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Work for a school district and read HN? Clever (YC S12) wants to talk
Adopted by 1 in 25 US schools in less than a year, Clever is solving the problems that have long blocked schools from efficiently using classroom technology.

We're currently hiring for two non-technical positions (as well as hiring excellent engineers):

* The Director of District Partnerships will take Clever’s rapid growth to the next level so that every student in America can benefit from education technology that “just works.” Details below.

* The Operations Manager will ensure that our systems scale quickly enough to keep up with our school growth. Details at https://getclever.com/about/jobs

Clever is backed by top-tier investors, so we’re lucky enough to have the financial freedom to build the company we’ve always wanted to work for. We get up every day knowing we’re helping to improve education for millions of kids. It’s a cool job perk, way better than free meals (though we have those, too).

Director of District Partnerships - Full-Time - San Francisco

You will take Clever’s rapid growth to the next level so that every student in America can benefit from education technology that “just works.” As a trailblazer in personalization and online learning, you’ll advocate for seamless data integration as a basic requirement of adopting new technology, and you’ll show how Clever makes that easy. You’ll also gather insights from the field to inform Clever’s product and marketing direction.

Things we’re looking for:

* You’re exceptional at selling Clever’s vision and keen to identify where Clever’s technology solves a real need. This means running a sales pipeline - developing relationships, assessing needs, presenting, closing - as well as being honest if Clever isn’t the right fit.

* You’ve worked in schools, ideally as a technology, data, or edtech director. Classroom experience is a plus!

* You make decisions quickly, implement them relentlessly, and adjust course with ease.

* You’re extremely organized, with the ability to track status and allocate time across hundreds of school districts.

* You’re a master communicator, who can explain Clever to an enterprise applications architect, a school secretary, and everyone in between.

* You look forward to traveling to school districts and edtech conferences across the country.

* You have strong leadership experience - founding a startup, leading a district, or making an equivalent impact elsewhere in education.

What Clever offers:

* A chance to revolutionize education

* Competitive salary and significant equity in well-funded, high-growth company

* A defined problem to solve, a close-knit team, and significant opportunities for growth

* Great benefits - healthcare, dental, unlimited Amazon budget, beautiful office, free lunch

* Relocation assistance to San Francisco if needed

To apply, send an email to jobs+bd@getclever.com with your resume, a description of what excites you about Clever, and a list of ten US school districts (with NCES ids) you know well, who you know there, and how you know them.
I have to agree, you could find a English copywriter fairly easy to do a quick read over.

For example...

The canvas is a native HTML-element that can be used to draw and alternate images and render its output to an HTML document. Drawing-methods can be accessed directly through the context of the canvas, however EaselJS will add a layer of abstraction to the canvas by automatically handling all drawing calls so that all you have to do is placing the images and calling stage.update().

"so that all you have to do is >placing< the images"

"that can be used to draw and >alternate< images >and< render its output"
(missing comma, run on sentence, alternate is probably the wrong word, I'd use change or replace.)

"The Stage is >so to say< the bottom-most container."
That doesn't make any sense to me, I'm Canadian so maybe it is a saying elsewhere but I've never heard "is so to say".
I got a strange gentleman with no documents. Since each person seems to have only one flaw, I'm guessing he was from Arstotzka. He left before I could stamp anything.
Just have Facebook add a "Download as JPEG" button and let us all go back to more important things.
vapid updates of friends

Don't friend people on Facebook who post garbage. Any social service (Facebook, Twitter, etc) is only as good as the effort you put into curating the experience.

Oh, and if you feel you must friend someone, you can just hide everything they post from your news feed.
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Any movement that lacks explicit acknowledgement of statistical significance is worrisome to me. I think for many -- myself included -- it is temptingly easy to attribute causation or project a bias onto data collected like this (eg "I'm in a bad mood today because I only slept for 5 and a half hours last night").

I would be interested in analyzing the data after I had a large pool and a decent idea of shape, center, and spread, but I also don't trust myself to wait that long.
Slanted Elements with CSS3
Sounds exciting, but the reality is harsh:

http://www.climate-zone.com/climate/united-states/michigan/d...

http://www.climate-zone.com/climate/united-states/california...

http://www.freep.com/article/20121228/NEWS01/312280175/Detro...

The Bay Area is Magic:
(eg PARC, Stanford, and Berkeley)

http://boingboing.net/2012/08/09/kottke.html

http://www.growingbusiness.co.uk/the-intangible-magic-of-sil...

http://www.techinasia.com/magical-silicon-valley-effect/
34 / NY
May be it was because you were tracking too many things? I think it is like tweeting/taking photos etc - done sparingly, it might be really useful (especially when tracking only important things), doing it too much might feel like a chore.
What you are missing is that people figuring out useful stats from all these numbers and then improving their lives based on real life in real time. I suggest you try this for 1 day, just keep track of your happiness. Its really interesting and optimizable, as you can find out.

Sure no one is saying quantified will get you from a 1 to a 10 on the happiness scale, but it will definitely help you to learn more about yourself.
Stop blaming the users for a bad product, especially when your suggestion goes against the core purpose of the product in question.
My favorite part is where they say they have people committed to selling 250,000 bitcoins in an attempt to drive the market down. So that's people owning $30,500,000 (at $122 per bitcoin today's price) worth of bitcoins that are willing to tank that value down to $7,500,000 (at $30 per bitcoin, the group's supposed goal). Wow - they really believe in the cause I guess to take a $23,000,000 loss.
33 / SC
I am friends with a Southwest airlines pilot, and we poke fun at the TSA all the time. It should have never been created. The TSA is just the idea of security, it is nothing more than holding a plastic knife when you are being mugged.
Steps to Defeat the Campus Censors
Sure, it will be used for selling a lot of snake oil, like anything related to health or productivity.

But at the same time, we're surrounding ourselves with so many sensors that for the first time in the history of mankind we can really "data mine ourselves". This may bring up interesting discoveries.

In the early days of science some kept strict logs about everything they did with the same goal. Now this can be automated.
The primary complaint here is users don't know what to do with a .webp when they download their photos. And support does seem limited; it looks like Photoshop needs a plugin, for instance. But Facebook could solve that specific problem by having a real "Download as JPG" button while still using WebP for inline images.
LOL "Error establishing a database connection"
Gulp. You did; I missed it! My apologies.

And thanks for that link. Slide 313 is terrifying.
May be this is just be but I have never been comfortable with facebook's make-many-apps strategy. I've always used fb as a collective experience. I find the need to use different apps for different functionalities a pain in the ass, mostly because all facebook features are so intertwined.
No, no, no. I disagree strongly that APIs should be vague about what they provide.

An API designer who deliberately leaves out documentation of important features (like pagination, sorting, etc), and fails to specify the format of what comes back any further than "this will be what you intended", hasn't designed an API at all.

APIs are well-defined interfaces that other programmers can rely on. If there is no well-specified contract, there is no API.

Defining such an interface so that it's reasonably future-proof? Yup, that's hard. And you're not an API designer until you take on that challenge. If you instead punt on all that responsibility, and provide the user few or no guarantees about how your service works, you've taken the cowardly way out.

The essence of software architecture is isolating and tackling complexity. Isolate it in the API, don't push it out to every one of your users.

I don't argue that an API needs to specify absolutely everything about its operation, but obscuring and removing features from an API without changing the version number is foul play. That is fragility.
It's called "Inside Intel", and appears to be available at Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Intel-Worlds-Powerful-Company/d...
"Error establishing a database connection" - Irony.
Still odd that reader's the 'last straw', but not on the lists of services to expunge!
Topaz is also a really early experiment that supports a pretty small subset of ruby. I really hope it gets developed into a real, useful ruby vm but at the moment it is not even worth considering.
That's what the article says.

The problem is they want a diverse workforce. So the question becomes how do they hire for that?
Was quite looking forward to reading this, but when I clicked the link, I was faced with: http://imgur.com/wwEogpx I think there's a certain irony seeing as this is a database related announcement!
I think most people got this topic wrong, maybe because of all the promotion of women in IT, which mostly is good.

If I was a woman, I'd rather apply for someone looking for a developer, than someone looking for a woman - because then I knew I was hired because of my skills and personality - not my gender.

In legal terms, this is pretty much what you can do. You can hire a "person" not a person of a specific gender.
Consider advertising your jobs at less male-dominated college campuses? RIT is one of the worst offenders in this regard. I think that'd be a start.
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I'm not sure I get it. The author asked his only female employee and his wife for feedback and the feedback was categorically negative yet he decided to proceed regardless?

I appreciate the intention but I don't think an 'honest' blog post is going to quell the controversy his tactic will undoubtedly drum up.
1M/1M And Rackspace Announce Startup Challenge To Give Cloud Ventures A Lift
The problem is that this is discriminatory. If you are not hiring based solely on qualifications, and instead on gender, it is discriminating. If you were to switch the genders and say that you are only hiring men, it would be clearly sexist. However, if you do not accept well qualified men who would fit the job, it is seen as "breaking gender barriers". You should be hiring based on the applicant's experience, education, and how they fit in with company culture.

If you are worried about a gender gap, you should be looking at why fewer females apply. Once you remedy this, you will be able to consider an equal amount of applicants, and you should then choose them based on their experience instead of their gender. The title of this article makes it out as if people are trying to stop you from hiring women, when in fact, you are instead trying to justify discrimination.
We review the code itself and not just experiment with the modified site. If we have any doubts, we contact the developer.
Agreed. Their quality has gone down a lot over the past couple of years. Every article they write is full of mistakes and inaccuracies. Honestly they only reason I still visit the site is to see Aurich Lawson's artwork.
Young Adults With Autism Can Thrive In High-Tech Jobs
I tried it out quite a few months ago, so I am only speaking to the initial version, but you created a timeline of JS events (tooltips, other tutorial/intro elements) with synced voiceovers (if you wanted) and it would show up on the user's end with a video player-esque UI so they could navigate the experience.

The front-end was clean & simple, and I really liked it in theory (I disagree with the notion that any app that needs a walkthrough is broken by design), but the version I tried's backend wasn't created for people who couldn't sink some time into the JS and would have benefitted greatly from a more user-friendly approach.
Worst part is that they are excluding their own services from that traffic. So you can watch Telekom IP TV without buying a traffic extension, but for movies from the iTunes store you have to pay iTunes for media and Telekom for traffic. Nice one!
Anyone have a cached page?
Data Hiding in C
The HTC One UI has an interesting feature for the default home screen that many compare to Flipboard called BlinkFeed. Choices of news feeds are limited and controlled, but it shows lots of promise in terms of attractive formatting and pulling in content from various social nets & news sources with tight integration with the social apps on your phone. (ala updating/replying/reposting something from home screen)

http://blog.htc.com/2013/03/htc-one-blinkfeed/
"The freedom of Android allows me to turn my ordinary smartphone into a free, personal data mining, advertising platform! Take that, Apple!"
You can take relative weights (a,b,c) and take the partial sums:

(0,a,a+b,a+b+c)

random() gives values in [0,1], so divide your numbers by a + b + c.

Generating random structures is the tip of a very big iceberg.
The real problem is that there are not 50% women in IT. That means that not every company can have 50% women. If you make sure your company is a great place to work, I'm sure the people who apply for your job are also great.
"...but will there be buyers?" Yes. I'm definitely buying a Peak and a Keon. =)
Things are getting better in this regard; more and more biometric devices are getting bluetooth connectivity:

http://personalheartmonitor.com/sensors.html
That's not what the article title says.
People need more of this. The Lean Startup methodology doesn't mean "oh shit things are getting hard, we gotta PIVOT." Although unfortunately a lot of times that's what happens.

It doesn't matter what fancy ideology if the day is used, sometimes it's just good old fashioned hard work that builds a successful company.
Forcing diversity doesn't work. They should instead find out how to get more minorities etc to apply in the first place to be considered equally with other candidates, without their applications being weighted over the others. Hiring based on experience no matter what gender or race you are, and becoming more diverse due to that, is better than discriminating against others for the sake of diversity.
We (as a society) allow techniques like Affirmative Action, that encourage [Insert whatever new name for Origination from Africa] to positions in schools, jobs, government, and elsewhere.

Women are found severely lacking in the tech sector, due to "bro-tard" style workplace and management. Not to mention, not many women graduate from the heavy tech degrees from universities.

Is this not why affirmative action was created in the first place?
It seems fundamentally erroneous to attribute rationality to what's so obviously driven by instinctual processes and deep emotions. A baby is not a potential, it is a holy being, Christ, an intrinsic value, whatever you want to call it. Most of us don't see dogs like this (unless it's our dog).
Yup that's absolutely essential for most block ciphers and similar crypto (i.e. hash functions).
The problem is they want a diverse workforce.

I'm sure the vast majority of companies want the exact same thing but there comes a point where you simply have to accept that we work in a significantly male dominated industry and to get to a point where more than 20% of your staff are female means you have to compromise somewhere in order to achieve that balance. Unfortunately that compromise isn't always going to be appropriate.
TokuDB is great technology, glad to see them embracing open source. Too bad their wordpress installation needs some tuning!
The original process the OP describes is exactly what many affirmative action opponents think AA does, that is only consider one demographic and ignore all the others.

If you want to open opportunities for women, you post the job notice in places where women will see it. That will get you qualified candidates, and if you find a women who is the best person for the job, you hire her.

edit: spelling
Who’s behind the Tim-Cook-must-go whisper campaign?
> You can't uninstall Facebook from any Samsung phone

This is why I never stick with stock ROM (unless Nexus device), I have Cyanogenmod running on my Note II.
Getting Lamborghini to take your money is trivial. Monetizing that taking is the hard part.
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I think that finding your optimal level of data tracking, or even ramping it down after building a habit is key to these sorts of things. It's a cost/benefit tradeoff, really. The thing is that the cost side is being changed by the fact that much of the data collection can be automated these days, and hopefully the analysis side can be automated as well, so that you don't have to focus as much on the numbers.
I'm not sure this works once other people start building on top of your API though. I would rather bump the API version than break API compatibility by adding/removing/renaming fields.

Github (which you used in your example of good design) do change fields returned in their API responses but only between API version not inside of versions. The link you gave [1] is to Version 3 of their API which is different to Version 2 and will be different to Version 4. I don't really want to be programming against APIs where identical requests can return varying responses based on supposed intent.

1. http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/statuses/
I was talking about actual server-side analytics includes. Pretty sure the only way around it is to spoof your user agent data or use a proxy.
That's a fair point. It's hard to pin down why fewer women apply. Is it cultural, social, our industry? Are these things that a single company can sort out or change? How would you encourage or solve the problem of too few women applying, without crossing the ethical, gray, broad boundary of discrimination?
We're trying to contact the website folk but they're mighty busy announcing things right now. I'll let you all know what happened soon. In the meantime, here's a press release you can read: http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/tokutek-meets-big-da...

Also, we're on github: http://github.com/Tokutek and on IRC at #tokutek on irc.freenode.net, so come hang out!
Has it occurred to you that there might be a use-case mismatch between treating a social network as a source of always-on, in-your-face infotainment and a communications vehicle with imperfect yet valued human beings you know and care about?

Or do you expect everyone you know to be excellent, always-interesting, content curators?
The issue is wanting a diverse work force. They want the benefits that a diverse work force can provide, and that includes adding women to the team [1].

So how do they hire for that without discriminating? I think it's a fair question, and one that shouldn't be ignored out of some perceived bias.

1. http://www.ncwit.org/ncwit-fact-sheet
No. MD5 and RC4 are legacy crypto. In use, but shouldn't be used for new software. (And none of them were ever viable for your usage example).
This is why we need net neutrality regulation in Germany.
RIT is pretty one-sided. You're right.
You can't "uninstall" any app that the carrier forces on you, but you can disable it as of ICS or better. The app is both prevented from running and hidden from the app drawer.

In practice, the amount of storage you're denied from not being able to completely wipe these apps is miniscule.

Just one of the neat bits of control that the newer Android versions give you :)
Rather than such heavy-handed techniques trying to solve the surface problem, ask yourself these two questions: (i) what is the reason I want a female employee for this position? Just citing the gender imbalance in the company is not enough and is a weak argument, you have to explain that the additional effort in hiring a woman for this position is well-spent. This is the easy part, since this questions has been debated to death on HN and other forums.

The more important question is: (ii) Why is it hard to get a female interface designer (I have no clue but am assuming it is so) and what can you do to solve this problem? Trying to hire female programmers/designers is good but is an indirect method. Why don't you take your cool gear to your local middle schools, high schools, etc. and meet with future female programmers, to motivate them into this field.
This reminds me of Shadow DOM.

Seems like you could use this technique to implement rich widgets like video players, social sharing buttons, or ad units.
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Do I have to learn how to analyse algorithms?
I've seen some impressive performance with Ejecta. For an example see Biolab Disaster.
Rob Enderle: Putting the ’Anal' in 'Analyst' (2003)
Thank you for sharing. Someone I know has the same condition (hit by a car, parallelized from the neck down, not able to breath on his own). I just realized I haven't seen him is quite some time as I'm always busy in my own way. I'll correct that tonight.
He Wore A Shirt For 100 Days Straight - Because of Wool
Ask HN: Why is ec2 so popular?
A few months ago I was looking at some hosting for a web app I built and I had signed up for the ec2 free trail. Then I started looking at the pricing differences, a place like hetzner is much cheaper than EC2. For example if you were to get a x1 large on ec2 it would cost you 2x of hetzner with the 3 year reserved option and you would have a pay a big chunk up front + all the extra fees. Without the reserved pricing the cost jumps to 5-6x. For someone who wants to bootstrap I couldn't imagine picking ec2.

Even if you liked the ability to scale quickly for the amount you spending you can just extra capacity at some other place and still pay the same amount, or in the worst case use ec2 as your backup.
Ah, of course. I suspect that YouTube has 90% or more if you look at the mainstream (non-porn) video market.
In Russia this already happened with their "state farms":

> a system of internal passports prevented movement of employees and members from rural areas to urban areas. In effect farmers became tied to their sovkhoz or kolkhoz in what is described by some as a system of "neo-serfdom".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovkhoz
Maven Deploy to Nexus
Maven Deploy to Nexus
So many curation sites, how do you decide on one?
This looks very nice. We'd love to receive a test case for Falcon in our framework benchmarks [1]. I like the performance numbers you've shown on your site!

[1] http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
You took a screenshot of plain text. Did "Error establishing database connection" not suffice?
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This is a fluff article that doesn't provide much substantial advice.
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This also reminds me of Paul Graham's schlep article [1], which basically says that some of the hardest problems never get worked on because people are unable to see the solution due to the sheer amount of work involved.
[1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html