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NationBuilder - Full Time - Los Angeles (Downtown), CA

Ruby on Rails Engineer - http://dev.nationbuilder.com/jobs

(Ruby, Rails, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Backbone.js, TDD, H1B)

NationBuilder is looking for web developers to join our team building the world's first online Community Organising System in downtown LA.

We are committed to excellence in engineering - we practice TDD/BDD, pairing, continuous integration/deployment and Scrum-style agile development. One of our favourite things to do is delete code. We're weird like that.

We move fast. Any developer can commit and have their code in production in under 20 minutes, including the test suite running. No bureaucracy, no branch-merging with code reviews, no scheduled downtime. Build a feature and get it into thousands of people's hands in under an hour.

We have a fun, creative, open culture that encourages free expression and diversity. You won't find brogrammers here, just great people doing their best work.

We're well-funded (Andreessen-Horowitz, Sean Parker, Chris Hughes and others) and we're looking to change the world.

Just a year after beta, we're already shaking up politics, the non-profit/advocacy sector, and enabling filmmakers and musicians to liberate themselves from old models of marketing and distribution.

This journey is just beginning, and an exciting road lies ahead. If you're interested in joining us, we'd love to talk to you.

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It was definitely a pain to get it running in the previous version on OSX, but entirely worthwhile. It's a really nice system that can replace mathematica and matlab for a lot of the work I do. In case this helps, here are the instructions that I ended up following to get the previous version running on OSX (using homebrew as my main package manager):

brew install zeromq

brew install qt

(add the following to .bash_profile):

export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python:$PYTHONPATH

Download SIP 4.13 and PyQt4 from [1] and install with:

python configure.py

make

make install

Then do:

easy_install pygments

easy_install tornado

easy_install ipython[zmq,test]

easy_install --upgrade ipython

(from within ipython):

from IPython.external.mathjax import install_mathjax

install_mathjax()

[1] http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/sip/download
They might want to rewrite their intro then as it does not match the table. Also, tasers aren't exactly safe.
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I think the issue is that they're changing Google Shopping from a search engine to be only paid listings. They were okay with listing weapons before because they didn't make any money off them, but now all listings will be paid. They don't want to earn money from weapon listings.

eBay has the same policy. I don't agree with the policy personally but I certainly have no problem with a private company doing things like this.
When you talk about self-defense, even here in India one is allowed to own a gun if he gets a license. It's not impossible to own a gun here, it is just more regulated. That way not every Tom, Dick and Harry can own a gun.

Criminals can get hands on weapons in one or the other way. But giving every one a gun because they have to defend themselves from some criminals is not a good solution. It's better to work towards a better Law and order system.

And, don't make statements like 'You are wrong'. These are issues our and your forefathers have been trying to solve, there is still no absolute right/wrong yet.
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In the end, it's Google's product and they should run the service as they wish.

However, this and the previously announced change of charging for placing listings in the service leaves a really bad taste in my mouth. In the end, I'll just end up using one of many alternatives.

This is also on the extreme end of hypocrisy. Google frequency complains about the censorship it faces around the world and then turns around, and censors results when it doesn't have to here in the US.

A part of fighting censorship is tolerating content you may not like. In fact, that's what being part of a tolerant society is. Putting up with shit you don't agree with.
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Where are you? Is it somewhere you are not really needed?

Is there opportunity to develop your job description to take on needed roles that are not filled?

If the answer is no, then maybe you should consider moving on.
1. That sounds like very subjective reasoning. Imagine someone saying "the government should not decide how much to tax me, I should."

2. Citation?
I'm so jealous.

I pay $50 a month for the privilege of and 8mb down/ .5mb up connection.
> Windows lacks fork(), or at least it's not documented.

The NT kernel supports forking, but the Win32 subsystem does not. Because Interix lives outside the Win32 subsystem, it can provide a proper fork() implementation, whereas Cygwin has to live with its somewhat brittle emulation.
My general advice for entrepreneurs (although I am sure most of them know already) would be to not read books too close to the subject you want to know about. Instead you should read books about subjects around the field of entrepreneurship. (accounting or financing as an example)

If I where to give one recommendation it would be Clayton Christensens "The Innovators Dilemma"

That book isn't specific to entrepreneurs but to business in general. It is however the one book that will give you an understanding of the game you are in.

As en entrepreneur you are trying to find the holes in the cheese or create your own. Not to eat it.
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Some work in Python:

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We build a cloud based log management system, dealing with massive amounts of customer data in a highly scalable, distributed, elastic architecture.

Our app is almost fully JVM-based, mostly written in Scala. The frontend uses Backbone.js and JQuery.

Open positions include data science, platform/backend and cloud infrastructure. Check out the full details:

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The criminals in, for instance, the UK aren't really getting them anyway. At least not to the extent that someone in the US could obtain a gun illegally. The reason that criminals in the US would be able to get them tomorrow if guns were outlawed today is because there are so many guns. And there are so many guns because production and sale has been legal and easy for so long. So while it's true that the short-term result of outlawing guns means that only criminals can get them (which is kind of a tautology), eventually, the ability to illegally acquire a firearm would get much more difficult, like it is in, for instance, the UK.

That said, I do not support all firearms being outlawed. I think they should be heavily regulated and some should be entirely illegal, but mainly I'm disagreeing with the argument that I tend to hear so often.
People have access to many types of lethal weapons. To me it seems silly to try and regulate everything, so why even start with guns?
Correct me If I am wrong, I understand this is a highly polarized issue in US and it's election time too.

You are correct that this is a very polarizing issue.
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Or possibly it will put some sense into Samsung to stop infringing on patents...
A knife is easily concealed, letting you walk right up to somebody late at night and pull it out before the victim can run. A sword not so much.
It's great to have fun, but I find I like to have goals that allow me to focus on what is necessary, and try and de-emphasize those things that are not really necessary.

My current goals include code that will hopefully contribute substantially to the ease with which I can do my job, and to the happiness of our customers.

This is achievable, and a great way to maintain focus.
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It's also common sense to see that allowing nearly everybody to purchase guns will result in reduced violence, because the potential immediate penalty for violence is higher.

It's up to you which you believe, and after making your decision I suggest you use google to find further justification for it.
> but 5 years later western governments will follow this way

I don't want to minimize the assault on our privacy and anonymity from all directions, but the one positive trend in the US and Canada has been toward less ID or no ID for using Internet cafes.

I remember the early days of Internet cafes in North America, and they very often wanted to see ID.

These days there are lots of public wifi hotspots, where at most they ask for an email address (a throwaway email address works fine). The purpose of collecting an email address appears to be CYA -- they get some assurance that you've agreed to their Terms and Conditions.
I'm upset by what I see as a sense of entitlement by gun owners who think that every retail outlet should be selling guns. Many gun buffs won't shop at Target because that store won't sell guns. Now they are complaining about Google. It's not like Google is the only way to shop online. Heck, it's not even the BEST way to shop online. Get over it and shop somewhere else.
Uhm, statistics don't really show that. North Dakota is one of the most gun heavy per population states in the union. 2008 had 4 murders, all of which didn't use a gun(1).

I would say your "gun not a defense" argument is also wrong as home invasions tend to be one area to research to show counter examples.

1) http://www.ag.state.nd.us/reports/bcireports/crimehomicide/M...
I do realise that expecting the world to be improved for the general public is unrealistic, and the vast majority effectively don't support it. Should I just shut up then?
There's a great deal of fairly unskilled work available on oDesk - copy editing, transcription, basic web design and so on. Odesk have their own system of skills tests, so you can assess your own abilities and demonstrate them to prospective employers.

Pay is generally quite low because of the competition from workers in low-income countries, but if you make the effort to develop good relationships with clients and earn good feedback you could easily make several hundred dollars a month in your spare time.
Neo (www.MyNeoLoan.com) - Palo Alto, CA - Full Time - Ruby on Rails Developer

Neo provides affordable car loans to consumers new to credit, such as youth and recent immigrants, by assessing their credit risk based on real-time financial and social data as these individuals have not yet built up a credit score. (Yes, it is about time somebody tried this, and we have the chops to do so)

We are a team of three, with high profile advisors. We have seed funding from a top VC. Our beta product is ready. We are gearing up to launch our pilot loan program in coming days.

We are looking for a serious hacker to join our core team and help us execute our pilot loan program. This is an opportunity to get involved in a cutting edge consumer risk analytics project that aims to disrupt the US credit system. Plus, consumers are our customers, so the project also involves working on all the cool tools consumers expect these days (web, mobile, social, etc). As a very early member of our team, you will have direct input into many of the decisions that will affect the future of our company

Drop me a note at navin@MyNeoLoan.com if you are interested.
Except that it doesn't work when you increase the zoom level on Firefox on mac.
Meh, discussing subjectivity and semantics is boring. Nowadays most swords are designed as cosmetic decoration, not "designed for serious harm and injury". You could interpret it either way, it's just semantics. Same for tasers. Anyway, boring.
> But I've read that this is a major cause for higher homicidal rate in the US.

Explain what "cause" means. It's not like a gun can walk around and start popping people. I would say people are the "cause" for homicide, and we have many instruments at our disposal to use. What if violent movies and television caused violence? Should we ban television and movies?

> allowing nearly everyone to purchase Guns is counter-productive and will only result in more violence.

What if I told you it took violence to take people's guns away and prevent them from having them? Then would you support banning guns? At that point you would be in favor of using violence to prevent self-defense.
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> But giving every one a gun because they have to defend themselves from some criminals is not a good solution.

Actually, it's an excellent one. It creates a disincentive to committing crimes. If there's a higher chance of getting your head blown off while robbing someone, you're less likely to rob someone. It's that simple.

In fact, that's how things have worked for thousands of years up until guns show up. Who ever heard of sword control? For some reason, governments all around the world are now busy trying to restrict your property rights. A truly sad state of affairs.
Nails have basic utility as they can be used to build homes, structures, bridges, etc.

Now take working at a teenager magazine, something like Seventeen. Really, you are producing a level of writing and entertainment that 14-19yo girls will read, probably paid for by their parents. Most of it will probably be idle thoughts and advice borderlining on turning girls into sluts who buy too much make-up. Really, your job is to provide a way to hide advertisements.

Not very valuable if you take a step back and look at all of humanity.
Another possibility would be to get one of the little computers that plug into USB or power socket and can do wifi, sneak one into a cafe or somewhere else with open wifi, and run TOR hidden service on that. It will get found and destroyed in time, but for some time, it might work. Or maybe solar powered Rpi that you put on someone's roof?

I'm not sure how well TOR hidden service would work behind a NAT though.

EDIT: another way would be to go to the dark side, and get your own botnet.
This is the sort of library that, once done, shouldn't need touching again. If it's already Python 3 compatible it may not need touching again for many years. (Assuming it's done. I have no direct experience.)
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If you want to carry a gun in the US, you need to go through a background check and there is often a training requirement as well (regulations vary by state, with AK and VT requiring no permit to carry a concealed handgun).

One problem with "regulations" is that they become very restrictive and then only the elite are able to obtain them. NYC is a great example. If you have a lot of money or sway with the mayor's office, no problem, here is your CCW. If you're just a regular joe? Sorry, not gonna happen.
Self-imposed busy-ness? Yep.

Great articles like this are the reason I pay up for the NYT.

I was a little embarrassed how the article reflected much of my own life style. I am visiting my parents and I was talking with my Dad earlier this morning about my working more than I need to and my desire to cut back even more from consulting to have extra time for my writing and outdoor activities. I also realized that I brag about being "busy" - in an odd way wearing busy-ness as a badge of honor.
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I don't think Apple should pay. And I question whether anyone else should, either.

These "standards-essential" patents are under RAND terms because to do otherwise devalues the patent and provides incentive for the standard to "work around" the patent. If Motorola wants revenue from that patent, they must license it under RAND terms.

But now that there is significant investment in the infrastructure that uses these standards, what right does anyone have in threatening anyone else over their use of this patented technology? Judge Posner, presiding over Apple v. Motorola, which he has dismissed with prejudice, seems to feel the same way: That since Motorola has licensed their standards-essential patent under FRAND terms, they essentially lose their right to demand an injunction against Apple. (At least, that's my reading of his decision.) I.e., they are to negotiate reasonable terms or get no royalties at all.

The question in my mind is at what point these patents should be expired early due to their status as standards-essential; for without them, the standard must be redesigned, and with them, every participant must pay royalties to one incumbent. At no point is this fair, reasonable, or non-discriminatory.

Personally, I don't see the point of this run-around: These patents are not a reward for invention; they're cudgels with which to steal your competitor's lunch money. They should be invalidated or expired for that reason alone.
That's because it's effectively zooming a fixed size image, so you see the same effect as you would if you were zooming an img.

If it's possible to detect the zoom level and rerender, it should be possible to work around this.
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Patent system is broken.If you look at those patents on which this decision was based , you will realize how bad and bucolic the whole patent game is.
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Specialized in making Ember.js and SproutCore webapps.

More info on HN profile.

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too bad you didn't use "grappa" that is a perfect fit for a flask :)
You're overgeneralizing. Let me overgeneralize in the same vein then, "Camping beats offense". In my house, in a home invasion, I'm a camper. I'd rather camp with a gun than a knife.
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Yes - my response is to the suggestion that casting between pointers to functions of different signature is undefined. I took this to be a suggestion that the part of the approach that involves having a general-purpose function that can accept a pointer to any kind of function, and reliably use that pointer (after it's been casted, if necessary) to get a pointer to the function in question, is fundamentally non-portable.

I remain unconvinced that this is a serious issue, all things considered. The odd feeling that there could be other roadblocks to a fully portable implementation still remains. Nevertheless, it appears that this particular part could actually be done portably.
There's a comment in the article that also recommends Tower. I've personally been looking for a Tortoise replacement. What makes Tower so good?
The biggest problem is the absence of actual risk reporting in our society. For instance, if you are only concerned about your child's safety and your child has two friends: A has a swimming pool, B's parents' own a gun; which house is safer for your child to play at? The answer is B by a wide margin(1).

Looking at the link I posted before, does the news you see on TV match the risks? Does the funding? We get influenced by the emotional and don't do risks very well.

1) "Pools more dangerous than guns." Chicago Sun-Times on July 28, 2001
Good place to work, if being a maintenance programmer for a monopoly with a massive enterprise-quality codebase is your thing. It's _very_ different from working at a start-up, but probably one of the better places to work in the finance world.
> I dare you to find one word on that site that encourages anything unethical, unsafe, or illegal.

Oh c'mon. Let's not get there. As someone in the gun community you should be more than aware that "ethics" are extremely subjective to one's opinion. There's no global truth for ethics. Respect other's opinion's and you won't be shocked if there's a good reason for this. The good reason is: some people don't actually agree with you.
While the rate of crimes committed with a gun may be lower in the UK, violent crime as a whole is much higher. Five times higher than my home of NYC. You can easily attribute this to a lack of guns. If there's less of a chance being shot, you have a higher incentive to commit crime.

http://wheelgun.blogspot.com/2007/01/crime-in-uk-versus-crim...
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For the curious, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campari

You'd need to put a generous amount of soda water in that flask.
The problem is that it is a site for Hackers, so they have to understand their target market is going to be way more critical than the average user. Welcome to developer marketing
I believe you need 2 karma to post links (to avoid bots probably). I've upvoted your comment so I think you'll be able to post links now.
Setting aside your confirmation bias, I'll point out that Google haven't themselves brought these patent cases to the ITC in the same number or with the same force as have Apple, Microsoft, or anyone else. Google has filed fewer cases with a smaller patent portfolio.
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Hey I am a front end web dev working on a startup of my own so I am looking for quick projects to do like PSD to HTML/CSS or WordPress nothing big and heavy.

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p.s I am learning RoR so if you need your designs implemented and have patience I can get it done.
Font Awesome looks decent across browsers.

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You know what? I've lived 20+ years without goals or expectations, and actually made a great career while doing it. It was a great time.

And yet, recently, I'm compelled to set myself goals, to live up to expectations, because only ambling around gets old after a while. I suggest that as always in life, the golden path is somewhere in the middle.
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