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MakeGamesWithUs (YC W12) Needs a Graphic/Game Designer
MakeGamesWithUs needs a Graphic/Game Designer.

You must be an expert in both Photoshop and Illustrator. You need to be able to generate UI elements from scratch - buttons, navigation bars, HUDs, etc...

We're looking for someone to do pre-production and be 'The Finisher' of all of our games. Pre-production means mocking up the layout/flow of all the static (menus) and near-static (HUD in gameplay) elements of a game before an artist starts illustrating. Being 'The Finisher' means you will be taking near-final work from our artists and working with our producer and the developer of each game to make a completed product, ready for the App Store. This will include doing final layout of menus and HUDs, filling in missing assets (usually by modifying existing ones) where necessary, and designing screenshots to show off the game on the App Store.

We have 17 games on the App Store, many in need of tweaking immediately, and tons more in the pipeline that are getting ready to release over the coming months. In your down time you will be creating assets for social media, our website, posters, biz cards, t-shirts, etc...

Big pluses:
Mobile game or app experience
App icon design experience
App screenshot design experience
Game character design experience
Game animation experience
Experience creating bitmap fonts
Experience creating particle effects

We need to hire immediately. Remote is a slight possibility, but ideally we need you to be in the Bay Area or be able to get here at a moments notice (we can provide housing for you if you are coming from outside of the area). You will be working out of our hacker house in Palo Alto - this is what it looks like with a bunch of our summer interns around: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.262781033863020.1073741828.130007087140416&type=3.

This could be a full time job for the right person or could be contract work until it is clear that you are right for the job/we are the right fit for you.

If interested email art@makegameswith.us.
Housing is one thing that comes to mind that is a big cost but will only get more expensive over time.
"Satoshi didn't try to create his own hashing algorithm or anything like that."

No, he tried to create his own digital cash system, and digital cash is a cryptography problem that has been extensively studied by cryptographers (and had been studied for decades prior to Bitcoin). Bitcoin is also a system that involves multiparty computation, and secure multiparty computation has also been studied extensively by cryptographers, also going back decades. It is a mistake to think that the only relevant cryptography in Bitcoin are digital signatures and hash functions.

This is really the crux of the issue here. Bitcoin is not a hash function. It is not a digital signature system. The security of hash functions and digital signatures is not in question here; Bitcoin could be vulnerable to attack even if it is built using secure hash functions and secure signature systems. The point of having a security definition is to be clear about these things. We need to be clear about what the meaning of "security" is in the case of Bitcoin if we want to make any statements about whether or not Bitcoin actually achieves that security goal. It is not hard to see that the definition of security for a hash function or a digital signature system is not what we want for Bitcoin; what is not so clear is what we actually do want.
Isn't a more likely crime of convenience that you hand your friend your computer, he types "gmail.com" to login to his mail, but he automatically logs in to your gmail, and then he realizes he can do pretty much anything on your computer as you now (including changing all passwords linked to your gmail account)?

Why are you more concerned about something he has to go digging through settings purposely to find, than something he is almost guaranteed to stumble across?
You don't have to rewrite once you've used Twitter enough.
Also, it was not a Qualcomm chip....
I was tempted not to reply because I think we're just arguing over the many possible definitions of the word "valid", and that can quickly become uninteresting. Here's a stab at not being too much of a hair-splitter.

In a nutshell, it sounds like your definition of "valid" (and parent's) refer to some frame of objectively true facts and a commonly accepted value system. I agree that one would have to take such a definition in order to find intellectual value in a person's opinions on political matters.

My definition of validity (in the context of the previous comment) has to do with recognizing subjective individual value systems that must occasionally be trampled upon in order to have a functioning state. By their nature, political institutions touch your life whether you want them to do so or not.

So my view is that all people affected by a political institution have valid opinions on the actions of said institution, even if those opinions are not particularly well informed or even logical. If an institution forces something into (or out of) your life, I take the position that you have a valid voice with which to support or oppose that action, even if I might find that support or opposition to be unpersuasive from a logical or evidentiary frame of reference.

To close the loop of example/counter-example, I think your two counter-counter-examples demonstrate opinions of low intellectual validity, as they do not stem from a body of knowledge. However, I think they are fully politically valid, because I don't see any way to have a politically legitimate institution while invalidating the opinions of those whose individual values are violated by its actions.
Google’s new feature makes it easier to find seminal articles on big topics
There are many motives for keeping secrets. Look at the NSA, or pretty much any government.
Well, I see that people have figured out why I'm quitting AOSP.

There's no point being the maintainer of an Operating System that can't boot to the home screen on its flagship device for lack of GPU support, especially when I'm getting the blame for something that I don't have authority to fix myself and that I had anticipated and escalated more than 6 months ahead.

So much for all that noise from Google about 'openness'. The detractors were right.
Fight fire with fire they say. You seem to be doing well :)

Snide remark aside, I'll admit that my comment is not very insightful, because it is pretty much common knowledge. That does not make it any less true though.

The aim of a terrorist is to instill terror in the population. I don't delude myself I thinking you can carry on as if nothing happened, but the measures that are taken should be an appropriate response to the threat, not born out of fear or an effort to soothe the population. If you don't let an irrational fear take hold of you, then all the terrorist efforts have been in vain.

That is also more or less the point of the article, I just laid it out more tersely.
Do we have an instinct for privacy?
Time ago was on a workshop with a serial entrepreneur/investor on SV, and he told to the audience to be not afraid to tell to "the right people" your idea(you need to let the world know about your business) "at right time".
Before you write this off as old news, it features a lengthy update from May 2013.
the ones that buy Qualcomm chips off the black market?
My first experience with the new two-factor auth has been poor.

1. I sign into Twitter with my browser

2. My phone receives a push notification saying that I have a pending auth request.

3. So I click it and load the Twitter iOS app, and I see "You have no login requests" for that account, no matter how much I refresh it (it has been 10 minutes now).

4. Now I can't get into my Twitter account on the browser.

The urge to disable it is certainly strong..
For Passive income dreamers, I think it's important to mention

1. This is revenue, not profit.

2. 3 guys. So $1600/person.

3. Seems like they don't have jobs (means taking this full time, probably with consulting).

Still a pretty good job, and I'll be interested to see their growth.
What if your primary goal is to reduce or eliminate gas consumption at any cost? I would think that would be much more likely because most electrics/hybrids are priced to break even at around 120,000 miles with comparable gas-fueled cars. Quite a long time to wait for a payout.
You're missing the point: by dehumanizing workers to achieve the most profit you're making them a disposable commodity and denying large swaths of the population the means to provide for themselves.
That's a reference for the name but nothing is actually emulated on this. I find the wikipedia article explanation very appropriate:

"The phrase "Wine Is Not an Emulator" is a reference to the fact that no processor code execution emulation occurs when running a Windows app under Wine. "Emulation" usually refers to the execution of compiled code intended for one processor (say, x86) by interpreting/recompiling software running on a different processor (say, PowerPC). "
: ... In Wine, the Windows app's compiled x86 code runs at full native speed on the computer's x86 processor, just as it does when running under Windows. And Windows API calls and services also are not emulated, but rather substituted with Linux equivalents that are compiled for x86 and run at full, native speed."[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_%28software%29
I suppose you could call that skilled, but I would have put that under the on the job training I had mentioned.
Show HN: I wrote a library to read/write/export 3D printing STL files
because capitalism.
Yeah certainly, thanks for the examples. I think the first item you mentioned, vertical centering of a single dynamic object actually can be handled better than tables currently (see some techniques here: http://html5hub.com/centering-all-the-directions/) but when you add more elements into the mix I can see how rowspan / colspan equivalents are not easily implemented without JS.
No serious business would move their production to DO, it's a start-up with cheap price.
there was also the choice not to commit to this SoC unless Qualcomm agrees in writing that Google is allowed to publish factory images and binaries
A Quant's View - Why You Should Trade More Frequently
Amazon... what margins?
SmartImageView a beautiful library most android dev miss out on
Well certainly, but in this case the motivation is anticompetitive.
I've read Cialdini's Influence. It's a great book, but he puts forth the point as well that these mental shortcuts can be tremendously helpful heuristics. The crux is really in the differentiation.
I think it's an interesting concept. Coming at it as a geek myself, my thought is "I want this". In fact, I've given some thought to building something like this myself in the past, but never had time. What I wonder, though, vis-a-vis making a business out of it is "will normal people want (or even understand) this"?
Eucalyptus CEO Mickos to OpenStack: "settle on AWS, innovate elsewhere"
Twitter already has that. Check the Discover tab.
Apache Flex finally brings Adobe Flex to Linux
The traffic to http://algorithmic.ly has been outstanding. I think your site just put us over the top. We have gotten more signups than we know what to do with. I'll have to write up a post about it.
I'm convinced the embassies were shut down for political reasons. No way this administration wants another Benghazi on their hands. I do think to some degree is was an overreaction considering our embassies are considered sovereign territory and its on the host country to defend the embassy - which funny, didn't happen in Libya.

>>>Not to mention clearly stating we bugged this guys call was stupid from an intelegence standpoint.

Agreed. I'm still surprised why this administration continues to leak intelligence to the media. All those lines of communication and means of intercepting intel are now burned.
Or a bike for that matter.
I get it but I feel that's more of an imposed limitation by email clients and not a fair choice.
Ask HN: A similar forum/news aggregate site, but mostly for math, physics, CS?
As the title says. Looking for a HN alternative with intelligent user base minus the stories about Snowden and NSA, tablet reviews, JS frameworks, anti-procrastination articles and latest gossip about programmer celebrities.

Yes, I know about Reddit, and no, I'm not happy with it.
Why Clojure will win
This is only the case when you have something to fear from superior competition. That is the capitalist system. Even in the FOSS world, which is largely affected by capitalism the spirit of sharing and collective advancement is incredibly common.
Base-motif fractals are subsets of L-systems [1], which can be used to accurately model plant growth [2].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system

[2]: http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/#abop
Yes, but these are signed images meaning you can flash them even if you have a locked bootloader
How to cure a bubble boy
This sounds like an apology. Openness is just not a high enough priority for them. It's just not their goal to release an open device otherwise they wouldn't have released this.

It's their goal to do whatever it takes to compete aggressively and if openness can win them PR, they'll do it, but it isn't a goal in itself.
The adversary that can be trivially defeated by entering Meta+L before walking away from your desk, or by not allowing untrusted randoms around your console?
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
- Warren G. Bennis
This stands in stark contrast to the "other John" from iD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Romero) that went on to flame out in the most spectacular manner because he'd waffle between not shipping at all, or shipping half-baked games.
I'd prefer a solution that weighted votes on the basis of the quality of the voters' own contributions.

A simple method might be to just build on the "avg. karma" calculation that HN already does, and use that as the value of your upvotes. Have an average karma score of 3? Your upvote adds three points to the score of the post.

This is based on the assumption that people whose own contributions are high-quality are also more likely to appreciate high-quality contributions posted by others. Using cumulative karma or seniority as a basis for vote weighting would make quantity - of posts or time - equivalent to quality, and might dilute things a bit.

The drawback here is that any system of vote-weighting, when coupled with using voting to indicate agreement or disagreement, might encourage a greater level of groupthink, and leave less room for discussion of controversial topics.
"One man's mundane and desperate existence is another man's Technicolor."

How can the service differenciate? My interests differ from your interests.

Often I see people re-post the same message if they think it will have value to their followers simply because not everyone is online at the same time.
Also you need to hope that any company isn't already in the process of globalizing or outsourcing said STEM jobs because they can do those cheaper elsewhere

Yeah, man, fuck them for giving jobs to poorer people!
Eh? I wasn't really talking about Malda's comments at all, just agreeing with your criticism of HN and adding a diagnosis :P
I don't think it's going to benefit anyone. In the short term companies can save money on employees and sell products at razor-thin margins while still making huge profits and people will be happy to buy them. In the long term though, when the current generation of workers with stable jobs will be replaced by a generation of temps, there will be no middle class, no one to buy products, as cheap as they might be.
Just marked my calendar to check back and see how statuspage.io is doing in a year's time.
The 2012 N7 had an nVidia GPU, so no Qualcomm to mess with it
It's already being done. Nokia has a nice one, but they weren't the first: http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/11/13/livesight-immersiv...
Oh of course they would have been better off in a world where Qualcomm was friendlier, but that's not the question. Let's look at the cost/benefit to Google's decision if we assume there isn't a huge outcry.

If Google insisted on shipping stock images it would have cost them. Either by picking an inferior chip, or by upsetting Qualcomm, or by Qualcomm charging them a higher price. Therefore they chose a position of some benefit to them when they decided not to ship stock images.

The best way to counter this benefit is a public shaming, so that in the end it's costlier than the other options would have been. But Google's not stupid; they wouldn't have made such an anti-openness move if they expected it to cost them.
Thank you for your insight, I'll work on fixing this as soon as possible. :)
Yeah I wish the HN mods didn't change my title. Saying it's from 2011, or that the mystery is now reopened, doesn't do the article justice. It provides highly compelling evidence for the exact identification of Satoshi Nakamoto, most of the tech public is not aware of this hypothesis, and the oddity of the responses in the May 2013 update, if anything, suggest the story really has legs.
I'd like to see Rust thrown in the mix.
Is Your EC2 Instance a Honey Badger or a Sloth?
A look at AWS EC2 instances in terms of honey badgers vs. blue whales vs. unicorns vs. sloths. Only ones missing were the Mantis Shrimp (we tried) and the Megladon (hey it's Shark Week)
> “The feedback we’re getting is it’s like being in a slave camp,” said Brian Garner, the dapper chairman of the Lea Hall Miners Welfare Centre and Social Club, still a popular drinking spot.

Just like a slave camp. You know, besides the fact that you get paid, can own property, have the full rights of citizens, can quit at any time, and go home at the end of the day.

> There is much to admire in Amazon’s rise, but in some dark corners of that sprawling empire the top line numbers and razor-thin earnings are being boosted by a dystopian model of neofeudalism that is jarringly out of step with the company’s shiny, ‘leaning into the future’ brand.

A "dystopian model of neofeudalism"? For reals, guys?

I have complained about jobs that were doubtless better in every way than warehouse jobs at Amazon, and I'm sure that there are legitimate complaints, but it's hard to take this article seriously. The axe to grind is so prominently on display that it's difficult to know what part of the story can be read as an objective description of the facts.
Linux is not open because some devices need proprietary drivers?
It's not overstating the case though. When a huge component of the system isn't open source, that clouds the openness of the system as a whole. People make fun of Stallman for his ridiculous practices, but at least he's principled about this very issue. Here, the AOSP maintainer is making the same principled stand. If you can't boot the device (hence use it) because it doesn't have open GPU devices drivers, then it's not an open device, plain and simple. None of the other stuff you allude to matters if you can't use the device.

As with many questions of openness, it's a question of pragmatism. It might be fair if some Kickstarted device did this or something, but this is Google's flagship tablet. Google uses the "Open" moniker as a marketing tool to both sell the devices to like-minded supporters as well as to bash others (Apple, MS, etc) pretty much whenever they can, as do many of their affiliates/partners. As such, it's completely fair to hold them accountable when that ends up not being the case.
Thats not so different from how it is now. Instead of an earpiece, we get blinking lights to micromanage away inefficiency and reduce error.
Instacart Express
What margin range would you consider healthy?
Personally I like the fact that HN has a lot of verity. I can read it like a newspaper just like I used to do with /. and get exposed to a lot of things I wouldn't know to look for. I can search if I want to focus on something specific. So I don't agree with the premise that there should be another HN.

Two things that I hated about /. was the summery, which usually confusingly buried the link and was generally not helpful. And the fact that you can't vote and comment in the same article, which means that you trend away from having expert comments that are highly rated.

If you are an expert you can write an informative comment, but then you can't help vote up other expert comments, if you only vote your expert opinion goes unheard. HN doesn't have this problem.

I think the reason HN works is mostly simply the name, and not breaking it as above. It captures the idea of "Why" in the golden circle sense.[0] You could easily do this with news sites focused on other general (but engaging) categories, and I think that is already true, we are just more interested in the hacker type of news so may not notice.

[0]: http://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_inspi...
I think your kind of making the exact point your trying to argue against.
So we have a better NDK than Googles at Apportable. We use our own malloc and better C++ runtime (libc++ instead of libstdc++) and use Clang 3.4 instead of GCC.

One problem with your tests is that you are using the system malloc, and that is horribly slow (and dalvik gc will even obtain a global lock on it every now and then). Firefox does not use the system malloc (instead it uses jemalloc). This actually has a big time savings in tests that will call malloc at any point.

I would love to run your tests on our platform. Can publish the exact times you got? I want to spin it up and see if I can get better numbers on the native side.
Nothing that's Amazon's fault. Amazon purchase history shows order complete, paid via Amazon credit card. Gallery currently refuses to ship either piece.

Verdict: yes, Amazon has successfully brought the magical experience of dealing with art dealers online. Not sure earning their cut is going to be much fun for them, but like Prime I'll happily use it as long as they offer the implausible service.
I think grad students make an obvious target audience. They both write a lot of code, and (often) have freedom to choose their tools. My impression is that that's where much of the original momentum for Python in the scientific community came from as well.
I'm not sure if there is a way to send signals back to the device. But, it should be trivial to do what you describe on the operating system level. Ignoring the possibility of specifically looking for that keyboard, you could just have is send obscure keys that you would never type. Then you can just re-map them on the OS level whenever you want to.
Fair dice (in different physical models)
Reasons employers don't hire the best available candidates
slashdot doesn't delete old comments/articles. You can get to it directly on the site:

http://slashdot.org/story/01/09/14/211241/net-taps-without-w...
Razer's Hydra project, which you have to hold onto but gives you a much larger play area, is already being used in some Rift games.
You keep referencing dates as though the calendar has something substantive to say about web design; what actual problems do you see with Slashdot's design?
LayerVault Delivery
Mule Uploader
> Use SSL for the requests which makes it harder to sniff the API.

Won't help - it's trivial to setup a proxy to MITM the traffic.

> Use a specific User Agent string and check for that.

Won't help - it's easy to manipulate a User-Agent. Assuming you're manually creating the GET request (via cURL or other means), then it's only one more option to bypass this.

> Provide no error messages if any of the above fails.

Will make debugging a pain. Also, if I'm an attacker, I'm going to try and clone the request as best as I can the first time, then see what I can get away with.

> Add some sort of tamper token like you suggest.

This is the best option. Not quite sure the best way to implement it, but perhaps some sort of CAPTCHA (this would be a pain), or some kind of random request id, etc. might work.
Seriously, Don't Use Chrome's Insecure Password Manager