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WebAction (http://www.webaction.com) - Full time or intern in Palo Alto, CA (Downtown Palo Alto). Seeking UI developers and Platform Engineers.

WebAction is a start-up looking to fill the gap between Big Data and transaction data. We have just closed our Series A round and we are getting ready to launch our product. Our seasoned founding team has multiple successful exits; including some of the key enterprise infrastructure software that you use today. We are located in a newly-renovated office in famous downtown Palo Alto. You can walk to the Apple store in 7 minutes, Starbucks in 8 and the train station in about 15.

UI or front-end Developers should be well-versed in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery. You should be interested in Data Visualization libraries such as D3 or processing. Strong programming fundamentals and experience with languages like Java/C/C++ is a huge plus. Experience developing native iOS apps would also be strongly desired, but not a requirement.

For the Platform Engineer position, you should have or at least be interested in learning: Large-scale distributed systems, Highly available, highly scalable architectures, Hadoop (MapReduce / Pig / Zookeeper), Data Serialization (Avro / Thrift / Protocol Buffers), Bytecode generation and injection, NoSQL / BigData (MongoDB / Cassandra / HBase), Real-time messaging (0MQ / Kestrel / Kafka or similar), Real-time event processing, Continuous Queries

If you are interested, email us at jobs@webaction.com. In your message, mention "Hacker News" and feel free to let us know about your passions or any technologies that excite you. We look forward to hearing from you.
Clarification: we are looking for 4 developers. Not for a single developer with all the skills :-)
I used Jekyll up until 7 months ago before switching to Pelican and blogged about it here:

http://blog.williamting.com/posts/2012/05/30/migrating-from-...

tldr: Wanted to mess around with internals, but rather than learn Ruby I switched to a Python-based platform instead. I've learned Ruby since then, but only at a surface level of comprehension.
Ask HN: What's the next innovation in computer languages?
What's the next innovation in the computer language landscape?
- Punch cards
- Machine instructions, Assembler
- C and native languages
- Managed, Interpreted and Garbage Collected systems

What do you envision as the next step in this journey?
This trope comes up every time piracy is discussed. The point is no one is talking about the legal meaning of "stealing" versus "copyright infringement". What people are saying is that it's immoral.

The fact that a content company's product is easily stolen simply because the nature of his business means it is effortless to do through the internet doesn't change anything. If you go to a lawyer for legal advice and then refuse to pay him saying "I haven't deprived you of a tangible product so it's not really stealing" you are missing the point, it's still theft. No one would do that, but they do pirate content because it's unbelievably easy and there are no consequences. That's the only reason.

Some people are honest about it and say "I just don't want to pay for it". But most people I hear justifying piracy feel entitled to it and don't think there's anything wrong.
And for folks in mid-Missouri, check out http://www.theloi.com/ and https://comorichweb.posterous.com/
I was going to complain about not simply posting the ifixit link, but ifixit's site design is so terrible I had to go through the entire "guides > mac repair > imac > imac model" click path to find it, after having to think about what of "guides," "answers," etc. it might be under.

Ifixit seems to be trying to push their retail sales over their content, so thanks 9to5mac...I guess.
iirc, Microsoft originally uploaded Office to places it could be easily pirated to help it spread and take over the market.

It worked.
Point in case, I've been trying to buy Windows 8 in Bolivia for the past three weeks and STILL can't buy it legally anywhere.

Every option has been exhausted and I'm kind of annoyed. I wanted to ditch my pirated version of Windows 7 and finally go legit now that I can afford it, but Microsoft just won't take my money.

A torrent just works.
I don't use Windows, but Chrome's Adblock Plus works great (perfectly if you disable the "allow not-so-bad ads" preference) and I've never had all my Chrome processes go rogue, usually just one, and I can kill it by closing the tab itself or by using Chrome's process manager.
Maybe consider re-using an existing wire protocol, such as that for Postgres or MongoDB (whatever is closest conceptually to your database)? Or use HTTP? That way you don't need to re-invent a client for every language.
Graduate college, launch a startup, conquer the universe. :)
It can be hard to tell when you're immersed in the tech community, but OS X only has around 7.3% of the overall desktop OS market share[0]. So if Windows 8 took 1% of the market share, it would have 1/7th the share of OS X.

0: http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share....
For one, it costs $20 to upgrade your OS X. Windows 8 costs three times as much.
I say the same thing about audiobooks / lectures. In high school, I spent most of my part-time job listening to lectures about economics, game theory, linguistics, all sorts of topics. This was enabled 100% by piracy. Some of these lectures are worth hundreds or even thousands of dollars, which I obviously could not have afforded as a high schooler. Still, the fact that I got all of that content and learning for basically free is in some sense, in my mind, a good outcome of piracy, even though I don't advocate for piracy (in fact, I think it's a large problem).

For the record, now that I have money, I purchase the lectures that I listen to. Maybe if I become wealthy, I will go back and buy the ones I listened to.
The "We have a winner" makes me expect something substantive, but this post is just the author rambling about a tentative choice he made.
Assuming one were looking to create a simple static file from scratch (e.g. a personal blog), why would one select Frozen-Flask over a traditional static site engine?

If you are familiar with building sites with Flask, I can obviously see the appeal, but for someone unfamiliar with Flask, is there any advantage to going the Frozen-Flask route over simply using a static site generator and content stored as flat markdown? One of the selling points of static sites for me was not having to include a database layer for something as simple as a personal blog with a few dozen entries that I wish to serve.
Netflix open sources resilience engineering library
Yeah Zynga sucks but this is another cautionary tale of relying on someone else's (web) platform.
> I think anecdotally there are phones with even better battery life (razr maxx, iphone5, htc one x) but to say that Nexus 4 is a step down from the Gnex is absolutely false.

It's no anecdote, most high-end smartphones crush that statistic even in objective tests. If 2 hours of usage is "good battery life" for you, then your standards are way too low. Just checked my iPhone 5, with LTE, Location Services, WiFi, and Bluetooth enabled. On a Canadian carrier that doesn't support LTE connections for calls (meaning the 3G radio is running all the time too).

3 hours and a minute of usage according to my phone, as well as 8 hours of standby. It's still at 60%. 2 hours is like a bad netbook. I don't know how you even stand a phone like that. I've had Bluetooth earbuds with better battery life. However it does explain why every time I've wanted to try out someone's Android device they had to enable data for me.

No wonder. I would disable data too if my phone didn't even outlast my commute. I think we have also discovered another reason it doesn't have LTE. Only two hours of usage with 3G is beyond ridiculous.
Israel and Japan don't need aircraft carriers. And you can't just supply your own planes and weapons--you need planes that are specially designed to land on a carrier with a tailhook, ordinary planes won't work.
Great Scott! That's almost enough to power a flux capacitor.
Microsoft Photosynth has (or had) a similar feature a while back. I don't know if they ever took it further than the "isn't this cool" phase though.
Open source is not an option in this instance.

The point Vlad is trying to make is that when he was 15 he pirated Photoshop, learnt to use it, and got a job using it. He might have learnt some ideas and methods had he downloaded GIMP and used that instead, but ultimately he would have nothing on someone with years of Photoshop experience. The UI and many ideas are completely different.
What I find would be interesting is how the virtual world would differ to ours today. Would we still have world wars, would we have different social expectations in the game?
AFAICT there isn't anything special for high achievers except for a better "rank": 70+ = Prince, 80+ = King, 90+ = Legend, 100 = Master of the Universe
Netflix Open Sources “Resilience Engineering” Code Library
You can also try my variant of adbfs (which doesn't require rooting the phone)
https://github.com/spion/adbfs-rootless

If you have the Android SDK installed its worth a try.
I love CloudFront because it automatically fetches assets from my deployed application and then caches them. I don't have to manually move stuff to S3 at all! Can CloudFlare do something similar?
Serve (http://get-serve.com/). I usually pair it with a simple Rakefile to clean up any cruft.
More contrast on the site, please.
Elegance of the fonts is just not visible. You could use better fonts, but that is my personal opinion again.

I think you have hit a sweet spot - with the Q&Opinion model, if you implement it well. I signed up!
Was this not what Spore was intended to be? You evolve a life form into a civilization. It seems as though the OP is going for something a little more open (and therefore ambitious) than Spore's rigid 5 stage structure.

Good luck! You're going to need it. If this game gets finished, I'll be first in line.
Yes, AFAIK that's actually the only way CloudFlare works. You switch your DNS to them so that your site resolves to one of their servers and CloudFlare fetches pages and assets from your origin server.
> No other country on earth comes close to having an Enterprise-class carrier (let alone Nimitz-class)

What about France? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_aircraft_carrier_Charles...
> New versions of OS X don't break older apps.

A minor QuickTime version update halfway into Tiger's lifespan completely broke RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 for a while. It wasn't an OS update, granted, but still irksome. Also, Mountain Lion throws a hissy fit if you try to run a Flash-based app with Gatekeeper enabled (even if you do the right-click->open workaround).

> My 2009 Intel desktop Mac can run all apps ever released for OS X, even the ones compiled for PowerPC.

Are you still running Snow Leopard, by any chance? http://appleinsider.com/articles/11/02/26/mac_os_x_lion_drop...
These days, it seems that when I ask great 20-something-year-old programmers (or whatever term we use) at what age they started to program computers, I the answer is usually 10+. I wonder if it will be the same in 20 years? How young will it go?
Very helpful for everyone trying to find investors. Thanks.

But I think angellist is not even 'active' anymore. It takes 20-30 seconds to open the main page. The whole site is completely bugged (a LOT of buttons don't do anything, etc). I've been trying to complete my profile there - the site is bugged to the point of being useless.
>"OS X tends to break older apps"
>[citation needed]

Apps that dig deep into the OS are always at risk, VMWare Fusion is probably the best example of this. At my previous job there were issues with versions of Adobe CS (3 or 4, I can't really remember) and Snow Leopard.

Apple removed Rosetta from Lion, no PowerPC apps will run on anything after that.

Apple has a horrible backwards compatibility track record, Microsoft is significantly better in this respect.
McAfee Captured: Report
What is ambitious, is the thought that any tab (which I usually open in the background) starts playing automatically video and/or sound won't get closed immediately.

Sorry but you got to respect your visitors.
Just wanted to mention a tiny correction.

CloudFlare does have a single file purge option available: http://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-single-file-purge

Single file purge is also available via our API here: http://www.cloudflare.com/docs/client-api.html#s4.5

I have mentioned this correction to the author as well.
"hack days every other weekends"

Does that mean "you'll have to come into work every other weekend"?
San Francisco, CA. Full time. H1B okay.

Sharing over social media is driving an ever-increasing percentage of web traffic, and becoming more central to the adoption and spread of every type of application. But app developers are flying blind -- not only are traditional web analytics very bad at tracking social traffic due to the rise of mobile clients and increasing prevalence of HTTPS, but even when they have the numbers, they don't have actionable data.

That's the problem awe.sm solves: our platform tracks sharing behavior and results, and ties them back into meaningful metrics -- whether thats page views, signups, or a dollar value in sales. Our APIs and drop-in integrations allow developers to integrate social data deeply into their products without needing to reinvent the wheel (and our wheel is really shiny).

We're an engineering-driven team building products primarily for other developers, so we're passionate about providing an amazing experience for developers. To help us get there, we're looking for a Developer Experience Lead, which you might also call a Platform Evangelist. By that we mean somebody who will own the experience a developer has using our product: somebody who understands deeply how to get the most out of awe.sm, and has the communication skills to get that information to developers. That will mean representing awe.sm at hackathons, conferences and other developer events, and being the primary point of contact for developers building on our platform on Stack Overflow and other forums. We want you to find the pain points before our customers do, and feed that information back to the engineering team, so we can adapt our product to real-world needs.

This is an unusual role, combining technical talents with public speaking and writing skills, but for the right person it's a dream job, and there's no role more critical to our growth right now.

http://totally.awe.sm/jobs?source=hackernews

We're 14 people right now. We have a cool office with awesome views ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/seldo/6326815086/in/photostream ) in the heart of the Mission. We have catered lunches, and full health, vision and dental coverage. We use an IRC server for team communication and are agile in the sense that we move quickly and react fast, not in the sense of having attended an overpriced training course.
I have set up and run cloudflare on all our sites, very happy with it. Super easy to use and gives me piece of mind.
For the longest time, cracking Photoshop was a 1 byte change. In effect, there was a conditional JMP. You patch the address of the good JMP to the bad conditional side.

Voila: enter a good or bad serial, and it works. A bunch of us under +Fravia came to an agreement that this simplicity was intentional. I think we all can come to the conclusion to why that is...

As to your supposition that no amount of 'junk' would stop pirates, I do beg to differ. Back around '98-2000, there was a CD burning program that was notorious to crack. I don't remember the name offhand. There were over a thousand verify checks built into the program at crazy locations. Many would also attempt to write corrupt CDs and ISOs. And the "best part": if you were using a 'naughty' code, it would silently take it and slowly corrupt everything that program touches.

Most pirates ignored it and went with NERO to crack/distribute. A few of the hardcore crackers took on that program. I knew of 2 successes.
SEEKING WORK - iOS & Rails Development (San Francisco/Bay Area or Remote)

What Have I Got?

- A successful iOS app on the App Store (http://www.lineup-app.com), experience developing iOS frameworks, building mobile backends and websites with Rails (and Heroku or AWS), and figuring out how to get things done.

- I have worked with custom backends and Parse, I have built extensively on top of Twilio (Client and Rest API), and I pick new things up quickly.

- I have about a year of experience in both iOS and Rails development, but have already done a lot. This means you will get excellent results, but at a cheaper cost.

What makes me different?

- I have a double major in Physics and German from UC Berkeley

- I lived in Goettingen, Germany for over a year and am more than conversant in German

- I was a professional lifeguard in Newport Beach, CA for 7 years

- Straight out of college, I worked as a paralegal at an IP law firm in Palo Alto, CA for a year

What does all this mean? It means that I can get your job done, will actually talk to you (call me: 415-799-4160), and can help you far beyond being your code monkey (though I'm happy to do that too).

I am a US citizen, available immediately, can pick up new projects, fix existing projects, just answer your questions, or help at any stage of your app's progress (idea, building, testing, distribution, marketing, etc.) -- I've done it all and would love to help you out.

Did something up there convince you that I'm your guy? If so, shoot me an email (erik@erikstromlund.com) or call me (415-799-4160). I'm more than happy to talk to you about your project (no cost of course) and let you know how I can help, or point you to someone who can.
How will time progress? Are the first people in the game going to be playing in a primitive era, and people who join later on (2+ years down the line) playing in a high tech future world?

Very interesting and highly ambitious. Looking forward to seeing how this goes.
Glasgow, anyone?
The biggest problem with games like these is the fact that people aren't on enough to guard their creations. I have played on and helped construct many minecraft servers trying to do this, and one-man midnight raids supported by deeply hidden bases quickly become the only viable strategy.

The only reason civilization was able to arise in real life is the fact that people can be "exploited" by moral obligation and imbalanced fear to put the common good above their own. This doesn't work in a video game.
That name is very close to vim fugitive.
This happens automatically with CloudFlare. As your traffic passes through our service we automatically cache your files, and then on subsequent requests we will serve those caches files for you -- saving requests to your web server and saving your bandwidth.
The only losers to Google's inconsiderate decision to remove choice from the consumer will be the developers... I will not be be leaving feedback now; so what next? Google gonna stop me installing 'andapps' from Play Store if I don't comply and accept their manipulation?... Google will eventually back-peddle on its decision to expose users personal details without, at least, the option not to reveal personal detail.
bad_user
"This is a good thing"... Your opinion only and not consensus.
bad_user
"and I do not agree that it is negative for users."... Your opinion only, and you do not 'speak' for others... remember your place!
What if you had unlimited budget, programming talent, art assets, scalability, and an infinite supply of fun/novelty/etc without even needing NPCs.

Wouldn't that be awesome?
John McAfee captured?
Spore was intended to be singleplayer, but interacting with AI driven NPCs based on other player's creations.
The US carrier fleet ensured that the US and its allies would have total naval and air supremacy throughout the Cold War. This is one of the reasons that various potential enemies never even considered attacking us.

A weapon doesn't have to be used in anger in order to protect. It need only be ready.
I almost never respond negatively to a proposal on HN, but this seems like a bunch of BS. They're claiming to build a full-world simulation, and all they have to show are some doodles and a voiceover. MAYBE if I heard that the world's 5 biggest game studios were working together on this I'd believe they might get close, but as a indie project this is not possible.
It sounds exactly like real life. It sounds boring, for a game.
I expected to see graphs and proofs. There were none. I did not read the article.
Well, before the Note II, I used an iPhone 3GS for 3.5 years. I was trying my hardest to make it last as long as possible, because I like making things last as long as possible -- it's a win win because technology gets better every month and your cost of ownership declines. But the battery was giving out and it wasn't worth it to spend $80 replacing the iphone battery.

When I surveyed the field I basically narrowed it down to the Note II and the Nexus 4. I didn't want to wait any longer since I needed a phone now, so I got the Note. At $199 for a 2yr contract upgrade on Amazon, you're getting a lot of value for the money. There's a video out there of a guy hooking up the Note II to a TV and easily using it as a desktop computer. It's quite powerful. And LTE is great ... I speed tested it at 48 mbps the other day, and this was 12 miles from downtown.

The delayed updates are indeed a downside. Samsung's keyboard and predictive text are crap compared to the iPhone's (yes, you get Swype, but I don't always want to do the swiping).

If you're a heavy mobile user, lots of apps and media consumption, get the Note II. If you're a moderate user, mostly phone and email, I'd say do nothing, wait a year. The longer you wait, the better the products get, and you experience more "wow factor" when you finally do make the switch from your old dinosaur to the newest offering.
Great idea. I meet so many engineers who never took a speech class or simply don't know how to effectively present an idea to a group of more than one or two people.
The Navy has maybe half a dozen ships that are specialized for that role already.
Show HN: I built myself a friend.
This would be more interesting if the authors provided anything to suggest they were capable of making more than a video.
It's not just developing markets like Romania. I grew up in poverty in Australia, and pirating software was simply the only way to access it.

Without access to the software, I would never have been able to learn the skills required to earn the money to pay for the software now.

I'm not saying that piracy should be accepted for that reason; I'm saying (and I believe the OP was saying) that piracy is simply the only way to access the tools required to get out of poverty for many, many people.

This shouldn't be how it is, but some serious thought has to go into how to make things available fairly to those people who would otherwise just pirate it. Some money is better than no money, and software that is frequently pirated is obviously in demand with people who can't afford it.
There is a tendency for wannabe game designers who are not programmers to "design" this game.

"It's the MMO where you can do anything" is something I have heard so many times.

The interesting thing is that a lot of these people think that the idea is somehow original. As if the concept of modelling reality hasn't been considered before.

I'm not necessarily accusing this particular project of not being programmers or thinking that the idea is original because I don't know that, but it's something I have observed so many times.
Having control of a group of semi-automated characters (think Age of Empires) could be one way to guard your creations when you're not playing.