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San Mateo, CA - OUYA

We're in the midst of launching the world's first open video game console, running on Android.

If you're passionate about Android, Rails, or video games, come talk to us!

http://www.ouya.tv/jobs/
No question: update Rails.

The security issues attributable to Rails upgrades are small in number and relatively minor.

The security issues attributable to not upgrading Rails, and in particular in not upgrading during upgrade cycles where the Rails community was reassuring itself that everything was fine and that normal apps wouldn't be affected by security flaws, are much larger in number and extremely significant.

If there was one lesson I'd hope people would take away from Rails Winter of Security Madness, it is be ready to patch at all times. That's a good lesson for every platform, not just Rails, but Rails teams now have specific reasons to be on top of this.

When Rails announces security flaws, patch ASAP. If you're a professional Rails team, dry-run this well in advance; know you can patch at a moments notice, don't just hope.
No, I'm responding to jonknee, who made the "most efficient" claim.
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> “Sleeping 8.5 hr. might really be a little worse than sleeping 5 hr.”

How can people even take this kind of pseudo-science seriously?

If I sleep for 5 hrs, I'm a complete zombie during the day, unproductive and depressed.

If I sleep for 8.5 hrs (which is how long I sleep naturally), I feel great, productive, and happy. I get way more done.

There are all sorts of studies showing all the negative effects of not getting enough sleep -- that sleep-deprived doctors, for instance, are basically acting under an impairment equal to a few drinks of alcohol.

The idea that people in general are getting too much sleep is really quite preposterous.
It is for articles like these, that TL,DR was created.

EVGENY MOROZOV thinks that Tim O'Reilly is a self promoter who uses his clout to convince people that being skilled at promoting ideas via the Internet will be critical to success in the future. Being able to effectively use buzzwords is empty and bad; Coming up with words such as "epistemes"
is clever and good.
Could it a sign that a startup bubble is forming?
Introducing Moz Reader
Hi ch0wn (and moioci) co-founder here,

The reason we didn't call it a "free trial" is because you can still keep using the service after 30 days. Some SAAS products have free plans that have caps on the amount of data you can create. We're basically saying the cap of data for the free plan is whatever you create in the 30 days -- that could be hundreds or thousands of bookmarks. You'll still have access to everything you own after the period but more importantly, if you weren't satisfied with the service you can export it all anytime.

Hope that clears things up a bit.
ChirpCog. Pay anyone for anything – just by thinking about it.
I love Windows 8 because of the regular desktop improvements and speed of the system. If you don't want to use metro you do not have to even deal with it at all. The people complaining probably don't notice how much better it is because of a video card issue, some oem "crapware" or some other hardware issue. Hyper-V client, installing to usb, the hardware acceleration improvements, low memory use, lighter install size, file history, security enhancements and overall snappiness make me not want to go back to 7.
Well that depends on how meta you are prepared to take it :)

The UI is in itself forcing you to adapt to it by asking you to input data into it.

Your refrigerator does not require you to turn on the light when you open it. Instead it turns on when you open the door.

I see this not as a revolution but as a slow (but exponentially faster) evolution. As issues gets ironed out you can remove more and more manual labour from the system.
On one-hand it's funny. On the other-hand, it's horribly sad considering that national debt (and taxes, generally) is a constitutionally-mandated crowdfunding scheme.

Having this presented as an April fool's gag rustles my jimmies in an odd fashion.
You know you use strikingly too much when you recognize all the templates immediately.
It must have been an iBed. 1.0 doesn't support multitasking.
I see they have given up on following many of their own UX findings. I can hardly read the light-colored not-underlined links, but on mouseover, they light up, yikes. I never thought I'd say this, but I liked the old useit better.
I toured with noname punk and electro bands all over europe. They def make more money on tour than anything else and all of them have a network of free places to crash run by local artists, they borrow local gear so you dont have to pay for logistics, and the venues feed you on top of payout end of the night.

Never did any come back broke a typical tour youd make $1-6k per show, plus around $1200 in merch, then do 20 shows while partying for free everyday at crash pads. Split that 4 ppl you go on a 3mos vacation to europe and return with $9-15k each which is pretty good income for a college band thats going back to school in sept.

If you lose money touring youre doing it wrong
1. Unjustified moral reference to "shameless hoarding". Where is the magical date when your property belongs to you for "too long" and you should give it to someone? And to whom exactly?

2. Why take credit for business if you can save your own earned money which appreciates over time and have 100% stake at your own project?

3. How deflationary spiral is supposed to happen? Will people be paralyzed and dead of hunger and thirst holding their precious coins? Or they will trade with each other to get stuff done?
Call me a skeptic as I see this like speculation, but where I've seen that kind of return, turned out to be really clever ponzi schemes and enough supply of dumb enough "investors". Oh yea, I remember that fun time when the housing market in my area went up 5X in 4 years. It was all fine till people ran out of actual money. The rest is history.
1 person upvoted this, so maybe this will be seen:

I found a nice extension to Firefox called Bookstack [1]. It basically enables you to go through your bookmark folders as if they were stacks and remove every item from them by looking at them while sorting them into new folders.

Not perfect, but a first step. Now I will have to find an addon that makes adding sites to some folders easier...

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bookstack/
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If speculators decide they've had enough and start selling, then the bitcoin will return to a value based on its usefulness for transactions, instead of its attractiveness as an investment. How far it can go down depends on the size of consumer bitcoin demand vs investor bitcoin demand.

http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#tgSzm1g10zm2g25zv

This is the value over a larger time. Sustainable?
I believe this is where India has got it's patent system right. I am not a lawyer, but as I understand it, the Patent Office (Controller General of Patents Designs and Trademarks) rejects patents that are obvious and not a genuine invention.

Furthermore, you can only patent a process not an idea or a product. This was the key reason that you have so many generic alternatives for otherwise patented medicines. The process encourages competition and its the consumer who wins.

Perhaps this is something that US can learn from.
Regarding US Citizenship requirement - any other reasons besides accounting/paperwork difficulties?
Meldium might be suitable? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5282647)

(I have nothing to do with them.)
Well, the release policy published by the Rails team states releases like this are supposed to only have security patches, but for some reason it wasn't followed here. I'm not sure why other than the frantic "zomg there's a security hole must fix it!" fray that may have clouded their judgement.
It's common sense that 8 straight hours per day is not ideal in general, nevermind for everyone. If you check out your sleep rhythms (and with exercise and without stimulants like alcohol, coffee, nicotine, etc.) the ideal is usually something like:

1) sleep 5.5ish hours.
2) wake up at like 3am, work for an hour or two
3) sleep for another 1.5ish hours
4) wake up at dawn and somewhere in the early afternoon take a brief nap

The knowledge that 8 hours straight isn't ideal isn't the issue, it's fitting it into your daily schedule that's the problem, for the same reason everyone knows that 5 small meals per day is much better for you than 2.5 huge meals.

So you try to compromise, which usually means adjusting your sleeping block to hit your REM rhythms well (i.e. 6.5 or 9 hours, give or take each way).
Reclaim thousands of lost microseconds with Clofjure:

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I was looking for this post. Well, more specifically one that was ranting against the April Fools influx on HN. Yup, we get it, today is the day we can all have a laugh and post hoaxes and jokes everywhere. Thankfully, it is just for one day. Tomorrow I do not need to read every piece of information with dubiety.
Needs more <blink> tags.
Okay, put a trillion dollars of it on my credit card.

We only pay if it tilts, right?
All that work and there's still a typo on the first sentence, second page.
San Francisco, CA.

Twilio is looking for someone to help build the latest, greatest version of the Twilio API, to make sure it's capable of scaling as we continue to grow. Looking for candidates who are HTTP nerds, passionate about REST and API design.

If you're interested, feel free to contact me directly - kevin@twilio.com.

We're hiring for a boatload of other positions as well - we have listings online here, https://www.jobscore.com/jobs/twilio/.
Stellar job journos
But this raises the question
How much does it cost
Dallas, Texas (will consider REMOTE): Rails Developer

At PureDiscovery (http://purediscovery.com), our goal is to meaningfully connect the world. We're building the next generation of web and mobile applications on top of our groundbreaking (patented) Brainspace platform, and we're passionate about creating the best possible core technology and user experiences.

We are growing rapidly, and as we do there are plenty of opportunities for people to shine. Our front-end stack is Ruby on Rails, Knockout.js, Slim, & Coffeescript. We're looking for a Ruby on Rails expert help join our amazing product team, empower the creation of innovative user experiences by working with our powerful core services.

We are a young, fast-moving startup where everyone has a voice and can make a difference, so you'll play a key role in steering our technical direction as we continue to scale (quickly!).

On any given day you might...

• Do a daily standup in person or online.
• Evaluate new platforms, plugins, and other technologies.
• Contribute to and maintain internal libraries and frameworks that document what we’ve learned and help us iteratively build better and faster.
• Optimize, optimize, optimize. Because you love to.
• Commit often, ship early, and dodge incoming RC Helicopters.
• Provide input to our ongoing evaluation of the area's best tacos, hamburgers and BBQ

You...

• Have a desire to solve hard problems
• Know the joys and pains of building web applications heavily dependent on APIs
• Want to work at a place where off-the-shelf solutions aren't good enough.
• Want to build something great—even world-changing.
• Have experience deploying a Rails application on a multitude of platforms.
• Have excellent communication skills
• Are comfortable doing full-stack web development
• Have or would love to build web services of your own.
• Regularly star new GitHub repos and keep an eye on RubyGems and npm.

Bonus points for...

• Experience with Postgresql & MongoDB
• Experience with Redis, Sideckick, Resque, etc.
• Strong understanding of high availability best practices in the cloud
• Experience with oAuth
• Experience with Twitter, Facebook and other common APIs

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You’ll work with our Product and UX team in our current, early stages through to first public release and post-launch scaling. You love to ship code, have a strong sense of ownership, and an entrepreneurial spirit.

We offer...

• A great company culture. We work hard and play hard!
• A challenging objective with great opportunity to technically accomplish things you never thought you could
• Competitive Salary, stock options and a 401k
• Generous vacation policy

Do you want to come to work every day and creatively solve big market-driven problems? Our team is devoted to the continuing pursuit of technical excellence. We will challenge and support you to get the most out of your potential, and expect you to do the same for us.

Interested? Drop me a line: jacob@purediscovery.com
Keen IO releases API for /dev/null
Yeah, this. Right now, BTC is more of a speculative investment than it is a currency. You just can't have insane volatility or even too much uni-directional movement in your medium of exchange.

For a merchant to offer something at a particular BTC price, that merchant would have to update its prices at least daily, if not more so. This to avoid losing money or overcharging himself out of the market, depending on the direction of the currency. It's just not practical at this point.

And, it's a catch-22: As long as it's a speculative investment, it's likely to remain volatile. And, as long as it remains volatile, it's likely to remain a speculative investment vs. a "true" currency.
Going on a little over 4 years now. Best thing ever. Had absolutely awful vision beforehand, now at about 20/15 with both eyes.

Surgery part wasn't bad - felt a little ill during the process, but it was over quickly. Could read street signs on the way home which made my wife cry. The goggles were uncomfortable but not bad for the next day or so. Didn't need pills for pain - have had dryness off and on for at times since.

Again, absolutely best thing ever - have done rock climbing, martial arts, swimming, etc - things that were difficult with glasses (ie, they don't fall off your face anymore...)

Good luck - you'll love it...
Manchester, UK, Full-time js developer for iVendi.com, upto £40k

Node, angular, grunt, rabbitmq, mongodb, teamcity.

Work @ home a few days per week is fine.
Would prefer someone with a current git & stackoverflow account.

Any questions ping me jobs@ivendi.com
Luntz was the one who picked up on the emergence of the new term and urged Republican policymakers to use it in place of "global warming," because to people unschooled in the details of the subject "climate change" sounds less dramatic and therefore calls less for immediate action. See http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2003/mar/04/usnews.cli... for background on this. Luntz took a term that scientists developed and turned it against them, very effectively.

This is part of why science communicators keep losing policy battles to Luntz and others like him -- you're right that "climate change" is a more scientifically accurate term, but it's also a less scary term, and therefore if you think that something needs to be done about the problem anytime soon you would be better served to avoid it than to embrace it.

EDIT: If you want more examples of how science communicators fail and guidance on how to do better, Randy Olson's book Don't Be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style (http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Be-Such-Scientist-Substance/dp/15...) is a good place to start.
It's actually impressive how well you executed that look.
It's an April Fools joke and an off-topic flame-generating story all wrapped up in one, and, as a bonus, early flags don't seem sufficient to kill it.
Wow, I am sooooooo using this!
I normally hate April Fool's Day, but this was well done.
I missed it the first time, but oh man did I ever LOL when I saw how casual/oblivious it was written (in a "don't worry, you clicked the button so you're obviously okay with it" kind of way).
Keeping your Bitcoins Safe with Paper Wallets and Brain Wallets
Novoda / Central London & Berlin
Senior Software developer. Full Time.
www.novoda.com

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You will be interested in working within small teams of developers within either London or Berlin. We are all hackers. We love software development and encourage it getting done really well. Although we specialise in Android, we care about all technologies and the future of our industry. If you want a challenge and want to work in the best possible company for the future of Android development, lets chat.

We are looking for seasoned developers who likely have significant Android experience but who definitely care about software craftsmanship.

First 6 months at one of our offices. Open to negotiations on working situations after this time.

Novoda develop the world's most desirable Android software. Our clients are typically venture capital funded tech startups who with our help realise an amazing products for their very new services. We help them hit the ground running and innovate with their services to the best of the platform's ability. This means that Novoda see lots of project variations and we work with lots of amazing interesting technologies! Far from being just about phones, Novoda's believes Android's real future is Glasses, wearables, Factories, Vending machines, Satellites and a world of future interconnected devices.

We are very social :)
We like to meetup and so we help run the London Android meetup at least once a month: http://www.meetup.com/android
We also run London's Droidcon http://www.droidcon.co.uk

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True, but what % of your money should be in gold?

If I had a $20 million net-worth, I'd hide maybe $500K to $1mil in gold /silver coins around "just in case."
This wasn't Hemingway. It's been traced back to several newspapers from the early 1900s.

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/28/baby-shoes/
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Additionally, the same applies to those other digital currencies as well.
I realize I'm a bit late to reply, but thanks for the tip. The biggest problem I had was with p4 mode (we use perforce at work) and rope-mode - I didn't really feel like hacking those to get it to work with tramp. And I can keep everything open across network disconnects with screen or tmux...
Indeed goods and services have gotten extremely cheap in the past few months!
That's weird, if I wanted to manipulate the price to make it look like my $0.99 are a bargain, I wouldn't set the initial price at $999, as it will become obvious, but at something like $5.
Is there a contact email or website?
Thanks for reading the interview. The project from the interview is our MVP of a hardware product as software developers.

Edit: direct link to Thermodo Kickstarter campaign http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/robocat/thermodo-the-tin...
This is absolutely fantastic. Reminds me of: http://www.constellation7.org/Constellation-Seven/Josiah/Ind...
Are You A Manager Or A Leader?
I wonder if he used any code from a story [1] posted last week.

http://mobile.theverge.com/culture/2013/3/18/4118916/finding...
One reason debt-backed currencies are relatively stable (vs stocks, commodities, and bitcoin) is that they are pegged to an interest rate, in the case of the dollar the (at least what used to be) the risk-free rate of return. You can even think of them as derivatives of the interest rate, for a loose definition of derivative.

This bounds their volatility in a way that bitcoin can't, and makes me wonder if the lack of a similar stabilizing mechanism isn't a long-term flaw in bitcoin's design.

The only way I can see bitcoin ever reaching a similar level of stability is for its market cap to reach a level such that it stabilizes under sheer weight and momentum rather than any built-in mechanic, which could require exceeding that of all other currencies combined (making speculation and market manipulation difficult or impossible), no small feat.
$69 for 1 yr of a .com domain? You need to shop around more.

But pretty inspiring! Good looking game!
> shameless hoarding

Hoarding is a derogatory term, intended to evoke an emotional response from the reader. I prefer the term "saving".

> Why lend, why build new companies, when simply storing it is more than enough? Take shocks such as bubbles and demand-side crises.

Most bitcoin proponents to indeed reject Keyensian, demand-side economics.

I, for one, think entrepreneurs would typically benefit from not relying on debt.

>capitalism[...] needs inflation, feeds from it

Increasing the money supply helps one class of people: the bankers. It doesn't help the middle class, it doesn't help entrepreneurs, and it definitely doesn't help the common person. It's an insidious hidden tax.

All this talk about inflation reminded me of a funny (in a dark way) propaganda video made in 1933 regarding inflation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUvm9UgJBtg.
It's a little busy for me.
Oh, my eyes...
SEEKING WORK: Remote.

I am a recent grad (This past December) and I interned at a good company. I am currently taking time off to think grad school options, and I can contribute to Java or Rails projects if any. Rates are reasonable since I live in a developing country. Contact is in my profile.
WebAction Inc. in Palo Alto - Full Time- Senior Front End Developer

Jobs@WebAction.com

WebAction is an enterprise infrastructure software company based in Palo Alto, CA. The company was founded in May 2012 and it is currently in stealth mode. We are building a real-time big data management platform that collects, analyzes, and persists data from disparate sources and enables users to build a new generation of applications. Founded by a team of Silicon Valley veterans with proven track records, WebAction is backed by some of the most respected names in Silicon Valley.

We offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits package, and generous equity for the right candidates. If you want to join our cutting-edge team, grow as we do and share the excitement of an early start-up environment please apply today.
Job Description: You should be a self-starting senior web UI developer with a desire to lead and mentor others. You excel in a fast-paced agile environment and will be able to collaborate with back-end engineers to design interfaces and architect interaction models, and with the product team to wire-frame and prototype ideas.

Desired Skills & Experience:

-Excellent JavaScript knowledge necessary – please be prepared to show us examples of your work

-Experience with HTML5/CSS3

-Experience with JavaScript frameworks (jQuery, Backbone, etc.)

-Experience with visualization frameworks (d3, processing.js)

-Know how to build drag and drop web diagramming UIs (such as mxGraph, gliffy, drawio)

-At least 4 years professional experience building sophisticated JavaScript applications At least 7 years experience in software development BS/BA in Computer Science or related field is a must

-Excellent communication skills, both written and oral

-Must be able to function well in an early stage startup environment

-Must be able to multi-task

Pluses:
-Experience in user interaction design and user experience

-Knowledge of back-end web frameworks

-iOS or Android experience

Candidates must currently reside in the USA.

If this sounds like you, shoot us an e-mail at jobs@WebAction.com.