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"God" is Cruel - We Must Conquer His "Nature"
How to value your time using Accounting (Draft)
Wow, two Microsoft originated stories on the front page. What's happening? Has HN gone "enterprisey"?
I don't think that's playing dirty at all. I think it's quite clever.
Mapquest Vibe - http://mqvibe.mapquest.com

Denver, CO - Fulltime.

Mapquest is hiring engineers to work on a new product, Mapquest Vibe. Vibe was just released at SxSW and we have a lot of work to do before we can strip the "beta" label off. If Mapquest answers the question "How do I get from A to B", Vibe answers the question "Where do I want to go?" Using Vibe, you can see at a glance where the best businesses are in any neighborhood - our goal is that it will help users feel like a "local" wherever they wind up.

You'll have a lot of autonomy in terms of how you implement features as well as input into the product direction itself. Projects I've implemented are a semantic tagging system to help categorize businesses, a dynamic geographic buffer to allow for fuzzy location searching, and I'm currently implementing a new API intended for public consumption. It's a very empowering culture and a great place to work.

We're hiring across the board. Front-end folks use backbone.js, jQuery and a few mapping-specific toolkits to do various things. Back-end folks use a mixture of Java (running on Play!) and Groovy talking to a Postgres DB. Right now we're doing mobile development for the iPhone, with an Android app on the horizon. Experience matters less than ability - we'd be just as happy interviewing a grad right out of school as we would be interviewing a grizzled vet with 40 years experience. Skills I would particularly like to see added to the team are knowledge of Hadoop and Lucene, but that's my own personal wish-list.

If you're interested, shoot me an e-mail (it's in my profile).
Use role attribute FTW
I assume you mean suggestions for Emacs? I've never used NERD tree (I haven't used TextMate's file browser or this emacs-nav thing either), but have you tried dired? It's built-in to Emacs and accomplishes almost everything I want from a "project explorer" type of thing. It's possible my needs aren't that great though.

Visit a directory (C-x C-f) to get into it, and then use this: http://flatline.cs.washington.edu/orgs/acm/tutorials/editors...
As long as you handle usual letters it is no problem to miss Unicode.

How nice Unicode is I always realize when I copy and paste some foreign text from somewhere into Emacs or Racket Scheme and everything works just fine.
Why "Instagram for Video" is a Bad Idea
The iOS SDK I'm building at work ultimately does the same thing. Much better UX.
The iPhone 3G should never have been called that and Apple should not be touting the latest iterations of the devices as "4G".

They are meaningless terms in so many real world situations.

I can have a xG phone near a compatible tower and the right chip set and it might get advertised speeds, or the network might be congested.

I can have a xG phone in the desert and get nothing.

I can have a xG phone with the wrong chip set for where I am.

I can have a xG phone but the carrier roaming charges are astronomical because I'm overseas.

It's a difficult problem (obviously), but I want an always connected everywhere phone with transparent and reasonable (!=cheap) pricing for data.

I don't want fast mobile if I stand on one foot near the right mobile tower in the right country. I want reliable connectivity.

Imagine if you were sold a 60 watt lightbulb for your home and it flickered, was dim or completely dark. It's not the bulb, it's the electrical supply you say? Well the bulb is being sold with the electrical supply in nearly all cases. Phone contracts are the bulb and electrical supply rolled into one.
I trust Instagram to not engage in monkey business with my data. Having said that, this is flirting with the path-address-book kind of privacy-related scrutiny. There has to be a way of telling the user at WHAT POINT the data has started uploading. The progress bar of photo uploads has to mean what it shows or else it is a plain and simple deception (even if it's in the name of performance and user experience). I can't tell if this will erode trust though but don't be surprised if a few make a loud noise about it.

Privacy concern and trust form a chicken-egg problem. I wish the Stanford-esque brains behind these tech companies had a better grasp on it.
Customers who bought the 4G iPad before the 28th March had until the 25th of April to approach Apple for a refund.
I think they're preloading the 'suggested' photos and data.
Developing what with? I got hacked off with issues with multiple monitors - and in the end - just went back to one monitor with multiple work spaces. I figured in the end they were nothing but a distraction.
For ROR role-rails gem is available. It also support `@` shortcut in slim (http://slim-lang.com) and skim (https://github.com/jfirebaugh/skim):

@some_role#some_id.some_class
Google Autocomplete Feature for Online Marketing
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1851526
SEO Advice for Small Business Owners
I've never used an iPhone. At the time, I was comparing the experience with setting up my DSi. It lets you download things without making an account or having a credit card.* In fact, before downloading Angry Birds for Chrome I had never needed to sign up to download anything. (You also need to be online and signed in to play the game.)

*The DSi Shop is a big pile of fail, but that is unrelated.
How to Not Kill Your Co-founder (By a Non-technical Co-founder) | 21times
So those controls in the last link can be displayed in the workbook as views on command output? I've been toying with a similar idea for a while now - wasn't aware that there were already implementations of it. I think we're going to witness/participate in a paradigm change in the near future.

Thanks for all the links.
I agree with the original poster

"IF you assume that MITM-attacks are rare, you probably also assume that traffic snooping is rare (which is after all a form of a MITM-attack)"

Well, no! You can snoop traffic without being the MITM (WiFi, local network snooping, etc). Snooping is much more easier.

As you said, security is never perfect, and 'security implementers' less so.

If the other part of the communication uses a self signed certificate (or signed by "Bob's SSL") well, I can try to convince them to change, but it will be hard.

Sure, I'll never accept a self signed key from my bank or e-commerce, but there are several other uses.

And when using APIs to connect to https you should be able to tell it to ignore the certificate, it doesn't matter, way more often than the opposite, unless you don't trust your ISP.
On the Android version it says Upload instead of Done. I can't tell what point it starts uploading but it seems to appear pretty quick on my page.
Computing is too hard. We haven't come as far in the last ten years as we should have in terms of software, and we're hardly making good use of the crazy advances in technology that we've seen in the last few decades. It's still too difficult for a non-programmer to do anything useful and it's hours and hours of menial work for a programmer to do things which he can instantly visualize in his head, all because our devices are still relatively dumb.

Almost every programming language in use today is over fifteen years old, and we still have to deal with stupid things like character sets and the like. Writing a program isn't about being smart, it's about knowing a predefined set of rules that keep the computer from puking all over the brand new carpet.

And my wife snores.
Americans should hire remote sysadmins.
Oh well. I agree with you on this one being a bit of a show stopper, even if there are applicable workarounds.!
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Gifture - Animated GIFs made easy on your iPhone and iPod touch.
This is a dup of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3840718.
I was looking into VPNs recently, when I remembered The Pirate Bay launched their own early 2010. I considered signing-up until I found out Sweden is following EU policy on data retention https://blog.ipredator.se/2012/03/the-question-of-data-reten...

Not that a VPN is 'safe', so I considered Tor, but then that's only as safe as the exit node.
My fear is that use of an anonymising VPN will in itself become cause for the state to hassle you, and that this won't require any new laws to be passed.
Agree, an extension would fit that sort of app well.
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Suspend to Ram is great, but my battery dies by the morning in this mode. Plus I figure if I ever buy an SSD, hibernate will be my preferred option.
I emailed PG and have now had a reply saying that the account had been fat-fingered. These things happen - he's restored the account, so all is well.
You should make border-radius your best friend
My first thought when reading this was the possibility of removing Clojurescript's compile time Java dependency.
IT headaches of small companies targeted by Panorama9
Tips to stay running
Splunk calls bug bunk
Motivation to start running
Nice initiative. I like the fact that it's well explained, and that the goal isn't to show only stuffs with a huge "wow" effect.
British ISPs will block The Pirate Bay within weeks
Show HN: Give your startup a new home
Covalent Software - http://www.covalentsoftware.com/

Taunton (near Bristol) UK, Java Fulltime

Covalent is the market leader in UK public sector Performance Management, we're a small company (< 40 total, 15 person development team) but growing consistently. Specifically right now we are moving into new markets and hence need to enhance our product to support that. We are also building out new modules to sell into these and our existing markets.

Work would be on our hosted Java (Java 6, soon to be 7) thick client application which talks across the internet to our backend running on SQL Server. Although not following any specific agile methodology we deploy nightly to test and do 4 major releases a year to customers. We use continuous integration (Jenkins) and unit testing as appropriate.

My email address is in my profile, or go via
http://www.covalentsoftware.com/company/careers.php
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I enter my name, hit enter and it just refreshes the page. Can't play it and I've tried every browser I have (Chrome, FF, IE) :(

Or am I just retarded?

Edit: I opened Chrome's resource window to see if anything failed to load and I can see that your socket.io backend uses port 8080 and this request fails. I think it's being blocked by company firewalls. If you could perhaps run your backend on a subdomain instead of on another port it would most likely fix this.
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Monetate is a SAAS provider to internet marketers. We do real-time DOM modification on our clients’ sites to put the right experience in front of their users. We’re looking for engineers who want to do highly visible work on great brands and solve tough problems with great coworkers.

About us:

* Founded in 2008

* Funded by First Round and OpenView

* Market comp

* Respect - it's our core value. We have a great team and we work well together. Our vacation policy is the same as Netflix (we don't have one). Our technical teams have full authority over (and responsibility for) the problems they work on.

What we're looking for:

* Problem solvers who like to code - we take things apart, figure out how they work, then build software to solve problems

* People who like to ship - we're focused on building and shipping great products - if you like to see your work in production quickly you'll see it here

* Use the source - Google Closure to Python, Hadoop and Mahout to Solr and Lucene - we're open source across our stack

* People who like hard challenges - we have great problems across our products - data, UX, 3rd party JS, high volume / low latency APIs - we have no shortage of deep problems to work on

We're looking for people not positions. We have people who have joined the team with no background in our primary languages and people from non-traditional backgrounds. Check out our blog at http://engineering.monetate.com/ and see more about our open jobs at http://monetate.com/jobs/

We've hired great people from HN in the past.

Feel free to email me with any questions or to apply - tjanofsky monetate com
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African Project Aims To Innovate in Educational Robotics
How To Design The Perfect HTML Newsletter
How would-be pedophiles use Craigslist—and how they get caught
I'd really like to see a computer made entirely from transistors, and only transistors. I feel that using ICs hides a lot of it away.

Admittedly the thing would be massive, perhaps covering a wall. But it would be a great demonstration of how it _is_ possible to build such a thing using just one key component.

Bonus points: make it 32-bit, include an MMU, and boot Linux on it. You may use more than one wall.
Sorry you're absolutely right. I'm getting mixed up with the use of 64k chips in the 48k model[1], which was a cost cutting exercise allowing sinclair to use potentially faulty 64k RAM in the 48ks.

[1] - http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jg27paw4/yr07/yr07_33.htm
To me this seems way offside.

What if I, a regular user, uses instagram for taking all my photos.

What if I take nude photos of my wife. Should I really expect instagram to upload them without my permission?

I'm guessing 99% of people would not only be surprised by this behavior, but also outraged.
Same here, I also tried several browsers, nothing happens when I enter my name
Can you really say "I told you so" when the threads about the IPO were full of people saying "this is a terrible idea, how can I short the stock?"
Rumor: Hulu will soon require viewers to have a cable subscription
How I Lost 100 pounds
Execs ‘covered up hacking’, Murdochs ‘ignorant’
intimidating him instead of due process in the courts because they didn't have a case
OK, I totally don't understand, what is the "unit" in "unit cost of $1700" ?? In other words, what exactly is the basis of comparison with other reactors?
While I agree theres no standard definition, theres a general agreement between all parties that LTE is "4G" and HSDPA+ is "3G" (or "3.5G" if you will).

To argue the semantics of what "3G" and "4G" really is only confuses customers even more - and thats exactly what Australia and the UK are trying to prevent.
Did that to me to. 1 time out of 5 it did actually work, the rest - just refreshed the page.
Ahhh doclets. I certainly don't miss those things!
IMO, complete integration (one solution, one vendor) across the board (from OS, to IDE, to Database, to Frameworks, etc) is what makes something "enterprisey". That, and a large and mature ecosystem built around it.
Good news.
This will very be useful in my current projets, I like the direction taken with the "legacy config".
Or you can install virtualenvwrapper (http://www.doughellmann.com/projects/virtualenvwrapper/) and after a little configuration...

$ mkvirtualenv env1
(env1)$ pip install somepackage

Creating self containing python projects has never been so easy!
I'm so desperate for C# .NET stuff to show up on HN that I'm even willing to vote up this uninteresting, unreadably-formatted blog post.
Guessing you're referring to Emacs and not Vim, I've been using textmate.el [1] and it is just great.

[1] http://ozmm.org/posts/textmate_minor_mode.html
It used to. It still does, but it used to, too.
>I'm much more apt to screw up the config if I have to look that up every time. That aside, it's really helpful to communicate to other people on the team that "this value is 768 MB because that's roughly 1/2 the total memory on this machine."

JSON comments would be a short-cut, sure, but that information should be within reach and should NOT only exist within the JSON anyway. So the helpfulness seems really limiting here.

>Re: transmitting annotated data. All I can say is not every application of JSON is for APIs for mobile devices. When I have a connected gigabit network and gzip data, I may not be that concerned about an extra 50 bytes of annotated data. But, again, that even presupposes that its only application is for computer-to-computer communication. The value in comments are human-to-human.

You're right in that the value for comments are human to human; I just cannot picture a scenario where you're actually transmitting data over the wire and including comments. I am not limiting this to mobile device; any service end point should ignore any comments and they will never be seen anyway.

As I mentioned before, if you're ingesting files in a very ad-hoc manner then of course comments could be useful but that's not a typical use-case of JSON. JSON is typically used as an interchange format for end point to end point communication and comments in ANY type of file in that scenario are useless.
I don't think courts would take kindly to that kind of blatant attack on free speech and privacy rights that are well-established in law in most countries.
I assumed this was the case because the "time since" label on a freshly posted photo is usually between 10-20 seconds, indicating they had my photo well before I tapped "Done." I think it's a pretty genius little UX hack to make the process feel quick.
If you're taking nude photos of your wife with an app that is specifically known for sharing photos, you're doing it wrong.

99% of people are probably very happy that their uploads don't take 5 minutes once they hit save. To them, it's worth the privacy "risk".
New York Times Launches Social Media Ad Program
That is something that MUST exist in documentation. If you're putting it within the configuration file itself it can go stale or simply deleted one day and you would have no idea what occurred after the fact without looking at a revision history.

I'm a bit puzzled by documentation seems like a bad word around here; it has its place and I'm not suggesting writing up a huge document. It takes only a couple of minutes to drop some text in Word / Google Docs / Wiki / your flavor and put it someplace accessible for your entire team.
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I found out about Monetate last year in one of these "Who's hiring" threads on Hacker News. I applied, was hired as a frontend engineer, and began working in August, and it's been a great experience.

I'd be happy to answer any questions.

If you're just curious about life at Monetate or about the interview/hiring process, here are a couple of recent posts from our engineering blog that should be of interest:

http://engineering.monetate.com/2012/04/23/dom-doodles-from-...

http://engineering.monetate.com/2012/03/27/get-to-know-monet...

And if you'd like to find out if you have what it takes to get hired, feel free to try the CSS, Javascript, or Python mini-challenges at the top of our blog pages.
Is being an interesting, neat art project not enough? Not everything has to be making some grand statement about the meaning of life.
They're uploaded once you get to the caption screen, not when you take the photo.
Real-world example of the HTML5 FileSystem API
How to use the HTML5 filesystem API via an example that downloads a zip file, unzips it and caches the asset contents locally for quick access by Raymond Camden.
English Mastiff Explained
Thank you, this makes sense, tho I'd still prefer to have a different download option that doesn't require logging in.
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No. Just no.

The JVM is the only redeeming feature of Java (the language). You're nerfing the high performance features for what, exactly? A half assed tracing ability? "Write once, run anywhere"?

Javascript won in the browser, move on.
Cool idea! One thing you should do is add some feedback when someone tries to reserve a username that is already taken. It currently just refreshes the page. I wasn't sure if it worked for me until I tried something different.
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The best way is the method that involves the least baggage with your new startup. Even if you have no lingering legal headaches at the new one (patent rights, copyright, trade secrets), you personally need to be free of lingering distractions (miss your old co-founder, owe lots of money to former company's creditors, can't raise enough capital to keep yourself afloat all of a sudden) to the point that it's a step up and not just a lateral.

Figure out how to do that, then do it as quickly as possible, like ripping off a band-aid.
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