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inDinero (YC S10) seeks Lead Engineer
inDinero has been hauling for about two years now, growing to over a thousand paying business customers, and we're looking for a lead developer! Both founders (Andy and Jessica) studied computer science before starting the company, and they wrote most of the initial code until product launch. Today, the company has five full-time developers scattered across the globe, and we're looking for a tech lead who can oversee our team and it's growth as we go from five to thirty.

What will happen day-to-day?

+Spec out new product features with our design team
+Improve our engineering workflow
+Get feedback from team on how we can speed up their work
+Make sure the test suite runs faster and is continuously running
+See that all devs get their technical questions answered promptly
+Update the dummy databases that our developers test code on
+Prioritize long-term structural improvements to make to our infrastructure
+Upgrading Rails
+Using something like mongo to track events
+Make sure the servers will scale
+Ensure high security. Audit code base every quarter.
+Refactor and modularize key parts of our code base.

Skills we're looking for:

Ruby on Rails, 1+ years
Java, 2+ years
HTML/CSS/Javascript
Sysadmin experience (Debian)

Interested? Shoot a note over to jobs@indinero.com with why you'd be perfect for the role!
Could you please elaborate, so that more people do not fall into this intellectual trap?
No, Patrick Leahy Is Not Trying To Undermine Email Privacy
Show HN: GiftMating - gift ideas based on things your giftees already love
I can't verify since I'm at work, but I'm pretty sure he talks about how a single roller can clear up to four mines. To me that implies this is meant as a tool for clearing the mines.
I've always felt that airport security was always about testing the limits of the complacency of the people and not really about security. I imagine some person complaining during a security checkpoint, holding up the line, and some lady yelling from behind in support of the government keeping "us" safe. It's kind of pathetic and undignified.
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Think if Android had the same "patch small and often" as Google Chrome, that way, this could be fixed rather quick.
"Ironically" many of these have been the case for decades while the gap between Silicon Valley and other locations only grew.
It sounds and looks like an off by one bug. But it could be nasty to fix if people have already created events with an off by one bug. Any update to fix the date picker could then cause their scheduled dates to show up a month early, and would therefore also have to include some sort of script to update existing scheduled events users have created.
Each year I've had a secret I use to find gifts for people: go to Amazon, find two things I know my gift recipient likes, then compare the "similar items" section to find matches. It's kind of tedious to do, but it works like a charm. This year, I made a GiftMating to do the same things with less effort.

Tech behind the scenes: Rails, Zurb Foundation, Amazon Product Advertising API

PS: really loving Foundation as an alternative to Bootstrap - you get a responsive layout that you can use by specifying the grid in css instead of in html.
Thanks for the Udacity resource I will definitely go check that out. Just wondering but do you have any finished public projects? I would really like to see how another high schooler approaches programming.
There doesn't appear to be any "Forgot my password" option.
It's debatable whether or not they did the right thing. Many security researchers would say that the right thing would have been telling AT&T first, giving AT&T a reasonable amount of time to respond, and only then going to the media.

This also speaks to motives. At the end of the day, I don't really care whether or not weev is a good guy. I do think it's important to be really clear about why he does the things he does, because otherwise you're not having the real conversation. IMHO, it's more important to protect jerks than it is to protect nice guys. It's harder to protect jerks.

Therefore, you're doing the community a disservice if you paint weev as an angel. Let him be who he is. Then defend him if his case merits it.

Tangentially, "many greyhat researchers don't have those ethics or morals" is irrelevant. The question at hand is whether or not weev acted morally, not whether or not he did better than average.
It all depends on who the IIN is that issued the SIM card. If it's an AT&T-issued card (which would include all of AT&T's MVNOs, such as Straight Talk), the iPhone just sees an AT&T SIM card, and applies the Apple-signed AT&T carrier profile to it, and in that carrier profile is a bit that controls whether the phone allows access to the Cellular Data Network menu or not, which AT&T has set to "deny."

If you put in a SIM card that the iPhone has no clue about (such as T-Mobile U.S.)., then iOS will fall back to a generic carrier profile, which does allow access to the APN editing submenu.

The problem is that Straight Talk is an AT&T MVNO, and so Straight Talk SIMs are indistinguishable from AT&T SIM cards from the iPhone's perspective. The iPhone engineers made a bad assumption, which is that all cards issued by carrier X should be treated exactly the same.
Luckily it's only ~4.5% of the world's population.
What you say also has analogies with the early days of cars.
> because surely whenever things get tough in a country, the answer is to turn tail and run away to somewhere "better"

The USA PATRIOT Act turned 10 years old in October 2011. If it was going to get better, it would have happened in the first decade.

There are way more things you can't say in the USA than there are things you can't say in Germany. On paper, it certainly appears as if the US has more liberty, sure.

I realized that it was time to go when I walked up the path to the Jefferson Memorial and saw a sign indicating that carrying firearms is prohibited on the grounds.

The liberties that are guaranteed to you in the constitution are no longer real. The fact that Germany enumerates the specific things you can't say and do actually makes it much better here.

EDIT: Found the sign from the TJ memorial. I took a picture of it when I was in DC to visit the NSA's Crypto Museum. http://i.imgur.com/KROsp.jpg
Couldn't this mean a big hit to ALL american IT companies? I for one(brasilian) would move out of G-mail right off the bat, this bill probably means USA gets to snoop and mine data on anyone even if not an american citizen, possibly even if such thing is illegal in this person country...

I'd definitely consider abandoning plenty of USA-based services/business, use an alternative from some other place that has some regard for humanity, spread the word to people I know, maybe even making a living off of it

- "come to my service everyone, we're not .com!"
Chattanooga, TN (which already has 1Gig fiber deployed throughout the city) is definitely heading in the same (right) direction.
The cost of living is drastically cheaper, and the quality of life with easy access to mountains, rivers, lakes, shops, cafes, etc can be drastically better.
The drawbacks of course are obvious; hiring enough talented people, smaller city environment, relocation, creating connective tissue with other startup people/ funders to create network effects.
But, if you're build a product, service, company and don't immediately have a product-market fit, this environment allows you to stay alive longer, which can allow you to find success, whereas your seed funding or quick-market play would have died and dried up in more expensive towns.
This is my questions as well, I think the TSA at this point is far more trouble than the massive budget the government is wasting on them. I've read countless articles and watched countless videos complaining about the TSA, pointing out their flaws. But I've yet to see a reasonable plan to cut their budget. And even if someone was able to lower their budget, what happens if something does happen then. I'd love to see any plans, but just cutting the TSA budget entirely has obvious ill effects, it's definitely not as easy as saying, "The TSA is useless, get rid of them."
My setup is like iron.io, and supervisord manages all of the PHP daemons.

* video encoding and thumb-nailing
* image conversion
* content upload to ftp, s3, rs cloud, etc
* address geocoding
* email notifications
* web scraping

All in all, very pleased. The next part is to build a unified control panel to watch my processes and workers. For now I use the one built into supervisord.
Won't work, is morally wrong, will get you in trouble, and will change the story to something that helps the bill get passed.
> In fact, extremist Islamic terrorism resulted in just 200 to 400 deaths worldwide outside the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq — the same number, Mueller noted in a 2011 report (http://politicalscience.osu.edu/faculty/jmueller/CNApart.pdf), as die in bathtubs in the U.S. alone each year.

Can anyone find a citation for the "200 to 400 deaths" claim? The NCTC report (http://www.nctc.gov/docs/2011_NCTC_Annual_Report_Final.pdf) seems to give much higher numbers, unless I'm missing something.
Which, of course, has become much more of a problem since the airlines started charging for checked bags/IRS made baggage fees tax-exempt.

"...amounts paid for baggage services (such as
Service G) are not subject to the tax" [http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-wd/1002004.pdf]
Amazon floats Windows Server 2012 into AWS cloud
I'd wished SQL support was marked as for 1.0 not after 1.0.
Ok, to be contrarian, "Why is this a good time?"

Here is what I don't agree with in this statement, you take the app they shipped and the money they raised and you then assert they could have done it for so much less.

The flaws in that claim are that the shipped application is probably not particularly close to the 'vision' of what they wanted it to be, no doubt it was a minimum viable product to test the basic concept, and you and I don't really know how much money they spent, we know how much they raised, they could have most of it still in the bank, less real estate and salary costs.

I don't think there was anything at all wrong with the color "concept" or what they were trying to achieve. The two things that failed were; they raised too much money and their management collapsed.

Raising too much money is a well known risk for serial entrepreneurs, after a few 'hits' you find a lot of people want in on your next project. (apparently this is true in Hollywood too but I've no personal experience with that). The 'right' thing to do is get your minimal funding and move on, use the extra leverage to improve the term sheet, not get more money. Rule #1 for any startup is have a plan for every single dollar you raise.

I can assure you that even if they had the printing money [1] product having that much dysfunction at the top level is going to kill it dead. Further its really impossible to ship something if your leadership isn't at least somewhat aligned and sharing the same goals. That is particularly true of the CEO. As its one of the CEO's primary responsibility to guide the train to its destination, if they are compromised the train stops. That is what you have a board of directors, having only the overall success of the company as their motivation they are supposed to recognize this and toss the CEO. Say what you want about Yahoo's board but they certainly have the 'fire the CEO' process down.

Color was a spectacular failure, but not because the app they shipped could have been shipped for less, rather their failure is that they executed so poorly against their original vision.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/05/stupid-questions-vcs-ask/
From the article:

"This data is gonna be one for the history books. It's looking really good..."
Following the published disclosure guidelines that Google and Facebook created will in fact prevent the FBI from "fucking you", because any lawyer in the world can read the plain meaning of the statutes point out that a reasonable person would believe they had permission to conduct tests.

On the other hand, if you're dealing with an application for which you don't have any written permission to test, just stop. You are not entitled to conduct your own security tests of other people's applications. Leave them alone.
I think that's a bit of historical revisionism right there. Nobody sold Silicon Valley 1.0 on IP protection "on an emotional basis." The companies were just tired of doing free R&D for the Chinese.
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I usually do both. The research suggests that it's possible to raise willpower, but slowly. So if I have several habits I want to accomplish (e.g. eating healthy, going to the gym, and spending less time on facebook) I'll make n-1 of them automatic, and use the last to exercise my willpower.
It's too bad we don't have a culture/ecosystem of instrumenting our browser to perform mass surveillance on company behavior. It would be interesting to collect data like this across many advertisers and do a proper study. Seems to me that the hub-and-spokes information sharing model that companies have with their customers creates a form of obfuscation of business practice that works to the company's advantage.
1) People can comment on items allowing, among other things, people to co-ordinate sharing buying large presents and alerting people they've got an alternative but similar item. Both of these would be useful for me and my family.

2) You can create a group of your family/friends, giving everyone a single place to look for multiple people's lists.

Whether that's enough of an advantage to negate the ease of purchasing and trust with Amazon Universal Wishlist I'm not sure.
dabble is: http://dabble.it
It's a story of unintended consequences, of an attempted bug fix that introduces a new bug. A story about choosing a technology that seems to serve your needs but doesn't serve your customers. A story of what can go wrong when you've locked yourself into your business model and company culture and can't pivot.
buy a couple of cubes. let people use them when they don't want to be distrubed.
A quibble, because this whole fucking disgusting thing fills me with limitless rage:

TSA agents do not perform 'pat-downs'. Pat-downs are very quick checks to see if any obvious weapons are being concealed on someone's body. Police will do these before putting a suspect into a police vehicle, for instance.

TSA employees do what are called 'custody searches', designed to find contraband material on detainees. These are only performed under specific scenarios, such as being incarcerated.

Custody searches in this context are forbidden by the fourth amendment, by the way, regardless of what the TSA's legal team may claim.
That would require Google to be in a very different business than they are, however. Apple can do this, and Microsoft, but no matter how quickly this gets fixed upstream, there are many more stops the fix-the-damn-defect train has to visit in Android world.
I noticed that not all security check points have the "naked" scanners, even at major airports you can find one security line at a lesser used security checkpoint that only has a standard metal detector. If goal is security, shouldn't all security lines have the scanners? Security is only as strong as the weakest link.

The bigger concern isn't the checkpoints inside the airpot, its the checkpoints on the roads to the airport. I want to know how the police can search my car without a warrant on a public road.
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I don't see 'sneak doing anything but saying that A.A. was hit very hard by the Justice Department, and that he deserves the best possible defense and, in the meantime, the least possible disruption to his life. I wouldn't have coughed up bail money, but I admire the hell out of 'sneak for doing that.
If you do that "the cloud" can do nothing with that data. You wouldn't be able to search your gmail account without storing it all offline unencrypted. The only cloud service that just about works with encryption is backup.
Honestly? Give it a rest? I'd usually try to write a more objective comment, but in this case it's pretty simple.

Not. Bloody. Likely.
http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/

Basically, the server you're talking to, as well as any resources on that page, can undermine your javascript primitives and render your crypto useless (or just backdoor it).

If you trust the server to not backdoor your crypto... you can just trust the server to _do_ the crypto in the first place.

There is an effort underway to build better crypto APIs into browsers, but I'll bet you a bitcoin that it's super easy to fuck up the implementation of and most end up being insecure, and/or nobody ends up using it after all.
This is attacking a problem that needs a lot more attention: how should footnotes (or endnotes or whatever) be handled? In other words, what is a good way to handle the addition of optional material in an otherwise linear text?

That said, looks like a nice idea. Not sure how much I like this particular solution yet. Thanks for posting.
This "viewpoint" has existed in many different ways and forms over the last 30 years.

Whether it was communications that would kill the Valley's proximity advantage (be it via the Internet, or even cheaper telephone and fax before that), or labor cost advantages (not just other states, but then other countries like India, China), or lower tax rates in other places, etc.
Woah. When I went to comment on this post it was on the front page. When I submitted my comment it was nowhere to be found.

There should be a required comment when YC folks bury a story. Otherwise it's pretty sketchy.
> Wouldn't doing due diligence mean you spend this time, however long it requires, to find out the reality of the company?

Possibly, but consider my analogy of buying a house.

When you do a house inspection you get a professional to do it for you. You have to trust his opinion in a lot of cases and in even more cases you understand that he can't vouch for some things.

ie wiring behind walls, mold checks on hidden surfaces, foundation cracks behind finished walls.

if you wanted to do all this on your house inspection you'd have to kick out the tenants for 3-4 weeks and tear the house down to the studs to be 100% sure there were no problems.

Now go back and consider the purchase of a company by another. If they wanted to know every detail it would take 2 years and shut down the company being aquired while they do it.

No sane company would ever agree to that so you have the situation we currently have where you negotiate what the acquiring company can see and what the break fee is if they walk away.

Sadly the diligence phase is often farmed out to an IB who has no interest in seeing the deal break.
If all the overhead compartments are full and they have to check your carry-on, they won't charge you any fee, at least on the major US airlines I've flown on.
Odds of developing cancer: 1 in 3

Lets convert it to a cancer awareness foundation; where they touch you for actually important reasons.

Source: http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancerbasics/lifetime-probabili...
Hmm, not sure why you conflate face-to-face and phone. I prefer to not talk over the phone, but have absolutely no problem talking face to face. Just thought I'd throw that out for the record. :)
It depends on your mindset. I use both and love both but when it comes to massive changes on critical components in huge codebases give me static typing every time.
very nice! resembles a lot of my research intersts ;)
Reads a bit like a younger, less alcoholic Hunter S Thompson wrote it.
"Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like charm."
You also have people who get shoved to the ground and just take it, letting the bullies get away.

People assume that there are more of the fakers than the pushovers, but most of the studies I've seen of the legal system show that there are way more people who fail to enforce their rights than there are people trying to game the system. E.g. only a small fraction of medical malpractice claims are clearly not meritorious. On the other hand, only a small fraction of those who have a legitimate malpractice actually sue. The same is true for environmental harms, etc.
Interesting idea. I think it's biggest downfall is that it's yet another item that you are carrying around. Doesn't seem like it's as convenient or as cheap as printing QR Codes. And NFC could be used for just about any data, where this seems like it's targeted at purchases.

Still gotta give props to the creative thinking.
Suicide rate in Japan is 23.7 per 100,000, double that of most developed countries.

Also, Japan's murder stats are rigged -- if the police don't know who the killer is it isn't a murder, it's an "abandoned body". See Freakonomics for more on this.
I said his method of debate was intellectually dishonest. Not the man or his opinion on the matter. For all I know he thoroughly researched the topic and weighed both sides before reaching his conclusions.

But his argument was clearly fallacious. In one sentence, he implies that correlation proves causation, followed by an attempt to frame the debate on his terms by definitively dismissing the claims of the opposition.

These are not tactics used in honest debate. They're being used to discredit the opposition and sway third parties.

I see that as cut and dry. If you don't, we're going to have to agree to disagree. But I stand by what I said, and its relevance to this discussion.
Maybe we should. Exhaust all combinations and verify them for time when this "idea" was conceived, then dump out the list on a website and have people come up with uses for it (and actually use them.)

Boom! Prior art to invalidate future bullshit.
Yes, a senator is doing that actually. In fact he wants to abolish it, not just downsize it. If you care about this, support him:

http://rt.com/usa/news/senator-rand-paul-tsa-536/
The numbers themselves aren't the real takeaway, it's how preventable these deaths are.
Shotgun sequencing of DNA
You're probably thinking of the Hawthorne effect[1]. It's like a placebo effect for productivity experiments. It basically says that when employees were being observed (as part of an experiment to boost productivity), their productivity would increase even if no other changes were made. So you have to control for the Hawthorne effect to see the impact of other changes.

That said, the Hawthorne effect is short-term, so you could measure the impact of building willpower and habits by looking at how people perform over a year. I imagine that this has been done, but I don't know of any studies off the top of my head.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
I've mentioned this before in previous posts:

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4646710 (How to beat comment spam)

in short: https://www.projecthoneypot.org/
Thats with a properly working scanner. The scanner can produce lethal amounts of radiation and you're one software glitch from getting this dose. Its happened in past. Scary thing is these devices aren't under the same rules as medical devices which has checks and procedures in place to prevent malfunctions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
Not all of these are comparable, since some of them are at least partially avoidable. For example, I'm sure the odds of dying from fireworks are much higher than the number listed if you use fireworks, and much less if you don't. And the chances of being legally executed are much higher if you murder someone than if you don't.
The death of index investing (2008)
Instead of sheep (which apparently require a lot of contact)--how many emu farms in the US have gone bankrupt recently?
Read your own article. Nobody beyond the scanner manufacturers have confirmed those radiation doses.

There is no transparency in this process whatsoever, there is a very real health risk since There Is No Consequence-Free Exposure To Ionizing Radiation, and these machines are not operated by trained medical professionals.

Horrible accidents have happened in vastly more regulated instances.