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Freelance Coding
I'm a 22 year old in part time classes. I've a bit of formal experience with java and c++. I don't know if I'll be returning to school next semester but waiting tables isn't quite cutting it monetarily. Anyone have any advice on building a good reputation as a freelance coder? I don't really have anything to put on a resume other than a few completed classes. What's a good starting point for me? Is it even worth me investing my time? Thanks to all those who read this.
Requesting a reasonable precis of a long essay is not unreasonable of itself. Especially when the packaging of a story itself is nothing but hyping its own greatness.

If someone's got time for a long read with no direct benefit of itself, that's fine, but there's no reason to cap on those who are simply seeking some context on the item.

There's far more content online (even just on HN) than anyone can possibly hope to assess, let alone read, in a lifetime. If Sturgeon's Law at Web scale were only six-sigma compliant, it would be a huge improvement.
I wonder whether the fault is at the iBeacon API/CoreLocation framework or the hardware beacons used? From your description above it sounds to me the hardware beacons are of questionable quality (low quality batteries and bad antenna maybe?)
We do a lot of AWS work, so it is interesting to see the poor AWS performance. Any theories as to why it might be?
AWS released PaaS docker support 7 months ago: http://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-elastic-beanstalk-for-do...
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Two Aruba Beacon stories on the front page of Hacker News in the same day?
This is a brilliant theoretical advance. But it will remain a purely paper discovery until the experimentalists can confirm it. Accordingly, it is imperative that we immediately start construction of a high-energy hipster collider.
It's a tradeoff. Packing more data into the beacon would mean more spectrum used per beacon - also, changing what the beacons are saying is much harder than flipping a switch on a cloud server.

Also it's not required that you go talk to the internet after hearing a beacon - if you already knew what beacons to look for and what to do about them, you wouldn't need to use the internet at all to create "local notifications."
I've been using this plugin for git status: https://sublime.wbond.net/packages/GitGutter
It's far worse in many other countries: China, Russia, even the UK and parts of the EU.

But the alarming thing to me is that totalitarian oligarchy seems to be the direction the whole world is moving. I can't think of any major nation or region in the world that isn't moving toward more concentration of power in fewer hands, less accountability, a more opaque system of government, more concentration of wealth, and less transparency.

For reasons that are not entirely clear to me, the world seems to have given up on the enlightenment -- or at least on the political aspects of it. We're going to keep the scientific and technical aspects, but politically we're going back to the dark ages. In the long term I think we're facing the very real potential of a technocratic dark age, which when it comes down to it is what Orwell, Huxley, and other prescient writers were warning us about.
Take your original estimate, double it, and move to the next higher units. A one hour job ends up taking two days. Two weeks goes to four months.

Scarily enough, I've worked with people whose multipliers are this large.
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Why messaging apps are so addictive
Don't the desktop apps simply work automatically with DB via the filesystem?
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I think everyone's trying to save retailers from Amazon :)
Not least because the pictures are available on the Fire TV, so if you plug in a Fire TV in the living room you better not have any pictures in your Amazon Cloud Drive that you don't want anyone that gets to use your Fire TV to see.
It's also not a fallacy when an extensive history of similar encroachment exists. At some point, the burden of proof has to shift to the party who maintains that the government won't eventually abuse a given power.

IMHO there is no more certain indication that someone has been educated beyond their intelligence than when they sign onto an Internet forum and start braying about how the slippery-slope argument is a "logical fallacy." While technically correct, they betray an ignorance of how human beings -- a decidedly non-logical species -- actually behave.
What exactly is the Google glass for?
I was fortunate enough to borrow a friend's google glass for a month. After the initial day of wear, I haven't touched it since (which is why my friend was okay with me borrowing it.)

What are you using yours for?
Also Flickr does not have desktop client which you can use on your PC or Mac which was ultimately deal-breaker for me.
I use https://www.copy.com/home/.

Copy is ran by Barracuda. My only current grief is the lack of 2 factor authentication, but they have stated that is on the near roadmap.
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Its brilliant
For your convenience:

http://amzn.com/B00LT1JHLW - $175 for Blu-Ray, $135 for DVD

To be released November 11.
I think AWS is best suited for companies really using many of the services in conjunction with one another. If you're just after raw CPU/RAM/IO, I think EC2 is overpriced as an option. Guys like Digital Ocean are offering a lot more bang for your buck (as the testing shows) on that front. Digital Ocean also lacks a ton of the features of AWS, so that's the trade off.
My eBook was made using Leanpub, which allows you to create on their platform and sells on others (thanks, Leanpub!)

See Leanpub's FAQ question "Can I sell my book on Leanpub and other sites at the same time?" -- https://leanpub.com/help/author_faq

All that being wonderful, I found attempting to do any customizations (font, font size, line height) impossible - both in attempting to figure out markdown -> pdf tools (or md -> html -> pdf) and within services such as Leanpub.

There's definitely a market out there for creating eBooks with customizations for those who care about the look and feel of their publications! And if not a "paying market", at least an interested on for either a service or good tutorials!

For the curious, I wrote "servers for hackers": https://book.serversforhackers.com
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Alibaba Reports 54% Sales Growth in First Earnings Report Since IPO
The Gimbal 10 beacon line blows. Battery life is around a month at best. I literally changed all of the Gimbal 10 beacons' batteries in my office two weeks ago and some are at 50% power right now. But they were free, so tradeoffs...
that is only about 117 files per user if there is still 300 million users
I think that hipsters are not about nonconformism but about being new normal. Old normal is boring and stupid but new normal is nice. Explains all the same look.
Will this be available in Canada soon?
> Effects are a very natural mental model for a great deal of problems and constraining yourself to purity is both impractical and quickly experiences diminishing returns.

I can't personally recall a problem where purity was feasible but impractical, though I can think of a few examples of the opposite.

> If you intercept all file IO, you can recover the same data.

Yes, if you record all I/O, you could restore files that have been deleted by a previous task.

However, it seems rather more elegant, and more efficient, to prevent the files from being deleted in the first place.

> Rather than try to shoehorn all data in to a declarative model

That isn't what I'm trying to say. There will inevitably be some cases where you need side-effectful I/O.

It's more that I'd rather see a solution start simple and pull in complexity as necessary, rather than start complex and attempt to work back to simplicity with constraints.
In the absence of any insinuation by the OP that the first company put any pressure on them to accept the offer within any time frame at all it's pretty wild speculation on your part to accuse them of "exploiting" them.

(it's just as easy to assume the latter... that the first offer was accepted because it was perfectly reasonable and the second company was slow to make an offer and poor at communicating. If the second company did take a surprisingly long time to make an offer that's actually another variable to take into account; possibly representing organisational problems or a preference for other candidates at their end)
That's interesting, and good to hear.

Would YC be open to sharing anonymized data on the sitribution of YC-ers (at time of entry) by age, married (binary), # of kids and race?
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For what it's worth, there is also a hilarious sample of the 'hipster' population in this Youtube video (Jimmy Kimmel 0:53 mark)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frjaQ17yAww
Of course interviewees in this video are probably paid actors playing dumb, but boy it doesn't the stereotype ...
I'm very surprised they're launching this given the immaturity of Kubernetes.

Fuck this shithole and their shadow banning. I know I've been banned for like over a year now, but it's fucking stupid. I had one bad comment and I've been locked out of dozens of conversations about topics that I could contribute on, but no, no matter what I do, any account gets shadow banned.

Meanwhile, the person I got into an argument with has burned through 3 more throwaways in the meantime.
I think hair restoration\transplant companies can also target users with ads by looking at their pictures. If they are bald then show them our ad
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As a, hopefully useful to someone, aside you can use icloud shared photo streams for nearly unlimited storage of casual photos/videos. You are limited to 5000, per stream. You can have 100 streams total: http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT4858 Be aware, there is some downsizing that occurs: http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT5902 (see: `Which photo and video formats and sizes does iCloud Photo Sharing support?`)

Works nicely to get the most of your iOS device storage, share with family, mild private social interactions (e.g. commenting), OSX integration (e.g. you can have one central repo for wallpapers for all devices), etc.
If no one wins the contest, it proves nothing.

But contests like this are a bad idea for another reason: people will hoard bugs instead of disclose, sometimes for years. For example, the Pwn2Own contest boosted the discovery and disclosure of bugs in browsers for the first few years, but now companies have co-opted it into a marketing event. They sit on exploits in order to win two or three years from now.

I noticed a bug in one of the Telegram clients when the first contest was announced, but it wouldn't have qualified. Now the reward has tripled, and the scope expanded. As the user base grows, the reward will go up again (and again), and I'm sure no one will claim the bug since real experts have better things to do, so maybe it's smart to wait, maybe not...

Telegram, and other projects thinking of doing this: think small. In the lottery model, there is one big winner; you should prefer a model with many (smaller) winners. Pay for patches that improve the quality of the code base, fix compiler warnings, improve documentation, etc. Many grains of sand will sink a ship.
"high-energy hipster collider"

We already have apple stores but we need data scientists to analyze the results. Perhaps a nosql database would help. Or a tattoo.
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I thought this too. But even with the plugged in RadBeacon (http://www.radiusnetworks.com/ibeacon/radbeacon/) and no EM interference between it and the phone, I was still getting extremely spotty results.

It's most probably a combination of all random variables (EM interference, beacon hardware, software, phone BLE antennae, etc) that makes it so frustrating and practically non-deterministic.
Yes and no.

I have no idea whenever and how broken IGE is. I heard, nobody even cared to evaluate that. Boils down to "no formal proofs (but likely to be broken)".

At the same time, I heard the concern there are no security proofs on the key exchange and it may have issues. Since as a commoner I can't evaluate it any further than this, so boils down to "no formal proofs (although hoped to be fine)", too.

Those are surely different cases. I'm just concerned over what I use (TextSecure), though.
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I use it as a heads-up display when I go on spacewalks and during neurosurgery.
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I think the only great thing remains about Dropbox is their awesome sync. But think biggies like Google,MS,Apple,etc. will soon catch up with it with sync service on par with Dropbox. Dropbox will need to come up with something to justify its being.
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Can someone explain the difference between Apache Mesos, Apache Spark, and Kubernetes. As someone reading just announcements, and having never experimented with any of these tools, they sound like they promise the same capabilities.

Is it just that they are different open source projects aiming for the same goal ... or are their goals different?
Great explanation. Thanks for clearing that up so succinctly.
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We use AWS Elastic Beanstalk for Docker deployment. Can you comment on how this is different? I see it supports multiple containers per VM - are there other significant distinguishing factors?
How is this not collusion?
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Is google drive an actual alternative to box/dropbox? I thought that if you uploaded (say) a .doc file, google drive changed it to a google docs file (which could be re-exported via docs->Word converter rather being copied out untransformed). This made me concerned that uploaded pictures would be down sampled etc.

I also seem to remember that if you click on a google doc file it opens a browser window rather than launching an app on your machine.

So I stopped trying to use it on my laptop. This system may have changed, or there may have been a way to avoid this.

I do use google docs/drive but only as a way to use docs that others have created and shared with me. I have noticed on iOS that opening docs shows a different set of files than opening the google drive app, which also does not reassure me.

It would be interesting to me if it were a true DB replacement. Of course since I now have to use Office 365 I just got unlimited Onedrive capacity so I may switch to that.
Actually the seeming paradox of nonconformity is because the term is misapplied.

It is mostly a rejection of the mainstream tribe, not all possible tribes. One is choosing not to conform with the mainstream, and so chooses some smaller niche.

It's not like they are trying to signal their otherness to every group they come across - this is how they signal their self-selected group.

And the term "hipster" is another "not my tribe" label.
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." ― Henry Ford
So, the statistical correlation between states of particles is literally the fundamental thing that defines quantum entanglement.

Suppose you and I both get a coin and we flip them. You then turn over your hand and reveal heads. If the two coins are "entangled", there is now a greater than 50% probability that my coin will be tails, which would not be the case if the coins weren't entangled.

Quantum entanglement works essentially the same way. "Flipping the coin" is equivalent to observing some state of the particle, like spin. In both cases, entanglement is evidenced by the correlation between the states, nothing more.

Now, imagine we had entangled coins and we were in separate rooms. We flip our coins and you observe yours, noting a heads. In my room, I can't know what you did or didn't observe. So when I observe my coin and see tails, I don't realize it's a consequence of your observation. From each of our individual perspectives the coin flip looks perfectly random. This is why information transfer isn't possible through quantum entanglement.
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Do you work as a contractor (incorporated) in Canada?
context: I recently incorporated my business
What's the right process to follow to save as much money as possible from the tax man? Any advise on what accounting firm I should get in touch with? I would like to know the things you would have done differently if you had to do it over. I would like to avoid the mistakes you made along the way...
> where are they taking $40k off of the price

Smaller car, cheaper materials, cheaper motor and battery, lower profit margin...
You can monitor for one region per UUID, meaning that if all of your 1100 beacons share the same proximity UUID, then you should be good.
Facebook Admits to Censoring Content That Criticize Governments
No worries. I just noticed they include the benchmarks here [1]

[1] https://github.com/techfort/LokiJS/tree/master/benchmark
If it makes you feel any better, after the paper published last week, it looks like TextSecure is the closest of all the messaging applications to any kind of formal proof.
`git commit -am "something people will use" && git push heroku master`

Understanding that line is the only true gate.
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> If you're looking at gigabyte+ datasets, then something designed to be in-memory is probably not your best bet. Aside from saving, (one imagines) this would also affect load times (reading->parsing->importing a multi-GB JSON file at launch can't be quick).

Why not? I only need to load when my program starts, i.e. after a crash or maybe an upgrade when hot code swapping is not available. Sounds like there may be plenty of persistence schemes that make this not entirely painful (load latest data first, or fallback to disk reads if the data isn't entirely loaded yet, which makes the service slower but still available right after a crash).

Note, I'm really just dreaming here, and I appreciate you dreaming along. Dreaming is good! Some frontend dev dreamed "i just want to rebuild the entire page whenever data changes!" and then React happened.

Thanks for your dig into the code btw, nice findings! I can't find the save() calls either, so I suspect that they used to be there but aren't now, or the other way around. It's alpha, after all.
> I can recommend f.lux

Or the oss variant redshift: http://jonls.dk/redshift/
Exactly. The characterization of 'hipsters' as nonconformists ruins the mathematical metaphor for me. 'Hipsters' are simply conforming to a more attractive group, filled with better looking, younger people, more attuned to their own concerns, that are more interesting to them than their parents.

Actual nonconformists are both common and very dissimilar to each other. Most people know a few. They rarely take pride in their lack of conformity, but just can't seem to pick up on the music that everyone else is dancing to.
I'm not commenting on the technology, but the organization itself.

They did a terrible job with that stadium. Want to know a terrible way to spend a Sunday? Staring directly into the sun watching a football game and succumbing to splitting headaches for 24 hours. They spent over $1B, they should've made the stadium a dome in that Santa Clara weather (like the stadium in Arizona) instead of positioning 75% of the crowd directly at the sun!

All the apps, beacons, and concession stand technology in the world won't keep fans in those seats during the game.
Why would you cancel your Prime Subscription to begin with? As someone who gets more than the price of Prime on shipping items alone, all these additional services are just bonuses to what is already an insanely cost-effective subscription.
"No one shopping for an M3, 911, or AMG product who actually intends to use them for their performance i"

I was easily able to pull .9 g's in my 911 (2012) [1] at least according to the g meter that it had (yes it has one and which measures forces in all direction) on a highway on ramp.

Not that I ever looked into it but I'm now seeing the 911 can pull 1.04 g's.

One other thing to note that is important. The size of the car matters not just the speed and the lateral g's. For example in the Porsche Macan S I have now the performance and ride is great. But the simple larger physical size makes it a completely different experience than driving the 911. [2] To quiet, to comfortable (but really nice not complaining..)

[1] Noting that I earned the money for this car by a traditional, what would be called here "lifestyle" business, not a hit the lottery internet VC funded win.

[2] For that matter a Mini Cooper S that I owned a few years before was more fun in many situations even though the tires and grip were way less and the acceleration palled in comparison to the 911. (But it was well over 1/4 the price and well worth it..)
"What we call a Beacon today was originally invented and popularized by Apple way back in 2013 when they introduced the iBeacon API." --> It's funny (and sad) to see how Apple is given credit for "inventing" so many different technologies.
For anyone interested, on iCloud Photo Library beta:

Downloaded off device that image was taken with via Image Capture

3942cf85f43282ece05ee01ef82f3b245e1638e6 IMG_2273.JPG

Downloaded via iCloud.com/photos

0271267eb3fe02a27398e20e285cf14a26333510 IMG_2273.JPG

But probably the better test will be to see how files differ between iOS devices, and the Mac Photos.app when that is released.

...

Running this through exiftool, the image downloaded via icloud.com/photos has the following EXIF stripped which is the likely cause of the above change:

GPS Latitude Ref
GPS Longitude Ref
GPS Altitude Ref
GPS Time Stamp
GPS Speed Ref
GPS Speed
GPS Img Direction Ref
GPS Img Direction
GPS Dest Bearing Ref
GPS Dest Bearing
GPS Date Stamp
GPS Altitude
GPS Date/Time
GPS Latitude
GPS Longitude
GPS Position
Amazon Cloud Drive, is it similar to Dropbox, Google Drive and iCloud, in the way it synchronizes data?
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I think it was in 'The Century for the Self' that described research in the 70's regarding the counter culture movements of the 60's. What they found was that there were a number of alternative cultures that the people not following the standard culture would adopt into (hippies, outdoorsy people, etc) to find like minded alternative individuals. They called each of these alt-cultures 'lifestyles' and found that although a majority of people claimed to be counter culture, there was only a small set of about 12 or so lifestyles that most of these people fit into.

I think 'hipster' is just one lifestyle under the above criteria.