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MobileWorks is hiring a star Sales and Accounts Representative
MobileWorks is reinventing crowdsourcing, and we’re looking for enthusiastic, passionate, and fun individuals to join our team. We’re a venture-backed company with a central social mission: using technology as a source of economic empowerment for underemployed and marginalized individuals around the world. If you are excited about how crowdsourcing is changing the way the world does work, then MobileWorks is the place for you. Ready to do something awesome? Join us as a Sales and Accounts Representative.

Why work at MobileWorks? Just a few reasons:

* The chance to work with a bright, fun team on an impact, revenue generating product
* Competitive salary and stock options
* Full health coverage
* Paid gym membership
* Unlimited paid vacation day policy
* The workspace setup of your choice (chair, monitor, choice of computer)
* Breathtaking sunset views of the Golden Gate Bridge from your desk
* Sushi and Pizza Fridays

About the position:

As a sales representative, you’ll pitch the use of our ethical best-in-class virtual work platform to a wide range of companies. You’ll work with a whole range of organizations -- from Fortune 500s to international governments to fast-growing Silicon Valley startups -- to learn how they can best use the thousands of fairly-paid and talented MobileWorkers we have in our community to solve their business needs.

About you:

You love the idea of growing a business that does good in the world, and you’re excited by the fact that you’re bringing a best-in-market solution to people and organizations who can use it. You’re comfortable wearing a variety of hats to solve problems as needed, and you like working in the fast-paced startup. You’re hungry, smart, eager, and ready to make a difference in the world.

It might be a match if you:

* Have experience in sales, customer support, or a client-facing position
* Are fun, friendly, and passionate about selling to people
* Know how to write a polite and friendly email
* Are comfortable doing new things and working outside your comfort zone

Bonus points if you have:
* No fear of learning new technology and pushing your limits
* A proven sales track record

Apply:

Please send an email to jobs@mobileworks.com with a resume and why you’d like to join us.

View the listing on our website:
https://www.mobileworks.com/careers/#sales-rep
Google has dropped support for XMPP (chat) and calDAV (calendar syncing). What's next? cardDAV? IMAP?? Honestly I can see that Google is no longer interested in open protocols. They are afraid that it's too easy for their users to simply migrate everything away. Their response is to build a wall around their users. Enough red flags have been raised for me to, unfortunately, say goodbye.

Perhaps I may still buy their hardware, but they want to isolate my data from every company but them. They are no longer reliable.
No, I also read the arguments -- I even agree with some.

I just wanted to point out that the "experience" part you mention (which people might see as validating) might not that relevant for the current climate.
With a ceiling for growth, you have to look in the other direction: can you reduce costs?

Do you really need a full time team to work on this?

After v1.0 is done, can the rest of the team 'exit'?
You can put SSHFP records in the DNS. See "VerifyHostKeyDNS" in the SSH man page. You'll also want DNSSEC set up of course.
ONUlados.
Only iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 will be upgraded, right? Those have pretty good GPU's. It was iPhone 4 that had a pretty terrible one combined with the retina display at the time.

The biggest impact would be seen on iPads, because iPad 3 actually took a step backwards in terms in performance behind iPad 2, when it switched to retina, and iPad 4 barely matches iPad 2 in performance (if we're comparing native iPad 2 apps vs native "retina" iPad 4 apps).

It could also be the reason why the next iPad is rumored to not have a huge battery anymore, like iPad 3 and iPad 4, and be much slimmer (the last 2 iPads were thicker than iPad 2).
Even with x-ray available to paramedics, they don't get the type of training needed to understand what they are seeing on an x-ray and even then they wouldn't have the training to correct any issues or authority to prescribe treatment. The best they could do is get a radiogram and pass it on, but even then, they usually are not in the best position to dose out radiation, nor would their patients likely sit still, since the idea is to get them to a hospital or care provider ASAP.
This is very good news although now I feel I've just wasted a day speeding up a home-grown software video player for the Pi.
Extraordinary Video of Man Playing Guitar During Brain Surgery
See that's not the same though, unless the garage directly led to making the crime possible. Change a few words and see if it still makes sense: what if the person used their life for criminal purposes? If they get out of prison do you still allow them to have life?

A garage is a place, not a tool.
That's the kind of stuff I need in the background when I'm trying to sleep. As soon as I turn the background noise off I'm wide awake.
If you had read the comment, you'd see that your attempted jab about my experience during the first bubble does the opposite of harming my argument; I am, obviously, arguing that it is easier for techs to raise external funding in 2013 than it was during the time of "give funding to any BS", as you put it.
Why Yes, Your Child Should Learn Chemistry
I can't speak for math, but I know that a few centuries ago, certain musical notes were regarded as 'The Devil's Music':

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritone#Historical_uses
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4952646.stm
See the link to my ebook in my profile. Chapter 10.
armenlsuny [/at] gmail [dot] com
Security issue in livecd-tools causes password issue in Fedora cloud images
Ifs and &&s and Plan 9's Source Code
B go beyond – Quadcopter/RC car combo
Of course, nobody goes on Facebook anymore. It's too crowded.
BYU’s animation program isn't a typical film school—its graduates get jobs
> These are the same people. The teenage cohort of the 70s and 80s are the middle aged cohort of today. Were we drinking poisoned baby formula in the 50s and 60s?

Probably not.

Instead, these people were reaching their teen years at the time that the relative progress of the middle class slowed and stalled, and have lived their entire adult life through the relative decline of the middle class. There is probably no generation with a greater contrast between the expectation of progress ingrained in their childhood (and the expectations communicated by their parents based on those parents life experience) and their own experience of their teen to adult life.
Hmm ... those are not all the most popular. They are just the most widely used.

The real test for popularity will be which languages the polyglot programmers will choose if unburdened by legacy code . I think that we will see C/Python/Perl/Javascript there but i have yet to hear a good word for Java or the dark corners of C++.
There's No Painless Way to Kill Yourself
> It seems they'll use open standards only as long as it serves them, but when they've grown big enough to dominate the competition, they'll turn around in a heartbeat and exploit that.

I don't see how Google is dominating the competition. Gchat used to be a dominant player, I believe, but that was before mobile existed. I think the dominant players now are:

iMessage. Propriety, only runs on Apple devices, can only communicate with other iMessage users.

Facebook Messenger. Proprietary, only runs in Facebook site and app, can only communicate with other Facebook users.

WhatsApp. I think based on XMPP? Only runs in WhatsApp application, can only communicate with other WhatsApp users.

Notice that every single one of those is a walled garden.
Well, we're going to have to agree to disagree. I do think security has improved since the 1990s. I think that this kind of "we're all doomed, it doesn't matter what you know" attitude that you are displaying is exactly the problem. It does matter what you know and how you architect the system. Security has improved a lot, even on platforms like Windows that are heavily C/C++ based.

Garbage collected languages are nice, but they're really just an extension of the general principle of minimizing the trusted code base. They are not a silver bullet (witness the recent Java, Ruby, etc exploits). I am all in favor of these languages, and especially Golang, which shows a lot of promise.

What I'm not in favor of is using a really crappy program written in language X as a stick to beat the language designers with, regardless of what value of X we're talking about.
Rediscovering CDs in the Age of Music Downloads
The fact that the subject of the OP was diagnosed fairly quickly struck me; more often than not, as you mention, rare diseases are misdiagnosed or completely missed. I've often wondered if someone hasn't done a long term statistical analysis of the probability of seeing rare diseases. It's one thing to think you have a rare disease (and is statistically very unlikely), but if you are a doctor seeing already self-selected ill subjects, wouldn't that change the probabilities significantly? I know modern medicine is quite mentally taxing, and most doctors are trained to be conservative, but maybe just emphasizing the fact that the statistics are different for the population of people seeing doctors might go a long ways to convince doctors not to automatically lump illnesses into the most common categories.

That, and making the tests cheaper (like all of them, virtually zero cost; who wouldn't just throw every test they can think of at a problem if the tests were dirt cheap).
Google Search Terms predict market movements
That's actually a great idea (thinkpad slice) since all I knew was about the hump batteries. Anyway I'm waiting out for Haswell and then I'm planning on pulling the trigger on a new laptop since I'd appreciate a nicer resolution as well and it seems that some are pushing for hi-res with haswell.
What if I want it because I hate to wake up early in the morning and go to work?
I'd recommend vanguard.com . From what I can tell, wealthfront is largely repurchasing vanguard funds and selling them downstream.
It does not matter if you lose your SSH private keys though as they are disposable and you can just generate new ones, it's not like they are being used to encrypt anything. To add your new public key to your servers you either get someone else who can SSH in and su to root to do it for you or you login locally (via kvm or similar). Larger deployments most likely have some centrally managed system for dealing with SSH keys.
Hey! It's fake bdowney! Who are you really?
Actually, a trailer park would probably be a huge deal. The biggest problem would always be knowing who just wants a cheap place to live vs a cheap place to hack.
... says a person impersonating bdowney
This is a great article. Looking inward is the bigger picture. When you are not impeccable about your intent, then much of your subconscious awareness is being diverted towards those hidden agendas rather than the outward goal. You come off as inauthentic, your ability to draw like-minded people to your goals are splintered.

You can get those hidden agendas directly. Why make a lot of money to change the world? Change the world. Money is a means by which one changes the world.

If it happens that your inward goals are to make a lot money, then you're much more likely to get what you need. If you're not impeccable, you're more likely to wander around lost and confused.
Judge says leaning toward U.S. in Apple e-books case
Does the startup have something to do with getting your kids a great education?
I am often confused by how quickly the futurist community jumps from "machines which mold plastic shapes" to "machines which are capable of creating a laptop". Surely every modern electronic requires an enormous number of materials, some very rare, some in minute quantities, and some of which may require chemically and/or thermally active reactions in their implementation.

Do many people genuinely think that we are close to this kind of machine? Because to me I simply see far too many hurdles for it to even become realistic. I know everyone is excited about 3-D printers, but within the current constraints of reality I cannot see how the current ones can do much more than print small plastic mechanical parts.
Wow that's amazing! Thanks for putting that together. I'm going to read it on my kindle later.
It was never cool, unless you were going to be a Master of the Universe or BSD trader. It just paid really well. It still pays well.
I gave specific examples of modern C codebases for which lots of attention had been paid to security that subsequently suffered vulnerabilities stemming from memory corruption. You respond with "garbage collected languages are nice but they're really just an extension of the general principle of minimizing the trusted codebase", which is nonresponsive to my point. We agree: we disagree.

I don't think it's negligent to write things in C. I like C, a lot; it's my first language. But stop kidding yourself that with just a couple modern development practices you'll produce code in C that is comparably secure to Python or serverside Java. You won't.
At the beginning of this video I thought this was going to be a Kickstarter project where a non-functioning model is used to sell an idea... But this guy actually built this contraption! Very impressive.

Are there spokeless wheels like that available as an off-the-shelf R/C component?
These standards, archaic as they may be, also allow you to export your emails should you want to. I pay for my wife's Yahoo email account, such that GMail can use POP3 to connect to it and retrieve the emails that she gets on that account. Not to mention that email clients work best if native. iOS users didn't have to wait for Google to release a half-baked client for them.

As an alternative, of course, we can do better than POP3 or IMAP. Sure, lets burn them, but name an alternative first and it has to be a standard supported by Google, no?

I can't believe that you think this. You're basically arguing for the sake of arguing.

Btw, you're mentioning "web interfaces". How would you have liked it if everybody had their own browser-like app, communicating through their own http-like protocol, speaking their own language for hyper-linked documents?
I think the iPhone 4 will get the update, as it's still being sold. (If I had to guess, it's probably selling pretty darn well in the U.S. as it's Verizon's first "free" iPhone.)
I agree. In addition to being pretty damn old at this point the pronunciation of "@" should resolve the "aol.com@joe/joe@aol.com" issue for all but the most clueless (all but the most likely to cost you in support). That case is particularly egregious.
Have you thought of outsourcing it using amazon mechanical turk ( https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome ) ?

I've seen that somebody made service for reviewing websites using it and was very pleased ( I tried to but couldn't find link to the story ).
rss2email is a good way of running your own rss to email service. I only say this because rss to email services have a nasty habit of shutting down.
A square bracket, however, is not a dot (which is for what the original regexp checked).

And I just tried sending an email to me@[my.ip.addr.[0]]. Postfix somehow recognised it was for this local host, but failed because it wasn’t part of the virtual domains I had put into it. ‘perverse’ seems to be somewhat appropriate.

[0] Sorry, too lazy to check the appropriate documentation IP address ranges. 20db?
The feeling of fulfillment won't come through external achievements, I can guarantee you that.

It usually takes people a long while to discover this, but hey, it's all part of the journey.
> kill all competitors, then let it rot.

Google hasn't killed competitors. Google chat is losing ground to iMessage, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp, all of which are proprietary walled gardens. If XMPP federation was an important feature for end users, why would those products, which are all newer than Google's chat, have been able to supplant it?

Sure, I'm sad that Google is turning off federation too, but I'm happy that it will let the team move faster to make a product that adds value to people's lives.
Apart from svbtle, there are lot of themes that are unique and beautiful (of course with jekyll as backend):

- http://clayallsopp.com/posts/rubymotion-year-one/

- http://paulstamatiou.com/responsive-retina-blog-design

- http://zachholman.com/posts/left/

I think dcurtis should be already pissed off that I ripped his design. So not sure about doing it again :)
They killed calDAV. IMAP is a bit of a jump, but mark my words, cardDAV will be next.
Silicon Valley is one big, dark, empty sleepy suburb at night. I don't think the liveliness of street culture has anything to do with a city's status as a tech hub. Personally I would want to be in Des Moines if I was selling agriculture software, or something like that. Parent's startup deals with journalism, perhaps better off in NYC. SV is not the end-all, be-all for everyone, especially since Parent is bootstrapping and the VC ecosystem means nothing to him.
If you think I'm just arguing for the sake of arguing, let's you and I just stop arguing.
I think maybe it's just a difference in experience/perspective. While I'll agree there was barely a startup industry a few years ago, it doesn't really seem to be all that much bigger to me now; it's just that they've got some more attention now. The community is more connected. We collaborate and socialize more than we used to.

That said, I don't really know enough new engineers to say who is going into what these days, but I still see plenty of the 23-35 crowd at financials, all with advanced degrees and all wishing they were doing something else.
Why Don’t Software Developers Use Static Analysis Tools to Find Bugs?
Errr, where's JavaScript?
Walter Isaacson's 2013 Commencement Speech at Pomona College
Infinite Boltzmann brains
"It is because you want total autonomy over your time?" Would be my #1 goal. The alternative "Find a career that is already what you’d consistently be doing..." is silly. Given complete control over my time I wouldn't be doing much consistently let alone for a career's length of time.
Ask HN: 4K for PC Gaming & Productivity
You've likely all heard of the Seiki 4K TV. I'm looking for a new high end monitor for PC gaming and general productivity, considering NEC, Dell in the 30-inch range.

My question is, has anyone had experience with the Seiki 4K TV? My office is configured such that I could use the TV as a monitor and sit farther back. Would you recommend I go this route over, say, the NEC PA301W or Dell 3011?

I've never owned a 4K display before, or used a "TV" as a monitor, but the option to get 3840x2160 on the cheap is intriguing.

Thanks!
I don't think they have anything to fix. The teenagers in the article seemed to believe that your social status is crippled without Facebook. It might be a Machiavellian way to get eyeballs on advertisements, but by criminy it's working, and at the end of the day the end users aren't the customers.
NOAA / NWS advisories tend to have a lot of proper names. It looks really wacky if you just lower-case them (and it's non-trivial to convert them to proper capitalization automatically.)

(I tried to do this back in about 1999. I don't think it's gotten much easier, although having geo APIs might help somewhat.)

Also, apparently there's some international standards around this kind of info that require it to be upper case: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/10/blame-united-n...
Please don't quote that RFC-822 regexp when arguing this. That's for the contents of mail headers (which can include comments and so on), not an actual valid email address.

A regexp for validating RFC-2821 email addresses is actually fairly simple.
It's very unlikely to be useful, unless you are running the same platform and have an interest in implementing business rules for the same use cases as the BBC have. Much of the interesting functionality will have been licenced from outside providers, and most of the cost will have been paying Siemens, paying Siemens to cancel the contract, and other staff and consultant fees.
Exactly. It's only ever been cool to people looking to get "Fuck You Money".

But it still goes back to the pedigree thing. NY is an extremely pedigree-sensitive city and it's way more impressive to talk at cocktail parties about what financial you work for than what no-name-startup/consultancy/generic-design-shop you're working for.

My social circle shrunk noticeably when I left my hedge fund gig in 2008 and worked as a bike messenger; New Yorkers only care about (potential) money.
Ahhh, so proprietary sauce! I don't see any indication of when you have made changes to your engine or grammar in the graphs. This is a serious distortion from one perspective.
How dare you tell him what he can or can't do? You're a jerk. I seriously doubt he's not good enough. I watched 3 knuckleheads that are more lucky than good get lucky with a clever idea at the right time. Don't be the crab pulling him back into the box. I deplore when people act like you are doing here.
Are these actually shipping yet? I know a few places that would be interested in trying them out but the "shipping soon we promise!" is a hard sell.
You don't even need to have a pass phrase that long with KeePass. It allows you to set the number of rounds of encryption to perform to make brute forcing even short master passwords infeasible.

Of course, that assumes the master password is chosen such that it isn't susceptible to your typical dictionary/hybrid-dictionary attacks.
We've reached a point in time (point in technology?) where "niche" could mean tens of thousands of customers world-wide. Niche has taken on a new meaning.
This is as good an illustration as any of how myopic HN is. Bloomberg isn't just a tech company; they're more technical than most (word chosen carefully!) of the companies YC funds.
This is exactly the model that my team uses. We have ~40 folks on-site in SF, and about a half-dozen who work remotely. We got a Double a few weeks back, and after a slow start it's now in use most of the time.

The OP is not wrong about the qualitative difference between a 'bot and a normal video-conference setup. Things like this may seem minor (or even silly), but they go a long way to make it feel like our remote colleagues are actually present and part of the team:

https://twitter.com/thedeepg/status/337352680840257536
https://twitter.com/rcoder/status/336584756147916800
This. it's really hard to ship, it's even harder to ensure all the marketing/support/commerce stuff you really don't want to do as an interaction developer is also running.

Personal case examples:

1) Recently announced a plugin mentioned by some top designers - basically brings some new interaction ideas to graphic design tools. It's taken about 4-ish months of evenings to make a functioning prototype. Then another couple months to design the website/do user interviews/etc. Despite the flattering mentions, I still freak out a bit that not enough people will buy it when I launch.

2) Made a desktop app that had more of an 'interaction-first' approach, and inspired by folks behind Balsamiq. After 2 years of doing code, hiring a coworker, etc. It was 80% done, customers couldn't wait for me to ship, but some just-hired manager didn't get it and canned the project, along with my employment. Just downloaded what the old stuff they still ship, it has 2012 copyright info.

Also, it hasn't been encouraging when going to conferences like microconf, where the focus and advice leaned towards "find that b2b niche and make a saas app, you're gonna regret otherwise"
Stop trying to figure out which aaS you are, You're a Cloud API company
The formatting of an IP in this matter is translated at the network level.

The following also works (from the command line):

ping 1249764136
Well off to a great start with Yahoo in charge.