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Mixpanel - Hardcore Engineer
How can you check if nothing happened?
Disruptive L.A. music/tech YC startup needs senior rails developer/architect
Everybody wants to change the world. Some do it with music. Some do it with technology.

We decided to do it with both.

•	Looking for a bright software engineer and web developer
•	Strong Ruby/Rails experience an absolute must
•	Experience with MongoDB/Mongomapper a HUGE plus
•	LA local or willingness to relocate to LA a HUGE plus

We are rolling out an industry changing music discovery platform and would love your help!

Primary project
•	Develop infrastructure for ad platform bid management system
•	Kit out backend infrastructure in preparation for rapid scale.

Compensation
•	Salary plus equity
•	Flexible work arrangement, but local preferred

We will be the hot LA startup of 2011, but we need top developers to help reach our lofty goals.

We’re looking for people who are willing to take the lead on their projects and kick some ass.

freshbaileys@gmail.com
How is the most ignorant comment in this thread voted up?

First of all, he offers no evidence that memory management in objective-c is resource or effort intensive. He can't, because it's not. This is not hard:

-(id)initWithSomeNumber:(NSNumber *)aNumber {
...
someField=[[SomeObject alloc] init];
someOtherField=[aNumber copy]; // or retain, your call.
...
}

-(void)dealloc {
[someField release];
[someOtherField release];
[super dealloc];
}

How is that hard exactly? There are only 4 rules you need to follow for memory management in Objective-C/Cocoa/CocoaTouch:

* If you use a convenience method, eg [NSString stringWithFormat:...] you don't own it, so don't release it.

* If you use alloc, copy or new, you own it, so release it.

* Implement dealloc to release fields you own.

* Never invoke dealloc directly.

I mean you can be as snarky as you want dude, I write Cocoa apps all day long (as well as web apps and mobile apps) and I can tell you and the original poster, are either idiots or lazy. I'm going to go with lazy.
The individual load still takes a full HTTP round trip, which is going to be slow no matter how you slice it. Comparatively, storing several layers of a directory structure (all you need is file/directory names in a JSON tree) is pretty tiny.
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50K may have worked in 2000, but we have 10 years of inflation since then. I think 65K is more in line with the times.
Disruptive L.A. music/tech YC startup needs senior frontend/JavaScript developer
Everybody wants to change the world. Some do it with music. Some do it with technology.

We decided to do it with both.

•	Looking for a bright software engineer and web developer
•	Strong frontend js experience a must
•	Ruby/Rails and UX experience a HUGE plus
•	LA local or willingness to relocate to LA a HUGE plus

We are rolling out an industry changing music discovery platform and would love your help!

Primary project
•	Overhaul music management interface/javascript to create a more unified design
•	Flush out frontend user interface to improve user experience

Compensation
•	Salary plus equity
•	Flexible work arrangement.

We will be the hot LA startup of 2011, but we need top developers to help reach our lofty goals.

We’re looking for people who are willing to take the lead on their projects and kick some ass.

freshbaileys@gmail.com
It may be too early to complain about the recommendation system, but I think you should invest some more time on a good one.
Chrome/OS/Store is about disruption, not domination
I noticed that when trying to change the artist name while watching a video that the UI disappears when the mouse stops moving, so I can't see what I'm typing in the search box.
Libraries like Socket.IO will detect if the connection can be made or not... so this point is moot.

Feature detection first, connection detection second, then start degrading the transport until all options are exhausted.
Who downvoted this? UI/UX are not terms to be bandied around lightly. Just because you can make websites pretty doesn't mean you're an interface designer. There's a difference between graphic design (an appeal to emotion and aesthetics) and interactive design (the science of making interfaces easy and enjoyable to use).
Golly, wherever will they find the money to pay for this error?

Surprisingly, the CNBC headline is editorialized and overly-sensational, as is the rest of the article. At worst, they have a $120M problem, and that's if they just burn everything and reprint all the bills. Otherwise, "up to 30% of the bills" will have to be reprinted, for a cost of $36M plus the cost of identifying the broken bills.

Otherwise it's an interesting article - I wasn't aware they were redesigning the bill.
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I chose to learn what I did about the guy because I encountered an friend's histrionic dislike of the singer and was curious.

So yes, entirely voluntary.

Now, if you'd like to argue that I was "forced" to encounter information by talking to someone I know, then you're going beyond even trying to make victimization out of exposure to media and just showing yourself to long for a hermitage. :)
How on earth did they have a 30% failure rate, but not notice until after they had printed 1.1 billion notes? I thought the mint was extremely stringent about their QA!
Reading over the comments up to this point, this is a definition debate, not an intelligent conversation. By some useful readings of the word "singularity", they are indeed relative and there are several in our past, and quite likely several in our future. Looking back at the prognostications in 1980 one can fruitfully argue that we've been through one just since then. By other useful readings of the word "singularity", it lies solely in the future if it exists or can exist at all.

Arguing which definition is "true" is wrong; definitions can't really true or false, they are simply useful or not useful, nor do they have any direct impact on reality.
I wish I could sign up for email updates, instead of dealing with feeds.
.. then why didn't they give us a free OS X instead of a locked down platform?
Indeed, I made a false assumption due to my lack of experience with WebSockets and sparse look I had over them.

But I'll still going to stick with the fact that they are ugly hacks.
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I hear you. Feeds are a lot quicker to implement as a first step.
We're a bit worried about our "the social conference directory" tagline, since we've had a few people think the site is only for social media conferences.
I had the cashier in a toll booth refuse to accept a perfectly valid old-style $20 bill last week. I asked him what was wrong with it and he whipped out a new-style one and said "they're not the same, it's fake."

He even halfheartedly threatened to call the police.
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Jeremy Ashkenas is the author of coffee script, underscore.js, backbone.js
While he is working on coffee script, he is putting some thoughts into the compiler to guarantee fast JavaScript. The - often surprising - results are useful for programmers as well, who do not use coffee script.

For example, "void 0" seems to be faster than "undefined"
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I would imagine that since paper money gets its value entirely from the trust the public places in its authenticity and value, any printing defect will cause chaos when the not-completely-uniform bills go into circulation.

This will waste the time of those that need to check for authenticity (imagine the image scanners that need to be adjusted for this), deflate trust in what constitutes an authentic bill, and devalue the "defect" currency as it may not be accepted in all scenarios.
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Yeah was listening to NPR talk about it and the two problems they're trying to deal with is fixing the problem that causes the faulty notes and sorting the faulty notes for the good ones so the good ones can be used.
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Works okay as a portfolio, others have already hit on the design details that could probably be fixed.

I'd say - having just looked at your site, it's not clear to me what you are selling - it's not clear to me how quickly or accurately you can deliver a product.

Maybe I'm getting old and crotchety in my IT years - but I don't really care from a portfolio page that you just quit anything to take a new direction in life. You might just want to leave that out, and instead replace it with something about how you are passionate about website architecture and design, and all the aspects involved.
See also "A. Kuzmanovic and E. W. Knightly. Low-Rate TCP-Targeted Denial of Service Attacks (The Shrew vs. the Mice and Elephants). In Proc. ACM SIGCOMM, 2003." and related papers -- http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~akuzma/rice/shrew/
the connected conference directory?
Hey there! I'm the creator of http://TheWikiGame.com, and the first thing that comes to my mind is:

"New Competitors Help Validate Your Market"

So, I'm totally cool with ThreeWiki.com! :-)
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> getting fond of these single-point-of-entry for learning type of sites for a language

I put together learn-clojure.com (the site in question), for exactly this reason.

There is endless technical information all over the web about any language with even the minor popularity; but when you're stepping in to learn a new language, a short ("curated" in the 2010 vernacular, ugh) list of the most relevant learning materials is much more useful than a reference site or a search with thousands of results.
Why wasn't this caught during printing? I worked for a company that printed newspaper circulars and we had to check the prints every 10 minutes for quality. So the department of engraving and printing can't do the same? My theory is that they discovered someone(North Korea?) printing counterfeits of the new bill and are modifying them again.
Did you read this post-mortem from EventVue? http://www.onlineaspect.com/2010/10/26/a-few-words-about-eve...

It was on HN last week. The funny thing is, showing who is coming to a conference actually hurt their client! Because people tend to register so late... So double check your claims that you know who is coming.
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Using a service does not mean you are "in" that business, any more then being in a shop does not mean you own that shop.

Marketers are in the marketing business. Programmers are in the programming business. Having a website that you use as a marketing tool doesn't make you a marketer, it means you use a product for marketing.
I can see collectors scouring new bills for this flaw and hoarding them. If they ever make it into production you can be sure they will instantly become collectors items.

*edit s/production/circulation
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I ran down the implications of this: http://blog.meatinthesky.com/pci-compliance-in-the-cloud-thi...
I think the risk involved is crazy, stupid and selfish. I judge therefore I am ;-).

However, at least these mountaineers effectively experiment with their lives in a relatively open manner. It's too bad the drug cheats in athletics aren't able to be as open. Then we might learn something useful from their crazy, stupid and selfish behavior.
I just tried this on my stock Varnish config and the site was still responding to requests. So, Varnish can be added to the list of 'not affected.'
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It existed off the bat in 10.5 :).
I've bought the first issue because it looks like it has potential. But I really think you should get a PDF version out fast because its a bit pricey atm and PDFs are a lot more handy.
You can just look at the bedbug registry. No landlord is going to let you run your own bedbug inspection. As gross as the bedbug situation is in Williamsburg, I still think there's a worse roach problem.

There's just as big of a bedbug problem in Manhattan (if not worse) and it's not confined to cheap buildings. My office building got infested and it was primo real estate.

Finally, Williamsburg is no longer cheap unless you luck out and find an apartment-by-owner rental where the owner is senile. In a weird warping of reality, you can get a better deal in the Upper East Side (if you go over towards 1st/York.)
It's totally about laziness! But that's what computers are all about -- I could store printed versions of all of my documents in a filing cabinet, and go and manually sort them every time I needed a different ordering, but I'm lazy! I use a database!

I just don't see why laziness should be restricted to users. Developers are lazy too.

You're right that there are only 4 rules (or more or less depending on your formulation), but I don't care. I'd rather take the time to have another martini. Or, y'know, implement features that make my users happy.

And it definitely gets harder when there are more moving parts. You're right that the rules are simple, but the execution of those rules gets more complex as you add more components, more threads, remoting, etc. I never said it was impossible, or up there with Fermat's Last Theorem or anything like that. Just that this is work the computer could be doing for me. I want to be lazy, but Apple won't let me.
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This didn't work on an Arch linux (x86) box. I think I did pacman -Syu last weekend, so it's reasonably up to date.

It also doesn't work on my Slackware server, which has a pretty heavily modified 2.6.23.14 kernel.

In the context of the other comments, does this mean that a lack of a software monoculture keeps these sorts of exploits from damaging the entire population of linux machines?
Probably when SysAdmins did too, as I believe the ChromeOS program manager was quoted along those lines the other day. The wording was closer to pink slipping them completely, but I'm going off the top of my head here.

I think the pilot program is about right for something as bold as how they're marketing this. Putting as many of these in the hands of the very people they're pissing at and saying "ok, you tell us then" is the only way to change some minds. If they don't ship 100,000 of these to smart people, I can't see it taking off.

The marketing is horrendous otherwise. A new sort of web based platform? I get that, I'm ok with that. A new sort of product that has marketing materials telling me my opinions are bullhookey and a PM that wants to see me out of a job is another.
How will you handle varying security levels? I don't want to put my principle username and password into an app that I distribute that can literally do anything to my databases. Can you or will you be able to have multiple users/access levels per account?
One of my favorite stories is about perhaps the most conscientious counterfeiter: http://www.snopes.com/business/money/mister880.asp.
FBI Terrorist Identification Questionnaire:

1. Do you spend a lot of time alone?

2. Are you sometimes uncomfortable in group situations?

3. Do you organize your life around an ideology?

Uh oh, a large percentage of hackers are now on a watchlist!

Here's the original paper [PDF]: http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA514419&Locati...
My friend's dad and also one of the original members of our organization died of cancer. They both asked to have their ashes brought to Everest and I think this is a worthy pursuit. We are tryingto raise 100k by climbing 100k feet, so we will go through a lot of hard work. We would love your support.
Definitely true (referring to the quote). My girlfriend is in graduate school. Whens she comes home, she tells me about everything that happened to her during the day. I code and write blogposts. When she asks what I did, I say "went to the coffee shop and worked. That was about it."
Is it a reference to something else? If so, can you explain. I don't get it.
"My concern is that hype can also bite when you don't have something to ship or there isn't a big value-add over existing solutions."

This is critical. Diaspora could spend a lot of time in the architecture tower with nothing to show, and the early hype will bite them if they have nothing to show. I think they've done a good job making sure that doesn't happen.

Now that they've shown they can produce something, they need to slow down and make sure they are producing the right thing. When you are building a simple application, you can get away with design-by-coding; if you are trying to build a federated, global, social wonder, you are going to need to spend some time thinking about it.
You cannot find a nice, inexpensive apartment in Astoria or Williamsburg for much less than $1900 anymore. Williamsburg is way overpriced now. Better luck in Astoria but honestly you have to go pretty deep into Queens or Brooklyn for any combination of "nice and inexpensive." It's not going to be a very hip neighborhood.
I can't know that I wouldn't care if I haven't heard anything. I do not desire that level of disconnection from culture, merely the ability to control my participation. Which is actually rather easy, I'm finding. Perhaps when my kids get to be teenagers I'll find it a bit more of a challenge, but then, I doubt that's exactly what you mean. (I certainly don't desire that level of disconnection from my family!)
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That's an apt quotation... that you posted to the Internet to be seen by anonymous others who don't know you.
Have you actually tried the feature? (I'm honestly curious). Sounds like you're throwing around a lot of what-ifs for a problem that doesn't exist.
They made it into production. They printed 1,000,000,000 of them before verifying their kwalitee.
Yet another reason Chrome's rolling release auto updates are glorious.

I like Chrome's silent updates, but the only real difference between it and Firefox is that Firefox informs the user that the update is being applied. Other than that, I'm not sure what you're referring to.
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A broken bill for a broken currency.

Who makes 1,000,000,000 of something before verifying quality?
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The provisioning in iOS is truly awful. However, in the XCode4 beta this has been greatly improved. You just click on a couple buttons within XCode itself, and everything gets automagically set up.

I've heard that it still causes problems if you're trying to clear out old profiles, but Apple seems to have been trying to provide a good fix to the worst part of iOS development.
Looks like the probe didn't make it:

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&tl...
REST question
I'll start by saying that I understand REST APIs. However, I am having trouble with one thing. How do typical methods - suspend, archive, export, etc - translate best to REST APIs?

For example, say I have a project management system. And you can archive a project. How should my REST API handle archival?

I assume you'd do a POST to myapp.com/project/1234, and you'd pass some data in like { archived: true }.

Or maybe a POST to: myapp.com/project/1234/archive. Although I guess that URL is not restful.

So what's the approach that most apps take here? A generate "update" action that takes varying parameters, rather than individual actions for each method, would be a bit of a pain to code and document, no?
Perhaps the anti-counterfeiting measures are too effective if the U.S. Government is having trouble printing them.
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"Google is really pushing people building on web technologies to create their websites more like traditional apps."

Alas poor hypertext, we hardly knew you.
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This is just a lot of hoopla! It's not a framework. It's just a bunch of methods that comprise a front controller.
Of course. It is important and useful to be a part of society, be conversant with the issues of the day, etc. The author's point seemed to simply be that constantly being conversant with popular culture is capable of becoming a timesink.
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$100 bills with a blank stripe down the middle are going to be valuable in the future.
Remember how the U.S. was going to print money to get itself out of debt? So much for that idea.
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Not necessarily, if you are using rails, you get update actions for free in your controller.

So you could do:
curl -X PUT -d "<params>" http://myapp.com/project/1234

See section 11.6 (How to take snapshots of resources) in the book "RESTFul web services cookbook" for a discussion of this...
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The most interesting page to me is this one:

http://www.google.com/chromeos/pilot-program-forbusiness.htm...

I think Google is far more ambitious in the business space than most people realize. They are aiming directly at Microsoft's empire. Consider the amazing TCO for a business that deploys only Google Apps and ChromeOS notebooks to its employees. Obviously, Google Apps are not quite good enough yet, but Google knows this is a long term project. The apps are constantly improving and at the same time people are steadily migrating to the web for many of their workflows anyway. At some point it'll get really hard to justify spending $1-2k up front plus IT overheads per employee when you could get it for virtually nothing with a ChromeOS notebook.
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I've found trying to make your websites faster is kind of a drug. They can just never be fast enough. You start with Google Page Speed, and before you know it you're profiling your CSS for slow rules in Safari ...

For most database-driven applications though the real latency is almost always in the database. You really need something like memcached to totally remove the bottleneck. I think oftentimes frontend speed demons are trying to answer the wrong question.
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Then think about it in terms of form factor and input devices: computers have physical keyboards and indirect relative pointing devices. Tablets and smartphones are touch-based, with (so far) no haptic feedback and lower precision of pointing, but the advantages of direct pointing.
thanks,

That brought something that didn't come up so far in the discussion. What sort of bugs did you experience. And what was the most difficult part of the UI?
Ouch, HN drives a bit more traffic than I was expecting - site is flaky at the moment, sorry about that.
+1 this a good first step, but in terms of visual appeal and clarity of message, you've got a long way to go. I found this to be one of the worst websites I've visited in quite a while. I'm looking forward to when your innovation heads in the direction of improving communication.
... then it is just an exchange of text frames delimited by 0x00 and 0xff bytes.

People refer to it as "TCP for for the web", but it is more than that since it specifies framing as well.
thanks for the insight into how you used the real time. And pretty cool way you actually used Wave. just so you know :)
They're going to destroy most of these, and someone is going to smuggle out a few, and they'll be worth a lot more than $100 a hundred years from now.