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Zuberance [http://zuberance.com] - San Carlos, CA

Software Engineers

We're a Brand Advocacy SaaS service, 30+ employees, shipping product with real revenue from customers like Intuit, Rubios, General Motors and WebTrends, and launching a second offering next month. We build the apps as distributed services with multiple clients (well, one now and more down the line).

The Engineering team has multiple openings covering these programming languages and tools: Scala/Akka, MongoDB, JavaScript/jQuery, Compass/Sass (we're using Twtter Bootstrap), and Grails. Recent grads are welcome to apply as are more experienced folks.

If you're really strong on monitoring quality on this type of system we probably want to talk to you too.

Please email me at bill.lazar @ company name dot com if interested and a good fit.

Grails will probably go away in 6-9 months and be replaced by a more pure JavaScript client.
that's about one for every person that's ever lived.
Right. You're discrediting the Labor Theory of Value, variations of which are endlessly seductive and are always creeping back in as The Way Things Ought To Be.
I don't think it'll detract much at all. The war with the buggers is essentially a MacGuffin. (Spoilers ahead for anyone who's managed to miss this for the past few decades.) The real heart of the story is in the stuff that happens to Ender at Battle School, his evolution from innocent child to military genius to embittered pacifist and his relationships with the other characters. The twist ending is great because of the way it reflects everything that's happened to Ender so far, not because the surprise is just so surprising.
SOPA explicitly does not have the power to silence sites based in the US. This is because the DCMA already applies to those sites. So SOPA won't block facebook, or youtube, or google, or any other US based site. The problem occurs when a site isn't in the US. A rights holder can't send a DCMA takedown notice to The Pirate Bay for instance.

SOPA gives an alternative for rights holders when faced with a foreign site. They can ask for the site to be blocked at the DNS level by ISP's. They can prohibit any US based payment processor from paying the infringing site money. Rights holders can even ask search engines to block infringing sites.

Basically it stems from "As a rights holder, what can I do to prevent my work from being stolen internationally?" Some people in congress believe they have found a way to help rights holders in this position. Unfortunately there are some extremely serious mostly unintended consequences of these new powers.
reddit is down all day multiple times a year and it's never a "big news story"
Very cool! I'm trying to visualize entropy based on Google Books' n-gram models of text.
Ask HN: Design and share your PIPA/SOPA protest page
On Wednesday 18 January 2012 between 8am–8pm EST (1300–0100 UTC) reddit will be "displaying a simple message about how the PIPA/SOPA legislation would shut down sites like reddit, link to resources to learn more, and suggest ways to take action." Other sites intend to support reddit in this action. Some of them may need help in designing a protest page.

If you're a web designer and would like to share a PIPA/SOPA protest page, please add a comment with a link to the page source. If you choose to license your work, please make it Free Culture Approved with CC-BY.

For more information from reddit, see http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/stopped-they-must-be-on-this-all.html

For more information about CC-BY, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
I think you should change your comment to "Now let's just hope they do the story justice"

Ender's Game is a story that a lot of people from different walks of life can connect with.

OSC is a homophobic asshole.
Does the iPhone not open Google Plus posts in the Google Plus app?

Nope

On Android, when I click one of these links it opens the app and the reading experience is very pleasant. Maybe I've just been spoiled, but I find the experience to be pretty good.

This doesn't happen for me. I have a Galaxy Nexus with ICS, and I have Google+ installed and linked to my account, and this doesn't work - it opens the post in the browser. Is there some magic fairy dust that needs to be sprinkled into my microusb port for posts to be redirected to the Google+ app?

What's much worse, though, is that Google+ posts actually reliably crash the ICS chrome browser - as in 100% of the time. Whenever anyone posts anything on Google+, I have to open it in Firefox to read it.

Clearly Google needs to work on this.

Edit: Also, I think it's kind of silly that you wish people would stop publicly posting on Google Plus due to your phone experience being subpar. I think the problem lies much more with you and your phone than it does with Google Plus as a writing platform.

This isn't really that different than putting the post behind a paywall or some other inconvenient barrier to your audience. It might be a nice writing platform, but I think it's a pretty lousy reading platform.
What he said on all accounts.
MMI has been shifting away from proprietary app and comms processors for a number of years and this is a a continuation of Jha's policies. This news is more of a loss for QCOM as they were certainly hoping to have an "in" with Jha to possibly displace TXN parts on Motorola devices.

INTC isn't done with Medfield, of course, you should expect more cores & and aggressive push on process nodes. I would consider it is a validation for their new mobile strategy:
http://www.intc.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=559064

And as to your point about ARM-based devices being more "innovative," to some extent all the ARM-based devices are basic shared-memory architecture with the same mix of IMG GPU's as Medfield. You could argue, conversely, that Intel is at least trying to innovate on their pipeline and memory architecture (an increase the L2 cache for example) which the ARM-based SOC's are not doing.

Of course I guess this just means you'll see ARM A15 designs coming to market sooner in an attempt to separate from Medfield?
That is exactly why we are having this debate.
I'd much rather have a fractured internet with pockets of freedom than a globally censored and controlled internet.
This might just be a matter of taste or just what I am used to, but I have yet to see another online map, that looks as good as Google Maps. Do others have a different option about this?

Btw, when Google announced it's ridiculous new pricing scheme for Google Maps, I though maybe they actually just wanted to force people to become Google Maps Premier costumers. I mean, no way they really except people to pay that much. So I am really curious if their Premier program is actually less expensive. Did you actually contact Google Sales about it?
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I see. I was able to find it on my non-Apps for Enterprise account.
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Thanks for that information.

Just addressing SOPA from this angle, would SOPA legislation be okay if it only applied to domains that did not adhere to DMCA voluntarily or regulatorily? IE, SOPA wouldn't be capable of black listing any US site, because US sites have to adhere to DMCA. In addition to not applying to US based domains, what about for foreign domains if the site operator was contractually obligated to adhere to DMCA by a legal document that was under the jurisdiction of the domain registrant. Ie, say some European domain registrar offered its clients an opt-in option for sites. The opt-in legally obligated them (in the EU) to adhere to DMCA regulatory operation. Doing so would mean the domain could not be black listed by SOPA.

Obviously, it seems SOPA is much more that just what you said since Reddit operates inside the US, however the founder has indicated that with SOPA, it and similar sites would not be able to operate due to SOPA. So I'm just brain storming on this specific aspect of why DMCA isn't good enough.
According to that logic, it wouldn't matter either if Twitter, Google Apps, Blackberry Messenger, iCloud+Siri, and Dropbox were to shut down for the day...
Something to consider - if HN doesn't go dark it may become a refugee camp for a good chunk of bored reddit users (c. 70m daily pageviews), which could lead to a radical change in HN's userbase.

Good to support, too.
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risky idea. sounds good but apple just hates template-apps.
I like the solidarity angle. I think that it would be great if there was information about how HNers could use their voice to affect change. Similar to how americancensorship.org gives visitors instructions on how to do something about it.
I'm afraid.
It shouldn't be that hard. Serve up basic HTML.

If Google can't do simple HTML after all these years, there's something wrong.
There are many examples of people being loyal to local gangsters and paying fees each month in exchange for "protection" from a rival group.

Governments run the same scheme at a larger scale. Sure they "provide" things, but it's simply by taking money from people and paying other people to do work, meanwhile enriching the officers of government and creating entrenched wealth and power.

Sure, there are occasionally coordination problems that are solved by governments, but far more coordination problems are solved by private organizations and firms.

Any institution that has the ability to project force wherever it wants (via an armed hitman or a smart bomb) is going to tend toward corrupt behavior.

Your comment mentions governments acting within their borders which is an arbitrary distinction. Most of the atrocities committed by the US government happen overseas and the American public is misled about the level of brutality being inflicted.

There will always be some gangsters who are preferred to others, and perhaps some "politicians" are preferred to gangsters. But this is a distinction of degree not of kind.
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Agreed; bizarre is a good word.

Rick Santorum's bill was nakedly corrupt. He took money from Accuweather, a private weather forecast provider that is the shrillest opponent of the NWS, and promptly did their bidding.
No because anyone who already reads HN already knows SOPA. The only thing that will be effective is if sites that normal non-tech people visit go dark.
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Nobody actually cares about quality, and given the choice, they'll go for cheaper and "good enough" over expensive and good.

I agree with your overall point. But this one is more nuanced. In things that are of little significance, "good enough" is, well, good enough, and people won't pay more than they have to.

But you can charge a premium for even a tiny advantage, when that advantage matters to the people buying. The very best baseball players are paid very well, but those right below the very best get a small faction of that, and those right below them get the joy of playing and not much else.

Closer to home, I recently spent over $400 (and know people that have spent much, much more) on a Go set with a solid spruce board, kaya bowls, and onyx stones because I valued the aesthetics when I played, even though I could get a perfectly workable cardboard set for $20. But I am highly cost sensitive in just about every other area of my life.
Poll: Would you boycott a company for supporting SOPA?
I would definitely boycott a company for supporting SOPA, and I think you should stand up and let people know SOPA is wrong, too.
yes, you would boycott a company for supporting SOPA
no, you would not boycott a company for supporting SOPA
While I don't advocate for breaking up ICANN, this article "Fixing DNS -- how to break up ICANN" (http://www.templetons.com/brad/dns/fix.html) presents a decent approach to the TLD 'problem' that would not focus on useless branding TLDs but instead encourage only TLDs that were going to add value to the Internet. In short, the idea is to only allow non-generic TLDs to be registered to force the TLD operator to differentiate their TLD from others, rather than just being the first one to register '.bank'.

It doesn't offer a solution to the complaint in the article that organizations will have to register 'apple', 'mcdonalds', or 'cocacola' in each new TLD, but I'm less sympathetic to that concern.
Yeah, and do your best to shut everything else on the internet down too.
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>Unfortunately there are some extremely serious mostly unintended consequences of these new powers.

Is this alone from poor wording of the legislation? Could these issues be addressed by simply reformulating the SOPA legislature? Or do these issues stem from how violations are determined, or how the process is implemented? Is there too much left up for loose interpretation?
Is it just me or when I read "dark", my instinct is to think "down." More likely it will probably be replaced with something SOPA-related, may be even interactive? So net, we'll still probably be here, just as engaged, but focused on this one thing for a day. All of a sudden this doesn't sound too bad nor meaningless.
Assuming the title and your numbers are correct they basically said. 'We estimate that there is a 95% chance that there are 250Billion stars +/- 60% which means there is a 97.5% chance that there are at least 100billion planets.'

However, the actual study costs US$32 so I am not buying it so somewhere in the game of telephone that we just played information could have mutated.
Why is shutting down considered a good method of protest. Why not just donate money to the political opponents of those who support SOPA? SOPA is about money, not about public opinion.
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CISC isn't necessarily more compact. Since there are more instructions, each instruction takes up more space. For example in ARM's thumb encoding, each instruction takes up 16 bits. A typical x86 instruction takes much more space.

I wonder how much of an x86 chip is dedicated to handling legacy instructions or largely unnecessary instructions. How much saving could be achieved by a radically simpler instruction set (for example no neg/call/ret/push/pop/bcd instructions). If you look at the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_instruction_listings then most of the instructions seem unnecessary. Does anybody have some information about this?
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Google's hilarious UI's come from their aversion to design

This is false. Google has many staff UI designers and does tons of internal testing and UI research. (We have rooms with one-way mirrors all over the place, just for UI research.) It's likely that you find the privacy settings difficult because Google+ does a lot, and privacy settings are, in fact, difficult.

Very scary. What else are they going to "integrate" without asking me??

Why is this scary, other than the fact that it's different from what's happened in the past? Was the Chat / Mail integration scary too?
This was a common statement during the dot com boom and that was... 10 years ago
Because the law-makers in the USA are really going to be concerned that a website they have never heard of, frequented by a community of people who probably don't donate too much into their campaign pockets, has gone 'off the air'...

Right... go for it...
>DO THIS BEFORE YOU JOIN!

From my experience, you can do this even after you join.
Here is a good example of ClojureScript <-> Clojure communication https://github.com/neotyk/ws-cljs It uses the Aleph Clojure library on the server side.
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Let's make the headlines read: "Hundreds of the largest web sites went black today in protest of SOPA" The more black sites, the more powerful the message. It really needs to be pervasive, and it can't be limited to just tech companies.
What if the occupying army was sent by a democratically elected government? Is it OK because it happens to other people, far away?
It's going to be a pretty painful day for HN readers without it.

But this might be a good thing. We will have to struggle through a day's worth of a world without HN and be motivated to do something about it.

+1 for blackout for me.
For clarity... I am an AI developer. Recently I added a feature to my dialog system so that if I have not typed anything into the dialog web app in a while, the system begins capturing frames from the webcam and performing face detection using JavaCV. If a face is detected, then face recognition is performed on the clipped greyscale face. If the face best matches mine from the training examples, then the system uses Google speech-to-text synthesis to say hello to me, "hello Stephen".

A smartphone cannot practically do this because JavaCV will not run fast enough on an ARM CPU and wireless bandwidth limitations preclude sending whole realtime captured phonecam frames to a server. But, when Moore's Law permits, JavaCV will run on the mobile CPU/GPU combination - and my phone could say hello to me when it recognizes me.

I know that Google is working on face-recognition phone-unlocks - but I wonder if their implementation involves a cloud server and one-time sending of a captured frame?
What is bothering me is that he is not adding up the cost right. How about the cost of his upbringing that made him the person he is today?
If you plan to use the address for anything financial (bank accounts, credit cards, etc), using a PO Box or virtual office is an item in the potential fraud metric the financial institution calculates on new customers. You may still get the account, but from my experience the additional validation is a major headache.
[edit; the guy didn't approve this post and it's not on the site after a few hours]

Posted: Look - if you're not in the business of doing art at an hourly rate, then you're either doing art on spec or art for fun. I've got no truck with the guy who wrote the original article, because I don't think his picture's worth much. But if he wants to charge for it, he should be allowed to. No one forced him to go out and spend $6k on expensive tools to take a picture he could publish on the internet where it's obviously going to be stolen if it's any good (but won't, because there are too many other people with the same idea). It's about the same as starting a really original band because you got a fender amp from guitar center for christmas. Good luck, dude. I love your dreams and I hope they come true. I'll even go to your show. I might buy your album. But no, I won't lend you twenty bucks for gas.

Likewise, I'd probably never stumble across your royalty-free image in a million years, as beautiful as it is, unless it was part of this ceaseless argument about art prices. Frankly, this is an argument about how art is positioned, not what constitutes it or what's involved in creating it. And so everyone in this game's a liar -- buyers and sellers. It's not about layout cost, and it's not about purchasing power, reach or recognition. It's about communication; the client pays for art to communicate something, and the creator makes a piece of art that fits the bill.

And in this case, both you and the guy who wrote that article have resorted to words to communicate what you're trying to say, over images. That's a massive fail. You should have said what you were trying to say with imagery, and so should he. Defending your art with text, explanation, litigious or liberal, is a sacrilege and proves neither one should be considered Art with an A. Art, if it exists anymore, is the process of twisting rigid, formulaic and predefined media to accommodate complex ideas in such a way that they provoke the public, without resort to words or other fame- or sympathy-seeking strategies. Basically you guys both suck as photogaphers, because neither of your photographs made me realize what you, or he, said in the addenda; forget about paying, why would I use either? Here's a picture of rocks and water; here's a picture of the eiffel tower. It's the same picture, compositionally and emotionally. Both of you don't understand photography. Yeah, you get social points for saying what you did, and obviously I'd rather go out and have a beer with you than that asshole, but Show It; Don't Explain It.
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I'm all for solidarity, symbolism, awareness, etc. but even though you and I and everyone who has ever caused more than two requests from this server knows that "Hacker News" has nothing to do with illegitimate activities, I'm just scared that our technologically-challenged Congressional representatives will hear about us and get the vague idea that "hackers are blacking out the Internet cuz they don't like this anti-piracy bill".
Agreed. I'm all for raising awareness, but many of the articles surfacing here over the past few weeks have been SOPA related and taking down the whole site to put up one message may actually reduce the amount of SOPA/PIPA-related information people are reading.

For reference, all SOPA related articles on HN: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=SOPA
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HN should go dark to protest SOPA. Its all about sending THE message. Every bit helps and this gesture from HN will go a long way.
Maybe edit your comment so it doesn't give away the ending?
Anyone else think the 5 year PRISON sentence SOPA is proposing is just a tad hefty? lil bit?
DNS should be distributed. Eventually as the shadow P2P DNS system grows in response to the mainstream one being increasingly controlled and factionalized, it will become the dominant DNS system.
Isn't HN becoming enough like Reddit already with the kind of stories that are posted? Last thing we need are the redditors then it's Reddit 2.0.
HN is a very small group of people. Its not worth the blackout. Infact we need it to be up to keep ourselves updated on that day.

Instead, create labels [the mailing labels] named 'Stop SOPA' that can be stuck on our shirts. That'll create some awareness and easy to distribute.
I know a guy who knows the regional network manager for Comcast here in the Midwest. I hear he's actually great. Their business and management is the worst of the worst, but the poor saps who actually work on their infrastructure know what's up. It's why I was getting 10 mbit speeds back in the early 2000s.
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There was a time when video game programmers got royalties on the games they wrote. I'm not entirely sure why this notion of compensation disappeared. The common argument is along the lines of, "you'll just have people jumping onto projects with people in them who've got proven success," but I fail to see how that's any different from life right now.
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Because people vote for the politicians in power. If they want to get re-elected, they need to follow what their voters want. At least, that's the idea. Plus, it adds shame to the politician if he supports something that his constituents hate. For people filled with the pride of being a politician, some good old-fashioned shame could work wonders.
Ender's Game was my favorite book when I was 12, so I read a whole hell of a lot of Card's books before I knew anything about his personal beliefs. I tried so hard to think they were awesome, but everything after Ender's Game is pretty uninspired.
This has been on the cards for a while now, the way I see it only big brands (or the ones that can afford the huge fee) really stand to benefit from it...
I don't think it's true that everyone who browses HN knows everything about SOPA. Sure everyone who reads a chunk of articles daily and comments knowns all about it and are agreeing amongst themselves that everyone knows. I think there would be a massive long tail of busy people, occasional lurkers and those that are new to stuff covered by HN or it's only a hobby.
Show, don't tell.

For most viewers, just showing a notice explaining SOPA will be too abstract. Shutting down your site or service, while putting up a notice, has a higher chance of bringing the point home.