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Ask HN: How to find a full-time job as an iOS Developer
Hi HN, I have decided to pursue looking for a full-time job as an iOS Developer (preferably in Southern California, as that's where I live now).

I am currently freelancing, and I really just love to build iOS apps, but I want more structure in my life. I want a 9-5 (or similar) type of job where I can work on my side projects after work and on weekends.

I know that iOS Developers are in high demand right now, but I'm not sure where to start. I have two apps in the App Store, have backend experience using Parse, and am 20 years old. I'm willing to move anywhere in California, and am open to other places.

- I know Objective-C & iOS Development some Java & Python, and Object-Oriented Programming in general.

- I have backend experience using Parse

- I am familiar with many open-source libraries

If you would like to get in touch, you can email iosdev4job@gmail.com .
The blogger who suggested this hypothesis a few months ago has a new post, with a stylometric analysis of the writings of some cryptocurrency people:

http://likeinamirror.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/occams-razor-w...

(a smaller score mean a closer match. Not sure what scores stand for precisely).

Word length distribution

Diff Nick Szabo / Bitcoin: 0.160
Diff Wei Dai / Bitcoin: 0.241
Diff David Chaum / Bitcoin: 0.257
Diff Adam Back / Bitcoin: 0.337
Diff Hal Finney / Bitcoin: 0.510

Character frequency distribution

Diff Nick Szabo / Bitcoin: 0.191
Diff Wei Dai / Bitcoin: 0.208
Diff David Chaum / Bitcoin: 0.228
Diff Hal Finney / Bitcoin: 0.284
Diff Adam Back / Bitcoin: 0.342
Nigger, can't get your head around NIST random number beacon. Fucken retard nigger.

It's a internet radio station that generates a batch of random numbers once every minute and broadcasts them. You can check their archive if you have a Unix time integer. I provide links to verify all my picks.

God says...
I_veto_that relax by_the_way oh_come_on rose_colored_glasses
service_sector naughty furious look_buddy it_was_nothing
I'm_on_a_roll other face_palm revolution huh love
He wasn't talking about just rent, you have to figure in food costs and medical costs etc. Though I do agree that you can make it on that much in certain parts of the Bay.
People just don't understand inflation/math:

"...$1.4 million; it’s a good time to sell, considering he bought the place for $627,000 in 2002."

Wow! Sounds huge right? Well, 12 years to double? That means it's a ~6% yearly increase. That's LOWER than medial bills, college education, & almost exactly what you'd get from any stock index (S&P 500) for that time period.
What's your plan to get votes in Fresno? Yreka? 29 Palms? Los Angeles? Barstow? Placerville? Encinitas? Santa Maria?

Can you find those locations on an unlabeled map?

California is a big state, with lots of constituents with lots of different needs. You'd represent them all.Do you know what those needs are?

Most of them couldn't care less about youth or startup experience.
Steam Machines are additive, they don't replace gamer's existing windows machines, they take those windows games and make them more accessible in the living room.

Over time as SteamOS gets more native titles it'll be able to run those natively.
> Wait, was that actually one the reasons Dorian was labelled as Satoshi?

She mentioned it, but the Newsweek storied mentioned that in the context of other (but unspecified) formatting quirks and not just double-spaces.
He said 35,000 in a small sample
So it's respectful to [...] talk about said person behind his back

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Sure. If you honestly respect them, then your words will portray that respect. If you don't respect them, then you maybe oughtnt to be making the intro in the first place.
Microservice architecture, as described, appears to be a SOA principles applied in a particular way (typically, to smaller units of functionality than are often considered with SOA), and with less baggage from association with WS-* standards (which, really, logically, aren't at all necessary to SOA, but have in many circles become so associated with it that its hard to say "SOA" without people thinking you mean "WS-*".)
Three point rebuttal to expect from your opponent (we play devil's advocate with each other in my company, nothing personal). I won't even smear you explicitly or lie outright.

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1a. Of course the Silicon Valley tech elite want to cut capital gains tax - they already offshore American jobs and American incomes through tax loopholes. This is just the latest in a long line of attempts to escape contributing their fair share to our state and cities. And the candidates suggestion of a week-long tax bracket has no bearing on reality, it will simply increase the complexity for already strained small businesses and make it harder for them to hire and expand our economy.

1b. The candidate has proposed a radical restructuring of our tax system to include time worked at a company - something already accounted for by raises due to hard work - making it expensive for California's workforce to move to better jobs. That sounds un-American to me. The candidate has yet to show a single shred of solid independent evidence that this is even a problem, let alone that he has a solution for it.

2. Here we have a first-time candidate suggesting that we simply redraw the political map of California - again. I'm sure that he and his party won't personally benefit of course. Let's not forget, the Citizens Redistricting Commission just finished their work a couple of years ago on the taxpayer's dollar, and California now has some of the most competitive districts in the nation. We should focus on real issues facing our state, not tweaking lines on a map.

3. America is a great democracy, the greatest the world has seen. We have to make sure we take care of that, and steward it for the future. Lowering the voting age might seem noble, but it opens the floodgates to coercion, to intimidation in schools and homes. We should focus instead on engaging our young people with civic duty and the political process.
I had a friend who bought a house with an elderly renter and she ended up going through months of running around to find her a new place to live. I imagine that some locales make relocating an existing renter easier or harder but it can clearly be a real nightmare. Obviously it's not pleasant for the elderly renter wither but I'm not sure I see the reasonable alternative.
For those about to jump on the downvote bandwagon, I think the argument here was poorly phrased but might actually makes sense:

> [Despite the fact that Unity supports building native linux binaries] I haven't seen ANY Unity devs commit to making native linux ports rather than just using Unity [to build binaries for the usual platforms]. Until SteamOS can make it as simple [to build native linux binaries] as Unity [already does], it's going to be a tough sell to [, at the very least,] anyone who is already using Unity [and doesn't build linux binaries, since this sizable population has already been given the choice to "check a box and build for linux" and declined].
Thanks for your ideas. I'm working on Doge integration soon. I do have a Doge address if you'd like to tip before I add it to the site. D6Sv3N5q6PpUq5VkqYQGJGzHwDdBuDwVpK . Thank you!
You may want to add a scheduler so that it isn't running in the middle of the night. I hate when I get a notification in the middle of the night, and implement this on my bots...
What does that change, except for forcing mom-and-pop inventors to go after GE?
He said 35,000, in a small sample
Szabo’s achievement is good news for me because we have a similarity. He was a law professor. They are not supposed to invent new and useful things.

Not saying he's wrong, but this reeks of confirmation bias.
> called Rocks (built in Python and shell scripts)

Regardless of if it "worked", I think mixing languages in an application is a bad idea, and should be avoided whenever possible. There are a few reasons,
1) maintainability - you're requiring anyone to know more things to maintain the application
2) Attack surface - lots of security bugs come in between boundaries between tools
3) Correctness - it's harder to automate testing

Did you have any sort of automated testing?

Just because shell scripts can do a lot of heavy lifting, doesn't mean they should.
Do you remember where you saw this?
Yeah, it's not very well thought-out. "The fact that patent holders are not required to go after the biggest perceived infringer or, more importantly, ALL infringers, and unilaterally get to choose infringers further proves the illegitimacy of software patents in the first place." [emphasis mine]. That patent law doesn't include this thing he just thought up proves that they are illegitimate (whatever that means in this context)? It doesn't follow. Does the fact that copyright litigation not require you to go after the "biggest" infringers prove its illegitimacy?
"The clincher, for me, is that he wrote an article about the emergence of money that is compatible with my theory of human evolution."

Apparently author really wants Nick Szabo to be creator of bitcoin because they have similar views.

Previous four reasons given are way better compared to reasoning used in Newsweek article, however it is still nowhere near enough to assert that Nick Szabo is Satoshi.
The point is that Newsweek is very likely wrong.
Can you give a link to where he's denied it? I haven't seen anything.
>Simply rm the file and handle the particular error case of the file existing by ignoring it

How do I differentiate to ignore one error and not others? Matching a string? What if this is supposed to be portable? Hard code strings for every version of rm ever made?

>What I'm finding is that most decent projects include idempotent ways to configure them

Those are modifications debian makes. Lots of software supports including files, which lets debian do that easily. But sudo has nothing to do with you having a sudo.d directory, that is entirely your OS vendor. And having that doesn't solve the problem. What happens when I want to remove X and add Y? You need to have the config be a symlink, so you can do the modifications completely offline, then in a single atomic action make it all live.
your last paragraph sums it all up the best it deserves more than just one +1. git is a tool to shape the codebase into a quality piece. i usually have about 8-12 private branches that needs others' commit before i can rebase and commit. in these branches i can test and play before anyone gets hurt.
Both the title and URL of this HN post need to change.
You have a point there. The article states he wants to introduce reminders to take a break, though that sounds like the usual excuse feature in such cases.
I feel like this game is a metaphor for buying SD cards.

Finally beat it, 20588.
Here's a positive article on SteamOS from InformationWeek.
http://www.informationweek.com/mobile/mobile-applications/wh...
"They can still play spoiler in the primary."

No, since there is a big difference between reducing a person enough in a general to lose versus keeping them from being one of the top two.

"Obviously, if ballot access or funds are still apportioned based on general election results, that's inappropriate."

Which they would be. Plus, party collusion that happens (see federal election commission) pretty much locks a third party out of the general.
"I have no conviction, if that's what you mean. I blow with the wind, and the prevailing wind happens to be from Vichy"
Evicting someone who doesn't pay rent is a loophole?

If anyone found a loophole here it's the tenant.
Yeah but instead of using pipes we add the overhead of sockets and HTTP traffic, joy!
Pi Day–Free Day at The Exploratorium (SF)
And I think you're significantly underplaying the technical and financial challenges associated with scaling up a mesh network.
I'm a third year student studying CS right now. This will be my third year participating. I don't tend to get very far in the rounds, but I've enjoyed the challenge of the ones I've worked on so far. Needless to say, I am very excited.
I wonder what he thinks about focusing on one geography vs. opening it up.
I think, more likely, it's Jed McCaleb. Also, I think a person who so carefully is trying to conserve his identity and was capable enough to come up with Bitcoin, will possibly hide his linguistic tracks as well.
RESTdesc. Semantic descriptions for hypermedia APIs.
What? The guy outs satoshi(supposedly) and then puts a plug in for his "Shangri-La Diet" as a great advance in health?
If you'd previously been living in Malibu for decades you might actually have a case.
The crazy thing is that San Fran homeowners have essentially tried to increase housing supplies in the past, by creating in-law units such as the one in the story. However, it's now more lucrative to get rid of them than to keep them on and collect rent on them. It would seem to make more sense for zoning laws to require multi-family homes (or in-law units), or at least to incentivize creating more of them. If there are 10,000 illegal in-law units, and say, the next mayor decides to crack down, rental prices will go up like crazy, even in places like the Tenderloin.
Google Inc (GOOG) has launched an add-on store for Google Docs and Sheets
Python vs Julia – an example from machine learning
If the law were changed overnight so the manufactures could sell direct, then I would expect the number of surviving dealerships to be very low. I would imagine it would be dealers in used and exotic cars that survive or rural areas that do multiple manufactures.

It is a local power thing, and I don't agree with it, but I also don't think anyone should get an unfair advantage just because they are new. That doesn't promote competition.
Why do you think this is a US specific issue?
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/11/mf_bitcoin/all/1

Wired, weirdly, didn't quote his denial. They just said he denied it. On his blog, he also suggested that Finney or Dai might be Satoshi.

I'm inclined to believe it's him. He's been writing about this topic passionately for years. Weirdly, though, he was still writing about "Bit Gold" and Hal Finney's attempt at an implementation in December 2008, after Satoshi posted the BitCoin whitepaper which is very, very strikingly exactly an implementation of his concept (with some major improvements, obviously), which he made no mention of.

He also seems so prolific on his blog - writing post after post of greatly historically informed academic research - that I just don't know how he would find the time to implement BitGold.

I also have not seen any of his other programming projects, and so I don't know whether or not he's a good enough C++ engineer to implement it successfully.

But of all the people so far he seems to be the best candidate.
If you provide me the function that takes a chunk of text and returns its truth value, I'll happily finish the aggregation service for you.

As a free bonus, I'll also filter comments for you.
I like this idea. You can learn a ton about behavior with a little traction.
We have piles of empathy. For the property owner.
So, if I had to go to court and the non-account signer said they didn't receive the e-mail and were not the one to sign it, what would you do to prove they were indeed the signer?
was kinda making a joke...oh well
GoAccess, a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer
You may be confused here. Copyrights are meant to protect the expression of an idea, not the idea itself.

Patents are meant to protect an idea - but it has to be the right kind of an idea. It has to be "how to do something", not "what to do". You can't patent the idea of a time machine; you can patent a specific way to make one.

But note well: That's the intent. The patent office has kind of messed up that intent by issuing a bunch of vague patents that never should have been issued.
Mt. Gox files U.S. bankruptcy, opponents call it a ruse
Gotta watch out for those edge cases!

I mean, those camera angles didn't reveal too much, but all of the shots he got were at the edge of the allowable region - barely over the net, hitting the table at the very edge, etc.
Isn't this why you should check-in dependencies to your source control?
Do you have a citation for this?

Every insulin pen "user guide" I've seen says "store unopened cartridges in a refrigerator; keep your pen at room temperature".

My girlfriend tells me she needs to keep her insulin pens in the fridge. We've also noticed that her blood glucose will fluctuate for strange and mysterious reasons. Your comment wrt thermal cycling rings true, and I'm wondering if the temperature change from constantly going from fridge (~5C) to her purse (~20C) and back, several times a day, might be causing this

The biggest problem with thermal cycling is that insulin pen cartridges, unlike insulin vials, aren't perfectly sealed -- the rubber stopper needs to be able to slide. As a result, when a cartridge is cooled and the liquid contracts, it will tend to draw a small amount of air into the cartridge. This will result in bubbles forming, and obviously injecting a bubble of air will be less effective than injecting insulin.

In young adults this is a nuisance more than anything else, since we're likely to notice bubbles, but in children (who don't understand the implications) or the elderly (who are less likely to notice this due to visual impairment) it can be a serious problem.

Assuming your girlfriend falls into the "young adult" age range, it's unlikely that her blood glucose fluctuations are caused by this; assuming you've ruled out monthly and diurnal patterns from endocrine causes, I'd look at diet -- protein in particular, since amino acid catabolism can dump glucose into your bloodstream at unexpected times.
So now you have a single home computer and a crappy 802.11 router serving the first week of House of Cards to everyone in New Zealand? Or, even worse, you have a BT net on the mesh which completely overloads whatever poor sap(s) happen(s) to be in the bridge in the graph?

And we haven't even gotten to any of the other problems, like address assignment, routing, etc.
Man.. not having been on OSX long discovering little things like this always puts a smile on my face, thank you!
Oh for god's sake, just because you don't understand what the word means doesn't mean you can use socialism for any government action in the economy. Rent control isn't stupid because it's redistributive or whatever you think "socialist" means, it's stupid because it arbitrarily redistributes from long-standing tenants (rich, middle-class or poor) to those who move more often (rich, middle-class, or poor), while introducing a massive amount of uncertainty and overhead for landlords and reducing the quality and quantity of housing stock. A little understanding of economics goes a long way; the fact that rent control is distorting the price mechanism per se is not the reason that it's retarded (by that logic, Pigovian taxes would be just as disastrous as rent control).
I'm against software patent law, but trying to legislate only suing up takes an awful thing and makes it even worse. People would construct multiple businesses around the premise of keeping each one smaller than the dominant player. It would take the existing bureaucratic nightmare and add an entire new level of complexity to it.
Probably because of all the Atom.io beta invites they just sent out, lol.
Ask HN: Favorite crypto and security blogs/newsletters/emailing lists
As high school student interested in cryptology and computer security in general, I've read a few books (both mathematically rigorous and not) about cryptography. However, I'd also like to keep myself abreast of all cryptology and software security developments. I'd also like to see some primers and introductions to different or novel concepts. I'm currently subscribed via RSS to:

* Schneier on Security ( https://www.schneier.com )

* Reddit Cryptography ( http://reddit.com/r/cryptography )

* Outsourced Bits ( http://outsourcedbits.org )

All suggestions (even books, magazines, etc.) are welcome!
Not true. Plenty of DirectX games work fine under Wine.
I haven't read the source code yet, so this might be off right of the bat. But from the general knowledge of minmax I think the end-game code might need some tweaking.

If there is a guaranteed win, the algorithm will find it. However, if there isn't any, how does it pick a path when it thinks it will lose every time?
Are all losses equal to each other? Are some better than the others? Could the elgorithm take the path with best chances where the most of the plays end up winning while only a few of them end up losing?
A limited subset would not be a complete implementation, yes.
Sellvana in LA
The mysterious eCommerce company, Sellvana, is beginning to surface. It's lead is one of the best magento developers out there.
Unfortunately that's not how antitrust laws work. How a company establishes a large market share is not a necessary concern in historical court cases. Merely that a company has a large market share seems to be the primary consideration.
SOA architectures are supposed to have formalized generic interfaces to services. EG: a standardized interface to a mailer, so you can pull out a mailer and replace it with another at will.

In practice, most "SOA" architectures are microservices.
I agree completely. I recognized it instantly and wondered how many people wouldn't.
Done! Did I win HN?
Statistical analyses rely on assumptions of sample independence and random selection that are pretty hard to justify with something like this. Are all the articles on the same topic? Are they written for the same audience? Are the works independent or is there copying and/or inspiration being shared?
Fred George posted talks on microservices, using Apache Kafka as a message bus to connect language-independent components for marketing and ad-targeting.

Interesting approach. I'd like to see examples of microservices applied to other domains.
If they have so many accounts, and they can automatically set them up to say something, couldn't it be part of the public opinion manipulation program?

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipula...
Huh. Maybe I know too much about journalism. But something titled "Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Speaks Out" tells me that it's an interview with a person... speaking out. In the flesh and everything.

The reporter talking about going to meet him, and how that Nguyen has agreed to share his story with Rolling Stone for the first time. It ends with Nguyen saying (present tense) that he's good now and talking about what he'll do in the future.

I just don't see how somebody could read this story other than as an interview with a living person.
To a large extent, I was replying to your wording. There is federal regulation. I was probably over-reading.
> He’s happy to sell their shares to others. He just wants to do so at a price that’s reduced from now.

You misunderstand how a short sale works. The intention is to buy at a lower price at a later date, not sell at a lower price at a later date.

Yes, the way our financial markets work, speculators on both sides must provide liquidity to the markets. However, presumably the net effect of his short selling (and any synthetic short positions he has acquired) is to reduce the stock price, thus reducing profits of Herbalife executives and those who have helped Herbalife raise operating capital by investing in the company in the past.

Now, if your contention (edit: "contention is") that selling Herbalife at a low price is an amoral act, that doesn't necessarily mean the converse (buying at a low price) is a moral act. I'm just saying your argument begins with a false premise: that his intention is to sell Herbalife shares at prices below current market price.

Also, it's possible for an action to be amoral and its opposite to simultaneously be amoral, but that's a difficult argument to construct well in general. Having argued that it's amoral for him to sell at a lower price in the future, it's difficult to construct an argument that it's amoral for him to buy at a lower price in the future without contradicting your earlier arguments.