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CellSpin looking to hire web designer/developer
We're seeking a web designer/developer with professional experience to join a small and exciting startup. You should be skilled in XHTML, CSS, and javascript (ajax). CellSpin is a relatively young company who have just launched its first product. It is a service that allows users to easily upload media from their mobile phones to their favorite sites on the internet. In additon, we have a web application that allows them to manage their media once its online. Currently, we are looking for an addition to our superb engineering team. You will get to work with smart people who play hard and work hard.

Responsibilities
- must be able to design, execute, and maintain the web front end for a company who's website is part of their main product
- must be able to manage large projects and manage their time spent on multiple tasks and still provide results
- must work with design team and backend developers

Required Qualifications
- hand-coded standards-compliant XHTML
- expert in tableless CSS layouts
- expert in javascript
- must be well-versed in unix environments, source code repositories, and bug tracking systems
- skills and experience in developing cross-browser compatible websites
- graphic design skills (must be able to use photoshop and illustrator)
- excellent written and oral communication skills w.r.t. to everyone at the company
- must know how to write good code
- must be passionate about user interaction, interfaces, and usability

Desired Qualifications
- well versed in a "modern" web framework such as django or ruby on rails
- know python
- understand web services and distributed system concepts
- you have worked in an agile development environment before

Please send resumes to jobs[at]cellspin[dot]net. If you have websites that you've done thats online, we'd love to play with them. This is for a full time position, but if you are awesome and can only work as a contractor, we can work something out.
an example: the design of the Seattle Central Library
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/49
"Taught that the free market is a dangerous wilderness, twice as many Germans as Americans tell pollsters that you should not start a business if you think it might fail."
"Programming Gauche" published in Japan
mmm i think i totally messed up that post. i accidently put in a link and now i can't get rid of it. sorry about that.
Human bodies may be made obsolete but I am keeping my fingers crossed. If we have computers which can simulate human brains (and presumably do it more efficiently/with more capabilities), we should have methods of transferring consciousness back and forth eventually at which point, I can implant myself into the computer and have all the advantages. For greater detail on this, see Space Odyssey 2001.
I think she should cross her eyes when you put the cursor on her nose.
"With these start-ups, the real question is: will we have enough funds?"

- Does anyone smell another ycomb clone ?
Only if you agree with Kant's philosophy and not with the many other interesting ones out there.
Take an algorithms course at the best university you have access to. Do all the homework.

As for books, I really like Algorithm Design [Tardos, Kleinberg]. It has a ton of really well designed problems to work on.
Looks awesome.
Money is over rated. (literally)
Cherish your privacy. The cost of fame (to any degree) is too high.

To the OP: be careful, you'll worry your peeps.
It's also one of the better ways to reliably compare people against each other for the type of intelligence and problem solving skills that programming requires.
38 Year Old Takes the SAT
Geek Graffiti
Right on. You have to justify that VC money by spending it as fast as possible.
Not A Bug...
Generate music from your voice
The number one rule of poker is to play with people worse than you are.
Hackers:  Advice on moving from Silicon Valley to Boston/Cambridge?
I was wondering if any hackers have lived in both places?

What is a cool suburb (with reasonable housing prices, reasonable being < 700K) for young families?

Is there a lot of interesting work for a s/w hacker (embedded software, or otherwise)?

What are the costs of living (housing) like?

Is it a good place for families? Are the schools good?

I've never lived there, but my wife has close relatives there.

We're considering moving away from Silicon Valley mainly because of the high cost of living, and it just isn't the best place to raise children.

We're in the very early stages of figuring this out, and the move (if it happens at all) would probably be a year away.
>Any of you out there with passion in hardware? Perhaps a startup around hardware?

Yes.

>I think we have many software/web startups and not enough startups in hardware.

I think we have the right number. ;)
Given the second airport for Sydney's being proposed for Canberra international, is that close enough :)
So based in Canberra but in the Sydney office relatively regularly.
shiro and i and "Kahua Project" member wote a book "Programming Gauche" which will be published from O'Reilly Japan.
http://www.oreilly.co.jp/books/9784873113487/
This book covers practical programmin technique
of Scheme and Gauche.
thanks.

--
ENDO Yasuyuki
My high school created a separate CS class for girls (girls could be in the "boys" CS class, but not vice-versa). It was a flop by all accounts.
This article is at least as biased as the textbooks are claimed to be.
But once AI becomes more intelligent than humans, every conceivable role will definitionally be better filled by that AI than by actual humans.
You can skip to the video, and really skip to the end of the video where this guy makes a good point.

Communities such as this one are building the brands of the market's giants.

It gave me a little motivation to come out of the shadows and begin building my own brand. My first public site will be coming out in the next few months, keep your eyes open. I suggest you other lurkers do the same!

(I may be taking the video out of context, but it really sparked that train of thought.)
Yeah, I've just been through the interview cycle as well, and I'd definitely focus on knowing as much as you can about: 1) data structures 2) algorithms 3) big picture: how would you build X? 4) math - be a good puzzle solver. the more puzzles you do, the better you get at them.
heh, some less frustrated than others
Probably the most obviously bad attempt at passing "free market" propaganda as some kind of "study" I've read recently, so biased to the point of being infantile.

It has "reddit" politics section material written all over it. Mind-shattering bad in almost any conceivably way, from the premises to the treatment of "evidences".
Medford, Newtown, Malden. Andover is further out. It's convenient along 93 to the north of Boston (95 is (or was always) a bit of a mess) or along route 9 to the west.

Beware: seasonal affective disorder, weather, massholes, general unhappiness in the locals, provincialism, idiotic drivers who always seem to be taking a left hand turn from the right-hand lane, double points for traffic circles. Lived there 5 ys. Nice to visit. Would never move back.
Reverse Sokal: The Bogdanov Affair
Right on: I was raised in Catalunya.

As for garlic soup:, I can see that you are Catalan _and_ from the big city (as you said anyway), since you haven't had the privilege of spooning such a wonderful but simple meal.
I agree. I suspect that scaling up a simulation of a neuron and expecting it to act like a brain is a bit like scaling up a simulation of an iron atom and expecting it to act like a car.
How to recreate Silverback's Parallax
Awesome (in the archaic sense) that the size estimate is only 200x what Google has currently. Seems trivially within reach in, what, only 8 doublings of performance? They guess at 10 years for "one machine", so what, 15-20 years before it's pda size/priced? An extra full-real-thinking-feeling-creating-art-type-brain in my laptop?! Holy shit.

I was actually just wondering why this project wasn't happening yet while reading "The Singularity is Near". If you haven't read it, I recommend it. It's hella dry and boring in parts, but overall worth reading if only to make you think about what a startup might look like in only 5 or 10 years.
Despite it's innocuous name, I've found "Foreign Policy" to be highly biased every time I've picked up a copy.
Yeah, definitely worth a read.

"Its quite easy to write software that doesn't need to scale." Amen.
Take the results with some salt. No matter how fascinating the results, if the model is wrong then there is no advancement in our knowledge of the brain.

As far as I know, they did not go the long and hard way of actually reconstructing a cortical column from sectioned tissue (as in electron microscopical imaging of serial sections of 60 nanometers in thickness).

What they have done, even if remarkable, is "simply" a simulation of a network built from statistical data gathered from many different studies of cortical columns.
I use their SSL certs for domains. Works great. I also use their personal S/MIME certs. Here's one site using a CAcert SSL certificate. Hostgator only charged 10 dollars to install it. https://16systems.com/main.html
I'll second the Algorithm Design book recommendation. An even better theory book is Introduction to the Theory of Computation by Sipser, however it covers slightly different topics. It is one of the most readable theory books I've seen, highly recommended, and a great resource for information on regular languages, context-free grammars and turing machines.

A less theoretical book, that is useful for a gentle intro is Masting Algorithms with C.

A bit off the theory track, but useful for a software engineer: Modern Operating Systems by Tanenbaum and Computer Organization and Design for info on hardware.
Watching what happened at Reddit convinced me that the solution is not to learn to disregard trolls, but to exclude them. They poison the atmosphere of a community, and drive away the more thoughtful members. And while you can make free speech arguments for them as you can for spam, in practice trolls are almost as distinct from other posters as spam is from ordinary email.

Every successful community has rules of conduct. And rules are probably even more necessary when the members are anonymous.
Adding certs to browsers is only one or two clicks (once). Also, Firefox on many Linux distros (maybe BSDs??) already include CAcert roots.
Your argument assumes that greater intelligence implies greater fitness for all jobs. I'm pretty sure there are jobs for which intelligence is not the primary requisite.
I have met men who where schooled in boys-only schools. Without exception (so far), their social skills are very low. Particularly with women, unsurprisingly.
Programming language trends
Oh, we are talking about different issues. We can have a policy for a forum as a whole that aims to exclude trolls, and also develop personal skills to ignore them. I don't want to be personally dependent on effective forum maintainers, so it's important for me to be able to disregard trolls in the instances they get past the forum's safeguards.
Doesn't hashing on a cookie from each server give you fairness?

http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpUpstreamRequestHashModu...
As far as I've experienced myself, jython is a great way to avoid the most horrible parts of the java language, while enjoying some of the niceties of the API and the many publicly available libraries.

So let's see if Ted and Frank manage to get jython out of its outdated state. That would be great.
I want fame. The cost of having important ideas, and not being listened to, is higher.
It would be hard to imagine an article with a first sentence like that turning out to be good.
Haha. Brilliant.

It will be interesting to see who gets it right away on here. The funny thing is, I didn't get it until I looked at it for a few seconds. I've never heard that one before.
Bad grades? Faulty memory could be to blame
No no, the burden is on the person who claims something "impossible." You have no basis to claim that what he said is impossible.
copied from here
http://www.motionportrait.com/e/about/demo_faith_02.html

check out others like that one on this page
http://www.motionportrait.com/e/about/
Anyone watching the new TV show "Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles"?

It seems to me, whether or not to be scared about the progress of AI, depends on a very simple question.

Should we treat AI like our slaves, or should we treat AI like our children?
Their website seems very vague if you don't know why you're there, and information (such as "where do I find assurers/how does one become one?) don't have easily accessible answers...if they want to garner public support their site needs to be much more informative.

Wow, I've spent way too much time in web dev...the first thing I do when I visit a webpage is consider its usability...
Start-ups go back to school to get to work
Great. In simple terms it means that machines will do all the work and we'll drink all the beer.
AllPeers has folded, sadly:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080303-alack-of-peers...
By singing?

Actually this was really cool and would be fun to play with.
Getting residence to startup?
Does anyone have experience with trying to switch from h1b (or other non-immigrant visa) to being permanently resident in order to form a startup? As far as I can tell, there is no easy way to go about this. In fact, its all quite bizarre. I can start a company but I can't work for it :-)
Ideas are dead--it's all been thought before. Man is vain.
lol?

And if you're serious, I happen to have some already-thought-of ideas that are very important and not well known. Do those make you smile?
A good way to handle article voting is to have the voting panel (with the up & down arrows) as a window frame on top of the article webpage.

That way article voting is fairer (i.e. only users who click the article link from the news site to read the article get to see the voting panel). Secondly this approach also makes it easier for voters to rate the article instantly without having to go back & forth to the news site.
"In 2004, a bread roll cost 40 cents. For the wheat that went into it, the farmer received less than 2 cents. What do you think about that?"

Am I supposed to be alarmed by this question? It looks to me to be an invitation to an interesting line of thougt. "Where'd the other 38 cents go?" is the obvious next question. Answering it would, I suppose, reveal other players in the production- and supply-chain, and would probably indicate that the farmer received a fair price. It might even lead one to consider other ideas like economies of scale and the role of industrialization in agriculture. And so on.

This article is almost comically biased. Replace a few pejoratives with antonyms and the author's unreasonableness becomes clear: In Texas, they're not "filling students with negative preconceptions and suspicions about businesses and the people who run them." No, they're "filling students with positive preconceptions and faith about businesses and the people who run them."

Are we supposed to prefer the latter?
The desire for general AI is far greater then the desire for understanding consciousness, so perhaps that will be what happens.

There certainly seems to be a desire for some people to wake up these AI minds, and get them to help us out a bit ;)
Google does this for ranking search results. It's not a new idea. I would be surprised if no social news site used it already.
First commercially supported distribution of Drupal coming
Berlin is a hotbed of entrepreneurialism and creativity. Movie making, web 2.0 stuff, they have it all. It's a fun, cheap party. Smart people are moving there, and successful people stay. Prenzlauerberg has the highest fertility rate not ony for germany, but all of continental europe.

Germany'll be doing fine long after foreignpolicy.com's idiot anglo american backers slide into a quagmire of expensive energy, stupid land use, collapsing national currency, and corrupt warmongering.
Ask YC: Moonvertising, is it coming?
There is a billboard in my home town that has a cryptic message about watching the next full moon, and it provided a website to go along with it: moonvertising.com.

It appears that Rolling Rock Beer is behind this somehow. I was curios to see if it was a marketing hoax or if it was actually possible (and going to happen).

My question to HN is this: Is something like this possible? How would it work, and what would be required for it to work? I did some googling and found out that Coca Cola wanted to try this once but was prohibited because of the risk of the lasers blinding pilots or having other adverse consequences. (http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/departments/features/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003556617)

What do you guys think about this? Following Coca Cola's lessons, would a laser fired from a satellite work?
The eyes are one thing, but another is the hair. It was made to look good, but then when the head moves, the hair does not. Just causing the hair to move with head movement would go a long way, as well.
Unless this headline was meant to link somewhere else, this title is misleading.
"Julie Supan, senior director of marketing at YouTube, is quick to separate the guys from the other startups. 'We're don't see ourselves as Web 2.0,' she says. 'We're Web 3.0!'"

Tacky.
47, took the GRE last year. Scored kinda well.. but it also felt kind of empty. Like wow, I'm still good at high school math.
Is Java really as popular as these slides imply? I had no idea. Or is that only for Google? (or Sun, I guess maybe?)
Femme fatale of physics: how to get teenagers all steamed up over science
Are you looking forward to drinking beer for the rest of your life?
Advanced EFS Data Recovery breaks Vista and Windows Server 2008 encryption
He can ask why I think something without it being a logical fallacy.
Would have been better without the punchline as the post title.
I heard it at Startup School '06 - I think at the mixer the night before. I'm curious if any have the flexibility in financing the work that some of the law firms will extend. Thought one of the big four might be in that niche.
Well I'm not saying I know for sure, just that in some senses we tend to view algorithms as living in an abstract world of mathematics, but the reality is that an actual computation is a physical occurrence in universe. So what we might end up with is an intelligent chunk of the universe being inside of a computer and not a human, and that might not tell us as much as we'd hoped because the intelligence is an emergent property of the computation and not a defined behavior of the algorithm.
What Stanford learned building Facebook Apps
I've seen some statistics (I forget where) indicating it's now about twice as popular as C++. My (East coast) company recently decided it was a "Java shop."
This could be an interesting development. Wonder if they'll ever address building a more lightweight themeing engine.
Any simulation running neurone interactions has the ability to produce sentience without us knowing why or how it happened. However it would require a phenominal amount of processing power than the simulated 'brain' would have. Human neurones can have up to 10000 synapses connecting them together (on average 7000 per neurone), which each synaptic interaction is a multi-variable of chemical reactions, catalysts, reinforcers, inhibitors and stimulants.

I think our aim should be to simulate the R-Complex part of the triune brain model. This is where our evolutionary intelligence came from and it is the best basis to start. Birds have managed high levels of intelligence without the neocortex present in mammals, so obviously there's more than one route to sentience.

I believe brain density is the key to sentience. In a small animals, like birds, they lose heat quickly and efficiently, which means their 'processors' can pump out more heat without burning out. Where as a human brain would cook itself if it was 'overclocked' as we're at the upper limit of the communication-efficiency ratio, and Elephants are above that ratio but get away with large processing and data storage with a form of 'low-energy' brains.

With the speed of electricity in synapses, a Crow might be able to achive 10 times as many messages in the time it takes one of our brains to make 1 message. Elephants might only make .5 messages a second per synapse. So a crow would benefit greatly by increasing brain density and be able to solve problems to the same degree as a human infant, however humans have phenominal storage in our brains and a crow simply doesn't have the brain mass to compete so we have more data to act on than a crow. Elephants use their brains to remember pretty much everything, they've even been seen taking short cuts that they have 'guessed' between paths they've taken before.

I think the brain is astounding, but to reproduce sentience we should follow evolution; not only because it gives us vast insights into how our brains evolved, but also because it should avoid us ever getting into the irrational AI situation. If an AI is made from simulating a human brain then it is human, which it would be capable of understanding as it would have to be 'taught' and I know I'm human because of the society I know around me that teaches me that I think and act in a similar method as everyone else, just with different data.

:Well, that should teach you for asking why.
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Although primitive this technology is pretty cool. I can imagine a handful of applications that could benefit with this. I'm guessing in limited bandwidth environments sending a photo and information on movements and letting the receiving end generate the facial animation might work pretty well as a substitute for live video.
Reminds me of Gollum. Those huge eyes, that unnerving smile.
one of the best articles of the year
The technology allows you to create "Automatic Accompaniment for Vocal Melodies". When I first saw the "Generate music from your voice" I was hoping someone created some technology that would allow one to just read the lyrics and have the system synthesize the singing part.
Schools really make a big difference on prices. Newton has great schools, and is an easy commute into town via train, subway, or car. Watertown is even closer, but the schools don't have as good a reputation. If you have 600-700k, you'll do pretty well -- that will get you a 3BR colonial in Newton, or a larger victorian in Watertown. Belmont, Arlington are also worth a look, for schools and location near Boston/Cambridge. Most of the single family houses in these places are older (1870-1940).

If you don't mind a longer drive, Wayland, Wellesley have good schools but you need cars to get anywhere -- not much public transport out there. Go even further out and you can get larger houses or larger plots ... and the stock is newer, too. But then you might have a long commute (hour or more each way) and the schools in some of the towns are a mixed bag.

Like the earlier poster said, some of the routes into town or between burbs can be a mess. All the more reason to be nearer to Boston/Cambridge, or near a commuter rail station. As for the weather, provincialism and bad driviz: none of these issues are that bad, and a little hardship builds character, I always say :)
Warren Spector's Game Design Lectures/Interview Videos
Ok, ok, I'll bite, again. What are these ideas you speak of?
Crazy. My first job was Java for about a year (in 1996-97) and after that I ignored it and hoped it would go away and not overtly hurt me.

The bizarre thing is that I don't know of any software that I use other than (I believe) gmail that's actually written in Java (and I don't think gmail qualifies as a "normal" Java deployment).
You sure you don't mean influence instead? You can be very influential without any fame. Given the choice, I'd prefer influence.
Magic and Software Design (1993)