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Purveu is hiring Javascript/Frontend Engineers - Fully Remote, Full time.

Our central offering is an analytics platform for wealth managers and other investment advisers; sorting, storing, aggregating and analyzing external systems preexisting data as well as managing growing sets of internal data generated within our own platform. There are exciting technical challenges on all levels of the stack as we balance the expedient consumption and reconciliation of client information with the realtime analysis of gigabytes of client data. Your teammates are skilled in many different areas, ranging from portfolio analysis to higher mathematics. Come help us invent the technology used to advise financial professionals and inform their clients over the world.

Our stack:

- Frontend: Ember.js / CoffeeScript

- Backend: Rails, but increasingly plays the role of concierge to the database as our app grows to face new
requirements. We're making the first moves towards Scala.

- Datastore: MongoDB

- The ETL process has many working pieces, historically it's been Hadoop processing jobs with Sqoop, but after benchmarking of realtime aggregation performance showed a compelling reason to move to MongoDB, we rolled our own ETL in Erlang keeping a memento in ETS to alleviate integrity concerns and provide redundancy without depending on the integrity of MongoDB. Today, the extraction task lives on as a ruby job wrapping a set of high performance C functions.

You:

* Technologist by trade or education.

* Knowledge of Javascript frontend frameworks like Ember, Angular, etc.

* CSS / HTML et. al.

* A personal project you're proud of that you'd like to show off.

Extras:

Experience developing applications performing realtime analysis.

Experience developing low latency / high throughput software
Web design and composition skills

Amazon EC2 knowledge

If any of this sounds interesting to you, contact me at zephyr@purveu.com
I don't remember anything I see on Facebook
Don't fear the monad
It's really surprising to see a comment like this, so wrong on something and yet upvoted. Crucially, your view is entirely anecdotal - a much better argument would be "Testimonials are a bad way to sell things because X" where X is a reason that is valid and tested.

Unfortunately, X for you is either highly personal or based on a faulty understanding of persuasion because social proof is incredibly powerful as a persuasive technique - research, testing, and daily commerce bear it out. It is tried and tested and used by marketers and businesses everywhere. The reason? Social proof works. Knowing that someone that you lend credibility to thinks that this thing is good/useful/etc helps you make a decision about it, whether you think it does or not. Content tends to inherit the value that is near it (e.g. important people, powerful companies, athletes, etc). A patio11 quote is in order here: "content which bears social proof will, in A/B tests, often ROFLstomp absolutely equivalent content lacking social proof."[0] Dr. Robert Cialdini's Influence has an entire chapter on social proof.

[0] http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/05/31/can-i-get-your-email/
The LEED rating system isn't all-encompassing, but it is a good way for clients to buy into "sustainability". It's "less bad" and not truly "good", as William McDonough would say.

As building information modeling becomes more sophisticated, computer models could potentially reliably calculate a building's entire embodied energy over its expected lifetime. It would be amazing if a project's BIM model was submitted to a rating agency an was given an all-encompassing environmental impact rating.
I think this is insightful. Benefits of ClojureScript like namespacing, functional primitives and client/server code sharing can be attained via other, easier (though not necessarily better) tools in the JS ecosystem.

Of the things that you mentioned, I'd wager that core.async will be the captivating feature for ClojureScript. David Nolen's excitement is a good gauge. If that increases adoption significantly, it's my hope that ClojureScript's other benefits keep the fire burning.
Sure, I'm not saying that LEED doesn't work because it's government-run (it's not) nor even going so far as saying that government involvement in the market is necessarily evil. I'm trying to make the distinction between an incentives-based market and a central planning council, not between the government and the private sector. The government can plan things centrally or organize distributed exchanges, as can private companies and trade organizations.
Oh that disease due to a kind of Amoeba (Naegleria) is very bad because it actually almost always leads to death (post to meningo-encephalitis). 97-99% mortality unlike coccidioidomycosis (which is a little hyped in the article).

They tried Amphotericin B in some case with limited success but the disease is always fatal :(
This article assumes that NSA and other agencies are doing something nefarious without the consent and knowledge of the president.

I think it would be nice for newspapers to concentrate on what would be good for citizens as opposed to what would be good for the president and people's perception of him. He is on his last, does he really give jack shit what people thinks of him?
Dear HN, just because someone makes a blog post about good UI elements, doesn't mean you need to shit on details big or small about the specific site (e.g. the big footer).

For most people, this is a great way to understand the possibilities for different UIs to test. Instead of just copying others, you can think more abstractly about the UI ideas.
First, it's an assertion without a proof.

Second, in other words you say "I don't know how to protect myself against random violence without centralized violence, I will advocate imposing that violence on everyone around."

Don't get me wrong. I don't advocate "guns are bad" or "guns are good" here. If you want to set up your protection club with helicopters and ninjas, I have nothing against. But do you say it must be imposed on me? Only because I somehow benefit under umbrella of your enterprise? In other words, you want to force me to pay for your business model when it's you who bothers about security and cannot figure out how to pay for it voluntarily.
One problem for you to be aware of: something about the scroll handling breaks the two-finger swipe Back functionality on my Macbook. It's a minor thing, but very annoying.
Bootstrap 3 Download and Docs
Don't wait for the official release, its pretty much ready.
There's always Sealand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand
Weekend project: Photoshop like gridlines as a Chrome extension
These are questions worth A/B testing though. I'm on team video, but if anyone has a link to the research, let me know.
You're right. It was Adobe Analytics(omniture) being blocked which preventing the site from functioning. I'll keep Ghostery in mind whenever I see odd things happening. Thanks for pointing that out.
Thanks, I'll take a look at the NB Minimus this weekend from my local runner's shop. It looks like Vibram 5 fingers minus the toes.
This presentation is uncomprehensible on 480x800 android phone.The text is truncated and unscrollable. But hey the rotation between the slides at least looks badass.
Rare Cancer Seen In 41 Homosexuals (1981)
Almost all fungal (few exceptions) infections are 100 % curable and treatable in most healthy individuals !!

Lethal fungal infections (such as Aspergillous and Mucormycosis - flesh eating fungus) are common in immune-comprimised individuals (Diabetics, HIV+ , Organ Transplant Recipients, etc) and very un-common in healthy individuals.
Benefits of Leading a Startup-Centric Lifestyle
https://tempo.ai/ -- A Siri/Google Now/Cue/Donna competitor, based at Stanford Research Institute (SRI)
As I said in other threads, existence of things does not justify itself.

The fact that majority of people can force anyone in minority to comply does not say anything about morality.

I point out that people tell themselves that it is okay if majority seemingly "decide" to to allow someone to kill some people. I question that belief which oddly looks very similar to any religious dogma.

You advocate for "progress" and "democracy is the lest worst". I'm fine with it, live your life and participate in democracy. But let me politely disagree with you. Will you not participate in "majority" that tries to kill me if I don't give them my stuff?
While on the subject of mturk, you might find this useful: "Running Experiments Online Using Amazon Mechanical Turk" https://sites.google.com/a/cognitivescience.co/knowledgebase...

Found it the other day via Steve Blank's amazing list of startup tools/resources:

http://steveblank.com/tools-and-blogs-for-entrepreneurs/
time to dig around in the Adblock Plus source and see what's behind that "Allow some non-intrusive advertising" checkbox.
This is the first New York Times article reporting on what would later be known as the AIDS epidemic.

Edit: Here's the takeaway quote, in my opinion: "Cancer is not believed to be contagious, but conditions that might precipitate it, such as particular viruses or environmental factors, might account for an outbreak among a single group."

Edit2: "Dr. Curran said there was no apparent danger to nonhomosexuals from contagion.'"
But the amendment doesn't talk in terms of "not public." It refers to "their... effects." Words aren't meaningless. To make a case for protection under the 4th, you have to make a case that something is your paper or effect, not Google's, and not just anything that is "not public."
True, but at least you might enjoy it.
It's clear America doesn't care about doing illegal things, even to American citizens

See: holding Manning for years without trial, killing American citizens without trail (overseas)
If you're paranoid, learn the OpenSSL command line, make a self-signed CA cert, and have your clients trust your cert and distrust all other CA's.

Of course, this only applies if you have control of your clients, and those clients are only going to be accessing your server.

If you want the general public to be able to access your site through a normally configured web browser, this setup is quite unworkable; but the other commenters in this thread have some advice.
Do dead reckoning with the accelerometer, phone home with your speed later. Or just look at the endpoints of the trip when you take it out of the Faraday bag and calculate average velocity. Or don't try to enforce speed limits through phones, because that doesn't make any sense anyway. Require GPS-enabled governors in all car computers.
Great work, but would be great for a frame of reference to add something at the end that zooms back out (and maybe uses a different scale to fit on screen) that shows you against everything.

As soon as I discovered to click to go to the next tier, I just kept clicking and didn't pay attention to how many levels, how many people, etc.

Otherwise great work!
Every new HTTP Daemon is heartly welcome!
Ugh that condensed font is horrible!
There is utterly no epidemiological evidence that eating zest has anything to do with any kind of fungal infection.
Using D3.js to Brute Force the Pirate Puzzle
You're all way over-thinking potatoes.
It is a huge stretch to label something plagiarism merely because it expresses a similar idea or argument. The wording is completely different, and the argument itself is quite common.
This article doesn't even mention the part that prompted me to quit fairly quickly - the overbearing virality. In order to advance, you must convince other people to "assist" you. If you aren't willing to bully your friends into playing the game, you get stuck after a few levels.
In addition to mikeash's correction, a round does not contain everything that you need. Without a chamber, a bullet is not going anywhere at a particularly dangerous speed. The casing is really not meant to contain the pressure of the burning propellant by itself and without a barrel then the expanding gases from the burning propellant would primarily dump their energy into the environment, not the bullet. In fact, without a chamber and barrel, the casing is actually more dangerous than the bullet, though still would not be deadly. This makes sense when you consider that the casing weights far less than the bullet.

The "tube" is essential, not merely convenient.
You must legally purchase a ticket that gets you to a destination you are legally allowed to enter. 99.9999% of airlines won't let you board a plane without that, because they foot the bill if you get sent back.

I've been in many international transit lounges "in" countries I wasn't legally permitted to enter (no visa).. but I had an onward ticket to a country I could enter, so I was allowed to do it.
Oliver Stone defends Edward Snowden over NSA revelations
Aesthetics are a big part of UI, and the default Booststrap aesthetic works only with some supplemented creativity.
It feels like "we're alone in the Universe".
There are plenty of ways and you use them everyday(1). But my point is that it does not matter. If you cannot figure out how to protect yourself and you suggest me to follow your gun (or some representitive's of yours), then it's just silly.

(1) you put locks on your car, apartment and bike. You have passwords. You don't tell people left and right where you live and how much money do you have. You have insurance. You hire guards, set up cameras, build up reputation with people you work with. You document your agreements to show to others in case of a conflict. You choose safer districts and don't go where it's unsafe. You choose to live with other people seeking peace and protection, rather than with crazy lunatics. You minimize risk voluntarily: individually or together with others. Without any "moral theories" or justification for any violence.
The teenage radio enthusiasts who helped win World War II
i'm not "writing off" anything.

i'm saying we have failed to actualize a very huge potential.

and oh yeah, sure, we've taken some 49 steps on the journey.
(and 27 of 'em actually moved society forward! imagine that!)
and we could pat ourselves on the back for our "progress"...

but that ignores the fact that the journey is a thousand miles.

nor do we seem to realize that the journey has become a race,
a race against time, because the greed and stupidity that i
talked about above is turning our planet into a place that
will all-too-soon become one on which humans can not survive.
(shortly after all the other large mammals on it go extinct.)

so, like, dude, enjoy your "social interaction" while you can.

-bowerbird
They could, but I'd like to see them enforce it. The worst they could do on Earth would be to stop rocket launches to Mars (which would be bad) but rockets can be launched in a variety of places. They represent a large injection of wealth into an area, and the economic benefits of hosting rocket infrastructure outweighs the cost of dealing with a loud but ultimately toothless colony. By the time Mars would represent a 'threat' it will be essentially self-sufficient and then there is little hold Earth would have over it.
Ghostery was in news recently, there was also a big thread here on HN. Sorry, don't have links handy right now.
Wow, this is back when it was called GRID.
Energy efficient architecture is much easier on the residential level if properly applied. Unfortunately many of the better concepts run afoul of over zealous city regs and development restrictions. Plus residential developers have no monetary incentives for changing their crappy processes.
Very few gamers get sponsorships. It is not an easy way to make a living. Your argument is equivalent to telling everyone to forget about minimum wage jobs and practice throwing curveballs, on the off chance that they can score a position as a pitcher in the major leagues.
The whitelist also allows ads for Reddit and Amazon.
That reads to me as an atheist statement, yet C.S. Lewis was a Christian apologist according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis
Use AdBlock Edge instead of the normal ABP, you'll have no further worries.
This article[1] states that food, for example, is a tax free perk. Additionally, I didn't specifically talk about the American tax code. It's a global phenomenon.

1. http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_22982220/irs-is-looki...
Multiple columns still make sense for certain types of content. There's a reason news papers still use them centuries later.

Single column only works on a single page/article/concept being shared. Beyond that, it gets a bit silly to get from point a to b, but there are times when multiple columns still work.

Maybe when I'm done with reading, I like to check out related links on the side. I'd rather not scroll all the way to the bottom to do that. Or if I run an ad, I want to make sure the placement (though still outside the main body of the article to not be distracting) is still at prime real-estate.

Do X for a better Y is always tricky business. It's sometimes not as simple as one column.
I get your point, but promoting a tax to get the most out of the market is doublespeak. A carrot ("This is better because... and you can use it!") is more "free-market" than a stick ("Don't do that.") - even if I would prefer not to be tempted (or threatened) by either.
I'm currently reading And The Band Played On which is a detailed account of the rise of the AIDS epidemic and how it was ignored and mishandled back in the 80s. Definitely check it out if this subject interests you.
Agreed, and for the price, really hoping that XBMC's stability issues on the Ouya get worked out.
The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror [Video]
I went into irc's #clojure to ask if I should use clojurescript for developing a html canvas based game. Most of the people in the chatroom dissuaded me. Their main concerns were:

1) there's no source maps. IE: a browser stack trace does not map exactly to your clojurescript code so it can make things hard to debug.

2) finding and fixing performance issues in your clojurescript would be very challenging, especially if you're not an expert in javascript already (which I'm not)

I took their advice but a personal issue I had along the way was, where the hell is the "hello world" getting started guide!? I was never able to find documentation that said, "write this simple file and type this simple command and now you've just built your first clojurescript example". Keep in mind I cut my research short, but I did put at least 2 hours into it.

So I decided to use coffeescript instead. I think it's closer to the raw javascript but it's more concise. I haven't had any performance issues and even though coffeescript is supposed to have source maps, I haven't needed to use them yet.

It's giving me confidence to try clojurescript for my next project. I think it'll be an even better experience than coffeescript. The ability to write your program in one language, front and backend, is really appealing.
I really don't understand the public outcry. In the eyes of all that matters, he broke the law. Snowden knew where he signed up to work. Noone with any amount of brain processing capability would be so naive as to think that sort of stuff wasn't happening via the NSA. I have worked for organizations that when I categorically disagreed with their business model and operating processes, I left. He had that choice. It was certainly not his job to hold the Agency accountable. His chosen method was certainly not the acceptable protocol. In fact, its highly illegal.

This does not mean that I agree with the US or any Gov't for that matter also breaking laws.

EDIT: "Why shouldn't I work for the NSA?" - Good Will Hunting, 1997 http://goo.gl/hjMHg
knowledge that (a) is not in the code

That sounds like what documentation's for.

(b) platform dependent knowledge and code that cannot be abstracted away

Can you give an example of this platform specific code that's can't be abstracted well? I am less than convinced.

a "platform that can evolve well" can manage to do so even with crappy languages as defaults. Our best such platform, the Web

Sorry, I don't think that the web is a well evolving platform. I think it's a butt ugly duct-tape driven just-still-hobbling-along type of platform that is rife with security holes, trust issues, unneeded complexity, cross platform issues, unexpected but effective centralization of power, and many other issues. I am not sure how you can hold it up as a great example of a technical offering, really.

If you like Lisp, work to make Parenscript or Clojure-script better

Clojure-script seems pretty full-featured already. To be honest, though, I'm not sure that a Javascript VM is the place to implement complex code. GUI-related code is probably most of JS, and that is probably easier to generate from a model than rewrite with an additional layer of syntax abstraction in an effectively new language... particularly given the rate at which new JS related functionality appears.

orthogonal

I am going to come clean: I hate it when people use this word because I'm never quite sure what they mean. Often, I think, neither are they. To me, what you said seems to be "x and y are not the same". Others use it differently. I hereby wish we could just use familiar, regular-human language instead of latter-day tech hubbub. Ta.
If you're looking to host static pages, http://neocities.org/ is great. For anything more I'd recommend Heroku.
He just shared some insights, he didn't critique anything and he's a Kaggler and published researcher so I don't get why he is getting downvoted.
It's ironic that the website isn't working. Alternate link? (GitHub perhaps?)
Right next to it, there is a link to whitelist. You won't have to do that much digging :)

https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/exceptionrules.tx...
Samsung Acquires Startup Boxee to Add Connected TV Set-Top Boxes
Yeah, for the longest time I thought the latter was an enhanced (paid?) version of the former. I can't believe naming browser extensions in a similar manner like this is allowed. It causes nothing but confusion.
I defined an exception for AdWords when I first installed an ad blocker. I just want to block the annoying ads, but I understand that many sites have to advertise to stay online. I can live with text ads, but not auto-start videos with sound, animated banner ads, pop-ups, etc.
The makeup of the batteries is unknown, but they are most likely just Zamboni piles. There is probably nothing impressive about the batteries themselves, the longevity of the experiment owes itself to the extremely low power draw of the apparatus.
There's no need to dig around in the source. AdBlock Plus is setting certain ad providers on its whitelist. In theory, the decision of who is whitelisted should be made by the community. But as a German blogger recently found out, Adblock plus owners and investors have connections to some AdProviders, and those are favored, while others are still blocked. The article in question: http://www.mobilegeeks.de/adblock-plus-undercover-einblicke-...
Show HN: Haquery – jQuery for Haskell
> I just turn off the phone..

Why even buy one?

Of course, your car, laptop, GPS, iPad and watch could all be reporting too...

Then there are the satellites in the sky watching you, planes flying over, fixed cameras, drones......

The list goes on.
Connection timeout?

Brilliant idea, I especially love the SSL only. The web needs to move to pure SSL.
Fleeing earth doesn't instantly change human nature. The risks to liberty will remain no matter where you go.

The George Washington willing-to-cede-his-throne type will be just as rare on Mars in 2095 as it is today, as it was throughout history.
https://github.com/jorisvink/kore
I imagine it has something to do with the fact Ghostery is owned by an advertising company. Not sure if that is this particular "attack", but a lot of people use it without understanding why it is made and it periodically gets widely reported to some backlash.
Web development in C, I love this.
I'm pretty sure it would require an extreme amount of subjectivity to find random noise blaring out of your speakers or drive-by trojan installs acceptable. But sure.
How clutter affects you and what you can do about it