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I'm another dev at KA.

Just wanted to chime in that we're also hiring general (not just mobile) devs, data scientist-engineers, general product designers, and interns in all of the above categories!
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Coursera has a lot of intro-level courses, but not really much in-depth stuff.

I remember being at the end of my degree and a bunch of us were sitting in the cafeteria complaining about how we hadn't learned anything. Then we realised that we were just talking about facts (and of which we had actually learned a lot - especially about underlying systems rather than factoids), but we had ignored a ton of soft skills in terms of research, collaboration, scientific procedure and rigor, self-expression, critique of other's work rigor, ethics, and plenty more I can't think of right now. In particular, it taught us how to learn further. This is a skill that a lot of people don't have. There are plenty of autodidacts, but they are definitely a small minority of people.

A smattering of online courses doesn't cover most of these items in the same manner or depth. It was certainly more than 'an old boys network', especially for me, since I have kept in contact with 0 people from those days.

Is it worth 300k? Maybe not[1]. But I didn't pay for a US university, and I've seen here on HN that there are claims that such sky-high figures are not the norm, and that there are plenty of ways to get cheaper degree-level education.

[1]Well, it was 'worth 300k' in a way - it changed who I was as a person for the better, and the way I look at new information. But I wouldn't have gone 300k into debt at the time. I did go about 40k into debt though (via HECS)
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Microsoft will be relevant again once they've hit rock bottom. Currently they're still digging.
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I could say the same about snail mail to a degree.

Plenty of start-ups have talked about how their thank you cards were "revolutionary." NextDoor is using postcards to validate addresses and for some good old fashioned marketing. Where else can we go back in time??? =)
I commend you for trying the switch to Linux :D
I am thinking about what it would look like if Canonical bought System76 and launched machines on which there was a developer focused OS where the manufacturer of the machine was also driving a standard distribution/api/eco-system. Let's call it 'Moon Microsystems' but what I'm thinking about is a company that sells desirable hardware to developers, and can provide solid developer support to software companies trying to sell to those developers, and most importantly assurances a road map and a migration strategy and durable APIs that last for years rather than months, and don't change at the whim of a couple of disgruntled folks unable to reach consensus. Where 'Moon' compatibility is a Thing and you can count on it.
It's now official: "April Fools: migrate Apache Subversion project over to the git repo" - best tech April Fools yet. Pure genius.
XML is a commonly-accepted tree file format.
Ah, I remembered that bit incorrectly. I should have gone back and read the article again in full. His having taken sides on that issue colored how I read and remembered the article.

I definitely did not walk away from reading it the first time with the impression that it was a simple illustrative example of how one might bring evidence into policy debate and how simulation can provide evidence when other forms aren't available. I'll try a re-read with that in mind, as I would have quite enjoyed that conclusion. Perhaps opponents to BI were able to get to that bit undeterred.

It might be that unassuming squiggly imprecise graphs might be only the beginning of the required revisions if that was to be the core takeaway.
I'm definitely thinking of making a graph based text editor.

I think I could work off of code-highlighting files to figure out where to break code out into different nodes.

Then, I would look for matching terms in each node, and make connections. Connections could also be made based on containment (part of a class, or a child function, or a where clause).

One hotkey to follow a connection to it's destination (and select that node). Another to pull it in and make it share the screen with the current node (and select it). Pressing the "pull in" key would push a node off the screen if it were already on screen.

Of course, maybe you would only want to explode some of your code as nodes. You could highlight part of you file and hit "explode" to break it out into nodes for a minute.
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Sorry about that! We're in New York, and currently we're not hiring remote but we will help the right candidate relocate.
Ask HN: Tsunami app suggestions
For the last two weeks, I've been working on a Tsunami app that displays messages from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center. Currently I have a list of messages, and when you tap on a message, it displays a screen with half map and half web view:

http://imgur.com/a/0qpke

Instead of starting with a full list of texts, how would the experience be with the first screen as a half map and half list and when you tap on a message, it displays a full web view?
I agree with all the nice things you say about Scott.
He is an amazing guy. I had a chance to talk to him briefly
many years ago and it left a solid impression.

That said, given his place in the organization as of late,
I would be inclined to believe that he has minions who
handle these things for him now. To keep up the cult of Scott.

I dont mean that in a negative way. In fact I think its great.
We still get answers :) But I think everyone who knows Microsoft a bit from the inside now that their executives work very hard and long hours. Scott only has the same number of hours available as the rest of us. (I think).
I will never understand why someone would falsify claims in such a way when the time will eventually come to back them up.

Are they hoping that in the interim they will be able to progress far enough to reach the goals they are trying to reach?
It seems to me that this tech-gadget trend based on 80's cyberpunkish fiction will fail. Geeky futuristic sentiment without practical value doesn't succeed at a big scale (except maybe in japan where they love talking toilets and robot pets?).
In other words; popularity of smartphones and the internet shouldn't be confused with techno-fetichism.
I lived in LA for 7 years and experienced a few 3.0+s on older four-floor or so apartment complexes. Now I'm living ~7 miles away from a fault in the bay area.

Always have water and supplies.

And I hope ad-hoc/mesh wireless networking technology takes off sooner rather than later.
http://www.wired.com/2014/03/apple-multipeer-connectivity/
Disagree with all the people saying you own 50% of it, or, really, anything of it.

Note the poster says straight up he at least implicitly agreed the other owns 100%, and that he did the project as a learning experience.

On the other hand, don't sign anything like this, there's absolutely no upside, plenty of gotchas (albeit, at least if your country's contract law is like ours, it'll be unenforceable because of a lack of "consideration", see the "no upside", but that can be expensive to prove), and no previous agreement to do it.

Keep your end of the bargain, deliver your stuff, and let her have a learning experience about how far one can take a dead body of code and her attitudes towards the creators of such.

Not to mention probably not getting the IP rights locked down. If you have no agreement on that, mark it copyrighted by you, and give it to her like that.
I'm not sure how much truth there is to that post since I haven't done any due diligence myself, I just remembered seeing it a while back.

From the top comment in that thread, it looks like the company with insurance underwritten by Lloyd's is Elliptic.
In my state (New York), there is a sales tax exemption on all goods that are intended for resale, so in your case, only the customer would pay sales tax, and you would not.

However, you have to register with the state to collect sales tax in order to be allowed to buy things without paying tax.
When I was thinking of the question that I posed, I had engineering in mind. The link was interesting though, thank you.
I'm pretty sure it would be illegal for 4aaS firms to use the data they get through this service to front run the market.
Brilliant!! Like how the landing page explains the fees clearly and how it works.
Well it was just closed as Not a Problem and "April Fools" was added to the title.
Wait, nobody does ECC client certificate TLS right?
I'm curious - can't doctors tell if people are asleep/unconscious by shining light into the eye to look for dilation? Why wouldn't that also wake them?

And on another note, it seems like emergency alarm systems should alert people in a number of different ways. Apparently it's not unusual for kids to sleep through regular household smoke detector alarms.
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Yeah, it was a joke. [0]

A pretty long one at that.

[0] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-7524?focusedComm...
It seems you are a sucker. (With the utmost respect, of course)

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-7524?focusedComm...
It's been updated to 8.2. No casualties reported so far.

And, actually, a bigger one it's expected in the zone, the "big event".
Thank Apple for that ;)
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Good idea! Just crossposted...let's see how it works.
Oops, I should've dug further.
I thought a gui is what we wanted?
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I totally agree about picking up and trying to live in a new place.

But all three of these schools do a pretty good job of letting students live in a bubble of sorts. The whole notion of leaving a comfort zone when going to one of them is different than say, moving to Nairobi.
The MariaDB page has great instructions for various distros:

https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/repositories/#mirror=o...

Just pick your distro and you're good to go. I didn't have to run anything else.
No.

Hire your own lawyer. Find a lawyer who is an alum who works at a top firm. Don't be shy about asking about cost. Ask then what you are asking here. Meanwhile, STFU until you have advice of counsel.
It really hurts to know that a person is being ostracized for having political views. I think the pro-gay crowd has gone too far when they try to push an individual to support "their" stance, or punish them if they don't. We should be living in world of balance with supporters on both sides, not one in which there is fear for expressing or having expressed belief.
Open source it and upload it to Github. There's no rule against giving away your code, is there? It sounds as though there was no prior agreement whatsoever.

Assuming it's OK to open source it, let her know you're going to do that because you own the code by virtue of having created it. If she gets nasty, tough. What's she going to do, sue you for open sourcing your homework assignment? That will just make you famous (and her, infamous).
Thanks for reaching out - just sent you an email back.
Lately, you can just use things like http://www.pubnub.com/ now a days and do both and not have to worry.

Socket servers are so 80's.
What about hnb? http://hnb.sourceforge.net/
I recently applied for a lease for a relatively new business that has been pretty profitable in a short time and got rejected. The Apple rep wouldn't tell us why. Will definitely be trying this service out.
I never considered this technology could be used during a disaster. That is a brilliant use case that could save lives. No phone, no power, trapped under rubble this could be your lifeline.
Now definitively an April Fool's joke.

Greg Stein's latest, and presumably last, comment on the JIRA ticket that started this furore: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-7524?focusedComm...

(ETA: they've also added "April Fools" to the title of the ticket itself.)

Quoting:

----------------------------------------------------

Resolving as "Not a problem". We sure as hell don't want to do this. :-)

My major thanks to [~jfarrell] for the concept.

And plenty of thanks to all of my co-conspirators on this issue. Yes.. even my antagonist [~jimjag] was in on the ruse :-) … the Infra team handled this with perfect aplomb. And the Directors and Exec Officers came in with a perfect level of wrath. Our Subversion teammates showed a great sense of community and circling the wagons… Thank you all for making this work!!!

Last but not least…

THANK YOU to all of you who actually BELIEVED.
Yes, it's about time! But I don't understand the cDNA-is-patentable portion of the ruling -- if I isolate human RNA (finally declared to be a work of nature), and make cDNA off of it using RNA transcriptase (did I get that right?), then that's somehow patentable, but the DNA/RNA that it's based off of isn't? That seems contradictory
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That's not moving goalposts. Amazon does not give out my information to unregistered 3rd parties who I haven't made a transaction with. Seems Coinbase does.

I chose Netflix simply because they were a large internet company. I think the idea that Coinbase is involved in transactions is a red herring here since they're giving the information out before the transactions are agreed upon by both parties.

If I proposed a Coinbase transaction with someone, I would fully expect that the other party would be told my name and possibly even my email.
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REMOTE, whereever

DataStax makes the enterprise edition of Cassandra, the NoSQL db for serious applications. We have developers all over the world and a 100% remote working environment. Some of the development is open source (we are the primary contributors to Cassandra core, which is an Apache Foundation project...)

I just joined recently; as a senior developer with startup experience, I had lots of offers from various companies. The reasons I chose DataStax were:

- 100% remote means I can work from whereever I want (I like to travel) and whenever, within reason, as long as I get my stuff done
- the opportunity to work on interesting new technology that is rapidly changing and being adopted by a lot of Fortune 100, etc
- they have been vocal about their plans to IPO in the next few years and are growing like crazy

Very competitive salary, lots of open positions: Java, Python, JavaScript, I've even seen some Clojure. Also, SDET and technical writing.

http://www.datastax.com
http://www.datastax.com/company/careers

Hit me up, esmith at datastax dot com, if you'd like an intro; if you can (really) code js, I'll hire you myself.
I just think the PMC just figured out that they cannot compete with git and it's services (github, anyone?) so they are just doing the most natural thing to do using git.
This is complemented with the ra_git upcoming release that will enable better svn/git integration. Having a svn that is able to talk with a git backend natively enables users to use tools designed for git also with svn.
Many everyday git users i know complain about the verbose workflow that git imposes. Some of them even made scripts that mime svn update like behavior using git stash/pull --rebase and other svn like commands.
So svn could really have a place being a git frontend with a simplified workflow

In short: may look silly, but in the long run i don't think it's a bad idea.
I'd err on the side of saying you're just not knowledgeable of American universities. But there's really nothing wrong with that, nor is it necessarily reasonable to expect someone not from the US to be familiar with US universities. At the very least, it opens you up to considering candidates based on their interview and not pedigree.

For what it's worth, Harvey Mudd and UT Austin are both very well-regarded schools.
Why? Does the name of the school matter that much? If the person that is doing the interviewing is judging you by your skills objectively, they shouldn't care about the school you went. There are plenty of great engineers that went to state schools, and plenty of crappy ones that went to more known schools.

Also, after a couple of years of work experience (after your second job), nobody really pays attention on where you went to, so don't get too hung up if your interviewer is not familiar with your school.
I am from Chile... live on Santiago though, far away (2+ thousand KM) from the North.

AFAIK there have been no casualties. People have been evacuated from the coastal areas all over Chile (even in the south for precaution).

Cheers.
I'm pretty strongly in support of a basic income (or at least the exploration of the idea), but it's possible that the version I read was after some updates to the article that made his intent more clear (e.g. the PS and PPS appear to have been added after the initial publication).
You have to be careful about counting jobs and engineers and declaring a shortage or surplus - because those statistics contain an implicit assumption that engineers are all the same and are completely interchangeable.

In my career, I've seen absolutely enormous variation in the productivity of various engineers. This includes pathetically incompetent ones that graduated from top-name engineering schools.

Quite a few engineers are negatively productive - they subtract value. Bad engineering can cost a company terribly, even destroy it.

It is true that if you're willing to pay enough, you can hire anyone. But that doesn't mean there isn't a shortage, as the supply of competent engineers didn't increase by one. It just meant that another firm didn't get the person you hired.
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Yes, with a larger grad school and research empire.
And yet even this lowly peon of an engineer, who appears to be contently employed and presumably has great employment prospects if he wants a new job, is offput by this policy. If anything, that intensifies his point.
>Sctp only breaks if the ISP or user has turned on NAT.

This describes 95%+ of home users. NAT may do bad things to IP, but if you are an app developer that depends on no NAT, you're product is going to have a very limited market of people that can use it.
I wrote an iOS app around Graphviz called http://instaviz.com, you can create fairly sophisticated DOT files with shape sketching and linking and without delving into the underlying DOT language.
I'm Chilean and I live in a "problematic" area. Fortunately it was not that hard. We're kind of prepared (of course, with nature, nobody is actually prepared for something like this) and the Government and the people are already evacuating those areas.

The sad part? A lot of people is evacuating using cars, and streets doesn't gave so much space to handle all that traffic. Internet and Mobile networks are still working and that helped to reach to almost anyone.

ONEMI, which is the emergency organism here, already published the expected hour the waves will arrive to those problematic areas, so some cities have plenty of time to evacuate.
What does that have to do with what I said? I think the manner in which you made your point has too high a chance of being misinterpreted to be acceptable here, which is probably why it was being downvoted.
I went to Rose-Hulman and almost no one out here in SF has heard of the school. Doesn't matter.
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I once wrote an ASCII graph/tree compiler that compiles ASCII representations like the example in the article into data structures.

https://github.com/mgraczyk/GraphCompiler

The data structures can be used directly in Python or parsed/consumed elsewhere. I think it is pretty useful, and I have used it in a couple of places where moderately complicated trees are used to generate C/C++ code.
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This needs to be upvoted to the top, as this is the best possible answer to OP's question — with an open-source implementation!
This incident may yet provide you with the one of the most important business lessons ever, and at relatively low cost to you: have a lawyer read over EVERY agreement you sign in a professional capacity.

It doesn't matter how much you trust the other party, either. Mistakes happen, ambiguous agreements are written. In fact it's entirely possible that the document contains clauses the other party doesn't want either, which have simply been overlooked in boilerplate (I have experienced this first-hand).

Look at agreements as though you were an attacker trying to compromise a system.

One example (which I read about on HN a few years ago): a developer signs an employment contract that grants complete ownership of all intellectual property he creates, including on his own time, to his employer. That's fine because he knows and trusts the employer. Then the company is bought by a bad actor, and that bad actor immediately lays claim to his personal projects as well as his paid work.
At first I thought this was a serious thing even though I knew today is April 1st.

While I was believing the news, the second sentence caught my attention:

This will allow the development of the Subversion repository be developed with Git

O_o
DotGnu has been dead for nearly half a decade.
They could have disabled access to it by the thief.

The 60 day policy does not apply to cases where it is "being transferred back to the original Registrar in cases where both Registrars so agree ..."
http://www.icann.org/en/resources/registrars/transfers/polic...

And given that both registrars acknowledged that she was the real owner, I'd expect the transfer (to the thief) would not be counted as a legitimate one within that period.
Flights are suspended in both Arica and Iquique, both cities who are near the epicenter.
Lousy user experience is not being able to verify what site I'm about to enter my payment credentials into.
The issue with a lot of mind-mapping software is that the data must be strictly hierarchical. Sometimes when brainstorming you want to represent data with cross-links or in multiple categories, which is where something like Graphviz, Instaviz, Omnigraffle or Visio come in.
Hah! If you're going to have to relearn everything anyway, might as well consider switching out completely.