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Balanced is hiring engineer #6
Balanced is THE payments platform for online marketplaces

We're a small (only 6 engineers!) Python shop that focuses on moving
quickly while focusing strictly on engineering quality (check out our
github @ https://github.com/balanced/). Happy to show you some of our
internal code if you stop by our offices in San Francisco!

We're trying to really simplify the online marketplace payments
space and are looking for smart, respectful and motivated
individuals who are looking to make an impact.

If you think you fit the criteria to join one of Silicon Valley's
fastest growing startup and think you have a lot to bring to the
table, drop us a note and impress us with some coding work you've done
-- stackoverflow, github, etc.

Ideally, you're located or would consider eventual re-location to San
Francisco. We're willing to make exceptions for __exceptional__
candidates.

Challenge Email: 2TPMJZSWZLOM5UW4ZLFOJUW4Z2AMJQWYYLOMNSWI4DBPFWWK3TUOMXGG33NA====

Or if you'd rather take the more conventional route - email us:
jobs+hn@balancedpayments.com

Balanced is an open company - find more about us here:
https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/94. What does this
mean for you? It means we will pay you to contribute to open source
and be part of a thriving open source company!

More on us @ https://balancedpayments.com/about

Funding wise: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/balanced
Let customers build your brand. The Harley way
We should require all elected officials pass a "basics of technology" test before they are allowed to comment or vote on policies that include these topics.

People who don't know anything about technology should not be allowed to make decisions enact policies on something they know nothing about.
The best thing out there is redis sentinel. It's in 2.6 and the issue I ran into 6 months ago is not a lot of drivers supported it yet.

http://redis.io/topics/sentinel
I didn't know we were being ranked.
I've used this service in the past: https://pricenoia.com/
it can notify you of price change on Amazon AND allows you to compare prices between different countries's Amazon local sites
You can specify values to overwrite the dummy data. For example:

StripeTester.create_event(:charge_failed, {"id" => "your_customer_id"})

This will overwrite the first occurrence of the key.
I'm working towards solving this issue. Maybe have the user specify which parent object the key is in. Anyway, pull requests are welcome.
Obligatory clickable: http://nerdydata.com/
If you're knew to a particular thing then FAQs often help by asking the questions you don't yet know you need to ask too. Perhaps that was implicit in your comment but I felt it worth elucidating.
The Anti-Linus? A Great Example of Maintaining Civility
Selling stuff on the specs is a bit 2005. Part of the reasons I moved away from Windows was I was bored of machines with higher and higher specs getting no faster in any way that mattered to me as the OS kept sucking the extra resource.

Other than the storage capacity (and even then I want to know what's usable cough Surface cough not what's on the hardware) just tell me what I can do with it and make it work well, the rest is frankly marketing bullshit.
Ah.. okay.
Stevia?
No, 20 years of froth-spitting, slathering linux crazies not understanding why reasonable people and developers choose the incredibly easy to use Windows over the ever shifting quick sand of linux.

That's obviously a bit of a joke but it is in fact all a matter of perspective. Most people think the world is populated with clones of them and their friends/colleagues.

It's not.

Until 5 years ago Macs and Linux weren't even a vaguely viable option for selling software.
just as information, I use the free service http://www.changedetection.com/ to send me email when webpages change (i.e. jobs opportunities).
Unfortunately you can't automate the procedure of logging in and/or posting to searches, and I think the scheduling is once-a-day, so it wouldn't have been very useful for the OP cron case
The "Design of Everyday Things" is probably one of the best books I have ever read on design. It's poignant for any designer of anything a human interacts with. Even though this book doesn't touch computer interaction it's completely relevant. Bonus: everyone you know who reads this book, or takes this course, will annoy you a little with the overuse of their wonderful new word "affordance". :-)
Citizen policy juries, selected by random sampling of the electorate, with access to experts making public recommendations on policy.

Even if they don't have formal authority to legislate or execute policy, politicians enacting laws in conflict with those recommendations would have to at least explain why.

Some Australian experiences:
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/croakey/2010/08/10/behind-the-sce...
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/jury-still-out-but...
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/lifematters/cit...
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Not even if people vote for them?
Is she selling something that I'm not aware of?
Lack of info on the report is making this thing useless.
Do the math, with advanced nuclear power (stuff we had working in the 60's and 70's, but was crap for bombs and upended the business model of existing nuclear which is roughly equivalent to giving the razor away at cost and making the money on the blades) you can hold all the energy you will ever use in your hand. A metal ball of Thorium is quite safe as well before it is used in a reactor. A molten salt reactor is a chemical plant running at ambient pressure, a much easier thing to deal with then the steam bombs we have currently deployed. They also don't require crazy coolants like liquid sodium (asking for it, a little water and boom) or fast neutrons (eats up anything containing them like swiss cheese.) The biggest problem with the nuclear industry is that they haven't been innovating since the 60's and 70's, not anything else really. Even the crazy steam bombs we have now are many orders of magnitude safer than other energy sources. How many people have died from installing solar panels, because of hydroelectric power, coal pollution, or petrochemical accidents? Let me give you a hint, all of these are WAY more than the number of people who have been affected by Nuclear accidents. Look up deaths per terawatt/hour of all the energy sources and you will see its quite clear that even current nuclear is SO much more safe than anything else, but it has been effectively marketed against by people invested in the status quo.

Diffuse energy is economically unviable, it is only being deployed at great cost and things like solar will never solve baseline load. People also don't think about the pollution caused by manufacturing things like solar panels. There are vast areas in China that are full of industrial waste that will not degrade for a very very long time due to solar panel manufacturing. Way nastier stuff the radioactive elements, because anything that is really dangerous has a short half life (iodine is completely gone in weeks), and will clean up rather quickly or it is usable as a fuel (though we in the United States are daft for not reprocessing our fuel like sane countries like France.) Even existing nuclear is way better than anything else, and advanced nuclear is even better still. Nuclear has a marketing problem, not a technical one.

If your worried about waste, well you have to realize that the really nasty stuff will all decay in 300-400 years, and anything radioactive left over is something I would be happy to have under my bed as I sleep. Anything radioactive at that point is also really fuel, and advanced nuclear reactors (like a molten salt reactor) will happily burn it up. The whole Yucca mountain crap is just caused by the United States having a silly ban on reprocessing. Another thing people don't mention is that the plutonium extracted from a long running reaction like those used for power is completely unsuitable for making bombs, its really just a bugaboo.
The precision being used is far too high. Optional snapping to common values is probably a good idea too (eg 80px is a common button/logo/icon size).
Looks like she's never heard of Google.

I maintain the open-source DBMS Firebird FAQ website at http://www.FirebirdFAQ.org. There are some users who browse the website and read the common issues (esp. Newbie section), but 98% of the traffic comes from Google Search. Just use proper page titles and headings and people who want something answered will type it in Google and get your page with an answer.

This works so well, that I even removed my custom search functionality and placed a Google site-search box right at the center of home page.
Organize and iterate on javascript templates faster using jstfuel.js
I wrote this library out of the desire to use external javascript templates instead of defining them inline. I wanted to make the response loop on making changes, compiling, and viewing the changes in browser smaller, so jstfuel can reload templates as well compile them client side if need be.

I'd like to get y'alls feedback. Is this something you find useful? For you hardcore javascript hackers I'd like to hear some feedback on the quality of the actual code in the library, where are the funky smells coming from? I want to get stronger with writing clean/sensible javascript.

Let me know what you think. Thanks!
Never underestimate the power of the price point.

This also throws down the gauntlet regarding the walled garden in hardware interactivity. Even Apple zealots I work with begrudgingly nod their heads in agreement that vendor lock-in is a destructive to innovation.
"Less is more" is too often misunderstood..
The New Earth Project
A worldwide sovereignty movement launching as a planetary network of conscious communities. Where we end big-government, war-economy & voluntary servitude.
"You'll never look a door the same way again... particularly if it has a handle but still expects to be pushed open."

Oh yes! It's one of those "WTF" moments and you want to find the company that designed that thing and send them the book. The book is really an eye opener.
Yes:

ssh-keygen -y -f private_key.pem > public_key.pub
First consumer focused FireFox smartphone announced
Great design and it could be really useful in some cases. How did you get the idea behind this? :)
Who has told people to stick investor-repellent soundtracks IN EVERY DAMN start-up-beggar campaign? That same bland optimistically beige stuff. This one didn't have the plunky piano and/or guitar bits, but it's like someone ran out and said...

The words aren't enough. We need sound reinforcement to lend emotion. Hmmmm... Apple used quirky, plucky, minimal for their quirky, plucky, minimal industrial design product launches... I KNOW! I want people to think I'm a quirky, plucky, minimal start-up that puts stinky color stickers on people!!!
It's just something we wanted to use, so we made it ;)
The principle of charity means applying a charitable interpretation to whoever's argument you are attempting to understand, which is what I did.

As a result, I correctly interpreted his argument: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6096457

You did not.
He's a big fan of the C in the CAP theorem, but not so much the A.
Seems like that should be decoupled for this exact reason.
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Although down-voting is a way to show you disagree with me, I'd prefer some arguments ;)
Protip: put ?share=1 after the URL.
I understand where they are coming from, but not sure I totally agree in concept. Yes, many FAQ's are flawed, but that doesn't mean they can't be done well, and they can't be very easy and helpful to the user. I've gone to sites with immediate and obvious questions that the FAQ answered for me in three seconds. Perfect experience. It's up to the company to understand what people need to know, and simplify the answers.
> "Another part is 'Should I be doing this?'"

Absolutely. I intentionally alluded to this but didn't enter into that discussion because I didn't want to draw from the point I was making, but it's just as valuable of a discussion to have.

> "Is my optimum potential competitive against my peers?"

I would say that your peers could only reasonably be defined as those people who have the same upper-bound of potential (optimum potential) as you. I'm not in the same optimum potential league as John Resig; both because I haven't worked as hard as he has up to this point (focused in the right areas) and because I don't have the same optimum potential (I would imagine). He and I are not peers in this sense, despite being peers across many other areas.

But if I interpreted the question of my success in terms of my self or my peers through the filter of that fact, I would do myself a great disservice. I can't live the life where he and I are peers and I can make changes in my life to compete with him. I can live in the life where I can make changes in my life that will affect my success compared to people in the same optimum potential as I am.

Besides that, despite the differences in optimum potential, I may still be able to reach the level he is at now after, say, twice as much work. In other words, his level is not unobtainable for me, I just have a lot further to run in the race.

And I, for one, welcome that challenge. Anyway, great point, thanks for making it!
AFAIR, "native" occlusion queries and conditional rendering are so prohibitively slow in D3D today that nobody uses them anyway.
Author of the article here. Thanks, and I agree with you. I have some disagreements with the way Ubuntu does things like this, and I'd prefer an RHEL clone (which, of course, has tradeoffs too).

That being said, I'm in the environment relatively recently and it's established, and I'm the one who has to learn to adapt since I don't see our infrastructure changing dramatically soon. Other than finally adding configuration management, that is.
For gtk at the moment the "main" language is becoming Vala, who is more... mh, trusted than mono and strongly more supported by all the gtk developers
The clearest evidence: Pelosi voted against it.

Lots of HN readers are in SF.

If you want to make a difference on the NSA spying, find a credible candidate to run in the primary against her and put a little money behind it.
(but it works amazingly, wonderfully well in those places where it does work).
the easiest answer I've come up with is that yes... WE have been doing this for quite some time. I have several devices I can push to including an HTPC that requires more finagiling than it should.

This takes those this us media geeks have been doing for years and empowers those that don't want to deal with the early adopter hassles and makes it just work.

Not to mention the end result is more attractive and usable.
Only if you are making an active effort to improve yourself.
Use ngmin, it converts into the ugly style.
https://github.com/btford/ngmin

There's also a grunt plugin.
https://github.com/btford/grunt-ngmin
Lot of truth and good POV here, zaroth
Sarah (blog author) was on The World at One on BBC Radio 4 this afternoon talking about language usage. Approx 40 mins in: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b037706m
Very good looking site! Congrats on launching. I had a thought though: if posting is free, what stops people from posting a job with an email address in it for candidates to contact them directly and circumvent your payment system? I noticed that there were some posts which did this already.
...or adapt the site so it's not bot friendly instead of raising prices just to punish people.
Running CyanogenMod nightly, because it's the closest I can get to open source: I love getting updates in the form of git SHA-1s every few days.

I wonder if upstream Android will ever take to a rolling-release approach.
I think the reason "push to open" doors have a handle is that if they didn't have one people wouldn't try to push it.
FAQs should never be written by the marketing department. They should be driven by the support staff.
U.S. pushes alliance with Indian elite, while mandating change
Author here. You're 99% correct. I'm historically an RHEL-based admin, who has started using Debian/Ubuntu for the first time (relatively, for about a year), but I totally get why these things are done. What I deeply disagree with is how they're done.

Why are there so many non-standard ways that a package can decide to not start? I really appreciate that the package maintainer is trying to do the right thing, but it's ridiculous that there isn't a way to do it - there's the Debian default and then there's whatever the packager thought up.

That's nuts, and needing to manage the same resource twice in puppet isn't a tragedy or big deal, but it's a symptom that something is wrong.
"We don't want to use common sense, we just want to have rules that anyone can blindly enforce."
the problem is that Vala is strongly linked with only gtk making impossible to use it with others ui libraries.
I was in a similiar situation a few years back, had to stop working due to the pain. Went to a loads of doctors, tried medication, fancy keyboards, changing chairs, improving postures, raising monitors, switching mouse arm etc. It all helped a little, but nothing solved it. 12-18 months of gym/pilates helped in the end, after gaining strength in my hands, wrists and arms I was able to go back to full time working again, without feeling pain.
Which university did you study at?
This is very awesome and super useful! When you rely heavily on Stripe events it can get out of control. Stripe needs a doc with real world scenarios and what events get called. I'm definitely going to try and port this to Python.
http://xkcd.com/833/
It's not clear to me that the opposition of the "Democratic establishment" in 2005 was so much the idea of wiretapping some Americans by the NSA, but the fact that it was done without warrants nor was it authorized under any existing law. It seems like Congress resolved most of that opposition in the 2008 version of FISA.

It's also worth pointing out that the warrantless wiretapping program of 2001-2005 and the current wiretapping authorized under 2008 FISA aren't really the same issue as what the Amash amendment yesterday would have defunded (the collection of phone metadata under section 215 of the Patriot Act). Greenwald is somewhat mixing the issues and reducing this to an issue of just "should the NSA be able to surveil Americans?".
Wow. This is inspiring. I've been programming for years, and don't think I'd be able to create something new every day for 180 days. Major props.
Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 (PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 13.04
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Is Xamarin moving away from the base mono-project? I mean it as an honest question, not a troll. The 3.2 release seems mostly aimed at mobile development and cutting off support for previous major versions (2.10 and 3.0). Further, there was never an official stable release of 3.0.

It's their choice if they want to and they've done great service for the community with what they've already done. But if they've changed directions I think they should come out and say it so current and potential future users of the platform know.
Did I miss something? I feel a bit inadequate as I didn't understand what this was revealing to me, but hey it's related to Pixar so all good.
Didn't downvote but from the article sounds like she knows what Google is.

"That problem really shows in search, where you will end up with duplicate results competing for attention. You are fighting with your own content. That can’t be efficient for you or for users.

"This is actually a problem GOV.UK is experiencing. The content in our support pages is now appearing in search, so we’re stripping away all of the support content we don’t need and making it easier for users to get straight to the things they’re looking for."
Antibiotic threat
Then the people will have to live with and hopefully learn from the consequences of their decisions.
> I'm not sure why you expected her to just enter with no problems.

Because it's the right thing to do? And because they knew she was coming, and had bought here a ticket?

Sorry, they were wrong. Simple as that.
We have a house with insulated ceilings (most of them in the UK do), so during hot spells, I open the attic/loft access panel as a way to draw warm air up out of the house and generally improve airflow.
Why? My impression is that it isn't used outside of intel.
It would seem the opposite, it does not even need the device to be on while it's streaming from what I've read.
Might want to host your guys' pictures on your own server.

Seems one of the images is bugging out atm.
I'll be impressed if it actually works.
Perhaps those in power simply need better (commercially disinterested, emotionally neutral) advisers for topics about which said politicians know nothing.
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Zach's talks are always so enjoyable and well put together. I wonder what he uses to build his slide decks -- he's certainly developed a very strong and unique visual style for himself.
Maybe none of these guys would have done what they've done.

Maybe they'd never even have been born, their parents being to lazy.

Maybe we'd never have evolved from being pretty comfortable monkeys sitting around - why would we have evolved to breed, to love sex, and to make babies at all? Babies are just competition to an immortal being.

Bottom line is, none of us would be around to mourn the passing of an apparently very nice person. RIP Ilya.
The quality of Udacity courses combined with an updated "Design of Everyday Things" plus Don Norman's direct involvement makes this course sound very attractive. The Udacity "Introduction to Computer Science" course by David Evans, by the way, is excellent. It is the one that I chose for by sons to take online this summer. I liked the balance it provided between pragmatic programming (Python exercises completed and evaluated in-browser) and CS fundamentals (BNF introduced in first lesson, for example). This new design course may have to be next on their list.
Problem is, with such high fees they have discouraged the adoption of all the students/starters/tester around the world.

Why corporation like microsoft are offering os, ides, tools and also devices free to develop to those categories of people? 'Cause if you make them learn maybe they will make/support the adoption of your platform in the professional field in which they will work.

This is why Xamarin fees are nonsense. It's ok to pay high fees in the professional field, but you must offer low fees for new entries. And not, indie costs (299*2/3) are not enough low, and the starter pack is just useless.
Yes, you're absolutely right; it seems it's too late to edit my original post though...
You don't really need the high density part, though. Let's take a small mill town I know as an example. The mill closed in 2000, and left half the town unemployed. Many of the people living there are still without full time jobs. They live in houses; how can they do that?

They either bought a house years earlier or it's because rent for an entire house is about $340 a month. Multiple people live in the house, so that cost is split. They can live there legally and without resorting to squatting.
Don Norman has just released a new version of this book – seems like a smart move to do a course.
If you use C-family languages?