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I can vouch for TalentBuddy, they have a great service.

If you're interviewing, I maintain a list here (that desperately needs some attention from me, btw): https://github.com/andreis/interview
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> Now make it a webservice and charge $200/month!

I don't actually see the problem here. They provide a real service, so they can demand real money. There are multi billion dollar companies that do less for their users.
I am in similar position as you, my contract treats me as an employee and i have all the same benefits as the employees in the us, but i seem internal documentation in the company mentions me as a contractor.
Those charts on the Economist showing how new markets fill the empty space left by Silk Road are very similar to some charts from a recent EU study on piracy:

https://torrentfreak.com/shutting-down-pirate-sites-is-ineff...

Short of somehow controlling the creation of these "services" in the first place (rather than trying to block them after the fact), it doesn't look like they can be stopped as long as the demand is there.
Online sportsbooks... A security and fraud nightmare
Thank you for the feedback. I have been thinking about this earlier (https://github.com/sharkdp/cube-composer/issues/7). I will definitely try to improve it.
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I'm going to be graduating university within the next year or so with a degree in Computer Science.

I've had internships at major banks and tech companies, but I'm not sure if their ultimate goals align to mine; I would like to write software that has more of an impact on the world than maybe just adding a new feature to the sidebar of a Google search or reducing the speed with which trades can be processed.

Firms that are doing medical research/creating medical products that have a strong software or hardware development side, renewable energy companies and space exploration companies all seem better bets for working somewhere that I'd be able look back on at the end of my career and thinking it was a good decision (morally/philanthropically?) to work there.

Since I don't yet have a very in-depth knowledge of these industries, I'm not sure what firms are out there, and I'm equally sure that I'm missing some amazing ones. It'd be great if HN could give me some pointers, or point out how flawed my ideals are...
Template modified from here [0]; doesn't inspire too much confidence to be honest.

0: http://startbootstrap.com/template-overviews/landing-page/
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So why don't you quit?
I prefer a vaccine for cancer prevention;
MVP. I don't have a problem with using templates.
Needless to say, this is a gross EULA violation (clarification: if you do it on non-Apple hardware, that is).
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Insider trading + Front running = HFT
Uhm no what caused problems was Visa/Mastercard/Paypal stopping payment processing for filehosting site (even ones that were "clean" )
You bet we do. Trains, buses, stadiums, everything. Think of the upside: If you ever thought it might be interesting to visit a police state, traveling there costs a lot less than it used to.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/06/us/tsa-expands-duties-beyo...
First of congratulations on the app, it is fulfilling a real need.

You have cracked the first problem of getting people to download + use +care about the app.

I like the idea of doing the survey however from my experience (we did a paid for Google Customer survey) our users want more content and for price of free which wasn’t hugely useful.

Personally I think you have three easy options:

1. Add some low level not too obtrusive adverts in (you will get a nice trickle of money in)

From my own experience of putting adverts into a util app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teazel&hl=...) no-one minds at all. The key is to not go overboard. We have banners that don't refresh too often, disappear if they going to draw over a dice. The number of apps I see show full screen adverts at start up, every page transition etc - all very icky.

2. As others have said try and grow it and use it for Resume/CV building. My one reservation on this is make sure you actually try and capitalise on it. I’m reminded of friends staying in awful jobs due to the
training/experience and years later never really harvesting the rewards.

3. Use it to cross promote another app (either by yourself or sell the space). Getting an app to be downloaded is so hard now having this to kick start the next project is a great de-risker.

I would go for option 1 or 3 depending on whether you have other apps in the pipeline.

As an aside is this lightweight wrapping of a webapp model work for other providers? LinkedIn etc?
well we just need to wait until the first terrorist does strike one of those targets and I am quite sure Homeland Security will step in and correct the short fall.

While we do not have admission security to a mall like a plane the idea you are not watched in the mall and that there aren't guards around is a bit far fetched. You aren't searched unless you enter a store which has a bag policy because of a theft issue.

As for buses and trains, I am quite sure there are guards and cameras, just no oppressive searching of luggage or your person.

Once they can make it like "The Running Man" portrayed I won't have much of a problem with it but I don't think the tech is quite there yet
Would this run faster on a Windows-SDD than on a Mac-mini sloooow HDD?
Yet there's been no epidemic in using planes as guided missiles, despite a long string of hijackings after 9/11.

Even including the 9/11 hijackings, your odds of surviving a plane hijacking if you stay down and don't antagonise the hijackers are very good as most of them have goals that does not involve killing themselves or the planets unless absolutely necessary.
I agree about Oracle's lack of a strategy that incorporates Hadoop is definitely going to hurt them. With the addition of Spark the Hadoop platform is looking like being the first choice for analysing data sets whether small or big. And whilst I am sure SQL has and will continue to be a major part of that it won't be the only approach. There will be R, PMML, Python, Scala and a whole lot more.

That aside Facebook having a buy versus build decision to make seems pretty strange. What would they even buy given that Cassandra and HBase which they created are two of the most scalable databases right now. Strange observation.
Fantastic response. Digital Ocean is hiring heavily. They give stock options.
Ars covered this much better than did Wired [1]. That's what you want to read to get a decent picture of the factors that went into his sentence (assuming you don't get a copy of the court transcript and read that).

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/ulbricht-at-sente...
If you are in the US.

In other countries, these parts of the EULA might not have a legal meaning at all.
Having grown up in a poor household with a single parent who worked multiple jobs to get ends to meet, you'll forgive me if I don't feel a whole heck of a lot of sympathy for you and your "gilded cage".

Money itself does not buy happiness.

A lack of money, though, makes it a heck of a lot harder to find it.

The goal should be to reach a point where you don't have to actively worry about money, and that includes some buffer to allow for luxury expenses... travel, eating out, entertainment, that sort of thing.

Beyond that, additional money will, at best, provide an increment in terms of overall life satisfaction.

Less than that, and money has a major impact on happiness, and anyone who says otherwise has clearly never experienced the stress of living paycheck-to-paycheck. That is a cage, and trust me, it ain't gilded.
Don't believe everything they say. Tufts is financed by the pharmaceutical industry AND is based on data provided by the industry.
This is very challenging.

Very very challenging
Thi is damn fun, well done. Any plans for a mobile version?
> It is not merely coincidental that all unintended acceleration events occurred in automatic cars. Also, a widespread unintended acceleration problem has not been observed in Toyota cars outside the USA.

If my car went nuts on acceleration the first thing I'd do would be to jump on the clutch pedal and apply brakes (and possibly set the stick to neutral) but that's because most cars here are manual thus that's what we learn to operate†. Pursuing on that line: once at a stop, cut the ignition and disaster is averted. Start again and you're probably fine due to the reboot. Then drive to nearest Toyota to complain, but since "nothing" (i.e no damage, no injury) really happened, you'll get a shrug and a reflash.

† In a country where people learn only on automatic cars, setting back to neutral is most probably not reflex (if mechanically possible at all)
Did you consider contributing to libfirm[0]/cparser[1]

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Life in a duopoly is great . Why change things ?
It's not, you're allowed to install OS X in virtual machines granted it is on a apple device.
The email in the profile isn't public, you'd have to add it to the about field.
Honestly, I like to hear high level architectural decisions. Take a project the candidate did and just ask them questions on it. Talk and reason about it.

Then, hack on a small project for the hiring startup that would be useful. An internal tool or dashboard. Make it fun.

This isn't school, college, academia. We don't need tests. Companies first and foremost need good culture fits, self-starters, independent, passionate, people. In fact, I'm actually fine with having a (beer || soda) with a candidate, and just talking as a first step.
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Yes. Those legally binding EULAs with the associated EULA-violations we've constantly heard people getting jailed over.

How about you Mac-heads come to terms with Macs being bog standard X86 hardware and OSX being a bog standard X86 OS, and that running a bog standard X86 OS on bog standard X86 hardware is absolutely within everyone's legal right to do?

There's nothing special about your hardware nor OS. Get over it.

In the meantime I will virtualize OSX to get the Mac-specific parts of my build and tests running, and leave everything else on proper Linux.
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A list of graphic, video, audio and 3d programs. Would be nice to see some pull requests
I feel ya. I'm an American citizen based in Eastern Europe (grew up in Milwaukee, let's say I don't pose an enormous "presence" or have much of an accent). Last time I came into Washington DC the border guide asked me "how long are you staying?" I very desperately wanted to just say "as long as I want."
> It's not, you're allowed to install OS X in virtual machines granted it is on a apple device.

I was with you until you said something about restrictions. No court of law anywhere has said that you running standard X86 code in a standard X86 environment is illegal.
That one chart single handedly shows how permanent the idea of online drug markets are and also how attractive the field currently is for further innovation. It shows a market with high turn-over which to the minds of a geeky criminal translates to the question "can I do it better and survive longer?"

As a .gov I'd be concerned that the eventual party that does get it right, might have state support. A situation where instead of paying the bills of drug addiction therapists within the site, as Silkroad did, it would ban them outright.
I don't know what the downvote is for, from the SLA [1]:

(iii) to install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple Software
within virtual operating system environments on each Mac Computer you own or control that is
already running the Apple Software, for purposes of: (a) software development; (b) testing during
software development; (c) using OS X Server; or (d) personal, non-commercial use.

[1] http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/OSX1010.pdf
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Virtualization is expressly permitted by the Mac OS X 10.10.3 (Yosemite) SLA (Section 2B III) - http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/OSX10103.pdf

(iii) to install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple Software
within virtual operating system environments on each Mac Computer you own or control that is
already running the Apple Software, for purposes of: (a) software development; (b) testing during
software development; (c) using OS X Server; or (d) personal, non-commercial use.

Unless you are talking about the modification of the installation media. That, I am unclear on.
That's what I'm trying to figure out. $600k salary+bonuses is C-level executive territory. The idea of an engineer making that kind of money in straight compensation sounds ludicrous to me.

If it's in the form of options, you'll forgive me if I treat that as pretend money until it's transformed into real wealth.
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Yes, because all "mac heads" are responsible for the choices made by Apple
Nor does it have the same risk profile as say Ireland or Iceland. Whether its over blown is a different debate and a much harder one to quantify.
These types of nitpicky, detail-oriented comments are toxic. Who cares? The only thing that matters right now is that they solve a real problem and do it well. Anything else is peripherals at this point.
Quite you don't get bananas thrown at BME techies do you as happens to Black Footballers
You spent an hour to write an app? ok.
Nice rundown - you've clearly done the foreign-startup runabout, and "lack of big exits locally" is also my thesis for why startups & their valuations aren't so positive. The fact is that Asian investors haven't seen big paydays from new ventures, so they're all demanding traction or recurring revenue instead of risking funds on unproven businesses. I've also been struggling with this.

We startup HN people in Singapore should have a beer sometime, would be great to trade stories/news. Send me an email (check my profile) if you/anyone is interested.
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As the Apple hardware & software combo is so beautiful, I prefer to run OSX and virtualize Linux when necessary.
A guided missile is a an airframe packed with high explosives designed to destroy heavily fortified buildings and vehicles. A passenger plane is a lightweight airframe designed to carry people, cargo, and fuel. Besides the fact they both fly it is a world of difference.

A passenger plane carrying 1/2 of its fuel capacity damaged the Pentagon. 2 passenger planes carrying 1/2 their fuel capacity obliterated the WTC towers. This says more about the design of the towers, and resulting engineering shortcuts, than it does about the planes themselves. .
"A million or more" in what? Base salary, salary + bonuses, or salary + handcuff compensation (e.g. options)?
I looked for a job on normal websites, happened upon one which was a contract job, got it, and since then I've been fed several projects over the span of 1.5/2 years of increasing sizes.

Coincidentally, I am also a jailbreak "app" dev (tweaks only) and I did that almost full time for over a year, almost 1.5 I think. It is indeed a nice little niche. Hard to make real money though, unless you get something really hyped up.
Somehow I imagine you take a rather different stance when it comes to the many aspects of the GPL or AGPL that haven't been tested in court. On those issues the position of the FSF is very much 'illegal till proven otherwise' (that's if you actually succeed in getting Eben Moglen to give a straight answer).
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Yes and no. Closing it down has made it clear you can't have a long-running drug store. This has greatly increased the incentive to exit scam your customers.

In file sharing, no money changes hands. In Silk Road, bitcoin changes hands, leaving a permanent public record. You can safely assume that, just as there is a department working out who is today's "Al Quaeda #1" so they can drone strike him, there will be a department devoted to tracking the most popular online drug vendor of the day.
Congratulations on the success of the app!

When i've been in similar situations i've tried to look forward and not back. By that I mean, if it's getting a lot of downloads then let the people who have already downloaded it have it, don't change their experience by adding adverts in or damaging parts of the experience. Charge for new people to get the app. Saying that, I've never had it with as many people already downloaded the app, but i'd like to think i'd still do the same thing.

I have an app that I originally charged for and it got very little downloads, I made it free for a while and didn't pay much attention to the downloads, went back to it at a later time and noticed it had a lot of downloads so I started charging for it just to see what would happen, I expected to make it free again within a week due to no downloads. Downloads obviously dropped a bit, but still kept a pretty consistent level and have done ever since. I make a point of always improving the app though, so maybe that helps too but I just think it comes down to timing and having those previous downloads could help, it seemed to help me.

I'm not sure if you can turn a free Android app into a paid one though, I don't think you used to be able to, so that might all be pointless and you'd have to make a new id for it, but you've proved people definitely want it.

Whatever you do, good luck. I'm sure having a high downloaded app will help you at some point even if you don't manage to do as much as you want with this one. I hope you do.
Love how you assume that I am a "mac-head" for pointing out something like this.
> Online markets for illegal substances are going to follow the path of file sharing, both are nearly impossible to stop.

The former are actually massively easier to stop than the latter. They have too many moving parts, too much involvement with moving physical goods around, and involve too many unreliable people with conflicting interests to prevent infiltration and to prevent betrayal from within.
"I don't know enough about the topic to say what the truth is"

Thanks for confirming for those of us that were not sure.
I've worked in a support team for a telecom billing system and I was tasked with interacting with our development team to investigate bugs in production (and eventually moved to the development team). These systems are created just like any other commercial system, without any formal proofs and minimum requirement docs. To make things worse, they have to be flexible enough to support all and any billing plans that the business might come up with, so there is a lot of moving parts.

As other people have said here, nobody wants to touch it. Developers would often limit themselves to fix just a small portion of the code even though they thought the overall system could be improved in many ways, for fear of breaking something, causing a few million dollars of damage and getting fired. There was no assurance that any part of the systems should work like this or that.. only some vague expectations.

You're right, that would be a systems that should be built from scratch with that kind of concern but unfortunately it's not.
But can you run any x86 code in any x86 environment, even when not licensed for it?

Taken literally, your stance would mean that software licenses have no legal standing and binaries can be copied to anyone to be run anywhere -- it's just "running standard x86 code in a standard x86 environment" after all.
I think this is good advice.

Potentially it's possible to monetize it and use it as a playground too though. I've tried both and I think you learn different things from each, both very useful though.
In some countries (and circumstances) EULAs are legally binding.
fintech dev on wall street / the city probably can
Seriously this is the best way to hire developers and have interviewed 100+ this way.

Tell them they have a billion dollars and they need to invent a pinning, photo, social, whatever site that can scale to everyone on the planet. Then give them a whiteboard. With one question you can determine how they communicate, their thought process, level of creativity, what they know, what they don't know and because it is open ended their nerves will quickly fade away.

The best developers are creative problem solvers not wrote learners.
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Thanks for the explanation.

May I ask a few questions :
- what the "Back" triangle is for when there is a back arrow on the top left of the app, doest it perform the same action ?
- As the "circle" is home, I guess there is no way to hide this taskbar as you could not go back to home screen, right ?
Three ways I'm personally aware of:

1. Respond to public RFPs. Most government contracts are bid this way, as are many private contracts. Be prepared to be undercut by the competition. It's pretty cutthroat.

2. Agencies. I know a number of successful contractors who work through headhunting agencies. Downside is the overhead they add to the contract.

3. Networking networking networking.

In the case of the latter, in the beginning it'll be networking through your peers. Join user groups, industry trade groups, local entrepreneurial meetups, that sort of thing. And make sure you stay in touch with your colleagues... you'll never know when some company they're working for puts a project out for tender.

Once you have a few contracts under your belt, if you're good they'll lead to more thanks to referrals, and that can pretty quickly snowball.

If you go this path the best advice you can probably get isn't what you'd expect: be prepared to say no! The quickest way to fail as a contractor is to take on too much work too quickly. At the beginning folks are usually paranoid and take on anything that comes their way, but trust me, that way lies madness!

Edit: As an aside, it's worth noting there's different types of contracting, and you should decide what, exactly, you want to do. A few examples I can think of:

1. Discrete project contracts. You bid to produce a solution, after which you offer some sort of support or maintenance contract. You probably give up the IP in this case, as it's work-for-hire.

2. Contract positions. You're brought in as labour on a new or existing project. Oftentimes specialized skills are valuable, here, as you're often brought in to fill a gap in the existing skillset, whether that's project management, design or architecture experience, or specific technical skills.

3. Really a variant of the first, and is what I think of as contract-to-product. You bid on an initial contract to build a product, after which you provide follow-up services to expand that product on some regular basis. This could be done by billing out on a line item basis, or via a retainer of some kind. It's possible in some cases to retain rights to the IP for a job like this.

So think carefully about what you want to do. Each model has pros and cons and may effect how you bid, what skills you develop, etc.
PKZIP 2.04g, now there's a version number that fires a long-dormant set of neurons.
Much needed, but a momentous task (regulatory wise). Good luck guys (I mean it)!
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