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Stockholm, Sweden: Instabridge is hiring brilliant programmers.

Instabridge is a small but hugely ambitious company in the Wi-Fi space. We're changing how Wi-Fi works, and we want you to be a part of it.

Who we are:
* A highly motivated six person team, all in all having started 10+ companies
* Based in Stockholm and NYC
* Closing a large seed funding round with some of the world's leading investors

What we're offering:
* A great place to work (seriously! We have a lot of fun)
* Competitive salary and stock options package
* The opportunity to be part of something big

Who you are:
* A brilliant programmer, preferably with Android experience

Send CV and link to your GitHub account to niklas@instabridge.com.
There is a difference. I would have not a single qualm about shooting down an unmanned drone. I would never even consider so much as LASER pointering an actual piloted vehicle. But I will not be a subject to a society that thinks it can police me with robots. The line has to be drawn somewhere.

We have already let them ignore the 4th amendment with the TSA, stop-and-frisks, and warrantless wiretapping. If they think I'm going to take having remote control toys police me, they are in for a nasty surprise.

Those who would sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither.
>Frankly I just don't get it

Apple is the biggest corporation on the planet, and hence has more to lose than anyone else. There are literally trillions of dollars on the line. This while doing business in an intensely competitive space and relying on an incredibly powerful, but fragile, branding strategy.

I don't like it, but I get it. And it's fascinating to watch.
Getting ~28,000 devs' email addresses in a couple hours
Good point. Estimation and planning has seem to be two huge factors in failing (missing the deadline) in my experience. But software projects fail for many other reasons as well.

I have read Agile Estimation and planning http://www.amazon.com/Agile-Estimating-Planning-Mike-Cohn/dp... but I'm not at a high enough level in my career for software planning.

Little tangent.
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So a single person can perhaps issue an order and not be overruled or challenged in any way?

That hardly seems like a "civilized" legal system. In fact it sounds like something in a corrupt banana republic.
That looks great, I love the editor. So far it works great in Firefox (the site mentions it’s only tested in Chrome).

You know what I’d love? A Codecademy for electronics. There are online courses and such but none seem to be as casual and easy to get into as sites like Codecademy and TryRuby.
Nest

Palo Alto, CA --- Full Times & Paid Internships --- H1B OK, Relocation Friendly, Full Benefits.

After spending almost a decade working for Steve Jobs, Tony Fadell, the iPod Godfather, decided it was time to think of the home beyond a mere shelter. Last year, Nest established the first corner stone of this vision by releasing its first learning Thermostats; recently, Nest delivered again by introducing the second version of the Thermostat, which was lauded by the New York Times as “gorgeous, elegant, and very, very smart.” [1]

Video of our Thermostat: http://goo.gl/nrM2l

To deliver on the vision of bringing Apple-like discipline to home automation, we are currently looking for motivated individuals with any of the following skill sets:

-Mobile Developer: iOS or Android

-Frontend developers: our frontend stack is in Django, and we’re also using Amber.js, Backbone.js, and more.

-Backend Developers: our stack is in Scala, and we’re more than happy to teach you horizontal/vertical scaling.

-Algorithm & Machine Learning Experts: the thermostats provide tons of data we use to help people save energy.

-EE people in Networking, System Integration, Firmware...etc

We’re still a pretty small team but we’ve got big ambitions and are already having a tangible impact (wait ‘til you see our energy saving numbers). If you want to come change the world with us, please feel free to send us a note at jose@nestlabs.com (or reply to this thread).

[1] http://goo.gl/JHyo4
site is back up now
I don't mean legally, I meant in the "Apple is soooooo innovative" sense.
The article said that the judge ordered Apple to say that "Samsung did not copy their design." Apple, essentially, said that the court ruled that Samsung did not copy its design.

That is factually correct. I don't see how anyone can be compelled to make the former statement rather than the latter one.
I think that programming is a microcosm of culture as a whole, not just pop culture. On one end you have the pop aspects of it (Node, Ruby, <insert trendy language/framework>, and at the other end you have COBOL and Fortran and other 'un-hip' languages. In-between is everything that makes up the programming culture.
Possibly related (from 2005): "SOA, AJAX and REST: The Software Industry Devolves into the Fashion Industry"

http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=018ea5...
My inspiration for PicDigest: the hassle of getting my mom and dad and grand mom (et al) on Instagram and showing them how it works...just so they can see all the pics I post of my new son.
It's Global Warming, Stupid
Wearable, mountable iPhone case, wireless recording start.
AT&T launches its photo and video backup app Locker on iOS
Isn't that called a blog?
Homepage Redesign Leads To 165% Conversion Increase
The goal of the publicity order was to "dispel commercial uncertainty," not as punishment. If Apple publishes the required statement, but obscures it in a way that it doesn't meet the original goals, should the court really stand idly by?
Mountain View, CA - Kiwi Crate

http://www.kiwicrate.com/jobs
This is the epitome of a "middle-brow" comment on HN. It takes issue with a nearly inconsequential piece of the original article and does nothing more than say, "that's wrong", but does it in a way that sounds important.
WTF You Morons | Healthmad
4 Surprising Things Employers Are Doing to Train Job Applicants
Testing apps w/ JavaScript that makes external HTTP requests (ex: Stripe.js)
Canvas Networks (USV Funded) is looking for an iOS lead engineer to join a small, close team building the rich-media community platform of the future.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

* You have a history of creating and shipping iOS software. Show us something cool you made in the App Store!

* You're proficient in Objective-C and Cocoa.

* You're passionate about creating delightful user experiences. You share the same goal with the rest of your team: to deliver the best user experience. Everything that matters to the user — from speedy performance to chrome — matters to you.

* You've maintained and improved apps after release. v1 is just the beginning — you know how to iterate on an initial release to continue momentum.

Free lunch, flexible hours, one of the biggest arcades in Manhattan (3 cabinets!), competitive salary and full benefits (health, dental, vision), take-what-you-want vacation.

Our office is in Union Square, Manhattan. If you don't live in New York City, we'll pay to fix that.

Shoot an email to jobs@canv.as with a resume, your portfolio, and a link to your github if you have one.
Mobiplug - Boulder, CO

We're hiring for the following:
- Mobile Engineers
- Mobile UX Designer
- Mobile UI Designer
- Cloud Platform Engineers
- Embedded Linux Gateway / Protocol Engineers

For more information see our jobs web site at http://jobs.mobiplug.co

About Mobiplug:
Mobiplug is a Boulder, CO based startup that’s bridging the digital and physical worlds in a way that just works, to make life more awesome. Our team is building and designing an affordable all-in-one home monitoring and control solution that connects thousands of off-the-shelf electronics in your life with the smart phone in your pocket. We’re a TechStars Boulder 2012 graduate and were recently funded by Foundry Group. We thrive on great coffee, cool technology, inspired design, and our team's ability to tackle difficult problems with creative solutions.

Benefits:
A great salary and a creative environment are not all that we have to offer. Every team member receives full healthcare benefits (for you and your entire family), free downtown Boulder parking, and cool home electronics to use in your own home. We’re located in Downtown Boulder just a half block from Pearl Street mall, offering great food and after-work fun within walking distance of the office.
All of your levels above High Worker are really unappealing to me; they sound like the Peter Principle at work. You're a skilled computer scientist, so you must be good at handling people too, right?
"our vacation policy is limitless"

I think policies like this would cause more tension and worry than they relieve. Kind of like "pick your salary". Surely different people have different expectations? Do Europeans take 5 weeks a year and Americans take 2?

I've never been employed under a policy like this and I'm genuinely curious as to how well you think it's helping morale.
Here's [1] an interview Nick gave just a couple of hours ago on Bloomsberg.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/video/slacker-16-year-old-whiz-laun...
California Threatening Developers: $2500 Fine/Download For Privacy Violations
Do US Courts ever make judgements like this? It's akin to compelling speech.
I didn't try to automate it; I just wrote everything down in a little book, even $0.50 at the grocery store and put it all in a spreadsheet at home. Unless you really pay everything with your CC (which here, in Europe, would be very strange), you would miss things, or at least not know where they went.

For instance; I get $100 from the ATM, I pay part of a business diner with that for $90, then I have $10 left. The $100 is registered on my CC so $100 goes into my business account, while $10 I spent on some magazine at the train station while I was bored. The $100 for the business would be; 'wow we got the client, well spent!' while the $10 went into the black hole as I won't ever touch that mag after getting off the train.
Programming is like building a house - except that no one talks about themselves as being a "house builder".

Flawed analogy. Programming is more like being a carpenter or an electrician or a landscaper.
It's a really outstanding project. Thanks for sharing it with everyone.

Regarding configuration memory, could you have the arduino read out from a serial flash? They're pretty easy to bit bang or control over SPI, and you can get a 64Mb pretty easily.
Sorry, this isn't rocket science at all.

Standard clustering algorithms (found in any off-the-shelf natural text processing library) and text summation with libots should suffice for most of the heavy lifting.

http://tldr.it/
http://libots.sourceforge.net/

Further, most news articles' first paragraph is a practical (although you may have not noticed) summary.

Coming from NLP, unless you can influence the source and the source being Web, the story should be an 80%-20% in the best case -- and you'll work VERY hard to correct the remaining 20%, and you WILL remain with a percentage of content you just can't summarize properly.

What would make a difference is a real people-driven summation, not machines (see what voicebunny did for text-to-speech, for example). And yes, it would have been fun to combine the two as well.
Connected Sports Ventures Cambridge, MA FULLTIME - Backend Engineer (Node.js, Redis, MongoDB)

We're looking for another backend engineer to join our team as we continue to expand upon our realtime, single game fantasy, football and baseball games (http://rumbletv.com).

You can read more about our current positions and what we're building over at http://jobs.connectedsports.com. Any questions or applications can be directed to me at jobs@connectedsports.com
The author makes the case that programming is a trend-ridden profession, that is false. Some programming styles and languages get widespread not because of herd-like memetism, but because they're actually better than alternatives, or some cases because of a corporate choice (such as objC, win32's CamelCase, javascript's java like syntax(Sun) ). In fact most of the evolution of programming ended in the 80s. The frontpages of reddit and HN are full of people who are overly enthusiastic about things like functional languages, 16 bit CPUs, CSS programming and rounded rectangles, but those are rarely more than the fad of the day. For most people who want to solve problems with computers, programming is a tool. You don't see plumbers and electricians choose their tools based on how cool and fashionable they look.
Thanks for sharing!

What exactly is social in the game ?

On a side note, 4M users for a game in 6 months is great but not that extraordinary. Looking at successes like Draw Something and SongPop, from small developers too, it's more in the 50+M but it's in the mobile social space, not sure if I Am Playr is mobile or not.
We use lexical chains in our undergraduate thesis. Not a fan of it. AFAIK, not much of the text we summarized are affected by our lexical chain feature. It is a minor feature in our thesis. We combined lexical chains with other summarization techniques.

It's a good concept, but chains maybe a long one and may not be serve its "summary" purpose (maybe that's only for our case). In our thesis, we just extract the 5 most important sentences. Sentences with a lexical chain to a sentence or sentences may consume all the 5 sentences we needed and not leaving a room for other sentences in the text.
So then it does indeed fit into the non-(banana republic) category :P
Programming is an engineering discipline. Engineering has some things of crafts and is influenced by a culture. It is the same in any kind of engineering, there are fashions in bio-chemisty as there are fashions in how you build a bridge or how you design an electronical circuit. In the 70s, it was in fashion to make buildings with a lot of asbestos in it, just like in the late 90s everybody used to build systems around SQL databases. But now people don't do it so much, not because the culture has changed, but because it was not such a great idea in the first place, and as we progress in our field, we know how to make things better.
'The programming language BASIC became popular because Dartmouth had it on a computer system, and General Electric franchised that system. Once it spread “in the wild,” it became popular because it was popular.'

Or: it was used because it was available.
Lean Startup: Fall in Love with the Problem, Not the Solution
Yes type inference is harder with C++'s language design (OO comes to mind as a particular problem), thus my claim that it's the wrong foundation to build on. Of course, people like challenging problems and are working to bring more type inference to OO languages [1].

Furthermore, I assert that this truly is the wrong foundation. For new projects that must have OO, Scala provides local type inference and object orientation. If you're really hurting for some manual memory management, look at Rust [3] or Habit [2].

If we can recover the features we love on a new foundation that provides new features like type inference or memory-safety, then we've found a better foundation, IMHO.

[1] http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~palsberg/typeflow.html

[2] http://hasp.cs.pdx.edu/habit-report-Nov2010.pdf

[3] http://www.rust-lang.org/
Ads and running a conference
What service would you pay $10,000 per month for?
It seems like most Apple acolytes have conceded that point.
India is descending into a Banana republic at an alarming speed - very sad.

To be fair, India is rising up from it; used to be a lot worse.
"4M users for a game in 6 months is great but not that extraordinary"

Seriously, you think that's not that extraordinary...
I guess I didn't have much of a problem with you linking to your book, as much as the disconnect between what I read and how quickly it shot up the front page. You are apparently a rock star. It fits right in with your pop culture theme. I apologize for the comment. I will prepare to see your blog on top of HN for the foreseeable future.
Think of the drones as Big Brother's eyes.

Still unnecessarily paranoid?

We already have Orwell's floating fortresses. The United States already has EIGHT. With three more under construction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_carriers_of_th...

The cost of construction is $4,500,000,000. And that does not include their mandatory support fleet, nor how much it costs per day to keep operating. But people are talking about cutting NASA and PBS instead of the military budget.

How about now?

And neither of the political candidates from the dominant parties are even considering scaling back the War Department, excuse me, the "Department of Defense". Holy doublethink, Batman!

1984 has already happened because people were insufficiently paranoid. The only reason people think it could never happen here, to us, to the United States, is because it already has.
Oh, that sucks. We seriously need good blogs to cover european startups.
SEEKING WORK - Remote - United States (Arkansas)

I'm coming out of my first serious startup venture, BarBird, and wanted to get back in to consulting. I tend to specialize in full-stack implementations.

Present active skillset:

* Ruby on Rails
* MySQL, Postgres
* Javascript, jQuery, HTML5, CSS

Significant experience in:

Android, Java (SE, EE), C, Lua

Some example projects:

* BarBird - http://blinkbeam.com/projects/barbird
* LowerMyPing - http://blinkbeam.com/projects/lowermyping
* https://github.com/intractablequery

Contact:

Daniel Starling
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=87468011
ds@blinkbeam.com
Israel:

MyPermissions - http://mypermissions.com

Android Developer
A creative developer with great love for the little green robot and great eye for small details.
Proven Android experience with 2+ years developing apps which rely heavily on web APIs and WebView.
Deep understanding of the internal of Android - a plus

iOS Developer
A creative developer which thinks different.
Proven iOS experience with 2+ years of developing apps which rely heavily on web APIs and WebView.
Deep understanding of internal iOS and API - a plus

Front End Developer
A front end developer with a good eye for the finer details.
2+ years experience working on JavaScript heavy front ends.
Knowledge in JavaScript based browser extensions - a plus.

Back End Developer
A jack of all trades backend developer which can easily swim in a distributed environment.
3+ years developing distributed backend systems.
Python Knowledge (or willingness to learn) - a plus
Knowledge in Cloud based system - a plus
Knowledge in AWS services - a big plus

Familio - http://familio.com

Web Developer
Web development: HTML5, CSS3, Javascript.
Experience in Backend development using open source technologies (such as: Tornado, Node.js etc)
It does. The grand parent statement is exactly why folk like EFF, FSF and RMS dislike the term "Intellectual Property". It confuses thee very different types of law with each other (copyright, patents and trademark).
They presented the facts and they should be allowed to mention that other jurisdictions have other views of the matter. Does anyone think that they shouldn't be able to?
San Jose, CA; Salt Lake City, UT; Boulder, CO

Fusion-io

Everything from embedded software, device drivers, SDK development, hardware or software project management, QA, field support, manufacturing engineering, digital logic (ASIC/FPGA) design and verification, IT, etc.

See the full list here: http://www.fusionio.com/company/employment/?area=all

Fusion-io is a great place to work: high caliber teams, solid benefits, lunch provided least twice a week, and it Salt Lake we now have enough for a weekly lunchtime ultimate frisbee game :-) (I'm sure the other offices are getting close).

We make the most cutting edge, fastest, most reliable non-volatile storage in the world. Email me if you have any questions: bmurdock AT fusionio.com
It does but many people lack the confidence to undertake something like learning a daunting new task on their own, having a class with a guiding direction from people smarter than you is always a good thing.
The choice between Democrat and Republican is not freedom, it is a box to contain you.
your grand mom is on email? neat.

This would also be cool with Dropbox. I know people have shared albums with new pics added every-so-often.

And a printed option (someday) would be nice too. Something like the recipient can one-click to get a printed version sent to their house (and I pay).

But very cool anyway.
Teambox:

We are hiring!

- Senior Fullstack developer with strong js and ruby skills (Backbone, RoR, nodejs)

- Junior support engineer with experience in js or ruby and some testing tools.

Join our amazing team in Barcelona and help us build an amazing product! :)

http://teambox.com/jobs/
There's a MythBusters episode about this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(2004_season)#Needl...
SEEKING FREELANCER (with possible full time transition) - San Francisco onsite only please.

Hi I'm Mike,

I run an interactive agency called A Different Engine with offices in San Francisco and Brooklyn. We're looking for hackers with super strong Javascript skills to help us execute on a few projects. Most of our current projects are for connected TV's, our clients are large media and entertainment brands like Bravo, Starz and CBS Right now we've got about 3-4 months of work. This could turn into a full-time gig if everyone is interested.

The work is heavy Javascript most of the platforms we work on are HTML based, we use Backbone and Underscore and Jquery a lot and looking at possibly moving from an internal framework to something like ember or angular soon.

You can email me at mike@adifferentengine.com with any questions.
Xerox sued, but the case was dismissed without addressing the claims, because it was filed as the wrong type of case, in the wrong court.

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/24/business/most-of-xerox-s-s...

Xerox did give Apple access to PARC, but see how that allows Apple to freely use any of their IP without compensation.

According to Xerox:

''The ruling does not mean Apple hasn't taken substantial portions of the Star and claimed them as their own,'' a statement issued by Xerox said. ''The court merely held, we believe erroneously, that Xerox does not have standing to present facts in support of our contention.''
Regarding the Uber comparison:

Is there anything to stop Airbnb hosts from raising prices?
I experienced an article in TheVerge which is mainly a video as its content.

What I will be amazed is a good automatic summarization algorithm that is using abstraction and not just extraction.

Also, check out circa (http://cir.ca/). Never tried, but as I read, it uses both human and algorithm to "summarize" articles.