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Austin, TX and Denver, CO

MapMyFitness has openings for a ton of positions[1], including:

* DevOps engineers
* iOS/Android devs
* GIS devs
* Front- and back-end web devs
* Sales
* Client management

We're a well-funded and fast growing start-up. We're building the future of fitness applications on both the web and mobile. Our mobile apps are consistently rated at 4+ stars on the iTunes and Android app stores. And we have more than 7 million users -- and growing at more than 15,000/day.

Almost all of our backend stuff is done in Python and Django, with a dash of legacy PHP we all get to maintain every now and then. We're using MySQL, PostGIS, and MongoDB to work with enormous datasets. The JS side of the house is building awesome stuff with jQuery, Backbone, and Node. You can check out our engineering hiring PDF here[2].

Benefits are solid (e.g., full medical/dental for you and 50% for your dependents, a $500/year fitness stipend, stock options). And we're HQ'ed in downtown Austin, only a few blocks away from the best partying or working out of your life. Check us out.

[1]: http://www.mapmyfitnessinc.com/company/work-for-us/

[2]: https://mapmyfitness.box.com/s/6hao6x1ayo16ize00r9r
> There are always big predators at top of the biological food-energy chain.

Not on islands. That's why islands have such unique animals found nowhere else.
You're thinking about buying "big business" enterprise software like buying a cell phone or any other off-the-shelf commodity. Don't do that.

It's more akin to buying a house. You've got to find one of many that satisfies your unique needs. You've got due diligence to do. You've got negotiations. You've got an entire purchasing process to follow that is externally imposed. You may have renovations to make before you can move in and need estimates on that.

A website can cover generalities, but the reality is that enterprise products are big, complicated, and (generally) are not purchased by technical people, although technical people may be involved in part of the review process or requirements analysis.

The only process more complicated is selling to the government.
Finding a technical co-founder (words of wisdom to non-technical people)
Congratulations to the streak.com team. This is a great product.

*

This brings another point: There is a need for a better business email application that is as easy to use as Gmail, but is not owned by any of the big 4 (MS, G, APPL, Y!).
I am having login problems. I am stuck on step 2.
> The wiki DMCA Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act states "To qualify for the § 512(c) safe harbor, the OSP must not have actual knowledge that it is hosting infringing material or be aware of facts or circumstances from which infringing activity is apparent." IANAL but it was pretty damn apparent that MegaUpload was being used for infringing activity to me.

I believe it applies to specific acts of infringement, not a general knowledge that a certain service is used for infringing activities. Otherwise, the entire internet you're using right now would be illegal.

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More on that point here: https://ilt.eff.org/index.php/Copyright:_Digital_Millennium_...

Scroll down to "Actual or “Red Flag” Knowledge" and look at the cases interpreting it.
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Almost everything online is copyrighted. It only becomes copyright infringing when you lack the copyright holder's permission. Unless the copyright holder has said otherwise, you don't know what has and has not been authorized by them. You can probably guess for things like Hollywood movies, but that's why the DMCA puts the burden on them to identify data they have not authorized.

It's their property and they're the only ones who actually know what they have and have not authorized. It may be an impossible burden, but shifting that to people less able to bear it won't help anyone.
NASA Laptop Stolen With Command Codes That Control Space Station
Sure. But does their wrongdoing absolve him of criminality? It's irrelevant.

In any case:
Some murderers are never caught/indicted (lack of reliable incriminating evidence, etc.), some murderers get to plea bargain, some murderers are cheered (say one of them kills a worse murderer).

Justice is not perfect. It probably cannot be, unless it's ever automated and people's calculus being eliminated from "judgement". But then that system would likely be labelled as "cold" and uncompassionate.

Sure, lots of it is political too. That's part of the imperfection. I'm not sure there is a significant country where politics do not enter the justice system --even in China where, while it's single party ruled, a bureaucrat can overturn any provincial "mistake". Lots of corruption occurs, never mind Italy and Japan --where all you have to do is "repent and bow" for forgiveness.

If you want people like those in AIG jailed, you'll need to have laws passed which could be applied to their behavior.
I want to work in batches, please let me
If I get a negative remark, I usually take a step back, kind of like a out of body view, and see if there is any validity, if there is truth in the remark, I thank the person and ask questions; else I just smile.

Some people mistake a smile for agreement and I use smile to put a full stop to the argument. In my limited experience I have seen there is no point winning a pointless argument :)
Here's an interesting discussion of a s-expression editor: http://alan.dipert.org/post/445462664/the-s-expression-edito... (and a follow-up post: http://alan.dipert.org/post/17375691572/structural-editing-r...).

The above article refers to Interlisp (also mentioned elsewhere in this discussion), which still(?) survives in the form of Medley (http://www.venue-medley.com/). (I emailed Jill Sybalsky a few months back, but following the death of her husband, the product's future is rather uncertain...)

I came to Lisp from Smalltalk, so I'm already spoiled, having used the best IDE ever (hey, it's not just me: http://onsmalltalk.com/aha-moments-in-lisp); adapting to Emacs/SLIME was quite an interesting contrast.

OpenGenera was a step in the right direction: a LispVM + LispOS which together created a very Smalltalk-like IDE. (The notion of 'synergy' has real meaning here!) Developing a modern version of this further with ideas for structural editing of s-expressions would be quite interesting...

But, of course, talk is cheap ;-)
Stripe, San Francisco

We make it easy to accept payments online. Now you can too--we're looking for designers and engineers to help us fix payments on the web. Ping me at gdb@stripe.com if you're interested.
Interesting, I thought of http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html
The Apple tablets are priced the same, but don't come with a mandatory 2-year cellular service commitment.

When you buy an iPad with a cellular modem built in, you can establish service whenever you want and cancel it whenever you like.

When you buy an Android tablet from a carrier, you have to establish service when you buy it, and keep it for 2 years running, under penalty of a $350 ETF.
There is a foolproof solution to this. It doesn't even require any time or effort on your part. It's this: Don't click on the link.

Just don't click it.

I'm not even going to speculate why you are so worked up over the fact that other people find value in something you don't. We get it. You don't like what they write. Just don't read it. Problem solved. Ask yourself if this is really worth any more of your time or emotional investment.
Wouldn't the cats eat the insects?
I've observed that engineer-driven conversations are very, very fast and dynamic, whereas business and managing conversations are quite slow.

My guess is that the key here is empaty. Engineers discuss ideas, where managers usually evaluate people. Of course, ideas belong to people (at least when they're conceived), but that quickly dilutes.

In order to evaluate people, you need a lot of empaty and some time. My manager is an excellent evaluator, and his tactic is quite simple: he lets people talk. They talk, talk and talk, until they have to shut up because they said something stupid and realize that themselves. He has the ability to make people self-conscious about their own mistakes with the least effort, as he does nothing but listen.

However, when it's time for him to talk, he talks little and observes the reactions. This gives him an aura of being very, very wise, which is absolutely correct (I work in research and he's a big fish)

Sorry, I'm moving away from the article's point, let's get back to the track. Splurting and dismissing ideas is good for brainstorms, but not for regular meetings. As an engineer, this is hard to percieve, but it's true. About a year ago I started copying my manager's tactics and it has worked very well; people percieve me less of an asshole and more of a smart guy who thinks before talking.

It all comes down to the Family Guy conversation between Brian and Peter: "Peter, do you think before you talk?"
Why Developers Change the World
What do you do when the expected value of long-term passion suddenly drops after schlepping for a year?
> Why exactly wouldn't you know?

It's only infringing if it lacks permission. The URLs could be kept privately and while 9 of the 10 were put up by pirates, the last one might have been the copyright holder's own copy which they were doing something with privately.

And then you delete it on them. Oops.
NowSpots, with offices in Mountain View and Chicago, is building an app platform for advertising so that businesses of all shapes and sizes can make ad campaigns that are as awesomely effective as their social media marketing.

We're looking for an account manager to join our team and juggle customer support, closing sales, setting up campaigns, and much more. You are a one-man logistical wrecking ball.

We're also looking for a director of biz-dev to help build partnerships and get our stuff out there.

We've raised a sizeable seed round and are growing swiftly. We're looking for the next brain to add to the menagerie.

What we do: Imagine you're in a band and you want to promote your upcoming shows. You'll probably post about it on Facebook and Twitter, but you'd never consider advertising...because it's a pain in the butt and there's no ROI.

But what if you had a widget featuring the Youtube video your band made last weekend, a feed of your upcoming shows, and a few cuts from SoundCloud?

And what if you could show that widget to people in your city who are into music wherever they're at across the web?

And what if you could see how many times people listened to your songs and what sites played them the most?

And what if...

You get the idea. We're hacking the ad industry and looking for fellow crazy people to join up!

hello@nowspots.com
As soon as I saw the title I thought I guess I should go rush to buy some zynga, but I guess I'm late to the party.
From project to profession: going indie on NewsBlur
I absolutely agree with you. I try to avoid fighting about some stuff, especially if I have the feeling that the responsible to implement some feature is going to do whatever he wants anyway.
Free Watch Chiefs v Blues Super Rugby- Rugby - Zimbio
I don't think there are many 4-way stops in the US that cannot be replaced by a mini-roundabout for reasons of space or cost; mini-roundabouts are just solid white circles of paint on the ground, with a more or less pronounced mound. Their primary purpose is to trigger the right-of-way rules of a roundabout; often the junctions they are used on are too small to actually go "around" the mini-roundabout, in London (where I live) at least. Roads (and hence space for road furniture etc.) in the US are much larger than most roads in London.
Show HN: One week game - from concept to beta in a week.
After offering to tip an extra 5% a few times and getting the fish eye, I cynically thought "Oh, wait, he just doesn't want a record of this transaction." The most plausible reasons for that are theft or tax fraud. Sure enough, the IRS's public audit techniques guide for taxi drivers (Google it) suggests that tax fraud is virtually universal: e.g. sample audits on 600 drivers in a city found 600 under payers with an average adjustment of $6,000 (i.e. they understated income by probably $25k+), due to pervasively inaccurate records and, the IRS strongly hints, a culture of intentional avoidance of taxes.

This sort of reminds me of the massive pizza delivery discovered in the embezzlement business that someone mentioned earlier when a shop in Ohio installed a PoS system to track transactions.
I found it confusing at first but I believe it's trying to say that you don't have to sign a contract to get the basic wifi iPad, unlike with the 7.7 galaxy tab which starts out at $499 with a 2 year contract. If you buy without the 2 year contract it would cost an enormous $699 which is less than the carrier iPad at $629.
Well, the problem is that you're in New Jersey. There's a reason it's called the California Stop.
If you're having problem, please goto gmail and Streak will ask you to sign in there.

The usual culprit is third party cookies being disabled - we wrote a help article here: http://support.streak.com/customer/portal/articles/386931
I'd love to have the POD of this locally, but can't seem to find it anywhere. Anyone know where it lives?
Drawing Batman via the Google Search Graph Function
I've lived in New York for three years and this has only happened to me once. I'm not convinced it's that huge a deal.
I feel you, I also have this little voice that shouts "NO!" inside my head during meetings. But I've learned to say "I don't see it that way, but it's a good idea, let me think on that, please", which has won me a lot of respect.

Even if my final answer is negative, the fact that I took some time to consider it is perceived as very positive by coworkers and managers.
A reasonable model if you assumed that cats exclusively ate rats - and wouldn't wreak havoc on any other native rodent populations (if they still exist).
I'm thinking more of a notification. Imagine monitoring a product support channel: if someone mentions you you want to know about it so you can pop into the channel if needed. I don't want to stare at a chat screen all the time.
Startup Customer Dev: Evolutionary Game Theory to Meetings with Customers
Show HN: pastebin for math-equations
Don't cats eat insects, too? I'm all in favor of getting rid of the rats, but I don't think cats are a solution.
I would have loved to have this when I worked at a company that only allowed HTTP(S) through the firewall.
Python has native support for unicode strings, not Unicode support in native string types. Sigh, this is where it gets into bs world, because you have to figure out how to convert back and forth appropriately. Just thought I'd share my recent frustration.
Stories like this always make me remember of the tasmanian wolf (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine). I always wanted to see one of those alive.
LiveJournal: Russia's unlikely Internet giant
No. First of all the price increases without a having a carrier supported model; the iPad 2 3G cost more than the Wifi only model. It's also saying that Samsung and Sony's offerings do not offer value for money when compared to iPad. This of course is the authors opinion; one that he is entitled too in the same way that you are entitled to your own. It's only biased because you disagree. You are wrong, by the way...
This is an awesome place to work at. Great team! Great management! Great product! Don't believe me? Why don't you apply for a position and come check us out?
This outcome is actually better than what AT&T previously has been doing.

At least now unlimited users on the grandfathered $30 plan can consume the same amount of data as the 3GB/$30 metered plan, and only get throttled after 3GB.

Up until now the throttling trigger was at 2GB. When people called AT&T and told them that customers on the current 3GB/$30 plan got more data than those on the "unlimited" plan (yet paid the same price), they were told that they were more than welcome to switch to the metered plan that doesn't get throttled.
33 bits of information can amount to fewer than 33 pieces of information. Quoting from the article: "...knowing your hometown gives me 16 bits of entropy about you".

Edit: a relevant anecdote: when I was in high school, a friend went as an exchange student to Costa Rica. As an experiment, I had her send me a blank postcard with nothing on it but "pohl 68320 USA". It arrived in my post office box without a hitch.
Trouble with cats is they often destroy bird populations as well, not sure how much of a problem this is in Australia, but in New Zealand feral cats are up there with pests that need to wiped off any island that is to be rehabilitated.

The Stephens Island Wren is an excellent example of this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephens_Island_Wren
Corporate Censorship Reborn: Paypal Bans Erotic Fiction
Thanks, this is great advice.
You really changed the way I look at it and I now have even more enthusiasm towards making the app!
When your competitors' similar product is ahead of you, you have 3 options:
1. Create a better product.
2. Price your product cheaper.
3. Fold and re-emerge as a new brand/company/product.

Which one is Sony/Samsung doing?
Relevant comic (yes, comic, and it captures the simulation thing succinctly and in an amusing way): http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2535
One Year Post-Pivot, Fab.com Is On Track To $100M In Revenue In 2012
SEEKING WORK - Remote (Stockholm, Sweden)

Mostly working with Android and Django but also do frontend work with jquery and lately D3.js for visualizations. If by any chance anyone is interested in radio baseband receiver design I also have experience in that (mainly LTE), though I guess not many look for that here.

Check my profile for contact details and links to portfolio.
It's good to see you guys are doing well
Beyond the fact that this seems like "profit by VC injection" what does Yammer do that couldn't be more easily, more simply and more flexibly solved via Laconi.ca/Status.net?
If you didn't get an interview, you should have received the message, "[We] do not have an open slot in our current slate" – sorry that we weren't able to offer you an interview, but best of luck with your search for an internship.
Slightly off-topic, but can anyone recommend a reasonably-priced (full-fledged) CRM system run under a SaaS model that has a nice API that I can use for Web site integration and data analytics? Salesforce seems really overpriced for what you get.
One possible solution (which I have used and like) is to play the audio book back at increased speed. iDevices have this feature for anything properly tagged as an audiobook; Android has options too.
I thought about something like #8. It's a legitimate concern for sure. I just tend not to naturally come up with ideas that I wouldn't like working on. I don't feel I can judge very far in advance how much I'll like something 3 years down the line, and most startups are dead or evolved into something else by then anyway.
Pittsburgh, PA/No Remote/Fulltime

Do you have a passion for building things? Do you love making your work "go" in the real world? Do you want to build big robots? The National Robotics Engineering Center is hiring computer scientists, electrical engineers and mechanical engineers of all types.

I'm more than happy to talk about my experience here, you can email jobs@rec.ri.cmu.edu, or you can check out this job posting (one of many): https://cmu.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&...
Good point. I think an MVP should be exciting for sure.
To me it looks like a G train - which is notorious in NYC for running behind an already crappy schedule. (The local nickname is the Ghost train, though it's apparently gotten better recently.)
A big problem, though, is the severe and opaque nature of the throttle. From what I've heard ATT throttling can cripple the connection even for email. On the other hand I was barely annoyed when my carrier put in a throttle after a couple gigabytes because the speed is still a quarter megabit.
Yea you don't get it. In another time, the "robber barons" would have been prosecuted for their wrongdoing by the justice system. Even if there penalties were limited and mostly slap on the hand type of jail time with huge fees. This time they didn't get anything.....nothing, there was no investigation on the event that almost brought down the global economy, these guys walked away with fatter bonus. In this case, it's not a matter of the justice system being imperfect, it's the US's political corruption.

P.S. If those bankers are gone, who's going to pay for the politicians campaigns. So you see, it's mutually beneficial to each party and the citizens who didn't do anything wrong get way higher gas prices!, win win!
Good article, but question -- why is the 'WTF' linked to Sleep.fm?
Grace Hopper, explaining nanoseconds
I agree with pretty much everything you say here.

In your original comment you said,

The author seems to have the attitude of "I don't understand why people do X, therefore people who do X are morons."

Which doesn't add anything to the discussion of this article. It's simply an ad-hominem and nothing else. Where as the author provided reasons why he thought the people behind modern NoSQL systems are morons. So even though he used an insult he made it clear why he was using it (even if his argument was weak).

Now that you've explained your position it makes a lot more sense.

However I never did say whether I agree with the author or not.

I'm still curious as to whether the author might have a point despite how poorly constructed his argument is. You made some really interesting points that I'm probably going to follow up on. What were these 'mistakes' that the author keeps referring to? What was the motivation for the invention of the RDBMS? How similar are NoSQL systems today to the systems which the RDBMS was supposedly invented to replace?
"The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it."
-Dale Carnegie

I wish I applied this in my life more often.
Shit, their*, not there. Sighh
Send an email to your friend if they are a Facebook employee, or to me (email in HN profile) with your name (or possibly another unique identifier). One of us will forward it to a recruiter to try get it sorted out.
Huh. I saw it as more of a Twitter clone for businesses, that allows you to say things that would be too sensitive to say on Twitter. My workplace used it briefly, but has switched to Socialtext. Maybe it has changed in the meantime.

I'll admit it is pretty surprising to me that they're still around.
I ran a speed test on my (throttled) AT&T 3G connection on my iPhone 4. 5 bars, perfect signal here. 0.03 Mbps down and 0.02 up. It's absolute bullshit.
Unfortunately cats don't eat only rats, they also like birds for instance. Look at the dodo extension mentioned in another thread, domestic animals played an important role there. Then the birds usually keep (nasty) insects population in control, etc and keeping a balance is tricky.

Snakes or other crawling rat predators would probably be a better idea, but then trying to convince the island people to share their space with snakes and weird looking insects at the same time would probably not go well :)
Our custom Django mixins
If you were publicly tweeting and then went private just before this database was closed off, would those tweets get out?

What if you switched back and forth between private and public a bunch of times? Were those private tweets lost or did they reappear when you went public?

My gut says everything stays in the database and it's all being sold.
Someone may need to correct me here, but why would there be a pressure to go IPO? plenty of companies stay out of public market (in private hands), remain strong, build brand, bring profits, etc. IF they havent brought strong numbers already, what would make anyone sure another $85 mil will?
Thanks for the heads up! I'll pass that info along to those folks who put together the application form.
We're not building a Flickr alternative, that'd be stupid