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Join a Rocket Ship. Instacart is hiring Senior iOS and Android Engineers
Instacart is building the first ever virtual grocery store that offers customers an unimaginable level of convenience by allowing them to order from multiple local stores and have items delivered to their door on the same day. We have raised more than $11 M in financing from Sequoia, Khosla, Canaan & YC but we are still a very small and focused team of 15 people.

Here is what PG has to say about us:

"Incidentally, of all the startups we've funded, Instacart is one of the ones we ourselves use most. Jessica can't stop talking about how great it is. You don't realize how useful grocery delivery is till you have small children (like we do). And Instacart is by far the best option for this.
Instacart is one of those rare products that's surprisingly great. I.e. you don't realize how good such a thing could be till you try it. A lot of the best startups have this quality. I wish we could figure out a way to identify them when they apply to YC, but at the moment I admit we can't."

Why you should join us?

- We are growing exponentially.

- We are solving some super challenging problems involving machine learning, routing, fraud detection and recommendations

- We have a very high bar, so you will be working with some really smart people.

- We ship code hourly (heroku permitting) and have a blast working together.

- We pay really well, cover health/dental and make life convenient for you in every way we can.

- We are well funded by some of the best investors in the world.

- PERK - you get to choose your own user_id (1-9 still up for grabs)

About you:

We only bring on people who take full ownership of entire products & features.

As such, the following roles are only suitable if you would like to own Instacart's customer and shopper facing mobile apps in their entirety.

Lead iOS Engineer

Demonstrated proficiency in obj c, memory management, threading, core data as well as working knowledge of javascript and other web technologies.

Lead Android Engineer

Demonstrated proficiency in java, Android SDK as well as working knowledge of javascript and other web technologies.

Unicorn

You can do both of the above.

To apply, email your Github, LinkedIn or resume to jobs@instacart.com.
Facebook is censoring Twitter
I would like to see his original description as well. I've never understood the Fourier transform intuitively, no matter how much my professors and textbooks attempt to explain it. At this point, I'm just applying algorithms without fully understanding why I'm doing it.
My EC2 instances are still running fortunately.
Spaceglasses: Hacking Reality with Javascript
Given that none of my running AWS services experienced any downtime, that seems entirely reasonable.
Amazon site seems to be up now.
Same here, can't send SES emails via the API (altho SMTP works for us)
My coworker calculated a rough estimate of $76K/minute loss in revenue, assuming a $60b annual revenue and a third of it from the amazon.com website.
The article seems legit, and the criticism too.
However, I don't want to focus on the technical details, for once.
I'd like you to notice two things:
1) A lot of people are talking about Hyperloop; Dr. Drang, even if he doesn't want to, is ALREADY contributing to the project. These notes will be treasured by whoever will try to build it eventually.
2) This seems to be a very smart strategy (no surprise, given this is Elon Musk himself) to make Hyperloop popular and break existing barriers to execution. These barriers could be: investors' skepticism, Government scarce interest, or else. Well played, Mr. Musk.

One more thing: I admire Elon Musk, and have no doubts about his intelligence, ability of execution, reputation.
However, let's not forget that he does it for money too. This approach is also a very SMART way to get a ton of free work, and thousands of individuals who would happily work on the Hyperloop (thus, lower wages, as there is more offer).
Again, well played.
Drugs can be used as a tool for introspection (psychoactive drugs for example. They can also be used as a means to counter the stress coming from other areas in life, if they are used with care (alcohol, nicotine, cannabis, maybe even cocaine, which is pushing it). And then there's the variety that acts like shocking your pleasure centrum (meth, crack, and various other hard hard drugs).

Aside from the third case, I'd argue against drugs being a waste of time. Unless you abuse them, they can actually increase your quality of life.
Why don't people just send things in their native language? If the platform for communication is serious (like a place to report security vulnerabilities), I would imagine they would spend the time/money to get a real translation if one was needed. Even Google Translate probably could've done a better job than this guy's original report.
How much patience did people have back in the 90s when broadband and computers were slower? (Hell, it sometimes took 30 minutes just to dial into AOL without getting a busy signal.) Now that computers and broadband are faster, do you think people have just as much patience as before or less?

I'd imagine that, until broadband becomes truly instant, you will have a need to ensure users that the page is still loading. A user's patience will never grow. It will only shrink. The least we can do is buy ourselves precious seconds by using a progress bar. It is the difference between "Your call is important to us, please hold" and "You are now 5th in line to be answered. Please hold." The illusion of progress goes a long way in fooling the user's brain into having just a smidge more patience.
Essentially yes. Faster than Light travel is essentially equivalent to traveling to the pass changing the reference system. That's why I'm very skeptic.

But you need a more complex setup. If the two stars are static (or the relative velocity is 0) then in both trips you arrive later than the departure time, so there is no easy to spot paradox.

But let's suppose that the Sun is static and the other star is moving very fast (with a speed <c). In the first part of the travel, form the Sun point of view you are traveling forward in time with a speed than is greater than c (in spite allegedly you are in a "bubble" so you locally are traveling wit a speed smaller than c. The bubble and everything that is in it is traveling with speed >c.). From the other moving star point of view you (or the bubble) are traveling backwards in time. You reach there and then they see you approaching there.

We can compare this to sound of a supersonic plane, where the plane arrives first and then the sound arrives, but if you do the calculations the sound was emitted before the plane arrival time. But if you travel fast enough and the star is moving fast enough then the effect is different, with the correct standard calculations the light arrives later than the space ship, but the light "was" emitted after the ship arrival time. From their point of view the space ship was traveling backwards in time.

Once you are there, you only have to recalibrate all the systems to use the other star reference frame. All the inertial reference frames are equivalent, so this is easy.

And now you start the engines and travel forward in time with a speed > c in the other star reference frame. They don't see anything too special, only that you go too fast but they are unable to tell you that. But form the Sun's point of view you are now traveling backwards in time, so you arrive before you departure the other star!

So, let's peek the Sun's reference frame. You travel first forward in time and then backwards in time. Is the sum positive? If the other star is static then the sum is always positive an there are no surprises. But if the other star moves fast enough then the sum is negative and you arrive before you departure.

If you don't find a fast enough star then you can use a fast space station or a fast space ship as the other extreme in your journey. Or even use an abstract point traveling fast enough in the middle of the space.
Seems to be back (@2:36 CST)
And the bug wasn't this hacker's problem. It's important to remember that this guy went out of his way to help Facebook.

As such, they should be a bit more understanding when someone that speaks Esperanto submits a bug without doing so in a way that perfectly adheres to their terms of service. They should step back and take a subjective view instead of trying to make it black and white. Was he acting maliciously? Did he knowingly violate the terms or was it out of ignorance? Was he trying to hurt Facebook by violating the terms or help them?
It would be so great if this was the case

Today, people will still put their money on companies that return a result from that query.

That is, most of the MLM companies
I've not implemented either Braintree or Stripe before, but I'd agree with the principle of just doing whatever gets you out the door the fastest (for a subscription business I might including the proviso of using a service that will give you card portability so you can transition off in the future).
Excellent, thx.

(just remember "brew doctor" first).

Also for non-maccies: http://www.scala-sbt.org/0.13.0/docs/Getting-Started/Setup.h... (it would be nice to discuss the red hat and debian distro families in that Setup page, it looks like you can't currently "apt-get sbt"
After the incident they are shrugging it off. My guess is that they were trying their luck; had they found anything on his laptop which they could use against him - like any of the leaked documents - who knows where he would be detained right now.
It's exactly the opposite.

SICP uses no macros.

AMOP does.
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I can log into the console again (2:36 CST)
Thanks for sharing. Something similar happened to me about 13 years ago. Basically I was burned out from working in a job I wasn't really interested in, and living with someone I didn't like. This resulted in chronic fatigue syndrome, suicidal depression, and my body basically shut down. At the time I didn't understand what was happening, as my work wasn't terribly stressful, and the other stresses seemed minor.

I now realise that [1] all the stressors add up, [2] it's very important to enjoy what you're working on and [3] you need to craft your lifestyle to be fulfilling.

Anyway, I made serious changes to my lifestyle (including working full-time on my startup), and things have worked out beautifully.
Amazon.com is back up for me.
I don't know what is more shocking to me! That the British interrogated this man for nine hours and then STOLE his property, or that the British security forces were actually efficient enough to identify this man at the airport and then detain him.
To be honest it was confusing as hell because they said partner and his name is Miranda, more commonly a girls name. Seriously, boyfriend or husband, partner just sounds like some live in person or like you said business related.

I'm also amused by just how hard these reporters seem to even avoid pronouns or other language that would indicate his gender. Strikes me as really really odd.
>I wouldn’t put my money, time, or talent in the hands of someone who takes me for a fool.

When Musk said he makes it "open source" and "invites everyone to contribute" I thought he meant exactly this. People finding flaws and ways to do things better so in the process the flaws are eliminated and you end up with some workable design.

I don't understand why some people react arrogantly, or feel offended with the hyperloop design I have a suspicion that if Musk wasn't labeled as "billionaire" people would react differently.

He kind of lost me with his comments such as the one above, but that doesn't change anything about the quality of his arguments.
because the browser scrollbar isn't necessarily present on a Mac.
> your User-Agent string

Sure, my software sends a nice,
simple, vanilla pure, good looking
string for the user agent string.

I agree with you about essentially all
the details of this specific case.

As seemingly hinted in the OP,
my concern is with the more general
situation -- could a Web site use lawyers,
C&D letters, and IP addresses to make
big legal problems for Internet users
who download an unusually large number
of Web pages? I hope not.

Then there's the suggestion that for a
user to get a new IP address is somehow
nefarious -- it's not. And there's
calling getting Web pages screen
scraping as if it is different, unusual,
and nefarious -- it's not. Then there's
the suggestion that what the user did
that was bad was getting the data
when the real problem was that the user
republished the copyrighted data.
Take his criticism (not sure it even merits that title) with a grain of salt. Many people on HN and on the mailing list have sung the praises of Go's packaging system.
SES is back for me and working
Looks like a botched release
These last few posts about hyperloop, while looking like valid criticism just reeks of envy, jealousy and sour grapes. It become obvious when you intersperse your arguments with descriptions of Musk as being "loopy", "stupid", "amateur", "fraud", "snake oil salesman" and the like. It's so typically academia, it's depressing.

Luckily guys like Musk are out actually accomplishing things, while the professors are whining about why it can't be done.
I don't think the title is correct: JSON being pulled is not mentioned in http://php.net/manual/en/migration55.changes.php

It is probably the case that in common Linux distributions, the build of PHP has the relevant functionality removed, as the license does obviously conflict.

It's a shame that only IBM gets dispensation to do evil :(
Have you guys incorporated yet? I'm assuming you have but in any case, the sooner you guys settle the shares/vesting the better. How much of an asset do you consider yourself to be in the company? If you were to leave next week, would the company suffer a huge loss? If so, you have the edge and I do believe you deserve more than a 10% stake, even for the work you've done thus far.

EDIT: I also agree that you don't always need to raise money. If you guys have the means to continually fund yourselves (as you mention break-even in 3 months), it's really not necessary especially once you hit a substantial profit margin.
console and SES are working for me now (2:41 CST)
Some people with the first name Miranda even have the last name Law, e.g. https://www.facebook.com/miranda.law.71 (public profile, you don't have to sign in)
Dismissive and ignored? Did you read what he submitted to them? It made no sense. He vaguely stated that there was a bug and his education. His bug report was nonsensical. I am not even slightly surprised they ignored it. And he violated the TOS before he even ever tried to post to Zuckerberg's wall.
Miranda was flying from Berlin to Rio de Janeiro with a change of planes in London.

Since you pretty much can't fly under an alias these days, it was probably pretty easy to identify him as he arrived from Berlin. The UK knew the exact seat he was sitting in.
The thing is you are taking the learning metaphor a step further every sentence. You do need to learn the basics of maintaining a car if you own one. You might need to know about changing tires and also making sure the radiator has enough water in it. These are basic things and equally apply to computers. Not because you need to build a car or compile a computer program but because without basic education you don't know how to properly manage the computer like you do your car. Can you also imagine how much less bad computer laws will exist if lawmakers knew a little bit more about computers rather than rely on trial and error to get things right?
Every developer does have the ability to deploy to production and roughly 0.001% of deployments cause an outage, but this is a company where the mean time between deployments on an average weekday is 11.6 seconds. Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxk8b9rSKOo
Appears to all be back online.
- amazon.com = back
- aws console = can login and work
- SES = queue's have cleared
Whole thing makes no sense. Unless they are planning on going full retard and abducting/killing/imprisoning someone, then minor harassment just makes you look like assholes. Impotent assholes at that. Cameron is bad, but he isn't Putin. Greenwald knows his threats are idle. Obama has been playing it cool and making some token concessions which is a much more media-savvy approach.
That's because they likely "requested" it.
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...wait, it wasn't a professional "partner"? I was under impression that the "partner" was in a professional sense throughout the article.
Everything back to normal now, so far as I can tell.
It seems to me that these days, entrepreneurs are in for the short term - they want to blow up fast, then sell off their company for the highest price possible. Few are in for the long term, and I don't understand why.
I use this on my site.. but for a different reason. Showing scroll location on very long articles. Like this one http://paulstamatiou.com/android-is-better

I was actually going to also have it display a toast-like "7 minutes [of reading] left" on the top left when you scroll a good amount.
> Regulation defined as the ability to control transactions.

I'm not sure where would you get this definition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation

> Regulation may refer to the following:

> A process of the promulgation, monitoring, and enforcement of rules, established by primary and/or delegated legislation.

> A written instrument containing rules having the force of law.

In this context they talk about monitoring and enforcing companies' use of bitcoins within legal system.
Well, OK, but that's orthogonal to the question of: what is causing this bloat, and why is that considered sacrosanct, as opposed to the user's time and energy? Reasonable people can disagree as to where that line is drawn, of course, but with sheerest garbage like Medium, where the putative goal is to give people something to read, it looks to me like they're driving a process for the sake of driving a process, and deserve to be mocked for it.
Amazon and AWS Console are back online :)
Negative refraction is just as strange a concept, and we seem to be slowly getting there technologically. So I'm actually hopeful this will happen someday.
nether was basically saying "you didn't have depression, just a little sadness". This was very rude and ignorant in my opinion.
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The same way transactions in any other currency are controlled: by making laws that say what you must and cannot do and what penalties apply if you don't comply.
Yes, but first someone in the British government had to have put this man on a list. Some government official consciously come up with a list of names of people to go after.
Another thing to think about, if you're working for a Wall Street bank (and likely other firms, but I can't comment on what their policies are), is that past a certain time you get a car service home. Opens up the search a bit as well.
Railroads were publicly funded. See the Pacific Railroad Acts 1862 & 64. They issued bonds... lots o bonds
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Yes, I think the Logging gem gives you a lot out of the box (like email notifications), and feels really easy to work with. It also plays nicely with gems like lograge[1] - which condenses your log lines very nicely whilst still keeping most important info.

[1]https://github.com/roidrage/lograge
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Most modern railroad use continuous welded rail, so there are no joints like what you're talking about. This is both stronger and quieter, but it can lead to problems when the temperature is too high or too load, because of thermal expansion.

"There are a number of ways to increase the resistance of rail to buckling. The first and most common is the use of rail anchors to limit the longitudinal expansion of the rail. Anchors come in a variety of designs, but they all apply several thousand pounds of clamping force on the base of the rail. When applied properly against each side of the crossties, the anchors prevent expansion of the rail in the longitudinal direction." - http://www.interfacejournal.com/features/03-05/track_bucklin...

For more, and pictures, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_stressing .

The UK had problems this summer because of buckling: http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/10549015.Rail_delays_as_trac... .
One could say there is nothing new in feedback control for vertical flight. It has even been coupled with GPS for precision motion and landing in rockets already many years ago by Armadillo Aerospace and others.

All this could have been done in the seventies, bar the GPS part, which would have required some more costly alternatives.

But even the V-2 had gyros on a free rotating platform that was connected to the thrust vectoring vanes that kept the rocket pointed to where the flight program required. The sensors weren't so good and you probably could not have throttled the V-2 to hover accurately, but maybe with radio guidance (that they actually used with some of the flights) it could have worked. Mechanical PID controllers date to late 1800s already (warship steering) so it was a totally straightforward thing to do, and was done by Goddard already. Nobody cared but the Germans...
hasn't this story been posted multiple times already?

Also it was made clear that he clearly violated the TOS and that his messages were unintelligible.
Ask HN: What happened to Proposition HN? ("$8000 for your side project")
Long ago, an anonymous user offered to pay $8000 to several people to build side projects.[1] The blog for the project hasn't been updated[2] since January, and the names of those selected were never made public.

Is anyone involved able to comment?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5037694
[2] http://hnproposition.blogspot.com/
As a Brit, I find it shameful.

Indeed, I find it hard to accept how blatant it all is, but with seemingly little public out rage. The abuse of anti terror laws to harass people who merely embarrass a so called democratic government is truly corrupt.

I mean, the police are being now asked why he was stopped under anti-terror laws, and they will abide by those self serving laws themselves by saying that they cant say why because its all top secret. Does any one really think the police will say, "we were asked to shake the guy down by the Hone Office, on behalf of Obama?" No, we'll just get the usual slight of language designed to let these people slither away. And most people will just accept it and move on.

What pains me most is that I think I find the lack of public interest singularly the most worrying aspect of this whole thing. No one really cares that much at all.

And then I think: well, if the majority want to sleep walk in to a future like and probably worse than this, well, fine. Just means an increase in hacker types buying "I told you so" t-shirts in a few years time. Oh, and a lot of pain for those caught up in the mean time. But who cares about those "terrorists", "pedophiles", "traitors", and "pirates" any way?

I dunno. I find it most frustrating.
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Scrollbars are virtually non-existent on Macs these days. Plus this works well on touch-based devices too. Overall, I like the concept and find it useful as well.

Edit: I'm referring to the reading progress bar concept, not to the loading status referenced in the original post.
However, websites can't control what browsers their users use, nor can they control how those browsers give feedback regarding load times.

They can control their own code.

Not saying that websites should implement this, but companies aren't going to want to point to browsers being the problem. Every company wants to (try to) control their users' experiences, for better or worse.
Nope, they are boyfriends and live together (in Brazil).
Here is a better summary of the situation: http://liorkaplan.wordpress.com/2013/06/01/bye-bye-non-free-...