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What about increase in smartphones' screen sizes and resolutions? The next generation of Galaxy and IPhones will probably have 1920x1080 5" screens. Doesn't it invalidate the biggest need for responsive design (no need to zoom to see 980px elements)?
Chicago, IL - Picturelife

https://picturelife.com

Hey I'm Jacob, one of the founders of Threadless. My new project, Picturelife, is hiring all sorts of smart people. Picturelife is a service that securely stores all your digital photographs and organizes them beautifully. We currently have an amazing team of brains including OMGPOP founder and YC Alum Charles Forman and NY Tech Meetup President Nate Westheimer.

We're looking for full time people in Chicago to help make Picturelife the hottest app on the web and in your pocket.

We are looking for:

iOS / Mac developers
Windows desktop developers
Android developers
Javascript engineers
UI/UX engineers with Rails experience

Contact us at jobs+hn@picturelife.com

<3 Jacob
Interestingly, I consider websites to be poorly reimplemented native applications. They make sense when there is a centralized database at the back, but even then UI and UX usually suffer. For one thing, they often lose input methods available to the underlying system. For example, how many web apps use context menus? How many _can_ use them without breaking browser's own UX?
Well, when I first dove into compilers, i may have not been in my right mind. Three of us were too inexperienced to know that we couldn't produce a production compiler in a year, so we did. And I pretty much went through a wall to get into the compiler field.

I don't disagree with anything you said here, but I admit I am feeling a pull.
There are some basic C++ and C# Minecraft clients that people made for fun, but the real benefit of Java is how mod-able it is. There's actually a lot of tools for taking apart the minecraft.jar and putting it back together with new features.
I want procollective
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Cannot help your specifically, but there are growing number of cases of people relying on certain platform only to find out that platform burned them at their mercy at will.

Lessons:

1. All platforms are ought to be used only as a tool, not as a foundation of business. In other words earn trust with your clients and steer them to do business directly with you, without platform-as-a-middleman.
Use platform to gain clients, gain business. Pay fair commission for it's services but don't sell yourself short to platform just because they want you to.

2. Have plan B (or rather platform B) in case platform A failed to deliver, got disgruntled or becomes unruly. Maintain accounts at different platforms as a backup.

3. Platform's TOS is not a law (although they want you to think that) it's a guidance for crowds. Have your own brains.
Stockholm, Sweden - Shapeup Club (shapeupclub.com)
Looking for iOS Engineers.

Shapeup Club is a team of 8 behind the iPhone and Android application of the same name. We have over 2 million registered users, 250,000+ monthly active users who are using the apps to loose or gain weight while also connecting it with their favorite training app (RunKeeper, Withings, ...). ShapeupClub is one of the top 10 grossing (iPhone) apps in Scandinavia.

The team started growing a month ago and we have big plans for 2013 with important product upgrades, new partner integrations with quantified self apps (Fitbit, Endomondo, ...) and a greater international expansion.

We are looking for a talented iOS (iPhone and iPad) developer with a passion for interaction design and clear product development methods. Needless to say that at this stage, you will have a lot of influence on the product and you will impact technology choices.

Our iPhone app has over 4,200 reviews in Sweden alone
and over 3000 for our Android app
Our office is on Kungsgatan 73

If you are interested, email me at nicolas@shapeupclub.com
Startup - Sequoia Waste Solutions (Pittsburgh, PA)

Full Time or Contract. Remote OK, Local Preferred.

Positive-Cash Flow with 8 full time employees + contractors, interns

We are a 1.5 yr old startup working to disrupt the $60 billion waste industry, and we are primarily looking for a backend & systems developer. We need individuals who are willing to solve problems inherent to an aging industry, and by doing so, topple the biggest players in the market.

About the company:

Sequoia is saving businesses money by incentivizing them to recycle. We work with almost any sized business to make recycling and waste-vendor management simple.

We have hundreds of client locations in a dozen states, and are cash flow positive with reoccurring monthly revenue, but need to stay on top of our tech development to stay ahead of the multi-billion dollar players in the space.

You will be an integral part of a small development team, tasked with improving upon 1-2 years of database, iOS, and customer portal/CRM development.

Currently we are rebuilding our backend, taking into consideration all the lessons of our first year and a half with clients. After doing so, we'll be prepared to roll out service in nearly every metro-area around the country - scaling on what will be your product!

<-- Requirements/Responsibilties -->

Leadership experience, with the ability to produce from conception to execution.
Comfortable architecting 'behind the scenes' systems, and building those systems in a manner suitable for scale.
A keen eye for customer UX.

Preferably, you have a cool project, website, or demo that you could send in.

We've done a majority of development for iOS, and run our data services on Salesforce and an AWS RDS instance. We're looking to get away from Salesforce as the backend to our customer portal and develop our own, pulling data from our own database.

<-- What we will be working on -->

Collecting more data streams, via government agencies and any available API's, so that we may better analyze our customer's services.
Further down the road, we will make trash receptacles 'smart' for data collection and customer service.

<-- To apply -->

Email resumes and any relevant work to <resumes@sequoiawaste.com> , or through our website, at http://sequoiawaste.com/opportunities#view3
This looks pretty good. You already have competitors out there like Collective2. It'd be nice if you guys can get options data with IV; it's probably harder to get data licenses for historical options data but it'll differentiate you guys from the rest of the competition.
San Francisco, CA (full-time, remote, H1B welcome)
Expect Labs (http://www.expectlabs.com)

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Expect Labs is a startup based in downtown SF that is building a product called MindMeld (www.expectlabs.com/mindmeld). We're backed by some of the most prominent investors in Silicon Valley, including Google Ventures and Greylock.

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Our open positions include:

Back-end Software Engineer
Front-end Software Engineer
iOS Engineer
Android Engineer
Designer
Product Manager

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If you are awesome and interested in what we're working on, we'd love to hear from you. Visit www.expectlabs.com/jobs or shoot us an email at jobs (at) expectlabs (dot) com. Thanks and good luck!
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Yes that's not a bad thing, side-stepping the likes of visa. There are certainly some advantages to BTC as a payment method, and there are some advantages to it as a digital investment.

However I don't think it covers all the cases for a payment method, and as I say, I quite like some of the features of centrally controlled currency.
London, UK - Permanent, full time, on-site.

Lumi - https://lumi.do

We're looking for recommendation engineers, backend developers, search specialists, and operations people capable of writing code. Our stack is mostly Python, with occasional diversions into Java and C. We'd like you to know a bit of everything and a lot of something.

You'd be joining an East London based ten-person team. We've been working together for about a year, and have plans to expand rapidly in the near future.

Either launch a CV at hello@lumi.do, or drop me a line personally if you'd like to chat first.
I've been to the well many times on Minecraft.

On the family multiplayer server, I made sky houses out of giant mushrooms and bone dust. I made a hockey arena in the snow. I laid roads out of gravel (wood for bridges) that stretch for days of in-game time. There are waystations that you reach just as night is falling. We made a monster trap that drops tons of resources next to a powered railroad track, so you can get in a cart, whiz by monsters, after which they burn in lava, then their byproducts fall down a waterfall. I made an underwater dome out of glass.

My son loves this game and we play it together.

But there is also a special beauty when playing alone. You are marooned on a planet the size of earth. You have the power to keep yourself safe by your own efforts. You can explore vast caves to find treasure. You can light areas with torches to create zones of safety. You can grow crops and breed animals to feed yourself. You can look at the sunset through windows at your beach house, then go to bed. This is all with the tragic realization that virtually no one will appreciate your efforts (and in the game), so whatever experience or meaning you derive from it is for you alone. The world is by turns bleak, elegiac, beautiful.

Lately I've been playing hardcore mode, which gives you only one life to live and deletes the world when you die. It is easy to starve, so the first few days are scrambling just to get to a subsistent existence. It's hard even for veterans, and it turns up all that tragic stuff to 11.

There is in-game programming that people have used to make adders and ROMs and clocks. There are notes that you can use to make music (my doorbells play Raiders of the Lost Ark). You can make secret doors that open with pistons.

And that's all in the base game! Modders have had an endless field day with this game. It's now a game that contains other games, contains multitudes.
About computationally as complex, no? The Manhattan distance would just be the sum of the absolute difference in the two coordinates.

The Manhattan and Euclidean distance on finite spaces both generalize to "l_p norms" (1 and 2, respectively) on an n-dimensional Euclidean space, where ||x||_p = (|x_0|^p + |x_1|^p + ... + |x_n|^p)^(1/p). You can even naturally define it in the limit where p goes to infinity!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp_space
In SaaS, Don’t Shortchange Second-Order Revenue
"I cant accomplish structuring my content for mobile audiences so I'm going to give up and write an edgy post to put on hacker news."

Try harder.

Edit: Try starting with mobile first and maybe your content strategy will be stronger for everyone else: http://www.abookapart.com/products/mobile-first
Well, freelancer are quite obviously scammers, but I am not sure about this scenario here, where I am not sure the term scam would apply at this point, even though it seems very shady.

However.
When they bought vworker.com my account migrated to freelancer where I obviously did the procedure of connecting my PayPal to get it certified for future possible payments.
I got an e-mail about getting their Basic Membership for free for the next month due to the vworker->freelancer thing and whatever.
One month later I get an e-mail telling me that the Basic Membership ended and in order to renew it I will have to pay the fee, obviously I didn't, not having used the side as I didn't really like it too much.
6 hours later I get another e-mail saying that they just booked the amount from my PayPal, which I gave them the right to when connecting my PayPal to my freelancer account.

The support didn't want to give me my money back until I made it clear that they're not acting on legal grounds as they never stated anywhere that the 1 month free Basic Membership will renew automatically afterwards and that I would have to change it in order to have the free membership (at least I know it's not legal in my country, but after 1 week of waiting they finally replied that they're going to give me my money back).
I wonder how much money they've made by scamming hundreds and possibly thousands former vworker users who then didn't claim their money back.
Their strategy seems so shortsighted. The trend towards mobile and screens of many sizes is fairly obvious. I would imagine that if they put a little more time into their work they would have come up with a great RWD solution. They copped out.
It's not the largest selling game, but might be the largest selling non-AAA, non-casual, PC-game of recent years.
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Idea: Domain name exchange... trade your unused domains for other ones that might be of more value to you. Like baseball cards... but for domain names

Somebody go develop it now.
it does, I'm doing a version for html5modes angular apps (slightly more complicated!)

careful to only serve these pages to bots tho
I am fascinated by the number of "disruptive technologies"
That are appearing on my limited radar - if you know of any others dump them here - we can tidy them up and may e start a thread - it would be fascinating to see what HN thinks are disruptive within the next five years

Me:

Military:

- directed energy weapons. Real life trials of 25kw weapons
Have shown ability to instantly deliver plastic explosive levels of energy (1g PETN ~ 1kj). Link this to optical targeting and you have ability to cut the wings off an entire airforce, stop any human walking a Ross miles of ground and plain old assassination from a drone.

The US has more aircraft carriers than most of the res of the world. What now?

Transport:

- driverless car - natch
- electric cars - storage batteries could supply off line grid level storage too

Energy

- solar power from desert to city
- grid level storage from LmBC

Medical

Err - need to dig out my notebook but its a start

Thoughts?
you got this one! Name cheap tells me you dont have a proper address in your profile, so I transfered it with mine but you'll want to update it to yours. Don't stalk me ;)
Nathan berry has started to piss me off due to two reasons

One he is always ranting about the book he has written.
Two he is giving generic rant on how to sell stuff.

Come on dude show something original.
Don't get me wrong: I love hacking on compilers and I do it for fun. And you can ship a production compiler in a year. But for C++ 11? That's a different beast. That's a language that's neither fun to write a compiler for nor do I think it's tractable to write one in a year (but who knows?)

Out of curiosity, what was the compiler for?
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I feel the same. A programming language is just a tool. And yet your ilk have been bashing it for way too long. Maybe not you, but a vocal group of Ruby developers have.

I program in C,C++,Java,VBA,JavaScrip,PL-SQL and I've even dabbled in Ruby, Perl and LISP. However, I still find it offensive that some noob Ruby developers think somehow that they are the chosen ones and can bash other developers without expecting any backlash.
The actual amounts were 1500 MM SEK revenue (236 MM USD), and a 640 MM SEK (100 M USD) licensing fee/royalty to Notch, leaving that 580 MM (92 MM USD) profit. So that's 92 million on top of 100 million in effectively dividends to Notch (by pulling out that amount, he must be one of the Swedes paying most tax!)
I would say though that responsive design is less of an issue for these sites as they are popular enough that people are willing to use them through an app. The app has a mobile optimized design and can offer functions that a responsive website cannot offer.

For less popular sites and sites with different usage patterns, people might not be willing to install an app and app development might be too expensive. In these cases, responsive design is an option to provide a smooth mobile experience without too much extra work.

Of course, this doesn’t change the point that you should evaluate the need for responsive design without bias, but comparing your site with popular websites might not give you the full answer.
IT auditor here. This article does not tell me what I need to know. :-(
What mathematics would you read out loud?
Turned up at all.

You don't send law enforcement into someone else's territory without being invited. It's an issue of sovereignty really.
truth be told thats the exact reason I held on to most of these, but with the birth of my second daughter and moving to the bay area for me it was a case of priorities.

I envisioned a mobile app with some kind of a simple barter system. I'd love to be part of a project working on it and can share some ideas I had sketched out.
I don't think there is a moral argument for "freeing" existing content since all parties to the "paid journal" business model, including the paper authors, seem to have entered into these arrangements with coercion. The authors of papers are, in fact, paid; they are paid with the prestige that comes from being published in such a journal and do so willingly and fully aware that someone else will make money from the work via selling subscriptions etc

A better idea would be to invest the effort and money in building free alternatives based on alternative business models and working out how to incent authors to use them. This doesn't involve the breaking of any contracts or dishonouring agreements and is actually addressing the root cause rather than engaging in journal by journal skirmishes.
I have a different perspective on point 3.

Before getting into it, I'll say that I agree on policy. It is pretty dumb to send CS PhD recipients from reputable universities home, or force them to go through the idiocy of temporary work visas with dual intent to remain in the us. It makes more sense to just grant residency.

I just have a very, very different opinion about the rest of this.

First, I think that PhD programs in the sciences are generally a poor return on investment relative to other options (the professional degrees, in particular). Here's a link to a RAND study that concludes that the American allergy to STEM PhD's is rational and market-driven.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/issue_papers/IP241.html

My guess would be that PhDs in CS are a better investment than science degrees in the aggregate. However, PhD degrees in CS still have sky high attrition rates and time to completion compared to the professions, and salary and employment prospects long term for top students who could attend elite law, medical, business, or other professional schools are still better than what is offered by PhD programs.

In short, I think that any "shortage", to the extent that it exists, is market driven and rational. PhD programs need to face a reckoning, and they need to change. The RAND study makes some good suggestions, but PhD programs won't change if they can position themselves as gatekeepers to US residency. They'll just wave goodbye to the Americans who already have residency and don't have to go through this bullshit, and continue their abuse of students who have fewer legal options to reside here.

This brings me to my next disagreement - that PhD students make up the costs of their scholarship "to some extent." I think this is a vast understatement. Talented PhD students in STEM fields are profit centers for universities. The work product of a 5th year PhD student in a biochemistry lab vastly exceeds the minor stipend this student is paid. This is why PhD programs like to string out their students. It's a big reason for why they won't move to the professional model (advocated by the RAND study).

In short, I hold opposing positions here, depending on which perspective I take. Yes, PhD graduates from STEM programs should be granted residency, it's nuts to send them home or force them to jump through hoops. No, PhD programs should not, under any circumstances, hold the power to grant residency to international students. They will abuse this - they already do.
'a tribalism which casts so many as as unthinking malevolent "others."'

I'm actually not worried about people cackling about how they can finally enslave the masses. Generally they do such a bad job when that is a primary goal that they end up failing. (Remember DivX, the time-limited DVDs, for instance?) I'm worried about people incrementally making a small choice here and a small choice there and before you know it, we've still pretty much ended up in the same place. Yes, FOSS as a community has done a lot of stuff but it worries me to see so many people declaring the job done and that we don't have to worry any more. Using the FOSS community as the freedom backstop doesn't work if the FOSS community no longer thinks it has to worry about freedom because of past successes.
Some people will just NEVER learn.
This. This is a brilliant idea.
If the run this like their phone business they'll fuck around for years with multiple, conflicting, self-defeating research projects. While better companies create whole new industries with graphene. Then throw out all their research and prototype products, declaring Aluminum is the future after they hire an ex VP of Alcoa.
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There was a legislation about a maximum period of 7 years for doing both the bachelor's and the master's degree. This would mean a student could lose his permission to be enrolled in the university as a student and graduate:

http://yle.fi/uutiset/seitseman_vuoden_takaraja_hiillostaa_n...

http://www.mtv3.fi/uutiset/kotimaa.shtml/opintoajan-rajaus-o...

I couldn't find an English source for this, sorry. Perhaps Google Translate will help.

There is a caveat in the law, which is that universities can give extensions to the studies as they wish, and most students who request it do get it. But it's still a strong message from the government and there are ~400 students at the moment that have their studies interrupted because of this law.

Also Anita Lehikoinen from the Ministry of Education says that "funding to universities are partly decided by the amount of students who achieve 45 study points (points awarded for completing parts of the curriculum) in a given year" ( http://ylioppilaslehti.fi/2010/02/pitka-ura/ ) So there is a clear incentive for universities to push students into graduating quickly.

edit: Found an English source, this is an instructional material of Aalto University for exchange students, mentioning the study right: https://into.aalto.fi/display/enmasterarts/Study+right+and+t...
With the amount of money that enterprise has invested in Java, it'll probably follow a similar trajectory to COBOL where "dead" isn't really dead.
Why you don't think that this is a scam?

Suspending my account - which has more than $550 in milestone payments there, for no clear reason and without any note, and even without any prompt communication!

If this is not a scam.. then what the scam is?
How does a 980px grid look good on a 768px-wide screen?
And yet had it not been Java you would have said that it could never have succeeded in Java. Somebody is butt hurt.
"Offline transactions are possible in the near future with a semi trusted third party"

I may be mis-reading that, but it looks like that is not an offline transaction, but a transaction facilitated by a payment processor. They seem to be trying to solve the problem of quickly verifying a payment.

Offline payments should allow this:

1. Alice receives money from some online payment.

2. Alice sends money to Bob via an offline payment.

3. Bob sends money to Catherine via an offline payment.

4. Catherine spends her money online.

In that scenario, Bob should not be required to ever do anything online. In other words, it should be possible for parties to only ever deal in offline transactions, without ever going online, as it is possible for people to only ever deal in paper cash.
He was fighting against the commodification of academic journals. MIT should have given him a medal.