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Pebble | Palo Alto, CA, SF, Bay Area (moving soon to Redwood City, CA) | Full-Time | ONSITE | Senior Ruby Developer / Ecommerce | Apply here: https://www.pebble.com/jobs/91173

We make smartwatches that are useful in your daily life. Our smartwatches track steps and sleep for healthy living, keep you in the moment with notifications on wrist, and personalizable with thousands of watch faces.

We're looking for a senior Ruby developer for a technical lead in the ecommerce team. You will work on initiatives to:

1) drive growth and sales of pebble smartwatches

2) improve the experience of the order process for happier customers

through the Pebble.com website, our order processing, and order fulfillment systems.

You should have a great understanding of the full web stack, a systems/holistic view of problem solving, and an analytical mind to determine next course of action.

We work in cross-functional teams, so ecommerce team has a product owner, engineers, designer, and copywriter. You'll also have the opportunity to talk and learn from marketing, logistics, finance, and customer support.

The stack is Ruby and Mongodb. For frontend, we use React, Knockout, and Angular across the different repos we work on.
Please email wil@pebble.com for more information or apply at https://www.pebble.com/jobs/91173.
Sometimes, I think people on HN probably think they get points for being the most cynical critic.

Can't we just say, "Dude we are happy for you, and thanks for the money."

And what happened to the rule about not saying stuff you wouldn't say to a person's face. Would you be calling Mark a narcissist to his face? Keep it civil people.
Sounds like the kind of thing you want to implement in a functional language, to have strong guarantees of determinism.

Have some threads waiting on input (controls, network), dispatch to pure functions running the simulation, stream render commands to a rendering component. You can even consider the RNG as one of the input streams to keep the core pure.

I'm not into game programming but this got me interested in implementing a toy RTS!
I wouldn't do it. Without getting into an icky and tedious discussion of pornography in general, my general default setting is that major porn sites are exploitative, and that the ones that pay the most affiliate dollars are likely to be the worst of the bunch.

Which is just to say, there are reasons you might not want to have a policy of redirecting users to porn sites for money even if Techcrunch isn't shaming you.
Chinese blamed for hacking Australian government supercomputer
> Another reason to decriminalize drugs in favor of self-help programs.

Decriminalizing drugs may change which crimes are available to use to frame members of a disfavored group, but it is unlikely to change whether bigots in power seek to frame members of their disfavored groups for crimes.
Part of being an adult is realizing that you are powerless. It's a break from self-centered megalomania and "show" mentality. Part of being an adult is embracing suffering and pain. They are instructive. They are gifts. They teach us about ourselves and others and the world. Embrace them. Be grateful. Accept them humbly. Be humble. Only pride refuses pain and becomes indignant, says it is "too good" for it. Only pride boasts or complains about pain. Only pride conceals and deceives--itself!--at the altar of self. Only pride turns pain into some grandiose undertaking. Only pride wallows in self-pity. Only pride assaults others in self-righteousness and entitlement.

Life is the crucible in which pain and suffering are just another way you are made better...if you accept them and kill, and resolve to kill, your pride.
> Once the examiner has an adequate series of charts to evaluate, he will begin the scoring process. This is done most often using a numerical scoring method which evaluates the subject's physiological responses to the Relevant and Control questions. The computer polygraph may also use an algorithm developed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory or other researchers to score the examination. The examiner can use this algorithm to independently score the examination or for quality control purposes to verify his own determination.

http://www.lawofficer.com/articles/2008/12/understanding-pol...

If you look closely, you'll notice that that's a copyright notice for a piece of software evaluating the results. The test isn't necessarily being run by JHU APL, but the software was developed there.

See also: http://www.jhuapl.edu/ott/technologies/technology/articles/P...
I'm a big fan of the design of pushpin - it's a really elegant solution for adding real-time features to frameworks like Django. I don't think it feels like a band-aid at all: for most web programming tasks, I'd much rather think in terms of a standard request/response cycle - it makes scaling with a shared-nothing architecture much easier to reason about.
The Django Software Foundation has just hired a part time person to organise fundraising [0]. There is also discussion happening around the community about trying to find a sustainable way of funding open source projects and Django in particular.

Part of the problem is that it's hard to get companies to "donate" money. If they can purchase something like "support" or something else tangible, or "sponsorship" out of their advertising budgets, there may be more opportunities of gaining funding.

Thank you for donating though! Django gets a lot of their money from regular developers' pockets. I, personally, feel that bigger companies using Django to generate lots of revenue should be contributing a greater portion to support the stack that supports them.

[0] https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2015/nov/23/introducing...
No, I sold at 20x turnover.
Oh lovely. This is the same man who called his users dumb fucks in the infancy of his company. Now he's worried about future generations and pushes his corporate agenda innocently using his newborn. Facebook is like a goddamn cult that acts like God's gift to humanity.
1) People don't value critical thinking and instead value things like political careers and crafting narratives.

2) Throw out corrupt leadership and anyone who evades auditing.
Internet Identity, Threat Intelligence, and a Need for Cooperation
I didn't hear about Pushpin before, looks like a solid product, will definitely look into it. I'm not sure if that's a valid question, but how does the Pushpin compare to something like SwampDragon (http://swampdragon.net/), besides not being tied to Django?
337 whales dead in Chile in one of history's biggest beachings
Any policy changes will be opposed by an army of well-paid lobbyists and advocacy groups that are incredibly good at spreading fear uncertainty and doubt, and in the end justice will not likely come for those already effected or in jail, unless there is hard smoking gun evidence. Its not in any cops's interest to have all their actions even in the heat of the moment put under a microscope. The good is that this could precipitate more body-cams and have it eventually have it put reasonable doubt back in the hands of the defendant rather than the officer - if you have a body-cam, why was it off during this altercation where questionable things occurred?
$8K / day in 1998 or 1999 was too much. I suspect I could have gone on until the bubble burst at $4-$6K.

I stopped because I had enough money for payroll and wanted to work on my startup.
Make $100 – $1,000 per day online
After the collapse of Soviet Union, in my country there was explosion of mafia. Police were incapable and this is exactly how police dealt with them. Draconian drug laws meant that cops could easily put gangsters to jail for a long time.

Basically if thugs play dirty, cops are playing dirty as well.
Shame tbh. If they invest they could see their businesses doing even better.
It's still an ugly involvement. Evaluation software isn't going to redeem "lie detectors' as anything other than voodoo. It just gets the stink of that voodoo on JHU.
> For instance, since when does JHU Applied Physics Laboratory run polygraph tests?

There's no indication that JHU APL ran the tests, just they are identified in the copyright notice for the software providing the test results. A quick Googling reveals that JHU APL is a fairly significant developer of polygraph-related technology, so this isn't at all surprising.
Upload files to S3 and generate previews using Laravel
You're suspecting wrong. In the sense that less public goods and services are funded today on a global scale due to facebook tax evasion scheme.

Even with a 99% tax on Zucker's fortune, it would still be diverting money from countries around the globe towards the US, in other words the already rich and destroying condition favorable to human life USA would get richer by making the poor poorer.

In a world with no countries, it would make sense. In the current world it would be another way for the USA to abuse and exploit the rest of the world.
20x gross revenue?

Wow!

What was the name of that business and what year was that?
If there isn't enough evidence to prove someone is guilty, they go scot-free. This is true to protect people who are innocent.

But these people were not innocent. This is the evidence. And justice will be served.

As long as discoveries like this are made and we have freedom of the press, justice will continue to be served.

edit: I do not make a claim to the sufficiency of the system, but am happy to see democratic ideals in action; there appears to have been a misunderstanding
TokBox | San Francisco / Sydney | iOS Engineers, Test Engineers, Technical Sales, BizDev Manager - Onsite SF | JavaScript Engineer - Onsite Sydney

https://tokbox.com/

TokBox does embedded communications powered by WebRTC. We make it easy for customers to embed real-time video into their websites and applications. We sell a platform to developers and enterprises, and have great clients from individual developers just starting a project to massive companies in tech, entertainment, education, and other industries. The product is great but the people are better. It's an awesome group of 70 or so people- nice, smart, skilled. We are laid back and have a sense of humor. Good salary, good culture, and great benefits!

We've hired a ton but a have few openings left. Looking for developers in iOS, test, someone who is technical but is also good at sales (a sales engineer), and a business development manager for San Francisco. We're looking for a JavaScript engineer in Sydney (where our JavaScript SDK team is based).

https://tokbox.com/careers

or

http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qbD9VfwC

Come join us!
Zuck takes only $1 as salary btw from facebook.
"If you are requesting information on a deceased individual, you will need to upload proof of death unless the deceased individual is more than 100 years old."

The FBI doesn't know who is dead?
Um, if it wasn't drugs it'd be something else. Stolen firearms, maybe? This is a racist domestic terror group using their position of power to target a minority.

Please don't shift the focus of this to some other vaguely related issue. The important part: a racist cabal formed a conspiracy to put young black men in jail. Because they hate them.
German Millionaires Criticize Gates' “Giving Pledge” (2010)
Is it bad that this honestly doesn't surprise me? In 2005 my 15 year old self was passing through Northern Georgia to see grandparents, and we hit traffic at the only town stoplight because a Grand Wizard and lots of KKK members were rallying in the streets celebrating running the last minority out of the county. As a white middle class guy, that was quite the contemporarty class on race relations.

Racism is alive and well in the South, and it is slow to change because the communities are small and not super interested in the internet justice movements.
One of the organizations the Koch brothers fund is FIRE, which is dedicated to free speech on college campuses. It's really hard to find fault in that. I really hate the Manichean judgment common in modern public discourse. Everyone is either a saint or a devil, depending on which side you're on.
IncludeOS – A minimal, resource efficient unikernel for cloud services [pdf]
Yahoo Shares Spike 7% on Report That It Might Sell Off Its Core Business
None of your business :)

But it's very well possible to make deals like these, it just matters that the buyer has a different idea of the value of the business for them than you do. Which answers your earlier question in a way, but the 'why' is actually probably a lot more complicated than that and I can't really speak for the buyers, the only thing I know for sure is that they had a totally different idea of where they were taking this than I did. They probably thought it was cheap.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder...
Are you suggesting that the hundreds of black men falsely convicted and imprisoned by corrupt white supremacist police and prosecutors were culpable because they are “thugs playing dirty”?

WTF?
"The reason FPGAs are so complex is that more than half of the die space is given over to the routing structures. "

That premise doesn't seem to be right. The routing adds overhead but that's not the real complexity. FPGA's have always been about trying to get more performance and flexibility at the same time. So, instead of simple structures and symmetry, the FPGA's have all kinds of things on them ranging from complex logic units to MAC's to processors to accelerators. This creates difficulty for both OSS and commercial EDA tools in efficiently handling them.

Customers want this stuff, though, because it lets them get more done with less or acceptable amounts of money. The open or simpler alternatives don't. So, the market won't shift to them. If anything, like with OS's and smartphone SOC's, the barrier to entry will only grow with those accepting something open or simple being a niche market.

Note: Lattice iCE40 is already serving a niche market. So, it fits my assessment.
This is, of course, why nobody has ever bothered developing a unit-testing framework for a statically-typed language, and why it would have been impossible for the idea of automated refactorings to have originated in a dynamically-typed language.
NDT would say Astronomy[0].

[0]http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/podcast-neil-degrasse-tys...
I can only think of http://what3words.com/, but they don't do zoom level encoding.
"Making the bitstream format a public API would make it harder for them to change/update/improve it without making themselves look like assholes for breaking third party software."

That's an interesting point. I think you're the first person I've seen make it. Customers work ends at RTL level mostly so I don't see this as a real issue. Especially if customers are told not to depend on bitstream staying same from device to device.
I saw this article, enjoyed it, and then said to myself "Now let me go read the inevitable well-meaning but misguided comments about the GIL." And sure enough, the very top comment is a well-meaning but misguided comment about the GIL.

The author of this article is talking about CPU-intensive tasks that involve C-extensions. Such extensions typically release the GIL during their execution, which means that you can effectively parallelize such workloads in a ThreadPool. (He explicitly mentions this about Numpy/Scipy, but most other CPU-intensive extension libraries behave the same way.) Heavy users of Numpy use Thread-level parallelism very frequently.
I created niche social network, had €5K saved off and invested further €10K over 5 months from my paycheck.

The idea was not bad, but programmers left me with unusable code that was basically antique (I didn't knew about it then) and since re-creating it would cost another big lump I decided to kill the project.

If I would have at least twice the money and twice the time I could grow this to something really nice.
Opinion:

1) Police are corrupt. Maybe not all of them, but enough of them that "police are corrupt" is true. This will always be the case.

Police don't fight crime, nor prevent it. They create it. If you think this isn't so you haven't had enough exposure to them.

Maybe my opinion is coloured by my experience: illegal search of person, car, and house. They ransacked my house, stole money and property from me. It took 27 months to have the case dismissed nolle prosequi and my money returned to me.

If you see the police, cross the street.
I'd say just the concept of Russian Roulette is art in itself. Thereby the artist I referenced above is not very contentious. He is risking his life for a message - that gamble with life is art.

On the same note, what may be more contentious is the art of crime. The art of murder. The art of Sherlock Holmes deciphering the creative tendencies behind the craftiest of criminals. Murderers. Thieves.

Are terrorists also artists? That my friend, is contentious.
I sincerely doubt Zucker wants to make the world a better place, else why would he be doing the opposite while making billions out of it ?

Usually a billionaire giving his fortune away does it out of vanity, out of guilt, for the tax breaks, out of conviction that their success in business makes them equally expert in solving the world’s problems or last but not least as “legacy” as explained by John Caudwell:
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/mar/07/new-philanthr...
what makes you think pumping even more free cash into greece would help anybody but a select few that handles that cash? just throwing cash at problems rarely fixes them, what these guys are trying to do (zuck, gates, etc) is create a movement that goes for the root of the problems. it's quite encouraging and kudos to them
> Its not in any cops's interest to have all their actions even in the heat of the moment put under a microscope.

Honest police may feel it's in their interest. It protects them from false accusations, and from leal and reputational consequences of being associated with dishonest associates. Being honest, they might also want to see dishonest, criminal actions stopped and punished.
Hey, I emailed last month about the intern positions but never got a reply
Contrast this with Ta-Nahesi Coates' public, yet deeply personal, Letter to My Son.
Aka people with souls
I just read the title and it immediately reminded me of Dave Chapelle..."just sprinkle some crack on them and leave".
I'm shocked, frankly, at how lousy both are out-of-the-box. I just don't get why a simple CRUD app (which many/most apps are) has to be so difficult. I had trouble figuring out how to do email login on Django and just gave up. At first, Rails seems like it's going to be a lot better. I don't care for generating files. Don't like TDD. And found the migrations very confusing (if I make a typo in a field name, I delete the whole project and start over).

I can't believe this is the current state of web app development. I know everyone's moved on to Node and Angular, but, c'mon!
We need to be communicating this to them, quantifying how their business could potentially be doing better, and offering products that they can spend money on. It's that last part that I think most OSS projects are having difficulty with.
Yahoo Board to Consider Sale of Company, Alibaba Stake, or Both
It's not nearly sufficient. People in this one town have been suffering for decades. It's probably happening in many more towns where nobody leaked the Internal Affairs investigation. We are failing as a society if we don't see our obvious, critical error and do better.
Ha! took me ages to catch that.
I think the grandfather post is saying that this is motivated by people who wish to eliminate gender, not that we are precluded from he or she.
so what?

if he's really giving 99% of his wealth to charity, and on top of that puts effort into where the money goes and that it's put to good use, why do you care that he's doing that for legacy?
Their need to "buy" something is the crucial point; donations fall in a totally different "account" with distinct rules. Sponsorships may be the ticket but you need to actively reach then as they won't come spontaneously (I think specifically of "that" unicorn :))

Not sure about support, maybe better to leave that to the myriad of contractors that form Django's ecosystem.
Fair enough, though the two are often combined (paying the top of the pyramid from the bottom).
I noticed them also, but they are not the one I had in mind. (what3words does have an interesting approach, I wonder if they are getting any traction)
Well if you'd have kept reading you'd have found the data :

What effect, if any, do you feel the use of trigger warnings has or would have on classroom dynamics?
(Answered: 712)
Positive 17.28%
Negative 45.22%
None 8.99%
I don't know 28.51%
A lot of police are corrupt, and there is an absolute ton of racism in this country so we believe it when the cop tells a lie that implicates a black guy.

Not racist like we're out in klan hoods on the weekend, and it's definitely not like we're consciously choosing to be racist--this is just lifetimes of unexamined biases, media information, etc. We have these little biases that tell us not to trust the black guy's word and that adds up over time.

Overcoming that shit is hard.
> black Americans have been claiming that such things happen and were widely ignored or disbelieved

Black Americans commit a wildly disproportionate amount of crime. Black men make up 1 million out of 2.3 million people in prison. 4.7% of all black men* are in prison. A black man has a 70% chance of being in prison at some point in his life. Are you suggesting the police are framing all of these people?

While police conduct exists and is deplorable, my sense as an observer is that the majority of black anti-police activism is about somehow pinning the criminality of the black community on society at large.

While I of course condemn polite misconduct, I can understand how repeated interaction with a recalcitrant criminal element could harden and corrupt a police officer.

Look: if we're going to have a productive public conversation, we need to acknowledge that black arrest rates are in part a result of elevated black criminality and not pin the entire problem on the police.

Downvote me all you want: it won't change the facts. Ignoring facts and making policy according to utopian fantasy has never led to human progress, but it has led to a great deal of misery.
I propose that if an officer is caught planting evidence or government official is caught covering up such acts and found guilty that the officer or official will serve twice and amount of time and twice any monetary amount the wronged served. And follow the drug war policy of mandatory sentences so no judge can reduce the sentence. For examole if these guys planted evidence that resulted in 10 guys behind bars, each for 5 years try then these offices and officials should be mandatorilly sentenced to 100 years behind bars (10 victims * 5 years * 2). These scumbags were not scared of the consequences of what they were doing.
I was stating the fact that happened in my country ruled by gangsters who were extorting innocent people.

Why you are reading something that is not there?
>to the contrary it's narcissicism, ego and maybe guilt.

Lets not kid ourselves here, Zuckerburg probably likes to think he is God, and with his investments into VR also probably sees his daughter as one of last to be born in anything resembling the natural world. To begin to even try to assign any sort of psychological pathology or diagnostics would be futile. We'll have to hope the universe has a way to keep tech monsters like him in check or that he realizes playing neuromancer with the parents of his child's friends destroyed any sense of authenticity in his daughter's life.
I agree but I think the problem is the lack of an alternative in the space. PayPal works across countries.

You can even send in cash...