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Crowdfunder|Los Angeles| Senior Developer (JavaScript)| ONSITE

Salary: $100k up to $120k
Will cover relocation costs

Technical skills

Full stack capabilities with experience developing web applications in Node.js
Fluent in HTML5 and CSS3
Expert understanding of Javascript as an object oriented language
Familiarity with one or more Javascript MVC frameworks (e.g. Angular, Backbone, Ember)
Expert understanding of the Document Object Model (DOM)
Experience implementing responsive web designs and integrating application-based sites to back-end systems through web services
Knowledge of usability, accessibility and cross-browser issues and solutions

Also beneficial

Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Familiarity with Gitflow, PHP

contact: william@crowdfunder.com
SES or GS?
The level and breadth of skill you're describing sounds more in tune with someone who isn't calling themselves "just a designer". They'd have a broader digital arts background and advertise themselves as illustrators too.

Maybe change the job title and see what happens?
I was going to read this article but..you know.
> Don't Uber drivers decide to work for Uber voluntarily?

I would expect that, to the extent that is true, they largely do so in a context in which Uber's adherence in that employment relationship to applicable labor law is presumed in that decision.
The fundament behind "at will employment" is that people decide to work for their employers voluntarily. That doesn't mean they forfeit the protections afforded by law to workers. The point of this case is that Uber controlled their workers to the point where their relationship with the company should be considered an employer / employee relationship, and thus the workers are entitled to benefits they did not receive. Your comparison to taxi companies is not relevant, especially since Uber swears they're not a taxi service.
You're suggesting that you can make something as usable on a mobile browser as you can with a native app. That's just not true; if it were, there wouldn't be any native apps.

For many use cases (games, highly interactive experiences, camera or microphone using app, etc.), a native app may just be better, and guiding users there might be a better experience and a better conversion funnel.

Yes, you can make a website mobile friendly, but that doesn't mean it will be as good as the native app.
Because screw people who want to be treated fairly, right? All they should care about is making their employer more money.
As a new dev: How do I get npm install to run? I'm on step 4 of the instructions.
Outside the topic of admittedly really cool delcont stuff:

The way you refer to the value and the CPS'd value as the same is by referring to their effects in stack machine semantics as the same. This makes your intuition non-transferrable to other semantics (lacking a clear CS example off the top of my head, I'll just throw out the usual trick of asking: does this work the same on a GPU? I'm confident there's a Yoneda analogue there).

Studying CT is completely extra-curricular as far as I'm concerned and I could never recommend it as a way to implement or use CPS, but understanding, for certain rather aggressive values of "understand" I feel comes from nearly no other pathway. It's entirely too beautiful and simple (for certain mathematical values of "simple") to escape.

Also the commutative diagrams are pretty much exactly the same as the chemistry ones you're talking about. Both are just ways of writing down systems of equations that are quite hairy to write out "long form".
Exactly. People might agree to work for peanuts but it's not going to sustain them.
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So basically you're saying that if they didn't cheat, they wouldn't be where they are?

I'm not seeing anything in your post that justifies them ignoring labor laws.
I think it's interesting that they are making this decision - one that clearly pushed users to stay on the mobile web which is beneficial for Google - based on a study that was pretty flawed. This article debunks their methodology pretty well: https://medium.com/@alexaustin/just-because-it-s-google-does...
They also caused a fair amount of grief? Buying a 2008(2011 in NY?), or newer Uber approved four door automobile only to find that driving for Uber doesn't pan out economicaly?

Yes--we have free will, but they promised a bit too much, while micromanaging employees--oops Independent Contrators?

If the enticing employment opportunity doesn't work out as advertised; selling a used four door car is harder than two door sedans, at least when I was flipping cars? And those poor people who went out and bought nice, expensive Toyota hybrids on their once good credit?

And I have never figured out the reasoning behind this list of Uber approved vechicle:

http://www.driveubernyc.com/vehicles/full-list

I wish the company well, but they are an employer. Don't tell me what car I need to drive in order to give you money?
You don't like my vechicle, don't hire me? I'm paying for this vechicle(A vechicle I wouldn't buy, but thought Uber was a good opportunity?). I'm paying the insurance? I'm taking the risks?

(I liked this company in the beginning, but with every new demand/fussy requirement, they lost my respect. I'm still a fan of Lyft--kind of--for now.)
I know of someone who is in the position of your snowbird, though still employed. He almost delights in the fact that there's been no effort to upgrade from something completely reliant on him, even though he knows the situation is crazy. And he has no personal interest in writing himself out of a job. I can't approve of that attitude.
Its a shame Steve Jobs got married and had 4 kids. Think about how much more time he would have had to create new gadgets.

So now tell me about your love life?
None of that matters if Uber is not adhering to labor laws.
You thought Ashley Madison was bad.  Wait till Australia's digital privacy ends
The digital privacy of Australians ends from Tuesday, October 13.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/data-retention-and-the-end-of-australians-digital-privacy-20150827-gj96kq.html

And one day, all that juicy personal metadata is going to be hacked and Australian's digital lives will be released to the public.

Imagine, everything every Australian does online will become public thanks to the government accumulating it and hackers releasing that data.

What will the implications be when (and I say WHEN and not IF) the entire world gets to see everything every Australian did online.

Fun times ahead.
Comparing Artificial Artists
Tbh, I find lisp to be a pretty annoying language for talking about this stuff. It seems to aim just slightly below the right level of abstraction by talking about symbols where you really want to have abstract binding trees.

I'd like to see a lisp where ABTs were given a more prominent frontline treatment. That'd complete the "locality" story that often gives people pause when implementing macros.
It's pretty simple. He valued those friendships. Human nature dictates that they would be pissed off about him not sharing the wealth that they had a hand in creating (regardless of whether they started before or after Minecraft was successful).

He could have easily given each employee $5 MM. It would have cost him about $250 MM. What is that compared to $2500 MM? 10% of a vast fortune he could never spend.

Would his former employees still resent him? Or would they be grateful to him that he made it possible for them to start their own businesses, retire (with some smart investing), live lavishly and stay employed, whatever? Maybe he wasn't obligated to give them a small fortune, but was that the right decision for him, personally, to make? It doesn't sound like it.
I like it.

Probably needs a categorization so it knows what type of response to output.

Also, would avoid linking to wikipedia as it's a procrastinator's heaven with various tangentially interesting articles.
Verbate is looking for a Senior Software Engineer based in Sydney.

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You have probably worked in both large business and startups and are looking to get involved in something more meaningful. You love learning new technologies for the sake of it and thrive on doing the impossible. you can be proud of.

A design focused, loud and fun team, bringing innovation and creativity into a dinosaur industry - We love creating change and we're looking for other disruptors to join us!

Required skills

- 5+ years experience building kick-ass products in PHP and Javascript

- Test focused product development

- A strong, opinionated eye for design

- Comfort using unix and Amazon Web Services

- Self motivated & entrepreneurial

- Happy to get on the phone with customers

- Banter / comedy value

Perks

- Opal card

- 4k Monitor

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- Equity options

- Work out of Tank Stream Labs, Australia’s biggest startup space

Send your application over to mitch at verbate dot co
Uber Rebuffed by Judge in Ruling on Drivers’ Suit
I understand it differently. Labor laws aren't inherently good for either parties, employers or employees, necessarily.

Perhaps the labor laws need to be reformed and/or scaled back.
Structured procrastination appears analogous to the second-price auction, in which the winner of an auction pays the second-highest bid. This strategy leads the bidders to bid the true value of the auctioned item. One proof of this assertion can be found in the solution to an exercise in Game Theory Evolving: A Problem-Centered Introduction to Modeling Strategic Interaction (Second Edition), by Herbert Gintis.

It appears that structured procrastination is a two-player game that pits the present self against the time-inconsistent hyperbolically discounted future self. The success of this strategy depends on accurately ranking more important things to do. Presumably the rank of the second-most important thing accurately reflects its hyperbolically discounted value far enough in the future to avoid time inconsistency. An assumption seems to be that most important or interesting thing to do now is generally important or interesting for the wrong reason. Also, if the thing I happen to be doing isn't that important, the thing I should be doing can't be that much more important either.
What's the motivation?

I thought Bitcoin wasn't really that network intensive?
I had a long chat to a taxi driver medallioned in Chico, Sacramento and SF the other day.# It seems Uber is doing good to bring the fight to the pay-to-play bureaucracy, but it doesn't seem to be showing enough demonstrative acts that their drivers are making more/have better conditions than non-Uber drivers.

# This summer, it seemed there were only 1-2 Uber X drivers in Chico which didn't work weekends. If they did, I had a credit to use which would've meant a free ride. Also, the rules in Chico is that a Paradise (a nearby town) company can't pickup in Chico and vice-versa.
> Perhaps the labor laws need to be reformed and/or scaled back.

Perhaps if you want to suggest specific alterations and arguments for them, that would be productive.
Suggested changes:

1. Ensure you can enter two addresses into the search delimited by " to " and it be able to correctly split into directions, as you would expect. I tend to expect this to work and it took maps messing this up several times on different occasions to burn it into my head to put the destination address in the search, then click on directions, then enter my starting address.

2. If I type in "from (address)" and search it should show my address in the top of the directions from/to and focus on the "to" field. This is really broken currently, because it always seems to think I want directions to somewhere instead of from. Similarly, if I type in "to (address)" it should open directions and place the address in the correct field.

3. Sometimes the "near me" feature doesn't work. Try it with all sorts of things like "bathroom near me" and see how well it works.

Speaking of mass transportation, it'd be great if Alphabet could spend some money and effort on that. It makes much more sense from a business point-of-view than Google cars do- how much more R&D money is going to be sunk on that before all is said and done? Will it be worth it? Electric cars have to get their energy from somewhere, and everyone having their own car takes a toll on the environment. I understand it's a big place, but if you have the money to roll out fiber and wifi everywhere, you can buy buses, which are much cheaper.
Hey Hannah,

How do interns apply? I wasn't able to find internship postings on the link you provided nor on the Priceline careers page. Have you started looking for 2016 summer interns yet?

Thanks,
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Hush, don't tell them--they might decide not to do it.
Tried it. I have been using such a plugin for a couple years now. (I gave myself no more than 60 mins within a defined working our).

I've also tried pomodoro.
Printing up reminder signs.
Talking myself into it.
All sorts of things.

If you are avoiding the underlying emotional issue, it works like a bandaid: helps in the short term, doesn't address the root problem.

It was only until I started seriously practicing meditation that things start to move, and not because meditation magically fixes procrastination. Rather, if you are practicing meditation correctly and stripping away self-deceptions, then you will eventually start surfacing up the things that lead to avoiding things that are important or urgent.

And it can go the other way too: people who are busy doing stuff may well also be procrastinating the really big, important issues in their life. Doing things that are urgent but not important becomes another procrastination tool, and helps with the self-deception that "you are doing something about it".

It's also been my experience that trying to face procrastination face on, takes on the quality of the emotions involved.

For example, if you were to attempt to rest your awareness on anxiety, the way you would go about it will be skittish, and avoid it. If you were to attempt to rest your awareness on anger, you will start to get aggressive towards your anger. If you were to attempt to rest your awareness on depression, then you'll get to the point where you say, what's the point in being aware of depression?

I've said it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10144329 ... Emotional intelligence will supercharge your intellect because for most people, their lack of emotional intelligence holds back an otherwise brilliant mind.
I once had an infestation of spiders. I called the exterminator, who said I didn't have a spider problem. I had an ant problem - the spiders were there eating the ants. Dealing with the ants took care of the spider problem.

There's a great book on this kind of thing: "Common Sense Pest Control".
The best phrase from the article: "confusing sources of sloppy nullish behavior."
Pixar Animation Studios is looking for an onsite Senior UNIX Systems Administrator in Emeryville, CA.

Pixar's Systems Infrastructure team builds, manages, and secures the systems the studio depends on to twiddle bits and make movies. We work to ensure there is sufficient server, network, and data center capacity to react to changes in schedule, workflow, or resource demand. We help to keep the good things secure and the bad folks at bay.

Services we manage directly include access control, authentication, communications, data transfer, name service, intrusion detection, remote access, and virtualization.

We are looking for someone with a drive to learn and innovate. The ideal candidate will help us find ways to build and manage services in a repeatable, collaborative DevOps style, solving problems before anyone notices them and leaving systems more reliable and secure than they found them.

This position is perfect for an experienced sys admin who has worn many hats and enjoys swapping them several times a day.

http://www.pixar.com/careers#Pixar-Careers-Systems-1399
favicons cache differently. You either need to enter a different favicon address (favicon.ico?v=2) or reload and restart the browser.

I know it's weird, but favicons are weird.
Actually I'm glad that the clipboard throws stuff away. Otherwise it'd make me hesitant to use it for any sensitive.
Article seems to lack concrete:

> The psychological bubble makes you think that because you can code a photo app or design an algorithm to get me to the airport a little quicker, that also qualifies you as an expert on every other topic.

Are a lot of people doing this? I hadn't noticed?

> The psychological bubble prevents you from seeing what role timing and serendipity play in your bombastic financial success.

No that is just human nature. Inability for the brain to intuitively understand probability for example.

> The psychological bubble makes you forget what I always like to remind people about the Internet business: Showing up at a gold rush with a shovel and a pan doesn’t make you a genius.

Again who are these people? Would they just find another gold rush if the internet business wasn't there?
I still regret not double majoring in one of the humanities when I was in college. There's lots of technical / science people on HN. Does anyone feel the same way?
> since they switched to Docker based installs it's incredibly easy

For you. A developer. The average deployer of a PHPBB forum clicks a button on their cheap host and sets the options in the admin page.

They don't even have the foggiest idea what Docker even is.
Superhuman | San Francisco | Lead Designer (Founding Team - Employee #3)

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• Why? 900M people spend 1/3 of their day reading and writing email; they deserve awesome, beautiful tools.

• We just raised $3M+ seed round from all-star investors last month.

==Role==

• Define and own the visual language at Superhuman. Delight and empower millions of people.

==Team==

• I previously founded Rapportive (YC'10, acquired by LinkedIn)

• My co-founder/CTO Conrad was VP Eng at Bugsnag, built pry (used by 25% of ruby developers)

• My co-founder Vivek founded Rapleaf/LiveRamp (acquired for $310M)

==Contact==

• More info: http://superhuman.com

• Email me: rahul@superhuman.com

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FYI - the reason people point domains there is this:

Your Own Private Mailinator: http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2008/01/your-own-private-mail...
Make sure you have node and npm installed on your machine. (You can check by running "npm -v" from the command line, if you don't see anything, then take a quick google search on how to install it).

Run "npm install" in the folder directory where the package.json is visible. In this case, if you cloned or extracted this project, it would be in the slack-poker-bot folder.

Hope that helps!
There aren't any, the DRM is tied to the 'container' and that's part of the standardization process here.

Everybody 'hates' DRM, it seems but I don't think it's going anywhere and I don't think you can ship a codec standard without it. You usually want hardware support for the DRM encryption. I don't know the specifics of their technology, but Netflix and Hulu and Amazon all stream tons and tons of media and I'd be surprised if it wasn't DRM'd in some capacity, I know the video apple sells/streams all is.
Who said there's no tech scene in H-Town?
There will always be a way to hide / obfuscate the action, making it seem to the browser that it was user-initiated.

I guess Mozilla have weighed up the convenience/security balance of browser control of the clipboard, and have put in a minimal protection scheme to make it clear that code should not play with it behind the user's back, but Mozilla knows that they can't really stop it.
Just a wee bit off-topic, but:

The situation with the native species of Hawaii is actually much worse than most people are aware -- even people who live in Hawaii. I read somewhere[1] that, if you walk around a typical coastal town in Hawaii, and look at the lawns & gardens & parks, and watch the birds & whatnot, that you will generally not see any native species at all. The ones big enough to see are all confined to the interior.

EDIT. And, by the way, the rats weren't native, either. Hawaii has exactly two native mammals: the Hawaiian Hoary Bat and the Hawaiian Monk Seal.

[1] I think it was in Remains of a Rainbow, by D. Liittschwager & S. Middleton. https://amazon.com/dp/0792264126/
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NPM is the Node Package Manager. So, you must have node installed to get npm.

https://nodejs.org/download/
I generally agree with these points. We ended up with an interstitial the same way I hope most everyone else did: we A/B tested it, and the results were clearly positive on engagement and purchase.

We could choose to drop the interstitial as a matter of principal or on the assumption that the difficult-to-quantify long-term benefit will pay off later, but we'd have to make that decision not in the absence of data, but actually in opposition to the data.

Or let Google make the decision for us...
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Such stories of ecologically friendly pest control are hard to resist, but unfortunately the history of introducing species A to control species B is littered with cautionary tales.
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I have to take you back to the title of the article:

"Entrepreneurs don’t have a gene for risk – they come from families with money"

That is patently false in but a very small percentage of cases.

The millions of businesses launched every year overwhelmingly do NOT come from families with money. Here, "money" being understood as mid to upper class (financially speaking).

That, in general terms, was my point, lost as it might have become.
Add "Crystal Reports" and "MUMPS" to the "do not put on resume" list.

And RPG/400. I took two semesters of that in college, but (thankfully) never got roped into programming in it professionally. I'm honestly not sure you could pay me enough to write RPG code, even if you were Bill Gates. Just thinking about using SEU (Source Entry Utility, IIRC) to program in that column oriented nightmare gives me the heebie-jeebies.