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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2013)
Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.
I really like the design of the app and the voices are good too (I've tried several language apps where the phrases are poorly stitched together and difficult to understand). It seems like an interesting way to learn Mandarin.
im gon get this
Rumors? Secret projects?

Ubuntu should stop aping Apple and behave like an open source project again.
"introverts, while usually contributing a lot more"

I need some factual data confirming that.
I've been in this market for a while. From running an English school in Taiwan to trying out products as an avid learner myself to chatting with friends who have basically been building the dominant platforms for teaching Chinese, I've seen a ton of apps like this.

And I have to say that yours is refreshing. Lots of new Chinese learning apps are coming out and 90% are just flashcards with an SRS. From a learning perspective, just memorizing words is a terrible way to go.

(I explain why in the final minute of this video: http://youtu.be/3cjnP6mogEU)

Don't get me wrong. I love SRSes and even contributed to Anki. But ultimately any language learning effort focused on single, decontextualized words is doomed. Learners need bigger chunks, like whole sentences or ideally extensive reading. That's why I see your app as a step in the right direction.
For me to seriously consider that app you should have a mode where hanzi is deemphasized (or even gone entirely).

For me it's just not worth the effort to learn. I have enough trouble with spoken Chinese as is and I have little to no use for hanzi symbols.

My Chinese teacher used to tell me that most of her students had the same attitude. It's to be expected. Few people stay in China for very long.

Other than that the app looks really nice, actually. The examples are well-chosen and I like how it shows you how the words are constructed.
How are the submissions sent. Is it all automated or you send it manually

On the Publisher list page you say:

"We send your notification via online forms, emails, twitter and exclusive partnerships."

This sounds like you are doing it manually.

Good service though :)
they're famous for challenging law officers etc to get hits on the videos, they've done similar stuff in the US, mind you.
It's unclear if they're allowed to go back to the US right now, as they got gear confiscated and got jailed/sent back once.

I doubt the french cops really care, but purposefully attempting to annoy officers is probably not a very good idea with or without a drone that is ;)
Isn't the title a bit misleading? According to the chart, Java is the most popular language of the year (and the decade, if you take a look at https://sites.google.com/site/pydatalog/pypl/PyPL-PopularitY...).
It's not so much wrong or right, but you should be aware of the trade-off you're making. It's either the instant gratification of getting your DNS updates propagated swiftly, or the longer term benefit of faster page loads and generating less DNS requests. Whatever your preferences are, objectively there are most certainly going to be much more page loads vs. DNS updates (which should be rare; not counting dynamic IPs which are a special case of course). I realize your users might not understand and just like the quick DNS options, but I think people should have a say over this trade-off, at least as a multiple choice question.
No, it is a hack.

'Time table' you see is a finished product of months of various schedule attempts, taking feedback, course correcting and that cycle.

Just because the it comes packed, it doesn't mean some one did in one monolithic strike.
Well I did say, I do it just once or twice a week.

Though I would like to make it a trend(Note to Self: That's impossible)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands. H1B[1]

Booking.com is always on the lookout for good developers, DBA's and sysadmins on-site in the center of Amsterdam. I'm a developer there currently working on infrastructure tasks and relocated over there about three years ago, and have been very happy with it.

We have people from all over the world relocating to work with us and are very well set up to handle relocation and visa issues, most of the people working in IT are expats so we've got a lot of experience with bringing people in.

It's a rapidly growing company that represents the biggest chunk of the Priceline (PCLN) group of companies where problems that look relatively mundane on paper become much more interesting due to the scale and growth levels we're operating at.

We use Perl for almost everything with a MySQL backend and Git for development. We get our changes out really fast, it's rare for your code not to be on our live systems within hours of you pushing it. We're also very open to open sourcing code that doesn't contain any business logic, I've personally been involved in open sourcing a few of our internal tools, including https://github.com/git-deploy and a few CPAN modules.

We have a relatively flat hierarchy with minimum levels of bureaucracy since we're very data driven and have a clear goal: helping our customers.

You don't have to know Perl in advance to be a developer there. We've hired people who've done C, Java etc. before. The sort of people we'd like to hire are good technically, excellent at communication, and can acquire a good sense of how they fit into the big picture.

I'd be happy to answer any questions at avarab@gmail.com and/or forward your resume, I've posted in a similar thread here a few times before andI've fielded a bunch of questions from would-be applicants. http://booking.com/jobs also has some good information.

1. Well, not H1B, but we'll take care of the Dutch equivalent
A few great weeks for MariaDB
I was talking about the concept of using Parrot drones or helicopters to do news footage and get views above crowds with a guy who has an autonomous helicopter. He quickly burst the concept by pointing out to me that his autonomous helicopter has a 6 foot diameter rotor made of carbon fiber. Or in his words "If I lost control of it over a crowd, what damage do you think two samurai swords coming in at 30 mph could do to a bunch of people? People that fly drones over crowds are assholes". (his words, but I thought they were worth noting)

A Parrot drone is much smaller, but I still wouldn't want to be hit with one, spinning propellers and all. I had one and found it hard to control with any wind in the area.
There's no need to make a New Years Resolution
Any thoughts about making something like this for Japanese?
Speaking of apps for helping you learn Chinese.

I don't know how difficult it would be to create something like this, but an app that could help with mastering tones would be very useful to me.

I'd buy such an app even if it was very simple. Like if it had a start and stop button and would graph the tone of what you said in between.

But, yeah, I don't know if it's feasible to create.
This is an inspiring story to start the new year with. Thank you.
Google-glog - Logging library for C   - Google Project Hosting
Their site has been updated with a countdown.
http://www.ubuntu.com/
I'm saying it's a tablet.
Search on twitter in pretty useless, unless you are looking for something precise, like the hashtag for an event. It either returns very few things, lots of things in languages you don't know, or is spammed to death.

You're probably better off starting by following someone you know is interested in the stuff you are looking for. A known blogger, someone vocal on a project or in a community, a friend, doesn't matter, and see who they interact with and retweet. Chime in if you want, follow these people, and repeat. After a bit of time, you'll probably end up with a decent feed.

Might be worth the hassle, or not. Depends if there is something to find or not. Demographics of the Twitter userbase are a bit different from the internet in general.
I seconds this. If there was a mode to enable the latin transliterations below the hanzi, that would be great!
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Maybe they only make available content which does have subtitles in the local language, and only show subtitle options relevant to the region. Could you imagine that? Or maybe I'm just delusional and all those netflix shows in portuguese only exist in my head.
Writing backend connector for elFinder
Arctic.js - A JavaScript Game Engine For Smartphones
I'd agree, especially with this "you can touch it" text being included.
Bought it.. seems like a nice way to get started with the very very basics, also nice to show people to explain it
[Check out http://www.functionn.in for more web resources to keep you functionn.in']

Arctic.js is a JavaScript game engine, written specifically with smartphones in mind. It is optimized to run on smartphone browsers as smoothly as possible.

Arctic.js is written in JavaScript and uses the HTML5 canvas for rendering the games you create. Among the different features it provides are: hierarchical display lists, event propagation, and useful animation features.

Those features are similar to ActionScript3 APIs, which should make Flash developers moving to the web platform more at ease using it. Arctic.js is released under the MIT License.

BROWSER SUPPORT

Android2.1 (No Rotation)
Android2.2
Android2.3
iOS3(can't use arc.display.TextField)
iOS4
Safari
This is Canonical we're talking about, not Ubuntu. I've found myself forgetting that there are hundreds of volunteers behind Ubuntu, it's not just Canonical and their "product" decisions.
I am a senior software engineer in 北京 and my wife works at 人大. We are both quite involved in teaching and have to say; Good pronunciations and the idea of constructing patterns and sentences is nice and refreshing. Wish we could also have a similar tool to assist with teaching English. Small issue, the app is called learnfastIOS on install.
The article makes me wonder what would make someone want to be around a social group "all the time, or even on a frequent basis".

When I was a child of course I wanted to hang around with my friends as much as possible: there were activities which necessitated being in the same place and they were so fun that there never seemed enough time for them. e.g. trading Star Wars cards and playing videogames (no XboxLive in those days, we had to use a 'multi-tap' and splitscreen!). We were all about the "all the time" and "frequent basis".

In adult life the equivalent seems to be those people who are always getting me out to play soccer or jam with them. Still activities that necessitate being in the same place and, for some, still activities that they love so much that there's virtually no such thing as spending 'too much time' on them.

But I don't think that's it. I think that when you meet up with the same people a lot, doing things the group broadly enjoys, whether you really like ALL of them as individuals or not, you build a camaraderie and that's what makes you come back and hang out "all the time" and "on a frequent basis".
For Kanji, certainly. It probably won't suit Hiragana and Katakana.
Thanks! I shall correct this promptly.
This is in line with the APA recommendation for referring to anyone with a disability - psychological or physical. They aren`t characterized by their disability; they`re a person foremost.
Some applications exist to help you recognizing tones based on the pinyin, but you want a comparison between the model and your voice? Thought Rosetta did this..
The 5 stages of integrating a new SDK into an iPhone app for the first time
Riparian Data - Watertown, MA (near Boston) Software Engineer and Product Owner

Riparian Data is a Boston-based startup spun out of SoftArtisans, a 15 year-old software company. Our mission: use big data technologies to make enterprise software smarter, faster, and friendlier.

Job details: http://www.ripariandata.com/jobs/
Send resume: hr@ripariandata.com
I think Rosettastone may have feature. From what I understand voice-recognition for Mandarin is a hard problem.
Wonderful story, thanks for sharing.

It's an outrage that a disabled person is expected to live independently on $661 a month.

Even in Canada where we have social assistance and state healthcare the disability pensions here are abysmal. I spent my adolescent years growing up with a single disabled mother and that's pretty much all she gets to this day; less than minimum wage. If it wasn't for me working long hours after school and the alimony from my estranged father we wouldn't have made it. It's frustrating that she cannot live close to where her primary health care providers practice and cannot even get to them on her own any more.

I wish we'd spend less money as a society on jails and war and more on eliminating poverty and researching ways to enhance the human condition.
There is already a language called Z, it has been around for a while: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_notation
Seeking work: looking for some small Ruby (Rails / Sinatra) projects. Have a few hours per week to full. Based in Wales, UK, used to working remotely with international clients.
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Thanks for the feedback, it should be able to support sentences up to about 7-8 characters in length. Device width is the constraint here. I'll bear this in mind for future lesson sets.
Littlelines, Ohio

Littlelines is looking for Ruby / Rails developers to work with us at our headquarters in Ohio.

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For more information about this position, see our job post on Authentic Jobs:

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If you are interested, please email us at jobs@littlelines.com.
Two Sigma (SoHo, NYC) - Full Time, Intern, H1B
Did you know there's a company based in New York City that has enough technology to be considered among the world's Top 250 supercomputing sites? One that imports over 5TB of data every single day, and has alumni from Google, Intel, and Microsoft?

You might think I'm talking about some stealth-mode startup, but I'm talking about where I work: Two Sigma Investments. At our core, we're a technology company applying our talents to the domain of finance. We've created a system that combines artificial intelligence and keen human insight — a system that's constantly improving and advancing.
We're looking for a diverse set of technologists to join our team. Our challenges require mastery of areas such as kernel level development, machine learning, and distributed systems. Our team includes a Unix Lifetime Achievement winner, Putnam medalists, ACM Programming competition finalists, and International Mathematics Olympiad medalists. We are proud of our individual pedigrees, but even prouder of our teamwork.

We tend to hire people with at least a bachelor’s degree in a technical or quantitative field and experience with C or languages that target the JVM, but we are open-minded in our search for critical thinkers who are passionate about technology. We analyze the data-rich domain of finance, but financial experience is not a requirement. We hope to hear from you!

Dave Hahn dave.hahn@twosigma.com http://www.twosigma.com/careers.html
Thanks for point that out! Correcting it promptly!
(I renamed the app, as I prefer the name MandarinTap)
I agree...I started learning mandarin through the Rosetta Stone program and skipped all the Chinese character reading parts. It's just too much to learn when there's already enough to grasp with just speaking
"Fix it" Patch for IE Zero-day Now Available
Thank you sir, your thoughts after using the app would be very interesting to me :)
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I'm not sure you'd find a website user anywhere that isn't.
SEEKING WORK

Looking for a serious position as allround senior software engineer. I am a multi-disciplinary developer with a unique blend of creative, managerial and technical talents. Have experience developing software for both Unix/Linux as well as Windows based software in different programming and scripting languages. Specialised in dealing with a mixed Operating System environment for development and system administration; using Linux/Unix, Windows, Mac OS X systems and other operating systems. An active consultant for Linux and Open Source in China and as part of this I hold lectures on software development and Open Source. Prefer a lead or manager position. I am based in Beijing (北京), China and have 10 years of experience dealing with China and Asian culture. Served two terms on the Fedora ambassador steering committee to represent APAC. Remote work is possible.

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Boston, MA - TIM Group (previously youDevise) are hiring a Senior Linux Sysadmin.

We're a 100 person market leading financial software firm with offices in Boston, New York, London and Hong Kong. Rated one of the fastest growing tech companies in the UK by The Sunday Times (http://www.fasttrack.co.uk/fasttrack/leagues/dbtechDetails.a...).

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Seeking work: Ruby on Rails developer who can also do front end work (JavaScript, jQuery, d3.js, HTML, CSS). I also specialize in building financial applications (portfolio management tools, analysis tools, etc.). Based in Tochigi, Japan and used to working remotely with clients from all over the globe. diasks2@gmail.com
Thanks for the feedback, this is something my test users also suggested. I'll prioritise this when I add new features.
SEEKING WORK: Remote (we're a distributed team of high quality mobile & backend engineers)

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Ironically, I have to buy in china where they are apparently still more expensive. And then throw in the touch.
Perhaps surprisingly, it's kinda easier than for English because standard Mandarin is born separated clearly by characters and have only 4 tones (tone for certain character in sentence may change but always within those 4 tones). However as for speaking language in reality (e.g dialects), it's hard (I won't say it's harder than any other languages since I don't have any experience working on it).