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London UK: Junior test automation engineer. Permanent, full-time, on-site.

At YouView we are automating the testing of our product (a set-top box) using stb-tester[1], a tool that we developed and open-sourced which captures video from the set-top box and analyses it in real time.

These are early days for the project, so you can have a large impact on its direction and success. One week you might be writing a python module to control a network-controllable power supply; another week it might be a script to generate comprehensive test coverage of a menu tree. There will be tedious work too, but we want the kind of person who hates tedious work so much that they automate it away.

Unix shell scripting and administration experience is highly desirable. The test scripts themselves are written in python.

[1] http://stb-tester.com
The argument that the EC is there to the avoid a deadlock situation is quite inaccurate. In fact, given there are only 538 EC votes to distribute, the likelihood of a tie (269-269) is much, much higher than the likelihood of a tie in the popular vote (where in 2008 both candidates received > 50 million votes). Nate Silver's 538 blog estimates the current chances of a EC "deadlock" at 0.2% -- small, yes, but not so small as to ignore the possibility entirely.

The "solution" under this scenario? If the election doesn't produce a candidate with 270 or more electoral college votes, the race gets decided by the House of Representatives. Can you imagine the reaction if Obama won the popular vote, but only received 269 EC votes and then the (Republican) House awarded the election to Romney?

There is precedent for this, of course. The 1824 election saw Andrew Jackson getting a plurality in both the popular vote and the Electoral College, but not a majority in either. Ultimately, a Congress hostile to Jackson would award to the Presidency to his arch-rival, John Quincy Adams. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_elec...

In terms of worrying about deadlock, a simple popular vote total is far superior than any permutation of the Electoral College.
Imagine if the government had private data in the cloud and somebody accessed it. Do you think that person would be able to say in court, "The government doesn't own its cloud data, so I accessed it."?
Code is a dry, dry topic. This article made me smile, smile wider and then LOL. This is one of the few articles on code that are very well written, informative and brightening.
Yes, but you'd think a company with such a reputation for attention to detail would just pick one and stick with it.
THIS IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GAME I HAVE EVER PLAYED!! HONESTLY I JUST PUBLISH A GAMER BOOK AND GAVE THIS 5 STARS AND I AM 9!!
"The way to get unstuck is to start down the wrong path, right now." loved it.
Visionary leadership != determination

I think determination is a common trait among entrepreneurs, being a visionary less so. But even that is not a recipe for success.
That's it, thanks
I agree with the sentiment, but the the appropriateness of a question that relies on 'statistical' data depends on whether the conclusions drawn are perceived in a negative way.

Asking a new employee from an 'ethnic minority' if he or she is the new cleaner is bad because being a cleaner is not perceived to be a 'good' job.

Asking a new female employee if she's a designer isn't so bad because, as far as I can tell, being a designer is no 'worse' than being a programmer.

Both examples could be considered something-ism, but I'd say the former is worth caring about, and the latter is a case of oversensitivity (potentially from both sides).

I generally try to err on the side of caution to keep from offending people, but I'm quite allergic to people that get offended too quickly.

(A special place in hell is reserved for people who get offended on behalf of other people.)
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The article is talking about private data, e.g., your company's strategic documents that get backed up to a cloud service, that the government now wants to say is not owned by the company because it is on the cloud. What access rights should look like with regards to government produced data is an entirely different topic... though perhaps not entirely unrelated, if cloud data does become government data.
You are right. Deploying takes seconds + a bit more to get to the state you're testing. This isn't bad, it's actually quite amazing when you think about it. But compared to instant feedback, it's in a completely different ball park.
Perhaps even "childish".
Sorry, but to be honest I never learned a lot from such courses and if so it was at a really, really slow pace.

I'd like to hear your experiences. Am I the only one with problems learning "university style"?
Takeaway quote from the article:

"If you were to go out and start a meth lab in your house, what's the probability that you would ultimately end up doing jail time? It's going to be a lot higher than if you massively defraud a financial institution. It's an endemic problem within the justice system now."
It does scale. I can vouch for it from personal experience. The smell is when you start constructing elaborate pyramids - but in that case, the callbacks are not to blame, you are for not making your processing code modular with well-defined, pluggable functions defined before the main async flow. None of the examples were long enough to merit separate function definitions, but he doesn't ignore the point:

> Let’s assume that it’s good practice to organize your program into simple functions that have as few side effects as possible.

> There is no law against writing simple, concise callbacks that defer to well-organized, side-effect-free functions for complex processing. In fact, I’d recommend using them in precisely that way.
Wow, how childish is apple.

They made the link a pop up so that browswers like IE will ask the user if they really want to open it.

Most people are trained by now to say no, so most people won't actually see the statement.
You're spot on with weekend projects vs startups. I was fighting that mindset when I developed "nbaschedulesapp": drive traffic, get buzz. But lately I managed to escape that thought and the weekend project slowly becomes just that :).
They even added a new Javascript file for that. Responsive webdesign, right?!

http://images.apple.com/v/home/n/scripts/hero_resize.js
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This is interesting, but it leaves out Pennsylvania. Penn is a long shot for Romney, but the Romney campaign's internal polling must indicate that it's in play, otherwise they wouldn't be spending time in the final weekend campaigning there.
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We need to address the problem at its heart which is the separation of wealth. If there weren't huge players with lots of money to throw at the election (people and corporations), or if at least everyone had the same opportunity to do so, then a lot of those problems would be somewhat relieved.

unequal distribution of wealth ==
unequal distribution of money ==
unequal distribution of power !=
democracy
Don't stop now. I remember, when I was 11 I was also really nerdy and in many ways much smarter then now. My mistake was that I at some point dropped all this, because I couldn't find stuff that interested and excited me. It's really a flaw. As long as you are a teenager, you are able to find what excites you.

It's really hard to describe, but it is extremely bad to come out of practice and it happens so quickly. If you must find some kind of job or something that will make you practice every day.

P.S: Stuff that looks boring at the beginning usually isn't when you really get into it.
Well, as much as I think their position on this is complete bullshit and a slap in the face of freedom, they aren't committing crime to get at it, they are either asking nicely or have some form of warrant. Presumably, one would be committing a crime to get at theirs.
What "property rights" do you have in data files in the first place?
Isn't that like saying that if you put your car on somebody else's property, he now owns the car? My analogy may not be perfect, but I'm sure there are much better analogies out there that make what the Government is suggesting illogical.
Maybe this comment will be enough?

Size of file: 8.2mb

Transfer time over ~10Mbit broadband: 18.24s

Firefox onload (from GET): 49.21s

Chrome onload: N/A, still hung at 100% CPU after 15 minutes (Chrome attempts to style raw XML, whereas Firefox just makes a foldable tree like IE)

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My opinion is that if you put anything sensitive into the cloud without encrypting it, you are not doing it right. If you don't want the government reading whatever it is, why on Earth would you trust the cloud providers?
We're really looking forward to seeing what you've got in store on Tuesday.

It's been a while since the Interactive News Team profile a few years back; I think we'd all like to know how a major night goes down in the newsroom for your team.
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Sigh. I don’t get this. Why do people care about this and why do they complain? This seems completely meaningless to me. Why are some people so angry about this I don’t get it.

Apple obviously disagrees with the ruling, so they try everything to do as little as possible – they just screwed up the first time. That’s all. It doesn’t matter and there is no reason to be so angry about this. Who cares?
I prefer Barack Obama as President of the United States, primarily because I believe things like healthcare reform make job churn and entrepreneurship more feasible - however, there are SOME indications that maybe Obama's lead isn't what it looks like.

Polls are conducted on landlines, which nobody uses anymore. What does that mean? We don't know. Obama has only a slight early voting lead after leading in it 2-1 in 2008? What does that mean? Probably that both campaigns made a push for it this time around and it's reflecting the populous at large, BUT some polling data suggests maybe this isn't the case?
No, I don't think the exact statement was specified.
That is strange, because Net Apps also counts the iOS browser (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad) as something like 50-60% market share, when there are only 400 million iOS devices and 500 million Android devices. I doubt the majority of Android users have never used the browser.
Interesting how pointing out or getting worked up over 'isms' often betrays and uncovers a whole set of other 'isms'. And in some cases these other isms could be considered worse.

I don't mean criticizing anyone in particular in this thread, I just suddenly realize that this has often been the case in my personal behavior and in that of people around me.
Unfortunately, I am very familiar with all that you just described. That was me not so many years ago. Something I came to realize is that taking care of your family means more than bringing home a big paycheck.

I would suggest teaching programming to those who may never have the chance to learn. It would benefit society and your own spirit. There's plenty of ways to go about this and many of them can provide a nice living.

Above all, I would suggest that you find one thing (outside of work) that makes you happy/fulfilled and jump headfirst into it. Community service, outdoor sports, painting, drums... whatever. You'll be less frustrated and more pleasant to be around at work and at home.
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I was curious about this and verified all the other national versions. Across all the versions displaying the iPad on their front page, the US version is the ONLY version I have found that doesn't scale the iPad automatically.
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Well, obviously. But twenty percent are twenty percent. It doesn’t really matter where they come from. The net result is that Romney (according to Nate Silver) has a pretty good chance of winning.
I was thinking about doing this yesterday too. : - ). But I am too lazy.

My idea was to create an iOS app that analyzed a screenshot taken of a letterpress screen. That way you could also optimize for not using dark-red letter colours. Maybe you should try that!
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That "some guy" is Chris Anderson, an entrepreneur in his own right, and a guy who's accomplished a hell of a lot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Anderson_(writer)
It was, indeed. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4736646
Link to the actual article, rather than a slashdot summary:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/governments-attack-clo...
With a PDF of the Gov's filing here:
https://www.eff.org/document/govt41gfiling
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I think their argument is that you no longer maintain control of the object.

If you share a house with someone, and leave your drug paraphernalia in the common area, if your housemate invites the police in and they see it there they can use it in court and leverage that to search your room.

I disagree with their argument, but they are suggesting that the cloud provider is your housemate and you gave up control when you uploaded it to their common area.
> a court being able to dictate what goes on a company's website is a little perverse. I wonder how they decided the notice must be in an 11 pt font?

I guess it's somehow derived from deflamation dementis in newspapers. depending on the case courts also order it be in a certain size, on a certain page. it's not that ridiculous counting the fact that everybody reads and talks about the frontpage sensation, but nobody gives a crap about a dementi in the corner of page 18. the accusation itself is usually a great PR damage which is rarely fixed even by a successful verdict.
motoactv source has been available for a while. I guess this is just an update?
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How quickly we rediscover property rights in bits when they're our bits, as opposed to the RIAA's bits.
Maybe http://syphon.v002.info/
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So? What do you want? A balloon?
You might want to read the talent code for a few ideas on how talent is developed and then figure out what to do from there.

I am a professional developer for all of 1 month now, and when I started to learn and really dive in so that I could get a job, I wanted to give up every day and it sucked. I never could figure anything out.

But guess what? That is exactly how talent is built it. You only learn as you push or self to figure stuff out. You're probably doing the right things, but if you've never programmed before you probably have a lot of building to do before you 'get it'.
You're not kidding when you say massive resolution - even at 2560x1600, it is not visible.
The chances are very low that a national popular vote would be so close that counting or not counting dimpled/pregnant chads would make a difference. Lets also not make the assumption that the same people would vote in an electoral election as in a popular one. I think more people would vote, especially in non-swing states, where their vote usually doesn't matter as much in a presidential election

The main problem I see with the electoral college is that it forces the candidates to focus on winning the votes of just a few swing states, instead of the entire country. If the president is supposed to represent the needs/wants of the whole country, shouldn't everyone's vote count equally to decide who takes office?
Managed to get a list of all only the URLs.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8433360/linkedinusersurls.txt
"Copyright is a legal concept, enacted by most governments, giving the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it." - Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright

One might argue that my words in a document are not property, however they are often refereed to as intellectual property (refers to creations of the mind for which exclusive rights are recognized in law). They are mine and I hold the exclusive rights to them. I want them back. What right does a government have to take them from me?
but this is exactly the same range. (note that theses are ranges in the ring of integers)
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"visionary leadership and determination"

Agreed on both fronts. I wouldn't argue that being a determined visionary is a recipe for success, rather merely that it's a key ingredient for BIG successes and challenging problems.

Edit: can't proofread, apparently. Changed "an" to "a"
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I was going to write something fairly audacious and start dragging in the history of Western philosophy, but instead I'll just focus on what I see as the flawed foundation of your argument: fairness.

I'll argue that fairness is not really an intrinsic understanding we all share but instead is a concensus. You could argue that it's not fair that some people are blind, but that you'd find few sighted people willing to put out their eyes. Fairness is a relatively fluid concept and it doesn't make sense to try and anticipate how "fair" your actions are.

The way out of this dilemma is avoiding following this line of thought all the way to first-world guilt.
So in your case, you have skills and talents you know you are applying and skills an talents you know are idle. You also likely have talents yet untapped. It is a waste of your energy to worry about this.

Do the best thing you can that intersects with the things you are most interested in. Group concensus in the forms of laws, ethics, an morals should be consulted but not necessarily blindly followed.

Do good, and do it well.
Wish people took the dangers of cars this seriously. It seems to me that far more people are hurt by the careless use of cars than bad wiring.
So are they claiming it applies to servers owned by US companies or servers that are located in the US? For example as a European I'm hosted with Linode at their datacenter in London. Not that it really matters, apparently they are able to change the rules any time it suits them.
I am visiting my dad here in the Space Coast of Florida (Cape Canaveral) and the old retired people here I've spoken to are almost universally "angry at Obama" for "ending the space program".

I mention SpaceX and how they're advancing rocket technologies and doing things far cheaper than NASA ever could but it seems to fall on deaf ears.

I know it's pointless to argue, but I can't help myself. What else can I use in my argument?
> the accusation itself is usually a great PR damage which is rarely fixed even by a successful verdict.

I agree with this. I'm just not sure a court-mandated notice is the solution, precisely because it's so difficult to achieve the effect the court desires ("dispel a commercial uncertainty"). In practice, marketing, PR, public perception -- you name it -- is going to muddy whatever intent the court had, and the end result could be just as damaging as the original accusation.
I think it's different for people that started to program at young age compared with those who started late. Also compare the professional 9to5 developer with the academic, scientific or entrepreneur programmer. Sure I hope to be programming at fifty because programming isn't my job, it's my joy.
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If you are looking for background images(e.g. I just need a photo of a baby) - I generally use flickr.

Make sure to use the advanced search and select the "Find content to use commercially" option - and also don't forget to link back to the creators of images you use.
It's pretty ironic isn't it.
I wonder what this means for services like github?
for the sake of the discussion : Ask HN: Is 36 too late to start into programming? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1444486
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Heal your wounds, save some dough and same player shoots again.

You have to play a lot of chess games before you start winning. Start-ups are no different, the learning curve is quite steep but if you persevere at some point it will start to pay off. If your first start-up takes off in a couple of weeks or months that's the exception not the rule.

Establishing any kind of business normally takes about three years so you have to plan for that.
The average HNer might be smart enough to know that they should encrypt their data before uploading it, but does the average U.S. citizen know it? Many of them aren't even aware that they're uploading any data at all, let alone encrypt it.

Cloud computing has become so seamless that it's difficult even for experienced users to tell when their data is being sent somewhere else unless they pay attention all the time. For example, Office 2013 is very keen to save all your documents to SkyDrive.
Why would a correlation that exists both inside of and outside of swing states be affected by the electoral system? Something deeper is going on.

My theory is that the value of government and getting along with very different people is forced on those who live in cities. And the feeling that government doesn't do anything for you is reinforced if you live in the country. Therefore people who live in urban areas are more likely to be Democrat, and people who live in the country are more likely to be Republican. (People do move and keep their political beliefs, but that trend is pretty much universal.)

(Ironically government spends more per capita on people who live in the country than on people who live in the city. But the spending is less visible to them.)

Of course that's just my theory. But the trend exists.
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You are conflating different things in a way that does not make sense to me.

Is the RIAA claiming that the songs distributed by their constituent organizations are somehow private? No. They are claiming that they have the right to determine what happens to the bits after they have sold them on to another party. The arguments are over the extent of those rights of long term control.

The right to privacy of unsold, unpublished bits held by a third party under contract is what is being discussed here. The question is whether by storing your property in the safekeeping of a third party, do you lose your right of privacy?

It's a complex question. Among other facets, we need to consider what people think of as "private" -- because, ultimately, law ought to match up with the general opinion of the community it serves.
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> I can't picture the person who would know and care about this, and have it affect their purchasing decision.

It affects mine. That's only one data point and I'm sure there are millions who it won't affect.
That is an erroneous comparison. Regarding our own bits, it is the right to access information that we store on devices that we own or rent. Regarding "RIAA's bits" it is our right to copy information that was made publicly available. Regardless of political opinions, the contradiction that I think you are suggesting does not exist.
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Most of the other international sites have the same behavior. The US site, actually, appears to be the exception. If Apple is being a "petulant" "childish" "immature" company and flipping the bird at the UK judge, then they've gone to elaborate multi-national lengths to provide plausible deniability.

It's also not the first time they've had dynamically adjusting product pages.
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pls release source and provide link on github.
Here, speed is a measure of the magnitude of velocity. It's perfectly acceptable to describe velocity (or a component thereof) as speed in a particular direction.