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Software Engineer/Web Developer
We are looking for versatile problem solvers with solid computer science fundamentals and strong RIA and web application development experience. Our engineers work closely with their peers, and interact with Product Management, Professional Services, and Sales to deliver our product vision. Our engineers bring a passion for mobility, an innovative spirit, and a hands-on ability to design and code creative advances in our software platform.
You will design and develop a wide range of new capabilities on both our mobile web client and our next-generation App Studio development tool. You will build rich, web-based user interfaces, integrate with our powerful mobile middleware server, and push the latest desktop and mobile browsers to their limits. You will also develop advanced JavaScript APIs that extend our platform and enable device integration with native features like GPS, camera, accelerometer, and NFC. You will use an array of modern web technologies including HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, AJAX, and related tools and frameworks. These diverse challenges will test your acumen, broaden your skill set, and engage you with a changing set of tools and technologies.
Requirements
•	BS or MS in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering, or similar technical education
•	3+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building complex, rich internet applications (RIAs) using HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript including use of frameworks such as jQuery, Backbone.js, node.js, Sencha, or PhoneGap
•	Experience with system integration technologies including SOAP, REST, JSON, XML, and SQL; experience building mobile applications using Java, J2ME, Objective-C, C# is a plus
•	Strong OO design and development skills required
•	Experience with and passion for the design and development of mobile applications using Apple iPhone & iPad, Google Android, RIM BlackBerry, and Windows Phone devices
•	Strong communication and technical writing skills

About Verivo Software
At Verivo we enable the world’s largest companies to deliver compelling mobile applications for their employees, partners, and customers. We provide an enterprise-grade mobile application platform that allows our customers to rapidly build and deploy native and mobile web applications to iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, and Windows devices. Our Software Engineers design, develop, and test all aspects of our market-leading mobile platform including the Server, our powerful Application Studio development tool, and our native and browser-based clients. We are a work-hard play-hard company, and a two-time winner of Boston’s Best Places to Work! We mobilize many of the world’s largest corporations including Thomson Reuters, Ernst & Young, and Ameriprise. Join our innovative Product Development team and help advance our cutting-edge business writing software using HTML5, JavaScript, and other tools.

Send resumes to hotjobs@verivo.com
CEO's these days... They have no fight in them.
Here is a nice comparison. Buy a mobile device and try to use the standard developer tools to put Hello World on it.

Android: Download Eclipse (Windows, Linux or Mac) and the Android SDK (Windows, Linux or Mac) - no accounts or registration needed for either of these. In your phone menus enable development and connect via USB. In Eclipse make your hello world project, and hit Run or Debug. Enjoy.

Apple: You must buy a Mac. In the App Store (requires an account) or the developer site (requires an account and registration) download Xcode. Create your project. Connect the phone via USB. Right click to enable it for development and then do some song and dance with Apple to get permission to use "your" device for development. (I haven't yet worked out the exact dance required and how much it costs.)

I don't know what it looks like for WP7 but assume it is substantially similar to Apple.
A more direct link: https://docs.google.com/a/reed.edu/document/d/1M92qqFrK2zlqC...

(the Fully Qualified Apology is at the end of the second-to-last paragraph)
Spaces are most productive when there is interesting meaningful work to be performed and better locations for engaging in distracting behaviors.

The library doesn't work because of its configuration, it works because the occupants are self selecting. People who want to party go to a bar, instead.

It works because there are lots of areas with different levels of privacy and which tolerate different levels of social interaction, from the carrell in the stacks, to the pairs of lounge chairs by the window, to the reading room, or these days, perhaps a snack bar. Importantly, the occupants of each of these areas are again self selecting.

Finally, library spaces tend to be the commons. Permanent territoriality is discouraged, and this furthers self selection.
The image went from 0.121 GP to 1.12 GP, It was not down-sampled, it's the oposite. Maybe to meet Gigapan's minimum 1GP?
The developers just announced the next version of Perian will be the final version.
http://perian.org/?eol
I think the parent is referring to libdvdcss, which is the library that cracks the DRM encryption on the dvd. Without it you wouldn't be able to skip unskippable parts, nor even play the dvd using non-authorized dvd players like vlc.

libdvdcss is developed by the videolan project, which is the umbrella project for vlc.
And what % of the commission is Viglink taking since it's their affiliate links?
Ugh, paywalls/loginwalls.
TABLEFS: Embedding a NoSQL Database Inside the Local File System
You cant turn a pair of trousers inside out through the belt loops though.
Apple is the Finder upon a os ...

one man TOG : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Tognazzini
another : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Norman

se the finder has a redundancy slowness to mimic human perception built in ...
If they are more expensive, that's not IMO a serious problem, as long as the more expensive one is perceived as better. E.g. the iPhone is expensive, but sells well because it is perceived as better.

If they are less monetizable, then yes that is a potentially serious issue, because it means companies may build cloud srvices instead of freedom-enhancing ones.
The Perils of Launching a Sub-Affiliate Platform
Software Engineer/Web Developer
We are looking for versatile problem solvers with solid computer science fundamentals and strong RIA and web application development experience. Our engineers work closely with their peers, and interact with Product Management, Professional Services, and Sales to deliver our product vision. Our engineers bring a passion for mobility, an innovative spirit, and a hands-on ability to design and code creative advances in our software platform.
You will design and develop a wide range of new capabilities on both our mobile web client and our next-generation App Studio development tool. You will build rich, web-based user interfaces, integrate with our powerful mobile middleware server, and push the latest desktop and mobile browsers to their limits. You will also develop advanced JavaScript APIs that extend our platform and enable device integration with native features like GPS, camera, accelerometer, and NFC. You will use an array of modern web technologies including HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, AJAX, and related tools and frameworks. These diverse challenges will test your acumen, broaden your skill set, and engage you with a changing set of tools and technologies.
Requirements
•	BS or MS in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering, or similar technical education
•	3+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building complex, rich internet applications (RIAs) using HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript including use of frameworks such as jQuery, Backbone.js, node.js, Sencha, or PhoneGap
•	Experience with system integration technologies including SOAP, REST, JSON, XML, and SQL; experience building mobile applications using Java, J2ME, Objective-C, C# is a plus
•	Strong OO design and development skills required
•	Experience with and passion for the design and development of mobile applications using Apple iPhone & iPad, Google Android, RIM BlackBerry, and Windows Phone devices
•	Strong communication and technical writing skills
At Verivo we enable the world’s largest companies to deliver compelling mobile applications for their employees, partners, and customers. We provide an enterprise-grade mobile application platform that allows our customers to rapidly build and deploy native and mobile web applications to iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, and Windows devices. Our Software Engineers design, develop, and test all aspects of our market-leading mobile platform including the Server, our powerful Application Studio development tool, and our native and browser-based clients. We are a work-hard play-hard company, and a two-time winner of Boston’s Best Places to Work! We mobilize many of the world’s largest corporations including Thomson Reuters, Ernst & Young, and Ameriprise. Join our innovative Product Development team and help advance our cutting-edge business writing software using HTML5, JavaScript, and other tools.

Send resumes to hotjobs@verivo.com
And the HN submission: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3667741
Hopefully this means that all cable companies will die soon... Ok maybe that is a bit too hopeful. But I've been looking for ways to drop my TV bill recently (directv) I pay $90 a month to watch maybe 3 channels once or twice a week. I can't think of any other consumer service I pay that much for. Unfortunately new episodes of Dexter and BreakingBad aren't easily available online yet. The Cable/Satellite TV industry is just so broken.
Listia is hiring Rails & Mobile hackers to scale our fast-growing marketplace
Ask HN:What CMS should I be using?
A client wants a site with a built in CMS. Is Wordpress the easiest route to go down? Any good jquery and HTML alternatives?
The "problem" is that the problem that top tier education raises -- the one this topic is focused on -- is not really a problem for graduates of those institutions, namely:

Getting accepted is the biggest hurdle. Once you are in all you really need to do to secure an opportunity is graduate. It's in the institution's best interest to see that you graduate and carry on the good name of the institution after graduation in whatever position you decide to take in whatever sector of the economy.

People will listen to you merely based on the fact you graduated from a top tier institution. They will assume you are intelligent. There is no need to prove it.

Some people will even hire you solely based on those phenomena.

Why would any graduate be against this? There is very little incentive to think outside the box.

The sheep are not the graduates of top tier institutions. The sheep are the people who blindly follow them.

There is little need to be a good leader when you can be a leader "by default" thanks to "presumed competence" and the fear of questioning anyone who has graduated from a top tier institution.

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Introduction to Data Mining
Startup Tips – Do one thing at a time and take time to carefully prioritise.
Try angel.co. Create a profile and check out the startups and incubators. I've also met quite a few helpful people by reaching out, just like this post.
Ok I know the word bubble is overuse but I think we are in a bubble. I know the market choose « the right price » for any project. We have seen this movie before:The housing market. Money was “easy” to get for almost anyone without checking those fundamentals. The main idea was simple prices cannot go down.
Now back here, the idea is simple someone somewhere is going to pay $400M or more in a near future....
what's the plan B put ads again? Paid questions?

I'm just trying to understand how people can come up with valuations like that …. I just don't get it ...
becomes a rat race when you view life in that light, continually maximizing your life-experience-point measure for all actions taken.
I sorta get that, but it's not like Postgres/MySQL/etc are operational nightmares. It's just that going from one barely proven DB to another barely proven DB in a migration that involves a boatload of application side code seems heavy handed from the outside.
It doesn't just make a huge difference - it's a different thing entirely. Credit where credit is due, initially and up front, is being honest. Changing it after and pretending like it was like that the whole time is trying to cover up your own actions - that's arguably even worse than the initial plagarism. (At best it shows the same underhanded streak as the plagarism itself.)

Completely despicable. Added TNW to my hosts file.
You can only be sure you're really rejecting society's desires when everyone thinks you're mentally ill. Good luck with that.

But seriously, if you keep going down this line of thought you will soon end up a lunatic staggering through a hall of mirrors. Just give up and be yourself, whatever that seems to be at any given moment.
It wasn't just a bad backup. It was a bad backup "system". One that didn't involve testing the backups obviously or even any redundancy. I guess the sysadmin never read the story (urban legend?) about the guy in Sweden who brought his backup tapes home and erased them on the car's electric seats.

The comment on the cartoon "I remember thinking this is really bad we're going to get our backups" comes from someone who obviously does not have the appropriate fear of what can happen to even begin to understand a good backup system. I'm guessing she is much more careful with her children and anticipates things in advance.

As far as "the backup being bad" where were they stored? Were they stored offsite?
I find the whole idea of using "sheep" as a shorthand for adherence to social norms to be immature. To me it smacks of the adolescent impulse to distinguish oneself from one's parents, and by extension, from any perceived authority--social or otherwise. It's not a great long-term strategy, but it satisfies an emotional need.
Not yet, but we want to, definitely. We build on top of the Heroku and Cloud Foundry PaaS's of the world, so we haven't decided on the right way to standardize it.

Feel free to reach out to me at sean at cloudfuji, and let's chat a bit.

By the way, we've been impressed with some of the hustle we've seen from pogodan. Very good job.
From a practical approach, the physical world can seem fairly deterministic. If you drop something in a vacuum and nothing hits it, you can say with a great deal of accuracy how long it will take to hit the ground. I don't think that this practical determinism translates to a philosophical determinism.
I think it has to do with probabilities - many small loses and one big win (Facebook) - and you have a profit
I'm curious to hear more about users' standard backup systems for life/work (other that a version control system for code).

Any thoughts?
It reminds me of something Caterina Fake (Flickr) said some years ago. The problem is, both these things come off like "I got mine, but it's too late for you."
Ask Daniel Burka, Milk Co-Founder Almost Anything
Amazon's distribution and logistical network is a major asset that would cost a ton of money to replicate. This is a major barrier to entry and Amazon's primary competitive advantage in the online retail space. Groupon's main advantage (other than being the first mover) is merely a giant e-mail list of customers and merchants, nothing that a scrappy team can't try to replicate on the cheap.
IndieAndroider: Develop some apps, learn some things, make some money
Insider trading is like pissing in the pool. It sounds dirty, but really isn't that big a deal.

http://twitter.com/#!/GSElevator/status/197718817382739968
I am getting quite tired of listening to people argue for or against conformity.

You don't become a shepherd by making yourself into a black sheep.

And there is nothing wrong with conforming.

There is nothing wrong with wearing fashionable status symbols. There is nothing wrong with climbing hierarchies, nothing wrong with pleading for a comfortable life, or listening to what your friends think is cool. There really isn't. These are all suitable ways of enjoying your life.

We all seem to want to be rare. But what does rare get you?

Solitude.

Maybe you truly want this? But think it through: are the grapes so sour? We are social animals.

I covet the courage to be and do whatever I wish to. I don't need to be scared to be seen along side others. This is a whim to will.

It is crazy to want to be more of an individual than others just for the sake of it, and it has nothing to do with living the way I just mentioned.
^ This. However wow it's been that long?
My point was a single linux box seems "Low tech" considering you need a render farm just to produce the movie. Also they were clearly referring to assets and not the rendered film (Hats, sets etc.. getting deleted) which is 1000x worse.
It is a great idea. I shall be copying it for my own web monitoring site.
Great resource.

As a side note, I find it interesting that the Django Book does not contain a chapter on test writing.

http://www.djangobook.com/
You are correct. Certain individuals have proven that with tenacity anything is possible. Still, it appears most people need structure. Structure, to give them a yardstick to measure themselves by. Stanford, or any college, give students goals. They are prepared sheep with plenty for 'growth experience.'
Haiku http://haiku-os.org
I don't anything about couriers' systems to have an idea whether or not it would be feasible to build something that integrates with them (or how difficult it would be to design one end-to-end).

If you could design the thing end-to-end, I wonder if switching barriers would make adoption difficult.
1. Very well connected founders.

2. Founder ponying up millions of his own cash.

3. Frighteningly Ambitious(TM) problem.

4. Reasonably good traction and product execution.
The participants in the Stanford Prison Experiment weren't Stanford students. I'm not sure any of them were. They were selected by Zimbardo from responses to an ad in Palo Alto. They were selected for their normal-ness, mentally and physiologically.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
How would this help? (And I'm actually asking, not disputing.)

I don't have an iPad. Does Apple allow you to load your own app (as in an app you write or at least compile for yourself) onto your own iPad, or do you have to load everything through the store, which requires getting Apple's approval?

If you can't directly load your own app (which is my, perhaps mistaken, impression), how would having the source help? If you can, then that sounds like a potential solution.
We're doing the platform approach. I don't think this was part of any grand calculation of where the technology wave is, just that it is the idea we have and it meshes w/our skillset.

The field does seem awfully crowded with social/mobile lightweight apps.

People prosper all over different parts of economic/tech cycles. My father was a developer (real estate kind, a regular "A Man In Full") in Atlanta, he used to always make all his bank during recessions when all the other developers were going broke. Conversely, during the fat times, he never did very well.

We (including Dad) were all aware of this pattern, but never could really figure out why things worked out that way.
But the original question is, where are they leading Quora to?
> Move fast and break things. Edit later.

Ironically, you can't edit posts on Facebook.
Here in the US, UPS, in fact, will do this for you. (http://www.theupsstore.com/products-services/packaging-shipp...) They won't go to your location, but I think that's more because there isn't sufficient demand for that service (at a profitable level) than their not wanting to do that. You can also hire intermediary services that will show up at your house, wrap an item and ship it via a third-party carrier (transparent to you.) I've done that for large items that had to be sent via rail, like furniture.

I know you're frustrated by folks saying that you're suggesting UPS or Fedex do this, but your post title suggests that's what you're asking for, and it's also rational to view it as more likely that those carriers would create this service, or someone would create it as an overlay (MVNO-style) utilizing their existing shipping networks, than creating an entire new shipping system - the cost would just be astronomical to create a whole new transport network for this.
Eventual Consistency is a feature, not a limitation of Riak (and friends).

It requires you to think about your application different, but it enables things that you could not do before.

For example, you can now handle databases in multiple datacenters, reducing latency to the client.
i bet absolutely no one ever wants to hang out with you
Why ORM divides us
This is what's happening at the Diablo 3 servers right now...
What would be extremely useful is an equivalent of Michael Hartl's "Ruby on Rails Tutorial" (http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book) for one of the more popular Python web frameworks...

If someone knows of something similar, please let me know.
I agree.

What a lot of people don't realize is that Amazon has amazing logistics and considerable skill in merchandising. Building that logistics footprint is why Amazon has survived and others failed (speaking as someone who worked for an early competitor).

Look at Best Buy and ask yourself, is Amazon really so easy to replicate?

Granted... I still don't think Amazon is worth the crazy multiple that they trade at, but you can't put them in the same class of company as GroupOn.

What GroupOn has is a brand name and a legion of sales people and contacts with local businesses. Unfortunately, GroupOn has a way of doing terrible things to local businesses that can't operate at the scale of something like GroupOn and which lack (in a sadly large number of cases) the simple business math skills to know when a GroupOn deal is no good for them.

So, the two assets GroupOn has (brand and sales/contacts) are both fairly impaired and much more easily replicated than what Amazon has to offer: logistics, infrastructure and algorithmic secret sauce... not to mention brand and customer loyalty.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3973767
What percentage does videobrewery get & what percentage the artists get?
Firstly, is there any chance we can have a story without someone using the word "bubble"? This is not evidence of a bubble. More to the point, it's a boring prediction because it doesn't add anything. Some years from now we may well be in a bubble and the person who happens to be right that day will say "See? I said we were in a bubble" and the previous 1000 days of being wrong will be summarily ignored.

Basically it's pointless.

As for Quora, I stand by my original assessment: I don't see this going mainstream. Q&A seems to be something that works well for particular verticals (eg programming aka Stackoverflow) but doesn't seem to be a general purpose or widespread tool. This is in part cultural (eg I believe Q&A is very big in Korea).

I see this more as "bubble thinking" and in this context "bubble" has nothing to do with valuation but more that the people who use and value Quora live inside a bubble. That bubble is the Valley. VCs and Valleywags only know other VCs and Valleywags and all of those people use Quora so they make the mistake of thinking it's far larger than it actually is.

Quora does not have the mainstream breakout appeal that, say, Pinterest or Instagram does and honestly I don't think it ever will (you can quote me on that). Neither does (or will) Stackexchange.

That's not to say either won't exit for 9-10 digits but that's another story entirely.

Quora has done a fantastic job of marketing itself to VCs/Valleywags but I see Q&A much like I do Foursquare and the whole check-in thing. It's a (to borrow a Mark Suster term) FNAC (feature not a company).

IMHO Quora will suffer the same fate every social/curation site does: eternal September. If it ever does grow massively the influx of new people will change the site and those early adopters people like to follow now will move on to the next thing. It's Slashdot, Digg, etc all over again.