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Levels Beyond, Inc. - Denver, CO - Full Time (http://levelsbeyond.com)

Job Title: Developer/Senior Developer

About Us
Levels Beyond is a disruptive player in the new Video Ecosystem, providing products and solutions built on the Reach Engine platform. Reach Engine is powering the largest video libraries and distribution networks in the world, connecting content owners and creators with the devices and platforms their consumers demand.

About the Position
You'll have the ability to leverage your Flex development experience to support our engaging user interfaces. On the UI side, you have a good working knowledge of and expertise in Flex while being willing and able to support some of our HTML5 development work. Doing this well, you will be part of our team, propelling the future of video forward, integrating with best of breed partner tools and APIs, and exposing our industry-leading video management and delivery software to the cloud.

We are looking for you if…
You are a polyglot. Some of our best developers believe this personal definition fits what we do at Levels Beyond. You like working with the latest technologies. You like to have the opportunity to take ambiguous requirements, break the problem down into understandable segments and get the job done for the customer. You have a willingness and ability to challenge our status quo while recognizing our path. In other words, you possess a blend of confidence and humility.

Your Skills and Credentials
* Flex 4 / ActionScript 3
* Ability to support HTML5 development efforts
* Relational DB knowledge, can read/write/modify moderately complex SQL
* RESTful web service creation / consumption
* Ability to interface with clients from top-tier companies
* 4-7 years of experience

Nice To Have / Desire to Learn
* Java application development
* Experience with an ORM framework
* NoSQL (Mongo, Cassandra, ect.)
* Knowledge of the RobotLegs framework
* Experience working in an Agile environment with daily Scrums
* B.S. in Computer Science or a related degree. (preferred, not required)

Our Work Environment
* Horizontally mobile
* Less hierarchy-more unity
* Driven toward strong ownership
* Intensity to solve problems for clients
* Political free zone
* Autonomy
* You recommend, we listen, you implement
* Peer and personal responsibility
* Food and drink abound
* Work hard/play hard - Hackathons and Company Happy Hours
* Downtown Denver in RiNo

The Perks
* 3 weeks vacation
* 10 paid holidays
* New Macbook Pro, external monitors, ect.
* Health, Dental, Vision...what you would expect
* Huge opportunity for career growth!

Please contact Bill Forgione <bill@levelsbeyond.com> to learn more.
So do I, but mostly because i'd like to deploy it on my own private server. I'm a bit paranoid when it comes to my data.
The problem is that IFTTT doesn't have a clear business model either. Like with Pipes, you go in, setup a few recipes and then log out, possibly for months. There's nowhere to show ads on, and it doesn't seem compelling enough to get individuals to pay for it.
In search of Mike Gimbel, the Moneyball revolution's forgotten man
Bank of America cuts check for couple in mistaken foreclosure case (2011)
So You Want To Pick Someone's Brains? Do It Right.
No, it works like GP described - whether something smells bad or pleasant, if you're near it long enough (few minutes tops), you stop to perceive it. The brain just ignores the signal.
Love that God is an Astronaut! Awesome.
I use a combination of Hetzner and AWS.

AWS - RDS, EMR and S3
Hetzner - Crawling and CPU intensive computing

In the early days AWS allowed us to spin a crazy amount of machines up with basically no capital outlay.

Depending on your status... AWS, Rackspace and Softlayer would more than likely throw some $$ your way to play with. That could set you on your way for a couple of months.
What about https://www.focusatwill.com/ ?

or not really music but a coffee shop sound : http://coffitivity.com/
I bow to your manifestly superior entrepreneurial prowess. Obviously, I am too stupid to know how lame Macs are. That explains why my company has maintained a paltry year-to-year growth rate of not less than 50% for the last 15 years.

Oh, and for the record: "Am I bovvered? Look at my face. Am I bovvered though?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7lcm7Vp_p0
I think fundamentally, a million dollars a year is just not enough cash for this kind of venture. All hardware is expensive. High performance hardware with an innate chance of failing (rockets, submarines, airplanes) is even more expense. Sales to the government are expensive and SLOW. If you are doing both gov't + hardware, it's going to take some big bucks for relatively low reward. There is a reason few have really "disrupted" one of the major defense contractors. SpaceX is the closest, but even then, that's only 1 of many different products the major defense contractors are building.
I would be extremely interested on seeing both the GO client and the redis instance
This judge has judged the case on it's real merits, that it's all about extorsion, maybe it's allowed in the US to extort people but in most European coutries it's a nono.
If you live in a police state where everyone you know is being spied on my the government, that's sounds kinda sucky.
> Perhaps... body heat?

well, mosquitos (which carry disease) are attracted to carbon dioxide.
He most definitely is an American now. Otherwise he would be deported by now.
Fortunately, the author is right here to say you're incorrect. The article cited and linked to federal law with the PR/TT definition of metadata. It gave examples of header fields the FBI is asking for. It linked to and excerpted from original DOJ FCC documents offering additional examples of what the government believes to be valid metadata. It linked to and excerpted from a DOJ manual that spends about four pages talking about what's metadata or not. The author even posted a court opinion elaborating on what's metadata: https://plus.google.com/u/0/112961607570158342254/posts/9Cu7...

But clearly the author is just "speculating!" Sigh. I fear for the future of the republic.
Well, maybe not:

http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/a_big_mac_miss_by_the_huffingt....
Perhaps I'm being overly pedantic, but in my mind "showed" and "appeared to show" mean very different things.
Speaking of What-if, it now makes sense that he did the questions about what it would be like if the oceans of Earth were drained [0], and what it would look like on Mars if suddenly water were added and oceans (an ocean) formed [1].

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[0] http://what-if.xkcd.com/53/

[1] http://what-if.xkcd.com/54/
Good point, they should have made that distinction in the article.
I know people who cannot smell (anymore) and they are not happy with it at all. Be careful for what you wish. :-)

For example, smell can alert you (of gas, of glycerin vs. water in a can, food burning during cooking, etc.). Further, it's not only that food doesn't taste as good, you either have to force yourself to eat (enough), or you eat too much, because the experience is more shallow than you were used too and you try to compensate.
For those interested in the ISO: http://android-x86.googlecode.com/files/android-x86-4.3-2013...
That was a really interesting read. I am only a very casual poker player and occasional viewer of WPT on cable. I am a multiple start-up guy, first as employee, now as founder. Many of the points you made ring true.

I am reminded of the start-up where I was an early employee. It has an interesting story of founder persistence. He couldn't raise a series B and had to lay-off the 10 or so employees in July 2011. I thought maybe he would either fade away or just go take a job somewhere. I was wrong. He kept the tech alive with a bit of licensing here, a partnership there and some more feature development on his own. Eventually he found a partner that really liked the tech we had built and made an offer to acquire. In the end by persisting and just keeping it "alive" for another 20 months or so post-crisis, the founder was able to succeed. In baseball analogy, he hit a triple, the angels a double and the VC firm a single.

That takes a lot of faith in what you have built, a good attitude to keep selling or pitching even when it is just you and some tech behind the curtain.

Sorry I have kind of rambled but I think my connection is confidence in your ability to make sound decisions even when it isn't working out at the moment.

One key difference that I see is that business formation is a much more unbounded "game" than poker. Also the feedback loops on whether you are making good or bad decisions are much longer in business than in poker. In poker I get feedback in minutes on each hand. If I am astute I can learn continuously and rapidly and improve my odds in a particular local game.

Another key difference is that in poker there is no ambiguity about who my competition is. In business, especially with new innovations it is not at all clear who the competition is. Is competition an internal process with a stakeholder defending their own position out of fear of losing their job (think B2B) is it another company or set of companies? Or is your competition just tradition and inertia?

Anyway thanks for a stimulating and thoughtful analogy.
>The fact of the matter is: members of the tech community (LinkedIn users) saw it as impossible that our female engineers could actually be engineers, and a leader of the tech community (LinkedIn) agreed with them.

Oh, quiet you. The text sounds scammy and the photos of attractive women just give the entire thing a 'spam' feel. It's not a slight against female engineers.
I think we need to shift to a different model ... like liquid flow. Liquid dynamics are non-linear (ie. computable), yet a river has no hard IF/ELSE boundaries, it has regions of high pressure etc. which alter its overall behaviour. You can still compute using (e.g. graph) flows, but you don't get the hard edges which are a cause of bugs. Of course it won't be good at building CRUD applications, but it would be natural for a different class of computational tasks (e.g. material stress, neural networks)

(PS angular-js has done all that dirty flag checking if you like that approach)
because when you're on $150K, and enjoy your work, you won't jump ship to work with a dinosaur like Yahoo just for a pay rise?
And yet arrogant enough to think that we're so much smarter and more advanced than those that came before or all other life forms we share this planet with.

BTW, not saying I disagree with you - just a counterpoint that can be made.
To be fair Carmack also comes with his own cultural baggage from Id Software. Wanting to keep the team small, not setting hard deadlines, using a new generation of the engine for each game etc.
While you're at it, add an indicator to show if the data lines are active. Could this be as simple as LED and resistor?
So a possible theory is that the images are being rejected because they are attractive?
What the hell are you even trying to say here?
Looks like a poorly implemented compression algorithm, or something. It's scary to think what this could cause, though.
Can the sexism, dumbass.
The attack could compromise other servers yes. I think the scenario you describe is a possibility, although there are some technical feats that would make wide-scale exploitation difficult - you need to know what you want to modify ahead of time which would be difficult.

Virtualised environments that don't pass the vendor specific commands should be immune to the attack though. As others have said, encryption would probably allow tampered pages to be detected. I'd be interested to see if the modified firmware could ignore new firmware...
This reminds me of a rather interesting design decision I encountered with Windows Phone this summer. I'm still undecided as to whether it is a good design or not.

So, over the summer I was traveling through Europe and lost my phone in Italy. I have two factor authentication on for my Microsoft account so this was somewhat of a problem seeing as every way to authenticate myself was with the phone (text, email, auth/code app).

Then I remembered I could go online and locate my phone through some web-app on windowsphone.com. This seemed like a terrific idea. So I went there, and, unsurprisingly but disappointingly, was unable to login because that app was not excluded from two factor authentication.

It was extremely frustrating to say the least.
Because I believe that privacy and the cloud can co-exist in a mutually beneficial fashion. Just because the app is online doesn't mean that it has to be "social" (there is intentionally no social-sharing options for the log or journal entries). But by being online, the application itself can improve over time by analyzing aggregate data to detect anomalies (like Mint.com), give predictions, refine the natural language parsing etc.

If this was just a journal, I would agree with you and make it self-contained. But it's not. In the next 5-10 years we're going to be seeing a massive number of wearable sensors embedded in our clothes, appliances and tools. A managed, online API will be better able to be always available, consuming this tsunami of data and turning it into useful insights for you.
Any plans for Parallels?
What are the benefits of not simply putting 'unset HISTFILE' in your shell rc?
It should be possible to do this in a line of bash, this is my current start point -

curl https://news.ycombinator.com | sed 's|<[^>]*>||g'

edit - for reference, this is being done in an osx 10.7.5 terminal, so ymmv

getting somewhereish, I only have a slight understanding of regex to be honest :)

curl https://news.ycombinator.com | sed 's|<[^>]*>|-|g' | sed -e 's/-------/\'$'\n/g'

...

curl https://news.ycombinator.com | sed 's|<[^>]*>|-|g' | sed 's|------------|-|g' | sed -e 's/-------/\'$'\n/g'
Apparently they only had an issue with the images specifically...so maybe they just have a problem with attractive women.

Strange nonetheless.
You can go to any tech conference and find attractive engineers and programmers of any gender.

My bad! Those are recruiters... :)
It would be interesting to make the male equivalent of this ad. Would we find it equally offensive to have an attractive man in cocktail attire in an engineering ad?

My guess is it would be seen as weird but not a bannable offense.
You're assuming that the value of Bitcoin stays fixed at $100.
I have a sticky note somewhere in the office that say "Open Source Rocket Science". One day I'll get to put a tick beside it, I'm sure of it.
Caveat: I think Manning deserves a good while in prison, life or how long, meh, I'm not a judge. The primary reason I think this is because he didn't release specific information because he felt that it was incriminating. He mass dumped a bunch of stuff he hadn't read which to me screams: I'm pissed, so I'll dump this shit to be important, consequences and significance be damned. Snowden, a little more conflicted on, definitely more sympathetic.

As a former DoD employee, the hacker paranoia definitely scares me. I used scripts and wrote command line tools for analysis since the tools given were insufficient or just plain sucked. The arguments listed by jrochkind1 could have been applied to me. I certainly have never leaked any information but from the comments below it seems that programming and command line tools themselves are now considered crimes because they can be more powerful although the bulk of normal people are uninterested in using them. Should he be tried and convicted for what he did? Yes (IMO). Should he be tried and convicted because he was what most would consider a power user? No. That's like tacking on charges for a murderer for being too accurate. It deflates the validity of the governments claims, exposes the legal argument to some risk, and creates ridiculous precedent.

There is a scary amount of anti-tech stuff going on now, though I guess that should be expected. Thinking of pg's What People Can't Say essay here, since the computer illiterate are still in charge of most things, while simultaneously the computer literate are now ascendant. I expect it will get worse before it gets better.
In any other civilized country, after being caught spying, governments would be ashamed and massacrated by public opinion and politicians would review and stop their actions immediatly

.. but in US they(the big brother) have no shame at all.. they continue to do it as if theres nothing wrong with.. and people just act normal while civil rights get shattered appart in pieces..

people need to get real.. this is pretty serious.. this will have a great impact and damage not only on civil rights but also in business..

Im sure a lot of people form outside US are waking up and will start to build their own local versions of sucessful US bussiness.. and this is just the tip of the iceberg..
we can think of a lot of other things coming, and none of the are good for anybody
I wonder when BitCoin will reach the stage at which mining is not economically viable because the expended electricity is more expensive than the amount of BC gained. It is my understanding that such a point should be eventually reached due to the mathematical nature of BCs.
When you acqhire a startup, you're not just buying the engineers they hired. You're filtering out all the engineers they didn't hire.

It takes an enormous amount of work to find that good engineer in the pool of unemployed workers. This is why big companies pay for sourcers, recruiters, referrals, interviewers, etc. In a typical company, that 1 good hire resulted from looking through hundreds of resumes that didn't cut it for one reason or another.

When a company does an acqhisition, they short circuit all that work, and get a pool of vetted, battle-hardened engineers who are known to work well together. That's worth a lot more than just the engineers' salaries, because there was a lot more than just their salary that went into convincing them to work for the startup.

If they just offered $180K, a number of the employees would turn it down, because they go to work for the intangibles like having good coworkers or working on interesting products, and the only way that Yahoo can bring them on board are to keep those intangible perks intact until they find a way to assimilate them into the mothership.
Wrong. Make the news so popular that ratings aren't even a question. You do this by educating your constituency.
Ugh. What a mess.

I really don't know how to feel about this. On the one hand, God, does it ever look bad. On the other hand, I glance at the two ads they're showing there, and my first impulse is "they slapped some stock photos of attractive women on there to give male viewers an endorphin kick." They're a far cry from the "look! boobs!" of Evony ads, but they also don't look like women ready for a day at the office. I know from the article that these are actual, working female engineers, but part of me wants to say that the ad designer obviously picked them for "sexy" as opposed to "professional," and that seems sleazy and sad. But on the other hand, who the hell am I to tell any professional how to dress or style their hair? But on the third hand, if I'm right it's not the fault of the engineers but of the ad designers...

Augh, I kinda feel like an asshole just for thinking about this.
CSRF token fixation attacks in Devise
Lisp: "All code is data"

That's not the question. "All data is code" is not the same statement.

In a different context: "All apples are fruit" may be true but that doesn't imply "all fruit are apples"
Not at the moment. That said, we will be publishing raw images that should be portable to just about anything.
We might not be much smarter than those that came before us, but the shoulders we are standing on are much larger.
If the contents of his trash can are showing up in the water supply we have bigger problems than microbeads.
I used to use elinks with a filter (words.txt) by topic

elinks -dump news.ycombinator.com | sed -n -e 's/\([0-9]\+\)\.\ \+\(\[.\+\]\)\+\(.*\)/\1: \3/p' | grep -f words.txt -i
Just like the model probably doesn't include what it means to add a large number of 400Gh/s devices to the playing field.
Snap-CI public beta: missing link between Github & Heroku
Those things always seem to be dwindling.
For privacy concerns you could store the keys (i.e. sleep, running) locally with identifiers to retrieve the values (i.e. hours, kilos) from your database and display/handle them in your app. This way the user keeps track of what exactly is being journaled. Of course, this brings along several other problems like data preservation (local storage).
Vagrant supports VMWare, but not Parallels yet.
Classic Specs, New York, NY, Full-Time

We have been designing and building high-quality prescription eyewear in Brooklyn since 2010. We have a number of high-end fashion brands for which we design and sell eyeglasses.

We're building a company to last - we have revenue, a loyal client base, sustained and expanding growth. We’re backed by all-star group of investors and folks who have built some of the most successful fashion brands in the world. Now we need someone to help build our technology.

Come work with us team to design and implement a white-label software for managing eyewear websites and order fulfillment across multiple brands!
We're looking for engineers who are interested in building everything - from inventory management infrastructure to A/B testing our website - for selling eyewear online.

Our team is small. As an early developer, we’ll ask you to look for things in our business that can be made more efficient and use technology to improve them.

You will completely own a feature, from choosing which technology to use, implementing the frontend, interfacing with our back-end database, and then measuring its impact on the business.

When you build something cool, we'll open-source it. When you learn something new, teach us! Help us mentor interns.

Our back-end stack is mostly Python + Flask, using uwsgi on nginx. Our current project is using mongodb on the backend.

Feel free to email me: jay@classicspecs.com
A Cheap Spying Tool With a High Creepy Factor
I'm adopting the speech device for the sake of communicating effectively with the people I am talking to, not because I believe nature "intended" this or that.
The toptotal link provided by the article doesn't really seem to help their case. Going down the bullet list provided:

Created WordPress themes

Developed HTML5 sites

Designed UI/UX for websites based on wireframes

Vectorized logos

Technologies: HTML5, CSS3, WordPress, jQuery

Directly managed my own clients

Supported clients throughout the entire site development process, including coming up with an idea, designing site architecture, wireframing, choosing a platform and development languages, and improving marketing techniques
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Created HTML and CSS layouts, gave life to them with jQuery, and empowered them with a CMS.

Created designs in Photoshop.

Spliced designs into HTML/CSS templates.

Implemented Drupal, Joomla!, and WordPress templates.
Customized and configured CMS's, including the positioning and styling of modules and components.

Technologies: HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, Joomla!, WordPress, Drupal

I'm sorry, but to me, it seems like she hasn't done any software engineering, and has, at best, implemented hodgepodge jQuery (written by other people). I think it's dishonest to refer to her as an engineer, and 'front-end developer' or just 'web developer' would be much more appropriate. Someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. I'm going off the job titles at my places of employment (both current and former), and what I see on job listings.

I'm sure that they have placed PLENTY of female software engineers who actually write and maintain software on a daily basis. They just aren't as attractive, which is why they don't use their picture.
Your private Skype on WebRTC
LinkedIn probably banned them in order to prevent sexism.
Your first sentence would imply that at least the UK, Germany and France are not civilized countries.