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Ask HN: What is your daily rate?
This did not seem to have been done before here at HN and I think it would be useful. I propose some guidelines to replies but freestyle works great too.

I did not find anything against this in the guidelines, but if there is something wrong with the submission then apologies in advance. I believe that services companies and recruiters
make a living of hiding this information from the developer community, and often take a 20-25% cut just for sending an email with a CV, a second email to schedule an interview and sending a contract for signature over the post. This is a proposal for replies:

Top level entry: "My current daily rate is RATE / hour or day, I work in COUNTRY"

Second line : "I work as a LANGUAGE Developer/Architect, I have X years of experience and my main skills are ..."

Extra details of whether is a remote position would be interesting as well. For replies to top level entries, comments of whether the person is being lowballed or not would help, even if you prefer not to give your rate yourself.
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I fully agree. Social networks have the chicken and egg problem of users only using already established networks, though. Tsu.co's way of incentivizing content production could be a way to solve that.
I'll start: My current daily rate is 62.5 EUR/hour, and currently work in Belgium (non-remote worker, 8 years exp.). I work as Java developer/architect and my main skills are Java, JavaScript, Spring, Hibernate, GWT, Camel, SOAP/REST web services, Maven
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There should be trace numbers associated with the wiring of the money - start with getting that number from the company and then give it to your bank.

The good news is stuff like this doesn't get lost in some 'check is in the mail' scenario. There is an audit trail that can be proved.
Gosh I miss hacking on GoldSrc. I was 14, running a pirate version of VC++ and spending every damned afternoon working on various mods and the like. I ended up going into web development, but my heart still lies in game dev, so thats what I do in my spare time.
The BND noticed at some point that the
NSA searched for information about the
European defence contractor EADS (now
Airbus Group), the Eurocopter and French
government agencies.

Welcome to the NSA's secondary purpose. Corporate espionage for hire. The military industrial complex hard at work.

Also, if I was running a huge US hedge fund, that information would be really valuable. Just saying.
Network effect would kill a paid social network. Very few people would use it when there are so many free alternatives.
My current daily rate is $12/hour, I work in the Philippines
I work as a Web Developer(ASP.NET), I have 4 years of experience and my main skills are .NET technologies
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[0,1) = {x | 0<=x<1} is probably the simplest example.
That 1% figure is hilariously wrong, but I agree with your point. Indie game dev is hard. If you "waste" too much time early on doing "the right thing" for tasks that can wait like localization, your game might not make it off the ground. So most accomplished English-speaking indie devs assume English and QWERTY layout to start because it's one less thing to think about while you're trying to get a barebones game running.

The less defensible outcome is when the QWERTY assumption remains 'til the end, and the devs just want to ship the damn thing already, so the proper alternate keyboard layout/non-360 controller/etc. support gets cut and the burden is pushed onto the users. This sucks, but is somewhat defensible because if you are a gamer in France or whatever, you are probably used to needing to switch your keyboard layout or rebind your keys in the same way that English players of Japanese PC games are used to needing to use a Japanese locale, or that people with non-360 controllers are used to needing to use an XInput wrapper: we hate it, but we've already dealt with the problem once, so doing it again isn't a big deal.
It's really heartening to see a response from a user experience team to "you broke my workflow" that isn't "get fucked". I'd basically found forgotten that was a possibility.
One of the requirements for the attack is partial plaintext control. This is feasible if you're running malicious JavaScript in the user's browser.

So what you do is generate an HTTP request that, taken together with the SSL MAC, will align on a block boundary. Then you're guaranteed to have one full block of padding.

It might sound difficult to pull this off with multiple unknowns (other cookies, user agent string, etc.), but in practice it would be easy. You could make sure things line up correctly just by incrementing your packet length by one byte at a time until you see the record size jump by a block.
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Especially in technology of military importance. That sounds like "duh", but I mean military technology of allies whose products are available to the US military.
>>In a typed language, only polymorphism which can be proved correct is admissible. In an untyped language, arbitrarily complex polymorphism is expressible.

>This misses the point, which is that “arbitrary” has proven to be unlikely to be correct. Ultimately, this argument comes down to “you should trust human programmer intuition,” which I gladly admit to being an assumption I’m unwilling to make.

It's true that “arbitrary” has proven to be unlikely to be correct in the general case.

However, allowing untyped types(?) has also proven to be useful. I think this is because there is yet to be a language that makes expressing complex types easy.

We work in an environment where FizzBuzz is considered a good way of filtering people who can program.

I'm generally a proponent of "strongly typed" languages. But I do worry about the cognition overhead the syntax causes, and I do wonder if there is a "better way".
Sure thing Facebook has nice servers architecture and most brilliant engineers, but does FB creates any content? That's just a website, an empty shell where people upload content. And FB gets 100% of ads revenue, generated by others' content. Look at content creators like The New York Times's website, they get money through ads by attracting people thanks to their article. Plus you give up all of your rights and privacy, in exchange of a free service. I think the idea is not to "start paying users", but creating a fair platform.
check out http://www.favorsome.com/, you may find what you're looking for
Wonder if they will get a physical kiosk at the transportation options area?
Module system, uniform function call syntax (UFCS) -- it all starts looking more and more like D :)
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I felt a pang of recognition when seeing the BASIC examples. Spent several years plinking away, writing improbably cool games in BASIC on an HP2000.

Years later I tried to write something in BASIC; I was paralyzed by the lack of capability. I couldn't write anything; not a simple subroutine, nor a parser - nothing.
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People had jobs before doing youtube videos for a living.

I don't think Tsu should be seen as a way to make money (at least not in a near future) but as a way to get rewarded for the content you produce. The same content which makes the value of Tsu.
Take Instagram for example, talented people post beautiful pictures which add value to Instagram. And yet they only are rewarded with likes/comments. Tsu tries to fix this.
Sure, with an option to enable write with the usual "omg ur apps!" warning.
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It would be useful to get a comparison on standard macbook cost and what it costs through here over a normal product refresh cycle. What happens with discontinued products? If apple remove their 13 inch air and release a new 12 inch "aero" macbook for 10% less cost, is that included? Are savings passed on to the consumer?
I'd recommend you to give proofhub a go. Very effective tool for managing projects as well as for tracking time. I'd suggest you to give it a go. https://www.proofhub.com
No offence, but a mathematical model can be made to “prove” anything, including the half-inch pink elephant that lives in my desk drawer.
My current daily rate is 150 / hour, I work on the Internet thus anywhere in the world (but my Timezone is CST/USA)

I work as a Developer/Architect in whatever language, I have 30 years of experience and my main skills are drivers, OS development, embedded and networks.
Think of Tom&Jerry. Open is when Tom is running on a carpet towards an open door, but the carpet is moving under him and he never reaches the door. Closed is when Tom slams into a closed door and gets flattened.
It is about aiding US military defensive contractors with information that gives them an edge over their foreign competitors. The defense industry is notoriously corrupt and backhanders is common place.

Mark Thomas (Comedy Product) did some interesting TV shows about the arms trade a few years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Thomas
Since the heads up _as given_ turned out to be detailed enough to give away the problem, that's clearly false.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1076983#c51
You are completely correct -- this is, indeed, nothing more than a simple mash up of existing commodotized capabilities. Yet there appears to be a market opportunity to sell such a service for as much as $100-300/year. You should build a competing product (a simple mash up) and sell it.
How does dropping ext4 support make it more usable?
"drinking water has quite a lot of minerals in it, so drinking distilled water isn't that great for you"

That's an urban legend. Please stop spreading false tales. Rainwater is distilled water, and lacks exactly the same minerals. Yet people live for years without a problem on harvested rainwater.

As http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/pubs/water-eau/devices-dispo... points out "There are no known beneficial, nor harmful health effects associated with the ingestion of demineralized or distilled water."

You can see how contentious this is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Distilled_water .

Limestone is added because the water is low in calcium. Concrete contains calcium, and water will dissolve the calcium from concrete pipes. Pure water also has "little buffering capacity relative to that of freshwater. Low buffering capacity increases risks of corrosion to metal distribution pipes."

(Quote from http://www.arava.co.il/haklaut/mop/d081007/d081007_2.pdf . See the same points at http://books.google.com/books?id=XTrvVSJTnUEC&pg=PA311&lpg=P... and http://books.google.com/books?id=M3W7QsfdyMIC&pg=PA37&lpg=PA... .)

They also point out that consumers prefer the taste after some remineralization. The first link also comments the using RO water for agriculture ended up with MG2+ deficiency diseases in the irrigated plants.

However, you'll noted that remineralization only adds a couple of ions. It doesn't add "quite a lot of minerals" to the water supply, which would be needed if distilled water actually were a problem for the body.
Something.app comes from NeXTStep actually.
Ask HN: How and when do you log your food?
Hi HN,

I'm a quantified self geek. I have been logging my food for 7 months now (almost daily), and I would like to hear more about your experience doing that.

How are you logging the food? When do you log your food? How do you manage through weekends or vacations? What about estimating the quantity of food?
it's any technology - including major Internet corporations, such as the ones that many HN users work for.

Any large company that pays it's taxes, employs lots of Americans or Brits can benefit from their government helping them out. It's not just guns and tanks - it's the whole system.
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Independence vote: Catalonia's quarrel with Spain
I made multiple purchases with Bitcoin both small and large (in particular I've been buying air tickets exclusively with Bitcoin for the past year) and have never been scammed.
Awesome article clumsysmurf. Thanks for sharing
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Looks like it has massive potential
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My dear wife grew up in New Mexico, where water sometimes had to be trucked in when it didn't rain for a while. It hurts her to see water running - she physically cannot watch a faucet running without reaching to turn it off.
This is a well summarized while accurate article about the independence movement in Catalonia.

If anyone is interested in this subject and has questions, I'll be happy to reply as best as I can (I was born and currently live in Catalonia).
Why can't Mobile Safari upload and download?
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Why not just disable the default server? (genuine question; I don't know if there are drawbacks to it)
The thing is a lot of bug fix and iteration ideas can come from customer support logging (see recent Wufoo talk for example). With PPoor customer support they're missing out on that valuable feedback, which might explain Googles lack of customer market fit even through multiple generations.
Some web development companies drop support for browsers when their versions drop below 10%. Not crazy at all.
So, iow, just like every thread on HN about the police.
Same here. After taking a detour in my college years I ended up doing web development, but I still miss designing, building and balancing levels and seeing tons of people enjoying the results of my labor! Might get back into it...
The fact that English is easier to learn :)
RC4 in TLS is pretty bad too:

http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/tls/

"Our second attack applies to TLS and can be carried out in a single connection or session (but tolerates multiple connections/sessions). It exploits certain double-byte biases in RC4 keystreams (the Fluhrer-McGrew biases). It targets plaintext bytes located at any position in the TLS plaintext stream. The number of encryptions needed to reliably recover a set of 16 consecutive targeted plaintext bytes is around 10 times 2^30, but already with only 6 times 2^30 sessions, these target bytes can be recovered with 50% reliability. Since this double-byte bias attack does not require the TLS Handshake Protocol to be rerun, it can in practice be more efficient than our single-byte bias attack."

http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/tls/RC4biases.pdf

edit: I could not get star to show-up, so I just spelled it out as 'times.'
Thanks for sharing.

That guy Jordan deserves to be brought in Justice.
iOS/OSX has huge user base. ChromeOS? I doubt
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> I'm generally a proponent of "strongly typed" languages. But I do worry about the cognition overhead the syntax causes, and I do wonder if there is a "better way".

What about dynamic language + runtime type checking + (nearly) 100% test coverage?
You get the flexibility of a dynamic language and the safety of a static type language (in fact you get more, since runtime type checking is more powerful).
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It would also be nice if Apple could develop a Safari for Windows. Right now we have javascript bugs we cannot debug without buying a Mac.
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The fear might be strengthened by the fact someone admitted that was the plan and it went on wikileaks
I'm using US English and Serbian (Latin) keyboard all the time. The difference is that US one has W,Q,X and Y, and the Serbian one has Š,Č,Ć,Đ and Ž. Except for Z and Y all other characters have the same position (QUERTY vs QUERTZ).

I'm also using Hungarian which is also Latin and has Ő,Ú,É,Á and Ű. The other keys are the same.

Since I have three quite similar layouts, I always have to be careful which one is currently active.

And I'm also using Serbian Cyrillic which is completely different alphabeth.
I wish we put more effort into gathering data on what is really happening on the ground rather than modelling almost certainly wrong data. I guess on the upside the chance of catching Ebola is much lower doing studies like this.
As far as I understand it, things owned by the Bukkit team (i.e. servers, bukkit.org) and the rights to the code owned by the 4 core devs who were hired.
Yes, your "emotional dropdown field was terrific. Yes,
of course it was in your lecture, but I typed quickly
and don't have the transcript yet so missed that
connection.

Nice lecture!
On a recent build of ChromiumOS, / is ext2 and /usr/local is ext4.
One huge advantage Google has over Amazon is a much wider global presence. I understand Amazon has transformed shopping in the United States, but it still hasn't reached most of the world. Google has. In many developing markets, a Google analogue of Amazon would be absolutely killer.
You're right. Most devs who do not implement this are not lazy. They are ignorant.
Reddit threads sometimes provide nice extra context but the armchair lawyering from angsty 22 yeAr olds is unfun.
No. I don't think anyone cares what the internal storage uses; that's just an implementation detail. People want to connect random drives to their ChromeOS machine and have them Just Work, which is quite reasonable.

At least on my main Linux box, the VFAT driver and USB3 driver collude to corrupt everything I store as FAT, so I've been using ext3 for my flash drives.

Actually I gave up on flash drives and just use Google Drive, but that is neither here nor there.
there are many layers of indirection.

i wouldn't dispute that disabling sslv3 gui prefs in Firefox may have had significant positive impacts on many users or that many users are clueless about crypto in general as it seems you're implying, but it's worth considering that those decisions also have implications that may be convenient for other parties, like dramatically increasing the activation energy to configuring a browser for security.

another example is how long it currently takes to configure via GUI distrusting or at least warning users when Firefox relies on CAs that users from a given country may almost never encounter. should your average Firefox user in the United States always silently trust Turkmenistan's CA out of the box?
This is exploitable now. Padding oracles have been found before, and are even homework assignments of the Coursera cryptography course. The specifics of this bug make it a little bit harder but the paper explains how to work around this. Expect this bug to be exploited in the wild since minutes after (or perhaps already before) the release.
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So basically it's not your job to read books and become well educated, it's my job to do your homework for you. Good luck with that.
I don't see how that's at all relevant to what I was talking about. Favorsome doesn't appear to be a co-op, or anything like one. By the way, I see your only other HN activity is also plugging Favorsome. Kinda spammy?
One could argue that network facing machines should boot from RO media anyway with data stored on NO_EXEC volumes.
The alternative for this particular gas is that it could be flared at the production site immediately (better than letting it escape to the atmosphere to cause both global-warming and explosion hazards). There are probably much lower capital and maintenance expenditures, too.
I really like the idea , I don't care about money , but I like the whole concept ...www.tsu.co/veerraj
I can't help you much with theory, sorry. I'm a hardware type. The gist of the idea is that propane is good for making particle detectors[1]; and since there are propane tanks distributed fairly widely, then one ought to be able to observe lots of cosmic rays from within them. The first trouble was figuring out a way to build enough detectors, cheaply enough. I had hoped to come up with something simple that could be installed without too much trouble. Most of the good detector ideas would require the tank to be empty when the detector was installed, so retrofitting existing propane tank installations would be a super slow process. There are a lot of other problems with the idea and we had other ideas to pursue at the time so we didn't go very far with it.

[1] Bubble chambers, spark chambers, flash chambers, drift chambers / tubes, RPC's,
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You probably could, but there would be lots of extra boiler plate that distract from the central idea.

The OCaml language features that are used that would need to be emulated somehow in Java:

* Sum types (type a = A of int | B of float). Think tagged unions [1].

* Module functors (module NAME(PARAM : MODULE_TYPE) = struct ... end). Think package level functions (you get some of this with dependency injection frameworks, but it's probably no-where near as safe/sane and flexible.

* GADTs (type a = A : int -> int | int term). I'm not sure how you would represent these in java, I'm not fully up to speed on how they work yet.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_union
The cognition overhead of 100% test coverage is probably absurd, as well.
That little story I quoted is actually from that book. I've yet to read most of it though.
Damnit, you just made me miss Groklaw again.
Ask HN: When will we know if YC accepted/rejected the application?
Hi,

Quick one: the application deadline was yesterday. How long does it take for YC to make a decision and send out invitations and "we're sorry" e-mails? (I was told they send them all at once).

I'm signing a shareholder's agreement with another accelerator next week unless I'm invited to YC's meeting and I'd like to be able to give them a date when I'll know for sure (I don't want to be an ass).
You can use overlap to estimate total number of bugs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_index

http://allendowney.blogspot.com/2014/07/last-year-my-occasio...
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No actually, most people stated that theirs external storages - sd cards, usb, disk are all ext4.
>in case readers had an image of the Ark of the Covenant being wheeled into a warehouse

Damn, you got me.
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A gallon is ~4 litres (two large bottles of soda) and an acre is a the small end of a soccer^H^H^H^H^H^H^H football-field (or half of a big one). For an acre-foot, that's all underwater, up to your shins. Or maybe you just stacked all the soda bottles next to each other, they're about a foot tall...