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Android Hacker? Come work with the team that is reinventing farming. 
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-Experience with offline caching and synchronization

-A strong desire to constantly challenge yourself and learn

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Bonuses:

-Personal or professional work published in the app/play store

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-Significant contributions to open source projects

-Proficiency with using git in a team environment

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My first webapp (runs offline): A very simple notepad
This is a very simple note pad that I've created with my little bit html, css & js knowledge.
i've used FileSaver.js

pls comment :)
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Try lack of trust, or distrust in authority, it sounds better than conspiracy. Some replace vaccines with fear of disease, and anger at the lack of a trustworthy gov't.
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timegm actually already makes a huge difference, thanks! Might be useful to make a small fast date parsing library based on the sqlite source code.
It might incentivise those companies to find ways of doing business with less human labour. For example computer checkout /ordering systems or more emphasis on doing business online.
I mean http://pwsafe.org/
thanks for the article
Let's see the reasons why the author of nginx would not be accepted into ycombinator :

Strong Russian accent : check

Over 40 years old : check

No revenue stream : check
I hope web developers/designers learn this lesson -- quickly. Perhaps we need to re-think how we do validation. For example, SmartyStreets is trying to make the validation of street addresses painless, allowing you to type it basically however you want: http://smartystreets.com/kb/liveaddress-api/website-forms
Probably the same actions, but discuss openly the implications? I'm not saying they're doing something that doesn't make sense, or is immoral or something. Just the functional capacity they're giving themselves. Full control over the OS through a closed source binary implies the ability to put in any code they want--nefarious or not. What happens then when the update mechanism is cracked?
This is a terrible naming choice, it's exactly the same as:

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/uikit/...

Just one quick search could've ruled out "UIKit" as an available name for a software library.
> Just like we shouldn't have to trust the cops not to bust my door down, right?

Sure, if it were possible to stop the government from doing anything at all I would be in favour of that, letalone obviously positive things like not spying on everybody or busting down their doors. Of course, there are no doors that require more energy than that available in the universe to forcibly enter. That's not the case for cryptography so it makes sense to exploit that. What am I missing here?

> It sounds snarky but it cuts to the core of the peoples' relationship with government. How much do you trust the government? How much can you trust the government?

This sounds like it is supposed to be some kind of profound question, but the answer is consistent and obvious in both cases, not at all.

> That's why libertarians are generally logically consistent when they oppose the NSA, and entitlement programs, and giant government services, etc., because they're the ones who will tell you that a government big enough to give you $FOO is big enough to take it away from everyone else.

Sure, I'd tell you that, I don't see why it's inconsistent to believe that and simultaneously want to dismantle the government? Isn't it actually pretty much the only logically consistent position?
Hey Japan, What's Up With Your Startup Culture?
Why Developers Should Care About SDN
Didn't the Volt have a battery fire problem?
Of course there are. There's many. You just gotta get out of the elitest groups.
It doesn't matter either way. If you wish to account for leap seconds then the device that creates the timestamp needs access to that very same database.

The advantage of ignoring leap-seconds on the recorder is you can map any sufficiently precise monotonic clock to UNIX time with a simple linear equation. Personally I think it makes a lot more sense to keep the complexity contained to the decoder, rather than the encoder where bugs could mean you end up not recording an accurate timestamp to begin with.
Bad Pharma too, also by Goldacre.
I wish there were some good competitors. The updated Google Maps for Android really sucks. It is much tougher for me to use than before they minimized the UI and worse, it is untrustworthy since they removed the GPS accuracy circle and have to try to guess the accuracy based on much the pointer sliders around. Can't even tell if you are actually on a block or not now in cities without hoofing it over to an intersection and trying to convince the damn UI to show you a street name by zooming and in out a bunch. Meanwhile I have to switch to Nokia or Apple, I guess, if I want to switch maps for real. OSM is not good enough.
if you view source it has <meta name="robots" content="NOINDEX" />

why ?
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Why? Every project has inherent incentive to use Kickstarter to hype themselves and other projects have had matching-fund promises too.
Because it potentially encourages using the data in a technically wrong way. What I mean by "wrong" has nothing to do with morality. I mean "wrong" as in people who think they can predict behavior will over-interpret the data in a technically incorrect way and try to apply that model causing real harm. That might mean giving insurance companies an excuse to over-interpret health data to increase rates or law makers legislating discriminatory laws based on bad data analysis. It gives scam artists extra ammunition to peddle their crap.
Keyboard acceleration. I have never seen an HTML control kit that handles the Tab or Arrow keys correctly or even very well.

No standards. For example - Drag and Drop. There is no standard system for Drag and Drop between components in the browser because it doesn't know about these controls, it only knows div div div div div. So, in general - it's just harder to write good code that targets HTML components because there are no standards for complex components.

(Some more patterns with no standards for complex components: Data Binding, Encapsulation (grouping one or more component into a parent component and walking parent/child components), Inheritance.)

And then, there's performance. Native trumps HTML here, no contest.
Yes, like the dreaded Gmail new compose
Again, name one country in the world that does not have this position. You tried to change the topic to law enforcement, we're talking about spy agencies. They operate on different rules.

MI5/6 doesn't go 'oh poppycock, they've hopped on the chunnel and fled to France.' They talk to the French agencies or if it's too secret, they go and do it them self. Mossad doesn't give a damn where in the world you are.

'Everyone, everywhere, our laws only exist in our country' is, and has been for a long time, standard operating procedure for these agencies in every country for basically their entire existence.
It's Almost Time To Throw Out Your Books
I don't understand why it complains for ö but not é or ü. o.O
Please. Stop using sense and UP TO DATE arguments. Everyone who talks negatively about PHP always talks about PHP4... These people are basing their opinions about a language they barely even used a decade ago.. This is annoying.
If you run KeePass (not X), e.g. via Mono on Linux or natively on Windows, you can use the KeeFox Firefox plugin. I believe there are Chrome extensions as well.

I didn't find a better linux-native browser-integrating non-cloud alternative yet :(
Sausage Fest. Our first attempt with big data.
linux development is majorly funded by those same old school (with some new entries) companies with the same agenda of pushing linux in a friendly direction.

the "community" has long since ceased to be what most people think it is.
One place I've seen a lot of web developers really screw up on this when they try to write something for mobile, they make tons of fields required that they really don't need. Meanwhile people really hate typing and entering stuff on mobile and it is really tough on the users. So much so that many just ditch. I guess novice developers just see they can mark things required in some library trivially, so they do so without thinking through the consequences.
You must go to weird parties.
Android 4.3 is probably more popular than most people are assuming
And I know that the CIA organized a fake "vaccination drive" to get Osama bin Laden.

I had not heard of that until now, but that will be incredibly damaging to vaccination efforts in developing countries (where vaccination is most effective).
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"Job growth has been stagnant for 5 years?"

13. I.e., since 2000.
Ask HN:Can you master AngularJS without prior Javascript experience?
I am currently studying "Javascript:The Good Parts" and was wondering if I would do just fine by jumping into AngularJS.
" the part of the study that most surprised other experts was an experiment indicating that, with the right diet, it might be possible to change the bacteria in a fat person’s gut so that they promote leanness rather than obesity. "

Right. So back to the same common sense advice. It would seem wise to simply fix your diet first, maybe throw in a little exercise, and then see what happens. That is, before trying things like fecal transplants.
It's not free but Gaia GPS works well on my devices. I believe they recently released an android client. Besides the various Topo maps they have an osm layer that's available via internet or for offload cache.

I use it for when going to a rural area I'm not familiar with, since Internet and phone signals is still non-existent or very slow in those areas.
A similar concept is touched upon here:
How Fecal Transplants Work - http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/human-biology/fecal-tr...
SIMPLE [1], mostly. There is also IMPP [2], an XMPP competitor which has a bunch of RFCs behind it, but never gained any implementations, as far as I know.

Alternatives such as the MSN, AOL and Skype's IM protocols are shoddily defined, cruft-ridden ad-hoc protocols that people have been mostly able to reverse engineer, but they are not useful except for interoperability with existing networks.

SIMPLE has not been deployed to any great extant, that I know. The benefit to XMPP is that it's not just well defined (a bunch of RFCs with a working group behind them), but also a proven protocol that has years of production use under its belt. The problem with the IM protocol landscape is entirely political. Everyone wants to own the network, nobody wants to be compatible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMPLE

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_Messaging_and_Presence...
Show HN: l10n-html - A module that makes localizing HTML easier.
Handy tip: If you want to use ssllabs.com server test against a non-HTTP based SSL service on your host which runs on a different port, you can temporarily add this rule to iptables so that any connetions from SSL labs on port 443 get redirected to it:

iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -s 173.203.79.216 -p tcp --dport 443 -j REDIRECT --to-port 5223

In this particular case, I turned on legacy SSL in my XMPP servers (Prosody) configuration so that an SSL on connect service existed on port 5223.

Of course, in the results that SSLlabs displays, you'll get some strange information as it's expecting HTTP, but the majority of the information is useful.
I think the idea would be that you could fast-track the process, with compounded benefits / amplifying the effects. I've not looked into this much, so not sure if that is a possibility.
For historical dates, I'd rather everyone knew how to convert accurately to and from UTC (2 conversions), rather than relying on everyone to have a bug-free and up to date implementation of 2N(N-1) conversions.

That said, the exception for local time, at least in my opinion, is agreeing on dates in the future meant for human interaction (e.g. "I'll meet you at 7 AM local time in Time Square on the 3rd of April 2068"). Here time zone rules may actually change before the date transpires, and you can't be sure of the representation in any other zone or format until closer to the event.
Honestly, Twitter has even banned games I've written that let users easily tweet their scores. Bans claimed they were clients. So don't think they are being particularly fair or accepting around their TOS. It's more like they sick robot banning algorithms on anything that moves.

Amusingly, I've seen several big apps drop the Twitter API in favor of just asking the user for their username and password and pretending to be browsers. This is pretty much the only way around issues like where popular apps run out of login tokens that are now limited by the API. Terrible for users of course because they have to give out their password, but better than no Twitter integration at all.

So Twitter's API is basically so bad now that client apps are better off pretending they are web browsers.
>The fact that he didn't seems to argue against the hypothesis that vaccines do cause autism.

It does no such thing.
Common sense still has to be scientifically tested.
The NYT interactive explanation of the America's Cup boats
Would NGINX Inc be the sort of company that would really benefit from ycominbator investment and would be profitable for ycombinator to invest in? We shouldn't assume that being selected for ycombinator is the measure of worth towards which early stage companies should aspire.
Thanks for the detailed info. By the name alone I assumed it was some kind of a hardware store :)

Slightly on a tangent, but it makes me wondering if things like screens with audio in-store is exactly the kind of marketing spiel that backfires. Short-term, if you put one, I bet it could increase sale. The novelty, the attention grabbing potential etc. But this is a very short-term, short-sighted win, because when it becomes prevalent everywhere, it's just a nuisance and probably decreases sales. (just my non-scientific, half rant random thoughts on the subject).

In any case, I'm glad to hear there are some successful alternatives out there, that realize the potential of not jumping on the marketing bandwagon.
Very active development, already multiple clients, encrypted and P2P only: http://tox.im/
Those were the allergies I was referring to in my original post. Thank you for providing not only the relevant info, but also the corresponding Wikipedia and Pubmed links.
Not sure, these sorts of marketplaces exist largely to commoditize labour. This is especially true if there is more supply than demand. Any buyer can expect to receive competing bids and is likely to choose the cheapest that will get the work done.

Higher skilled sellers who can demand higher prices will want to avoid these platform for that reason. They don't want to have the platform owner taking a cut when they are capable of finding customers on their own. This leads to a sort of lemon market where
the buyers who are willing to pay the highest rates for the best workers will tend to avoid these places altogether.
I am 40. I know only one person who had polio (as a child); a teacher of mine from my high school. I also saw an iron lung once, but it wasn't in use.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux, here is the relevant part:

"Since the initial release of its source code in 1991, it has grown from a small number of C files under a license prohibiting commercial distribution to its state in 2009 of over 370 megabytes of source under the GNU General Public License."
> The answer is to deliver benefits to society as a whole, and that comes from restructuring our economy to benefit workers.

Isn't it more likely to be a political problem ? I am thinking capitalism and neo-liberal tenets are tainting technologies and those philosophy hold the responsibility for the current situation. The job/resource/supply/demand pool, despite what pro free market supports believe, isn't limitless.
"It’s important to note that Craigslist doesn’t allow external services to post listings there and Airbnb had to go out of its way to simulate that feature."

The author might make a good politician.
>...but these middle-men are all about muddying the waters for the (short term) benefit of their clients at my personal expense.

I think that they are misleading their clients just as much as prospective buyers. The resultant cloud of garish, rainbow hued fog intruding between buyer and seller reduces the efficiency of the market, and brings only short term illusory benefit to the advertising industry (at least until their credibility dissipates).

It boils down to "Bullshit, damned bullshit, and marketing".
Thoughts about stats of webservers usage
Well ... it is simple math. If the vaccine is effective 95% (pretty good on its own) and you come in contact with 10 sick people you have a good 40% chance to catch it.

That is the whole things with vaccines - the herd immunity is as important in protection as the vaccine itself. It is virtuous positive feedback loop.
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And why exactly is that bad?

Basically they use FindTheBest, which takes info from various sources (not just cnet). I guess AOL either owns FindTheBest or they have an agreement with them.

If that is bad, then what do you think of google? Their search engine is a machine-generated series of scraped website snippets, laced with adverts that track practically every site you visit.

Also, what do you think of linkedin (which I see you have an account on?) I can't even view your full profile because linkedin want to screw me for some money to even view anyone's profile now. Also they offer to tell you who has viewed your profile if you pay them money. That seems a lot more shitty than what AOL/Techcrunch is doing in my opinion.

I think all large companies are evil in some way.
> we selectively decline / delay vaccinations

Interested to hear your justification for declining / delaying vaccine's, but not considering yourself anti-vaccine.
>Again, name one country in the world that does not have this position. You tried to change the topic to law enforcement, we're talking about spy agencies. They operate on different rules.

I didn't change the topic at all. I can't quote the relevant laws in this case but as far as I know the law in Europe is that you need a warrant to get the information and that requirement doesn't disappear if the owner of the information is a foreigner.

That's what's truly amazing in the USG's position. I agree that everyone tries to spy on information on the wire, but the idea that you can demand any information at rest from any company as long as the owner of the information is a foreigner is an amazing position to hold.

There are two other reasons to move your data to your own jurisdiction from US services. 1) the US has the most well funded military so your local spooks probably have less capabilities 2) if one of your local spooks spies on you at least you're in the same jurisdiction and have a small amount of agency (the courts, the vote).
As said elsewhere, passwords stored in LastPass are encrypted locally. They do not store your password so they officially don't have a way to decrypt your passwords. I agree that it's a matter of trust as your passwords are still stored on their servers.
This is tangentially related, but here is less OT than in most discussions :)

I'm currently building http://www.bandol.it, a Humble Bundle clone targeted at Italian Independent Music (and, maybe, books).

I'm experiencing the dreaded chicken and egg problem: bands won't give me their music if I don't have a big following, while people won't follow me if I don't offer them good bands.

How did Humble Bundle solve this?
You are raving. Every society has thoughtcrimes—no sensible person voted for them, civil liberties do not apply, and there is no recourse or appeal.

All the U.S. influence means is that you now have to check CNN.com as well as the Daily Mail. If CNN has weeks of coverage of new anti-tomato laws, move your pro-tomato website to a non-American server. For the most part, the CIA is just a bunch of fashion-conscious hipsters with really cool spy shit. Avoid whatever is unfashionable and you're safe.

If you really want to worry about government surveillance, worry about one of your friends drinking an epic amount of cider and deciding to use your bank card on a kiddie porn website as a lark. The NSA's influence is nothing compare to what your local thoughtcrime enforcers do.
I have a personal interest in people in non-tech professions who automate their own workflows.

Can you expand on what code you wrote, here or to my nick@gmail?
I have been wishing for this ever since the company I work for standardized communication on Google Plus/Hangouts (which I don't normally use) with the company Gmail account (which I only use for this, so I'm not usually logged into it). :-/

I can use Adium's XMPP support for the plaintext IM stuff, but for Hangouts I have to keep the damn window open all the time, logged into the company account, or people won't be able to call me. Every time someone calls, or I have to call someone, I have to hunt down the window/tab where Plus lives.

Wrapping Plus/Hangouts in an app would solve this for me. Anyone know if someone has done that with Firefox or Chrome (on a Mac)?
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"In Europe this week, President Obama has been making similar claims when asked about NSA spying, repeatedly assuring people that NSA surveillance is overwhelmingly devoted to stopping terrorism threats."

They can't say anything consequential without a qualifier. "Overwhelmingly devoted" means that surveillance is also deployed for other reasons.

From Der Spiegel: "But the UN and the EU are also listed as espionage targets, with issues of economic stability as the primary concern. The focus, though, is also on trade policy and foreign policy (each rated "3") as well as energy security, food products and technological innovations (each rated "5")." http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/secret-nsa-documen...