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Full-stack web & mobile developer with a penchant for creative data visualization. Looking for thoughtful, high-impact projects exploring some facet of the human condition.
This also is worth a try:
http://live.sympy.org/
Native iOS Torrent Management
> If you don't like the way a company is legally and ethically running it's business, then change the law. Don't boycott the company who is succeeding best at working within the framework provided.

"Vote with your wallet" is a valid strategy. Just because the company you like is at the receiving end, does not change it's validity.
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Apple management are becoming real assholes.

I had planned on buying a new rMBP but have permanently taken that off of my shopping list because I don't like where Apple is heading. A few months ago I bought my stepson an iPad 3 for his birthday and that might be my last Apple purchase.

I recently bought Galaxy S III phones for my wife and I and I don't see so much similarity with the iPhones, not even getting into prior art issues.

Apple has the legal right to peruse any legal proceedings they want but as consumers we can vote with our wallets.

And, there are now some very sweet non-Apple laptops :-)
This is not surprising, we have passed peak Facebook [1]. It was a very successful fad, but it is no longer the right place to be.

[1] - https://www.google.com/trends/?q=facebook
> Notice how you didn't manage to come up

I would replace that "didn't manage to come up" with "didn't come up" - trolls, feeding etc. The whole article is full of straw-man and false generalizations. If you got anything out of it, superb. I didn't; and I simply stated that. I don't see why I am obliged to write a full rebuttal.
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Can you provide us with an idea of how much this improved performance or how many more requests it allowed you to handle? Were there time or cost savings compared to alternative approaches?
The Aggregation of Marginal Gains - On-Page SEO analysis
Galaxy S3/Note/Nexus have nothing in common with Apple R&D. Just because Samsung is providing better mousetrap to the market does not mean that it is riding on Apple.

Btw, the first cellphone was made by Motorola. The first cellphone with MP3 player was made by Samsung. Is Apple riding their R&D?
> Having spent quite some time in sceptic forums and circles, I can assure that the article is 100% spot on.

I can assure you that you and the author aren't the only skeptics around; and this article isn't 100% spot on.
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Web+Mobile UI designer and front-end developer. 4+ years of experience with designing usable interfaces with a focus on increasing user conversions. Designed patio11's site which increased his conversion:

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http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/08/06/stripe-and-ab-testing-ma...

Experience with Photoshop, Illustrator, HTML5, CSS3, Javascript/Jquery.

Portfolio: http://www.madebyargon.com

Email: inlith@gmail.com
This is cool. However, NumPy, SciPy, SymPy, Maxima and a whole lot of other tools are included in Sage, which is a competitor to Mathematica, Matlab, and Maple. It's free and open-source. You can try it here: http://www.sagenb.org
Ha! Oops, my mistake. For some reason when I hear "Oxford comma" I always think comma-inside-the-quote rather than comma-before-the-and.

I wonder if there's an equivalent hacker preference and explanation for the comma. Most of the people I know prefer it. Maybe we're all just doing list.join(", ") in our heads, or perhaps it's an instinctive mistrust for ambiguous grammar.
It's also a holiday weekend in Canada.
Looks like link bait to me
New York, NY - Full-time

ExpandTheRoom - Back-end Developer, Mobile Developer, UX Designer

ExpandTheRoom, a boutique creative agency, is looking for full-time Mobile Developers (Windows Phone 7, iOS, Android) as well as PHP Developers and UX Designers. We have a truly excellent team of developers and designers, and a fun work environment and culture. We'd also consider internships.
You can email us at iwannawork@expandtheroom.com, or check the site: http://www.expandtheroom.com/jobs
SEEKING WORK - Remote

Human/machine interface designer.

From scratch experience and interface design, from the napkin to nginx.

Frontend: HTML5 (Haml, Slim), CSS3 (Sass, Less), JavaScript (Vanilla, jQuery, Ember.js, Backbone.js)

Backend: Ruby, Rails, Mongodb (Mongoid)

Design: Pencils, pens, paper, Photoshop

NOTE: I am not available to do any work relating to social networks, online marketplaces broadly, and will have to review any consumer-focussed work before I can confirm availability. If you're working on a b2b product we're probably game though.

http://robotfuture.net/
So you think executing and leveraging wrong laws is excuseable?

There are lot of examples in mans history where this was not the case. This is another one.
thank you pg!
Well, absolutely, Samsung is leveraging Google's, and many companies R&D. But R&D isn't cheep, intuitive, or obvious. Blackberry decided not to copy Apple very much, still created some great phones from a product view and they died. Nokia copied not at all, and they're not doing too well. HTC copied a little, and they are doing okayish. Samsung copied a lot more and is doing the best.
My argument is all ideas should be free. We should adopt the good ideas globally so every phone copies the best ideas. You get an inventors monopoly for as long as it takes to reverse engineer. In our current product cycles, that's ~2+years. All problems solved.
Ask HN: suggested sweet laptops for running Ubuntu?
I run Ubuntu on an MacBook Pro and on an old Toshiba. I don't want to give Apple anymore of my money so I am looking for something like a MacBook Air, SSD drive, etc. Suggestions based on your own experience?
Expaflyr is now open for beta. All request are welcome
Well, when the cops are pushed by big industry corporations to heed their every beckon and call, it's not surprising that they shoot first and ask questions later.

It seems to be encouraged.
Just be clear: Large 720p screen, curved design, stylus are all characteristic iPhone features on which Apple spent years getting it right and then Samsung copied?

Because these are the devices that are being sued here.
I'll be accepting all beta invitation request as soon as possible during the first days. I hope you guys can give me some advice since I'm new to this. Thanks !
Thank you for pointing this out.

That's the official 3rd ed. I was trying to push a free update to the 2nd ed. to my faithful readers.

Right now my book is the best selling Vim book on the Kindle platform, but it's blocked by Amazon, which damages sales and reputation.
>.. and connect with your Facebook account, grant extended permissions, signup for a Wolfram account, go to your mail inbox, validate your Wolfram ID, hit a dead end, sign into Wolfram with your Wolfram account, type "facebook report" in the searchbox again, wait 10 minutes for the page to load and finally.. get to see the report (which is nice by the way).

I just had to type “facebook report”, connect with my Facebook account, grant extended permissions, signup for a Wolfram account and then wait for the report to load.

The rest you don't have to do (go to your mail inbox and validate the Wolfram ID). Actually, I haven't YET validated the Wolfram ID I got in the mail. It let's you login and use it without validating.
I grew up using a Mac. My dad first bought a Macintosh SE back in the late 80’s, and I spent my days playing breakout (or whatever it was called back then). I finally got my own machine in the mid 90’s, my sparkling little Performa 5200. I learned how to program on it, building little programs using a Pascal-like language. On my walks to school, there was a daily battle with all my PC owning chums, the evangelical nature was strong. After a stint using University machines, I picked up the first Intel Macbook back in 2006. My laptop died earlier this year, and I decided to simplify my portable life by picking up the New iPad. I’ve also owned a few different permutations of the shuffle over the years, enjoying it's simplicity and lack of features.

With news of the forthcoming retina 13 inch Macbook pro, I was contemplating getting a new laptop (the ipad is fun, but I miss coding on the go). But today, that thought officially died.

We are done, Apple and I. They have gone too far, and I can no longer support them as a company. Every dollar I spend on their products will go toward killing the very place I call home. I encourage everyone to vote with their wallets. If you believe Apple is hurting our industry, stop supporting them. Next time someone asks me for gadget/computer advice, I will be pointing them in a different direction.
It's actually the law for Apple to make as much money as possible given any legal and ethical way it can.

What law says that? I seriously want to know.

Don't boycott the company who is succeeding best at working within the framework provided.

Why not? As a consumer, am I not entitled to buy (or not buy) from whoever I want? Am I really not allowed to take any other factors into account beyond the legality of the company's behavior?
Jiro is a workaholic. Think about it.

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2012/04/jiro-lives-worth-livin...
I keep my CV private, just because I have references that prefer their personal contact information to not be publicly displayed.
SEEKING WORK - France - Remote

I am not a fulltime freelancer, I have a job but am looking for some part time freelancing on the side to supplement my income. Can do up to 10-14 hours per week.

Backend dev

* PHP / Javascript

* Postgresql / MySQL / Redis / membase / memcache

* Eventing / AWS / S3 / Sharding / Payment / Social APIs / ...

Experience with high traffic websites (150+MM views/month, 15+MM uniques/month, 30+ MM registered users)

vthivaut at gmail
ClassDojo

FULLTIME or INTERN in SAN FRANCISCO, CA

ClassDojo is used by thousands of teachers to manage students’ behavior in the classroom, using real time feedback and rewards that can also be shared with parents. We're an edtech startup funded by some of the biggest names in the valley, and we're one of the fastest growing education companies of all time. PG has invested in us, but we didn't do YC.

We've built a product that makes a real difference and gets huge engagement with millions of kids, and we're about to take it to the next level, hopefully with you on board. If you're a strong hacker who wants to use JavaScript to change the world, apply here:

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https://classdojo.wufoo.com/forms/join-classdojo/

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Or email jobs@classdojo.com. You can read about the work and environment here: http://www.classdojo.com/jobs

We are looking for:

* Lead Software Engineer

* Lead Front-end Developer

If you think you're a good developer but don't fit into those buckets, get in touch anyway.
Not unlike their code before they got the community to audit and fix it for them.
Startup Office Tour: OpenDNS
I started in Investment banking tech for $50k/year + benefits, ultimately adding $20k bonus after 6 months. By year 4, my total comp rose to $125k + benefits. Currently, looking for a substantial increase of 50% or more. I have experience in C++, C#, Java, Python, SQL and lots of out vendor software systems with actue knowledge in front to back financial derivative trading. Mind you, this all transpired from a couple years before the recession until recently.

I am somewhat of a specialist now, but didnt start off that way. Truth is working harder and often smarter than the rest got me half. way here - the other half came from standing up for myself and taking a leap of faith here and there. But at 4 yrs, you've got bargaining power on your side so if I can suggest anything, generally getting more base salary is better than bonus (with some very notable exceptions - ie. Startup stock options) simply for the time value of money and more peace of mind. But more importantly, always work as if you're being paid more than you deserve - its your own blood, sweat and tears that will actually bring what you deserve
Sometimes it's not about being unique or being the hardest-working in the world. A well-told human story can often inspire.
That's exactly the point. It's an advertisement page, targeted to a specific demographic target that have access to a fast network connection. It's not something that should be always reliable and usable.
Of course they are, but they are paying licencing fees to use the features that they are. Otherwise they would be sued.
Not really, no. If all it takes to exploit the remote service is to make the request (i.e., you don't need to be able to read the response data to exploit it), you can easily force a request by means other than XHR; an image tag is probably the most straightforward.

Also, strictly speaking, this class of attack is Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), not Cross-Site Scripting (XSS).
[...] why I should not regard their perceived individuality (and accompanying emotional state) as merely the output of a very complex, deterministic state machine.

Well, those aren't really incompatible, are they?
Education? Republicans Say We Don't Need It
Your website's not loading.
Meat is less efficient but only by a factor of 10 or so. Unless food costs as a proportion of income go up a huge amount it is unlikely people will not be able to afford meat. It may well become less popular. Even well cared for animals are not that much more expensive.
Wow, I expected it to look more like a choppy, buggy emulator but that's really smooth!
Even if it is "actually the law for Apple to make as much money as possible" (please show me that law), over what time frame? It's not unreasonable that this aggressive policy could result in a diminished Apple image/reputation that could negatively affect long term profits more than any alleged patent infringement.
Barcelona, near Plaça de Catalunya for an international deal-of-the-day site. Backend developers and frontend developers, with 3-5 years experience.

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Seeking work: USA/Baltimore|Remote

SysAdmin/config (fbsd,obsd,solaris,linux), backend dev (C, ObjC, scheme, common lisp), ios dev

https://www.elfga.com/~erik/ erik@elfga.com
He was the chosen one, but can someone inform me of the major achievements he himself did? As far as I know, many others could have been chosen to make the historic first steps.

Note: I'm not trying to make a comment phrased as a question here. It's truly a question.
Galaxy S3 is specifically designed not to look like the iPhone. Galaxy Note is a completely different type of product. It has a stylus and a giant 720p screen.

It seems unlikely that anyone would confuse these products with an iPhone. They are not trying to be like iPhone.

I honestly don't understand what Apple is trying to do. There must be a logical explanation.
Not only excusable, but encourageable. It's a LAW. It's maliable. If it's wrong, fix it. The reason we have them is to govern what we can and should do.
Driverless cars promise to reduce accidents, revolutionise transport
In what way could that possibly be 'too bad'??

"Too bad that some guy is going to spend years and years in prison for provable murder when he should really only be charged with stealing candy"

Idiot gets caught and gets what he deserves. All is well.
I can't understand this snobbishness about ads. Advertising has made a lot of web companies a lot of money.

Yes, it's the uncreative default revenue stream. Unsure how to make money? Ads! But that's also a good thing - there's a default internet revenue model that works.

If you can make money via freemium/premium/whatever, bully for you. But don't knock ads just because you think the smartest minds "should be curing cancer, not optimising CTRs". Ads have helped support many world-changing web services. It is not a coincidence that 8 of the top 10 websites are funded primarily by advertising.
I don't know, I'm not a patent lawyer. I'll let the experts figure it out.
Ask HN:  Which language is funnest/least frustrating to develop with?
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SEEKING WORK - Remote

My startup participated in one of the top accelerators in the country this year and we're beginning to formally raise our seed round. Unfortunately, we have only grown revenue this year enough to support my cofounder, but not myself with wife and three kids. We've decided that I'd jump back into consulting while he continues to raise our seed round over the next 3-6 months.

So that means I'm available for hire and can commit to projects ranging from a couple weeks to a few months.

What I do: Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, Javascript, Ember.js, jQuery, Mongo, Redis, Postgres, Solr, ElasticSearch, Heroku, EC2, Chef Solo, comfortable with HTML & CSS, experimenting with Clojure.

What you get: The skills of a competent tech cofounder who loves new challenges with 4 years of web dev experience.

Email: starvingcofounder@gmail.com
with all it's libraries open webos would actually make a pretty nice desktop development toolkit. (yeah i know, it's html5 and desktop html5 kinda sux), but that thing definitely amounts to some of the best looking linux apps around.
I saw a monkey funeral in Malaysia last year. Took a really long time and a bunch of monkeys from around the area all walked towards a tree while some came up and patted the dead baby which the mother was holding. They ended up all sitting in a big tree. This was at a little hill which has some tourists coming to it and normally the monkeys would be up at the road eating food that the tourists give out. But while the funeral was going on almost all the monkeys took part of it.
In terms of their profit centers, there's a fundamental difference in the type of advertising they do. Fb does demographic based ads, while google does ads based on what people are searching for RIGHT NOW. 99% of the time, google style advertising is worth more.
Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Silk (www.silkapp.com) is looking for Front-end engineers and a DevOps engineer.

We're building a product that makes it easy for people to create sites with content that is easy to query, visualize and share. On a deeper level, our vision is to bring the semantic web to the masses and build an amazing company around that.

We're working on many interesting and challenging problems, with a custom-built Haskell graph-database on the back-end and a cutting-edge Functional Reactive client-side framework in Javascript on the front-end.

The team is still small (~9 people), so you'll be able to make a large impact. We are well-funded by top-tier VCs and located in the city center of Amsterdam.

More on http://jobs.silkapp.com/
Austin, TX | Senior front-end developer | mobi

Come work for a small, meritocratic company and own the front end of our applications.

We're looking for someone with solid design skills and the ability to translate their design to semantically correct HTML and CSS. Ideally, you don't rely completely on mockup tools like Dreamweaver and can code the CSS by hand. You should have strong opinions about the correct way to architect the design aspect of a webapp. Have you migrated stylesheets to SASS or LESS, integrated JavaScript unit testing into a continuous build process or other cool stuff that a bunch of backend developers have never done? Talk to us.

Programming abilities are strongly desired, but not strictly required. You would necessarily need to do some JavaScript and jQuery as needed for the UI development, but good programming fundamentals and the ability to pick up (or already know) things like Java and SQL would be a huge plus.
If you think you might be a fit, contact information is in my profile. Portfolios or github profiles are encouraged. Resumes are also welcome.

Perks include market salary, health/dental/vision/life, unlimited paid vacation plan, 401K.

http://www.mobicorp.com/
To be disprovable is to be "falsifiable". To disprove, then, is to "falsify".
Ask HN: Trying to remember the name of someone's app
I saw a web app someone had built on here to help facilitate apartment hunting for one person or a group of people. There was a free trial account, a personal subscription, and a group subscription. It wasn't Nestio.

Does anyone remember this?
Amicus Labs - Designing for Law - San Francisco

We’re building software that will radically change how lawyers approach, analyze, and engage with the law. We use advanced case law parsing and tech-enabled human review to construct a detailed outline of the law. Leveraging that data, we can offer litigators legal search tools that are an order of magnitude better than existing offerings, as well as detailed analytics on legal arguments and AI tools that automatically assess and assemble litigation documents.

We're looking to add a designer to our small team of legal-minded engineers (Stanford, Berkeley, Google) and lawyers (Stanford, Columbia).

The law is intricate. Communicating it clearly is a serious design challenge. We are looking for someone who can shape not only our look and feel, but also how lawyers interact with the law.

You:

+ A record of creating beautiful software

+ The ability to implement what you design (HTML5, CSS3, JS)

+ Deep, sincere interest in law

+ Desire to forge a product that will change how justice is done

Us:

+ Backed by the most visionary investors in the world

+ Taking a big swing at truly hard problems

+ Excellent health/dental/vision

+ “No vacation policy” policy

+ Great office across the street from 4th & King Caltrain

If you're interested in learning more, get in touch: careers@amicuslabs.com.
But it is inconvinient for large playlists and is not, primerially designed for playing video.
Based on a survey of 34 people.
More reason to switch exclusively to CPM. Impression fraud is not particularly easier or harder to detect than click fraud, so if a typical CTR is generously estimated at 3%, then switching to CPM would knock the fraud rate down to less than 1%. And the concept of "accidental" simply goes away.

I understand why CPC is favored; it gives an economic incentive to make ads more prominent. But surely there's a better way to handle that which doesn't also offer an economic incentive to cheat. After all, direct conversions are a tiny part of an ad's effectiveness; otherwise television and radio advertising wouldn't work for grocery stores and soft drinks. Getting the brand into people's heads ("message association" as marketers call it) is the main impact of ads, and that is better measured by CPM than CPC.
Purely Functional Stepchildren
Android App Development

http://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Fubb+Producti...

Web App Development

JS - node, backbone, ember, jquery, custom

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Contact ryan@appulent.net
Among other things, he managed to land Eagle with only seconds of fuel remaining, having manually maneuvered it to an alternative landing site after the computer had navigated to a primarly landing area covered with boulders. All this while several unexpected computer alarms were going off.

Maybe others could have done that as well, but Armstrong actually did it, staying calm under unimaginable pressure and averting disaster.
SEEKING WORK - Stockholm, Sweden/Remote

Full stack web developer.

* HTML/CSS/JavaScript

* Python/Java/PHP/Ruby

* MySQL/PostgreSQL

* SOLR/Elastic Search/Sphinx

* Nginx/lighttpd/Apache

Experience from working with (extremely) high load environments.

Email in my profile.
SEEKING FREELANCER: PHP/HTML/CSS Were looking for someone that's willing to take on the small odd job here and there for side income. We own a few sites that were always doing tweaks to, adding features, moving things around etc. If interested please check profile for email.
Facebook Should Not Fire Sheryl Sandberg - A Retraction