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Alameda, CA - Makani Power Inc. www.makanipower.com
Control Systems Software Engineer
Makani Power, Inc. is seeking a control systems software engineer to develop the flight controller and simulation environment for a utility scale airborne wind turbine.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: - Develop and maintain airborne wind turbine simulation environment - Develop fault-tolerant flight software architecture - Implement control system algorithms - Write automated diagnostic tools for flight critical sensors and actuators - Write unit tests for key flight controller and simulation components - Work with close-knit team to develop the software that controls the future of wind power

REQUIRED SKILLS: - BS or MS in computer science or related field (Ph.D. is a plus) - Extensive experience with C/C++ - Knowledge of control theory and digital signal processing - Experience developing high-reliability embedded software

HIGHLY DESIRED: - Experience with autonomous aerial vehicles or other robotic systems - Experience with C programming for real-time, embedded systems - Knowledge of MISRA-C, JPL, or equivalent coding standards for high-reliability software - Experience with real-time Linux or VxWorks - Experience with DO-178B software certification - Knowledge of aerodynamics and dynamic simulation - Python and Bash scripting - R/C plane enthusiast and pilot

Apply to: jobs@makanipower.com
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I rather did not, and for two reasons:
Firstly, the post that I was attached to that was offering the same joke, almost precisely, was getting very positive attention.
Secondly, after I added the footnote, the total score for the comment increased from -2 to +4, making it the second most karma-profitable post I have made, as far as I'm aware.

Not that I'm being karma obsessed. I just wanted to make sure that people realized that it was a joke, and the metric I have available seems to prove me right.
Maybe you missed the fact that money in the bank are no longer trusted and can be confiscated for any reason by whatever government or entity?
The size of the Bitcoin economy in general is growing, so both hoarding and spending will increase. By the time spending actually starts going down it's too late.
How could the bitcoin exchange rate reverse its trend and start falling? Do you have any scenarios in mind?
The entire definition of "unreasonable" can be distilled to balancing, for any given circumstance, the privacy interests of the searched against the state's interests. Similarly, it's not productive to litigate whether the state properly has interests. This one, based on a couple hundred years jurisprudence, does: the state's interests include law enforcement, national security, and the safety of its citizens.

You could then easily come up with a scenario in which a roadside search was lawful. For instance, SCOTUS has found some roadside sobriety checkpoints to be lawful (I am perhaps even angrier about sobriety checkpoints than I am about the TSA!)

These aren't controversial points and they aren't points I made up.

I feel like I have to keep saying this in every comment: there are more ways for laws to be wrong than "unconstitutional". I think the TSA is a farce and that it's offensive to core American values. But it's a farce that Congress was within its rights to create.
Fair enough, perhaps calling the article a troll was a little harsh, as I don’t know how the author intended to come across. However, the article did seem to consist of one weak argument after another: an unlikely strawman problem here, a blatant exaggeration there, a quick logical fallacy to tie them all together. I’m afraid I didn’t find it a convincing case at all.

BTW, I meant my final comment to be parsed as (conveniently discards one of the most obvious demonstrations that operator overloading can be useful) (on the basis that anyone making that argument just doesn’t understand). The author didn’t actually explain why that case was “completely different” or what someone who proposed that example didn’t understand so that “their opinions can be discounted”.

In fact, I would suggest that his entire case about built-in operators being unambiguous even though they support multiple types can be annihilated using only the equality operator and the words “floating point”: in C, you still can’t tell whether the expression a==b is reasonable or almost certainly a bug without knowing the types of a and b, which AFAICS is exactly analogous to the problem the author is so keen to attack with operator overloading.
PagerDuty is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer
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>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.

I'd say it has been that way for a long time. When I dabbled in the community 2 years ago it was already brimming with speculators. Early adopting evangelists looking to legitimize their hoards and speculators who'd have been gambling on leveraged ETFs or FX if not BTC.
yep, that's why my comment mentioned using a text file for notes, not paper. I usually edit it using IDE rather than text editor to take advantage of the convenient cut-paste a line of text with CTRL-X / CTRL-V without highlighting by mouse.

Then again, my nestgrid project http://www.nestgrid.org (the desktop version) is IMHO, among other things. the future of this sort of notes taking but I have not yet gotten around to using it "in production".
I added a Bitcoin purchase option to Scribophile to test the waters. But I'm interested in a Bitcoin economy, not a USD cash alternative--the situation where a Bitcoin has its own value, not a value dependent on a different currency. For that reason, I decided to fix the price of an upgrade to 2 BTC, not peg it to the dollar like most other sites do.

Unfortunately it seems like that's just not going to work at this point. I set the price at 2 BTC when the exchange rate was $35--like two weeks ago or so. That meant the BTC membership price was about in line with the USD price. But in a few weeks, the value of a Bitcoin has tripled. Since most people using BTC ultimately want to convert it to dollars, this insane instability makes BTC impossible to use for anyone interested in a pure BTC economy. Too bad.
Startups Working on Machine Learning as a Service
...and whitespacephiles. :)
NYC - Hailo

We've got many jobs open for our NYC offices, and we've just raised a new round of funding from USV: http://www.usv.com/2013/02/hailo.php

The positions we're looking to hire for ASAP are our Mobile QA Team Lead, Testing Specialist, and Systems Administrator.

Please apply here: http://jobs.hailocab.com/
Lessons from My Bosses by Sallie Krawcheck
A Rails Assertion cheat sheet ordered by popularity on Github
Check out clojure source in the git repository...
Gold and silver for day-to-day local transactions.

Bitcoin for larger sums, international or less timely.
Massively improved conversion rates..on what sample size? Can we trust these results?

So try it for yourself. Track results. And make sure you do the statistics right to know if you're looking at signal or noise. (Early noise can be very, very impressive.)
It gapped up on no volume whatsoever.. April Fools prank?
Demurrage (cost to hold currency) could help hoarding. However, at some point, people will start spending them too.

There's a fork of Bitcoin which actually has this built in.

I imagine we could see an interesting future with cryptocurrencies, where people are essentially betting/investing on the stability of the framework/algorithm and demand on it. Multiple ones could exist, and you're hoping for the best return, or greatest stability.

What would be REALLY interesting is if essentially one of these ends up seeming a better 'idea' than US currency (the de-facto currency now)
I often have this feeling when I read Mike's code, particularly D3. Then I read the code again and work to understand it and I learn something new myself. Mike's coding style leans to very terse; one letter variable names, fearless use of operator precedence and side effects. It requires you understand the language to read it clearly, but the advantage is a lot more code fits in a small space. His code is quite poetic, it's a nice change of pace from Java verbosity. (My favorite cosmetic idiom he uses: non-ASCII variable names for spherical trigonometry: https://raw.github.com/mbostock/d3/master/src/geo/conic-equi...)
Even for US keyboards, the obviously better step is to replace "(" and ")" with "9" and "0" -- familiar key location but without the shift key. Plus you avoid using the pinky finger which is an ergonomic win.

Edit: note that there might be a small tradeoff in readability.
Thank you! That is great advice.
Martha Stewart's Best Advice: You Can Do Anything You Choose
Paydici in Portland, Oregon is hiring Chef DevOps and Rails engineers.

https://paydici.com/jobs

We're a little bit Abelson & Sussman, and a little bit Bentley too.
wouldn't it be possible to link the BTC price to the going rate at MtGox, so that it always translates to around $35?
Mountain View, CA - full-time and intern, designers and devs

Khan Academy's mission is to provide a free world-class education for anyone anywhere.

Last month we hit 1 billion math problems done on the site and 2 million more are done each day. Here's some stuff we've been working on lately:

* creating adaptive assessments to accurately measure student knowledge

* running new A/B tests every week to learn how best to teach students and grow our userbase

* building infrastructure to allow us to scale up our content creation efforts

* internationalizing our entire website to enable pilot implementations in Mexico and Brazil

If any of this might sound interesting to you, we'd love to hear from you. We're hiring designers and all types of devs -- mobile, frontend, backend, analytics.

If you're looking for an internship, we've found 13 great interns for this summer and we'd love to squeeze you in.

https://www.khanacademy.org/careers/interns

https://www.khanacademy.org/careers

We're just at the tip of the iceberg in terms of what's possible here. Big plans ahead.
Top Court in India Rejects Novartis Drug Patent
The issue isn't that flying is a revocable privilege. I agree with you that it isn't. The issue is that any moment, you have the ability to present yourself or not present yourself for a TSA safety screening at an airport. The TSA search is thus discretionary. The TSA is not allowed to seek you out, and they aren't allowed to pick you out of a crowd at the airport while allowing everyone else to go to the gate unmolested.

As a result, TSA searches meet the tests for "administrative searches", just like courthouse searches do.

You & I probably agree that there is a moral imperative to respect people's privacy, and that the state has a moral imperative to minimize searches. My argument certainly isn't that there's no such thing as "morality", nor is it that your moral evaluation of TSA searches is wrong (again, I find them grossly offensive as well). All I'm saying is, the immorality of TSA searches does not make them unconstitutional; the Constitution defers most of morality to the legislature, and has often been an umbrella protecting immoral laws.
"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."

Gold and silver stand in opposition to this statement.

You can't buy groceries with gold or silver coins, but they're a fantastic store of value and time-tested investment.

Furthermore, according to Gresham's Law, people keep "good money" (i.e. money that holds its value) out of the marketplace and spend their "bad money" (i.e. fiat) acquiring goods and services.
What is the approach to remote working (becoming a meme here !)

PS

That's quite an "interesting" photo at ishiboo.com
Should Young Entrepreneurs be starting their own companies or learning first?
You were arguing so well, but then you sunk so low. "if you hate it that much, there are places you could go." ? Who implied I hate this place? I've suggested we should change it, in my opinion for the better. You've fallen squarely in line with those who would call me unpatriotic for not blindly marching along with your worldview.

I think for myself. You get your marching orders from some parchment. It's people like me who made this country. It's people like you who bowed to King George.
Thank you for creating the library. Sorry to have placed the blame on you for Coinbase's issues.

The main thing they could do at this point would be incredibly transparent with their issues- like Heroku tries to do.
Ask HN: Add Confirmation Option for Flagging Submissions? 
I usually read HN on my phone and I've discovered that the combination of a fat thumb and tiny screen makes it ridiculously easy to flag excellent articles by mistake when I'm trying to view the comments. Would it be possible to add a confirmation option to the flag link? Is there a reason not to have it? Does anyone else think this would be a useful feature?
Everyone keeps saying that a crash is around the corner and the current price is unsustainable, been hearing it since $40/BTC, maybe earlier. I don't completely disagree, the question I keep pondering though is, if there is a big sustained crash coming, is it from $100 to $30, or $900 to $300?
I think its the same reason html isn't json. json wasn't as widely used when the spec was created.
What would it take for somebody like Amazon or eBay to (even partially) support bitcoins? How much of a risk could it be?
http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/03/experts-pour-cold-wa...
Correct, and there are merchant services set up to do exactly this.
SEEKING WORK - Remote and occasionally on site.

Experience: I worked for a startup from San Francisco doing Django development and for a small company from Chicago doing Tornado/async programming.

Some stacks/frameworks: Django, Tornado/SQLAlchemy, Google Appengine, Backbone.js, jQuery, Twitter Bootstrap, Postgresql, MySQL, MongoDB, Git, Nginx, Linux. Meteor, D3.js.

Data Processing: R, Octave, GDAL, PostGIS

I'm adding Data Visualization to my skills (D3.js, Data Processing):

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http://ccarpenterg.github.com/blog/us-census-visualization-w...

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Some work I've done:

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http://presidenciables2013.appspot.com/

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Underlining and links:

http://www.nngroup.com/articles/guidelines-for-visualizing-l...

He has a massive get out of jail card - he says "Assuming the link text is colored, it's not always absolutely necessary to underline it". But then he says that for accessibility you must do so.

However, he says:

"There is no need to use special colors or other visualizations when the cursor hovers over a link. Doing so only makes the page appear more cluttered as the user moves the mouse across the screen."

How... awkward... for him.

I should note that he has entirely rewritten his guidelines from his old "alertbox":

http://web.archive.org/web/20040605085708/http://www.useit.c...

I see he has removed this nugget of advise:

---

The color for unvisited links should be more vivid, bright, and saturated than the color for visited links, which should look "used" (dull and washed out).

The two colors should be variants or shades of the same color, so that they're clearly related. Using drastically different colors (say, orange and green) makes it hard for users to understand the relationship between the two types of links and to identify which color is the "used" version of the other.

* Shades of blue provide the strongest signal for links, but other colors work almost as well.

* As always, when using color to signal information, you should provide redundant cues for color-blind users. Making unvisited links brighter and more luminous than visited links will usually accomplish this goal.

---

Let's see:

* Dull washed out colour for unvisited links - check!

* Different colour entirely for visited and unvisited links - check!

* "There is no need to use special colors or other visualizations when the cursor hovers over a link. Doing so only makes the page appear more cluttered as the user moves the mouse across the screen." - check!

* "Users typically understand a left-hand navigation rail with a list of links on a colored background, assuming it resembles the navigation areas on most other sites." - same background colour for left hand navigation rail... check!

Use common sense and the W3C for accessibility, for everything else there's Nielsen.
US-intl (w/ dead key) is actually surprisingly useful for accented characters, from what I could tell on the infrequent occasion I have to try it out.
What are the chances I win if I enter the Android app market today?
New York, NY - Full Time, Co-located. Will consider relocation.

http://www.sevenrooms.com/about

We're a funded and revenue-generating startup headquartered in Manhattan that has a new vision for bringing luxury businesses online. The Internet is an amazing commerce channel engineered to help businesses reach anyone and everyone. In the real world, however, there are businesses and brands that only want to reach select clients. Seven Rooms is the online solution for these businesses.

We work with some of the world's top hospitality and luxury operators, and we're looking to expand our technology team to help us grow our fast-evolving product to the next level.

We're looking for full-stack engineers who have a track record of shipping code and delivering great products. We're currently a Python/Django/NoSQL/iOS shop, but who knows what the future will bring. We'll decide together!

I'm a co-founder and an engineer - shoot me an email at kinesh@sevenrooms.com if you're interested in learning more - we'd love to chat with you!
That may be true, but I'd wager most of the people who are buying into bitcoin for its property as a store of value will be shocked to find out bitcoins other very interesting property. The ease and low cost of transferring those bitcoins to anyone, anywhere in the world.

"I can BUY things with these? Wait... I can sell things? I just need to paste a hash?!"
From the logo I was expecting Japanese brackets:

「「MyObject alloc」init」

For the vacillating, have the best of both worlds:

〔〔MyObject alloc〕init〕
After using TCL for several years and actually liking it, I have to admit the brackets look better. Plus lately I'm all about anti-rsi and shift parens is getting to be a major hassle.
It depends on how you characterize "gun free." In many states signs prohibiting firearms don't carry the weight of the law. That is, if you are found to be carrying you can be asked to leave (and charged with trespassing if you refuse), but that's it.

From my understanding the mall in Clackamas is a posted "gun free zone," but the posted signs don't actually carry any legal weight.
Sounds to me like insufficiently intelligent IN clause generation - a mistake I've made at least once and seen many more times.

I'm guessing english isn't your first language from the way you misconjugated the "will result" part but "look into it developer" comes across as "you suck and I am laughing at you" whereas for an early stage service I think "here's a bug report" is rather more appropriate.
> seems like it'd convert really well.

Yeah, I'm looking at a similar 'mothballware' plan (for want of a better term) at a similar price point for something I'm currently building. I'd be interested to hear of others' experience of it.

Yes, there's a risk of it seeming like you're cutting off something people are using, but if they're that invested in it, hopefully they won't mind chipping in a modest amount now they know they really do like it.

EDIT: apologies for this being a pretty vapid comment - curled up on sofa, ill.
A quick note on missing data - I originally scraped data automatically from the Steam store page when a game wasn't found in the database. But I didn't want to add junk data to the database if the scraped data was bad and still need to figure out how to handle those kinds of exceptions. So for now, the tool makes a note of game IDs that people requested but weren't in the database. That way and I can scrape those separately and review the data before I import it to the database. So even though it doesn't auto-populate, your missing entries will likely be updated in the next database refresh (about once a week, depending on how much time I have available).
Well `[]` _is_ easier to type than `()`.
The deflation is healthy at first. It encourages adoption. But in the long run, I would rather BTC be less deflationary.
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Beware fellows... This is the best discussion to tell who is a skimmer and who is a reader in HN :)
All currencies are prone to manipulation. Spend a couple of months trading forex (even on paper) if you don't believe me. The columes involved in forex trading (last I looked something like 3 or 4 trillion USD/day equivalent) are way beyond the capacities of /any/ central bank to "manage" or manipulate in their own favour, and it's an over-the-counter trading system, so mostly-impossible to regulate.
ASICs
Or Linux, or MySQL.
Someone complaining "these aren't real haiku" in 3... 2...
PRObE will probably get a chunk of it, but they also have power limitations. Basically every piece of the machine has already been given to some researcher or another for some purpose -- there's a bit of a waiting list at the moment.

The hard drives will probably be sent to a military base to be melted down, I don't think they risk shredding them nowadays. The hardware that doesn't store data will probably be kept intact for quite some time.

Since Roadrunner takes up about 1/3 of the Metropolis datacenter, getting rid of it leaves some room for the 2015 "Trinity" machine (assuming LANL hosts it).
Even with a standard keyboard you can use left and right ALT, which would be the same sort of thumb action.
No, I don't think I'm confused. The OP says postgresql is used in its default configuration:

Stock PostgreSQL 9.2.2, from source. No changes to postgresql.conf.

Given that statement then either the writes are serialized or postgresql is not ACID compliant in its default configuration. I'm not an expert on postgresql but I assume that it is ACID compliant in its default configuration. Therefore my skepticism on the 6K writes per second.
How Microsoft lost the future of gesture control
so, how about the H1B?