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We're a startup getting ready to release a platform to buy and sell broadcast television advertising. We are an early stage start up with in the Cox Media Group family of businesses, located in Atlanta that whose goal is to rapidly bring a series of products, services and new technology to the traditional TV media marketplace. The company was started late in 2013 and is rapidly expanding its efforts to provide improved operating efficiencies in several key areas of local broadcast and traditional TV media sales. We are in the process of building a core team of professionals who will collaborate closely to build both an amazing product as well as an amazing culture. The core team of professionals we select will make up the foundation of our organization.

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spoiler alert I don't think that applies in st beyond. Kirk was chasing an ex star fleet officer gone mad. He was a giant terrorist, and Kirk has always been one to flaunt the rules, but to order the killing rather than any attempt for capture was pretty shocking.
Oh, very nice. On a not entirely unrelated note, have you read the Altered Carbon series? Possibly an even more desirable outcome for the hyper-wealthy.
Sentiment Analysis – Improving Bayesian Methods
This is the first time I've heard of Seymour, but it looks like he really tried to increase education around programming and computers, especially with younger kids/teenagers (e.g. Logo in Lego Windstorms, One Laptop Per Child), and for that I'm deeply respectful. Making computers and programming more accessible is really wonderful.

RIP Seymour Papert.
Show HN: Klipse – code evaluator pluggable on a web page clojure/ruby/JavaScript
If Thiel financed a lawsuit for the lady whose rape video was posted or the Conde Nast exec who got outed, would anyone be protesting?
Wouldn't that more or less just make them into a taxi company? That approach just wasn't working well.

The main difference between Uber and taxi companies is that Uber fully utilized modern technology from the ground up to build the platform, and as a result they were able to realize major improvements in terms of speed, reliability, and cost-effectiveness.
Gaming in VR gets all the attention because it is flashy, easy to convey to an audience and makes for good screen shots. But, at least half of VR applications (and probably more than half of revenue) will be in non-gaming applications. Design, simulation and training will be major areas. Sit inside a car while designing it. Walk around underneath Canada while looking for oil fields. Play out your role in the operating room a hundred times before doing it for real.

WebVR is a real thing, btw. It's VR delivered through the web --like video via the web. Between WebGL and WebAssembly, it should at least be able to keep up with the best mobile VR platforms.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WebVR/

https://aframe.io/

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/03/introducing-the-webvr-1-0-...
VR is gonna be big in finance.
Hi HN, just wanted to let you know that the Flow team is watching this thread and is happy to respond to any questions that you have :)
Since there's no context, the news today is Beta 4.

The betas have been on a roughly 2 week release cycle.
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The klipse plugin is a javascript tag that transforms static code snippets of an html page into live and interactive snippets:

1. Live: The code is executed in your browser

2. Interactive: You can modify the code and it is evaluated as you type

The code evaluation is done in the browser: no server is involved at all!

The code editing is done with CodeMirror.
The article presents horrible examples. Transportation and water are two sectors ripe for disruption by the private sector. Governments around the country are polluting rivers and poisoning children with lead because they refuse to raise water rates on grandma to upgrade their infrastructure. And here in DC, the Metro literally keeps catching on fire. We have a multi-trillion infrastructure spending backlog in these sectors because government operation has been such a disaster.
In 200x, when I was in 4th grade, my teacher said that that day, we would be learning some programming. We were strictly a Mac school, and Scratch wasn't as well known at the time, so the language and environment we learned was Terrapin Logo.

There's nothing like looking at the screen and seeing something that you made come to life for the first time. And there's nothing quite like being given a problem that seems impossibly hard at first, cracking it, and seeing the result in front of you. It was a magical moment, and though I would not do any more work in logo (UCBLogo wouldn't compile for me), that sense of wonder and magic, and that amazement and the feeling of looking at something, and understanding the complexity that makes it work, and knowing that you designed it, built it, and made it work, that is why I program. For the sheer joy of it.

Thank you Seymour, for everything.
Scientists Ponder an Evolutionary Mystery: The Female Orgasm
GUIs with Python
That's how NYT is doing business for a long time now, where's the surprise really?
Retrophies: achievements system for emulators
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I work with a customer who is notorious for not defining requirements. Their culture is that everyone is either too busy or not knowledgeable enough of all the working parts of a system to define requirements. It's a culture problem over there.

The tool I work on generates reports. Rather than defining requirements for reports, the only way to make progress is to understand their general needs through conversation, then provide them a draft report - your best guess. They tell you what to change or what they don't want, then you make changes and provide another draft. When enough tracer bullets are shot, you arrive at the report they actually need.
Very cool! Although it doesn't solve either of them perfectly for me (e.g. "HEY BUYS" instead of "HEY GUYS").

Would love to read more about how that tool works :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining
I doubt you will find any. The intersection between command line users and CRM users must be extremely small. Maybe you can find one that has a GUI plus command line support.
NeuroScouting | http://www.neuroscouting.com | Cambridge, MA, USA | Python Backend Developer | ONSITE

We are looking for experienced Python developers to join our core platform team. We are a small company developing technologies that apply the latest brain research to the world of professional sports and healthcare. Our sports technologies are currently deployed at the highest levels of elite performance, and we have received funding from the NIH to develop our healthcare technologies.

You will be working alongside experienced Python developers as well as interfacing directly with our game development, neuroscience, and data science teams.

Requirements: At least 5 years of experience developing software, fluency in Python, experience with database/SQL programming (direct SQL, not through an ORM), and experience writing automated tests in Python.

Nice to have: Familiarity with Django, PostgreSQL, numeric and data analysis python packages, and/or Twisted.

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I have mixed feelings about that for a different reason.

"select isn't broken" has been my experience since moving to open source platforms. However I started with VB on Access 2.0. (Yes, this dates me.) And there I found that most of my interesting bugs WERE of the "select is broken" form - Microsoft's software was simply that bad.

I understand that they have improved since then. But the bad taste from that experience stays with me, and is part of why I don't want to deal with the Microsoft stack.
Theranos’ Elizabeth Holmes to Face 1,000 Scientists Monday
This implies that gun ownership can be reliably tracked, which is not the case today, though certainly possible in theory.

You basically want to increase legal liabilities (which already exist) to an extreme, but you will then have trouble finding any insurance company that is willing to cover the kinds of damages that can be caused by guns at a rate affordable to an individual.

Either of these things will require legislation that will receive massive pushback from the gun lobby. In a country where even basic background checks or limiting of certain weapon types hasn't been realized, your ideas seem almost utopian.

Having said that, I don't disagree in principle.
Netflix is well-known for running much of their infrastructure in AWS. What infrastructure do they not run in AWS? I'm aware of their CDN, which is the core of their business, and which they manage in-house. Are there other parts of the Netflix service that they self-host?
Looks like Safari is getting some much needed updates with extensions and the upcoming community engagement. Apple Pay in Safari will allow Apple to add another device type to its payment ecosystem. Overall Safari is getting stronger and is moving in the right direction to keep pace.
Artsy | https://www.artsy.net | Full-stack developer | New York, NY (onsite)

Artsy is redefining the way the world discovers art. Our mission is to make all the world’s art accessible to anyone with an Internet connection.

I'm engineering lead for our auction products. I manage three talented full-stack engineers and I'm looking to hire an experienced engineer [1] to augment our team.

We're a small team within the broader Artsy engineering team, but we manage a lot of software, including dedicated auction infrastructure and parts of larger projects devoted to auctions. On our team, engineers spearhead the delivery of functionality, bringing in other engineers and stakeholders as necessary. So there's a lot of opportunity to make a big individual impact within a very collaborative environment.

We're polyglot, and our tech stack includes Javascript (React, Redux, Express), Scala (Akka, Slick), Ruby (Rails, Grape), and Swift. Previous experience is nice, but a demonstrated willingness and ability to learn new tech is even better, since engineering is a moving target!

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Contact: alan@artsy.net

[1] Past experience consistent with 3 or higher on our compensation framework (http://artsy.github.io/blog/2015/04/03/artsy-engineering-com...)
Perhaps I haven't read an Ars OS review in a while, but this just comes off as an extended advertisement. Where are the valid criticisms that we come to expect from an Ars OS review?

Ars was once the king of opinionated and influential OS journalism, to the point of making the GNOME project drop everything to embrace Spacial Navigation off the basis of an Ars article comparing OS X to OS 9. What happened?
It sounds like you just need to decide how much trouble this is worth to you. Is the cost of losing your prototypes greater than the cost of international travel?
I want to inline a linked reference and provide a summary as a form of protecting the reference against link-rot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_No_Asshole_Rule

Their unpleasant behaviours were catalogued by Sutton as The Dirty Dozen: (Robert Cipriano (2011), "No Jerks Allowed in This Department", Facilitating a Collegial Department in Higher Education, John Wiley and Sons, ISBN 978-1-118-10764-5)

Insults

Violation of personal space

Unsolicited touching

Threats

Sarcasm

Flames

Humiliation

Shaming

Interruption

Backbiting

Glaring

Snubbing
FCC Settles with TP-Link: Routers Will Support Open-Source Firmware [pdf]
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My office was next door to Seymour's office at the Media Lab. This was before the motorcycle accident in Vietnam. I was a freshly arrived student from India. His main observation about India was about how the IITs were terrible for the country because they left such a profound debilitating effect on those who did not make it to those schools.
That insult would be more impactful if backed up with an explanation of why you feel that way.

And, once that explanatory paragraph was written, you could remove the insult and just let it stand on its own.
Right. There are no intermediate stopping points between the two. And Andromeda is in our local cluster and so close on the scale of the universe.

Point of interest, we'll meet Andromeda in about 3 billion years or so.

Point of additional interest. Due to the expansion of the universe, it is impossible even in theory to travel to most of the galaxies that we can see.

Point of amazement. Our telescopes can pick out more galaxies in the universe than individual stars!
I'm glad to hear that an experienced editor sees HN that way, and also that you see evidence of a repeatable approach. Those are good signs.

As I'm sure you know, it's a more complex problem than just being willing or unwilling to put up with bad behavior. There are costs to addressing it—quite a few, it turns out, no matter what approach one takes.

Our plan is to move HN toward more community self-regulation. Each step we've taken that way—e.g. when we added vouching for dead comments—has worked well. I doubt the community can become completely autonomous (though a mod can dream), but we're pretty sure it can go further in that direction, especially if we do a good job of specifying what kind of site HN is, and isn't, supposed to be.
Protocol Buffers is not proprietary. It is open source under the BSD license. Here is the source code: github.com/google/protobuf. It is very much an open protocol, and anyone is free to write their own implementation of it. It is just a standards-based protocol.

If your organization values the existence of a standard over technical excellence, then there is no use in convincing you. Otherwise, in terms of ease of use, performance, tooling, and human readability and writability, Protocol Buffers is superior to XML-based protocols (since the API for converting between the binary and text formats is extremely simple to use).

As a fun fact, if you really wanted to use XML as a wire format, you could even write an XmlFormat ser/de for Protocol Buffers, similar to the JsonFormat that is already provided, but then it would defeat one of the main purposes of using Protocol Buffers in the first place because you would replace an extremely performant wire format with an extremely sub-optimal one.
The Neumann probe idea has one flaw: it's assumed the probes will propagate and spread largely unimpeded. However, any interstellar civilization which encounters a probe is going to capture it and analyze/destroy it. They would not allow it to float though their territory and replicate. At the least they will intercept any that enter their territory; if the civilization gets annoyed they may embark on a campaign to wipe out as many as they can. Which leads us to two possible explanations, assuming a civilization has already sent out probes:

1. The civilization was bordered on all sides by other interstellar civilizations, which stopped the probes from spreading.

2. Our civilization is bordered on all sides by other interstellar civilizations (or perhaps is in a remote backwater of a civilization, like uncontacted indigenous tribes in the Amazon), which stopped the probes from reaching us.

There's even a third, somewhat stranger and less likely option:

3. Some civilization is profoundly annoyed by Neumann probes, and has devoted themselves to destroying them everywhere. They made their own stealthy fighter probes, which wander deep space destroying any probes they may find. Perhaps they are keyed in to one specific model of probe that annoyed them, or perhaps will target any unmanned spacecraft with certain properties.
I agree the piece doesn't represent itself as investigative journalism. However, this is below the quality level of journalism that I typically receive from the NYT, which typically makes some effort at covering multiple perspectives on an issue. This feels like it was made by BuzzFeed or something.
You can try LOGO in your browser with this Javascript-based interpreter by the inimitable Joshual Bell: http://www.calormen.com/jslogo/
What's the added value of using imgur's embed code rather than a good ol' <img>? Is this a trend? I would understand it for albums, but why would you do it for individual images? </rant>
FCC announcement: http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2016...

Direct Link to the ruling: http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2016...
[1]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/internals/release-proc...
Very good idea - since it both puts the onus on them, and makes them realize the conflicting demands on your time.
Rachio | Denver, CO | ONSITE, Fulltime | Server-side Software Engineer, QA Engineer

Rachio is a mission-based startup that is changing the way people water. Our smart sprinkler controller makes running sprinklers easy while saving water and money. In fact, we’ve saved over 1 billion gallons of water to date. An industry leader in the connected home space, Rachio has one of the highest rated and reviewed products on the market.

We’re looking for talented engineers, with 3+ years experience, who are excited about the Internet of Things (IoT) space and using new technologies to power current and future products. This is the opportunity to work with a highly talented engineering team that is building technology that bridges software to the physical world. You can find more about our team here: https://rachio.com/about

Our backend is built with Java on AWS. We use Dropwizard as a foundation in order to build a micro-service oriented backend which uses MySQL and Elasticsearch for data storage. Our current challenges revolve around maintaining our ability to iterate quickly on feature requests and updates while scaling to accommodate the growth in our install base.

For the QA Engineer, we are looking for someone with a strong automated testing background. Someone who can manage and expand our current test plans across multiple mobile and web client apps as well as refine and improve our API test suite.

Our hiring process: A short 30 minute phone screen. Followed by a 3-4 hour coding challenge. Capped off with a 2 hour onsite interview.

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Or contact me directly for more information at: dan <dot> jasek <at> rach <dot> io
Which is obviously not at all relevant to the topic at hand. I don't think tipping should exist as a whole. However, it does exist in the US. Therefore, if you attempt to opt out, i.e. be a cheapskate, then expect there to be repercussions.
The Manifesto for a Common Sense Approach to Regulating Airbnb
Still Apple Pay seems to be americo-centric with only supporting credit cards. In Europe SEPA wire transfers and direct debit is cheaper, safer and has a wider use-case (you can send money to any bank account).
It breaks down further than that. Get a transporter lock on the uneaten food and dirty dishes and just de-replicate it from a distance. The "robot" busboy is never seen, except as transporter-effect vanishings of plates and leftovers.

But if consistency is your thing, you could retcon the whole thing by making the busboy an in-restaurant hologram. It would be like the emergency hologram doctor, except the hologram busboy would just be an artistic feature. In the Star Trek economy, you are paid in public appreciation for your talents. The richest person in the Federation is the one who has the most fans and followers.

So without scarcity, a lot of people would give away their holographic models and software, for the prestige of "holographic restaurant busboy reaches one million downloads!" It wouldn't really be any more complicated than visiting Nexusmods to get a modded Fallout or Skyrim NPC companion with full dialogue and bonus companion quest.

If the busboy is a character that also interacts outside the restaurant, that was just the guy who scanned his own likeness and programmed a facsimile of his own personality to make the busboy hologram. His real job isn't bussing tables, it's making it look like restaurant tables are being bussed instead of serviced remotely by transporter/replicator/hologram technology.

Does that make you feel better about the guy who does menial labor in a scarcity-free economy?
Atom 1.9 and 1.10 beta
And that's the real issue I would think. If it shut itself down or went into read-only and generated errors it wouldn't be so bad. The limitations 32-bit architectures are why we have 64bit architectures. I think it's fair as a developer to require x64 instead of jumping through hoops to support both architectures. But if you're going to release 32-bit binaries for something like development or testing you should be explicit about the use cases and limitations and avoid failing silently when they're exceeded.
How long until this becomes a transport over BATMAN?
Yup. Most schools can't authentically do the things that Papert describes in Mindstorms. It goes against their very structure.

I don't blame the commercial vendors -- they are following the public-policy-directed money. I blame the schools for their culture of top-down control and conformity.
Any update on support for using TypeScript definition files with Flow? It doesn't seem as though the team is still watching the issue on Github: https://github.com/facebook/flow/issues/7
You haven't answered the question. What would you actually do? What could you do? Which procedures could you apply that are not already being applied?

You cannot stop cartels from dealing drugs, despite massive efforts, what could you do to prevent them from dealing weapons?

Furthemore, while cartels are certainly important, the majority of gun-related homicides within the US are caused by small-time criminals, within a social fabric that facilites small-time illegal gun sales.