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Lucidchart - Salt Lake City, UT

Lucidchart is a rapidly growing tech startup looking for great backend software engineers to join us at our headquarters in Utah. At Lucidchart, we build killer graphical web applications requiring highly available, secure and scalable backend services. Talent and ability to learn are more important than years of experience.

You may have seen Lucidchart demoed during the second Google I/O 2012 keynote: http://t.co/sd6GgZvy

We're hiring BACKEND SOFTWARE ENGINEERS. Lucidchart runs with various decoupled services in a Linux environment using Scala, PHP, MongoDB and MySQL. At Lucidchart, your responsibilities would include enhancing existing services, building new services, integrating with 3rd party applications and ensuring services are highly reliable and scalable.

Requirements:
* Talent

Recommended experience:
* Have built large products / applications
* Scala or Java
* PHP
* MySQL or other relational database
* NoSQL databases (MongoDB especially desirable)
* Opscode Chef or Puppet
* Cloud computing (AWS)

We're also hiring FRONTEND SOFTWARE ENGINEERS. We build killer graphical web applications that push the boundaries of what's possible in the browser. Lucidchart is powered by one of the largest Javascript codebases on the Internet, optimized so that the user experience is indistinguishable from an installed native application. Come help us show the tech world what can be done on the web.

Requirements:
* Talent

Recommended experience:
* Have built large products / applications
* Javascript
* Google Closure compiler/library
* CSS/HTML/DOM manipulation
* jQuery
* node.js
* Native app development on Android and/or iOS
* Facebook APIs
Cryptic Trip PT2 | STOked 100
San Francisco, CA, full time.

Threadflip ( http://www.threadflip.com ) is building a new way to discover, buy, and sell fashion.

We are looking for seasoned engineers to join our team of three. Our stack is Rails, Memcache, Redis, Postgres on top of AWS. Experience in these technologies is a plus but we realize that great engineers will learn new tools.

We offer:
* competitive pay and benefits,
* an office located right off the N at the ballpark,
* catered lunches and the usual startup perks.

We're looking forward to talking to you! Please send your resume and links to personal website or Github account to jobs@threadflip.com .
I've been watching his "Into the Universe" series, and honestly I have been a bit disappointed. I was hoping for more science -- details about subatomic particles, a discussion of the various interpretations of quantum mechanics, an introduction to M-theory (that doesn't involve violins and floating colors). Instead, one whole episode was devoted to ragging on religion -- a bunch of speculation that doesn't teach any of the interesting science to the show's viewers.

How about an introduction to Hawking radiation, the holographic principle, superpartners? At least an overview of the standard model? Nope. Just reasons "God isn't necessary". I'm not sure why he takes this route for the show. Maybe it gets more viewers and more controversy. It's sadly reminiscient of the history channel. It used to be full of a lot of interesting, objective content about -- believe it or not -- history, but now it's just full of alien speculation and religious prophecies.
Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't too by default. But do you remember Azure crashing on February 29th? And checking for that date is a matter of three conditions. Leap second is much more complex. I'm not trying to be a smart-ass.. I'm just saying it's something I would worry about and would try to find something about it. And perhaps it wouldn't lead anywhere with Debian.

And still, something in your app stack could crash on this as well, leaving the kernel patching pointless.
Living outside America
Agreed on the `messier' part.

How's extract($arr, EXTR_IF_EXISTS) not validating enough?
This article should really provide some context--I have no idea what Play2 is.
Can you please put up a tickbox somewhere, that says "I agree to get pinged via email once the service gets a clear commercial roadmap"? I'd really appreciate that.

Good luck with your other gigs as well.
why is this being down voted ? it is a fairly good response in my eyes.
What's funny is that the market has tried to solve it. The first cell phone I ever got offered low-cost AIM. My work BlackBerry has a free messenger app. But it turns out people like sending messages to a phone number, any phone number, and don't care for using multiple ways to text. So SMS is the only universal standard for this. Modern phones could re-route the data to save money but the receiving phone might still use the old protocol. It's a literal "network effect".
SEEKING WORK - Remote, or Edinburgh, Scotland.

I'm a contract linux sysadmin. I know about modern web development best practices, and I know about ancient perl horrors. I prefer the first thing to the second.

I really really want to work with startups that are going from the 'two hours of downtime every week while we resize the single Linode instance we run our entire app on' stage to the 'holy shit we have paying customers we'd better think about scaling and availability' stage. Even if you don't have a lot of money, a bit of a specialist's time can cost less than you think and give you a solid foundation to build from.

john@semantici.st / @semanticist
SEEKING WORK - Birmingham, AL, REMOTE

We're a small, agile, and highly experienced team with deep experience in Java and Ruby development as well as and user interface design and development. We're looking for our next challenge with openings in mid-August and October. Our favorite clients are small to medium-sized companies who wish us to tackle either part or all of a new product.

Preferred engagement length is at least three months. Rates are ~$8k per three week sprint.

Contact via email in profile or at our home, http://www.urbancoding.net .
Yeah, in addition to being frustrated by the wait I always feel so incredibly _embarrassed_ when I'm returning to the US, like I should be apologizing to the people in the visitors line for how horrible and frustrating it is. And that video is definitely over the top.

Getting in and out of China (to pick one example out of the places I've visited) as a visitor was way less of a hassle than getting back into the US as a citizen. It's ridiculous.
Police have been doing that for as long as there's been police. They are more likely to have police outside a bar at midnight on a Friday night than 2pm on a Tuesday. They are just doing it better now.
Maybe it's a buffer overflow phenomenon in the Matrix? Question is: can someone write an exploit...
It's usually the other way around; meaning foreigners have to wait way more than citizens. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. If you ever had the pleasure of going through the US Embassy for a trip to the US you'd think people who end up still coming here are masochists.
Thoughts on the AWS outage: making the cloud more resilient to failure
Very cool, but I need to be able to import/export. How do I know you will be around tomorrow?
The email address field in your profile isn't shown to other people - you need to add it to your 'about' section.

I might be interested, if you're happy employing a non-US contractor. john@semantici.st
Tourism to Florida is down relative to other U.S. destinations (Source: http://tinet.ita.doc.gov/outreachpages/download_data_table/2...) so there may be some truth to this. Maybe we can look over the meeting notes (http://www.thebrandusa.com/meeting-records/) and find out?
> Simplenote (which is to Evernote as Twitter is to Facebook)

Are you looking for the word 'competitor'? I don't get these X is to Y as A is to B references..
Calling it irrelevant just because you can't travel there is short-sighted. We could still learn a lot just by watching the broadcasts of another civilization, even if they're already long gone.
I don't really see how this is news.

Don't get me wrong, I think Stephen Hawking is a very smart man, and he has definitely done his fair share of work to help people understand science - not to mention that his scientific accomplishments aren't bad, either. That being said, there's just nothing new in this Q&A that he hasn't already said or wasn't already widely known to anyone who bothered to do a quick search on Google (except perhaps the part about his quality of life, but let's face it, that's not important).
Background images are the smallest concern; the significant changes are UI accent colors, the unlock mechanism, fonts, input styles, toolbar buttons... while they change many times a year, iOS still looks essentially the same as 5 years go, yet beautiful and usable. The most radical changes I can remember are the switch to rounded radio buttons, lock screen shortcuts and notifications pulldown.
Credos
Is that still valid? I mean, after GPRS, MMS and various technologies in this area it might not be as bad as originally implemented.
I`m founder of Catfan. I`m looking for UI/UX designer as team member.
Hi, everyone. I`m the founder of Catfan(http://catfan.me), Angel.

Catfan is a new social blogging community to connect friends with various type of unlimited content in real-time with customizable, stylish and widget powered interface. It receives a lot of media reports by IT-website, magazine and newspaper in my county.

I`m planning to move to California with investors supported to build up business and now I`m looking for a skillful UI/UX designer as team member to work together.

The requirement of the style of design is CLEAR and SIMPLE, like Path, Facebook or Twitter.

As the initial team member of the team, you will receive better remuneration than others who will join after.

If you think you can match the style of the project, please feel free to email your resume with some of your works you have done. I will inform you more details about the project and strategy:)

Email: catfan.me(at)gmail.com
Picture of the Day: Hubble Captures a Dwarf Galaxy
Yeah, what happened with annotations? I also remember being very excited about that. Does anyone know why they canceled that?
I`ve been using Backbone, and one thing I forget all the time and bothers me is when you use Jquery plugins on elements that get re-rendered from templates (then you have to initialize the plugin on the element again, etc - for example, something like the Jquery UI Slider).
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What's your biggest technical server roadblock?
thanks a lot for the tips! If you don't mind, I was going to shoot you an email to pick your brain some more.
This is an interesting post. I'm designing a little programming language as a hobby and I am stuck at how I want to implement function calls.

Without named parameters, you end up with something like the Win32API:

ReadSomeFile("file.txt", SOME_FLAG, 0, SOME_OTHER_FLAG, NULL, NULL, CREATE_FILE);

This can largely be avoided by structuring your API into little single-purpose chunks, but it remains a bit of a problem.

Also I think it's somewhat annoying that you have to remember the order of arguments. In my opinion, this order should not be significant. It leads to a lot of bugs (for people who don't check the documentation for every method) with things like:

str_replace(needle, haystack)

vs

str_replace(haystack, needle)

It would almost be easier to have everything take a map

ajax
url: "example.com/newwidget"
method: "post"
error: -> ...
success: -> ...

But if you enforce this for everything you get something like:

square
number: 4

which is just ridiculous. I kind of like Python's way of doing it -- making them optional.

One thing's for certain -- Javascript frameworks need to develop some kind of consistency. Sometimes you pass in parameters, and sometimes you pass in a configuration object. This inconsistency makes it difficult, and it's too hard to remember which calls take parameters and which take a map.
I'd love a book on statistics for programmers written by Peter Seibel. I know there's Think Stats, and that's a pretty good book, but I'd be interested in a Lisper's take. PCL and Coders at Work are really great.
Performance note - having call_* functions in your code guarantees that your work will not opcode cache friendly - WP is guilty of this (in addition to their include/require spaghetti).
Social Media Is Making Today’s Girls Actually Say What They Mean
1. Wrong. Completely wrong. Internet is cheaper and much, much faster in many other countries. And many of those countries are rolling out FTTH/FTTN as we speak e.g. Australia.

2. True but a bit irrelevant.

The reason the US is the capital of the tech world is 110% due to the success of the VC industry. It is so flush with cash (from its previous successes) that it can reinvest in whole rafts of companies to create tomorrow's successes. It's very much self perpetuating.
it is not a matter of hardware. On my ex-work desktop (2.8GHz quad core, so fairly quick) it used to take a good 5-10 seconds to be ready from a cold start. Yes, subsequent starts were faster, but it's a flipping shell, it shouldn't need hefty hardware to start quickly!
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To add a few that span outside entrepreneurship, but are of course very valuable to entrepreneurs:

Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love (http://www.amazon.com/Inspired-Create-Products-Customers-Lov...) - The best if not only required reading for product management

Peopleware (http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Teams-S...) - Great read on managing and understanding people as it relates to organizations

Managing Humans (http://www.amazon.com/Managing-Humans-Humorous-Software-Engi...) - Obviously on management, you can read much on this http://randsinrepose.com/, though the book does a great job of consolidating it
I wonder... is there anything like geocities anymore?

I mean, I'm thinking that the hosting costs would be close to zero. (now, the phishing prevention... that is probably effort directly in proportion to how anonymous you let the users be, and could be quite expensive.)

But yeah; Yahoo shuttered geocities while I was there. Is there anything analogous now?
What about northern Siberia? Is there more topsoil there than at similar latitudes in Canada and Scandinavia?

ADDED. I have a tentative answer to my own question: glaciers probably cannot push topsoil over mountains, which is probably why there is farming in Alberta, Canada, at latitudes where there is no farming in Quebec. (The Rockies take a big zap westward there.) Since there are lots of mountains running east-to-west in western Siberia, there are probably regions rich in topsoil north of those mountains, but not in eastern Siberia, and not in the high latitudes of European Russia.

Unless in the regions north of those west-east mountains, the presence of the mountains caused the glaciers to flow from south to north. hmm.
1. is completely wrong. (Last time I checked the US was the 15th).
2. I think the Pentagon deserves more credit, as some of the most important research was publicly funded.
Why not something like?

function myfunc($kwargs) {
extract($kwargs);
}

And then just call it with an array. Sure, it's ugly, but that's the price of using PHP.
> Now some of the post-9/11 measures I don't have a problem with. I see no issue with fingerprinting those entering the United States.

Just out of curiosity, why is that? If it matters, I live in Eastern Europe (and grew up under an oppressive regime as a kid), and I had this same discussion (about the US fingerprinting innocent people) with some of my friends way back in 2007. At the time I thought this was crazy, I still do.
My experience of Bootstrapd, an open-space conference for technical startups.
TL;DR: This thread contemplating "Diaspora* for Twitter"
Have you guys seen Aaron Swartz' jottit (http://www.jottit.com)?

Same idea - all it takes is a text area to produce a version controlled, markdown website.
I don't think the part about his quality of life is not important.

Lots of people have disabilities, only accounting for spina bifida which is physically less disabling that ALS, or muscle atrophy which leaves cognitive capacity intact, already puts them in the thousands. Someone needs to show them they can achieve many of what they dream about, because most of society only gives them pity and consent. We have Olympic Games for disabled people whose dreams are of being athletes, and we need people like Stephen Hawking to show disabled wannabe scientists and hackers (many of whom I believe read HN and ars) that they can also triumph in their geeky endeavours.
Yeah; that was my first thought when the OP wanted to obtain bitcoins anonymously. Of course, getting access to compute power is probably easier for me than for most people, but eh, even so, it seems like the easiest way to go.
Please do. My info is on my profile.
Example: Company sells 100 million of a product in the US + 10 million at lower price in poorer country (assume same number of units for simplicity). Total revenue: 110 million.

Somebody starts to buy in the poor country and re-sell in the US. US consumers are happy because they can now get the product for a tenth of the price. Sales in the US collapse to 10 million. Total revenue: 20 million

Company looks at the situation and reasons - if I raise the price in the poor country to the US price I can get back my lost revenue in the US, at the risk of losing my sales in the poor country. I'm going to do that. Sales in the poor country go to 0, sales in US back to normal. Total revenue: 100 million.

Governments look at this situation - hey, we would like consumers in the poor country to get access to the product too. How about we pass a law making it illegal to import products destined for a different market? Company - ok, great - starts selling product at lower price in poor country.

Who benefits from these laws?
1. US consumer - mostly neutral (pay similar price anyway)
2. Poor country consumer - positive (pay much less)
3. Company - positive (earn incremental revenue)

Now this is a highly stylised example and the actual situation is very complicated, as this is governed by a patchwork of different laws and treaties and industry lobbying. I also certainly don't mean to suggest that the situation is uniformly optimal.

However, this is the basic intuition behind these types of laws that you need to understand, otherwise I fear none of this will make any sense to you.
Wholesale bandwidth is probably cheaper in the US than anywhere else, but retail internet service certainly isn't. And neither is mobile internet access given the oligopoly of the big four cell phone companies.
no, not presumptious, I've been trying to figure out where to find a good bibliography of that space!

I'm actually right now figuring out if I can align the stars so I can just support myself while working on this tool chain project of mine, but we really should chat in more detail at some point! (lets one of us get around to emailing the other in the near future)
I just started reading the OpenCV book this week. Eerily apropos.

Suggestion for liuliu: list supported platforms in your Readme - it may save you some email. And it seems you're targeting Macs from all the Xcode comments.
To truck, barter and exchange? On the nature of Valve’s social economies
i'd advise the OP to pass in an array. and look into an API-inspired pattern which organizes code and above all, proper type-chcking and error handling.

for instance:

$result = App:api('/do/something', array(name=>'john', age=>10, etc));

class Do extends Api {
function something($params = array('name'=>'', age=>'')){
...
}
}
Oh, yes 5.4 is a bit improved, but how would I shorten it? I'd drop the quotes around 'name2' whenever it was a legal identifier, and I'd ditch the hideous => symbol.
I felt that discussing alternate business models was outside the scope of the post for 2 reasons: 1) I am an outsider, and no one understands what could or could not work better than the people working at Twitter. I am not sure what the pro-API camp inside of Twitter had in mind. 2) Debating which model would work better would derail the points I wanted to make in my post.

I do think there are several large cloud companies that have both their "native" UI and rich/powerful APIs. For instance Salesforce, which my company both pays for & extensively modifies and extends via their API. Given the attention this post has attracted I may write a followup post just on this topic.
Atlanta is a particularly bad airport for entering the US. I far prefer to do SFO, IAD, JFK, etc. By far my favorite is SEA, although IAD on flights from the middle east (where ~90% of the US Citizen passengers are government employees or contractors) are treated exceptionally well.

MIA, ATL, BWI are the worst.
Great library. Just watched the demo.
First-to-file doesn't nullify the idea of prior art. If your invention is published before first filing, it still counts as prior art for invalidating patents.
Coltons Consulting and Maintenance
You folks have it all wrong. If anything, more product import blocks need to happen so people will start realizing how busted patents are.
Xmarks Service is Down
Heads up. I just deleted all the bookmarks from one of my PC's. When I saw the error, I clicked the download link.

Downloading the current snapshot from the server usually
fixes this, but will cause you to lose any local changes
that have not been synchronized. Would you like to perform
a download?

I ended up creating some bookmark backup / restore scripts, ala http://www.digitalwindfire.com/posts/backup-and-restore-google-chrome-bookmarks/ to/from my dropbox, and used that to restore the bookmarks on the PC I had wiped bookmarks on using the download, from a PC that still had them.
Sensor noise can also be used to identify pictures taken with a specific camera:

http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3318/

If I were being truly paranoid, I'd use some steganography software to write random "data" across all the low-order bits of any images I _really_ didn't want traced back the the sensor in my camera/phone/videocamera...
The super intelligent life will live forever so distance/time might not be relavant to them as it is to us.

Also, it seems like at this stage of our intelligence we can communicate and find only intelligent life which is at similar stage (which is maybe span of 100K +/- 10K years). That is nothing.
If we're speaking strictly in regards to UI, then this is not a problem unique to Windows. I mean, would you not agree that Ubuntu's implementation of Unity changed the GUI a considerable amount compared to previous versions?
Could you add some contact details? I'd like to get in touch, although not directly freelance related.
Things Everyone Should Know How To Do
Alternatively to the dock / defaults changes, you can just press Command+Alt+H
I'm not sure if this is directed at tech-ish people or not, but maybe the word markdown should link to the daring fireball page or some such, something explaining what it is to people not in the know? Or maybe just saying you're a dead simple wiki and leave the markdown emphasis out, like Dropbox with its no-technical-verbiage thing.
Most developers still think language and framework is important. Mostly it isn't. Jeff just has a higher soapbox. Use Java, PHP, .NET, RoR, Python, it doesn't really matter.
That's 'June 2012':

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4053076

and I don't see any London startups on the list.