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Skype is hiring. OK, it's MS, but we are still very independent, take lots of risks, and are building mission critical high performance distributed systems. We are running services at approx 500k tps distributed world wide to support the brilliant concept that is Skype. The tech stack is nosqlish (azure table store), C# services (F# permitted, we ported stuff from C++ and Erlang to move to Azure). The location is Palo Alto, CA, US.

We need someone who loves to own production systems from conception to support. If you can get things done, contact me at f00biebletch at gmail dot com.
Good grief. Is everything you've ever made absolutely perfect? You build something beautiful and then you can dogpile on a grammar mistake.
How does a computer distinguish an irrational number from a good, (necessarily rational) floating-point approximation of one?
Yeah, sorry - 'just' is a relative term :) Didn't mean to belittle the act, it's still a big and interesting project.
Ah, yes, I loved the Diamond Age also. Actually, I think I've read almost everything by Neal Stephenson.
Craigslist anyone?
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Why? 100mbit will do HD content even from a Bluray M2TS file.
Couldn't someone just make this into a Chrome Extension? I'd be happy with that.
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Right. Well... except for that little bit where it is an interesting data point in how official backlash against amateur photography and journalism is reaching the formerly safe "credentialed pro" folks. You know, the thing where the cops nation-wide, and honestly world-wide are starting to attack everyone reporting on them using easy access tech like phones, because it upsets the former balance where only they had those powers.

Has nothing to do with those of us making that tech at all. You're right.
Checkout Electrodynamic Tethers for an interesting magnetic propulsion system in planetary orbit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrodynamic_tether
From my understanding, it is against the law to disobey a lawful order. I have been told that the way out is to ask explicitly 'Is that an order?', as you can not be charged due to following a lawful order. Maybe someone can confirm this, as at best, I have hearsay.

Either way, 'you can beat the rap but not the ride'.
The petition on that site is by change.org if you choose to fill it out prepare to recieve lots of junk mail.
About a week ago I came to know Bresenham's Algorithm is also important in mobile robotics.

Basically, you model your map using a grid, after firing a sensor such as a LIDAR or sonar and finding something blocks its cone of sight you use Bresenham's to see what cells in your map the new reading provides information about. (i.e. something bouncing 2 meters from where your robot is not only tells you about a block at 2 meters but also about no block in that trajectory, all those cells you now suppose are free and the one you suppose is not are the result of Bressenham's Algorithm)
Oh, no! You're feeding the bias! ;-)
"Had," unfortunately--it got DMCA'd a while ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
What sucks is this would never happen in the US. The reason being that most of the earmarks and so forth are added to bills after they're passed. And not only that, they're added as images in tiny fonts so that they can't even be scanned in.

God bless America.
Apple is introducing auto-layout in iOS 6, which will make it relatively easy to design apps which scale to different resolutions. There were at least 3 talks on auto-layout at WWDC 2012.
You are literally the first person to get my username.

The underlying joke is that those who have met me realize that I am in no way a zen monk. I am more of an anti-Buddhist, seeking to achieve a state of complete Worry.
Using aircrack-ng to get onto a wifi network looks surprisingly like you'd expect from a movie: http://www.aircrack-ng.org/screenshots/aircrack-ng.gif (pretend those digits are constantly updating)
For the past 5 years at least, all young people are computer people. Only some are geeks, but they are all immersed in computerized communications every day.
Isn't US law not public-domain anyway? Or at least on a state by state basis? I remember a copyright issue concerning someone reprinting some of Oregon's laws.
No h1srf I don't know anything about merrill shorting it, I was responding to wkasel's assertion in the second post of this thread that they did so. I have done no research regarding shorting on fb in this period.

However Morgans would have made a double killing in the post-ipo period having oversold the allocation and now being able to fill those orders cheaply on the secondary market (assuming they didn't issue new stock to fill the orders)
Craigslist is a danger to the free internet? I've browsed my way into the twilight zone...
The article is about a guy who got the shit beaten out of him for trying to assert his constitutional rights ...
I love the mental image of a whole highway full of cars slamming on their brakes to let a leaf blow by.
Love it. Here's another great demonstration of CSS3's potential for abuse: http://davisparker.com/OHGOD/index.html
Right now the most popular archive.org torrent is a collection of My Little Pony porn from /r/clopclop.
Surely Microsoft know that most enterprises have just gotten to Windows 7 and are likely to be stuck there for some time? I hope that, despite the hype, Windows 8 is the start of the evolution of this "new windows" towards the enterprise, rather than being seen as ready for it now.

The hype about Windows 8/enterprise now is hopefully just the company line when really the consumer side is who its initially trying to evolve for.
As far as converting goes I would say the following:

1.) Your headline gets my attention (That is if I am in the market for a fundraising solution)
2.) The copy below the headline does a fairly good job of gaining my interest is just what it is you do. Maybe a little less wordy, a couple main features listed here would be good.
3.) The big problem I see with the copy is that it doesn't do much to create desire. You caught my attention, got me interested in what you have, but now I'd like to be led down the I WANT THIS, I NEED THIS path. I think some of the suggestions on here would help, outlining the big benefits to me, maybe show some proof.

If you can figure out how to get your ideal customer to really desire what you offer it should be pretty easy to get them to click that 'Start Raising...' button.

There is a lot going on that distracted me from clicking on the 'Start Raising...' button. I see you button, but I also see this video looking thing to the right, I see a calculator that looks interesting, there is a countdown in the corner that is drawing my eye away from your CTA, there's scrolling pictures in the bottom corner drawing my eye away, etc.

Hope this helps!
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You have to be creative - giraffes are tall, eagles have wide wingspans. I can only assume future iPhones gather nuts for winter hibernation.
I agree, the majority of commenters have chosen to just rip apart this strong effort at doing something even if it isn't perfect. I've found that a good portion of the wikipedia "community" to be terribly provincial and cliquish. They're like the homeowners associations of the web, they have "their" way of doing it and get almost irritatingly passionate over trivial nonsense (should it be "behavior or behaviour")

There's a billion articles about Linux distros, yet an article about a famous wedding dress gets cut? Yet, on the other hand, many of these same commenters nail Craigslist for their lack of design and defend Wikipedia for it's lack of design.

It seems like nobody is ever happy with anything. If you think Wikipedia is perfect, you're delusional -- no site is perfect. So rather than constant critism, put your money where your mouth is and build your own mock up. Show us how you think it should be rather than continually knocking everyone else.

Sometimes I feel like HN is populated by grumpy old men who haven't had their Metamucil.
How are the files secured?
You didn't really read the article about what happened did you? It didn't really come down to the email address especially since part of it was concealed. This came down to both companies letting you do things over the phone with minimal personal information.
Hmm, it's still working here. Not only that, but it appears that Apple is RickRolling developers: http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-apple-ri...

A 4chan meme making its way into Apple goes to show how influential that site can be.
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Thanks to you (and your terminal output), I'm now in the middle of reading "Street-Fighting Mathematics". :)

http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/full_pdfs/Street-Fighting_Math...
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For the dev team, Octopress may work well.
Thank you so much for your great advice. You are the epitome of the guy that I want to help, because I understand you're busy building amazing products and don't have time to think about clothes. I will definitely take your advice and write posts regarding each one, so keep a look out! And for the record, I think those guys on The Urban Gentleman look awful. Please don't leave the house in that. ;)
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I really think the role of history here is important- there is nothing new or especially important about the current burst of innovation, or as Joseph Shumpeter termed it, creative destruction. We are just in another phase of human and economic history- and the valley is a remarkable centre of a lot of this innovation. However the same rules of hype, hyperbole, boom and bust that have governed all pervious cycles of human history still work in the information age. So none of this is new, and it won't be the last time it all happens either!
Offensive? Really? Having one's religion insulted is offensive. A "W" shouldn't be.
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I'm sorry I thought that you were going to link to ads where Apple touts the security of it's iCloud platforms and its over the phone support service. Claiming to be immune to viruses that ran on windows and claming to be secure against social engineering are two very different things. The first poster is correct, Amazon needed less information to do things over the phone than Apple did. All Amazon wanted was your billing address and they would let you add emails to the accounts and then who knows what you could do. Both companies are at fault here.
Or smaller vehicles driving inches apart to get into the slip stream, I imagine that has the potential to be quite efficient (and flexible) too
Yeah, I hope it stays more like Craigslist. Simple, ugly and functional.
Have you gotten many contacts through this posting?
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> most of the components do look good. (though good parts of it remind me of Google, Quora, and other prominent sites)

I got the exact same aesthetic feeling, too. This redesign reminded of nothing so much as GMail.
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LinkedIn has many tools for them that you can't see. GitHub and StackOverflow lack these tools. LinkedIn is irritating to you because you're not the customer, you're the product.

If you paid for a LinkedIn premium account you'd get a lot of people-search tools that would make it look better. Well, at least better for what recruiters do.
every heard of scrolling?
Traditional Computer Science education sucks big time when it comes to modern agile technologies like Ruby on Rails, Django, NodeJS, and NoSQL databases.

I'm teaching myself Node right now and my degree is in Computer Engineering not CS but I'm pretty sure CS is more than flavor of the month languages/frameworks.
A big deal for who? Nobody cares except the 5 people involved.
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I've never been much a fan of native themes. Also I really like the design of Sublime text.
Well, people who misrepresent their part in successes and obscure or gloss over their role in failures bother me, especially when said individuals go on to offer advice such as yours about something as difficult as finding the right problem to solve and solving it in a practical way.

I really don't have a dog in this particular race but anything that could substantiate those numbers[1] or your other claims would be much more convincing and satisfying and go a long way to quelling my objections to your earlier comments.

Oh, and people who keep suppressing honest criticism by marking comments dead are also quite annoying.

[1] Millions of units? At a few thousand each that would mean FreeGate would have done around a billion dollars of business. Odd for a company so few have heard about.
One way to disrupt companies like Craigslist would be to build disseminator sites that would allow you to post to multiple places at one. So instead of the system being:

post on craigslist --> data to craigslists servers --> people view it on craigslist

It would look more like:

Post on disseminator --> data goes to craigslist, padmapper, etc. and a public database --> people view it on craigslist, padmapper, or their favourite aggregator.

If anyone's interested in similar ideas, email me! I'd love to talk about it.
Let me clarify what I meant with "At least not development work, or anything in the range of 100 USD/hour".

I didn't want to imply that was a high rate, but rather that I wasn't aware of any serious US offers for serious work to telecommuters/off site workers.

I've seen what appeared to be serious companies looking for on-site full time employees, and I've seen companies wanting grunt workers that are off site -- but I hadn't seen anyone actually willing to accept working with someone off site in any kind of interesting/core role before.

I'm happy to see at least the workers wanted posts here on HN appear more reasonable and in line with what I would expect. I've been worrying that the entire outsourcing marked was dominated by short sighted dumping (both from buyers and sellers) -- and poor management founded on the myth of man hours/months as a way to scale/accelerate development.

(On a side note, 100 USD/hour is lower than what I charge my customers for freelance work. And, as others have mentioned, short term project pay, with a lot of risk, is different from employee with benefits, reduced risk and a predictable yearly income).
Yes! A lot of the audio is available via torrent now [1].

"Decent chilean electronica" nice, but the Internet Archive has an impressive collection of live music; you can thank the Grateful Dead for letting people tape their concerts [2].

[1] http://archive.org/details/bittorrentaudio

[2] http://blog.archive.org/2012/03/27/sharing-works-100000-conc...
The algorithm only works with points with integer coordinates, so the slope is always rational.
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Indie game developer, Lazy 8 Studios just posted a developer diary for a game they are working on called "The Extrasolar Project" (http://www.exoresearch.com/)

The game allows you to control a rover on an alien planet as you explore and take hi-res photos of the planet's surface.

Lazy 8 Studios has previously released a Steampunk themed puzzle game called "Cogs" (http://www.cogsgame.com/)
Since it doesn't allow other websites to wholesale copy it's listings and data for their own use (and monetization) it is a danger to the free(loading) internet apparently.
Interestingly Google will not get into this situation because they do not offer over the phone support. That is the advantage of being a free service I guess! People do not expect customer service beyond a point.

Of course they offer two factor authentication.
I know. Remote Wipe is part of Find My Mac.

And it's not enabled by default.
I also find it strange this isn't the case. I changed my apple password and instantly my phone started complaining that it was wrong for iMessage and other services. Why is it still fine to remote wipe the device?
I have lived in NY for 12 years. In my opinion NYPD is one of the worst I have seen in any developed country I have visited. They act and work like one big mafia thugs. If you are blacklisted by the NYPD, esp if you publicly badmouth them, you can count on them making your life a living hell.

Of course I am not saying everyone in NYPD is like that, and I have seen and known my own share of great individuals who works for NYPD. But generally speaking they are pretty bad, they have this attitude that they are above law and more often than not they get away with doing almost anything.
The sequel to Daemon(by Daniel Suarez I'm assuming), Freedom, was good. I also enjoyed Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge.
You mean except for this? https://github.com/divegeek/uscode

Honest question, did you even search for reasons that this would be feasible or did you just rush in to make an anti-US comment?
The concept is great, especially seeing the specific contributions legislators make (of course in this example all commits are coming from one guy, so not so useful here). I'd love to see this advance, as well as seeing more developments in semantic markup of laws (think: 'Siri, how do I get out of this ticket?'). Not to mention just better avenues for laypeople to educate themselves on the law. I find it a little ridiculous that the legal system, which pretty much runs our lives, is so complex that it requires an industry of some of the most highly paid people in our society to interact with it. The whole thing is ripe for hacking IMO.
Yea, that's all protected by multifactor authentication. Front line CSR's don't need a raise over this. Maybe they have other reasons, sure. But not this.
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Only new apps will be able to use auto-layout. I was talking about the backwards compatibility, that is whether existing apps will work well.
Are you sure about the Bezier curve algorithm? It has "xx *= xx;" and xx is never reset (unless I misunderstand the code).
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Unfortunately I do not remember the link to the GPO page on xml or the XML page on thomas.loc.gov. However there are an awful lot of government documents in xml format. What specifically are you missing? For an interesting site that is using some of the new federal technology openess initiatives (for lack of a better term) take a look at: http://www.govtrack.us/ . Carl Malamud also has an extensive collection of machine readable government documents but sadly http://bulk.resource.org/ and http://public.resource.org/ seem to be down.

Resources:

Gov XML initiative: http://xml.gov/

House XML Initiative: http://xml.house.gov/

Code of Federal Regulations (XML format): http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/bulkdata/CFR e.g: CFR Chapter 12 (regulation of banks. 12cfr30 is customer information security at banks if you are interested) http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2012-title12-vol1/xml/CFR-2...

GovTracks About / Data Sources Page: http://www.govtrack.us/about

EDITED: To include links to the Code of Federal Regulations
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Your post kind of suggests that this was the first major company to ever be overcapitalised and incorrectly valued. This is patently not the case.
The people that bought into the FB IPO did so out of their own free will. That they believed the valuations is down to the hype surrounding the FBIPO and the hard work of the underwriters to convince investors of the strength of their case.
There are 2 types of investors, informed and uninformed.
These were uninformed investors. They operate under the principle that they can exceed the average market return (i.e. they don't understand the efficient markets hypothesis).

The market doesn't make these mistakes, the investors do. The market is the mechanism by which mistakes in valuation are discovered, as the IPO trends towards its fair value.

The fact that these are bad for the credibility of the market does not deter wall street for looking out for more sources of revenue (in the form of underwriting IPOs). It may make companies thinking of raising cash on the market think again - ('Is our valuation correct? How can we avoid being overhyped?') but in the long run this is nothing different to what has happened in hundreds of IPOs in hundreds of stock markets in hundreds of companies over the past several hundred years.
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That doesn't make any sense. How can laws not be in the public domain? Can any lawyers around comment?
Should be able to, but I'm assuming there's some kind of Info.plist key that needs to be set (Checking iOS 6 springboard now…)
Awesome! Though I wish archive.org was redesigned to make it easier to browse files. Too much text, too little video/image previews.
The law is non-copyrightable. However a lot of state laws say "You will build your building according to Document X by Corporation Y" and that is copyrighted and not given out without a lot of money. The reason why these exist is that lawmakers aren't experts in, say, concrete; and those who are tend to be employed privately, and make industrial standards. As an example consider specifying that a program will be written in C (a bad idea here, but saying "structural members for buildings shall be steel as defined by this standard" isn't a terrible idea). C is defined by the relevant ANSI or ISO standard; now if you want to know what the law actually says, you have to pony up the money for an official standard.

I don't know what settled law is about this, but it is at the least morally questionable activity.
Caring about your job isn't solely the domain of engineers.
i'll tell my grandpa about the dead stuff, thanks. meanwhile, how can you tell if a particular track is on a torrent? or how can you to search for files on torrents?

ah, ok, so if it's a torrent it's listed as such in the download links.

and it's the etree collection (the concerts) that seems to be what is available. you can search with "collection:etree" in the search. so "bluegrass AND collection:etree", for example.
Hey, OP here. I realize now that it was a mistake to come off like that but there were a few reasons on why I did:

- I just felt like a piece of shit when I wrote it because I have no connections and have had a very hard time trying to get a normal job. I also had no confidence that any of this would work out so that did not help my ego when writing.

- When I submitted this to HN, it was fairly late and I went to sleep about half and hour later so basically I slept through the entire discussion going on here and it would have been a bit late to change anything after I woke up.

- There was a comment or two saying that maybe I should change the post of labs.im (before I went to sleep) but I did not know what I could write. I didn't just want to write something like "im smart and can do this well" because anyone could say that and I particularly dislike talking about myself like that.

Also, to anyone that has emailed me, I have not replied to any emails yet but I am starting now. And sorry for the late reply.
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