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Uken Games is looking for talented developers to help us build mobile games in JavaScript+Rails. We are also looking for web engineers / devops with a passion for performance and scaling.

We are a profitable startup (~35 employees) experiencing massive growth, with hundreds of thousands of players a day across iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry and Facebook.

More info at http://uken.com/jobs
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That is a far-cry from the behavior this article (and the Forbes one) is cautioning against. You sound like you didn't burn bridges and you provided your critiques in a professional manner.

That's different than using the exit interview as the opportunity to let out all your frustrations and to "get back" at the company.
In this precise case, the alternative would be:

http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil)

the uncaught exception would kill the task because, really, what is your http server going to do aside from exit if it can't serve?

Not sure why you added a bunch of lines which end up doing the exact opposite of what the original code does.
Armadillo's reusable rocket licensed for launch
Maybe he can add an umlaut to it somewhere.
Some bridges just need to be burned.
How well would this work for people who wear glasses? I'm assuming I would have to wear contacts to use the devkit version at least.
Yes, map, reduce and filter feel much more natural to me than explicit loops for their respective use cases. Let's try writing an example in English:

Give me the items from the collection foo for which the function bar returns true.

Create an empty collection baz and a counter i with a value of 0. Until i reaches the length of the collection foo, do the following, then increment i and repeat: call the function bar with the element of foo at position i. If bar returns true, append the element to baz. After the loop is complete, return baz.

The for loop is pretty awkward just to express in English, while the filter is straightforward enough that most non-programmers would have a pretty solid understanding of what they'll get.
This is actually quite a projection on your end. Saying "God" != "something is just what it is, and we can't really say why." It is typically, from an investigatory and cultural-historical standpoint, a curiosity-stopper, not an explanation (or even a signifier of an explanation). It is equivalent to stating "magic" (ignoring for just this moment the generational and historical bit offered as explanation for the term's usage).

Including references to "God" in an attempted explanation of quantum mechanics is not "easily understandable". Moreover, it's rootedness in culture brings with it myriad histories that impact the way a reader understands what a writer intends. Explaining quantum mechanics by anthropomorphising a God-construct who "chose" to make something one way versus some other way is distracting to readers who do not inject God-construct into their own explanations specifically to avoid making understanding more difficult on the reader.

I can accept that this is a practice from the author's field and generation and still find it distracting and unhelpful without that equating to me being "that much biased." God does not elicit a mentally neutral concept that compresses "a pack of thoughts and emotions in just a few words" when discussing quantum mechanics. It would still be better for the author to not use "God", insofar as it eliminates mysterious language from his explanation, thus reducing the overhead of his reader needing to substitute a non-loaded term (especially when dealing with the sciences, where injecting the term "God" has a history rooted in Western culture of not being too helpful and enlightening).

I can accept it being a practice among the community. That, however, does not imply it is an easily understood, necessary, or sufficient shorthand.
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Who we're looking for

We're looking for an experienced backend architect/engineer to drive and create our initial product, and to grow with the company to take on leadership positions. A passion for solving hard problems and building beautiful products is a must. You'll be engineer #4 at Peek and have the opportunity to own large parts of the system going forward.

Peek's distributed web services backend is powered by Ruby on Rails and MongoDB, hosted on Heroku, while our UI is made awesome by Backbone.js, Sass, CoffeeScript and beautiful, responsive visual design.

What else?

We'll set you up with a shiny new Mac and a big monitor, steps away from a fridge/kitchen that can satisfy any craving. We do weekly team picnics (or Peekniques, if you will) but also love cooking in the office when not discovering new places to eat. We're a diverse, travel-loving bunch and our beautiful sun-lit office is centrally located on Montgomery MUNI/bart.

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consumers are entitled to form views of the company based on their actions.

And arguably not just entitled to form views, but morally obligated to do so. In a mostly unregulated industry (like classified ads), the court of public opinion is one of the more powerful checks civil society can deploy to police corporations.

Boycotts, bad press, strikes, activism, and the like can all change corporate behavior to some extent. For most people, these tools are the only way to influence corporations. Most people don't have the money to lobby Congress. "Voting with your dollars" doesn't really work with monopolies, or quasi-monopolies. And founding competing startups is a fantasy even for most entrepreneurially-minded hackers, let alone regular folk with families, mortgages, and no programming skill.

If we say these methods shouldn't ever be used, we're basically saying only laws can regulate corporate behavior. That sounds like a recipe for more and worse laws, more lobbying, and worse corporate behavior.
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I am looking for web scraping projects, or other mini-projects in the areas of machine learning, databases or AI related, general hacking or Perl scripting, and website building/testing. I have expertise in Perl, Matlab, C and R, have basic knowledge of Ruby on Rails, Python and iOS.

Email: dmn001 {at} gmail.com
I wouldn't normally bring this up, but this is the top comment and you say it six times: it's Palmer, not Peter.
Don't believe everything Glenn Beck tells you.
Why should they spend money and time because you are whining their interface is ugly and hasn't changed? I can apply this argument to 50% of the websites I visit every day. I'll start: eBay.
This is flatly not true. The Affordable Care Act includes provisions to encourage - not compel - doctors to use electronic medical records; I really don't think this is such a ridiculous thing, and as someone who's work on medical data before I really think it's becoming more and more necessary to keep costs down. Here's a citation from someone who is concerned about security but who explains correctly that the Affordable Care Act in no way forces anyone to hand over medical records to "the government" :

http://claireshealthlawblog.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/electro...
That's the difference between a product that is built as a castle and building an product that supports an ecosystem. These are design and business choices for the product. The interoperability of a device is not a separate consideration from it's design and construction, and in the same way, the accessibility methods available for a web service is not just a pure business decision, but is also a fundamental element of the products design. There is also no rule to say that ideas of fairness cannot be included as part of a product specification.
The crux of this is a simple question: if the company is really interested in honest, constructive, confidential, consequence-free criticism, why only ask the ex-employees?

Companies that really do value honest, constructive, confidential, consequence-free criticism (the best kind in some cases) will value that feedback most from their current employees. But, in doing so, eliminate the need for the soon ex-employees to feel the need to dump reality on management.
That's not entirely true, there are hundreds of millions, if not billions, of people who use the Web only through a phone, usually a featurephone, and mobile phone Javascript is broken or nonexistent on many of these platforms. These are lower-revenue users, for sure, but there are a LOT of them.
Note that this hasn't changed in a long time. Meaning: they'll never get to release them in bulk.

"If a username you would like is being used by an account that seems inactive, you should consider selecting an available variation for your use on Twitter. In general, adding numbers, underscores, or abbreviations can help you come up with a great available username.﻿"

Every time I read this page, (I checked it a few times because @timothee is taken but has never been used) I'm amused by the "if blah blah…, we offer no solution. But here's a 'solution' that we'll tell you is even better even though it's clearly not."
They do and I started with Qbasic. Actually I find them more natural and find for-loops to be cumbersome. Fold took the longest.

I think how well things stick is a function of how much you think the effort of learning it is worth and how much time you spend on it. Regular Expressions never stuck for me either, I keep having to relearn it. If you are not intent on picking up a new paradigm or are not addicted to being constantly confused (me) then you rarely escape that valley.
Notch: Windows 8 could be "very, very bad for indie developers"
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Ad Hominem attack follows:

It is amusing to hear someone say "It’s kind of nice to see a site without tweet this, share this, connect to facebook, etc all over the place." when that same person has LinksAlpha, Google+, Twitter, and Facebook links above and below every post.
Wow, that's not what danilocampos said at all. Your old workplace was f'ed up! Totally agreed! However, the bad experience you had is off-topic relative to the article we're discussing.

You had a rough time, and stereotype threat is a real thing and a real problem that we should fix. Those two things aren't mutually exclusive! The fact that your old job was f'ed up doesn't say anything about the problem being discussed in the linked article.
Sorry to go off topic.

Is there any particular reason you sign each comment with your name? I've started noticing this trend recently and I can't wrap my head around why its done.
In my humble opinion, the design work is incredible. Not at all busy—clean, professional looking and well made.
This happens with every popular service that doesn't release names. AOL used to release names every once in awhile, but it was few and far in between and when they did, they'd be all registered within a few days (because they had a tendency to release good names). I ended up compromising a lot of names in the late 90s on AOL to end up selling them for hundreds of dollars.

My parents always wondered how I ended up making so much money by selling "screen names".
Kaggle - San Francisco

We're looking for:
* Developers

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We're currently a team of 17, and we're looking for the outstanding developers.

More information at http://www.kaggle.com/careers
After enough frustration getting my preferred usernames—both my normal pseudonym, and variations on my initials in real-name situations—a few years ago I just settled on adding an underscore to the front of my preferred pseudonym. I sort of like how it looks, and haven't had username problems since... except at sites that don't let you start a username with an underscore.

It'd admittedly be confusing if there were an active 'delirium' and also an active '_delirium', but so far my doppelgangers hve all been inactive accounts (example: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=delirium).
> Or you could phrase without all the academically correct technical buzzwords, so normal people who are your real audience will understand what you're trying to communicate.

Normal people who are my real audience probably don't even know how to disable javascript, and most likely would enable it with no fuss if something looked broken.
My work blocks the .xxx domain as well -- wish I'd looked at the domain before I clicked the link. What do you actually gain from the .xxx? Seems like it's just getting in the way of the discussion here.
Again, thanks for drawing out the shorthand. I personally prefer reading the "is there a classification/uniqueness theorem that says..." over "why did God choose to...". It requires zero cycles to process the intent of the first version, while the second makes me stop each time and wonder which one the author means.
Facebook Bots Are Not Stealing Your Ad Spend
San Francisco, CA, Full Time

CakeHealth

Software Engineer

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We've raised money from some of the top angels and funds in Silicon Valley, and have been featured on the Today Show, in Forbes, Wired, TechCrunch, and the Wall Street Journal, to name a few.

We have a big vision for where Cake Health can go from here, which is why we're looking to build our team. You will be a critical team member that will have significant responsibility. You are bright, hard-working and resourceful, and most importantly, you are excited by the challenges and opportunity for an early-stage startup to change the world.

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Much as it would be less hypocritical of CL to share, which would seem to align with their publicly stated values, they won't.

The key is to disrupt innovatively. CL's structure sets a high bar, but not an impossible one. PM is one of the first alternatives that looks plausible in a major portion of CL's space (though there are also some job boards that seem pretty viable, several of which also re-list CL postings).

Edit: By DeMenthon's own comments, CL offered a data-sharing agreement for $5000 + 10% of revenues. Really, that's reasonable on CL's part.

http://go.bloomberg.com/tech-blog/2012-07-25-craigslist-goes...
Replace Cable TV with an iPad
Because you can't write pac-man using it.
http://prog21.dadgum.com/23.html
Do you know of any companies that do?
New iPhone to include MagSafe-style dock connector with just 8 pins
Cool idea. Will be interesting to see what companies like Craigslist can/will do about this stuff. It's not like Craigslist is ideologically opposed to maps, they just didn't want them to be hosted on a competing site.

So I imagine they might not mind this at all..
That was a very nicely written article - thanks! I don't know Go (well, I am good playing the game, but I don't yet use the programming language :-) and I especially liked the way the MongoDB client code worked.
Two, billion-dollar UI mistakes in Windows 8
Because OEMs aren't going to want to sell devices that are awkward to use with Windows 8, and this gives them a good ability to differentiate and incentivize upgrades from Win7 / Vista machines. Why do you think Microsoft announced Surface when they did?

Expect more laptops and notebooks to ship with touch screens.
This seems like a fine point, and I wonder if it's actually true. Has there really been any case of a person being sued or threatened by Craigslist for cross-posting their ad - that is, posting their ad on Craigslist and also somewhere else? Keep in mind we're far afield here of what happened with PadMapper, which didn't have anything to do with anyone cross-posting their own ads.
That it does, but my argument is that that what the author experienced isn't stereotype threat. The effects of stereotype threat are (supposedly) manifested in a decrease in performance. Feeling excluded or thinking (in this case unjustifiably) that you're not wanted isn't due to stereotype threat. If the author was failing her courses or was under performing at work that would (potentially) be a result of stereotype threat. I see no evidence either occurred, she was getting As in her classes and from what I gather was able to get and keep jobs in the software industry. She's just seems unable to cope with being the only woman in the room .
This story reminded me about this handle.

I've historically used 'echelon' everywhere since 2001. It's my Gmail address, my Github account, and while I don't tweet much, it's also my Twitter handle.

I was so disappointed when 'echelon' was already allocated on Reddit and HN. It took me years to sign up for either site because I was put off by having to use an alternate username. Ultimately I registered here as 'possibilistic'.

Just under a year ago I randomly tried to register as echelon again; I suppose pg deallocated all of the unused accounts of a certain age--I got my originally desired username. My problem now is that all of my posts are under 'possibilistic'. As much as I'd like to be 'echelon', I like my comment history too. :-/

I wonder if I could bother someone at HN to rename 'possibilistic' to 'echelon' and just delete this account entirely? It's probably not worth their effort, but it would be really nice.
Very good remark, just have nothing to add more.
unfortunately about 80% of the Light Table bit is wrong :(
Their industrial design is top-notch, but their CPUs/GPUs are commodity elements strung together in very standard ways.
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I think we clearly need to amend the 2nd amendment. The text says the government can't stop the guy down the block from having nukes, and that is obviously inappropriate.
I don't conflate the two at all.

Padmapper scraping data put up on CraigsList and adding it to their own listings is very very different than me putting my own listing on multiple sites.

I don't see this as a "application of principles" issue. The principle I'm consistently applying is "I have the right to tell whomever I want about something I want to sell." And Craigslist is applying the consistent principle that the listing I provided belongs to them. If you ask me, putting my listing somewhere else makes it a different listing, because it didn't originate at craigslist (Like stolen listings on PadMapper), but instead, originated through me.

To apply my principle consistently, I wouldn't post a link to my Craigslist posting on another site, but I am perfectly entitled to re-post its content where-ever I please.
TweetWorld for iOS: A Twitter client that looks like as an old video game
I would be interested to hear if Jobs blamed himself for anything.
At this point, it seems as though journalism made an extraordinarily dire mistake in relying principally on revenue streams that are entirely distinct from their central business. Shouldn't journalism rather have sought to monetize the thing it does best - journalism? If it had, maybe it wouldn't be in this mess right now.
WePay (YC S09) Discovers Its Hidden Talent: Social Risk Evaluation
Sometimes you can correct the ignorance, sometime you best ignore it.

But in the end even Starfleet had Section 35. The world is dirty and sometimes it is better to play dirty than to lose.

I am not sure if this is one of those times though.
So, working on any open-source component that military will use accounts to killing?
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This policy is new, so there can't be examples of Craigslist using it against users. They probably will never use it against users. However, I don't enter contracts I don't plan to abide by. No one should.
Why not?

edit: if you're going to downvote, you could at the very minimum explain how I didn't contribute?
If there is a demand for guns, manufacturers will make them, they aren't very hard to produce.

The iPad analogy doesn't work because there isn't much a of a demand in poorer countries for iPads. There is a huge demand in these countries for guns, which again, aren't very hard to make.

Look at the kind of guns found in the third world (that could find there way into your country). When is the last time you saw a warlord running around with an M-16. They all have AK-47s for a reason, they are cheap. The AK-47s you still see running around weren't manufactured for the American market they were manufactured for war and no American gun control measures will help.

If America banned guns, at best you might see a reduction in expensive American market guns, but again those aren't the guns used in poorer countries--they would still be made.

>I guess a lot of people (me included) would sleep better in a world that had less guns.

Guns are what enabled the radical equality of the modern age? The reason that we don't have a dominant warrior class controlling everything.

A gun allows a 110 pound woman to stand up to a 200 pound man, a poorly trained peasant to stand up to a feudal knight, an old man to a young one.

Without guns modern society wouldn't have been possible. If you could magically wish away all the guns, how long do you think it would take for our society to stratify around a martial class again?
I like this. It's interesting that a viable solution to the Craigslist third party problem is to just make everybody scrape Craigslist. From a purely technical standpoint, that seems rather unfortunate, but I'd rather have a local scraper + Padmapper UI than have no Padmapper at all.
The subset of iOS users who would consider an instance of iOS hardware to be "a computing device" is quite small, particularly given the app store policies which discourage apps which allow iOS devices to be used for general purpose computing.

And in any event, the App Store contains products of similar functionality, e.g. live wallpaper.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/live-wallpapers-pro/id4994091...
Google Wallet now cloud-based, accepts all major credit cards
Goodbye, IQ Tests: Brain Imaging Can Reveal Intelligence Levels