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Salt Lake City, UT - Lucidchart

Lucidchart is building world class graphical applications in the browser and on mobile devices. Lucid is startup founded by Karl Sun, a former Google exec, and Ben Dilts, our CTO. We're profitable and rapidly growing in every dimension of the business and need people to join our team. For fun we raft river rapids on company retreats, have Friday BBQs, and eat lots of pizza. Talent and ability to learn are more important than specific skills.

BACKEND SOFTWARE ENGINEER (all experience levels) - Lucidchart runs with various decoupled services in a Linux environment using Scala, MongoDB, AWS, and MySQL. At Lucidchart your responsibilities would include enhancing existing services, building new services, integrating with 3rd party applications and ensuring services are highly available, secure, and scalable.

Requirements:
* Talent

Recommended experience:
* Building large products / applications
* Scala or Java
* MySQL or other relational database
* NoSQL databases (MongoDB especially desirable)
* Opscode Chef or Puppet
* Cloud computing (AWS)

FRONTEND SOFTWARE ENGINEER (all experience levels) - Lucidchart is powered by one of the largest Javascript codebases on the Internet (about 250k lines of JS), optimized so that the user experience is indistinguishable from an installed native application. Come help us show the tech world what can be done on the web.

Requirements:
* Talent

Recommended experience:
* Building large products / applications
* Javascript
* Google Closure compiler/library
* CSS/HTML/DOM manipulation
* jQuery
* node.js
* Native app development on Android and/or iOS

All applicants email resumes to jobs@lucidchart.com.
Source: https://github.com/perspectivezoom/curated-hn-hiring

I wrote it in about a day, so there's a lot of jenky code. Just wanted to get it out there and see if it's worth spending more time on.
You don't have to agree with it for it to be happening. Though, understanding that side of the argument can help solve the problem for both sides of the equation.
Security Bug That Let Hackers Delete Any Photo Off Facebook
They have tried this, I used to work for a company that makes an app for Android and iPhone. The app isn't great in itself, but it's part of a bigger service, and was even featured in an iPhone ad at one point.

Microsoft said that they'd pay $100,000 towards an app for WP7 but we said no. It sounds like a great deal, but the problem is that making the app is just the first part. You're now on the hook for maintaining the app, providing customer support, fixing bugs, adding new features etc...

If MS provided a guarantee that they'd pay for the ongoing support costs, that'd be one thing, but I'd imagine that would get very expensive very quickly.
The dashboard is the least interesting part of ArkOS. Using extremely inexpensive hardware for a decentralized cloud is the Big Idea.

I don't see much on how these things are supposed to integrate with each other, though. If they aren't trying to solve that problem...

Anyway, Webmin has been around for eons if you need that.
Comparison of the London startup scene with Silicon Valley
Why should users have to click refresh for pages to load more comments or to see when someone replies to you? The fact that reddit does not do this is not evidence that it would be confusing.
Facebook is merely a website for messaging and sharing photos. It is because of YOUR friends that you get the experience you do. So if you are having a poor experience then find better friends. Or remove them from your feed. Or setup groups so you can filter content better.

But honestly the problem quite clearly is you. The immature use of the term 'gay' to be derogatory. The fact that you dismiss the uncool people in your group because of fear of what others will think. The anger you have towards people who are merely enjoying their possibly once in a life time trip. You sound like a terrible person in spite of Facebook not because of it.
353,436 exposed ZTE devices found in net census
I have to congratulate the author - apparently she doesn't have a slightest idea how intense a real sexual harassment can be. I'm glad for her, really. It was just a cowardly dumb joke, and a totally not funny one, but sexual harassment, really? It underestimates the value of the words.

> ask yourself: would you do or say this to your mother, sister, or eventually your daughters? If the answer is no, then, it is inappropriate to do or say to a person you do not know very well.

I wouldn't ask my mother to a date, doest it mean asking a person on a date is a sexual harassment now?
Branching universes need not be falsifiable to be taken seriously, because that's not the theory. Rather it's a consequence of a theory (evolution of Schrödinger's equation sans collapse) and that theory is very falsifiable. In order for a theory to be falsifiable, you don't need all aspects of the theory to be falsifiable, just one. And branching universes is a prediction of a theory that has experimental support.

Let me take a non-quantum example to make the argument in a more intuitive setting. If we send out a spaceship at a high speed away from Earth, due to the ongoing expansion of the universe eventually the spaceship will be far enough away that the space between Earth and the spaceship will be expanding faster than the the speed of light, and hence the future light cones of the Earth and the spaceship will not intersect. There's no experiment we can do on Earth that could give us information about the spaceship once the spaceship hits this point of no return, but we still take seriously the proposition that the spaceship is still "real" and doing well because we have a broader theory (i.e. all of physics) that predicts it, even if we can't test this specific prediction.

(I view these two scenarios as being superficially dissimilar, but under the surface fairly similar. In each there is some element of "realness" that is predicted by theory but inaccessible to measurement. Only one is intuitive and the other is not.)
The irony is that we're all posting this on a site run by Paul Graham, who majored in Philosophy.
> I don't want you posting a photo of us together, because that sends the signal to other girls that I'm not available when I would definitely consider myself so.

That's not how girls work...
1% is a small percentage but can make up quite a large number of people.
Without an intuitive, user-friendly dashboard, targeted for actual users and not just sysadmins, making the "decentralized cloud" a reality isn't really possible :) The first problem to solve is making reliably self-hosting one's own data no longer rocket science. After that, interaction with other devices (meshnets, etc) may be a focus.
Brilliant Resource on Typography
4K video recording in a smartphone? Good job Acer
Acers newest phablet smartphone looks promising. 4k recording is a great feature although the problem is that 4k displays are now common atm. So it might just drain the battery without you making use of the feature.
I'm all for it, as long as it doesn't become a supply control mechanism that has onerous BS requirements like "X years experience with a licensed union tradesmen". Software is notorious for the "1 year of experience repeated 10 times" problem. Theses tests should be about pure aptitude.

Warning: If certification becomes more about permission than proficiency, you'll get corruption instead of competence.
To be honest, you can dramatically reform English spelling without encountering those problems very often provided your rule-of-thumb is that orthography ought to guide intelligible rather than prescribe "correct" pronunciation

That means leaving alone anomalies like thesis/antithesis (because "antithesis" pronounced phonetically is actually perfectly intelligible, even using the American antai- prefix which is jarringly different from the British anty-)
but it also means tackling the sheer impossibility of telling the doctor you would like medicine for a cough (cow? coup? Seb Coe?) without resorting to acting or a pronunciation dictionary

Shakespearean spelling varied more between early editions than many relatively radical proposed orthographies do from standard English. You can guess the opening words of a 1600 edition of A Midsommer Nights[sic] Dreame : "Now faire Hippolita, our nuptiall hower draws on apase: fower happy daies..." , but ironically only from trying to read it phonetically (the 1623 version is more readable)
http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Annex/Texts/MND/Q1/defaul...
Putting aside a recent claim that the universe's expansion isn't really accelerating - and instead someone forgot to plug spacetime dilation into the cosmological equations - we're still left with the issue that once the space probe leaves our light-cone we can't know that it wasn't hit by an asteroid.
To be honest, it just sounds like you care far too much about what other people think of you. Life's too short to please everyone, stop filtering your personality to please those on your friends list.
All about the Windows Snipping Tool
It's easy to judge, isn't it? It takes some courage to be honest and introspective, regardless of how you may judge the poster.
What you say about this person says as much about you as it does about them.
The price and time-line estimate make me sad and pessimistic for some reason. 30 years and $90 billion just to pull a fast train line between two cities in Japan? How long and how expensive then will real futuristic projects be, like colonization of other planets, space elevators, fusion reactors and so on?
10 YEARS WE,LL ALL BE DEAD PART 1
CBS and Time Warner Cable reach deal, will end blackout by 6PM ET
It's good for occasional use - especially with sandwich in one hand lol

Not sure about putting it on the floor never tried it before but probably won't be able to detect though, since the instructions also said to put it near monitor

Yes, my username is very local ;)
"Nobody has time for my fancy "overflow: scroll;" in a 600 x 600px box"

Seriously, with this one insight the author is ahead of a good third of the professional web designers out there.
Stating that one approach or the other is always the right way is the problem. Figure out which one works best for the type of site you are working on.

How your site will be used is often a high level indicator of which approach will provide a better experience for your users. Gmail for example, no public part of the site, not uncommon for users to leave it open in a tab all day. Often great for all Javascript approach.

Twitter on the opposite end. Lots of public facing pages, performance was worse when they required Javascript just to render 140 characters on the screen. This style of site is generally better off with a progressive enhancement approach.
What do I owe to society and why? Can you be more specific? And why do I owe it to society as a whole and not some particular individuals?
SATA controller corrupts data, writes secondary GPT in the center of the drive
Are there plans to include Email as a service in the future?

Also, will it be ported to other, more powerful hardware?
Has been dead for a while. The people who complain on HN about "I get a white page" are treated like trolls.
Well have a point back, gave me a chuckle. Been a long day so it was not a high bar ;-)
The D-Wave machine is not a general quantum computer.

For example, the quantum computer that factored 21 into 3 x 7 did it by using Shor's algorithm for quantum factoring in polynomial time. The D-Wave machine cannot implement Shor's algorithm.

The D-Wave machine would be more capable on a different problem, one that maps efficiently onto the D-Wave machine's problem space. But we're talking about factoring here.
You got me. My elitist comment was much much worse than another elitist comment.
Exactly; those of us "vituperating priests" who rail against JavaScript abuse are mostly complaining about things like plain text (or even text plus photos) requiring JavaScript. You want to create some whiz bang new thing that needs Turing completeness? Go to town with JavaScript. You want to require enabling a possible malware vector and chew through computer resources like they're candy just to read a few paragraphs of text? Forget you, I'll keep browsing. And so will crawlers, so you'll never get linked. Attention is scarce, information is not - do the math.
Facebook as crazy as it is is useful. I just have a few simple rules. I don't post anything that I wouldn't want on the front page of the newspaper.I LET facebook know my interests so it keeps the feed interesting. I only friend people who I want to have a conversation with. That aside, it's a neat Instant messenger, and not a bad place to chat with groups and the like. Everybody has different uses for it, and it's not meant for everyone. I think each social network has a different niche it fulfills.
In all honesty, why should I care about you, the tiny minority? Why should I waste any time at all worrying about you?
I guarentee that you discouraging your kids from having Facebook accounts (or whatever their equivalent is) will only do harm. Privacy in the modern era means being selective about the disclosure of content. It doesn't mean completely pulling away from social networks which are increasingly vital to social interaction.

Plus pretty sure you don't understand modern day kids otherwise you would know that private tools e.g. Snapchat are more often the real invasion of privacy.
"You're going to starve when you get old" completely contradicts the basic premise of this discussion.
We're talking about BIG in the context of an increasingly automated world, where fewer and fewer people need to work. This includes caring for the elderly (30 years from now, that might be completely automated).
If I'll get my own share of BIG when I'm old, why would I care about children?
* Social network - good.

* Facebook - very bad implementation of the social network.
Trust, but verify.

Same reason contracts are written down.
And yet there's a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1C:Enterprise being a leading software suite in Russia. It's source code terrifies me every time.
Was anyone doing that here? Seemed like it was more of "good for you, here's some things to improve".
"When someone pays you minimum wage he is trying to say he would pay you less if it wasn't against the law." -- Chris Rock

I agree, but it is hard for me to find sympathy for businessmen who hold wages so low. This behavior is widespread in the restaurant business, and it isn't limited to the staff stealing from the restaurant.
Reliable self-hosting of data is not a technical problem or a UI problem. It's a political problem. True Cryptography for the masses is Too Dangerous.

But just talking about the UI question, "intuitive, user-friendly dashboard" is absolutely not the issue when it comes to systems administration. I can tell ArkOS/Genesis is already way too far off course because there is a separate GUI interface to /etc/fstab.
I rather think the onus is on people like you to come up with a reason that they _shouldn't_.
Yes and yes! Email is in the works and should be ready within 1-2 months. First goal is to get it working well and out of beta on the RPi, then after that it will be ported to other architectures.
WallStreetOasis[1] is the leading forum for discussions and frequently asked questions.

[1]: http://www.wallstreetoasis.com
Laing was an anti-institutionalist who became famous for challenging the inhumane practices of psychiatry (his profession) and helping to set up safe houses where people having psychotic episodes could undergo them with emotional support from others without the intervention of medical or social authority. He became associated with a model of psychotic experience as a kind of inner process that some people go through. He was a charismatic guy and became a star of the 1960s counterculture, a bit like a Timothy Leary or Allen Ginsburg--an older mentor and kindred spirit to the hippies. He was also involved in the radical liberation politics of the time.

Laing's work was about giving support to non-conformist experience and building a conceptual model in which it could exist on its own terms, speak in its own voice and so on, instead of immediately being reduced to mental illness, a brain disorder, delinquency, or what have you. This was a popular view in the late 1960s. The idea that at the same time he would have been consulting for the Rand Corporation on how to apply psychological principles to reinforce a docile consumerist society doesn't pass the laugh test. It would have been far out of character for him.

If I recall correctly, Curtis brought up Laing in the context of game theory and how it was being (mis-)applied psychologically. There had been a massive bestseller called "Games People Play" in the mid 60s that applied some of these ideas to ordinary life. Many people became interested in the power dynamics of everyday relationships. This tied in to some of Laing's earlier work (especially about the power dynamics of family systems), so it was natural for him to use this language in his later work. My memory is that Curtis picked up on that and linked it to the mathematical game theorists of the Rand Corporation--and some of their more Strangelovian politics--in an entirely specious way. He simply juxtaposed them and said they were working on the same thing, with scary background music. No doubt it was very convincing, except to anyone who ever read Laing. He might as well have put J. Edgar Hoover together with the Beatles.

I hope it's clear that my point isn't about R.D. Laing. It's rather that I randomly happened to have read him and so could instantly see that Curtis wasn't just a little off there, he was totally full of shit. So I can't help but wonder where else he might be.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games_People_Play_(book)
I used to feel uncomfortable after reading articles like this. But as the years went by, I gained more experience, and understood what programming is really about. I no longer worry. But if you spent a total of 2 months on your programming education and are now gainfully employed copying and pasting answers from Stack Overflow into your editor, perhaps you should.
> that is not an attempt to create a free and humane disruption

See https://diasporafoundation.org
I am all for security in depth, but the www-data processes still has the private key in memory.
Makes it slightly harder to get at, through other vectors though.
I thought there were documented expressions in west Africa of particular genes that seem to make for great runners, the same way the Sherpas have been proven to poses genes that make them more suited to mountaineering than populations without similar high-altitude adaptations.
huh, interesting.
Is this a HW or SW problem?
3TB drives are a bit of a sticky issue with older controllers so I wouldn't be surprised if this was the issue or not.
I think that Paul Graham was referring to quite different case than Simone in this post. When you're non-native English speaker working for already established company, you can count on the fact that the customer has some incentive in communicating with you. But when you are a CEO of a startup nobody knows or trusts, people won't care and it's not that big surprise.
I understand it happens. I was disagreeing with the attempt at justifying it as acceptable behavior.

The moral way to improve your pay is to find a way to make your labor worth more to the employer.

For a restaurant worker, that could be things like finding ways to boost sales, reduce wastage, find less expensive vendors, improve efficiency, etc. It's highly unlikely that any restaurant has successfully optimized all aspects of their operations.
How much is a FaceBook Friend worth?  $174
Can you show me at what point there was some actual evaluation of why he was doing the things he was ? Because sorry but I don't see anything courageous or introspective there.

I just see a blind rant by somebody who clearly cares way too much about what his friends think.
I'm not glad Flash is dying. If we're considering requiring JS for static pages, we didn't learn anything from the horrors of Flash's heyday. Most of the time when I'm browsing the web—does "browsing the web" sound too 1995?—I want a request to return hypertext. A text file with hyperlinks, sections, titles, embedded pictures, forms. I don't want any computation done, I don't want a runtime, I want a trillion linked augmented text files.
The Business Model Innovation That Could Sink Apple
I am not a beliver in this - partners help a lot - they can make a business!
Do you have any statistics to back up your assertion that it's growing? From what I've seen from my own anecdotal experience, as well as from access logs from past places I've worked, this minority is vanishingly small (<0.5%, even among those using screen readers it's ~1.5%) and shrinking by the day as more mobile devices support javascript.

Regardless, there is no right or wrong answer in general, there is only the right or wrong answer for your particular website/market. If a significant number of the users you want to support have JS disabled, then by all means, build a site that runs without JS. But it's a cost-benefit analysis. For most sites I've worked on, the cost of lost business due to users without JS is (massively) dwarfed by the added development cost of building a full-featured app that doesn't require JS. If that means I lose you as a customer, I'm not losing sleep over it.
these huge genetic variations only set the ceiling of what you are capable of.

It also sets how fast you can get there.
Wow. That was a very in depth explanation. Thank you.

I'm currently working on a very HTML/JS heavy open source project and a co-developer had included some center and bold tags in the code. I will instead replace them with em/strong and inline:center; since I would not like our project to be judged by our absense of "best practice".
For a site that's (apparently) hosting an article about a security vulnerability, they _really_ need to turn debug mode off.

For those wondering what I'm on about when the site starts functioning again, I got an error page akin to a Django page with `DEBUG = True`, listing useful information as the full path to the PHP script being run, the user it's being run as, , etc.
SproutCore 1.10.0 Release Candidate 1
California will never build their line. They'll soak up the federal money in study after study, and will ultimately decide it's uneconomical. In the meantime, projects like the Southeastern High Speed Rail Corridor¹, which is actually acquiring right of way and straightening rail lines to permit high speed travel, will be starved of funds.

¹ http://www.sehsr.org