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LearnStreet (http://www.learnstreet.com) | Palo Alto, CA | Full-time and Intern, Engineers & Designers

LearnStreet is an early-stage startup focused on changing the way people of all backgrounds and skill levels learn how to code.

We are a small, passionate team of product craftsmen, hackers and designers doing what we love—building a service that inspires users to tap into their amazing potential. We believe putting the power of coding in more hands can unleash a wave of creativity that makes the world a better place for all of us.

The LearnStreet team is based in Palo Alto, California and backed by Khosla Ventures.

Software Engineer (Full-Time, Intern)

We are looking for front-end and back-end engineers who care deeply about using technology to make an impact in education, by making it easier for people to learn programming and computer science on the web. We want people who are ambitious and who will relish the challenge of building a product to educate millions of people around the world.

Although we aren't looking for a precise background or skill set, here are some traits we like: You like programming and building products. You’ve done some side projects on your own initiative. You enjoy working hard, figuring out what you need to do to get the job done, and then quickly learning what you need to get it done. You enjoy the excitement of working at an early-stage and ambitious Silicon Valley start-up.

Some of the technologies we use include Python (Flask), JavaScript, JQuery, MongoDB, and Node.js.

UI/UX designer (Full-Time, Intern)

We are looking for user interface / experience designers to join our design team. In this role, you will help create intuitive, usable and visually appealing user interfaces for online programming education. As part of the team, you will help define user models and interfaces for new and existing LearnStreet products and features, develop storyboards and mockups to communicate design ideas, assess the usability of new and existing products, and make constructive suggestions for changes. Background in interaction design is helpful. Experience with Photoshop is required, and experience with HTML and CSS is preferred.

If interested, please email jobs@learnstreet.com with your resume and portfolio (GitHub, Dribbble, etc.) if applicable.

For more information on LearnStreet, check out -

LearnStreet website: http://www.learnstreet.com
TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/07/learnstreet-launches-with-1...
GigaOm: http://gigaom.com/2012/11/07/khosla-backed-learnstreet-takes...
WIRED: http://wiredinsider.tumblr.com/post/34100317516/learnstreet-...
Well, the counter hit 0 and the site went down.
I wish there were a 1848 date in there -- before the gold rush. The difference in time between 1830 and 57 are dramatic, and I think most of that happened in the few years after the rush.
* Lumber is measured in inches, two-by-four and so on.

Q: How many inches wide is a two-by-four?

A: 1.5" x 3.5"
Ubuntu Phone OS Unveiled by Canonical
I started my daughters at 4. We would play in a Python interpreter as a group. The idea was not about teaching syntax but showing them that code == fun stuff. We have continued with that theme for a while. At 6 they started playing more with Python on their own and one of them did Hackety Hack for a week or so. They're 7 now and we've played with Arduino a little but including them adjusting parameters in the source. I continue to expose and encourage them, but not require them. I try to keep the time blocks small to keep their attention. I would rather leave them wanting more than feeling like they were forced to learn.
It isn't so odd in Ruby. Ruby has always been a duck typing land. If it quacks, it is a duck. There's even a method missing handler so you can respond to any method call whatsoever. People can and do add methods directly to even built-in classes as well, the equivalent of modifying the class prototype in Javascript. So method calls are considered more messages in Ruby and saying a class will respond differently to a message after it has more data about what it is, a certain blog for example, isn't so strange to Ruby programmers.
Court dismisses Apple’sclaims against Amazon in use of ‘App Store’ name
Ubuntu phone OS announced, first devices shipping in early 2014
I first saw a Microsoft Surface (table) presentation at their research facility in Boston. The next time that I went up there they were piloting the table at the Hilton as well. I feel like that they were definitely operating without the intent of monetizing it, but damn, I would love to see those tables at restaurants, etc.
My neighbor, Nan, is a working painter. She starts about first light. Getting started in the morning is a habit.

I read Vonnegut's biography, And So It Goes. He'd been developing his novel about Dresden for nearly two decades before it became Slaughter House Five. He wrote most every day, just like any other job.
I'm a compilers guy, and I approve this message. Research spending by both Microsoft and Apple has produced massive advances that then got packaged into Visual Studio and XCode, generating quite a whole lot of value and even capturing a fair portion of it as revenue.
Android user here. I don't do a lot of surfing on my phone because I would rather use a larger screen. Using my wife's iPad or my Asus tablet is a little better but I still prefer to use my laptop when it is handy. So if I am out and about and really need to access the web, I do it. But when my laptop is just in the office... I use the laptop.

I don't think the data is complete unless you also include whether or not these same people even have a computer anymore. Whether it is right or wrong, we keep being told that the desktop is dead... so maybe iOS users have bought into that idea more than Android users. If all you own is an iOS device.. you don't really have much choice of how you surf the web.
....and it's down!

Slashdot effect.
I'm in jail. God is just. Rejoice when they persecute you.

God says...
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They're fucked, right God?
God says...

river, and Shetharboznai and his companions the Apharsachites, which
were on this side the river, sent unto Darius the king: 5:7 They sent
a letter unto him, wherein was written thus; Unto Darius the king, all
peace.

5:8 Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of
Judea, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great
stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work goeth fast on,
and prospereth in their hands.

5:9 Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who commanded
you to build this house, and to make up these walls? 5:10 We asked
their names also, to certify thee, that we might write the names of
the men that were the chief of them.
No, but I assumed his problems where with screen resolution or something. Last time I looked, the Android browsers could render text. I actually use Firefox on Android most of the time. There are choices.
If they did, it would be just another mail group provider, charging ten bucks instead of zero. I think they are selling the Basecamp/37signals brand image as much as the service itself.
That's a good question, and one that arguably appears more often when using Imperial/Standard.
I'm on the edge of my seat waiting for them to send one of these extortion notices to the wrong guy who will get enraged enough to shoot up their office.

I wonder if a chain of such shootings would set a precedent for change.
Celsius, expecting a reading of 37 degrees. I never measure anything in Farenheit (I don't actually know how to convert to it, or what a body temperature reading in it ought to be). I do basically everything in Celsius apart from occasionally during my A-Levels (16-18) where I did some conversion to Kelvin.
Ask HN: Where can the elderly make money money online?
My father is on the older side of the baby boomer generation (65 years old) and has been out of steady work for about two years. So far, both he and my mother (58 years old) have been doing relatively physical work (landscaping, tree removal, and helping repair slot machines) to scrape by. The toll on their bodies has been huge and they've both now too chronically injured to continue working in any physically-demanding job. As a grad student, I'm unable to really help them financially and they're too proud to take assistance even if I could.

Over the holidays, my dad said they were looking for a way to make enough online ($1000-$1500 per month) to sustain themselves. Personally, the only three things I've ever done to make a living on the internet are software contracting, web design, and online poker. Neither of them have the acumen for professional gambling and they both are not very tech-savvy. Both are hunt-and-peck typists, so transcription services would probably be a poor option. My father started four small businesses and was a GM/DM at several retail chains; my mother has some accounting skills (not a CPA).

So I'm curious HN: does anyone have any insight into where/how/if people in my parents' position can make a sustainable living online?

Ideas you'd rather disclose in private can be sent to helpingmyfolks@gmail.com
0.003" could easily be thermal expansion or humidity.
True - while I think it is solvable, I have less confidence that it will be solved :-(
I believe such comments were once called "FUD". Are folks still being paid by M$ and others to randomly reply in various forums and discussions?

What do you base your "cheap crap" comment on? Using the laptop and not liking it? What did you not like about it?
When competitors get bought out, rates go up, not down.

Avis is buying Zipcar at least in part to raise their rates and reduce competition with the rest of Avis.
Here is a video of their announcement for those unable to reach the site: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpWHJDLsqTU
A random user would probably just use video chat inside GTalk rather than Hangouts.
I actually got away without the book for my first semester of physics, but basically yes, it's forced by the school. That's why they can get away with a racket.
Swiping from the edges is exactly what I was hoping Google would do with Android, instead of wasting screen space with buttons. I think all Android's buttons could be repurposed into "edge actions", although they'd have to make them intuitive enough for people to get it quickly.
Hate articles which have the date at the bottom. Had to read the entire stuff to realize it was more than 2 years old.
Announcement story is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4998045
"As you can see in the map above, in 1800, it took a whole day to barely get outside of the city"

Considering the traffic, not much has changed for people with four wheels.
The Ten Thousand Hours It Takes to Become Well-Dressed
DCI is a paradigm related to design and architecture. Computers are so fast today that does this benchmarking business really matter?

If DCI helps to keep your code maintainable, readable, and less buggy, is that a better tradeoff? I would think that 95-99% of the time, the answer is yes.

On a side note, if speed is mission critical, then would ruby really be the language of choice to use?
I like the Focus and Escape. Aveo is meh.
Microsoft resurrects YouTube-Windows Phone compatibility complaint
Looking forward to this. Are there any requirements to use Foursquare, or certain APIs? Just not sure what kind of ideas to think about.
The way that iOS does things prevents developers from doing things to help UX! For example, as an effect of this prioritization, iOS doesn't report scroll position while you're scrolling a page or scrollable div in a page, until the scroll has completed, and the scroll momentum has come to a full stop. This makes all sorts of app-like interactions impossible in an iOS webapp.

I don't really think that the user experience is poor, per se. I think it's a matter of acclimation; I've been using Android since the Nexus One, and while it was certainly frustrating in the past, Android 4.1 really stepped things up, and it's a really nice experience now. I appreciate how iOS scrolling feels, but in general, Android's way of doing things seems to be a lot nicer to me. I actively use Android and iOS devices on a daily basis (my phone is an LG Nexus 4, the same one you disliked), and Android feels much, much better to me than iOS does, with the sole exception of scrolling smoothness.

It's worth noting that there is one difference that might have been annoying you; iOS starts scrolling as soon as you start moving your finger. Android has a deadzone of a few pixels, so it might feel less responsive if you're used to the lack of deadzone on iOS. Once you're used to it, it's not an issue.
In this article I see a MSFT strategy unfolding of skipping the current smart-phone mobile battlefield, and leaping directly into full-bore cyborg computing.

Bear with me, they've effectively laid out all the pieces:

- A "omni touch" interface that allows for interaction without physical input devices.

- A variety of leaps forward for Kinect to map and translate your physical environment to a data stream.

- A "holodeck" and other tools that overlay interface design onto physical objects.

- Foveated 3d graphics and other leaps forward that would drastically reduce hardware costs for graphic rendering.

Nearly every one of these projects are directly applicable to the "wearable computer" concept.

I wonder if, looking back in 10 years, we'll see that MSFT's currnet weak smart-phone entries were ultimately not that important to their overall strategy.
Perhaps in apps, but not in the browser.
Even when I'm cooking I never care about the temperature of my water in Celsius, especially since 1) its exact boiling point will vary depending on the air pressure of my present location, and 2) impurities in my tap water (as well as my standard metric pinch of salt) will alter the boiling point of the solution.

So while I do really adore the metric system, the gp's argument still stands: Fahrenheit just so happens to coincidentally peg 100 somewhere near "too damn hot" and 0 to "too damn cold", and I don't see why civilians would benefit from mandating that weather reports be specified in Celsius (and I'd honestly rather prefer Kelvin than Celsius).
Right. It's targeted to people for whom the complexity of something like Google Groups, which can be made public and indexable I think, is a barrier. They don't want to worry about something they don't understand releasing everything to the public.
Remembering that 32 is freezing is not taxing and gives you the same amount of information (i.e., almost none because temperature alone is a poor predictor of weather).
Like how Apple bought the core technology for Siri?

Just because it was purchased doesn't meant they haven't helped push the technology forward, either in pure R&D or by just promoting adoption.
Big Data, Bigger Myths
Ask HN: Is anyone using a stand-up workstation?
Out of curiosity, is anyone using a stand-up workstation on a daily basis? What have been your experiences so far? I ask is - I was considering getting one.
Ubuntu Product Launch OMG Ubuntu Hangout on Air
Half-half, the archive account costs a recurring fee.
Android 2.x is a far cry from Android 4.x (particularly 4.1+) - as of 4.1, the UX is phenominal, IMO.
They have lots of products that aren't branded as Basecamp. I think the likelier implication is that we're going to start seeing more bite-sized Basecamp apps like this. The pricing model for this one is very app store.
This is the sort of over-critical analysis that is too prevalent on HN.

There's a counterargument to any decision, and it seems like you're trying to find ways to disparage something you don't like.

I'm not sure any value was added beyond stating the obvious limitations (read: design decisions).
Open source operating system Ubuntu finally arrives for smartphones
Could be useful if one was writing an DB Admin backend for MongoDB.
I don't know, I find the solid kernel and userland combined with homebrew just as good as Ubuntu, and most graphical applications are a lot more stable and consistent than their Linux alternatives. I work on all kinds of things, and the only thing I've ever needed a VM for is testing code written specifically for Windows.

Also, Instruments.app (dtrace frontend) is awesome.
Canonical Announces Ubuntu for Phones
To clarify - This is an example of what I am referring to:
http://www.amazon.com/Safco-1929CY-Adjustable-Stand-Up-Works...
Ubuntu announces Ubuntu Phone
You seem to forget that cellphones are actually phenomenally complicated pieces of RF engineering. It wasn't Apple pioneering how to make that all work. People seem to forget now that Phones aren't just computers. That miniaturization was rf technologies was, in part, thanks to Nokia who were getting people talking without wires long before Apple decided to think about phones. While Apple as a company pre-dates Nokia by I suspect something like a decade, back then Apple were focused on getting spreadsheets working.
That would be way too expensive, I'm sure they hold a patent on a method on expressing customer dissatisfaction via chemical reactions to convert chemical energy into kinetic motion.
"...there are no immediate plans for actual Ubuntu phones, and no carriers have been signed up yet -- although we're told that the OS will run on any new phone built for Android, should the manufacturer see merit in installing Ubuntu instead."

It will be interesting to see if/when a manufacturer picks this up, to hit the mainstream market.
This is pedantic. Copywriting has to reach a broad audience. Not all products designed for the layman are useless to the technical.
The train from LA to Flagstaff hits 70+mph at times, though the average is around 50mph once you factor in stops and waiting for freight to pass.

The biggest thing slowing down US passenger trains is that the routes are leased from freight lines and the freight trains take priority.
I get daily / weekly digests for all of my Google Groups. I didn't need to see the UI in months.

Looking at it it is a bit feature heavy, but since it doesn't interfere with my day to day I don't think I will be using breeze...
A Useful Caps Lock Key
I don't think research whose results do not see the light of day is valuable in any shape or form. This is especially true for corporate-sponsored research, where the results are either kept as trade secrets or patented by the corporate lawyers, which means scientists elsewhere cannot build on top of that research later.
> the only variations are the six-letter name of the shell company and the royalty demands

This sounds a lot like the automated, python-scripted corporations in Stross's Accelerando.
Quatrainment
Uh, if something is milled to a metric size and tolerances in metric, it is in fact, a metric size, regardless if it happens to match some imperial sizes. There is no requirement that metric sizes be only integer whole numbers, and if you are going to claim that, for example, all lumber purchases outside of the US are done to exact integer metric sizes, that's just false. It may be the construction industry purchases common sizes in MM, but that's not really the same.

If you want only integer or half integer metric sizes, that's something different than "metric sized"

That said, rough lumber outside of plywood/framing lumber is weird in both the US and Europe anyway.
Nobody is trying to hit any exact sizes of anything, except that the lumber needs to be able plane down to certain thicknesses. Grading is based on percentage of clear cutting, not on thickness or width or length. If your lumber supplier doesn't give you lumber in thicknesses that can be planed down to the right size, you get a new supplier. Same in Europe.
I dunno. 15 hours in relative comfort might win sometimes over 4 hours of crampedness and annoyance.

The bigger question would be price, which I suspect would be higher than average air fares.
Unfortunately the app is a mobile web app that will only work on a smartphone.

Instagram is also a phone only app, so users without smartphones are not able to use Instagram
I'm sure the impression you get depends on the stations you use. I go through Kings Cross at 18:30 so I often see bikes being loaded - At any other station I might have got a different impression!

According to [1] they have a fleet of 14 electric vans (pulling trailers of 20 bikes), 10 diesel cars (pulling the same trailers), 7 sprinter vans (16 bikes) and 3 DAF 7.5 tonne trucks (50 bikes each). But that fleet is to deal with peak demand, such as during tube strikes.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/mindthegap/2011/01/moving_hire_bi...
With regards to the real-time analysis, you might find perl's Regexp::Debugger fun to use:

http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/Regexp-Debugger-0.001011/lib...

That's the documentation for using the module in your code. If you're interested in the standalone tool, you'll want rxrx:

http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/Regexp-Debugger-0.001011/bin...
Our Inherent Affinity for Fear Mongering
We wrote a library to do just that (sorry): https://github.com/minefold/node-minecraft

It needs a small fixes to work with the current version of Minecraft but it's pretty feature complete. We were using it internally for load testing (until we made our architecture support multiple games).
> I haven’t measured.

I'm extremely interested in the measurements if someone could do them. I want to know how much the web concurrency/gorutines adds in terms of load testing and response times.
To my understanding, diameters are almost always measured in inches, even in countries that follow the metric system.
Oh boy, I'm really interested in your organization, but after filling out the contact form on your site, I received a 502 Bad Gateway error. There's also no contact info in your profile. I'll DM you on Twitter.
Neat tool, I like how clear the visualizations are. It didn't work for me under Chrome on OSX, though. Chrome Version 23.0.1271.101, OSX 10.7.5.
A procedural procedural level generator generator
Cardiio - Turn your phone into a biosensor
I really wish Canonical would focus on making the Linux Desktop/Laptop experience better but perhaps this will play out like Apple: bootstrap the company's growth on the success of a mobile device (iPod in Apple's case). Plus, Canonical can offer something Google really can't: a common interface across all devices (Chromebook hasn't really worked out).
Hey, co-founder of Leanpub here.

If you're interested in the differences between Pandoc and Leanpub, there are two places to look. Leanpub is based off of Kramdown, so there's the Kramdown documentation[1]. We have made a few extensions to Kramdown to support things that books need, so you'll also want to look at the Leanpub manual[2].

If you have any questions, send us an email at hello@leanpub.com.

Looks like an exciting project. I'll take a look.

[1]: http://kramdown.rubyforge.org/syntax.html
[2]: https://leanpub.com/help/manual
The popular association of mob violence == anarchy is just that, an ungrounded popular interpretation. "anarcho-capitalism" (or the term I prefer: libertarian-anarchist) is the political philosophy of bringing freedom of choice to government, breaking the monopoly on retaliatory force and allowing free-market mechanisms to select the best system of government which does the job while staying out the way. I suggest doing some reading on the history of Anarchism:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy
Instasneak - Search Instagram Images
Isn't this what Windows 8 did for submenus?

I found it incredibly confusing in the context of using a mouse, but never tried it with touch.