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Tampa, Florida - Bright House Networks - Systems Engineer

http://tinyurl.com/bnraug2

Systems Engineering and Operations team is responsible primarily for data center systems infrastructure design, deployment, operations, and continuous improvement supporting core customer and internal Bright House Networks services and applications. The shared and stand-alone infrastructure runs on physical and virtual hardware, including servers, storage arrays, load balancers, firewalls, and switches. The Systems Engineer is actively engaged throughout the infrastructure life cycle, from concept to ongoing support. The position interacts with various Engineering, Development, Product, and Operations teams, to design the supporting systems, develop implementation strategies within new and existing environments enterprise-wide, provide and maintain design and ‘as built’ documentation, and implement ongoing service delivery enhancements. Critical foundational services for customer network access and user experience are also supported. Responsibilities include operating system (O/S) administration, hypervisor management, storage administration, network administration, capacity and performance management, fault monitoring, remote access, security, database administration, and configuration management within the data center. This position requires strengths in the engineering and operation of service deployment in a diverse environment with multiple technologies. The Systems Engineer must maintain a broad perspective and a strong awareness of new technologies and internal operations to support all aspects of network services, systems infrastructure, and application integration. Virtualization, Linux systems expertise, UNIX and Windows experience, database administration (Oracle and MS-SQL), storage, and network knowledge is key to success in this position. This position reports to the SEO Manager and has no supervisory responsibilities.

TL/DR; We need us some awesome engineers.
email: luke @ my bright house . com
Edwin Mellen Press Threatens to Sue Society for Scholarly Publishing
I agree, even though the amount of bitcoins in circulation will be limited this looks too strange to be a regular trend.
The way it works is the following: workers pile outside the refiner and buy a lump of silver. They spend the day hammering away. Once it is flat, they sell it back to the refiner for a profit or use it to do stuff (dies, ...)

Unfortunately, there is no need for evil motivation, culture or racism. Good old economic and rational actors: humans to do the labour are just cheap and plentiful. I have no doubt that the very day it makes economic sense to use a machine, they will use machines. The reason we use machine in London is also simple: silvering leaf are 1GBP/g and silver grain is 0.6GBP/g. You would need to do hammer 300 sheet of silver per hour to earn minimum wage.
There's a middle road here. Serve the assets via django, but have a reverse proxy sitting in front of your web server which caches all the subsequent requests for the same resource. (That's why getting the headers right is so important)
Stats from Steam show Windows 8 to be close to 11%:

Windows 7 64 bit
55.11%
-0.37%

Windows 7
13.40%
-0.43%

Windows 8 64 bit
9.92%
+1.03%

Windows XP 32 bit
8.35%
-0.62%

Windows Vista 64 bit
3.87%
+0.57%

Windows Vista 32 bit
2.72%
+0.18%

MacOS 10.8.2 64 bit
1.68%
-0.03%

MacOS 10.7.5 64 bit
0.82%
+0.08%

Windows 8
0.75%
+0.01%

MacOS 10.6.8 64 bit
0.64%
+0.02%

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
So who and when is going to get out? And out where? To fiat currency that is controlled, inspected, can be frozen, taxed and stolen? Bitcoin grows like crazy because it is a money proved to work. It survived exchange hacks, stolen wallets, viruses, user mistakes, network-affecting software bugs and government seizures of bank deposits. It allows you to hold something in your pocket that nobody knows about and you can split it in 100 pieces and send to 100 people in different countries in a matter of seconds.

Bitcoin is not a promise of future delivery. Like William Gibson said, "The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed."
REMOTE Mobile Developer [US Citizens Only]

I am CTO @ Appstem Media (http://www.appstem.com); We are primarily based in SF and San Diego but take remote workers from all over the US. We have grown from 1 to 20 employees in 2 years (mostly fulltime, but several contractors). We have made mobile applications for 50+ clients including Tesla, Ouya, Kaiser Permanente, Enterprise, and others.

Benefits: - Good health / dental insurance - Above competitive income (for typical remote pay) - Work from home - Choose your own hours - Unlimited sick days, paid time off and holidays - Many perks (last year every employee got an iPad, among other perks).

Requirements: - Android, iOS, and/or other mobile platform dev experience (Sencha, Titanium, Parse, etc.) - US Citizenship - Can easily demonstrate past experience (i.e. a portfolio, Github account, etc)
Contact gavan@appstem.com if interested, thanks!

[Repost From Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer?]
Robot Ants Blaze Trails with Pheromones of Light
> The [] keys are closer to the central row of your keyboard than the less comfortable ().

> You don't need to hold the shift key to type [] therefore you can code faster.

That's true only for a standard US-qwerty keyboard layout. My [] are located at altGr + (). These guys clearly haven't though i18n through. And if there are such blatant omissions on their front page, who knows what's lurking in the code ?
Show HN: Backseat Writer – write like Shakespeare and others
I really like the video. I think it's a great example of what you can do with a low budget and limited toolset. I don't want to sound like I'm saying whoever is running Tinmark is poor and doesn't have good/proper tools or a lot/enough/useful experience with them. It's just that I've never heard of Tinmark before and while watching this video I was thinking "gee, I wish I could create a nice little video like this for my product" because I am on a low budget with limited tools as far as video making is concerned.

It's so...

- Simple - just music and screen grabs

- To the point - shows you exactly how you'd use the product... quickly!

- Not boring - the video is clear, the music is apt, and it gets you thinking of what you can do with the product even though there's no voice telling you about it

I can't tell you how many times I've watched a video of some poor guy typing out what he'd be narrating annoyingly slow and having to go back and fix typos every other second either with no sound or the most irritating music one could find laid over a blurry video so that you can barely read what's being written anyway. Every time I see one of those, I wish they'd have just done exactly what the video for Tinmark does. It can't be that hard. (It actually isn't, I've done it once for another product).

Oh, and I love the idea of making this free. It's cheap as it is and making accounts read-only after 30-days, at least to me, seems like it'd convert really well. If you invest enough time in the product during those 30 days then it's not a big leap to go from $0 to $2 for the ability to edit again.
Washington, DC. Senior Software Engineer. Full Time

I'm a Python developer working for the Schroeder Institute, a non-profit research organization supported by the American Legacy Foundation (who run The Truth anti-smoking campaign). Our offices are located in Dupont Circle.

My team has an open position. Our mission is to build software that moves public health forward. We have projects ranging from a Facebook app for an NIH grant studying virality techniques on Facebook to a multi-tenant dynamic text messaging system designed to integrate into everything from public health campaigns to medical electronic record systems.

We spend every day literally making the world a better place. And we do it with technologies like:

* Python/Django
* Heroku
* AWS
* Twilio

So if that sounds interesting to you, and you like awesome benefits like:

* A fun and friendly team
* Catered lunch two days a week
* 4 weeks vacation, 15 sick days, and 13 holidays
* Full health and dental coverage for you and your immediate family at no charge
* 401K contributions that are just...incredibly generous. Very very generous.
* And more! The benefits are absolutely incredible here.

And like being paid a competitive salary, then please apply at the offical job posting here:
http://legacyforhealth.iapplicants.com/ViewJob-404357.html

If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail them to me at epalakovichcarr@legacyforhealth.org.
Everybody check the calendar.
IIRC the SX's were DX's with a manufacturing defect in the FPU. To increase overall yield of 486 family processors, intel would disable the inoperative FPU by cutting traces with a laser and sell the otherwise perfectly fine chip as an SX.

I think, even if you had some kind of super powers that let you reconnect those traces, you still wouldn't have a fully functional DX, unless you also used those super powers to fix the defective FPU.
How can you be sure? A bunch of rich Valley workers getting $10,000 rebates on luxury cars is the "most" efficient use of tax money? (barney54 was right: There's another $2,500 free from California.)

I know you're exaggerating for effect, but when has such a scheme ever worked to bring a new technology mainstream? The government didn't need to give you a tax credit to buy a PC.

I suspect it would be much more efficient to slowly, predictably ramp up gasoline or carbon taxes, offset with, say, lower payroll taxes. Effectively no cost to the government, and it lets the market decide how best to reduce emissions.
An April Fools prank posted on 2/27?
> Easier to read, compare: (+ (expt 2 30) 2) with [+ [expt 2 30] 2].

Really? So now... in place of "lots of irritating superfluous parentheses" you get "lots of irritating superfluous square brackets"?

meh
Of course, Steam users tend to be power users and early adopters who need the latest and greatest. It's also still somewhat surprising to see how low OSX is on that list. I guess the games on offer are still not very good.
People like Max Keiser are calling 100k to 1mill per bitcoin. Hard to imagine. I left my gpu running for a few weeks a year or so ago and mined myself 1 bitcoin. I figure that should Keiser's prediction comes true - it will be a nice easy pay day - if not, I didn't waste much time, energy on it.

I've been looking at it lately though and thinking that it surely must drop back soon. I'm thinking a drop back down to 15 us is reasonable.
Thanks for reminding people about this change. For the readers who are wondering if this change happened on 1 April 2013, it actually happened earlier. This has been previously announced on HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5019049

(two months ago, no comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5267093

(one month ago, four comments)

and anyone who has followed any of the useit.com links in the last two months would have discovered this change. EDIT: The second HN submission shown links to the site's discussion

http://www.nngroup.com/news/item/useitcom-moves-to-nngroupco...

of this change in location of Alertbox columns.

I agree with the several questions posted here in comments that I'm puzzled by the rationale for some of the changes, which are not always easily explained by what's on the page

http://www.nngroup.com/news/item/useitcom-moves-to-nngroupco...

about the domain change, which has the paragraphs below about the new design:

"Legacy design is rarely a good rationale in the long run, but there was a second reason to maintain useit.com for many years: while nngroup.com needs a corporate look-and-feel to attract consulting clients, it was possible to retain a more emotionally forceful design for useit.com. The site admittedly didn't look very good, but it was a strong rallying point for rebellion against the bloated design style that dominated during the dot-com bubble.

"Even after the dot-com bubble burst, there was a long period where the barebones useit.com design stood out and elevated the site above many latecomer UX websites. Cutting through the clutter is an important value on the web, which has so much more information than anybody needs.

"However, eventually it makes less sense to rebel against the excesses of the past. Also, with almost 500 Alertbox columns published, it became clear that more navigational apparatus was needed. One solution could have been to redesign useit.com to make it more like other sites. But why bother? If a big change was needed anyway, it was better to use the opportunity to integrate the articles with the company information and host all the material on the same website with a single navigation structure and a single search. So that's what we did: no more microsite for the Alertbox."
15000 USD/pt/yr seems to be a cost of phase 3 drug trial in a wealthy (western) nation. there has been a boom in conducting human trials across developing nations , through private contractors. A search for 'drug trials in developing nations' returns millions of links , including reputable sources like bbc and pbs. I will let you pick the best ones :)
per capita income in india is 12000 usd/yr. there is no way, a drug firm will spend 15k usd in a place like that to perform human trials.Do remember that 12000 usd is the average income. the rural poor are some of the poorest in that world. you can safely assume that the cost of a drug trial in countries like india is much much lower. Indian poor have also been a test bed for human clinical trials.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20136654

Drug companies use poor as guinea pigs , marking up the price for wealthy nations and worst of all , prevent life saving care for billions of people. some on whom the drugs were tested on. So, there is more than one reason this victory is sweet for the developing nations.

p.s sorry about the multiple edits..
Why don't you give up and map your keyboard to US for programming, like all the rest of us? :-)

(It is not so bad to hit both shift keys to get back åäö.)

Edit: mpyne -- good thought, but we international users have our national keyboards in the fingertips, it is imho generally easier to switch layouts.

Edit 2: dkersten -- my productivity-porn time wasting is used up by browsing Emacs packages. :-) I'll check it out if I get wrist problems.
[] is harder for me to read than ()
It'll be proven to work when you can pay taxes and buy groceries with it.
What's insane is that people here were trying to find out ways to short Bitcoin when it was at here at price.
1Password 4 for Mac delayed so team can focus on refreshing WWDC announcmnt page
The whole "Cyprus people are getting into Bitcoin" narrative is a total lie as well. But I guess Bitcoin is a great learning opportunity for spotting Scams etc., as long as people don't lose too much money, it might even be beneficial.
"Bitcoin grows like crazy because it is a money proved to work."

Bitcoin grows like crazy thanks to various entities of increasing credibility building an ecosystem around BTC. Like Coinbase, which I'm sure is why a lot of people here got into bitcoin.

Listen for about 30 seconds of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UKC7iaBKvs#t=830s
And yet somehow I can buy generic Claritin for pennies a pill, so somehow it must have worked out.
The article I was referring to was the BJM article.

Oh yes, I know all about Marcia Angell. She has been rallying against the pharma industry for over a decade. The link I posted also goes into some of the outrageous things she has said that are completely unsupportable.

Here is another article talking about Marcia:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnlamattina/2012/12/14/marcia-...

Does pharma do bad things? Yes! But claiming there is a pharma conspiracy to drive down "target" cholesterol levels so they can sell more drugs is laughable. It ignores all the scientific evidence (most of it NOT from pharma companies), much of it published in her the journal she works for.
Has anyone found a source for any publicly released raw data on this sort of thing? Something one could re-sift and discuss?
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First of April is such a pain.
Forbes Doesn't Care About the User Experience
This is a fine self-parody
Is it possible to sell short, or buy put options? I think bitcoin has potential long-term but this seems like a ridiculous speculation-fueled bubble.
It's not 'unused'. It's extra capacity to extend the functioning life of the 40kw operating window.

It's exactly like how solid state hard drives are labeled 256GB but are actually 240GB if you account for the space reserved for wear leveling.

If anything Telsa is in fact more honest than the SSD market.

The extra capacity would help spreading out the thermal loads with charging / discharging so it should also beable to charge in a shorter amount of time.
It's a great start, but I think <> would have been more appropriate, you could call it clomuretext.
Show HN: My First iOS App - Pro Golf Results, Stats, Trends and Comparisons
What it takes to be a mobile hit
Local Governments Can Now Accept Bitcoin with E-Gov Link
You have to remember that every percentage point is about 10 million people. This is the whole computer market we're talking about.
Rockton, IL / Fulltime Web Developer
AccuLynx (http://www.acculynx.com)

AccuLynx is a profitable startup that is growing rapidly and we need two full-time web developers to help maintain and build upon our SaaS web application. We have a small team (3.5 devs) and have some amazing challenges ahead of us. The biggest being how can we scale efficiently to accommodate our growing customer base.

Detailed job description can be found here: http://www.acculynx.com/about/jobs/#webdev

Our team does not hire based on buzzwords or popular acronyms. We expect you to have mastered at least one language and be able to master any technology, language, or development environment in the future. If you are entry level we will help bring you up to speed.

We'd like to see skills in our current stack: Asp.net webforms (It is OK to shudder...), C#, jQuery, Sql Server. We are quickly moving to Asp.net MVC, Angular/Ember, and ElasticSearch.

The village of Rockton offers small-town charm and low cost-of-living, without being far from larger metropolitan areas (Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison). Benefits are top notch: Highly competitive salary (60k-95k), stock options, 15 days vacation, $5k/year to spend on continuing education (conferences, classes, etc), choice of computer hardware, choice of cell phone, MSDN subscription, gym membership, competitive medical, dental, vision, 401K with matching & safe harbor contributions, relocation reimbursement available. Our Steelcase Series 7 sit/stand desks are coming in a few weeks with two extra for any new hires.

Email me if you are interested (mention HN to get my attention), my name is Paul: dev@acculynx.com
How Bitcoin Could Die
My standard check on this sort of tool is to see how it handles the Sam & Max games. Because they're only sold as a bundle [1], but they show up in your game list as a bunch of episodes. The general failure mode of the tools is to think that each episode costs the full bundle price.

This tool, indeed, does that. [2]

(It doing that lets me feel slightly better about my $7k account valuation.)

[1] http://store.steampowered.com/app/901660/

[2] https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1372532/Screenshots/Screen%20Shot%2...
Why does the route need to touch the framework for static assets?
I think "inferred preferences" sums it up pretty well. Automatically adjusted clocks were probably one of the first examples of this, get off a plane in a different country and your phone/watch is automatically adjusted to the current time zone.
Yeah, it's apparently possible to short bitcoins. If the recent rise in price is a bubble, and it crashes back to about $30, it will still come back to about $100 in a year, if bitcoin adoption continues.
The next logical step is replacing all the square brackets with accolades (same time next year).
When I mined my first block of bitcoins a couple years ago (back when I could use the GPU on my aging laptop and still have a chance to mine a block) they were worth about 5¢; I sold a bunch when they were around $5 because I thought that was ridiculously high, and the price was sure to collapse. Silly me; had I not sold them, I could have a few thousand dollars from a couple of days worth of GPU time.
> My point is that the title is not really useful.

For a developer, knowing how many lines are needed to get something done with a given API can be a good indicator of how generally nice it is to work with -- compare Python's URLLib vs the Requests library, for example.
Incorrect. It took several years to resolve, over which time the con artists at Schering-Plough (now Merck) stole several billion dollars from consumers, none of which has ever been reimbursed.
They totally had me with this.

"So on the eve of April 1st we sat down in a brainstorm session with a team of PLT experts."
If bitcoin ever gets widely adopted, one bitcoin will be worth atleast thousands of dollars.
Or don't use Rails.
Our little startup has been acquired by LinkedIn
Announcing Remote VM Access By Fax
Who says fax is dead?!
Google buys Spotify Shit? or Sweet?
Has there been adoption for essential goods & services? All I've seen so far are Internet services.
So you can objectively tell that "bitcoin is a scam"? Sure, there might be bubbles, but that doesn't mean bitcoin is a scam.
It's such an outrageous claim that drugs may have different impacts for different races that the FDA had no problem approving it.
Houston, TX. Full time.

Looking for a technical project manager for day-to-day ops (can be entry-level if you are bright and gung-ho), as well as experienced machine learning and/or ASP.NET MVC engineers.

Legal software startup - founders include Harvard Law graduate, Y Combinator graduate, and former CIO of a publicly traded software company.

We've finished "version 1" of our litigation document review software, and it's selling briskly. We are now moving on to the really exciting part: "Predictive Coding", which will use AI/machine learning to predict how documents should be classified (e.g., Is the document relevant? Is the document privileged? Is the document confidential? etc.)

If you might not fit our job needs, but are in Houston (or want to be) and otherwise awesome and excited to work at a startup, please don't hesitate to shoot us an email.

jobs@csdisco.com
http://csdisco.com
A two-line Wi-Fi SSID Sniffer in Python
A real 3d desktop
Aren't code reviews normally meant to highlight which parts are good and which are bad?
"As little design as possible" does not equate with minimalism. Sometimes business and flourishes are necessary.
Sites like this count the full or current prices of each individual game.

I have over $3k worth of games in my account, but I think I've actually spent maybe 15-20% of that, thanks to sales and bundles. I buy very very few games at full price these days.
That was only a rough number, more like a reasonable (upper) limit. As you probably know prices vary depending on volume, energy "source", supplier etc.
http://icbit.se/
I worry that as Bitcoin's value rises, people are buying in not to use it as payment for services or goods, but simply as an investment vehicle. In principle, there's nothing wrong with this; currency trading is common and well-explored. The problem is that the value of a currency is supposed to also be somehow related to its utility in acquiring goods and services. When it is rarely used to that effect, people may reconsider their investment in the currency.

It'd also be interesting to look at the effects of deflation in the fledgling bitcoin economy, although the actual exchange of currency for goods and services is a bit small to judge this effectively.
MongoDB, ahead of the curve since 2007.