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I for one look forward to the day when all interesting software jobs are to to be found in the US, I mean California, I mean the Bay Area. Not.
Don't know how you can say that they certainly didn't want to be part of it, when their actions tell a different story. Lend-Lease for instance.
It's a marketing technique that currently enjoys good conversion. What I'm thankful for is that it did not pop up over the content upon pageload. Worst thing ever.
This is a meta comment, but does it seem like this post is attracting a more-than-usual amount of new posters? Maybe the site in general is getting more popular, I don't know, but on ~30 comments, there are four useless comments from green accounts, and the submitter is a green account. Just seems to be more than average.
All the interviews I have had with major tech companies involved white board exercises except for one. The one that didn't involve a white board focused on discussing prior accomplishments in context of the job to see if there is alignment.

I think white boards are great if you use the information you gather from them in the proper way. Engineers solve problems, teams create global companies and change the world. I look at white board sessions to see how you can approach a problem, are you big picture or in the weed detail oriented. When I ask the question what do you focus on? Whether you solve the entire problem or not is not the deciding factor in my opinion.

Also, I think with the volume or applicants companies are looking for ways for people to prove they as contributed to their resume achievements and were not a back seat passenger the rest of the team carried along.
10 months is probably enough to find out if the current sales model wasn't working. In that situation, there's nothing to gain by waiting out and giving things a chance to work out on their own.
Co-Founder here. We got HN hug!
And firebase is having trouble changing our plan. We will be contacting back everyone who is trying to login :)

Edit: We are back up!
Related conversation on a different article on the same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9168597
Yea, we should've let Hitler have Europe. Good idea.
In the 80's I had a Hafler DH-220 amp, one of the first to use discrete MOSFET devices at a reasonable price -- IIRC $700, or $600 if you built it yourself. With a quiet preamp and the then brand-new Sony CDP-101 CD player ($650-ish) you had some amazing sound. Hit pause on the CD and listen to the dead silence, even at high volume levels. Amazing.

These days - spend your money on anything of reasonable price and you'll get excellent sound. They're marketed more on features (i-device integration, network audio, etc) than audio quality, because decent sound quality has become a given.
For a lot of companies, "salary" is usually a mixture of base salary, bonus and stock options/RSUs.

I guess there are also various perks (public transport ticket, food, ...), but those mostly don't end up scoring that high on the 'money' scale.

Are there any plans to take these things into consideration?
No, but I believe that all the cases that reach the press have been reported and are part of the statistics. What I can't believe is that people who don't understand basic statistics are allowed to teach in universities and associate in the boycott of Indian students.
ExoticVPS: Virtual Servers Around the World
Auction of Live GTLD Beginning of Domain-Name Shakeup?
Presumably, there is also the public good of having more electric vehicles, which was the rationale for such subsidies in the first place.
> Scientists suspect that when the brain is forced to carry out a crucial part of its development while the child is in the outside world instead of a warm, watery womb, it receives inappropriate signals from the environment that affect how its neurons are linked into networks. “The premature brain gets subjected to quite different sensory inputs — like visual stimulation and gravity effects — which it is not supposed to be subject to,” says Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz of the INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit in Paris, who studies language development in infants. “They can be sudden, intense but also unpredictable.” Some of these unnatural sensory signals are inevitably provided by the intensive medical procedures that keep premature babies alive.

I recall a (I think) Russian experiment with faked weightlessness for their space programme where they had people lie on half-filled water beds for a month. It was really effective.

If we made an incubator with one of those, and made it a 37 degree heat bath while we're at it, wouldn't that compensate for some of these stimuli?
Don't you know the difference between the startup of an application container (which takes 3-4 seconds) and a page refresh which depends on what your application is doing?

There are a lot of companies using Spring, at least in Europe I can't count them. I don't know on what planet you're living :)
But the thing is artificial sweeteners are bad for you too, so going "sugar free" doesn't help from a nutritional standpoint.
Happy Birthday Suga BTS 9 Mar 2015
I'm part of the recent sysadmin generation that had no programming skills and grew up doing what I consider more "application administration." Lots of clicking Next with no real understanding of what to do if that Next button quits working. Stack tracing? Procmon? Miserable understanding of DNS and networking, what's a /24? These were things senior admins knew and used once the tickets went up the chain because customers were screaming.

I was always (well, not always, once I'd proven myself) a senior admin/engineer, now I focus almost purely on AWS automation, and it bums me at out how many admins are completely happy with just being Next button admins who are absolutely AFRAID of touching a bash or zsh shell, or even a Cisco router without the UI.

I suppose it shouldn't bother me, it's done great for my career.
This is pretty much the primary reason I would ever get a smartwatch. Once I can put Tokyoflash-esque [1] faces on the watch, then I would consider jumping in.

[1]: http://www.tokyoflash.com/en/watches/1/
What are we discussing here? Has there been an exhaustive global study of juvenile DLC purchase patterns? b^)

Statements like this, which partition people using one trait, and then confidently assert that the subsets differ dramatically in some other trait, are nearly always wrong. There will invariably be more differences within groups than between them; that is a property of human beings.
Like the concept, but have some reservations. What happens when recruiters start using it and spamming me regardless of whether they have something that pays the figure in question or not (one of those situations where the amount "magically" becomes 30% less than the recruiter said it was when you go to interview.) Like I said, I love the idea but I have doubts about how it will pan out when exposed to the seedy world of tech recruiters.
I wonder if you could use Bluetooth Low Energy instead of WiFi as the power saving can last years. iBeacons have the potential to last years on a single battery. Probably not ideal for transferring large amounts of information though.
This is a great idea, but there needs to be some substantial recruiter vetting in the background somewhere. Here in the UK the bad tech recruiters are renowned for advertising jobs that don't exist in order to get candidates to hand over their details, at which point the job suddenly vanishes but the recruiter spams you for the rest of your life with appallingly unsuitable roles.

For a system like this to work there needs to a way to verify that the recruiter is trying to fill a real job that actually pays what they say it pays. That bit will be exceptionally difficult. If trycatch can solve it though, then I hope they take over the entire job market. 100% of it.
Two dogs means 2x the daycare costs, 2x the vet costs, etc.

>No dogs?

Maybe. I like having a dog, but would like a better way to interact with her while I'm at work and other scenarios (people who wants pets but cant care for them like the elderly or the allergic or the relatively poor).
Other way round; when the first robots are given "rights", there will still be humans toiling in sweatshops.

(This comment is satire, I think)
re: exit node, this comment might explain it: https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/2y9q55/fbi_...

Seems plausible to me.
> Likewise, Google did not create untold billions "out of thin air." Google created untold billions by leveraging NSF-funded research, and the patent which Stanford licensed to them, in the midst of an explosion of new opportunities which was created when the NSF lifted commercial restrictions on the use of the Internet (which had also been built with public funding).

You say it as if it was easy. Like they had it handed to them. Clearly a lot of tumblers fell into place, but that doesn't mean the NSF is due a share of the profits. Would you claim Harvard is due a share of Microsoft if it gave Bill Gates a scholarship?

> I know Americans like to imagine that even acknowledging the public sector exists is the same thing as surrendering to the USSR, but the USSR doesn't even exist any more, and there's actually a lot of merit in being aware of history and being honest about how economies work.

What are you getting at? I have no idea what you're trying to say here.
Would love to hear more about your product!
Will you share the name of it ?
Yeah I can see an argument for having development engineers and production engineers so that the devs writing new features can focus on that without getting distracted by production issues. The production engineers do monitoring, config management, and bug fixes for prod issues.

The problem is in most orgs, the roles for people who fight fires in production tend to be demoted to a lowly "support" title, and paid/hired for accordingly, which is really not commensurate with the value they provide to the organization.
German Prof rejects Indian student for internship because India unsafe for women
Why bet365 made the switch to Erlang
>> Seventy years ago today, the United States needlessly killed almost 100,000 people in a single air raid over Tokyo.

War is never a good thing, but this line makes no sense.
Do you list companies that are pro-remote?
Ok, good catch. :) I'll own up to the embarrassment I deserve right now.

Even still, the point stands: the article was published before newsfeed ads debuted (in June '12), and certainly before their use became commonplace enough to establish benchmark CTRs.
Related read: "Bombing civilians is not only immoral, it's ineffective" http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/mar/27/comment...
You quoted a bit from the article that had nothing to do with family, and then instead of justifying your point, you just re-iterated it. Then you made up what you thought my opinion of you was. Like, get a grip.

You know what increases in large families? Chances of sibling sexual abuse. http://www.socialworktoday.com/archive/111312p18.shtml

> social activists like you

You say it like it's a bad thing. :)
I'd like to see something like this for jobs that are available for Remote Workers.
I think you're overestimating the effect that visas have VS other factors.

Take the country's current socio-political situation as an example

Moving to another country is no small thing, and most people would avoid it if they had the chance. The fact that they don't means that the cost of changing things in their country is much higher than the cost of moving their entire families to another.

Indeed the cost of political change only continues to get higher with the brain-drain. But if were really high to begin with, the brain-drain doesn't make that much of a difference.
email is the most flexible and powerful form of identity we have perhaps only next to the mobile so don't think so.
heavily subsidised electronic pets that have in app purchases

A robot that guilts you into spending money on it? That's probably the worst possible outcome of this.
What's the worst thing about MOOCS?
Sorry, just USD for now. Will add more regions soon.
People forget history is written by the victors.

For example, on Sept 11th 1944, my hometown of Darmstadt (a unprotected city of little strategic importance that late in the war: it had a single north-south / east-west railroad crossing, that's it) was bombed with white phosphorus by the British. 10,000 civilians died in the first few hours. 1/3 of the city was leveled. It's not clear to me right now, but my parents told me that white phosphorus was against the geneva convention even at the time.
Citation needed. Especially about the mostly plants part. We know humans couldn't have gotten the brains we have without eating meat.

Also Aspatarme is likely less dangerous than sugar.
It doesn't seem so likely that the Fourth Amendment would protect information sent into Tor.

I mean, I have only a very basic understanding of it and still understand that exit nodes will have a lot of visibility into traffic, so I had better consider that before sending data over Tor. They've even made PSAs about this (I looked it up just now):

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/plaintext-over-tor-still-pl...
Tech Companies Owe It to the Public to Cooperate with Surveillance
Introducing Onshape Beta
As a sysadmin for the last 15 years, I'm fine with this, as long as you're going to pay me as a senior software engineer (if I have to know the app inside and out) who is also going to be on call constantly and doing infrastructure all day long.

If you as a business or employer want to continue to squeeze additional roles and knowledge into people, be prepared to pay for it.
You mean you haven't seen the ads where you have to mouse over the X to select "Close?"

I feel dirty having to look at the ad for the 3 seconds it takes me to figure this out.
There was an X-Files episode with this idea. Something Jesus said ("Talitha cumi") was recorded in a piece of pottery.
I was excited to hear someone's Guile Scheme answere to Sinatra, Artanis (yes, I know, cute), led me to the Summer of Lisp winner list, including this of course and the Learn You a Datalog guy. Naturally, that led me to EDN.

Thanks for reminding my to finished the EDN docs.

http://www.learndatalogtoday.org/
I gave up sugar products 3 years. (30 march 2012).

I've had no physical cravings or reactions what so ever. Not the first hours, days or weeks, nothing, ever.

I don't care about the marginal stuff though. Sugar is added to a lot of non-intuitive products. My rule of thumb is - if it is highly probable that the product wouldn't be around if it weren't for its sugar, I don't eat it.

Not everyone has the 'physical addicted' genes I guess. I suspect my "secret" is that I don't allow considering sweets to stay in my brain for even the smallest amount of time. I look away and think about something else. Start a dummy conversation with someone, look at the magazines, pick up my smart phone.
The feature that gives Samsung Pay ubiquity comes from LoopPay and mimics magnetic swiping. It can be used in many places where traditional credit cards can be used, but not when credit cards need to be inserted such as vending machines. This does not use tokenization or rely on NFC. Hence it's still as insecure as a traditional credit card.

Samsung may incorporate tokenization, but that's outside of magentic swiping and requires NFC terminals. This is where Samsung is lagging Apple Pay.

LoopPay will become obsolete on October 2015, when liability rules shift, and EMV-based machines replace older machines and chip and pin cards are mailed by banks to consumers. It's not just Mastercard and Visa (although they are responsible for the M and V in the name), but also Amex and Discover. These new machines will support tokenization and NFC. The machines may also incorporate requirements stemming from the Durbin amendment.
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I do have an option for the companies to tell if they accept remote work but I do not have a specific list/feature for pro-remote companies.
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> In the wake of last year’s attack by North Korea against Sony Pictures Entertainment and numerous other breaches, the urge to hack back, or at least build up the means to do so when and if needed, has increased.

So this is just casually accepted as fact now?
I did a short stint in Sony's robotics lab working on the humanoid Qrio (the successor to Aibo) at that time. From what I understand, Sony started getting poor financial results around that time. The Aibo and Qrio were viewed largely as R&D (Aibo was not a major product and Qrio was still years out) and as such, were on the chopping block for cost savings when times got tight.
Thanks! We love it when only devs can understand the hidden meaning :)
and yet one is selling well and the other is not.
It's in the pipeline sir!
Give me a break.
The paternalism on HN sometimes...
If 'DevOps' is operations, that what is the point of the term? Ops teams have been doing automation of support systems for a while, so what exactly does it mean to be DevOps? I think that's part of what the OP is getting at, if your fancy 'DevOps' team just ends up being separated and isolated from the dev team you're back at square one, you've accomplished nothing and the same divide exists with a new label.

As someone who works on the dev side, the ops side, and the mixture of the two I feel the OPs pain acutely and have had mixed experiences. People on the dev side need to understand and willing to learn about ops, it's not rocket science and you don't have to be knee deep in it to get the basics down. When ops becomes this black box and becomes a bottleneck is when you start to see dysfunction.
That's an interesting analogy, because the lighting in art galleries is not at all neutral. Most galleries point a few narrow spotlights at each piece on the wall. The spotlights are warm and incandescent, and their narrow spread illuminates the center of the work more than the edges. This makes the work look like it's emitting light. It has an enhancing effect compared to normal flat interior lighting. So the actual lighting in art galleries is more like the warm distortion of vinyl and naive tube amps, not high accuracy of this amp.
>" They are basing their new argument on "fresh evidence". To be successful, an appeal must be based on a legal argument and not on new evidence.

You are confusing an appeal with a motion for a new trial. New evidence cannot be heard by any federal appellate court. However, a motion for a new trial (which is what they filed here) is filed with the district court that heard the case, and can include new evidence as a basis for the motion.

Were this not possible, all of those people you hear about that are freed based on new DNA evidence, witnesses that admit to lying after trial, etc. would simply rot in prison. In fact, new evidence is one of the most common reasons for requesting a new trial.
It's not "if", it's "when."
Jesus, maybe you were not able to read a clojure book befor you started. Its amazingly simple to explain how to write thread safe code with clojure, and pretty easy to add concurrency safly.

There are 3 concepts that are all diffrent, and a couple yours ago core.async was added. All in all thats a amazingly simple and powerful combination. Everybody I have heard is pretty happy with these tools. What is your problem?
What Apple may unveil about Apple TV
[project critique] Gift Automation Service
Hey all,

I'm looking for feedback on my latest project: www.gifthandler.com

Elevator Pitch: Receive reminder emails for upcoming events (birthdays, mother's day ...) which suggest the perfect gift and a personalized message based on how users described their gift recipients.

What I'm Looking for: Sign up for the service, test us out, sign up in the "Gift Yourself" section to give us some direction on picking out gifts for other people. I'm looking for design and usability feedback - I've only begun building the site over the past few weeks. I love the concept, but understand it still looks like middle school club's website.

Thanks so much YCombinator readers!
It's hard to say. The bots make posts - and the metadata shows that they do so using the Twitter website. Either they've got a sweatshop full of people doing the clicking, or they're automating their access to the site.

In any case, it would be fairly easy to simulate an "organic" pattern of use.

No idea if they're clicking adverts.
That's an absolutely creative way of doing it! Congrats.
I'm interested in how you did it. For example, how do you exactly "crawl the internet"? Did you have a bunch of sites that you've pre-selected and then just crawl those or did you actually follow through on links?

Thanks.
Ask HN: How do I find a team of 10-15 developers a project to work on?
I need some advice, I have worked with a group of developers for going on 15 years. Along the way had two very successful exits, though none of the developers were equity holders.

Along the way we have evolved from a team that was primarily located in Orlando, FL to a team that became distributed across the US. We have pretty much become a ready made, distributed development team for a companies that need one.

The issue is we just can't seem to capitalize on the fact that we are a team of senior devs ready to go, what ends up happening is one or two of us find a decent contract and slowly we pick up the other developers. When we run across a really skilled developer that “gets it” they usually gravitate towards us and become part of the team so with every contract we seem to grow.

We have built some large high volume apps for IBM, Marriott and a host of other companies and we have amassed a lot of business knowledge in the travel, conference platforms, higher education, k-12 and e-reader technologies. We have guys with a lot of experience mobile, Javascript based web apps and a host of back ends. Before this comes off sounding like a sales pitch, I would like to get to the point which is that we are a group of developers in high demand markets, as well we posses high demand skill sets, but we just cant seem to parlay this into something more than just contract work.

My question is how would you parlay what is supposed to be the greatest assets in this market, “developers” into a lucrative arrangement, for all parties involved, that most importantly the team members enjoy? How would you go about getting a team of 10-15 developers / QA / dev ops / and a hands on CTO into a project that they are passionate about, that supports them and has more skin to it than just a contract or job. I don't even know how, I would go about marketing such an arrangement to someone with the idea and the capital, or find and existing company that needs such a team.
> Copying a random zip file of the Anarchist's Cookbook on to your PC will get you a few hours of questioning

Not in the US. I could download a hundred copies from every sketchy warez site on the internet without violating any laws.
How does this compare to Euterpea [1] another Haskell-based music development DSL that can do real-time? It is Haskore and HasSound based, not Supercollider. I couldn't make the comparison after watching most of the video for Vivid.

[1] http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/euterpea/
Denying access to education to Indian males because they are rapists is a way to "raise awareness"? Maybe in the same sense that requiring jews to wear yellow stars in 1939 Germany because they were a dangerous subhuman race was a way to raise awareness?

I never really understood the banality of evil, but listening to people coming up with benign excuses for what I perceive as blatant abuse I'm beginning to get it.
Google Ventures' Bill Maris Investing in Idea of Living to 500
Wow, that's... I don't know what to say. I'm not sure if he has an evil agenda or plain ignorant. Now, looking at it from your perspective, it makes sense. I still wonder if people can be educated to see any kind of involuntary sex and sexual abuse as rape. I guess it's a matter of being pragmatic vs idealistic and I'm not sure which would work.