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AM Analytics Seeks A Web Application Developer
Overview:

AM Analytics (amanalytics.com) is seeking a talented web application developer to lead the development of our social media and market intelligence dashboard.

AM Analytics is a web startup committed to building the most comprehensive social media and market intelligence dashboard available. The AM Analytics team is a combination of individuals passionate about leveraging social media to help businesses make informed decisions. Our current team has backgrounds in internet technology, government security, financial analysis, community building, market intelligence and consumer psychology. Although our team's education and experience is diverse, our goal is to deliver a single, integrated social media analytics platform to our customers.

Responsibilities:

As the lead web application developer you will own the application design, implementation, and maintenance of the AM Analytics platform.

Requirements:

* Experience with web scripting and application languages (Python, Ruby, etc)
* Experience working in an open source development environment (Linux, Apache, SVN)
* Experience with Model-View-Controller (MVC) web frameworks (Django, Ruby on Rails)
* Experience with REST(like) API's, XML parsing / handling, JSON, etc.
* Expertise in HTML/CSS, including familiarity with good information and aesthetic design principles.
* Experience with Flash / Action Script 3.

Big Plus:

* Prior social media application development experience.
* Fun person to hang out with.
* Enjoy building an innovative web application that makes customers happy.

Interested? I will be in the Bay Area March 7th - 14th. Please email alex@amanalytics.com for details.
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Which physicists? As far as I know, copehnagen is the mainstream ontology.

I gave a talk last week on decoherence, just working out an explicit example where we can almost exactly solve the combined particle/measurement device system. The idea that wave collapse is unnecessary was not uncontroversial.

A quote from before I even gave the talk: "I don't believe you."
This is really the issue with C++ and not Qt. If you want to keep binary compatibility while improving a library there really are not any other options. With a private class you can have new private variables, virtual functions, function renaming, and well anything goes. But probably something you care more about I have seen on more then one occasion a class completely re-written (for the better). The private class changes completely but the public API stays the same. This would only be possible in c++ with a private class.
Bionic eye gives blind man sight
I worked at a hedge fund where one of the phone-screen brainteasers was "How many zeros are at the end of 35!?"

The very not-smart people would try to use Excel for this, and get hilariously (and obviously) incorrect results due to rounding errors.
Telekomünikasyon (uzak iletişim) Nedir?
Telekomünikasyon (uzak iletişim), Fransızca télécommunication sözcüğünden geçmiştir. Duyum, yazı, resim, simge ya da her çeşit bilginin tel, radyo, optik ile başka elektromanyetik dizgelerle iletilmesi, bunların yayımı ya da alınması.

Türkiye'de telekomünikasyonun sektörünün tarihi Osmanlı döneminde, 23 Ekim 1840 tarihinde Sultan Abdülmecit tarafından Postahane-i Amirane’nin kurulması ile başlamaktadır. Telgraf Nezaretinin 1855 yılında kurulmasından sonra 1871'de Posta ve Telgraf nezaretleri birleştirilerek, Posta ve Telgraf Nezaretine dönüştürülmüştür.

Telefon hizmeti ise ilk olarak, Temmuz 1881'de İstanbul Soğukçeşme'deki Posta ve Telgraf Nezareti binasıyla Yeni Cami'deki postane arasına çekilen tek telli bir telefon ile verilmiştir. Türkiye'de ilk telefon sistemi İstanbul'da, 1911 yılında American Western Electric şirketine tanınan 30 yıllık bir imtiyaz karşılığında, bu şirket adına faaliyet göstermek amacıyla oluşturulan Dersaadet Telefon Anonim Şirketi tarafından kurulmuştur. I. Dünya Savaşı sırasında devlet tarafından el konulan şirket, 1935'e kadar İstanbul ve civarında telefon hizmetlerini sağlamaya devam etmiştir. Cumhuriyetin ilanından sonra da 1936 800.000 İngiliz Lirası bedel ile satın alınmıştır.

Cumhuriyetin ilanından sonraki dönemde ise, 1924 Telgraf ve Telefon Kanunu ile Osmanlı devletinden devralınan ve özel şirketler eliyle yürütülen telgraf ve telefon iletişimi yeniden düzenlenmiştir. Posta ve Telgraf ve Telefon İdaresi (PTT) 1936'da kurulmuş ve ülke çapında telekomünikasyon hizmetlerini sağlamakla görevlendirilmiştir. PTT İdaresi, 1939'da Ulaştırma Bakanlığına bağlanmış, 1953 yılında iktisadi devlet teşekkülü olarak yeniden yapılandırılmıştır.

1983 yılında işbaşına gelen hükümetin izlediği ekonomik model ve devletin ekonomideki ağırlığının azaltılması politikası çerçevesinde, kamu kesiminin imalat sanayii yatırımları kısılmış, haberleşme, enerji ve ulaştırma gibi altyapı yatırımlarına ağırlık verilmiştir.

Bu dönemde hız kazanan altyapı yatırımları çerçevesinde, özellikle telekomünikasyon sektöründe büyük gelişmeler yaşanmış, 1982-1992 döneminde Türkiye, ITU üyesi Avrupa ülkeleri arasında ana hat sayısı artışında en yüksek gelişme hızını gösteren ülke olmuştur.

En büyük Telekomünikasyon şirketleri:

* NTT, Japonya
* Deutsche Telekom, Almanya
* Verizon, ABD
* France Télécom, Fransa
* Vodafone, Birleşik Krallık
* NTT DoCoMo, Japonya
* SBC Communications, ABD
* Telecom Italia, İtalya
* British Telecom, Birleşik Krallık
* Telefónica, İspanya
* Turkcell, TÜRİYE

En büyük Telekomünikasyon Ekipman şirketleri:

* NEC
* Telmex
* Alcatel
* Ericsson
* Lucent Technologies
* Motorola
* Nokia
* Nortel eski adı Nortel Networks
* Siemens
* Marconi

Telekomünikasyon dergileri:

* Telepati Dergisi
* Tele.com.tr
* Telekom Dünyası
This is one of the funniest and more informative articles I have read in a long time.
Paul Graham swings and misses: what he doesn't get about TV
> Is time an illusion?

Yeah, probably, just like all human sensory input.
Ask HN: Startup School 2005 mp3's
Does anyone know where I can get the mp3's for Startup School 2005? Looks like the ycombinator wiki that housed the files is down, and hence Odeo's page that points to those files is also useless. Thanks!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_wing
The Art and Science of Small Exits
I think the Ruby-only shtick is that they want to do one thing and do it well. There's enough of a Ruby community that they can serve that niche and do it well.

There's nothing so exceptional about what they're doing that it couldn't be done in Python with what is available (the exceptional part is that they execute well and are highly reliable). Basically, the benefit of Heroku is that they can keep extra hardware on hand for spikes and there's a decent assumption that, say, your site spikes to 300% of normal once a week, but that not all sites will be spiking at the same time. Therefore, you get more efficient utilization of resources.

But you could do this yourself - it would just mean that you would need to buy all the capacity to handle spikes while Heroku works off the assumption that part of that spike capacity can be shared since not all sites will spike at once.
And ruby, both nice languages syntactically speaking, even if they don´t heap, or stack, or allocate stuff, or garbage collect, or do the dishes...
Maybe money is the wrong motivator in this case...
Trying to do real programming in SAS is a nightmare. The language sucks. Also, it's proprietary and expensive.

It's surprising that statisticians would fail to understand the importance of testing, given that a lot of the root issues in statistics (e.g. the Bayesian/frequentist dispute over "what is a probability?") are epistemological.
Summation: There have been modest improvements, but most of the fundamental objections JWZ had are still in force, in particular the ones about the nature of the language itself. After learning Python, Perl, Haskell, and sundry others I've come to consider the "It's hard to live with none of: lexically scoped local functions; a macro system; and inlined functions." criticism the most devastating, and the only progress on that front is that Java may or may not get closures in the future, and if it does they will probably have many issues.

I also think the top answer misses the point of JWZ's criticism about inlining; his complaint is not that JVMs don't inline, but that he can't control it. A commenter further down on the page points out that in C++ it's only a hint and I suspect JWZ wouldn't appreciate that either. Standard caveat: I'm trying to guess what somebody else "really means" and that's always tricky, my apologies if I get it wrong.
List of Layoffs and Job Cuts by Industry and Employers [flash]
I don't think you meant "overlay" there:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_overlay

You're probably thinking of a deblocking filter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deblocking_filter_(video)

which is typically used in the decoder for the relevant video CODEC; recent video drivers do have hardware support for this, but it's not a fundamental connection. Moreover, deblocking only helps so much.
This is excellent for purchased books. Downside is that is does not appear to allow you to read converted PDFs, DRM-free mobipocket books, or other content you have transferred to Kindle, which is a bummer.

Very nice iPhone reading experience, clean UI, easy to setup, and fast downloads (even on 1G iPhone).
Deployment That Just Works
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I've been really excited for this for about a year now, and have been having a great time playing with the pure Git workflow. If you look at this problem in one direction (only does Ruby, won't kill the AppEngine), you're probably missing the point.

We were about to bring our apps to Engine Yard's Solo EC2 management system, and Heroku's essentially deprecated similar offerings from a bunch of companies all over the place.

I'm sure adding new technologies and languages will bring more people over in the future, but for now it seems like this platform could end up being a great reflection of the current state of the Ruby, with our preference for all things distributed and collaborative like cloud hosting and Git source control.
Wondering what the flaw was?

Names in DNS packets are "compressed" by encoding repeated labels ("google.com" in a Google A query) as offsets to the first place in the packet the label was seen. The offset encoding allows 14 bits for the actual integer.

Dempsky's bug causes DJB's code to attempt to compress a name whose suffix is first seen more than 16384 bytes into the packet, which rolls that counter, which throws off the rest of the parse and allows data that should be junk inside a record to instead be parsed as a seperate record.

This is the second integer-related security flaw in DJB's code (and apparently the first exploitable one). Integer handling in C code is hard to get right; there are lots of corner cases, but more importantly there are lots of sites in your code you have to check at, unlike buffer overflows, which are almost always sited at your (relatively infrequent) buffer copies.
I've always thought of time as a measurement of change. No change, no time (i.e. if all particles in the universe were frozen in place at absolute zero then there would be no measurable change and time would not exist).
I tried this on a site and it proceeded to load forever.
From this architectural overview it looks like they're ready for it. Presumably a "dyno" could run anything that speaks http.
That still only address superficial issues, not the ones that involve actually understanding what you read.

True text-to-speech that has that level of comprehension is AI-complete. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-complete)
Be wary of Bezos' need to distort stats to serve the portion of his ego tied up in the Kindle.
If science eventually proves without-a-doubt that the Big Bang was only one of many Big Bangs and that in fact, there seems to be no beginning or end to the Big Bangs, then the universe would essentially be infinite.

If it's determined that the universe, and everything in it, lasts (in one form or another) forever, then the meaning of time disappears. You cannot have time unless you have a beginning and an end.
The ABC article is based on the premise that an individual's entire income is taxed at the same rate. If that were the case, it would be possible for a family earning $249,999 to have a higher after-tax income than a family earning $255,000, because the family earning $249,999 would pay a lower tax rate.

But that isn't actually how income tax works.

In reality, a family earning $255,000 will pay the higher tax rate only on its last $5,001 in income; the first $249,999 will continue to be taxed at the old rate. So intentionally lowering your income from $255,000 to $249,999 is counter-productive; it will result in a lower after-tax income.

From here: http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200903030013
PrinceXML is awesome. The company I used to work for writes large publications primarily for the web, but sometimes needs to print book versions. With Prince I was able to use an off the shelf CMS and write CSS3 Print stylesheets that could make some very professional looking PDFs. With this I was able to replace an error-prone and tedious workflow involving Word, XSLT, and InDesign.

I know that might sound like an ad, but it's a really great app and I don't mind going out on a limb to say it. Its implementation of CSS3 (even the non-print parts) has yet to be matched (although browsers might be finally catching up...). Their service is top-notch. I've posted a number of questions, bugs, and feature requests on their forum and they've always been answered directly by the CEO.
Care to elaborate on "use something that scales well"?
It seems that's exactly what heroku is offering, no?
Ratatouille:
Peter O'Toole, Brad Garrett, Janeane Garofalo, Ian Holm, Brian Dennehey

Cars:
Owen Wilson, Paul Newman, Bonnie Hunt, Cheech, George Carlin

Incredibles:
Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson

Finding Nemo:
Ellen DeGeneres, Willem Dafoe, Allison Janney,

Monsters, Inc.:
John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Steve Buscemi

I don't know why you think animation means you don't need actors.

And your 'argument' on WALL-E is HUGELY flawed: Ben Burtt (who 'voiced' WALL-E) is literally the go-to guy when you need incredible sound effects. Not only would that movie have failed without him, he got the job because he's THE best sound fx guy in the business. For something like WALL-E, you need even more exacting quality, not less. And the few voices they did have went to John Ratzenberger (of "Cheers" fame: he has 95 acing credits on IMDB), Kathy Najimy, and Sigourney Weaver.

Making good content requires good content producers. I'm not trying to discourage you: there are good people out there. But you seem to be saying that since its animation, you can have lower standards. No: you need higher ones.
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well, then not 'invented' but 'developed' :)

gives a new spin to the idea and hopefully will make air travel more safe and enjoyable
> decent assumption that, say, your site spikes to 300% of normal once a week, but that not all sites will be spiking at the same time.

This reminds me of something.... what is it... oh yeah, the economy. It's probably a better assumption than some of the junk that went on to tank the economy, but I'd still be interested in learning more about spike distributions. Amazon probably has some good data.
Conveneer Raises $4.5 Million To Turn Cell Phones Into Servers
Conyers once again threatening open access
In Soviet Russia, loop flies plane.
Kindle for iPhone Walkthrough
i didn't think it was possible, but this article actually made me feel good about the relative state of the U.S. economy
Zynga Brings Scramble To The iPhone
C++ Futures
Yes, and I would like to have the option of auto-scrolling. Paging, regardless of how well it's designed still requires some interaction. Autoscrolling flows along at a speed you set without you having to interact with the device every few seconds.

I realize that this is a personal preference but it would be nice to have an option.
Mike Maples: “My opinion is interesting, but irrelevant.”
The ruby/rails hosting-in-the-cloud is a much bigger "value-add" than editing in the browser. I've been using them for a while and really like the way they're headed.

Yes, they're Ruby/Rails-centric, but don't see why they have to stay there once they've established a real foothold in that market.
"I suspect that it's more important in the long run for Amazon to create the de facto DRMed ebook format ..."

Which is why I don't understand the enthusiasm for this.

Getting more people locked into any digital restriction management scheme is a step backwards.

When I can get current digital books that use a non-proprietary format and can be read on my choice of hardware, then I'll be excited.
JWZ's complains can broadly be broken into 2 categories: Java lacks advanced programming features, and Java doesn't perform well.

Some of the features have been added (enums, weak pointers, etc) and some will probably never be added because they conflict with the overall design of the language (typedefs, macros, etc).

However, many-to-most of his performance complaints have become irrelevant due to a combination of better hardware (e.g. not needing to worry so much about small memory overheads) and a smarter VM (e.g. hotspot can inline entire branches of a call tree based on metrics it gathers at runtime).

One of JWZ's main Java experiences was trying to program a web browser in Java 1.0, IIRC. Since this was over 10 years ago, his main frustrations seemed to be with the fact that he didn't have enough control over the language to get it to perform well enough for this purpose.

Interestingly, most people I see choosing other languages over Java today don't care that Java performs better than their language of choice (it almost always does), but rather because their language of choice has convenient features which make it easier for them to write code, performance be damned. I came to Python from Java for this exact reason, and despite JWZ's valid frustration with 1990s Java performance, I can't help but read most of his essay and think "how quaint" at his performance concerns.
My own experience with the Kindle (I bought 20 books on it last year) and circumstantial evidence (Kindles being sold out half the time, other people who have actually used a Kindle loving it - although not all of it etc.) gives me reason to believe him.

Once you plunk down the $350, the itch to buy a $8 - $10 book that you just heard plugged by a friend you respect is simply too hard to resist. I have little doubt that Kindle owners are buying books more frequently and in large numbers. I think you still need a Kindle device for this iPhone app to work (not sure). Considering the fact that all the book lovers I know who hate the Kindle, love reading on their iPhones, if / when Amazon disconnects the two, this will accelerate.
There are no countries anymore, there are only hedge funds...
Its just a biplane with the wind tips curved up/down eh?
This is interesting. I have been using django for a while and work on a custom framework that barrows ideas, not code, from it's URL dispatch. I haven't really liked specifying and carrying around a list of regular expressions some place. This has given me new ideas.
Best Mobile App from DEMO 09: Asurion's Social Address Book
the article says its incorrect to put it like this
Quantum paradox directly observed -- a milestone in quantum mechanics
Guilty, of course. But the solution isn't to shut them down using the courts, the solution is for the content providers to make movies & tv easily available electronically. I can download books and read them but I don't, because it's so much easier just to buy them on my Kindle. Ditto with iTunes for music.

If there was a legal source I could download the last Battlestar episode that I missed, then I'd use that too.
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Ask HN: I'm sick of college, any recommendation?
Okay, to put things in perspective, I'm a 23yo Computer Science student, dropped out from college last year after been studying for three years; the reason: got fed up with all the innecesary work that had to be done... spent to much time caring for grades, knowing I could be doing something with much more value, incompetent proffesors "teaching" things that they didn't even understand, those proffesors being in the positon of assigning me a grade... Some proffesors gave me an F even I knew so much more than they did; actually in regard this "proffesor" situation, I went to talk with the computer science chairman who acknowledged the situation, but it took so much time to get each of faulty the proffesors fired, and they were to much.

This year, I started attending college again (different one), and have two more years pending to get that paper that says "I'm an engineer".Sadly, even though it's a different school, situation is starting to look like a deja-vu, and I'm actually starting to see with despise, and aversion the whole "university experience", and could almost state like an axiom in my reality that "college sucks".

I'm pretty confused... should I endure this sick pain, product of tolerating this crap,just in order to get my degree?(I only want it for the supposed doors that it opens).
Should I just take as many subjects as I can, so I can finish with this painful experience the fastest I can, without any consideration of the grades I get? How important are the grades in getting those "doors" open, or getting into a Ph.D program? Can't I get into a Ph.D program just by demonstrating my competence, and not having to comply with the "system"(and subsequently wasting my time)? Can just my work (research publications,conferences, open source hacks, books I've written) get me into a research program, without having the degree?

Sidenotes that could help understand more my context: I'm poor, I have to work in order to provide myself, and pay for school tuition.
I do research in artificial intelligence.
I disagree. I am certainly entitled to decide what information does or does not get downloaded to my computer.
Absolutely! I was pretty skeptical going in (and the headline here didn't help), but it was a great read.
History remembers the risk takers more or less. Even if you fail, lose, are dead wrong, etc., if you have dared or risked greatly you will be remembered for that.

Fred Hoyle might have been "wrong" about steady state theory, in that the standard big bang model seems to match observation better, but it was a damn cool model in its hey day nevertheless, and Hoyle is rightfully remembered for that.

So I think it is not so much about being right or wrong or winning or losing but more just attempting. History recalls those who attempt and then fail or are proved wrong. History will not recall those who never even try great things.
Wikipedia states that this design was originally tried in 1906. If it's better than standard wing designs, why isn't it already used in today's airplanes?
Programmer's Blues
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For example, say you create a simple php website which has a single database. That could be a problem when it comes to scaling.

Choosing something other than a database, and something other than php may make far more sense than something that 'helps php database apps scale'.
Some proffesors gave me an F even I knew so much more than they did

How can you be sure that you knew much more than your professors knew? What kind of communication did you have with those professors before you received a grade of F?
I agree. But...um...it's obviously intended to be funny. So, the problem is that folks are arguing, vehemently, against an article that is intended as satire. It's like arguing with an article in the Onion. The Onion isn't always funny, but it's pointless to argue with it.
So, you're suggesting that joe sixpack should rather build his own heroku?
I love that it's on ec2. This allows me to do things like setup a lucene/solr EC2 instance and talk to it from my heroku app with minimal latency.

This is good stuff.
How to stop an outage from becoming an outrage