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Ask HN: Will self-employment sink my resume?
Hi all,

I'm currently at a job that, like many posters plumbing the well of Ask HN for wisdom, I'm less than excited about. I exist in a limbo between developer and marketer, but usually write more than I code, and about subjects that don't interest me at that. I like my coworkers alright, but have been thinking more and more of going my own way. Although I'm a junior dev, there's really no one to learn from as no one in our IT department can code (all great people, just not much for me there) and the rest of our work (that I don't do) is contracted out to remote workers.

Right now I'm blessed to have insanely low expenses - a product of sharing an apartment in one of the cheaper neighborhoods of Austin and driving a beater. That, combined with some savings and what I know I can reliably pull freelancing, mean I'm more than confident I could cover all my expenses for the next 6+ months (if not indefinitely). I have tons of ideas, both for development and more writing/journalistic projects and have already started to draw a small monthly income for some of my work.

My question, for all the HR people and tech recruiters out there: Will this sink my employability long-term? Although I think it's bullshit, I could see some future recruiter looking at my resume and thinking I'm too much of a bleeding-heart, anti-establishment type (which wouldn't be far off) and not worth the risk. Truthfully, the greater autonomy is why it appeals to me so much.

And if I do get dinged, is there anything I could do to lessen the pain? I'm active on Github and plan to OS some of my projects. What else can I do? I blog and try to do all that jazz when I can.
Liquid body armor tested in Poland
Investors chuck $17M at Palerra for a piece of its cloud security action
Hello Dr. Mazieres, thank you for making the Stellar whitepaper available!

While inter-domain route agreements show precedent for building a robust network out of pairwise relationships, might this particular class of agreement also work because it happens to be a "small world" where failures are obvious? That is, the set of major AS operators is small enough that all the major players know one another (since ICANN) maintains a centralized list of who owns which AS number), and bogus route announcements are easy for an AS operator to detect since they coincides with floods of angry tech support calls asking why www.foo.com no longer loads (or loads www.bar.com instead). By contrast, it seems that Stellar is geared towards environments with neither of these properties--large worlds with hard-to-notice failure modes.

I ask because I'd love to hear your thoughts on how to select quorum slices when considering the political and economic incentives that might influence which node operators I choose to trust. Specifically, do you foresee the emergence of a small set of big-player node operators that application developers almost universally (and blindly) select for their programs' quorum sets, like how web browsers and OEMs regard CA operators today? How can Stellar help users do better than blindly trusting a small set of operators? I'm assuming that the fact that big-player node operators must nevertheless externalize the same slot values in order to enjoy liveliness makes it easy for the application to automatically detect any equivocation? If so, how would nodes be deployed to resist DDoS attacks that try to break the vast majority of usres' quorum sets? I'm getting the impression that there's a missing precondition here that for a large-scale Stellar deployment to be successful, there must be a very diverse set of quorum sets.

Thanks again!
PowerShell web access might be a good alternative: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2012/11/05/window...
Most of my problems with Haskell are related to getting rid of patterns and habits from other languages that are deeply ingrained.

Assuming you have the mental models and internal language (which from the OP seems like a ten year old just barely has) it seems like it would be easier to learn Haskell at a younger age or at least before you learn any other languages.
It’s called Abiogenesis, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis

I think life is created right now on Earth from scratch (chemical elements), but we need to find proof.
> You must be trolling me.

Okay you're correct about the comparison, it was slightly more absurd to highlight the absurdity I saw in your original remark.

> What Microsoft can possibly stand to gain, fiscally speaking, from open sourcing .NET?

What does Google, Facebook or any other public, for-profit entity have to gain from open sourcing? I don't see Microsoft's motives as being any different. Companies aren't individuals, despite what US Corporate Law states. They're a system composed of the good and bad individuals currently working there and are subject to change. I would keep going, but I would basically end up saying everything coldtea already said to you a couple days ago.

If you you're looking for an official answer, you might want to ask the core .net developer in this thread as I don't work for or have any affiliation with Microsoft.
I disagree with you, I think its a terrible path to be going down. I do not agree with anyone who thinks that Cloud'ifying everything serves the needs of the end user better. But I guess I'm alone in this - it sure seems Apple is hell bent on removing the filesystem and other traditional paradigms upon which computers have been built for decades, and replacing them with .. other things .. that only they control.
Aviator: locally launch a service and all its dependent services
It's like they're trying to advertise the app!
You can have remote access to powershell...
I regrettably designed my own glasses on a smartphone app
Space is awesome.
This is awesome.
Thanks for your reply spullara. We might be one of those rare cases where we do need different packages and libraries for each applications. It's the pain that we have to suffer having to maintain several "legacy" apps.

Regarding your view on an app server being a container of some sort, I do agree. We are actually starting to develop apps to be run using embeded app servers (with Spring Boot), as it fits better when running apps using docker.
The Module Pattern in JavaScript
>As I understand it, communism decides an allocation of resources to maximise a utility function which isn't driven by individual demands but by some objective ranking of value.

That is incorrect. Communism refers to the set of economic systems which involve a stateless, moneyless, classless society in which the means of production are operated by workers for human need (ie: individual and collective demands).

Or at least, that is how the term "Communism" is used by self-professed communists, as opposed to by self-professed enemies of communism, who of course use the term in their propaganda to mean "Soviet-style dictatorship". But if you use any term as its enemies imply it to be defined in their propaganda, you will of course never get the bottom of the matter.

> (Just like how I've been using capitalism).

This is very wrong, as well. "Capitalism" means the set of economic systems in which the means of production are primarily controlled by private owners (who are distinct from the state), and operated for profit (via the sale of commodities in some sort of market), by wage laborers (who survive by offering their labor in a labor market), coordinated via the exchange of currency (again, some kind of market).

Systems can vary from "textbook" capitalism in multiple directions, such as: by the state intervening to some great or small degree in the economy (social-democratic capitalism), by finance becoming the dominant economic power above and over commodities manufacturers (financialized capitalism), by raw-materials producers becoming the dominant economic power (rentier capitalism), by private rentiers merging state power into their own personal power (feudalism), by the replacement of capital-labor separation with economic democracy (socialism), by the foundational subsidization of "market" businesses by the state (state capitalism), by the complete nationalization of production and its turning towards the state's national goals (fascism), by the removal of the state and its regime of private exclusive-possession "property" titles to resources but the keeping of the market economy (mutualism), by the removal of the state and its private-property regime and the removal of markets in favor of a debt/gift economy (anarchism), etc.

>From my side I am curious what you mean by economic democracy.

The means of production are owned and ultimate decisions are made by the people who actually do the work operating those means of production. It means exactly what it sounds like: democracy in the workplace and the commons, either direct or representative.
Brooks Buffington and Tyler Droll Will Yik Yak from the Disrupt NY Stage
Report: Hillary Clinton Used Snapchat for Most State Dept Communication [Satire]
From the github repo: Vesmeer is a universe simulator built using THREE.js, running in a browser. At the moment, the software covers the major bodies of the solar system. Much more is to come...
Relive the History of Computing at 'The Interface Experience'
>don't have to be responsible

Put another way: "don't have the choice any more".

And its only hard to run a home file server because its hard and nobody has made it easier. It could be a lot easier than it is, if only the effort were being made to make their OS more valuable - as it stands, this Cloud business is just another reason not to need a Mac.
I'm confused, is this a curated set of existing Go libraries, or a brand-new set of libraries? If the former, how are they going to guarantee their "3 years of bug fixes"? If the latter, why should I trust them to produce higher-quality code than the community has already?
Ask HN: Finding clients as a remote team
I've just started a small team with other remote developers that I've enjoyed working with on other teams in the past. We're really excited about the idea of working together regularly and between all of us are well suited to taking on large full-stack projects.

Most of the contacts we have from our work individually are clients that are typically looking to supplement an existing or in-house team, or clients looking for work on smaller projects that don't need a team. It's becoming clear that looking for clients as a team is a different thing altogether, but is that totally off-base?

Searching HN on the subject yielded this well-curated resource for remote work, but much of it seems oriented toward individuals rather than teams:

https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job/

Any advice from others who have already gone through this process would be much appreciated!
YouTube's rumored subscription service will reportedly launch this year
This Dude Carves the Most Gorgeous Spoons You'll Ever See
The arrow of time flows in one direction. Let go of regret. Learn. Grow. Go.
I see this is using the +clientserver functionality of Vim. Is there any chance that this could be reimplemented using neovim's "vim as a library" functionality? Is that part of neovim ready yet?

I ask because I've had +clientserver give me hassle in the past. Sometimes it seems to just not work for no apparent reason.
I've found that building fat JARs with all dependencies bundled solves a lot of the same dependency management issues containers can be used for. And it does it without container overhead.
It looks like it has some metrics that aren't present in cloudwatch without a lot of scripting, such as Memory utilization. I'm new to cloud watch though, so someone please correct me if that is wrong.
You don't need this. You just need Enter-PSSession [ipaddress], which allows you to interact with it like ssh. You need to enable powershell remoting first though.
Dammit, Adobe also fills their Bridge app's screenshot with photos!

https://creative.adobe.com/products/bridge

Rabble rabble rabble!
--92 percent fewer critical bulletins
--80 percent fewer reboots

Compared to what a barebones Linux install (Say... a Docker instance)?

I can easily shut off a service in Linux. And I can turn it on. The only reboot needed is for the Kernel itself, and that is soon changing.

What I'm reading here is that MS is most of the way there to Linux.
That's based on real world data. Basically, they look at the reboots caused by 32-bit mode and DWM / GUI and video drivers, as well as security bulletins. Any bulletin that patched something that isn't included in Nano was removed, thus they had 92% fewer based on what's included in Nano.
this is exactly what Google does with every single link you receive in gmail
Well, your media-sharing device doesn't "just work" -- you had to tinker with it.

I'm with you; I don't want this cloud business. I think that the ideal solution would be a small device with a purpose-built OS and hardware device that provides storage wirelessly and via some fast wired connection and is small enough and has enough battery to serve as the backend to my phone, TV, and desktop/laptop. I've always wanted this, and I think that the problems with the state of the public networks and the free-but-with-advertising services model are going to grow impossible to ignore for some larger percentage of the user base than are currently concerned. Maybe.
Flickr gives you 1TB of photo storage free but their app has been lacking the seamless integration with the OS and apps that Apple is promising.
Why is antivirus dangerous?
That behaviour backfires very often. I've heard more than one story about somebody 'deleting an album from Picasa' and ending up losing a bunch of family pictures forever. My wife did the same a couple weeks ago, thankfully there were other copies.
Remote Powershell exists, but you don't have a great deal of control over the Powershell interface (like you would with an SSH daemon), if you want to "opt-in" users one by one for remote Powershell, well, you cannot.

Also setting it up to work over the internet securely is, a touch complicated:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2012/09/17/wan...

It is a cool party trick that it can work via a web-browser and IIS. But if that's what it takes to make Powershell remoting secure without a VPN then it isn't workable.
While they are at it, they could create a posix compatible layer for Windows. That would really drive some conversion.

edit: after rereading my comment and seeing the downvotes, just to clarify, it was a serious, not negative suggestion. :)
Wow, that was well said. I'm not that often genuinely impressed by what I read on HN. Never've read anything by Jiddu Krishnamurthi, could you recommend something?
I wonder how Netflix addresses this- looking at their Hystrix page they have tons and tons of microservices...
I wear my Pebble every night when sleeping. It's fantastic backup alarm, I never have to worry about forgetting to set my phone's alarm, not hearing my phone, my phone dying, etc.

At this point I wouldn't go back to using a watch with less than a few days battery life, it takes out a huge part of the value for me.
Microsoft is doing OS-level containers and they are also going to allow running containers in VMs.
(page is https://github.com/Netflix/Hystrix/wiki) <-- this is not the way they handle it, just has a good image showing how crazy the number of microservices they handle is
Getting shot from a railgun at escape velocity sounds hazardous to your health.

A maglev gun sounds equally problematic.

The inherent upside to onboard propulsion is you can apply power for the entire duration of escape, reducing both maximum speed and delta-speed.
o Fix all broken internal links. Xenu's Link Sleuth is good program (and a hilarious name).

o Never remove old pages, just update them. This prevents braking incoming backlinks.

o Take a look at letsencrypt.org. (Avoid halfway-HTTPS like CloudFlare etc)

o (etc)

Cover all the basics and keep the money.
DJI Phantom 3
> Surprisingly people assume that someone cutting metal in the street must be the owner

Only if you're white. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge7i60GuNRg
GitHub Announces Large File Storage
I'll admit that it was necessary, and I also had to set up a DDNS account and configure the rPi to use it - but this was very easy, and if Apple can wrap all this up in a fancy GUI, the way they wrapped up a similarly complex set of functionality with the Airport Utility and Apple TV products, I fail to see how it can be any more difficult for the average user than clicking a few buttons.

I think the economic desire is just not there - Apple have given up being an OS-vendor and are in the 'next generation' phase of things where they're producing commodity, throw-away hardware for consumers. This is all a brave new world, but my point is: I think there's a missed market opportunity here, for someone, to produce the anti-cloud.
Highway Burn Money – Android Game
Showing a product in the best possible but still within the bounds of possible light to make people want it.

The utter bastards!.
This is pretty close, but there is not actually a VM in the Hyper-V Container. The key thing is, these containers will take advantage of Hyper-V enforced isolation and virtualization but without requiring the full VM. So, while it has this increased isolation, it is still a container, with what you would expect from a container, including better density, faster start-up times, and portability. And will have Docker platform support to make it more flexible across environments.

Hope that helps?
It looks very promising, but I was unable to find the answer to this simple question: How do I get my money from my bank account into the Stellar network?
Did we create mathematics, or discover it?

I'd argue a number is just an idea, and all ideas exist whether you've thought of them or not.
1TB of storage space is $240 a year with iCloud. Amazon Cloud Drive is $12 a year for unlimited photos or $60 a year for unlimited everything. I'll stick to Lightroom and Cloud Drive for my photo needs. Until Apple join the league of Google and Amazon with their cloud storage options, then I'm not interested, even if their products are pretty good.
I received the phishing mail, got worried since I usually don't receive spam or phishing delivered to my inbox. Then found the thread on bitcointalk, with people related to bitcoin (and actual users of Coinbase) are complaining. Hence the post with "might be hacked" subject.
The iPhone was a computing device in a form factor that the market was able to relate to as a phone. The Apple Watch is a computing device in a form factor that the market will be able to relate to as a watch.

'Phone' and 'watch' are just entry points. The form factor, UI, and controls will dictate what it actually is. I'm fairly certain, NOT a smaller iPhone.
Good feedback!! Something for us to look at...
http://ss64.com/ps/enter-pssession.html
>The types pushing the narrative whining over the rapid development and investment in some areas then whine over the lack of development and investment in other areas.

Of course. They're happy with the way some areas are and don't want them to change. They're unhappy with the way other areas are and want them to change. This is completely consistent.

Personally, I feel there's no question that gentrification is destroying a lot of unique culture that I personally enjoy, and replacing it with a generic culture that I don't really need any more of. Call it whining if you must, but I think it's a shame this is happening more and more often. I'd prefer that different places retained their different characters.
I appreciate your opinion of my psychology, but lets stay on subject: is the Cloud really something we should be promoting, or is there an opportunity here to eat Apples' lunch and develop a better service? Because I think that the Cloud is very, very naive and frankly quite dangerous - I think this, because I've seen and felt the repercussions for what happens when the Cloud server goes down and people can't get work done. It does happen - and will happen.

So, why not speculate about a solution that could fill the needs in different ways? We already have it on our desktop machines - Torrent, et al. If only these services were being integrated as functional OS modules, instead of being ignored ...
Isn't he the one who thinks printing money is a sound economic policy? Pot calling the kettle, I suppose.

Anyway, I don't think there are absolute rights and wrongs in this game. And a game it is, the outcome of which is quite uncertain. The players (i.e. nation states and larger economic entities such as the EU) in this game sometimes act as opponents, sometimes they cooperate but unfortunately they're hardly friends with a common goal or the greater good in mind. Germany's zero-debt policy might very well prove to be the right one once the next few rounds have been played.

Bernanke's criticism has some merit, though. Certainly, Germany's economic policy currently severely disadvantages other EU countries and benefits from their weakness. That definitely is a problem. However, this weakness also is largely self-imposed by corrupt politicians or generally wide-spread corruption. Greece for instance, economically shouldn't ever have been admitted to the Euro but it was nonetheless because of political reasons. This doesn't mean German politicians or Germans for that matter have any right to be condescending towards other nations as they sometimes come across recently. There's corruption and tremendously wasteful spending in Germany as well. Maybe it's just not as severe as in other countries but Germany hardly is a paragon of economic virtue itself. However, they can hardly be blamed for trying to achieve the best for their country first. Why should they draw up economic policies that benefit other countries which - without any accompanying political change on their part - would likely continue as before. Their crisis primarily isn't caused by Germany's strength but by their comparative weakness. On the same grounds Bernanke could advise the US the cut their grotesquely large military expenses and donate some of it to Greece so they can pay off their debt. Not bloody likely either, I suppose ...

That said, Germany is a tremendously wealthy country that could spend a lot more on infrastructure if it wasn't for large amounts of taxpayers' money wasted on pointless stuff and corrupt structures. There have been talks about a proper tax reform for more than 30 years now and by and large nothing has happened. If there's one point of criticism that can be justly made it's that German politics is lacking a vision and is largely guided by cowardice and unwillingness to assume a leadership role. Some of its success in recent years probably was mere luck.
Hillary Clinton hires Google executive to be CTO
Front-end developer may not want to work in the place that makes such silly mistakes.
I would love to be able to use my unlimited storage capacity with Amazon prime as a cloud storage center for this, but alas.

It's obvious that the seamless cloud storage will become the default moving forward, I just hope it doesn't take too long for other services to implement the same functionality. I really really don't want to be locked into Apple's ecosystem, but damn are they making it tempting.
Quite on the contrary for me, I wish I could be older in the team so that I would have more saying in important matters like design and architecture related decisions and have more freedom in deciding what to do for myself.
What filesystem backend does docker use on Windows? Doesn't it require a copy on write filesystem to be efficient?
Twitter kills #Discover tab
Our solution is likely a lot more duct tape-y, but we developed a straight-forward tool in Go for managing large assets in git: https://github.com/dailymuse/git-fit

There's a number of other solutions open source out there, some of which are documented in our readme.
> you actually make sure all of those 50 web sites can talk to all the sites they consider important

This requires you to trust the 50, correct?
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