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Junior Rails Developer at Magoosh - Berkeley, CA - Full-Time (http://magoosh.com/jobs/junior-rails-developer/)

We’re looking for a friendly programmer to join us in bringing affordable and high-quality online test prep to the world. You’ll work to expand and maintain Magoosh’s various applications on the web, Android, and iOS.

Our development philosophy is to ship early and iterate with student feedback. We have fun all the time, and meetings only when absolutely necessary. We’re a small company, so you’ll have plenty of freedom and responsibility. An interest in educational statistics, web applications, and startups will serve you well.

About you:
Experience shipping at least one web/mobile application
Strong problem-solving skills
High attention to detail
Software development best practices
1-2 years of experience with Ruby on Rails
A generalist programmer (front-end and back-end)

Why work at Magoosh?
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Magoosh prepares students for school. If you’ve ever wanted to teach students you’ve never met to read, to write, and to ‘rithmetic, Magoosh is the place. We’ve helped tens of thousands of students in over 150 countries prepare for colleges, graduate schools, and business schools.

Magoosh has been around for two years and is growing fast. We’ve grown from an idea to a business, from a single table to a small office, and from a handful of beta testers to thousands of customers. We need more excellent people to continue delivering teaching to the world.

Magoosh is a small team in Downtown Berkeley. Located by the UC Berkeley campus, we're a wisecracking bunch who eat out often. Do you like foosball, root beer floats, and word games? Come join us!
SEEKING WORK - NYC - Remote OK

Leknarf Labs a small NYC-based consultancy, specializing in providing flexible engineering resources to startups and small businesses. The idea is to provide the guaranteed availability you would receive from a salaried employee, but with the flexibility of a short-term contractor. In practice, that means we work full-time, exclusive to one client for short periods of time (usually one or two weeks). That minimizes your commitment, while still allowing you to work with the same individual as much as is necessary.

I just hired a second developer and am in the process of building out the company website, but the current version explains the concept: http://leknarflabs.com/.

Thanks!

andrew <at> leknarflabs <dot> com
I've had the FBI at my door twice in my life. In both cases they were dressed in plainclothes (business casual), showed their badges, and gave me their business cards after I refused to talk to them without a lawyer present (and never came back). No SWAT team, no brandishing of firearms (though they were armed). Scarily pleasant talk. (I don't remember what their cars were. Nice sedan I think, not SUV.)

"Hello XXXX, We're here to ask a few questions about XXXX and were wondering if we could come in for a few minutes and talk with you"

"I'd prefer not to talk to law enforcement without a lawyer present."

"It's only a few questions, we won't take up too much of your time"

Repeat with different niceties for awhile, no threats.

Then, "Okay, I'm Special Agent XXX and here's my card if you change your mind"

--

On the other hand I've been arrested twice by local cops for refusing to talk to them, often with a bit of, ermmm, physical persuasion involved.

FBI are the smooth talking salesmen of the law enforcement world, at least when they want you to cooperate with them and don't have anything on you. They aren't really in the business of running around and cracking heads like your local beat cops.

But this story was "just" a visit from local cops, local terrorism task force, I think
Having worked with the IHMC in the past, I recommend them highly. =)
See http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/01/new-york-police...

The Guardian says they confirmed that there was a visit, and were told that it was a local police force.

The Atlantic's headline was updated to reflect that.
I'm excited you're starting a journey. Make sure to pack ibuprofen.
Twitch - twitch.tv - San Francisco, CA.

Three years ago there was no "real" way to watch live gaming video online. Now we're the defacto and the likes of xbox and valve are realizing that and working very closely with us. This type of growth needs support!

Devops Engineers - We're scaling at an insane rate! 3mm MAU increase over the last couple of months, up from 2mm MAU a few months ago, which was up from 1mm MAU a few months prior to that! As such nearly every aspect of our stack is being revved, automated and improved. We're looking for people that never do things three times, it is always scripted and solid by then. Come help us build intelligent request routing into our infrastructure, help us get our server build and deploy process down to a work of beauty. Everything is up for grabs here for the right candidates.

Data Architects - Do you dream about large volumes of data? We have it! We're looking for engineers with tried and tested experience of modern storage mechanisms to help us scale out all data related things. Our vision is to have you build the platform for our stats guy (an absolute baller!) to go to town on. We want to build platforms that help us both with real time queries (recommendations for channels / vods, etc, to watch) and longer bulk queries (cohort analysis).

Interested in either? Want to know more? Email me, Mike Ossareh, Director of Engineering: ossareh@twitch.tv
That's a good point, but as mentioned, if one really wants to get in, there are easier ways than to hack the door. A crossbar to the door is cheaper and demands less effort.

The EMP is a nice thought, I think it would render the electronic boards completely useless as it do to any other digital device. Actually there are/were studies of EMP bombs to be blown over cities that would wreck every single electronic device, even cars. I believe the major problem would be pranksters, either online or offline. Someone might be able to hack into their servers and unlock all doors just because he can.

Anyway, regular old-fashioned keys are something that needed improvement for a long time. Afterall the technology hasn't changed much in over 300 years, so I think it's nice to see some fresh thoughts on this subject.
Before reading the article I'm pretty sure that you're right.
Did you read the Guardian report?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/01/new-york-police...

Members of what she described as a "joint terrorism task
force" descended on Catalano's home on Wednesday. A spokesman
for the FBI told to the Guardian on Thursday that its
investigators were not involved in the visit, but that "she
was visited by Nassau County police department … They were
working in conjunction with Suffolk County police
department."
Was the same level of skepticism shown when the government claimed that Snowden was lying? Why not?

Uh, didn't really give me a chance to answer there, did you?

I would say that the vast majority of people were skeptical of government claims that Snowden was lying. So the rest of your post is describing a situation that I did not witness.
Bankrupt By Beanies - One family's $100000 obsession with Beanie Babies
There's a hardware/robotics company making these (cheap) sophisticated devices available for pressure-sensing applications (like robot fingers) : http://www.takktile.com/tutorial:takkstrip . It's another example of mobile phone tech dribbling down to the 'amateur maker' (albeit at an elevated price-point compared to the per-chip cost).
The second could be true, if the local police where deputized by the feds like they are when the act as part of the JTTF.
On Hiring Intangibles
Yes. Drop me a line at david.underwood@shopify.com
Who said it was suspicionless? That's just the author's assertion. They could have been targeted for some other reason (the frequent overseas travel for example) and then the searches came up when they were already being targeted.

Does that make it better?
test: can I post?

Without some fucker validating my post?
That's just an indication of how much TAW is milking this story for all of its shock effect before the facts are fully established.

Besides, in the original article, she said the guns were holstered when they were talking to her husband and from the tone, they were cordial and shook his hand before they left. Hardly a "raid".
Seriously? How could anybody doubt that their journalists would perform due-diligence?

These are their most-clicked stories this hour:

Google 'Pressure Cookers' and 'Backpacks,' Get a Visit from the Cops

So, You Want to Hide from the NSA? Your Guide to the Nearly Impossible

The World's Most Homoerotic Homophobes Are Now Mounting a Giant Pole in Tiny Pink Shorts

Fox News Is Rushing to Defend Its Reza Aslan Interview

China Owes U.S. Movie Studios At Least $120 Million

For a Split GOP, 2016 Can't Come Soon Enough

Taylor Swift Knows a Secret

Welcome to the Homeland, Mexico and Canada!

Don't Say Hillary Clinton Is Running for President

Netflix Has Made It Easier Than Ever to Share Accounts
This product makes it possible for restaurants and wine snobs with large collections to serve high end wines by the glass. Not for the average under $20 bottle wine drinker.
she's been very successful due to her good looks in a 90% nerdy male profession
The original WaPo/Guardian articles on PRISM are a good start, and I think one of the followup NYT articles was even more specific about how the NSA manages to capture information from domestic providers even though they're legally not allowed to intercept domestically.

Instead they have FBI install data collection devices, have the FBI runs NSLs/warrants as needed, etc. NSA just does the spook work after all that is done.
Nay, I can't.

Fuck you.
Well my primary concern was the garbage and pollution, such as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. If we really found a way to cut our garbage down to 4%, that's pretty incredible ... of course if we start generating 25x more garbage to begin with then it will negate that.
Nathan Youngman's document is a good summary. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_IJTRD6dDQvyCfyim4KJexq8...

There are many threads on the mail list. There was probably one this week :).
Why couldn't we simply flood the systems being tracked with more noise thus reducing signal to noise ratio. This sort of thing could be simply thwarted by a system of bots creating a large number of false positives. Any ideas?
Digirettes - A next generation "e-Cig" to lead the smoke free revolution
On reddit, I often see comments about upcoming games that really strike me as astroturfing... It's mainly that it makes so much sense for manufacturers to do this (word of mouth is more compelling than "advertising"), that I can't imagine them not doing it. So when a post is just emptily positive in a generic way ("Really looking forward to this!"), with no content to suggest it's not astroturfing, I assume it is.

I think one way it can be given away is not from an individual comment, but in the context of all the comments on that story. But if it's done well, it's impossible to distinguish.
Culture is at least 2x more important than you ever think it is. Especially when hiring. I love this, Thank you Rich.
I'm not sure I'd call it controversial, but it is definitely a small annoyance because of muscle memory.

Anyway, in the grand scheme of things this is really insignificant :) The fact that PEP8 exists at all is just one of the things making Python great!
February has 28 days - 29 in a leap year.
Google asked me to remove Glass ... at Google event
“Name another Internet giant that went through three years of decline and then started to grow again,”

This captures the difficulty of their situation. If she turns it around, she'll be one of the Valley's great CEOs.

"most recently, it languished under Carol Bartz and Scott Thompson as a dot-com relic known mostly for losing its top talent to competitors."

When top talent choose to join Yahoo instead of Google, Facebook and Twitter, that will be a sign that things have changed. This doesn't count acquihires.
US code is legislation/regulation. Case law of course would still exist even with minimal regulation, but absent byzantine network of legislation/regulation, it will be less complex, since less factors will be involved in the lawmaking. If you do not regulate how big soda cups must be to be able to be sold in a retail establishment, you do not need case law that defines what "sold in retail establishment" means, what "soda cup" means and is selling two small cups the same as selling a large one and what happens if two small cups look exactly like one big cup with a wedge in the middle. And so on. Congress creates over 50 federal crimes now each year, this makes the system more and more complicated every day, with bad consequences for everybody except lawyers that get to earn tons of money on navigating this insane labyrinth.
This demo had some of the best pacing and flow in the demo scene. Such a classic! It's great to see it open sourced.
What is the proper way to encode the quotes? I'm playing around with writing a Livejournal data dump reader and will have to do the quote dance pretty soon. In LJ files they are encoded like so:

col1,col2,col3,"Longer data and somethin ""with"" quotes",col5
I didn't see a jobs section on that page. Who would you like us to contact or should we fake our way through the contact us form?
Most of this is not astroturfing.
> "I'm merely participating in the peanut gallery of comments."

Please participate only if you have value to add.
I looked at this today and took a lab, seems very helpful. There are a few labs right now there, I hope they have more soon and then I can take some of the complex labs.
Welcome to the USSA, comrade.
What does Google or Bing get visited because they crawled those urls?
Sorry, didn't see this before I posted but this was exactly my though, yet done on a much larger scale with the assistance of bots.
These dudes are legit and they have interesting engineering problems.
Not bad for beer lovers. I like that it lists the beers each brewery makes. Since it already seems to be pulling the info from a site like beeradvocate, I'd love to see them integrate the ratings for each brewery and beer, too.
I have similar problems building Go apps for internal use. My solution so far is to use per-project $GOPATH and `git subtree` to manage the whole $GOPATH as a single repository.

The primary benefit of doing so is build repeatability: any dev can `git clone` the repo and build the app successfully after setting the $GOPATH to the repo directory. Changes in external dependencies have no affect on us until we manually incorporate them into our repo via `git subtree`. There is no need to `go get` and we avoid its associated problems (e.g. versioning, availability of remote repos, etc).
> i.e. most people don't consider the police an armed gang

Give it another few years of militarizing the police force. Government-funded vigilantes with an uniform and a pack of laws to protect them from the consequences of their own abuse is a recipe for succes, tried and tested from China to South America.
This looks fantastic, but it doesn't give me any reference as to which month I'm actually looking at.... i.e. I drag the frame so that the 1st is a Saturday, but what month in what year am I looking at? Will the 1st of July 2015 be a Saturday, I have no idea from this.
One last thing, doors and conventional deadbolts locks are not very secure on their on. Lockpicks can easily open a single cylinder lock (well, I did it for fun). So, in my opinion, smart locks actually give you another superficial security layer, but, what's most important, they add convenience, which is a much more intangible asset.
All our green buses here in the south of Sweden (Scania/Skåne) run on biological waste. There are big campaigns for getting more food and having people separate food and biological waste in their trash.
It seems like they might like CompCert. An optimizing C compiler that comes with a formal proof of correctness. Downsides: GPL, doesn't quite implement the full C language (but it's getting closer), and no support for ancient crap such as m88k.

EDIT: I misunderstood the license file, the majority of the code is non-commercial-use only, only a small part is dual-licensed. Still a cool project, even if it's not open source...
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -Einstein

We are failing to communicate here. Did you watch Bret Victor's from yesterday? I’ll do my best to explain.
I said I agreed with most of your critiques on visual programming, it's your assertion that we've tried it all and just have to deal with the complexity that I was referring to. Einstein’s refusal to accept status quo, led him to that beautiful, simple equation. I was not saying that visual programming is or is not that solution. I was questioning your dismissal of it at this stage.

My 2nd point about the 3d Minory Report UI was a whimsical example of being open minded towards technology. Which is why I said "Like what if" I was trying to demonstrate a creative solution to the problem by combining it with an outside tech. I doubt it is a viable solution. On second thought, programming with a Leap Motion controller on an Oculus Rift display sounds very cool, but of course google beat me to it in the 2013 I/O.

> It's like saying -- what if the problem with understanding French is that we need better visual representations of French?

Of course, every field takes training, but some representations do have steeper learning curves. I started off learning simplified Chinese. After I changed representations to pinyin, I was able to learn words about 5-10x faster. So I don't see how your analogy holds with natural languages.

> Likewise, if I presented you with a perfect 3D model....

If you describe it in words or show me a flow chart, I will pick up the flow chart much faster. Machine code, not so fast. NoFlo does not limit you to the visual editor. You can also use FBP text language if you desire.

> But I also have enough experience with many, many codebases and have spent years learning techniques for simplifying and expressing complex domain problems. And the class of visual representation of those domains, of which NoFlo is just one more iteration, has very limited utility in that regard.

"The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you're doing." -Bret Victor

I don't know how much experience you really have with FBP like NoFlo. I have done some programming in LabVIEW, and I found it much easier to reason about concurrency than thread based languages. You may think it's a waste of time with its "limited utility" but I'm with MZT on this one, "Let a hundred flowers bloom"
And your favorite?
Thank you!

I really think the fact that Sweden is 30 time smaller than the US is a significant aspect of the problem, which ought to be highlighted a bit more when doing a comparison between these two countries on their energy models.

How hard would it be for the US to implement such solution (assuming the cost would not be as prohibitive as it is compared with nuclear energy), first in a large city like NY (or LA) as a test bed? Maybe something like that already exist in the States?
Whatever you do, don't move him to the DEV group.
For a long time I did not even knew how to pronounce Hélder.

The thing is Dutch...

I am Hélder because of my father.

He is Hélder, because of the priest "Dom Hélder Câmara" (my Grandma was very Catholic)

Dom Hélder Câmara was named after the city of Den Helder in the Netherlands: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den_Helder

The result is kinda wonky (lots of people write it wrong, usually "Elder" that of course resulted into video game savy friends nicknaming me "Mr. Scrolls")
Shin-Etsu On Verge Of Breakthrough In Smartphone Battery Life
And that is not the only example.
What "boatload of fucked up shit" are you referring to? Why do so many negative comments pop up about him all the time? Either I'm missing something or it's just ultra-liberals complaining about the conservatism in the country.
Yeah, and that's how we used to direct customers who wanted upload CSV data. We even wrote some nice tutorials on how to set it up

https://chartio.com/education/databases/excel-to-mysql

But we found that many people either aren't technical enough, or didn't want to go through the hassle of setting up a MySQL instance, defining a schema, and cleaning the data. So now we do that for them.
This is tin-foil hat territory. The CIA was practically dismantled under Bush 43, and the intelligence agencies fight amongst one another like boisterous stepbrothers. To think the intelligence agencies control the government is vastly overestimating their internal political cohesion and capability.

The IC isn't running the government. They've got their hands full just running themselves.

The idea that we are not free is absurd. If I want to hold a rally for the Ku Klux Klan, that activity will be protected by the full force and power of the United States government. I can worship as I wish, read the books I choose, and write whatever I want (excepting direct threats of violence) with little fear, knowing that laws and courts stand ready to vindicate my rights.

I would take our extensive package of rights over single party political control, strongman leadership, civil law jurisdictions, and common law libel standards any day.

We are certainly no longer the most free nation on the planet, which saddens me deeply. But we are certainly amongst the best on that metric.
Public opinion may be shifting, at last, against government intrusiveness
This thread is not for recruiters.

Downvote.
jpap, this is the best HN thread I've seen in a while. I never comment, but I'm compelled to now, because it's not often I see a hack this mesmerizing and exciting. For a moment, I almost wanted to drop everything and dive into JPEG myself, something I don't think I've felt since reading about John Carmack and his game engine hacks. Even though I understand <10% of the details being discussed, I'm compelled to learn more. Thanks, jpap. :)
Yes. This will make it confusing.
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Hotmail was a joke :) But almost all browsers try HTTP before they try HTTPS, which is where the attack commonly comes in (or you intercept their primary request, or sslstrip, etc). Exceptions are if they're Chrome and have a whitelisted set of URLs, or support HSTS, or explicitly specified by the user or a bookmark.

The point is, the attack is there and it works, even if it doesn't work in 100% of cases.
Very true.

Growing up I was far more scared of the police than anyone else in what was not a very nice area.

This wasn't cultural conditioning either.

It was the experience of being routinely stopped, questioned, accused, intimidated and occasionally humiliated by being made to partially disrobe. It makes for a terrible feeling of powerlessness when someone else can do whatever they want to you at any time and any effort to avoid much less rebuke the situation will only make it worse.

At least one friend of mine from that time is now a police officer. His experience has only confirmed the prevalence of this ugly "at war" mentality in in law enforcement.
"1984 Day": Anti-NSA Rallies Are Coming to a City Near You
Police tracked down the Boston Bombers SUV they stole almost immediately by using the drivers cell phone.

I'm curious why is this never used in property theft retrieval for phones and only for cases police deem necessary?
Actually, the story is that the government knew they googled for pressure cookers and backpacks. That must mean there's a tool that someone can type your name into and get a list of everything you've searched for online.