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Firebase hiring full-stack engineer as employee #3. Help build the real-time web
We're building the world's first real-time Backend-as-a-Service. We launched one month ago, and we've just closed $1.4M in seed funding from Greylock, NEA, Flybridge, and prominent angels.

Now we're looking for the right top-notch dev to help us build the guts of our real-time infrastructure. You'll be our third employee, and you'll have a chance to have a serious impact on the product and culture of Firebase.

Requirements:

-Enthusiasm and willingness to work hard

-Good communication skills / ability to work as part of a team

-Strong algorithm design skills

-Experience with web technologies, networking, and big data solutions.

Nice-to-haves:

-Experience building large, distributed systems.

-Experience with real-time web technologies

-Intimate knowledge of the TCP stack.

-Experience with Javascript or Scala

-Operations / System Administration experience

-A portfolio of web or mobile apps you can show us.

What we offer:

-A chance to work with cutting-edge technology. We use Scala, Netty, Javascript, cloud servers, and the latest database software. We're always looking for new technologies and techniques that can make our product better.

-A chance to be an early member of a fast-growing team.

-Smart, friendly coworkers who work together. We want to teach you what we know and learn from you what we don't.

-A flexible work environment. We have no fixed schedule, almost no meetings, and a light-weight engineering process.

-A fun, vibrant office full of many of SF's top startups. Our view of downtown SF is awesome.

-Hella snacks! We're serious about our snacks. We have everything from Animal Crackers to Famous Amos.

This job is located in San Francisco, CA. You must be local or willing to relocate.

Interested? Please email jobs@firebase.com with some info about yourself, links to projects that you've built, and anything else you'd like to show us.
Not allowing user-defined data structures to have the same syntactic support as the "blessed" ones would have crippled C++ for many domains. Much of the reason C++ is used is that the flexibility of templates allows custom data structures to be maximally performance-tuned for the problem at hand.

In Rust, the goal is to use macros for data structure literals, which results in a simpler surface language and the flexibility of C++ without the confusion of templates.
You should be unbanned in about a day. I had this happen to me (and learned that Ctrl-R in Chrome has little to no delay between sending millions of requests), and was unbanned about a day later.
Also https://twitter.com/#!/charltonbrooker has been trolling them for some time now. He's a very popular figure so if they send him a takedown notice then it will suddenly become a big issue.
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If you find you can't save a file because of permissions, just suspend nano with ctrl+z, fix the permission, resume suspended job with fg, save file. No need to lose your edits or hassle with temp files.
You're right that it wouldn't be the 48th most common word to begin a sentence. Still, it's not uncommon enough to warrant not prefixing it. This goes for "stats" as well...
That's only partly true. As I recall, he exercised a substantial option (~100 million shares or something like that), half of which were non-qualified and are immediately taxed as ordinary income, so he's got a big tax bill coming and probably will keep less than half of what he just cashed out.
But how long do you spend setting up the time-tracking process that ensures you don't exceed you 20% time frame in a given day/week/month/year

Well, lots of devs have 10 sided dice...

But seriously, this could be determined stochastically per hour or pomodoro.
The dude just got married. Maybe he wants to buy a nice house.
It's creepy because of the business model. You don't pay them to use it, so they have to make money selling information about you. As long as Facebook is free, there's no way around this.

The problem of course is that nobody is willing to pay for something like Facebook. It turns out that our privacy isn't worth squat.
I quit for two reasons,

1) I didn't want Facebook mining my data, and

2) It was dull and a waste of time. It doesn't help my procrastination, and the only things I used it for were the occasional IM, and... investigating people I was interested in getting to know
I agree. That should have been the title of the article.
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If some mundane thing is taking too much of your time, then by all means "hack" it so you can get on with your life. Otherwise you are engaging in our old friend premature optimization.

There are a lot of different kinds of wankery in the world. There's nothing wrong with indulging in wankery, but it's important to be honest that that's what you're doing. To relabel it "productivity enhancement" or "lifehacking" does not change what it is, and may mislead you into thinking you're actually accomplishing something when you're not.
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Congratulations to him!

Although people will often credit Jobs with the creation of Apple's products, it's great that Jony is getting recognition here. I can't even imagine the amount of time and effort he and his team must've put in to developing their designs.

With the industrial design of products like the iPhone or MacBook, every single dimension must be precisely calculated. There's no "eh, it's a bit off, but that'll do" like what we may do with web apps. The number of concepts and iterations they must've gone through is staggering, I'm sure.

Edit: It's sad to see only two other commenters recognizing Ive's achievements. It seems now that almost every single accomplishment posted to HN is questioned, overanalyzed and criticized out of what is likely a place of envy. We don't need your commentary on the social ramifications of knighthoods. If that's your reaction to a post like this, then you need to seriously reassess your perspective.
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That's 67% more than tunebridge.
Not alone, but in a small minority of consumers.
Agreed - and I've updated the graphs. Thanks for the comments!
I would take studying in quotes: "studying"
Because they do not actually earn any useful or marketable skills during those almost ten years.
My wife told me this is called academism.
Afaik Zuck's shares have 10x the voting power of regular shares.
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I was in SF for work last week and was delighted to see the Maker Faire was in town. Was a great way to kill a Sunday afternoon. About half the place was awesome activities for kids, and the other half was awesome demos/products for adults.

The first thing I thought to myself when getting inside was "this would be an awesome place to bring my kids (when I have some)"
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Haha, fair point. I've updated the graphs!
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You can "goto" any case label in C#, which works like fallthrough but is more flexible (since you can jump anywhere). At the same time, it avoids the refactoring hazard associated with fallthrough, in which changing the order of the switch labels can change the behavior of the code. Of the languages that have "switch" (not counting ML/Haskell-style pattern matching here), C#'s approach seems ideal.
Graphs updated, as noted above.
I think it's great idea. I would at least try it. I'm not really a T-shirt person but I know many who wear them and I think some would be interested in something like this.

I like your landing page as potential wearing customer, but I don't think it would attract me to advertise with you. I would only change the pictures representing what kind of pictures people upload. Here you can't see that person wears T-shirt on an event or in a day in their life, you only see T-shirt and don't get the feeling person is wering it outside of their bedroom.

I think that feature of choosing what brand will you promote with this T-shirt is important. You can see that many commenters saw this as a problem.
But I think that here is a problem from the side of companies who would advertise on your T-shirts as well. If I used your service for promotional purposes, I would like to know that in front side of T-shirt there would not be something opposite of what I would like my brand to be. But I think that for starters you can filter that out manually.
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It's still administrator by default, they just prompt you to click ok on every administrative action, something users still do blindly.
Looks like it's a work in progress, so I don't guess they're ready to have the whole thing be available.
12 early-stage cloud startups chosen for the Gluecon demopod competition
I'm looking for a reference to the @ operator being used to suppress spurious module errors. I'd not spent the last decade oblivious to the PHP manual.
use Marvell's sheevaplug is better off for this. beaglebone is really for industrial control, beagleboard are for generic purpose while pandaboard is for mobile computing.
SD cards are made for consumer class cameras, but you can buy industrial level SLC SD, for $50 per 4GB, in that case I will just go with SSD.
Very funny, but this is utter nonsense.

The vast majority of corporation exist in a free market economy. They compete with others for human resources and business.

On the political front, when was the last time you saw a corporation mobilize MILLIONS of their employees and align them to vote in support of a law or political candidate? What you are more likely to see is that a corporation has a diversity of people with different ideas and opinions. In other words, individuals.

I've worked inside a unionized environment. I know what it does to people. It's ugly. The comparison to the free market alternative is nothing less than ridiculous.
For the First Time, A Majority of the Unemployed Have Attended College
Fix eclipse interface in Ubuntu
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Or just don't use switch. If it's a small expression, an if/else chain takes no more lines of code and is not less efficient. If it's a large expression, it might be better expressed with a function pointer table.

I'm not a zealot on this stuff, and write switch statements regularly (though I do strongly prefer if chains for most stuff) but if you're really hitting this regularly I think a change in process might be in order.
Google's Search App will scan QR codes, the thinking is near-instant (camera focusing will take longer), and it pops up directly to the App store. I think the burden is pretty low. Typing in a URL is certainly more effort.
They're diluted, or his are inflated, however you want to look at it. Yes, it's similar to the Google structure, but Google isn't the prototype. Lots of companies over the years have had special shares with extra voting power, families often retain voting control of a company long after they've sold off most of the equity.

I'm always divided on this as a shareholder, but more often than not I do trust the founders more than the open market, yes. They have an emotional stake in the company that goes beyond short-term economic interests, and I've seen enough companies flounder after the market jettisons the people who built it, and enough recoveries when the founders return, to question the wisdom of shareholder power.
Thing is, the .com.au version worked fine in Safari this morning, but the .co.uk version tells me I need a more modern browser this afternoon.

So it's not just being limited to browsers that are technically capable of running it.
I agree. At the very least I'd have to be able to opt out of market segments, e.g. no fast food (McDonalds), sexual aids (viagra), political/religious groups, etc.
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I think Craigslist deserves to be on the list.
Case in point:

My current smartphone is at the manufacturer getting repaired, it has been 3 weeks now. In the meantime I picked up one of those cheap-as-all-hell-pay-as-you-go-phones...

In three weeks I've needed to charge it one time... considering how little I actually use my phone I've spent about $20 on minutes and I haven't used half of them yet.

I'll actually be a little sad when my smartphone comes back, I'm thinking about telling the manufacturer to just keep it.
He wants to sell an antivirus app that scans iOS for nonexistent viruses, looks like some kind of malware)
Some do.
The smart ones learn to read and then sit at the side of the class reading - ignoring the "education" that is going on around them.
Thanks for answering my comment.

I do have reservations about going after international and hyper-local markets at the same time. And I have a concern that it sounds like you do not have a graphic designer to create the t-shirt designs.

However, I do like your idea of reserving the "cooler" t-shirts to more loyal users (because that, for the most part, solves my issue with requiring a relatively significant commitment from a user).

Again, I hope your idea becomes successful.
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While I'm sure that David Foster Wallace's "This Is Water" is a beautiful essay on the value of life, its credibility was damaged when he killed himself. That's a pretty extreme lifehack.
I'm sure there is/would be a political reason, but it's most likely some marketing person refreshing a Google alert feed then (metaphorically) hammering anything that isn't one of their official sponsors. Just a theory
And Ubuntu users don't blindly enter their passwords at gksudo prompts?
That is part of the problem. They also never care about the long-term effects that their demands have on their employers. A case in point is pensions. The state of California is sinking under the weight of the ridiculous deals politicians (government workers) made with unions (of government workers) with regards to pensions. So, you have politicians who favor and need the vote of unions granting deals to unions of government workers to provide them with pensions and benefits that nobody in their right mind would even consider in the free world. The end-result is that they bankrupt the State and all of us end-up working for THEM. At the rate we are going even my kids will end-up working for the unionized government workers in California if we stay in this state. This is down-right criminal.
What an interesting subject. Does anyone else have a bookmarks folder full of interesting subjects that they intend to go through at SOME date?

Is anyone else like me and the growth of that list seems to completely outpace your ability to work through it? :)
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This is in class; but there is a huge pressure on them to "study" after class, spending all time on it.

They because myopic, weaker from vitamin D deficiency and still do not learn anything (adult would consider) useful.
For the same reason a potato-chip company would make "sustainable" chip-bags out of special, thick, expensive paper, rather than cheap plastic: it gives them the cachet of being "organic" and "environmentally conscious" and "sustainable", which targets a market segment they might have been previously missing (though note that they only use said bags on their supposedly "healthy" baked chips--Heinz might do the same if they adopted this, making a special "eco-ketchup" with this tech and a different design.)
I agree with you, but don't understand the OP. Why does he stick to the "life hacker" term at all? The lifehacker blog is terrible, but we have always defended the term "hacker" against popular interpretations (=cracker). Can we still save the term "life hacker"? For me, that'd be someone without a cellphone.

There's a actually an established term for most of your list: Early Adopters. A marketing euphemism for people who waste their life and money trying out products you throw at them. It can be fun, but when I see people on Twitter with that term in their bio, I can't help but facepalm.

And then there's another group of people - those who tune their tools forever.

Both obsessions are incredibly common on HN. One harmless case in point, this submission on the front page left me clueless:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4012862

How many people on this planet have that many management duties that exchanging all stock apps is worth the time? Is it a Zen garden thing? (Sorry author - I have actually at half of those apps too :) )
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That's why in most countries, the second house is elected on a different rythmn than the main one. So you get balance.

Interestingly, I have never seen anyone theorize about this. Everyone understands why democracy and elections are related. Parliament is a snapshot of public opinion at a given time. By using two snapshots taken at different time intervals, you get better reliability. Sounds obvious to IT engineers :-)
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So no reason to push through amazing legislation that bans the use of phrases like London / Summer / 2012 / Games to such a ridiculous degree?

"This legislation offers a special level of protection to the Games and their sponsors over and above that already promised by existing copyright or contract law. A breach of these acts will not only give rise to a civil grievance, but is a criminal offence."
Digits is my tool of choice, great design and function.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/digits-calculator-for-ipad/id...
I was well aware that there have been other threads, but if we bug them enough they might change it. =)
+1 this would be invaluable
Ummm does anyone else think that maybe Mark Zuckerberg is now going to be filling the Steve Jobs shaped hole in the worlds tech publications?
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I build a couple of ARM "servers" out of a PandaBoard (dual core + 1 GB RAM) and a self-made case (lasercutter)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rmoriz/sets/72157629535790241

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:18645

They're running Linaro, the Ubuntu-ARM-development-fork by ARM/Linaro.org
"Call me skeptical but I have a hard time believing that people of their calibre failed to notice that facebook's growth projections were massively overstated."

Happens pretty much all the time. That's the essence of the Greater Fool strategy: there's always someone with deep pockets who's willing to take a bad bet. Even ostensibly sophisticated investors and institutions are willing to part ways with their better senses when sufficiently excited about something.

"I wouldn't be surprised if this was the intention all along."

I think that's an overly paranoid viewpoint. It seems far more likely that a bunch of people got suckered in the IPO roadshow than a bunch of people willingly allowed themselves to get suckered in the vague hope of making it all back in a class action. Judgments in class actions are anything but certain, are often drawn out for years, and almost certainly wouldn't make up the loss on the stock.
I'd sell all of it and move on. Most boring business ever. And it's not like it's going to be worth more, ever, anyway.
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This is probably the most interesting line from the article:

"Ms. Chan reportedly asked Mr. Zuckerberg to sign a relationship agreement before she moved to California several years ago to be with him — outlining issues like how much time they should spend together"

Can't decide if I'd sign an agreement like that with a girlfriend. And I wonder what her recourse was.
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First of all: If you are going to resort to ad-hominem attacks you are not going to get very far. I resent you characterizing me as "ignorant" and clue-less. It is uncalled for and without justification. You don't know anything about me.

I was not going to comment beyond that until I saw this:

"Unions- and yes, even those in California- they are one of the few things holding the economy up"

Really? How so? I think this is, again, utter nonsense. How are unions holding-up the US economy? You are joking, right?
I can't believe Page didn't know the name of the companies they have acquired so far in 2012.

They bought Milk (Kevin Rose) & TxVia (some type of mobile payment company)
I like the monthly graph, but otherwise it seems to offer less information than Wolfram Alpha.
but I don't think it would attract me to advertise with you

I wholeheartedly agree. However, this will change when an actual landing page is in place.

I would like to know that in front side of T-shirt there would not be something opposite of what I would like my brand to be

Manual filtering/personal design for the companies that advertise is probably the first step. Next comes incentivizing users to contribute their own design and let the smaller customers pick their company designs. I think that'll work out, though there's obviously no way of being sure.
Seems like they are looking for partnerships (they wouldn't really want to get into the business of integrating and building the whole hardware I expect):

> While Google had no immediate plans to commercially develop the system, the company hopes to develop a business which would market the system and the data behind it to automobile manufacturers (from the Wikipedia page).
The C# approach sounds like a recipe for abuse:

switch(something)
{
case 1:
// Do stuff
goto case 4;
case 2:
// Do stuff
goto case 1;
case 3:
// Do stuff
goto case 5;
case 4:
// Do stuff
goto case 3;
case 5:
// Do stuff
break;
}
I still don't understand how the typical adult can talk about work / life balance with a straight face with what we do to children.
They indicate that print book will eventually be available, so providing the book in PDF, mobi or ePub may be a breach of contract with the publisher. Publisher may still be OK that general public cannot easily put on an eReader or paper stack.
Stripe Team Schools vs. Don't go to College
On one hand HN readers and the development community in general has been happily advising folks not to spend time at college. On the other hand, HN readers' top-favorite teams is that of Stripe, who happen to come from Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Georgia Tech, Cardiff, Berkeley and others. (https://stripe.com/about)

Discuss: is there any casual link between Stripe's academic roots and their success?
I'm referring to the use-case where it's something that's truly cloud-based–think more like Salesforce. Most enterprises are (slowly) shifting to this.
Welcome to the stock market. Insiders can always wave a magic wand and screw you over. Morgan Stanley just fucking did it...
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You're defending against a different claim. The idea is not that C's current way of doing things has no advantages, the idea is that it's not the optimal way. Pointing out a case in which it happens to initially be more helpful is basically a no-op. And I can think of better ways to spell even what you have there. Consider a "cases FOO_A, FOO_B" construct or something that both makes explicit what you are trying to do and still retains default break behavior. Fewer characters, clearer semantics, not hard to format for easy reading. C's way is definitely not optimal even on its own terms.
Thanks, Matt. We have some technical reasons why we can't do that with the URL, or don't anyway. But if you want to share music in that manner, just click the tweet button and steal the URL from there.

Sorry about the volume issue. It happens so rarely that focusing on EQ hasn't been a priority.
The Cortex-A15 can address 1TB of ram, its still 32bit so there is the requisite per process limit. Last I heard Cortex-A15 SoC's will be available in volume this year.