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Mountain View, CA - Software Engineers, UI/UX Front End

Room 77 - http://www.room77.com - is building the world's best hotel search experience and the first hotel room database and recommendation engine. We're about 20 strong and moving into new space in downtown Mountain View (off Castro St.) in July.

Software Engineers (H1B welcome)

* BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or a related field

* Design algorithms to enable the world's fastest and most feature-rich travel search engine (primarily with C++, Javascript, PHP and Python)

* Passionate about travel

* Work with rockstar engineering team with background from Google, Facebook, MIT and Stanford

* We've got some puzzles here: http://www.room77.com/jobs.html

UI/UX Front End

* Strong sense of design with a focus on usability

* Front-end coding skills (Javascript, HTML, jQuery) with strong focus on optimizing for speed

* Work closely with both product and engineering team to balance tradeoffs in features and UI needs

* Wide latitude to help design different ways to shop and discover hotel information in ways that haven't been done before

The details:

* Competitive salary

* Stock options

* 3 weeks of annual vacation

* 401K matching

* Healthcare stipend

* Meal allowance

* Casual but professional working environment with seasoned leaders on both the engineering and business teams

E-mail your CV/Resume to jobs+engw@room77.com
I believe the article misses the point that America, through it's complete dominance of the air and seas, has made naval warfare largely irrelevant for 99% of countries - hence their lack of will or desire to build them. The world saw centuries of naval proliferation up to WW2.
He misses the point entirely with missile silos. The backbone of the modern nuclear arsenal is the ballistic missile submarine. Far more mobile and far harder a target than any railborn missile.
Yes, I think the point is that the decentralized approach could have horrible consequences for people with significant savings in bitcoins.
Anyone find that grey on grey text a little hard to read?
No argument that McDonald's should've settled for medical costs when they had the chance. Yes the coffee was too hot but... she put the cup between her legs while driving.

Reasonable care would've prevented this injury and that's my problem with the ridiculous payout.

The law has many failings like this. For example, if you become intoxicated, get in a vehicle and manage to kill someone then the law largely says you were not responsible... because you were intoxicated. The punishment for vehicular manslaughter is WAY lower than other unlawful killings, if it's even tried as that. It's so hard to get vehicle-related felonies convicted that often they'll be settled for lower severity crimes (reckless driving and so forth).

But who got intoxicated in the first place? Who didn't take reasonable steps to avoid getting behind the wheel?

The McDonald's case is the poster child for frivolous litigation because, in spite of the misrepresentation or misunderstanding of the facts, ultimately it boils down to rewarding people for being stupid.
Copyrights are indeed transferable. In fact, many of the most well-known free software projects rely on this fact (e.g., should they want to relicense, or to make it easier to defend copyright ownership in court by having a single legal entity behind it).

mluiten might be referring to the fact that copyright only applies to "original works of authorship fixed in a tangible medium of expression." (See http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html)

That is, copyrights don't cover ideas, but creative works in some fixed form (e.g., a painting or a piece of software).
Microsoft Buying Nokia's Phone Business For $19 Billion -- TWEET
Palo Alto, CA (very close to Caltrain)

MindTribe is hiring Electrical, Mechanical, and Software engineers. We're an engineering consultancy in downtown Palo Alto (considering an office in SF very soon though, so if that interests you, let us know). Notable projects include the Aliph Jawbone headset, the Pure Digital Flip (before it was acquired by Cisco). We're looking for thought leaders who will help us bring agile development to physical products in support of our clients' customer development efforts.

http://mindtribe.com/jobs/

I'm our Director of Software Engineering and, despite the requirements listed on our website, I'm specifically looking for enthusiastic embedded developers with strong C skills, test-driven development discipline, and agile planning experience--regardless of degree or pedigree. And the agile experience/mindset is more important than intimate knowledge of C. If this excites you, contact me at hn@mindtribe.com.
I like this idea. You could also check to see if the user has used your product frequently within the trial period or not. An infrequent user could be sent such an email to give him/her more time.

This email also acts as a nice reminder for users who may have forgotten about your product. I've signed up for so many betas that I sometimes forget.
Patent trolls do add some value to the economy. The value they add is in the purchasing of the patent, leaving the original patent holder with a pile of cash they can use to build another product.

Then again, they take way more value out of the market, so it ends up being a negative.
So I am guessing his body will remain on Everest. Another sad addition to the Death Zone.
The Little Schemer (196 pages) Programming in Haskell (171 pages) are two that spring to mind.
I make a stronger claim then that, which is that Bitcoin must perform a transfer in the future, and that if this transfer is to be non-disruptive, it must be done in a centralized fashion. I will admit I debated over the title for some time, but I decided I wanted to emphasize Bitcoin as a succession of protocols, not the current one, which is a hopelessly myopic perspective.
Josh told papers that the PR director told him that the force has 2400 reports of theft a month and is only able to conduct 3 investigations.

(from the article on Consumerist http://consumerist.com/2011/06/laptop-thief-caught-after-vic...)

The Oakland PD no longer responds to property crimes. This is a stopgap policy they started after they lost a large number of officers (100?) recently due to budget cuts.
We are.

Tutorspree (YC W11) is hiring PHP Hackers and Designers (Remote is okay, but NYC is preferred)

* http://www.tutorspree.com/jobs
>You didn't take even a minute to think through before writing.

Side note from the referee: writing is a form of thinking things through, and even if it isn't you're distracting from the issue. 5 yard deduction and 2 minutes in the penalty box, plus parent gets a free shot.
What Amazon.com and Netflix can teach us about fighting poverty
Unfortunately, that's always a tough part when trying to learn from taptaptap's successes. It's much harder to be motivated to work on a tease before launch, a tweetblast, etc. when you don't have an audience yet...

However, as always, it didn't happen overnight and their audience is not the only reason to their success: one thing to learn is that everything they do is highly polished and well designed. They simply do great work. Working on that brings results (personal satisfaction if anything) without an audience.

As evidence of that the success of Tiny Wings in the App Store.
Well, it was a small company, a Yellow Pages ad agency. At the time "cut and paste" mostly meant "scissors and glue". The owner's idea was to automate the process of designing, billing, placing, and accounting for advertising. He ended up with a program that scripted Photoshop and Pagemaker and created layouts on the fly, including rate cards and all the other paperwork then required. This was in the early 90s.

At the time I wanted to be an illustrator and calligrapher, if you can believe that. Half of the day I spent managing the phone book library. We had a subscription to every book in North America, something like 8,000 volumes.

The other half I spent more or less dicking around, doing creatives for the ads, special projects for sales, tinkering with layouts, reading manuals, and teaching myself about design theory and how to use the whole Adobe suite.

We were paid minimum wage for 25 hours a week, so I don't think us kids were a huge burden on the business. And we all turned in useful work. My high school had a program that gave us school credit for working, as long as we took core classes and stayed employed.
Ruby on Rails/MySQL Developer

Wowzers is an online core curriculum. Students create an avatar and are engaged in data-driven learning explorations. The cinematic experience, filled with characters and challenges, forces students to use critical and creative thinking skills to master specific content aligned to state and Common Core Standards.

Wowzers is data-driven, and provides analytics for instructors and administrators to view progress toward goal in each standard, by student and group, and allows instructors to view and adjust the adaptive learning plan created for each child using real-time data.

Wowzers is an exciting young company located in River North in downtown Chicago. Wowzers provides an informal and challenging work environment. We are seeking to change the way students learn, and encourage our team members to be creative challenge existing paradigms.

Wowzers provides competitive salary based on merit, and offers full benefits, including insurance and retirement.

For the Ruby on Rails/MxSQL Developer position we are looking for a team leader build out our existing infrastructure and create new functionalities related to student data. Work will include synthesizing student performance and developing more advanced algorithms to individualize instruction for students based on their ability level. Additional work will tackle the challenge of scaling a massive data project with hundreds of thousands of users (growing to millions in the coming months. Read more about the requirements below

Responsibilities:
* Optimizing, maintaining, and developing new features for an existing Ruby on Rails website
* Developing e-commerce system for handling user subscriptions and in-game transactions
* Implementing community monitoring features that report usage statistics
* Improving scalability of back-end architecture to accommodate millions of users
* Devising strategies to optimize network performance in scenarios where a large number of users all share a single internet connection
* Creating web-based tools to enter/manage data
* Integrating with other, PHP-based web apps
* Helping with quality assurance and game testing

Requirements:
* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Web Programming
* Must be proficient in HTML, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, JavaScript, PHP
* 1-3 years experience in professional web development
* Must work in-house and be comfortable working in close collaboration with others

Additional Skills:
* Strong design sensibilities a plus

Compensation: $60-75K depending on experience and skill.

To apply, go to http://wowzers.com/about/careers-application
You have a great idea/point.

The problem is that as soon as you put the word "software" in front of the word "patent" during a discussion you can actually see eyes glaze over and brains shut off in the person you are talking to.

It's just easier for representatives to ignore this. That or they see the issue as niche, and therefore don't pay attention.

Yes, the same ridiculous rules that apply to software MUST apply to something more mainstream so that it gets noticed.
I'm not saying they were bullied, but Zed forced them to respond. He did it in a juvenile way, and it truly wasn't unreasonable for him to handle it in a more mature way. Email them. He's criticized me for not emailing him and meeting him face to face, so why didn't he waltz on over to GitHub HQ in town here and talk to them?

Oh, because then he wouldn't get any publicity. Doing support and keeping a startup in a good position despite outspoken users (who don't pay for the service) is a completely thankless job. I give github a ton of credit for responding well over a holiday weekend to what amounts to a screaming child. Not many other companies would do that.

That's why github rocks.
The gnu tools are a very small part of the overall system, and they are probably some of the most replaceable (and replaced). The kernel is a lot less so, and while it's comparable in size it's also the common thread that people want to refer to when they say "linux systems."

Besides, neither the kernel nor the gnu tools are used all that much by a regular user. The desktop environment, the browser, office tools, etc. are much, much more visible to the end user.

In any case, it makes a lot more sense to say just "linux" than to arbitrarily "gnu/" in front just to placate some pedants. Say "gnu" when you're talking about gnu, not when you're talking about linux.
I think the point mluiten is making is that you have to actually create the content (or pay someone to create it) to have copyright, whereas you don't have to implement anything to have a patent granted. Since content creation is much more expensive than content distribution, there would be no economic incentives for "copyright trolls."
Bellevue, WA and Tempe, AZ. Datasphere is hiring lots of product people, as well as marketing/sales/etc: http://www.datasphere.com/careers

Positions HN people might like:

- Web User Experience Developer

- Principal Software Design Engineer

- Senior Program Manager

- Software Design Engineer

- Software Development in Test (SDET)

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I tried to learn programming but I was discouraged by the utter lack of pedagogy in the books I've picked so far. The author pretty much nailed it.

I even tried Land of Lisp only because it was supposed to be fun, but unfortunately it used this horrible and widespread format where the author writes all the code for you and proceeds to an explanation.

There is no creation (or creative problem solving) ! And creation is the fun component, it should be the point of programming.

Later, I read the Little Schemer and I found it very fun and engaging. Because I had to think by myself, I realized I learned more in 30 minutes with the Little Schemer than 200 pages of Land of Lisp.

My first attempt at programming was with an horribly dull PHP book. 5 stars on Amazon, but it was again the same format where the author writes all the code for you and then explains it, and did not provide any exercise.

I think the perfect programming book would be a mix of the Little Schemer and K&R : the quiz format for the theory coupled with challenging exercises. There is no greater reward and way to learn than solving problems by yourself.
you beat me to it. Although UQM is not a clone or inspired by SC2, it is the actual source code used to build the game.
Sad. But I have to say - climbing Everest when your wife is due to give birth - not cool.

Overall death rate for Everest climbers is pretty close to 3% - pretty high (although its been falling).

Edit: 3% is for climbers above base camp - for summit climbers its close to 10%! According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Mount_Everest_disaster
very sad all around
UserRules Customer Feedback Management 2.0
San Francisco, CA - Blurb
Blurb lets people tell their stories - currently through print-on-demand books, but increasingly through other venues.

We are both established and growing like mad (we were #47 on last year's Inc 500). We have a great group of people and a lot of fun challenges in the year ahead. We just launched a bevy of new products (our iPhone app is getting great reviews).

We have great benefits, a great work/life balance, and we're in a great location close to the BART, CalTrain, and lots of food options.

We are currently hiring for many positions - front end, Rails, iPhone, and more.
http://www.blurb.com/join_us

(Tell them Ben S sent you)
To clarify this some more, if the hashing algorithm is sufficiently broken, then I can doctor an arbitrary transaction of bitcoins to where-ever I want. If the old bitcoins are that insecure, they will necessarily become worthless.
Your key pairs are still valid, though, and they're in the backed up wallet. If those 9k were purchased and a few confirmations were achieved, then everyone with the current block chain will recognize your keys.

That the client is problematic doesn't mean the data/$ is gone.
(I also wonder how many downloads are driven [redacted])

Way to spoil what many (including taptaptap in this post) want to keep under wrap. :)

But I would be very surprised if many downloads were for that. For one thing, it's not discussed much and the other thing is that it's a tiny part of the game. (to which I actually didn't pay more attention than that actually)
We don't normally crack hashes for proof-of-concept, it's not usually that hard to convince a client about the perils of insecure password storage (although I guess ocassionally you might need to give them a concrete example).

Generally, we crack passwords to be able to try those credentials on more secured systems (thanks to the ubiquity of password reuse).

As to why so many, When doing network tests, there's some percentage of time when you manage to obtain a hash (it might be a small percent), but when you multiply that by the number of tests going on in a given week, it seems to have worked out that folks are lining up to use it.
Should We Be Limiting Developers API Usage?
Note that such an exchange is necessarily centralized.
New York City - UI Designer, Android Developer, System Architect

Fast Society - www.fastsociety.com/jobs

We're a small, funded, tight-knit team based in NYC. We're looking for creative, passionate new friends to help us build an incredible mobile experience.
RockMelt is hiring a variety of positions[1] in Mountain View, CA, but we could really use a sysadmin who'd prefer to spend most of her day automating her job. Devops, SRE, tools builder, whatever you want to call it, someone who uses code to make operations easier, faster, better.

jay@rockmelt.com

[1] http://www.rockmelt.com/jobs.html
But the market places a higher value on a single btc once they are "out of circulation" because money is scarcer, right? So the only person losing money is you.
The Most Important Security Question Ever Asked
Coulomb Gets Patent For Street Light Mounted EV Charger
But who got intoxicated in the first place? Who didn't take reasonable steps to avoid getting behind the wheel?

I am not a lawyer, but I believe, firstly, this is largely orthogonal to the original discussion, and secondly, my understanding behind why it is considered manslaughter is because of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea
Exactly. We all sit around here and preach to the choir.

I don't know that anyone really knows how or what to do here. How does a non-mainstream issue like this get into the public eye in such a way that anyone but our niche gives a crap?

Lastly, we have to ask why they REALLY exist. What is REALLY going on. Where is the money in all this, who's making the most?

If Big Software Corp A wants patents to stick around, and the legislator wants Big Software Corp A's money for the next election, do they have any interest in representing the people, or just the corporation?

In this situation, the number of PEOPLE who don't want these patents has to surpass the influence of the large corporations who do want software patents to stay as they are. I just don't see this happening.
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Madrid, Spain or remote

I'm a Java developer mostly doing web-backend and frontend work. Also very much into Python development including Django

homepage: http://bit.ly/java-dev
If you can get 4x-5x the projects, that is definitely a good model to start your own web design company.
Raise your hand if you like moon cakes. (To the down-voters: I wonder how many people managed to read to that segment of the article. I think the moon cake black market in China is independently interesting case of a currency with an expiration date.)
"When Nazis attacked the USSR, was there an advance warning?"

Stalin had plenty of advance warning - there were even people defecting from the German ranks and telling them that the Germans were coming (they were probably shot for their troubles).

Even after the invasion started Stalin refused to believe the reports coming from frontline units for a long time after the invasion started.

See: http://www.simonsebagmontefiore.com/stalincourtredtsar.aspx
It is too dangerous to try and recover bodies. At those altitudes your body is doing everything it can to survive and the margin for error is nearly zero.
That is actually a very insightful way to look at it. Furthermore, You can have the same story, but the value of the movie is not in the plot itself. The value is on how well it is executed. Acting, dialogs, photography, special effects, etc.
We're not concerned about other people independently developing a similar algorithm as it's rather non-trivial and as I mentioned, it took an awful lot of effort to develop it. We're much more concerned about the very real problem that people (e.g. competitors) will use our research and work.

Then what you do is keep your algorithm as a trade secret. The point of a patent is to publicize the invention so that others may benefit, and in compensation to the inventor they get a period of protection on its use so that they may license the invention and recoup R&D costs.
Expert C Programming, Deep C Secrets by van der Linden (everybody just has to buy this book, even if you're not doing any programming. The jokes and the anecdotes are alone worth it.

I liked most books from Addison Wesley's C++ In Depth Series edited by Stroustrup, they are all thin (around ~300 pages), esp. Exceptional C++.
It looks like twitter "fixed" it. Now no follow buttons work instantly for me, they just take me to the twitterer's profile page.

Perhaps this is account-based? The button demo on twitter's webpage doesn't instantly apply anymore either. I swear it did this morning.
Nokia shares recover after Microsoft sale rumours
I really enjoyed O'Reilly's compact "Up and Running with Rails," which I bought because I could never remember the basics after two reads through the default (monster) rails book, "Agile Web Development with Rails."

Sadly, O'Reilly appears to have lost interest in this series; the Rails book dates to 2006 and is too far behind now to recommend. Look no farther than the #2 rated Amazon review ("28 of 29 people found the following review helpful") to find out why: "Given that this book is only 127 pages long without the Appendix, it's a pretty pricey little item.... a $29.99 retail price seems exorbitant... this little book would make a great introduction to a more comprehensive book on Rails. Stand-alone, it feels like a rip-off."

I was also going to recommend "Effective Perl Programming" -- but now I see that the second edition has been bulked up to 500 pages from the original ~200. Ugh.
Gibson is a great writer, but what's "wrong" with Singapore is not what he describes. If you wonder what Singapore would be as a democracy, look at Switzerland.

And there's nothing "wrong" with law and order like in Switzerland. Chaos like in Hong Kong only seems romantic until you become a victim of violent crime. Then all of a sudden its not cute anymore.