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Silverback Marketing

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Strong grasp of Google Analytics and other web analytics platforms (i.e. Omniture)

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Advanced understanding of Excel

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Oh yeah, these drop boxes piss me off, specially because here in Brazil there is BOTH Junior and Filho... And I am Filho, not Junior.

(also we have "Neto" that means Grandson, it is quite popular, I know a bunch of guys like that, I don't think dro down boxes in other countries will expect that)
>this only shows you don't understand what PRISM is. (Hint: it's not used by local cops

You're making two big assumptions here:

1. PRISM is the only secret program with access to web browsing data.

2. People with access to PRISM and similar programs can't pass low-priority leads to local cops.
Maybe not and maybe yes?? What a stupid title.

Accurate. The word you are looking for is accurate. At the current time, we don't know why they visited her house for sure.

We don't know that she was asked about pressure cookers because she googled them. That's inference, not fact.
gcc does have a huge test suite.

The problem is if you combine all the various flags that affect the compiler, across all the architectures, across all the platforms, in all its variants (cross compiler, native, the many handful of libc and barebones variants) you're looking at too many tests to run no matter how huge an infrastructure you have to run it.

Another problem is that optimization depends a lot of context, given the amount(basically infinity) of C code that could surround any other piece of C code and affect the result - it's quite a hard task.

One interesting approach is csmith ,http://embed.cs.utah.edu/csmith/, that generates random C programs and look for bugs.
Or just use 3 digits for the day.
Almost, but the last one should be:

Unless the year is also divisible by 400, when it's back to 29.
This is my situation as well. I can't count the number of times I've gotten the "Redward" equivalent.

To compound the problems caused by this, I switched to using my first name as my primary name around the same time as I switched coast. People on the east coast know me as my middle name, people from the west coast know me as my first name. This can come in handy sometimes as it gives me a very quick indication of where I know somebody from, but gave me a good deal of trouble recently at a west-coast wedding with lots of east-coast people attending... The fact that some of my friends were introducing me to other people with just my last name made it quite... interesting.
Charlie's TaskPoster hired someone's time to perform a task he could have done himself.

These scalpers are making it impossible for anyone to book a Genius Bar appointment without paying them.

Consuming a shared resource just to sell it at a profit is completely different from acting as an agent of someone else.
So, the news needs to be hysterical to make up for people's lack of hysterics?

Going to have to disagree with you on that one.
San Francisco; REMOTE possible.

We help publishers of all sizes make more money by showing readers great recommendations of more things to read (both related and not). We've got cool clients, the most innovative product in the space and we're poised for big growth in the next few months.

Things we don't do: crappy outbound traffic arbitrage links.

We build products that are good for publishers, writers and readers. That's in our DNA.

We're lean and nimble; have an awesome roadmap full of fun tech challenges; and looking to find the right person to lead our tech team. The stack? Currently, PHP, Nginx, Apache, Memecache, MySQL, jQuery, a dash of PostGRES. Future? Likely some Python, maybe Go, maybe Redis, maybe some NodeJS. Whatever makes sense.

There will be some machine learning stuff, some big data, some UX challenges, etc. The ideal person is someone who is passionate about making online publishing better; who has track record of leading teams to ship quickly without burnout; and who wants to learn more - but doesn't make stack decisions based on the cool new tool they want to learn.

http://contextly.com/jobs/

What we offer: a fun challenge working on a product used by millions daily, great co-workers, significant equity.

There's no timeframe on the hiring, so if it's something that sounds good for 3 months from now, drop us a line.

Put CTO in the subject line and tell us a bit about yourself. info@contextly.com.
Humans are set up to see differences visually when they see patterns. If the way that lines wrap depends on the width of your window, then it becomes hard to match up the output visually from windows of different widths.

An example: I type "git diff" into one window, and look for some particular change area in my editor in a different window. If the wrap and alignments depend on the widths of my windows, then they won't match unless the widths of my windows also match. And if I have to make them match, then the original ideal of "make your window however wide you want and it'll just look right" is defeated.
It seems to me that Peter Norvig is attacking personally the readers who didn't like SICP (in the lines of "if you didn't like SICP, you're just not a creative person").

Also, he is flawed when saying that only about 1 person out of 50 should like this book (the proportion of people who have "this strange way of thinking that makes a programmer"), since the largest part of the people exposed to SICP are programmers, or at the very least interested in computer science.

Disclaimer: I have lots of respect for Norvig and think his PAIP is awesome.
The editor wrapping the line does not actually change the whitespace though. It is a presentation change only.
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I am as much at home styling on the frontend as I am data modeling on the backend. I can also host your site on my Linode if you want.

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There's more than one claim going on here. But I agree with you that that is the most significant one and that it isn't proven.
Wanted to include my editorializing... but yea, should've been a comment.
I just graduated high school (2 months ago) and got a few offers right after I graduated.

I'm currently doing a summer internship in Silicon Valley and plan on staying here for at least a year and improve my skills as a designer.

I've been offered a few great full time offers already, but still exploring my paths to make sure whichever decision I make, is the right one.

I plan on going to college (that's definitely something I want to do), but I'm on the same boat right now, and want to take advantage of the offers on the table right now that might not be there after I get out of college.

Any advice for me?
With tab separated values this is not a big problem in practice. On the other hand, you can sort tsv, but you can't sort quoted csv.
Thanks for the insights! Yeah, someone told me it's not that bad but I'd rather stay away from the whole Microsoft stack.
Exactly. This article doesn't explain why they questioned her specifically about pressure cookers.
The 20 Startups Marissa Mayer Acquired at Yahoo
I've tried doing this several times myself recently.

Basically, I start out saying that it is frontend, backend and database (i.e. both what you see on your computer and what is going on at "the server" as well as the database), that it is all written in JavaScript (of course many people confuse JavaScript with Java so this can sidetrack a bit), and that it is realtime (i.e. if I update something on my computer and you go to the same site, you can see that update right away.)

Also, I might state that it is cool how you can easily deploy a test site (via the 'meteor deploy' command) and that I have found it to be one of the easiest ways to get a location-based program working thanks to the previously-mentioned easy deployment and its integration with MongoDB which offers spatial indexing.

Alternatively, you can look at how Meteor explains it themselves: http://www.meteor.com/
A couple of counterexamples. Moscow used to have plenty of homeless people (not sure how it is these days) despite harsh winters. New Zealand has very few, despite similar weather conditions to SF.

While it's probably true that SF has more homeless due to migration, I don't think it's the root cause. You really have to look at the societal structure, government support and so on for the causes.
You say that as if I was conspiratorially doubting the fact that you are working on another story.

Poor diversion from M.L. Hunt's point that as a professional journalist you should certainly recognize that there is nothing in your rhetoric that somehow undermines the original claims of an internet search possibly triggering a police visit. You are just fanning the smoke into another direction, for what purpose I don't know. As you mentioned already, shouldn't you be writing another article instead of spending time posting and responding to comments on a story you have absolutely no relevant information about?
MongoDB: Building Your First App
Sweden has cut services and taxes more than any other western country in the past decade.

They still have some of the highest taxes in the world and an extensive welfare state.
I just signed up. Can't wait to see more of this!
For all we know, the FBI knew about it because so many people called them up to ask about it that they figured they'd call the local PD and ask them about it.

I don't think I'm being unreasonable in trusting the author that the officers said they were with the Joint Terrorism Task Force

From this WaPo article http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/01... :

“They were officers from the Nassau County Police Department who identified themselves as such,”

You might, justifiably, be suspicious of the police account. But all we have to go on are two contradicting accounts. Why not wait until we have some actual evidence?
Ask HN: What is today the best team to raise funds in the Silicon Valley?
When you meet Angels, VCs who should you bring to make a good impression? Tech guys, business guys? What's the secret sauce? :)
Very true. I'm just glad I wasn't on my motorcycle. I've been rear-ended three times in my life (car all three times). It doesn't matter how defensively you drive, -you can't eliminate all of the risk from other drivers.
That was a nice video demonstrating how the hood of modern cars are designed to crumple upon impact to save the driver.
I can and will pass judgement, because I've been watching this mess develop for the last 20 years, the consequences are clear, and it's only getting worse. When I say "clearly harmful" I mean that it is as clearly harmful as anything ever gets in the software industry.

Software patents are good for lawyers. Software patents are good for monopolists who want to control a market without having to compete for it.

Software patents are not good for software developers, who are frequently prohibited from reading patents by their employers, rarely read patents even when allowed to, in any case don't speak the legal language in which they are written.

Software patents are not good for startups, who have no way of discovering whether they are in violation of patents short of going to market and seeing whether they are sued; a lawsuit can easily bankrupt a startup regardless of the merits.

Software patents are not good for large companies, who have to waste enormous amounts of their employees' time making up bullshit patents just so they can have an arsenal of defensive patents with which to ward off other large companies.

Software patents are not good for open source, which neither needs nor wants the temporary monopoly that is the point of getting a patent in the first place.

Software patents are not good for software users, who suffer from reduced marketplace competition, increased vendor lock-in, and a more sluggish pace of progress overall due to the opportunity cost of the time wasted on patenting things and dealing with bullshit patent lawsuits.

Software patents are clearly harmful.
>In the corporate world, you're not ever the only guy on call, so you only get woken up for a week.

oh man. the /worst/ pager I've ever been on, by far, was at a fortune 1000 in the mid to late 2000s.

Yeah, it was only one week out of four (seven days, not five,) and only 12 hours a day. When I heard that during the interview, my response was something like "Twelve hours? I can do that standing on my head"

I mean, the thing you have to understand is that the pages that really hurt are the ones that come when you are tired already, right before you are planning on sleeping... you are most likely to mess things up then, and it interferes with your sleep, which means you are more likely to screw things up the next day. So limiting it to 12 hours is pretty goddamn nice. You have 12 hours that you can sleep, which sounds super easy.

So yeah, I've been on 24x7x365 pager for more of my life than I haven't... but the worst pager I've ever been on was only 12 hours a day for 7 days a month... why?

For most of my career? the pages that actually wake me up have a frequency between once every month or two and twice a week. Sometimes it gets worse, but then you look at what the root causes are, you fix them, and it gets better.

At this place, though? during that 12 hour shift, there was a serious (like 'fix this now or we lose tens of thousands of dollars an hour in revenue serious) issue every 30 minutes. Most of it was not technically difficult, but you had better be fast.

Essentially, you'd work one 84 hour week out of four. And actually work those 84 hours; like literally you had to find someone to cover for you when you had to take a shit; (or you just bring your laptop) it was that bad. (On top of that, then you had your usual architectural responsibilities... but realistically, you didn't get any of that done during pager week, and you were usually pretty useless for the next week or two. This is one of the reasons we didn't have more of it automated.)

so yeah. In corporate land, yeah, you usually get shifts... but if someone fucks it up in corporate land? (In this case, there was... cultural pushback against automating the failures. We were supposed to diagnose hardware problems as we went. Hahah. Yeah right.) things can get really nasty, really fast.
Posting a link for a Facebook post that also requires login? Seriously?
The police do what 100 time a week? Go to random houses and ask odd pressure cooker bomb related questions?

Evidently in Boston they do.

I agree completely, the goal is to verify the claims, and thankfully someone is trying to: http://twitter.com/kashhill
"Rhinehart has five dietitians and medical professionals who work with the company on an advisory basis."
Posting a link for a Facebook post that also requires login (at least on my mobile)? Seriously?
Professionals!? You mean the guys who refuse to record interviews with suspects? Now what reason could they possibly have for refusing to record an interview...
Hmm? It shouldn't require login. I'll repost.
Does that permit private distilling? I thought having a still with intent was still illegal throughout the US.
Can't say I experience this problem, the highlighting of relevant lines takes care of this. Human eyes are terrible at tracking across long lines of text without jumping up or down a line (this is why splitting text into columns is common in large books). On the other hand jumping between regions of color is easy.

Furthermore, I don't think this is true: "And if I have to make them match, then the original ideal of "make your window however wide you want and it'll just look right" is defeated." Being able to resize both, with the constraint that they must both be kept in sync (which to be clear, I don't consider necessary), is better than the alternative: no effective resizing at all.

You should probably look into integrating git-diff with your editor though (use git-difftool).
I honestly believe this is going to be a huge success (with the right marketing). It seems to be a snake-oil-wonder-tonic that actually isn't. It's astonishing how non-obvious it apparently is to a lot of companies that making a _good_ product is a good way to build a company.

McDonalds etcetara jumps through countless marketing hoops to assure everyone their products are healthy, instead of just making something that is actually healthy. I mean, they must know what this 24-year-old knows. There's no secret to Soylents apparent succes but good dietary research.

Maybe my pondering will be answered once Soylent starts adding lots of fat, sugar and strawberry flavours to save some nickles. McDonalds probably started out with good intentions as well.
Yale Covers for Rapists
Reposted with original link.

This is jaw-droppingly offensive and contributes to an unmistakable pattern of deception and avoidance that makes it damn near impossible for me to conclude that Yale today is anything but a vilely misogynistic, self-regarding institution utterly lacking in moral compass. If the Yale community wishes to restore the good name of a once great American institution, it should demand the immediate resignation of the current leadership. It has been on their watch (as well as that of their immediate predecessors) that rape and sexual assault have been so thoroughly trivialized, so it is high time they are held to account.
In fact there were seat belts and three point seat belts slightly before, even one patented in the mid fifties in USA. But there was a lot of variation. The early ones did not have reels, but what was the latch like? Do you adjust near the top or near the lap? Are there two buckles or one? In fact Volvo went through three pretty different styles before adopting the more modern sort that spool - the one in the image, the one right after that in the later PVs, 120, and 220 series that had the red levers, and the one in 140 and later Amazons with the hoops. So it was sort of a moot point really. Auto manufacturers would not have much trouble at all to come-up with their own three point belts that were different enough, and really they were all pretty different than those Volvo style front ones, some early Mercedes ones were similar in latch but different in many respects too. What was unique about Volvo was that they had a study to see if they were efficacious and how quickly they adopted them because of the leadership and goals of the company at the time. Their promise that this was an open patent could be seen as part of that.

/edit: full disclosure, happy Volvo owner: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-rasUCODYVHc/UHQj2hJsoDI/A...
That makes them sound even more professional, if you consider it in their professional interest to cover their tracks.
I Almost Dropped Out Of School
The problem with that example (and that whole line of thinking) is that the $1 billion they put into research was a gamble in the first place and didn't actually give them any pricing power because it has nothing to do with the demand for that product. Why should we care? Knowing the current market it's actually way more likely that that the product flops completely and the $1 billion goes completely to waste. But now because of patents they get to stay in business to repeat this mistake again because they can just extort licensing fees from other companies who want to actually improve this idea and make it marketable. It just doesn't make any sense from any perspective. Demand should be what drives R&D, not profit. When profit drives research that's all you'll get: companies with no products hoarding research (i.e. patents) and just sitting around suing people.
San Francisco. H1B transfers welcome. Software Engineer for our Crawlers/ Spiders team at LOOKOUT.

Assembling the world’s largest and most comprehensive data set about mobile applications starts with discovery and acquisition of those apps. As part of the Acquisition team you will contribute to the infrastructure that feeds the mobile threat network. You will build highly scalable crawlers that scour the web for mobile apps, and highly scalable services that accept data directly from mobile endpoints themselves. You will own a key part of the platform that feeds Lookout’s Mobile Threat Network.

Desired qualities:
You think at scale, and with high availability.
You’re excited about building out world-class crawler infrastructure.
You love to pull apart sites and protocols, figure out what makes them tick, and write libraries to emulate their protocols.
You are a strong software engineer, thinking in frameworks and clean interfaces.
You enjoy coming up with creative solutions to solve challenging and intricate problems that may well live inside of a black box.

Toys
Ruby, Resque, Wireshark

Apply here: https://www.lookout.com/about/careers/detail?jvi=oIbNWfwm
Great illustration of the modern safety engineering we read so much about.

I defy anybody not to cringe hard at that first cut of the Bel Air's cabin disintegrating on impact. Scary stuff.
God, what a terrible idea. That would exclude Man Ray, Sir Thomas More, Murray Head, Tex Avery, Kimiko Date, Rollie Fingers, James Last, and even Steve Jobs!