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10 years experience across a mixture of Infrastructure management and support plus web application architecture and development.

I’m looking for opportunities to help companies with backend/server-side architecture & development (primarily PHP MVC), system integration and/or server infrastructure setup and/or ongoing maintenance.

I mostly work remotely from Thailand, on a very flexible schedule (I can schedule work hours to get overlap with most other timezones when required) but on-site visits to pretty much anywhere are a possibility if required too.

Contact me via stephen (dot) reay (at) me (dot) com
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On the Translation of Languages from Left to Right (1965) [pdf]
I'm not sure I understand the argument here. Several manufacturers have now implemented on-by-default device encryption with no backdoor. This is not only feasible (in a business and technical sense) but is rapidly becoming the standard. Microsoft's approach is now an outlier. It almost certainly provides a much more vulnerable form of encryption than, say, Apple's and Google's.

You're correct that Microsoft's device encryption is "free" to some extent, and it certainly is more secure than plaintext. That still doesn't mean it's ok to compromise it. At least with plaintext you avoid the performance overhead and associated risks of device encryption. With Microsoft's solution, you oay all the overhead -- and still get a much more limited form of protection.
Happy birthday, FreeBSD! You were one of the many operating systems I experimented with back in my teenage years, along with countless Linux distributions. The popularity has waned [1] but good to know it is still active :)

[1] http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F02ydx&cmpt=q
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This article doesn't get the internet.

I think it's spurious and mendacious to suggest that consumers upload amounts of data that are in any way comparable to the amount downloaded by people who stream HD video for live consumption.

I'm not particularly pleased about putting content consumers and content producers into two separate boxes, but the classifications of internet endpoints definitely exists in the usage patterns we have today.

Unless the security and privacy problems of the cloud are fixed, people are unlikely to upload the kind of data required to make them comparable - the only thing I can think of that could make it happen is life streaming or continuous security footage across multiple cameras. But I think cloud storage's problems are increasing, not decreasing, and they'll continue to increase until we get to the bottom of the tension with government spying and commercial exploitation of user privacy.

I think net neutrality, as it's naively presented, is highly unfair and subsidizes people who consume a lot of content at the expense of people who only use the internet occasionally. Flat rates for all you can eat downloads, combined with necessarily oversold capacity (since most people don't use all their available capacity all the time), inevitably means that high usage consumers are subsidized by low usage consumers.

There's two ways to make this fairer. Charge people based on how much they download - i.e. caps and overage charges, as horrible as that sounds - or charge companies that upload data more, who can then pass on those costs to their customers. The market has generally rejected the first solution. It's now trying the second solution. But either way is better than network neutrality.

And I say that as a person for whom "network neutrality" is in their interest. But I can see that it's plainly and patently unfair.
Where you able to find anything users were willing to pay for related to photos? Maybe more on the physical side with prints, photo books, posters, postcards, etc?
Someone put it here for getting input is in itself a great step forward. I know/feel that government going to make many mistakes along the way, but I am really happy they are taking strong initiatives towards open and e governance. My feedback is to use not only open API but also open source tools and remove any proprietary software from government offices.
> Even Mr. O’Connell, the über-Uber devotee, is peeved. “The company is turning into a soulless psycho monster,” he said. He sides with the drivers. “I would much rather they pay them fairly than have to deal with surge pricing at 9 a.m. on a Tuesday,” he said.

I grew up really respecting the NYTimes as an institution, but now when I read what they have to say about things I actually understand I am quite underwhelmed by their investigative prowess. I feel like they have a serious habit of using quotes and other colloquial (mis)understandings that are incorrect to spread FUD about specific tech companies. Check out their record on AMZN, for instance. In this case they use this guy to set up a completely false dichotomy: who wouldn't rather that? I'm sure even Uber would rather that. But that's not how life (read: the economy) works at all.
Yes there is certain luck bestowed upon you when you are born in US. But you still need to do lots of work to get a good job.

Big multinational don't care about your visa status, several of my friend has been in Zurich (Google), Dubin (Google), London (FB) if they didn't make cut in H1B lottery system after they cleared the interview process.

Don't confuse empathy with competence. Are you looking for charity when you interview with the companies ?

Work hard, raise your competence level and you will have no problem finding a good job in any part of the world.
How coincidental ... working on a FreeNAS home server this morning!
Ask HN: JavaScript live coding browser plugin for Sublime?
Like in Brackets, or LightTable? Is there any?
Nope, you're not an outlier. If someone steals your device, be it random theft or FBI/NSA storm your home, at least you know exactly what was taken and when and you probably know why(fair or otherwise). Much better for your state of mind to know for sure whether or not your data has been taken rather than what we have now - a constant state of paranoia because none of us really know what the NSA is up to. For the most part, I just assume any internet-capable device is compromised. One thing I still suspect is outside of NSA's wide-sweeping data collecting is proper usage of Steganography.

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

>>For example, a sender might start with an innocuous image file and adjust the color of every 100th pixel to correspond to a letter in the alphabet, a change so subtle that someone not specifically looking for it is unlikely to notice it.

I cannot comprehend that the NSA is scanning every image on the internet looking for patterns like that. If I were planning on some anti-establishment action, that's what I'd do. It would also be pretty cool for someone to make a tool that does this automatically. For regular people who just want plain privacy, keep on whistleblowing, keep on naming and shaming, keep on making the NSA's strategies not work by posting more and more tools & techniques to render their surveillance useless.... until we reach some kind of critical point that even the average-joe can't ignore.
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/05/ragebooter-legit-ddos-ser...
HN as a city
Intelligence floats in big cities, we breath it, and for those like me that dwell abroad, HN can be that breath of intelligence.

Has any of your post help you with a synergistic approach, new connections, give you a new outlook, fund your business or suggest a successful alternative? I'd like to know any post in HN that has made a profound effect on you.

For example, one post about learning and teaching maths linked to Thurston "On proof and Progress in Mathematics" that I consider can impact many young mathematicians. Kremer's model of innovation as a function of density of population means that tools as HN can expand the power of our minds to create and innovate like never before.

Going into a meta post, I can imagine that HN may evolve into some kind of network that allows us to get powerful insight. But, before reaching that goal, is necessary to filter and reward those whose creative mind we all want to share.

At the minimum, those creative minds that we all want show off should be allowed to move to any country, permanent visa granted, if they are going to share their insight to help boost the economy.

Related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_intelligence_of_cities

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

Edit: added link to intellengent city and Spatial intelligence.
Rich people are currently exploited by a range of people selling nonsense.

Sometimes those people selling the nonsense know it's nonsense and they're just outright crooks.

Often those people genuinely think they have a valid treatment and they're just being ignored because BIG PHARMA[1] or somesuch.

Diverting money from those sham treatments into carefully controlled trials seems to be beneficial.

[1] It's tricky to argue against some forms of WOO[2] because the behaviour of some pharma companies is so terrible. Only publishing results that show efficacy; fudging the compliance documentation; using dying cancer patients to campaign for changes in prescribing guidelines when the company knows the drug only adds maybe two weeks of poor quality life.

[2] Waste Of Oxygen - a useless stupid pointless treatment such as homeopathy.
I have one of the new thinkpads at work, and (off the top of my head) the screen can be bent in and out considerably with a light push of the finger, and it has an incredibly rattly/wavy/cheap plastic strip of buttons above the keyboard. I don't think their quality is what it once was.
I have just signed up to meetup.com, but the next meetup is 100km (~1h by train) away. Will try to visit it, but I'm glad if people can share their experiences.
i come from a generation where adhd is vocalised using a cash register chime, so i aggressively avoid acknowledging the diagnosis stead the syndromes

> My patient “treated” his [distraction'boredom'frustration'creative depletion] simply by changing the conditions of his work environment from one that was highly routine to one that was varied and unpredictable. All of a sudden, his greatest liabilities — his impatience, short attention span and restlessness — became assets.

i developed a similar work environment.. i called it distracting my distractions

i often have multiple projects i want to work on with varied goals and requirements and if i start to lull while working i just shift to another project

i used to do this when i was a younger when reading

i would have many books open and scattered on my floor, all open to different pages

my friends might start reading a book at the same time as me and finish the book in one week what took me a four weeks to finish, but after that four weeks was over i would have finished reading three other books as well,
each finishing at the end of that four weeks

books are really easy to build productive workflows around: you can immediately determine speed and pace based on time it takes to read the second page and how long the book is; with projects it is more difficult,
i may get stuck on one function for hours and another will come out of me effortlessly,
it is a now a matter of correctly recognising when i've begun to sludge signalling i should move to another project

most recently i have been taking breaks from work every thirty minutes or so, unless i am whistling through something, and get up and stretch,
while giving my back and butt the rest i try to analyse my progress since the last stretch and determine if a project shift would do me good
Interesting, how do you explore these apps? Personally, I've never heard about any of apps mentioned so far.

EDIT:

>You mean how do people find out about these apps?

Yes.
Even Microsoft's mice and keyboards don't work when you first plug them in, Windows has to spin its wheels and "install a driver" (which it notifies you about) before they will work. If you're online with Windows Update, your computer will then offer to download some sort of control center for your mouse and keyboard. It's absolutely ridiculous.
Yeah, the learning curve is steep. Also, if you're using a common productivity setup like vim + iTerm2 + tmux + zsh, it takes way too long IMO to both figure out how they work together and configure them (with both plugins and editing config files—do I use Pathogen? Or do I use vundle? Should I dive into oh-my-zsh, or prezto?). But once you do get it set up...wheeee! You can really be efficient in ways that just aren't possible with non-modal, not-in-the-terminal editors.

I hope Neovim is a pathway out of that, and makes configuration a breeze.
I know those lawsuits made a difference to me. I recall back in '92 getting a 386sx 20Mhz PC with Windows 3.0 on it and being severely disappointed with its limited functionality. While looking for alternatives, I remember seeing that there were some "legal issues" with the BSDs, but Linux had none. So off I went, downloading a large stack of floppies which was a big commitment over a 1200 baud modem. 20+ years later, I've never looked back.
Self promotion time, I've also written a Jekyll plugin to provide search using lunr.js [1].

[1] Jekyll + lunr.js = Static websites with powerful full-text search using JavaScript https://github.com/slashdotdash/jekyll-lunr-js-search
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That-s a perfect way of putting it. We already consider the USD change we receive from each transaction to be nearly worthless when considered individually. The idea is to make that change work for you in (admittedly) volatile context.
I don't fully agree with "Most people coming on H1B are no less talented /skilled or hardworking that an average american techie"

Remember workers in H1B are suppose to be specialized and cream layer of workers.

Apart from few thousand people (working in Google/FB/Microsoft), others are completely replaceable by american workers, it just that H1B people will put with lot of stuff at lot less pay than there american counterparts, hence contributing to bottom line of these body shopping companies. (TCS/HCL/Wipro) are no different.

A competent person has many options regardless of visa status and nationality.
I <3 FreeBSD! I run it on my HP Micro Server. Picked it for ZFS support and solid networking.
As an Angeleno, I generally resent NY Times trying to tell the rest of the nation about life in Los Angeles. Every single article I've read in that vein has had the same trite, vaguely condescending cliches like "America’s most auto-centric place", etc. Los Angeles is vast, and some areas are as walkable as Manhattan. We're also building more rail lines than anywhere else in the country.

Uber is popular here (like any large city I'm sure) but Lyft has a strong presence (especially in West Hollywood). Frankly, most people I know choose to live near their favorite nightlife spots to avoid the driving problem, or near mass transit.
Here's a similar situation that turned out much better than expected.

Back when I grew up in Texas in the 80s, the power utilities were regulated monopolies (like pretty much everywhere else). They owned both the power plants and the wires going down the street. Then in the 90s, the utility lobby convinced the state that it would be much better for "competition" if utilities were "deregulated". The state went along with it, split utilities in to "wires" and "production", and deregulated production[1] (i.e. let anyone build a power plant and sell power at any price).

This was great for the current utilities because they were the only ones with existing power plants, so they could collude and jack up the rates[2]. However, in the early 2000s oil companies/prospectors started realizing that all this natural gas they were fracking could be used in power plants, and they could be the ones who owned the power plants.

So there was a huge boom[3] of gas power plants in the 2000s as many non-utilities built and competed on the wholesale market to provide power. This drove the price in the late 2000s and early 2010s down significantly since gas was so cheap. Deregulation actually worked in eventually driving down the price due to competition!

The difference between Texas utilities vs. FCC/ISPs is that the grid operators were still regulated and had to let anyone who sold power to use their grid. This effectively created the equivalent to the "Title 2" common carrier for the electric grid. The competition is fierce on the power production side, and the parts of the old utilities that were split off to compete are starting to go bankrupt[4].

So if the FCC wants competition, they need to follow the Texas system and split the cable company into regulated "wires" and deregulated "ISP" parts. Unfortunately, the existing monopolies have seen what happened in Texas, so I don't think they'll push for deregulation.

[1]: http://www.ercot.com/about/profile/history/

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deregulation_of_the_Texas_elec...

[3]: http://www.poweracrosstexas.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/P...

[4]: http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/business/TXU-Oncor-Owners-Vote-fo...
> Unless the security and privacy problems of the cloud are fixed, people are unlikely to upload the kind of data required to make them comparable

You vastly overestimate people's concern over privacy and security. We still use email, http and insecure credit cards yet they have huge security and privacy holes.

People will use what appeals to them and worry about security and privacy generally later.
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Your argument has absolutely nothing to do with net neutrality.

Charging people for consumed volume is something that can and does already happen, and continues to happen in places where net neutrality is law.

Net neutrality is about not discriminating in what people consume or send.

BTW, high volume traffic companies like Netflix and YouTube are outliers. Many ordinary end users create way more upstream traffic than the average commercial non-video content provider.
Part of the reason for this is that ebook formatting/typesetting tends to be terrible in logographic languages. I don't know why, but typesetting in the ebook world is much worse there. I have a Japanese friend who complains constantly about any ebook she gets.
Sure. So, I pay like $60 - $70 per month per person. I found highly detail oriented, responsible and non judgmental individuals via elance.com, guru.com, taskrabbit (before it changed its model.) I hired two people.

All they have to do it ping me on Skype/Gmail and ping me every hour for a few hours from Mon - Sat. Once in the morning and 3 to 4 times in the evening. It just takes them a few seconds. That's it. They will just check in on your progress and hold you accountable. They will notice patterns and give advice. Like for ex: If I am not very productive, they will tell me to go to Starbucks so I can focus. Basically I am outsourcing my executive functioning.

I am constantly on the lookout for tips and tricks that worked for other ADHD people who became successful. So, this one I picked from Trudie Styler (Sting's wife). Also it pays to read the comment section of ADHD related articles because that is a goldmine of useful anecdotal information. There was this case where the mom complained that the reason her son did well in school was because he failed a grade and was doing school with along his sister. His sister kept him on track and followed up with everything he was supposed to do. Now that he is about to go to college alone, the mom mentioned her fears about his future. So a combination of these pushed me to build a team around me that keeps me on track.
For an entry level government job the scholarship probably is equivalent to a year of salary. Point being this sort of service requirement for scholarship is pretty common and isn't some practice relegated to shady companies on the other side of the world.
This thread is all backwards. Cronyism/corporatism is being called capitalism, and capitalism is being called socialism. The socialist solution would be public ownership of one firm without private competition, and would be (at least in my opinion) disastrous.
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> Flat rates for all you can eat downloads, combined with necessarily oversold capacity (since most people don't use all their available capacity all the time)

What does this have to do with net neutrality? Net neutrality is not about how much data gets transferred. It's about not privileging some data types or data sources over others. Charging higher fees for more bandwidth usage is fine, and completely consistent with net neutrality. Charging someone who streams 100 GB/month from Netflix more than someone who streams 100 GB/month from Redbox or Hulu is not.

> The market has generally rejected the first solution.

No, ISPs have generally rejected the first solution, because if people who only used small amounts of bandwidth only got charged for small amounts of bandwidth, the ISPs would get less revenue. They are able to get away with this because the market for internet access in most places in the US is not free: ISPs have sweetheart deals with local governments giving them exclusive access. (And every time a local municipality tries to build out broadband as a public utility, with equal access for any ISP, the big ISPs have kittens and take them to court.)
Surely Microsoft can choose which devices they put some signature branding on, and which ones they choose to stock in their own retail stores though? They can't control the hardware running Windows but they absolutely should control be aware of what their 'signature' on an OEM device implies.
That's a good idea. We did some research on that and, still, the net revenue we would generate out of those wouldn't make up for the costs either.

We started pushing some cool features like auto-magic clustering of photos into moments. Now Google and a few others do it too, so I know it doesn't sound all that impressive now.
I have bought several ebooks in Japanese and had no problem whatsoever with the formatting. You can actually adjust about everything in the kindle as long as it comes with a mobi file.
What do you mean by "explore"? You mean how do people find out about these apps? Usually word of mouth, online forums, stuff like that.

Even five years ago, the global programming community wasn't that large. If someone built something small and useful, and they promoted it in their local community (like at a LUG, Perl Mongers, other meetup) they gained decent usage and exposure.
> The rigid slide-by-slide hierarchies slice and dice the evidence into arbitrary compartments

Is there something like a combination of PowerPoint and Prezi? Just one continous vertical slide where you just scroll down during a presentation.

Also, using a PDF (created in InDesign for example) is a great alternative to if you don't need videos or animations. Plus compatibility is way better.
http://everytimezone.com
This sounds badass. Kudos brotha!
http://birthde.com
The end result is that you are on the hook for $10k+ if you decide to quit Microsoft - very similar to the amount charged by Indian outsourcing companies in the article. There are legitimate expenses beyond visa fees that companies incur to import foreign worker and any company will want to be compensated for them if employee quit early.
> I've been running OpenBSD on a laptop (which works as my desktop) for years now, and I can say there's been very little fiddling. In fact it's proved to be the best out-of-the-box experience I've had with any OS (including Windows XP and a whole bunch of Linux distros).

I think with any BSD, trying to run it on modern hardware will be a frustrating experience as it lags behind Linux in hardware support (which itself lags behind Windows/OSX). Of course, BSDs are more coherent OSes and if it were not for hardware support I would use it exclusively.
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http://ipinfo.io API gets ~300M requests per month