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Location: Palo Alto, CA/Glendale, CA
Position: Lead Mobile Games Engineer
Company: Disney Mobile

Disney Mobile, a division of Disney Interactive, is a leading mobile gaming and entertainment network, reaching more than 1 out of every 3 iPhone, iPod touch and iPad users. Disney Mobile Glendale Studio is the developer of the Disney Mobile award-winning games "Where's My Water?", "Where's My Perry?" and "Temple Run Brave" with a focus on developing new IP and building franchises.

We are looking for a Lead Mobile Games Engineer to drive the development of our next generation of mobile games. This is a great opportunity for someone to make their mark while working in a nimble, small dev. environment (that has the backing of the larger Walt Disney Company).

To make your mark within the Disney Mobile space follow this link: https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGWEbHost/jobdetails.aspx?partne...

You can also email our recruiter, Alison: Alison.Mann at disney.com.
too bad web design wasn't around already in those days :) it would be akzidenz grotesk in every screen.
What does this have to do with the OP and ADHD?
Prenda Law Sues Critics For Defamation
Being a better human
I'm pretty sure it's in either Name of the Wind or Wise Man's Fear, but damned if I can find it. I sure as hell didn't come up with such a good quote myself.
Maybe at some point whoever is behind hnnotify will decide they don't want to pay a huge Sendgrid/Mailgun/whatever bill anymore and shut it down.

There's also the simple problem of discoverability. I never knew about hnnotify until now, since it's not part of the main site.
Adioso began as a single source for price search to low cost carriers and the low cost carriers are not in the GDS because they won't pay the prices.So I presume they scrape (spider at regular intervals) the low cost carrier prices from the airline websites but possibly they have api direct links. Tom could tell us. (Tom I really want an in depth post on wingtip!) But to do fast real time search for hundreds of airlines you need more than a fast schedule (time dependent graph) you also need the complex fare rules worked out and programmed. All of that data is available but costs. The last bit is you then need to check availability via wherever you can book the ticket (GDS or direct to airline) and cache it for speed. I think that the fact that Tom links to Vayant's price cacheing api it is an admission that it isn't raw data that's lacking it's a higher level api where fares and availability are already worked out. Because seriously to do that yourself is a huge time & engineering challenge. It took ITA years. Adioso have the fast Graph and can get the schedule data. Vayant is offering an off the shelf solution to do fares and availability. Could work.
Hey's saying these drugs only help you sprint, because what goes up must come down.
"We were certainly glad and grateful that Android is open source—otherwise, this change wouldn’t have been possible."

In return, maybe you could open-source some of your app, for example?
Apprenticeships are awesome, but a lot of comments here refer to dropping out and just going it on your own, which is a lot different from an apprenticeship, which, for better or worse, we don't have here. I would recommend the apprenticeship route if we had one, but as we don't, a college degree will make your life a lot easier.

And one of the best reasons to go to college for computer science is making friends who share your interests, those are the people you will network with to find great jobs, start new companies, etc. So while the classroom environment might not be thrilling, there is plenty of education to be had outside the classroom. If you are super enthusiastic, you might even get to work on cutting edge research as an undergrad in a university lab.
Ask HN: Why aren't there enough C & C++ Web frameworks? 
How come there are no nodejs equivalents for C & C++? They're faster, have better libraries and have a larger developer base!
This. This method is super proven to help consumer happiness.
but now I see, that most people that like the flat design "trend", probably have no notion of design history and never even heard about the international typographic style. And that worries me, a lot.
You can boost productivity for a year or two with Adderall, but over a 10 year period most people will find that they perform better by staying off Adderall and other stimulants.

And we are all in it for the long run, I think.

After taking Adderall (or any stimulant) for long enough, you need the drug just to get to your baseline performance level.

Add onto that the unproductive evenings, crashing on days off the pill, mood swings, likely health repercussions, and the general malaise caused by intentionally inducing your body into flight-or-fight mode.. It adds up to a not-so-pretty picture.

If you want to feel like superman for a while, go for it. As for me, I'll trade short term productivity for low cortisol levels and inner peace.
eCPM is a metric I look at, but fill rate is also important. When I use second tier mobile ad services, the eCPM is often competitive, but my fill rate can drop from 99% on a big service to <10%. So over 90% of my ad requests go unfilled...if I was solely using a low (<40%) fill rate service on an app, even if eCPM was double I'd be losing money.

Even if you can get good, independent mediation with per-service, per-country settings and good backfill - which itself can be difficult - it can take a couple of seconds for that second ad backfill to come in, which usually means a dropoff in clicks.

Whenever I see second tier ad services boasting good eCPM, I always wonder what their fill rate is, especially if you're app isn't something you'd expect lots of ads for, like information on cars for people in the USA.
I think Hacker News' name policy is just about right. Its public enough that we don't have things going on like 4chan, but its not public to the point people are afraid to comment their opinions.
No I'm not kidding.

The criticisms I see in the article are;
1. Something from Paul Graham - It is his job to criticise.
2. “But it’s so slow!”

Otherwise it is overwhelmingly about personal problems and how Adioso is everyone's darling.

I can easily get 20 people to say my site is great, but to get 20 people to tell me it's a load of shit... that's the hard part. I don't need people to tell me that it's good, I need people wanting more.

What are you improving? What are you working on?

Don't get me wrong;
The ongoing soap opera about Adioso is a wonderful read, I wish more people had the guts to spell out all the bullshit that is involved in trying to make money from travel.

How you intend to get traffic/make money from Adioso is far beyond my comprehension.

I get 5 results searching New York to Singapore, and only 3 fit on the page at a time. Looks nice, but fucking awful to use as a tool.
I'm not against of migrating to a "better" HN when the time has come, but I doubt it will be Reddit.

I think it'll instead be something built from the ground up specifically for this community that serves its needs better than HN currently does.

That being said, as someone who's working on this very thing I can say that developing a "Better HN" is far from easy…

If you want another example, just look at Discourse (http://discourse.org). I think it took them one year with a 5 or 6-people team to get there, and I didn't see anybody jumping ship from HN to a Discourse implementation yet.
update should have used val() rather than text().
https://gist.github.com/kstinchcombe/5087397/

javascript: (function() { var wordCount = function() { if (!window.jQuery) { return setTimeout(wordCount, 100); } var $ = jQuery; $('.wc').remove(); $('textarea').each(function(idx,elem) { var wc = $(elem).val().split(/[ \n]+/).length; $(elem).after('<div class="wc"'+( (wc>120) ? ' style="color: red"':'')+'>'+wc+'</div>'); }); }; if (!window.jQuery) { var c=document.createElement("script"); c.type="text/javascript"; c.src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min...; document.documentElement.childNodes[0].appendChild(c); } wordCount(); })();
Show HN: 16-bit PWM Tutorial for the Arduino Leonardo
Funny thing is that Debian is already at Google Play.
Jailbreaking is not nearly as easy as you make it out to be, and you don't do anybody any good by exaggerating it like that.

A viable jailbreak for iOS 6 has only just become available, and all indications are that it will stop working with 6.1.3. Maintaining a jailbroken device is requires fairly substantial effort and research, and extreme care when it comes to OS updates and device restores.
You should investigate "CGI", arguably the simplest such "framework"
Easy for C, getting shit done (tm) is something for pros. The subtlety of getting malloc, free, and pointer arithmetic in general, right just isn't easy for a novice coder.

C++ suffers from the same problem, just to a lesser degree.

node.js on the other hand has the advantage that nearly everyone who knows a bit of JS from his latest website gig can also do a node.js application.
I think this is beautiful. Thank you for creating it and sharing on github.
Here's an Ars story for some further context: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/02/enraged-by-abusiv...

And a little piece from someone who's being sued: http://fightcopyrighttrolls.com/2013/03/04/copyright-trolls-...

Prenda Law is a bunch of copyright trolls who have strayed into behavior that is frankly insane. I have no assets. Come at me.
Hello, I'm the designer behind the homepage and search box. Thanks for the great feedback! As you could have guessed, there's been a lot of thought and iterating over the homepage and the orange search box, both on a functional level and a branding experience.

It's been a really interesting exercise. Searching (at least from a Web interface POV) is a really robust paradigm and a space that is challenging to innovate in. While I agree that we haven't quite 'nailed it', I feel like we're constantly moving towards the promised land while adhering to the plethora of backend and frontend contraints.

I like your idea from a story telling perspective, but it feels a little step heavy. We're trying to be patient in educating users on the breadth of queries we can handle. Understanding what you could put into the Google search box was a very gradual discovery experience.

I too am hoping we can turn a proper noun into a verb :)
Actually like it. I wont necessarily use it but as an option I am sure there are people out there who will find it a perfect fit for some use-cases.
I would not sign that, see the Raspberry Pi and its growing ARM based competition. This is the real innovation field, x86 has mainly halted, IMO mainly because of the backwards compatibility requirements.
Huff! Puff! That's antilogic because I disagree! /s

I've always seen debate as the fundamental principle of advancing science (and have no idea what Popper may think on the subject).
F.C.C. Backs Consumers in Unlocking of Cellphones
Right! Like a chipmunk in a cute scarf or something.
I did that ages ago when the Unity mess happened. Fedora is actually really nice, and working perfectly on my machines.
Does your company have a blog? Yes, no, maybe so?
tl;dr: Your mileage may vary, but I find I work best on a small screen, light weight hardware, in a layered environment with semi-transparency.

I used to be a big proponent of "more screens = more efficiency." There was a time when I was developing/running/debugging on a rather large network of in situ oceanographic sensors when I had four monitors arranged in a 2x2 grid.

Since then I was forced into working on some small, low-res displays in some cramped/uncomfortable environments. There's nothing like being afraid of heights and debugging code at the top of a swaying hydraulic scaffolding to make you want lightweight, productive efficiency.

I migrated to using yakuake, and now iTerm2 in a quake-like setup, and I do most of my coding in vim. I set the terminal and vim to the solarized-dark color scheme, and set the background at 80% opacity. I find this allows me to focus on what I'm doing but still "peer" through to see reference material behind the terminal. Further, because the terminal rolls down from the top with the press of a hot-key, I find that transitions between browsing/etc and writing code are very fluid and the burden of a mental context switch is minimized. This setup allows me to be incredibly productive on a 13" rMBP.

I recently had the opportunity to switch back to a multimonitor setup. I found that I spent too much time worrying about how things were tiled to make appropriate use of the real-estate, and began to wonder why I ever craved four monitors. In the end I just went back to my normal quake-like terminal/vim usage pattern as I feel this helps me focus better, and I really like the feeling of not being tethered to my desk/chair.
private high school in the bay area is about $15k/kid/year.

cupertino has one of the better school districts. sunnyvale is right next door to cupertino and is not renowned for their school district like cupertino is.

the median price for a house in cupertino is $1.3M.
the median price of a house in sunnyvale is $660K.
Both towns have a roughly similar YoY growth [1]

if you assume 30 year fixed mortgage at 3.6% with 10% down for both (assuming good credit and no property tax or pmi, to keep things simple) the mortgage for the median cupertino home is $5,319.35, and the mortgage for the median sunnyvale home is $2,696.50 [2]. That difference is roughly enough to send two kids to private school.

Obviously, that is just a back of the envelope calculation and doesn't compare the price for similarly sized houses, or adjust for taxes, crime, and a bunch of other things.

As for equity, yeah, it's there but unless you plan to downsize, it's not doing that much for you. Having seen the real estate bubble and subsequent crash in Sacramento during the 2000's, I think treating your primary residence as an investment is extremely foolish.

[1]: http://www.zillow.com/compare/cupertino-ca-vs-sunnyvale-ca/
[2]: http://www.mortgagecalculator.org/
O MI GOD THIS IS SO TERRRIBLE!!!11!! LIKE IF YOU AGREE.
They're actually quite different http://i.imgur.com/LxoNXK2.png
I can't tell if I should be excited for the developers to have been so clever, or horrified with all the hacks they had to incorporate to make it work. Either way, the new FB app is definitely an improvement over the older version (lag central!). Is it reasonable for the OS to make such a low-level component configurable so this type of convolutions aren't required?
I'd suggest adding features to keep people coming back. E.g' rss and email subscription for 'hot' projects. Otherwise it might get pretty lonely when you get off the hn front page.
> The real tragedy is the people excusing NK so they can have their way.

I've read this sentence a few times, left, come back, and re-read it a few times, and I still can't really make heads or tails of it.

Are you saying that people doing this (pretending their website is hosted in North Korea) makes light of the suffering of people who live in North Korea? I don't understand how you can conclude that: The whole point is that, as bad as North Korea is, it still doesn't go after torrent sites. It wouldn't work if North Korea were replaced with a country that actually has a lot of freedoms.

Are you implying that people should be working to end what's going on in North Korea? Well, what can anyone do? Any serious attempt to force change would simply lead to a massive, destructive war, killing most of the people that the outside world wants to help.
The general understanding is that ADHD is characterized by a spectrum of attention deficit to an extreme.

The process of diagnosis usually involves a self-questionnaire. In my case I somehow managed to fail the questionnaire and the psychologist performed an IQ test.

The IQ test is analyzed to see if you have a processing speed subscore that is significantly lower than your other subscores (all subscores should be roughly equal).
Ask HN: I'm a non-technical guy taking a week off work. What should I learn?
Hey guys,

I'm a non-technical product lead in a bigger-than-a-startup, and I'm taking a week off. My vacation plans fell through, but I'd like to take the week off anyways and dedicate it to professional development. Assume that I have no technical skills – what technical skill(s) should I go full-out on for a week in order to gain some proficiency to make myself and my team better?
> most [email] users have no idea what HTML even is.

For most users email is something you do in a web browser. They've never used it any other way.
Is it abuse if you use them for performance reasons and moderate it properly? Just because the distributors of the drug say it is abuse doesn't mean it is - they do not get to decide these things.
There is a feature requests link at the bottom of the page...
Right, makes a bit more sense now. Thanks for the thourough explanation. Also, I would too be interested in a post which gives more insight into Wingtip as it sounds quite interesting.
What did you use for the UI? It looks really good.
Maybe do like the old Sims games:

"Upholstering Airline Seatbacks..."
"Recalculating Airspeed Velocity..."

Maybe too cheesy, but it would make me laugh.
As soon as you mentioned "Adobe Type Manager" I remembered reading about this case some time ago. But knowing it was you that discovered this makes it all the better. If only we could create perfect APIs the first time around...
Very true, but where is the core? I've setup many BGP peering sessions, and yes all of those direct edge connections into tier 1 providers is generally filtering prefixes longer than /24. These are where the big propagation problems happen. Whoops, I just advertised my internal network (including a bunch of /31 and /32s) to the Internet either clobbering route tables (capacity problem) or stomping routes.

This is why my comment posted in the recent CloudFlare post mortem talks about good network engineers and the misunderstanding of many 'technical savvy' folks that know enough to do some really dumb things architecturally.

This lends credence to the fact that, this is well understood if you've spun up peering sessions more than once. I find it slightly embarrassing most people don't realize how fragile a framework BGP really is. But it definitely comes to light reading through forums like HN that lean towards the developer side of readership.
The problem of sudo is that it's so easy to make a mistake in your command (and in sudoers). That's a security flaw in itself.

Also, you can always sudo bash, or sudo su.

You have a point about that extra password. But not about SELinux and RBAC being created because of that, nor in comparing the security of a system with root to one where eveybody is root.

All said, I'm still unconvinced. The logging isn't that usefull (I've tried it), and the extra password isn't relevant enough. Also, none of them will detain a malicious user (Linux has very week defenses against you grabing your own password).
Thanks.

I had to Google "Bayer filter" -- the Wikipedia page is good. So, yes, without knowing it, I was describing a Bayer filter.

For video, sure, my Nikormat is only a still camera, but my guess is that the Canon CCD sensor will also get used for still photography. Then a question is, would that chip make a much better 35 mm 'class' still camera than my old Nikormat with, say, just Kodacolor film? Apparently on ASA speed values, the Canon sensor would totally blow away any film.

But on resolution, I was guessing that film such as Kodacolor in a good, old still camera such as my Nikormat might still be close to competitive.

But I have fallen so behind in photography that I don't even know what the camera ads mean when they say how many pixels their sensor has. For the Dalsa sensor I described, would the ads say 48 million pixels or just 1/4th of that many, 12 million, after the Bayer filtering?
MIT students discover 72 years of (nearly) non-polluting energy
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I don't like the flat menu/buttons. I don't find anything about these flat menus or buttons to be particularly intuitive. There's no visual cues to let me know that there's sub menus there's no visual cues to let me know the buttons are clickable until I am already interacting with them (hover/mouse over etc).
I have the power to conjure energy, intense concentration, motivation, all-nighters, etc all on my own. I call it: stress+goals+pride+enjoyment+intelligence. Sometimes it's a great asset and sometimes it runs me into the ground. In my experience a lot of people are like this (programmers, parents, executives, creatives, lawyers, etc) and we all find our own ways to cope. For me it was a realization of my own body and mind (and that I'm normal) and not buying into someone's diagnosis or someone else's coping strategy.

One of the most reassuring pieces of advice I had during sleepless nights in high school was from an adult who told me he can't sleep a lot and instead of tossing and turning he seizes the moment and works, since that's what he's thinking about anyway. I'm not saying this is healthy advice, I'm saying that he helped me feel normal by letting me in on his coping strategy. Others will tell you they drink tea, or workout, or avoid sugar or caffeine. They all work--for them--and we should take everyone's advice with a grain of salt because we all have very different minds/bodies/lives. I guess the author here found a coping strategy that happened not to work for her, so thank you for sharing.

I'll share my strategy: I take trazodone occasionally as needed to sleep. I let myself get all worked up and be very productive for as long as I think it's healthy for me. Eventually I get on a weird cycle and this corrects it for me. There are all sorts of other things I do but there are so many variables in life, and this is the only one I view as relevant. And who knows, in a few years I might have to try a new strategy.

Everyone's weird and bizarre and has problems. We should stop stigmatizing illness, eccentricities, addiction, medication and start realizing that we're all different and have the potential to be healthy if we find what works for us. Also don't always try to find the root cause and be pragmatic more often.

Also, I should add that I share these details sort of like people do when they admit they're gay. It's not without risk, but I hope someone reading this is helped. And if you think I'm being overly dramatic, this does not apply to you then, because I'm being way underly dramatic.
The drop off after the top 10 is brutal. Talk about a long tail..
You know, at first I thought this was a lot fluffy for here, but, it is amusing to see yet another case of a company that demands you use your real info turning around and preventing just that. I almost hope facebook kicks her off because of lying, just for the shitstorm it would raise.
The City of Philadelphia has a GitHub organization too - https://github.com/cityofphiladelphia.

We use the org to share some of our official city apps. These are usually simple web apps built with tools like Bootstrap and jQuery. We'll be open sourcing more of these going forward.

Not only are we interested in sharing the code for these apps, we're actively encouraging people to fork, improve and send pull requests.
Yes, the speed of light dictates how long it takes data to travel. But that isn't definitive proof that TPB's servers are hosted that close.

The easiest thing to do is to put up caching reverse proxies on big providers that respond immediately and only slow down on "dynamic" content, which we all assume to be slower anyway.

A more non-conventional approach would be to break the embedded OS of an intermediate router or network device (can you count how many transparent filtering network devices there are between you and a random website?) and have it return false data or provide static NAT to establish connections before they actually reach the destination.

The spoofed packets seems the most likely explanation. It's just not the only possibility :-)