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> I'm hiring a system administrator just south of Seattle, for my manufacturing company in the green space. Smart folks who enjoy a happy working environment and solving interesting customer-facing problems are welcome to get in touch with me.

Unfortunately you're in the wrong continent for me I'm afraid. Perhaps someone ought to create a HN job board? Something that would allow people like yourself who want good people to access a pool of hackers, and something that would make those periodic "who's hiring?" posts redundant?

I'm not sure how it would distinguish itself from something like the 37 signals job board, but I think a lot of jobs mentioned in those job threads aren't advertised there anyway?

"My generation seems entitled because the reality we are now confronting does not match up with the fantasy world that adults have been preparing us for for our entire lives."

I couldn't agree more. I can't help but feel the generation our generation spawns will be a really cynical bunch ;)

You know nothing of his situation and yet are willing to cast aspersions on his character. Before you go tarring a whole generation with the "entitled" label perhaps a little context from the generation that lacks humility might be in order.

Friends of mine are in the same position as this guy. They recently graduated with good degrees from a decent university with no allusions that finding a job was going to be anything but difficult. Rather than feel like they're owed a job the ones I know have spent hours _every_ day applying for jobs for the past (up to) 2 years with no success. Most of the time they get no reply from these companies (fair enough), but the few times they do get an interview someone else with more experience gets the job.

This is clearly a frustrating position to be in. They feel like they've done everything that was expected of them. They went to university and graduated with a good degree. Now they see their friends who left school and started working immediately progressing in their careers and can't help but feel like they should have done the same.

All the while this goes on people from other generations who have jobs harp on about how it's a disgrace that there are so many people on social welfare and these people could find a job if they wanted.

When my friends get asked what they do and they reply that they're unemployed they're treated like plague monkeys. They're villified by members of the media and politicians looking for votes. Still they perservere. Far from feel a sense of entitlement these people feel despair. You think they don't know that they're "not fucking special" as you so eloquently put it?

If after two years of applying for jobs without an end in sight he feels like venting a little bit of frustration at the attitudes of recruiters towards people like him that's not the worst thing in the world. If his situation is even half as bad as some of my friends' I wouldn't dare condescend to him by calling him entitled, far from it.

It's not often I get angry after reading a comment on HN.

Assuming the VPN server doesn't just allocate from a pool of public IPs owned by the organisation you're connecting into (the scenario I had in mind here) then yes this is an issue.

This would be better done with a VPN than simply allowing external access to your printers.

> Can't they just switch a private LAN infrastructure connected through NAT?

They could and given that in most organisations devices are already generally subject to restrictive firewall rules it shouldn't impact them all that much.

I think it would be better to focus efforts on making these organisations move to IPv6. This could possibly be achieved by ordering them to give back most of their IPv4 addresses. Since they will then be forced to reorganise their infrastructure anyway they could use this opportunity to switch on IPv6 across their organisation at the same time, if they haven't already.

> This is misleading: computers (and especially printers) attached to a local network do not deplete public IP addresses

A device connected to a LAN in someone's house will often just have a private IP and go through a NAT for its internet access.

However many big organisations will have been allocated a large address space at some point, often the size of a Class B. Their machines internally will often use a global IP address. The printers I use at university have their own public IPs. I'm guessing that's not unusual.

Looks like your sorting is buggy. Sorting by acquisition (high to low) puts GraffitiGeo ($750,000) at the top of the list.

Still, good work. It's great to have a list like this. Would you consider adding in who the acquirer was?

I didn't mean for my comment to imply that I have any critical pages :)

Sometimes people can talk you out of a good idea before you start too

I use freedns for hosting for a non-critical domain. I've never noticed any problems with them, but to be honest if they went down for a few hours at a time I probably wouldn't notice on that domain.

On their website it says that they're experiencing DDOS attacks. Sounds like not all their servers are down however:

"Though our name server are still under DDOS attacks, your domains should be up and running fine now. If unable to reach your domain, please make sure you have all 4 name servers, ns1.dnsexit.com, ns2.dnsexit.com, ns3.dnsexit.com and ns4.dnsexit.com assigned to your domain."

> I did the quick math on a napkin, and realized they were doing far worse as an NGO/charity than they would be to help people as a for-profit business.

You're making the assumption that creating jobs is better than providing access to education. This may be true in the short term, but probably not in the long term if access to education in that area is a problem. I would say that given that investment in education takes years to pay off anyway it is probably a good plan to invest sooner rather than later. However without knowing more about the specific case it's impossible to say either way.

I'm purely speculating on a hypothetical situation here, but from the point of view of the NGO it may make more sense to invest in education. Creating 120 jobs is no doubt a good thing, but if what is needed most in the area is a school, then investing in more jobs is not doing the greatest good. Creating jobs where the workforce is uneducated is not going to improve the standard of living greatly in that area over an extended period of time. Providing the means for the next generation to obtain better jobs or have the education necessary to start their own businesses might. Maybe the NGO is playing the long game?

Also if they make a success of this model, running a cafe to fund a school, and prove that they can make it work then it will probably be easier for them to get access to funds to replicate that success elsewhere. This could easily have longer term benefits than creating a small amount of jobs. Not to mention that this model doesn't have to be replicated by that NGO.

Relations with many former colonies are good now. That doesn't mean they always were.

I agree, but at least having implementations in the wild should bring more attention to an idea and scrutiny of that code than none?

Sharing code doesn't prevent someone else from reimplementing an idea and indeed they should if they rely on results from another publication. If everyone open sources code they wrote during their research then it ought to be easy to tell if someone reimplemented an idea correctly (if their results differ). If they copied the original implementation this should be evident too.

> or producing high levels of science, commerce, invention, quality of life, safety, peace, rule of law, health, art, and other key things - decentralized imperial republicanism has absolutely outperformed just about every other form of government.

While we're painting a picture with broad strokes: imperialism is also responsible for the oppression of Catholics in Ireland, apartheid in South Africa, and the disenfranchisement of a large number of indigenous groups the world over.

>Actually, come to think of it, large swaths of the European Union are modeled on the Austro-Hungarian example, but those in Brussels are just too scared to admit it.

How exactly are "large swaths" of the EU modelled on the Austro-Hungarian empire?

Multimap sold out to MS for $50 million, so I'm not sure they cared too much about Google.

Dublin, Ireland.

Rent - €300 p/m (room/studio in a shared house). This is about as cheap as you can get. A room in the city centre would be more like €700-900 p/m.

Food - €30-40 per week assuming you bring a packed lunch and cook at home.

Bills - around €50 p/m. Includes electricity and TV.

Internet - if you're a student you can get a 3G USB dongle for €20 with a monthly cost of €13 from O2. That comes with a 5 gig cap. Vodafone allow you to roam on any of their networks in Europe if you subscribe to their service. If you're lucky enough to live in the right area you can get Fibre to the home for €50 p/m. DSL is around the same price.

Mobile phone - choose the pay as you go option (prepay) and you can send up to 250 text messages per month for free online. plans start from €15 with 50 minutes/texts. mobile calls about 12-13c per minute. i think some of the networks do free texts to people on the same network now.

Minimum wage - €8.65 per hour

Programmer salaries - typically about €30k starting off with senior (> 5 year's experience and typically more) able to charge up to 70-80k. someone in the bottom of that range (30k) will take home 80% of that after tax. middle of that range (55k) will typically take home 70% of their salary after tax, and someone on 80k will take home just over 60%. We have a fairly harsh budget in the works so that will probably change slightly. Tax calculator - http://www.hookhead.ie/Tools/tax2010.jsp

Health insurance - companies will often provide this but if they don't then a decent plan will cost €800-900 and the comprehensive plan will cost €2000. under the drugs payment scheme (available to all residents) you will pay a maximum of €120 per month for prescribed medicine.

Transport - typically about €60-70. cycling is definitely an option though as the city is small.

As a student I have been living on €1000 per month for over a year now. This is while trying to be fairly frugal most of the time. By cutting down on the time/money I spend on socialising I could reduce these expenses significantly, but that is important to me so I don't.

Comment on dit "scapegoat" en Français?

I don't get why the parent was downvoted. Since when does HN get up in arms about grammar nazis? ;) The term "Ex-(French trader)" implies that he could now be, for example, a German trader. I think the proper nomenclature should be "French ex-trader" with the "ex-" prefix being most tightly bound to the thing that the subject was formerly. I may well be wrong about that and I'm fully willing to accept the consequences of the Law of Prescriptive Retaliation. :)

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=337

Nice. The thought of ".java" being a common document type made me smile. Guess we know what it's written in ;)

This sounds a lot like what Vidoop tried to do. Their initial idea was to replace passwords with an authentication mechanism based on selecting a number of pictures that fit into user-chosen categories. A person would select 3-5 images from a grid of 12 with each image belonging to a distinct category. Those who picked the images, in the correct order, corresponding to their chosen categories (selected on sign up to the service) along with their username was deemed authenticated. As far as I know they hoped to make money by selling ads within the categories, so if one of the categories displayed was "pets" you might see ads for petfood for example. They moved into doing captchas at some point too.

Anyway, it seemed like a promising idea, but they folded last year. Good write up from a former employee here: http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/06/05/the-fall-of-vidoop/

Marc Stiegler's essay on Petname systems is a far better introduction (it's listed in the external links). http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/petnames/IntroPetNames.html

He uses the term memorable rather than human-meaningful, which is a more accurate description I think.

That makes sense.

"So not only can you NOT leave your day job for a startup, you typically have to wait 2 (or more) years before being able to freely work on any projects."

If this is true then how does moving job generally work in NYC? Presumably people there aren't expected to work for one employer all their life or take years off in between jobs?

The population of Denmark is 5.5 million, which if it were a US state, would make it the 21st largest state.

Why so?

I don't have much choice for the project I'm on at the moment, we've standardised on Eclipse, but I'll give it a look in the future. Thanks.