becomes wasted.
People stop working on the old code base because your new code base is more fun so it suffers and eventually you end up with a not-yet working new project and a broken buggy old project.

With a translator work doesn't have to stop on the current compiler code base while the new version is developed, all that effort is saved and bugs are automatically fixed in both places so you don't have to maintain and synchronise two bug trackers.
But a prosecution under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act would be neither, and far worse for OP.
It dropped rapidly in the first few days too http://www.asx.com.au/asx/research/companyInfo.do?by=asxCode...
Sorry. Old news. Discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6930258
It's not like they have much choice -- they're bound under the DMCA to do so. In fact, GitHub's probably one of the best companies about this sort of thing with their full transparency.
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Things like this are sort of like seatbelts and helmets: you usually don't need it, but when you need it, you REALLY need it.
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Didn't sound like the U.S. killed off Avro, as much as a new Canadian PM did.

But the U.S. did scoop up the ex-Avro employees to bootstrap their fledgling space program.
How much energy will that transition save? How much of the total energy footprint is used in lighting?
I don't understand why webcam indicator LEDs would ever need to be controlled by software.

I know of one Logitech USB webcam that has this issue. Turning the indicator off is as simple as:

$ uvcdynctrl -s 'LED1 Mode' 0
Are you talking about this quote?

> As if millions of users are suddenly going to forget about cat, head, tail, more, less, grep, awk, sed, fmt, etc. etc. that are only still useful if you learn how to journalctl and convert those binary logs back into plain text.

How does one use a GUI with cat, head, tail, more, less, grep, awk, etc? If they are needing to use normal unix commands, why could you think they have access to a UI?
Charge a not-inconsequential fee for in-air calls so that people only use it if it's absolutely necessary. Perhaps make the charge go up exponentially with time so that calls remain brief.
Indicator LEDs usually just dim (unnoticeably) over time. Catastrophic failures do occur, but tend to be more likely with high-power torch/backlight LEDs that are driven hard to produce the most light rather than indicators which are operated at "visible but not too bright" levels. I have a keyboard from '86 and its numlock LED is still working perfectly fine after nearly 3 decades.
I find it humourous looking at some oldschool grep commands that grep for 'username' and 'password'... but the first letter might be capitalised, so you grep for 'sername' and... 'ssword'. Because 'assword' is too rude for code, apparently...
You need to factor in speedups due to advances in factoring algorithms, too. And it's possible that the software doesn't have any options between 2048 and 4096. (I have no idea, I didn't check.)
Interesting development, but to be a bit crusty, statements like:

"It is easier to write correct Go code than to write correct C code."

and

"It is easier to debug incorrect Go code than to debug incorrect C code."

and

"Go is much more fun to use than C."

Really are very subjective and don't add much beyond setting a POV for reading the article.
That makes sense. I didn't realise it expired in as little as 3 months.

If you need to do this regularly, I recommend keeping an eye on slickdeals.net, as people post there whenever T-mobile do their free or 99 cent sim promotion. IIRC you can order two sims at a time, and it seems like you get a cryptic error message if you've ordered a free sim from them in the previous 12 months.
I've been in one of these before briefly, and I'll agree it immediately affects your balance - in a way that wearing headphones doesn't. Not sure why, perhaps the brain only uses these cues below a certain threshold of sound.

That was in a chamber with the lights on, and only for a few minutes. I won't discount the possibility that after a half hour it could be very difficult to maintain balance.
And those guys were our elite rocket scientists...

It's sad so many died in the accident, but engineering and rocketry are notoriously unforgiving.
Clearly, being (viewed by employers as) a jack of all trades is bad. You cannot present that on your resume. Sending out resumes to posted openings - a waste of valuable time. You find a position you're interested in, then you portray yourself as Mr. Whatever that is, because that's who they want to hire. Emailed resume doesn't cut it, you gotta get face to face w/a decision maker.

Different job requirements, different resume, tailored to those job requirements. Don't lie of course, but you can spin a long way without lying. Not qualified, it doesn't really matter. Someone like you, you're smart you'll figure it out. You need to make a good impression and that's it. Acting like you don't need their job can be helpful too, but there's a way to do it - without coming off the wrong way.

I wouldn't put too much stock in what a recruiter tells you (or most others for that matter). Free advice sucks almost all the time (except on HN :), and worse than not helpful it can be harmful. If I'd listened to recruiters about what jobs I could and couldn't get it would have cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years.

Best to keep your name off the Interwebs. You have to control the information flow to the world about yourself. There's services that will help scrub your name off sites, I don't know if they work or not, but I can say when you Google yourself, you want the first couple pages to show up exactly what you want to show (or put there yourself).

Now view this as a good thing.. Most hiring is mostly completely subjective and based off whether someone likes you or not. That's really what's going on. Eventually someone is going to like you, so you will find a job eventually if that's what you're after.
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I'd like to visit the Bay Area in January, and stay around for three weeks or a month. Does anyone know of a cheap place (like a hostel) to sleep over?

I just need a couch or bed to sleep in, and some restroom to shower in. I don't really care about anything else -- so anything really dirt cheap would be fantastic! :-)
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> Services die? Oh well, I guess they'll just stay dead. At least systemd has a wrapper that restarts them.

If services dies, there is a problem that is still going to exist after restarting.
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Sounds like what you're talking about is decision theory. Or, when mixed with learning: reinforcement learning. The monte carlo AIXI approximation would be an example. But, it really only works well on small toy problems (I.e. problems where the agent has only a small number of available actions it can perform).
Yes, this is the thing. If you are living at a US/UK standard or slightly below, DO NOT waste your time on Elance or ODESK. These sites are not designed to employee US workers.
"wrote everything else." - very nice
My favorite instances of transit chatterboxes have occurred in Italy. Pedestrians and those on trains, on their phone and very "vocal" with their hand gestures. It made for amusing people watching.

Personally, I don't care either way about voice calls on flights at this point. Aside from when my wife and I are traveling and trying to converse, I am usually fully checked out with my in ear monitors and music/video, so I rarely hear much -- I have to remove the IEM to interact w/ airline staff for things like drinks, food, etc.
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The consensus always seems to have been that it's "unfilmable," especially with locations like the Gouffre Martel, a vast underground prison complex kept in total darkness. I always figured that part was easy, though: just film in infrared.
The Stars My Destination stood out for me as something entirely different of it's time. A particularly memorable passage even featured ascii art!

I too once thought that it would make a great movie. Thought the same about Ubik too. Now, my feeling is to just let these classics be.
The article's second bullet visualized in a clear/simple manner: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNILpXWNirY
It's also cheaper to "just do it in software". Some laptops will seriously overheat if left turned on without an OS loaded, because the *s that designed them didn't even bother to hook up the temperature sensor to the fan controller and left the "hook up" to OS-level drivers.
Yes, and a dessicant, like silica gel, to absorb moisture.
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They challenge people to do this in the dark - you would also lose the visual cues. (I struggle to maintain balance in the dark anyway - don't know about you.)
Is there a staging server I can have root on?
If someone wanted to add mount support to this, which of these would be better?

1. FUSE Python: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/fuse/?title=FUSE_Pytho...

or

2. pyfilesystem https://code.google.com/p/pyfilesystem/

I've seen FUSE Python used in some different projects on github, and it seems to work pretty well. I'd not heard of pyfilesystem until recently.
What types of files might one actually want to upload to their servers? This falls into the "cool" category for me more than making me want to try it (especially since you can't delete files you upload...)
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Although I share your sentiment in this regard there is something you have overlooked IMO.

Now I can't put my finger on it exactly but... Spreadsheets.

Seriously.

Spreadsheets are most likely the original reason that anyone ever needed a PC.

MS certainly did not miss that boat and a large part of their dominance today is centered around Excel and more recently SQL.

The OS is almost incidental.

MS does understand that value of being able to store and exploit data.

I hope I have put my point clearly enough, I'm aware that I haven't articulated it very well at all.
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I disagree with the law, but why be upset over this specifically? Of course there are going to be false-positives and false-negatives. A half-hearted approach to manually blacklist sites would be trivial to get around, thus defeating the purpose.
Hey, I'm one of the authors. In fact you can delete a file. Just "view" it in the app and it gets deleted. What you can't do is delete it from the command line!

As for your "is this useful" question, I use it to send files to myself, my friends, and other computers, since it's a bit like asynchronous SCP. But of course YMMV.
To be fair, at this point it is too late to reverse the situation and name things appropriately, specially due to the fact that "cracker" is a well known slang for something else... Using the appropriate terms at this point would just confuse people.
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It's annoying that there's a similar sounding but totally unrelated Kirchhoff's circuit laws from ee; the really crazy thing would be using secure multiparty computation (circuit evaluation...) to show some kind of artificial relationship between the two laws (in that one special case), just to troll people more.
From a casual glance over the list of cases brought under CFAA[1], that would be completely unheard of, and seems contrary to the spirit of that law. If I'm reading correctly, it hasn't ever been used to punish someone who wrote software, only people who have used software to allegedly exploit servers. Therefore the users of this tool would be at risk, not the author.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act#No...
One of the most interesting parts of this code to me was the switch statement in the main loop. Professionally, I have run into programs that have massive switch statements with hundreds of cases in them, which I've always considered a "code smell". Your approach is interesting -- breaking everything up into logical groups, putting them in separate files, then using the preprocessor to put everything back together -- that's the first time I've seen that.

I'm still not sure how I feel about it -- you could argue that you have the same problem, but now it's spread out over many files. At the same time, I can look at the loop and have a pretty good idea of what it does and I can easily find what I'm looking for. I guess without OO, there isn't a great solution to the problem, although yours is probably a slight improvement, with the added bonus of getting me to think about the preprocessor in a new way.

Good work.
It was probably linked from something else on the current front page.
Degrees don't help as much in getting a job after 30. Getting degrees just makes the shitty software mobsters angrier. You're going to want to find a job through personal connections. A university is a great place to make personal connections.
Thanks for the reply, and I can see that just a few minutes ago you clarified the wording in the readme, which was my next suggestion. Definitely a cool tool, I'll definitely try it out now that I know "viewing" it deletes the file still (makes perfect sense). I figured it'd be good for temporary file storing & sending, just was a bit worried about leaving permanent copies on their servers.
OK, I stand corrected. Where is that? (just curious)
Did you try airbnb and couchsurfing?
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Large social websites can be a big waste of time if you do not use some useful and strategic tools to automate tasks, or you will find you are spending time on small issues and not concentrating on the more important ones. Take a look at some great ways to render your account self-sufficient and keep up with conversations easily.
Can you actually get a cell signal in an airplane? I guess you can or this wouldn't be an issue. I've never been able too in the few moments before I turn airplane mode on.
I think it's a 50km spacing grid over the ocean. There are multiple satellites, so they get multiple scans per day. Also, they might ingest the data into a model, and report the model outputs, so this could enhance temporal resolution.

Another issue with in situ sensors is calibration and uniformity. Unless they were installed by a central authority, they are likely to all be different. This makes analysis harder.
A lot of the commentary here is just shifting around the definition of networking--anywhere from attending public meetup events to "people skills".

The useful realization for an entrepreneur in a place like Silicon Valley is that networking is increasingly a commodity. The social graphs are so much more open and connected than before that anyone you'd want to meet is just one or two hops away. Thus, time and attention is better spent not on networking, but on the harder task of being a person of value to the network, so that other people will want to network with you.
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A compiler with no unions is surprising. At least for parsing, I've found unions to be almost indispensable.
Care to show any Apple laptops that don't have built-in webcams?
Fair enough. Just let me be angry, darn it!
Fortunately trains can be separated in to quiet cars.
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New security measure, from now on I will only allow our user to use their PCs in this room.

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