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It is all about a portfolio. If you have a proven track record of work, that is good enough for a lot of companies.

So I'd go set up a GitHub or similar, and start getting your code available to Google. When people type in your name (or read your CV/resume) they should be able to find your work (either code or web-sites you've developed).

This same advice applies to college grads too. You can have a degree but be totally unemployable as what you learned at college isn't really 1:1 applicable to the real world. So upcoming grads should also have a portfolio that shows off their talents.

Honestly a really good portfolio where they can go to your sites and play with them, or even read your code is almost better than a great employment track record for lower level jobs (since there ARE people who were employed as a "programmer" previously who simply cannot code).
This reminds me of Van Halen and their "no brown M&M's clause"

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/232420

To sum it up, Van Halen would put in their contracts that they are to be served M&M's with no brown ones present. If they found that there was indeed brown ones, they would not play because they felt the gig was not paying attention to detail.

Seems to me that if you are applying for a job that basically is all about time (delivery in 30 mins) then it is a great litmus test to not let people who are late to the orientation have a job. These people obviously did not care enough for the job interview- It stands to reason they likely wont care to be extra fast once/if hired.
The previous poster is talking about personal DRM. You keep misunderstanding what they are saying.

In the personal DRM case it would not be invading "your private digital space", you would be using it to protect your digital space.

It is not like "a police camera placed inside your house." It is the equivalent of the homeowner placing a security camera themselves to protect their property.
Don't know about Russia, but in Romania they didn't dig (or at least not until recently). Most of the ISPs would run their cables between utility poles, trees and buildings directly. This created messes like [1] and [2], but it was cheap. I think back in 2012 Parliament passed a law forcing all ISPs and cable companies to bury the cables.

1 - http://s.wsj.net/media/050710pow14_J_20100506172349.jpg

2 - http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6142/6205357944_8056b01e05_m....
Perhaps to crop and compress it for the web?
That's hilarious, because from what I've seen so far in the first 30 minutes of the movie, the main characters would have no qualms about bypassing the protections.

I'm hoping that the movie gets better, but so far it's espousing the teenage-wannabe-god version of being a hacker.
> Do such comments have any effect?

Yes.

> It's hard to overlook that money seems to drive American politics moreso than public opinion

One of the ways that money drives regulatory politics is that having money means you can hire people who (1) understand the regulatory process, and (2) participate in open comment opportunities by submitting comments that are effective (particularly, by addressing the desired policy changes in terms of that address directly the points for which the regulatory agency has called for input.)
The downside of accessing the full sensor on the iPhone 5S is that image stabilization and rolling shutter compensation is not enabled. That functionality would need to be reproduced in software instead of the ISP hardware.
Ask HN: Why does Quantum Entanglement need to exist?
Everyone talks about it and there are a lot of fun experiments that imply it's existence. But what does really show that it should exists?
I didn't use the phrase "late arrival". I just pointed out that the OP arrived after he was told to arrive.
"communicate with the device over the same USB that powered it."
That's the biggest issue with the RPi and they still haven't fixed it…
Its not a matter of expense in many cases. Municipalities have agreements that span years with cable providers enforcing their local monopolies in exchange for kickbacks and universal access. It is impossible to compete in these markets with any amount of money.
They weren't late, though? If they wanted people to show up 5-10 minutes early, make the training at 5:50 or 5:55. Don't say 6 and really mean earlier.
Here's the original. I didn't like the way it looked.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10272371/image.jpeg
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> But... I see no point into publishing the direct stream link.

I do: now I can watch the movie on my TV instead of my computer screen. With my current setup, having a naked mp4 file is the only way for me to easily do this.
The linked article does not indicate that the applicant was told to arrive 5-10 minutes early, and it explicitly says that they were to reschedule for another day, not the next session in 30 minutes.
Well, if it's a courier service that hopes to distinguish itself by being unerringly on-time...I guess this is a good way to enforce such a mentality from the get-go. Kind of like Van Halen being a stickler about brown M&M's, except that showing up on-time for the interview is directly related to the services at hand.

(If the OP arrived at 5:55, then unless he knocked on the dot, he was technically later than the "5-10 minutes early" notice. OTOH, it seems to be a common convention that when a time is set, i.e. 6:00PM, that is the actual drop-dead time)
Out of curiosity, what are you guys using it for?
This is about as technologically advanced as we get here on Maui: http://www.htdc.org/incubation-techcenter-mrtc.html
Comedy vs. Nerds Comedy Show in San Francisco
I agree with you to an extent. However, the flyer says the session starts at 6:00PM, not 5:50 or 5:55PM. Generally speaking, when someone says to arrive at a particular event 5-10 minutes early, it is simply so that everyone can be seated and things can get going at the prescribed time, 6:00PM, not that the participants should disregard the stated start time of the event. Plus, if the story that the company representative was rude is true, then that is not cool for the exact reason that the participant specified. The company theoretically lives and dies by its couriers, so frustrating them (perhaps it is a little harsh to say they treat their couriers like trash) right out of the gate is not exactly a good growth strategy.
That story would be more of an analogy if Van Halen then checked if you also removed the red M&Ms too, since red is kind of close to brown.

I may be weird in this way, but if you want me somewhere at 6pm, tell me 6pm. If you want me there at 5:50pm, tell me 5:50pm. But if you want me there at 5:50pm, don't tell me 6pm.
DevOps here. I think you're stuck in market segment purgatory. SaaS/PaaS exist to remove pain points. People are either going to go PaaS (Heroku) or they're going to roll their own in AWS/Digital Ocean/etc.

I've already thought to myself, "I could roll this into the open source packages in question in 2-4 weeks in time, give back to the community, AND it helps my reputation." Consider how many others out there have seen this and thought the same.

As a tech professional, I don't think you're going to find much demand. As an entrepreneur, I wish you the best.
Fortunately all our jobs are idempotent, and I hope to keep it that way. Postgres keeps track of what's currently "in-flight" so to speak, so my plan for failures is just to re-queue stuff.

The good thing about sneakers is we're not locked into any particular routing scheme or message structure so it'll be easy to move away from once we eventually experience problems.

So, community, am I being naive? Will the idempotency thing not save me?

(Also, lobster_johnson when you say terrible in a virtualisation environment, are you referring to AWS-ish shared VPSs or to a containers-on-colocated-boxes solution, which is what we favor?)
Cities do this, eg San Francisco, but the pipe is mostly unused.
Facebook usage data during World Cup final
If you like this stuff, check out Thriving Systems Theory and Metaphor-Driven Modeling.

It takes the 15 properties and integrates them across system choice centers. Some interesting things fall out of it:

1. Levels of Scale -> Stepwise Refinement
2. Strong Centers -> Cohesion
3. Boundaries -> Encapsulation
4. Alternating Repetition -> Extensibility
5. Positive Space -> Modularization
6. Good Shape -> Correctness
7. Local Symmetries -> Transparency
8. Deep Interlock and Ambiguity -> Composition of Function
9. Contrast -> Identity
10. Gradients -> Scale
11. Roughness -> User Friendliness
12. Echos -> Patterns
13. The Void -> Programmability
14. Simplicity and Inner Calm -> Reliability
15. Not Separateness -> Elegance

http://www.amazon.com/Thriving-Systems-Theory-Metaphor-Drive...
Except Silent Circle is actively promoting "encrypted to the PSTN" without specifying exactly what that means. Handoff to iBasis is hardly "encrypted to the PSTN" for any worthwhile value of PSTN.

The ZRTP part is fine if you can bring your own client. And I guess $12 a month isn't much to pay for SC to run FreeSWITCH as a NAT traversal/endpoint discovery platform.

There's still no real details on how we're supposed to trust Silent Circle from being actively attacked and backdooring clients. If memory serves me correctly Mr. Zimmerman said they're relying on the government not being able to compel them to cooperate. AKA, Lavabit-style. (Sure, ZRTP is solid, but a compromised client isn't detectable to end-users, plus SC talks a lot about calling the PSTN.)

For a comparison to a company that takes security seriously, look at tarsnap. Then go read the PR from Mike Janke the other day.

On another note, what does "100% dedicated network – no sharing or leasing" even mean? Did SC run fibre from Toronto to Switzerland? How is SC's network any different from any other VoIP company that builds a datacenter?
30 hours left to submit net neutrality comments to the FCC
Totally non-scientific response to this, but I can say that after having to take antibiotics a few years back for a pretty bad sinus infection my digestive system has never completely recovered. I never had any sort of digestive issues that I can think of but have had numerous since then. I can't directly contribute it to the antibiotics, but it certainly seems to correlate.

Taking probiotics helped quite a bit, which I did a month or so after the antibiotics started causing these issues, but yeah, never completely felt 'better' since then. I guess this is yet another example of why/how over prescription of antibiotics is a bad thing.
I'm a huge fan of SQLite. However one limitation I've run across is a good UI to admin it or develop for it. Right now I use something called "SQLite Administrator" (Orbmu2k) which is both really nice in some ways but super buggy...

Anyone found anything better? And, yes, I know it ships with command line tools but particularly for development it is nicer to have a GUI to quickly set up tables.
Born and raised here also. Have you been back recently? They amount of new development land and business is a bit unsettling.

I am surviving well as a developer, living off the grid, with a satellite internet connection.
IO also costs money, often more than the actual circuitry.

They certainly have some margin, and it's probably bigger at the embbebed version, but it's not only a marketing trick.
The power of framing is fascinating stuff.

Running through a chain of articles and excerpts from Lakoff and Luntz one week seemed to work wonders for making sense of difficult sociopolitical conversations with certain friends.
Are you suggesting the only possible forms of anti-competitive coercion are government regulation or hit squads?
The microSD card and changes to the ports (more flush USB) also reduce the footprint which means I should be able to cram a new version of my Pi motion activated camera into a smaller waterproof case. This makes me very happy. The lower power demands may also let me get away with using a smaller battery and solar panel.
In the past once I've reached someone who acknowledges they're late on the payment, I've offered to waive late fees if they pay immediately that day. It's usually good incentive for them to actually pay. I'd ping them weekly in different forms for a few weeks. Then I'd wait another few weeks and then file a small claims case and send notice via certified mail. And mention you'll drop the case if they pay prior to trial.

But 5 days isn't very long. I would assume the best and remain cordial throughout.
Well, I personally agree, but I don't think everything in this matter is as objective as Feynman wants it to be seen, judging by the tone of his letter. I could definitely imagine the opposite opinions: "you need to listen to more experienced teachers as to know which problems to solve and which do not", or "you need to think big" and so on...
Some repos are even hosted right out of S3 statically (Amazon Linux and Ubuntu in AWS come to mind).

host us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com
us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com is an alias for us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com.s3.amazonaws.com.

us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com.s3.amazonaws.com is an alias for s3-1-w.amazonaws.com.
How to make more money as a graphic designer
see http://aphyr.com/posts/283-call-me-maybe-redis for a discussion of distributed behaviour of redis.
I think the author missed one downside in that there is no master/slave replication built in. That's not the biggest deal as it's relatively trivial to dump the DB elsewhere on some regular schedule, but if you want to minimize the effects of a server dying, it's hard to beat built in replication.
My understanding of copyright law [1] is that the maze itself, not the maze-generation process, is the issue here. The author accrues a copyright over the maze by virtue of having published it. Kraft's republication of the maze is potential infringement of the copyright over the maze. The algorithm is almost irrelevant in that determination. The copyright is over the work itself, not the process of creating the work. [2]

The test for determining infringement is, more or less, the classic smell test: does it look like a duck, walk like a duck, and quack like a duck? Would a reasonable individual conclude, from visual inspection, that Kraft's maze is strikingly similar to the original maze? Even if there are some small changes here and there, it could still be found to be sufficiently similar.

For instance, if I tried to put out a version of a popular song that was ever so slightly different from that song, I'd be infringing if a reasonable listener found my version sufficiently close to identical. If I put out a book called "Jimmy Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," and my work was more or less identical to "Harry Potter," with some character names and minor sequences changed, I'd probably be found to be infringing upon the original work.

[1] IANAL, but I've dealt with copyright issues, to a certain tangential extent, in a professional capacity.

[2] Note that we're talking about copyrights here, not patents, which are different animals altogether.
Since I can't find the link, I won't disagree on the numbers you're reporting, but seriously the only one who trusts Russian election results must be Putin (and you).

ps. I'm not saying that he wouldn't have won anyway, but I'm sure that the elections in Russia are extremely well guarded.
> The company theoretically lives and dies by its couriers, so frustrating them (perhaps it is a little harsh to say they treat their couriers like trash) right out of the gate is not exactly a good growth strategy.

That depends on whether they're constrained by supply (couriers) or demand (customers). If they're demand-constrained, I think it makes sense to be very selective about which couriers they take on to ensure their customers have a great experience, and choosing which couriers to accept based on how early they arrive for their job interview seems like an excellent metric to use to attempt to differentiate between applicants you otherwise know very little about.
The Dirty Jeans Manifesto
Boston hopes local techies can fix broken permitting system
According to who?

You do know software existed before the current bubble of over excited VC funded "startups" right?
I don't see anything wrong with developing a better bike lock for fun and profit. Not to build a straw-man argument but isn't that the same line of thinking?
Too Many Android Wear Apps Are Missing the Point
That's too bad. Their Android SDK was quite good and they were very responsive with issues submitted for it. I used it at a Google Glass hackathon and working with Apple's iBeacon technology was super easy - probably why they are being forced to remove it.
Yeah for sure in SF terms I'm saying go to the mission (produce stands), not the tenderloin (liquor stores).

For the rest of the country, I'm assuming they already have a car / drive to get groceries. Generally speaking outside of the urban core driving saves you far more time than it costs in money.

eg. If you're making $15/hr you can't burn $15/hr in gas, and bringing home a weeks worth of groceries for a family on transit is a PITA. (Again, buying for multiple people saves tonnes of money)
That was well written, and provided a deep understanding of the topic. I really hope the FCC will listen to such reasoned responses, and not to big monied interests.
Shhhh Google Quality Rater Guidelines 2014 is Leaked
If you can determine what messages need to be re-queued, and easily re-queue them, then you should be fine.

(That does raise the question of what you need a queue for, if your Postgres database keeps your state. Postgres can act as a pretty efficient queue — for one app we do this extensively — especially if you use listen/notify. It won't scale to thousands of requests/sec, but it's simpler to maintain than RabbitMQ, and has the benefit of being fully ACID.)

Still, the RabbitMQ partitioning does exist and requires manual intervention whenever it happens. You can tell RabbitMQ to run in a mode where it will automatically recover from a partition by using the node which has the most connections, and discarding the data on the other conflicting nodes; but the problem in your case would be that you might not be able to tell when to re-queue your messages.
Write code, ship products (especially open source), meet people (at user groups, conferences, et cetera) and be active in your local technical community. A friend you meet at a conference doesn't have to be a senior person; if they would like to work with you, they will refer you to their company for hiring, which is the first foot in the door. A history of strong work, which luckily in our industry does not mean a history of employment, will open the door the rest of the way. Participating in user groups is also not to be underestimated; it's a chance to present projects you're working on, and to demonstrate your soft skills, which are (almost) as important as the technical side.

I have been hired on the basis of each of those at one time or another, and I have hired people on a similar basis. BTW, this doesn't mean you shouldn't know CS topics (on top of practical programming), it just means you don't need to have a degree to acquire that knowledge.
take any job you can. once you have a job, it's easier to get another one.

and of course, portfolio, portfolio, portfolio. i find a blog is better than github -> if that blog has pictures of your projects, and teaches the reader with clear code examples. it's much easier to get past HR with beautiful images/videos of your app/side projects in action. if i were to apply for a new job, i would send links demonstrating my work, not a resume
Great questions that hit on many of the key challenges here.

Maui and Hawaii certainly have some intrinsic difficulties inherent to having a lower population base located 3000 miles from just about anything, but all in all I'd say there's more movement towards helping create a better tech eco system here. Part of what makes this sort of dubious investment so unfortunate is this clearly was part of that drive to provide some startup fuel to companies here.
NSA: Releasing Edward Snowden Emails Would Violate His Privacy
Copyright cares about provenance, though. If you put out a book called "Jimmy Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" and your work was more or less identical to "Harry Potter" and you had never encountered Harry Potter, directly or indirectly, then you wouldn't be guilty of copyright infringement. Of course, proving that would be difficult, given the spectacularly low odds of just happening to write the same tens of thousands of words.

In this case, if the algorithm is one of a narrow range of obvious algorithms, "just happened to..." might be more believable.
Slap on the wrist for adult woman who assaulted 17 year old boy
If you're building your own boxes, sure the price of physical sticks of RAM aren't the bulk of the cost, and you can build high-RAM boxes.

If you're renting servers or virtual servers (VPS/cloud), then the physical cost of RAM is irrelevant. Virtually all hosting companies use configured RAM as a proxy for their costs (the more RAM you need, the more likely you are to be using more CPU which means more electric, more disk IO, more bandwidth, and generally putting more wear-and-tear on the hardware which will need replacing sooner).

An 8GB stick of ECC RAM might cost you less than $99 to purchase outright, but Softlayer (the #1 most used bare metal server company by YC startups) will charge $88/month for it ($11/GB/mo to add 8GB to one of their base configurations).
Todays FCC commissioners have a unique opportunity; they can choose to shirk their responsibility to the public and kill the promise of the internet or they can go down in history as its saviors... the commission that preserved the internet as an economic engine of growth for generations to come.
> I don't see how a normally libertarian-leaning group of people have embraced regulation rather than deregulation as to this issue.

Presumably because there is a difference between "libertarian-leaning" (to the extent that is an accurate description of the group described) and "having a blind, kneejerk preference for deregulation".

> Why do local ISP markets tend towards monopoly, even though it has been illegal since 1992 to grant local cable monopolies?

Because incumbents that got infrastructure built with government support in acquiring property for infrastructure as monopolies have an insurmountable advantage as a result of the access they acquired then, and effectively leveraged that cable infrastructure to internet infrastructure, whereas without direct government support that comes with that, its pretty much impossible for anyone else to build the necessary infrastructure because property rights.

> You can have: neutrality, universal access, or a mostly privately-funded telecom infrastructure, but you only get to pick two.

Okay.

> you have to be willing to publicly subsidize the construction of telecom infrastructure.

There are extensive public subsidies that have been given in the US for telecom -- and specifically broadband -- infrastructure [1]. So can we have our neutrality and universal access already?

[1] E.g., http://www2.ntia.doc.gov/infrastructure