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Voxel (Palo Alto, CA) - Local

We run mobile apps in the cloud (virtualized) so you could use them without first downloading the binaries. Help us change how people create and distribute mobile apps.

We are a small team, and are looking for a couple of hackers to join us. Competitive salary + equity. http://voxel.com/jobs

Server Scaling Engineer

* You love building & scaling distributed systems

* You've built systems that serve millions of users

* You have managed production systems and had the joy of seeing it go down unexpectedly... at 2am in the morning

Systems Engineer

* Help us build the virtualization platform that powers Voxel

* You are good with low level programming and speak fluent C

* You enjoy solving hard problems with creative solutions
Okay, y'know what? There's a lot of other industries with problems with racism and sexism. Nobody pretends that, say, oil riggers are a classy bunch.

The difference is professionalism. The software industry is founded by young upstarts who broke all the rules of big business, and don't see a need to bring any back. There are no steel mills with foosball and yoga classes. There are no banks where tellers wear flip-flops and cargo shorts to work. No foremen who decorate their office with anime statues and posters. We created our own culture, rejecting the stuffiness of big business.

But we might've thrown the baby out with the bath-water when it comes to a certain amount of professional conduct. Because a key difference here is that, while a lot of other businesses might have characters like Pax and the TitStare guys, they would know better than to parade this crap out front of the public gallery. And in this case, image is important beyond the embarrassment to IT. The image is also what's keeping the problem from solving itself.

If women and poor minorities never become a normal part of IT, then they'll never be accepted by the vast swath of people who just can't accept things until they're everywhere. And if crap like this keeps happening, they'll all know to steer the heck away from the industry.

So have a little class. Put on your big-boy pants when you come to work.
Both sales and service completely lack the trust I'm talking about. There's even more oversight and micromanagement. Are you making your numbers? Are you doing the required number of cold calls per day? Do we need to take away some of your territory?
Hacking your twenties - A simple list of advice for the average twenty-something
Also, if you have the Google Play Store then you have Google Play Services which auto-updates without user interaction or notification and has almost unrestricted access to the device.
At a smaller tech company (not sure how big Return Path is) it feels like so much investment is put into each hire that they don't really have the "replaceable parts" metaphor - and I know I'd rather know someone was unhappy and try to fix the reasons why, than suddenly learn they were going.

I agree that the last-minute counter-offer can be way too late. (It's also pretty unfair if you've already accepted another job - I've heard of several cases of startups trying to hire people employed at larger companies who had the hire fall through due to a generous counter-offer.)
> First, you need to teach to the level per activity.

This can be accomplished.

Imagine you have a set of similar students by age, say Kindergarten - 2nd grade. Imagine that you have 4 classrooms and 4 teachers, each with a particular subject (math, science, reading/writing, geography/history). Each teacher teaches the same subject at multiple levels. Then you just send the student to the skill appropriate class.

If you were to take classes above your age determined grade, it'd basically be like skipping a grade. If you're at your age level for learning, there's no difference. But for everyone in between they get a mix of more advanced learning where they need it.

I may or may not have had first hand experience with this model
Use "I quit" to quit your job and use whatever the author tells you to get fired.
I'm not saying that banks fraudulently set out to make people homeless - I am saying they were incompetant in losing the certificates (or buying mortgages without them). and that I would favour allowing incompetence to have a market based effect on those who practise it - instead of using the law to protect the companies.

companies ship products with know bugs in in a calculated risk that firstly the bugs do not violate laws and contracts, and second the bugs have no market based effect. if a software company ships with those bugs then they display same levels of in ompetant e

and yes the ratio is probably wrong
The article explicitly says "Characters with the same name can exist on different servers, so the mind-boggling 3.8 million unique names found in the dataset was not expected."
In my own experience workplaces simply don't change based on complaints from the bottom up.

A junior dev that perceived everyone else as being okay with the status quo probably thought it was easier to find another opportunity than to rock the boat. Add to it that strategic job hopping virtually guarantees a raise or promotion faster and better than waiting for your current employer to do so and I would totally do what your junior dev did.
Hackers Flooding Into Brazil
The Graphic Foundations of American History
I guess I'll just have to wait until they release this in magnum size to accommodate my monster dongle.
I can't tell, are you agreeing or disagreeing? There were lots of predictions from the 60s that transportation speeds would continue to increase, so this would be a good example of how hard it is to predict technological advances.
I can't find details of his hack, but I am curious if his detector detects actual read events (when his device responds with its ID) or if it is just an RF power detector. Is there a link to a technical description?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat,_Sick_and_Nearly_Dead
That article is completely missing the "revolving" part of the analogy. Khuzami was previously at a leading position for Deutsche Bank, only then in 2009 did he join the SEC. He then left again in 2013 for Kirkland & Ellis.

You can't just group him together with the lower layers that start in government and want to cash out in private later. These usually don't come back.
What part of "Science Friday" is not Hacker/Science-y enough?
> If you ever manage to have a rational discussion with an environmentalist (extremely hard ...
>Do you have anything serious to add? If you want me to answer any questions, you have to show that you want a serious discussion. Just posting a cute question alone won't suffice.

Wow, that is defensive and ignorant - my question was short (or 'cute') because it didn't need extraneous lexicon. I'm simply curious about which environmental regulations are considered harmful so I could research them and educate myself. So no, I wasn't adding anything, but it was a serious question. Conversely, you went off on a huge tangent about atheists, deists, Republicans, and Democrats and still somehow did not answer my question. So I'll assume you don't know.

> Doing so is a tactic to distract opponents which is pretty disingenuous.

Well sailor Casseres, if you want to have a rational discussion without distracting yourself, how about you just genuinely answer the question.
His presentation also featured pictures he took of many NY police's personal cars with deliberately obscured license plates so they can't be automatically read (and other features like illegally too-tinted windows, etc).

*edit: found the presentation at https://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc-archives/dc-21-archive....
If we're getting cranky about spelling, it's "spelled". Spelt is an ancient variety of wheat.

"Gubment" is pretty silly, though.
I had thought it was common knowledge that E-ZPasses were used to collect real-time traffic estimates; certainly I've known for years that i-Pass (the Illinois equivalent) was used for this purpose. Unfortunately, some quick googling does not appear to locate any information on this, so now I don't remember where I heard / read this in the first place.
Oh look, it's the weekly 'misogyny' post on HN. Please people, act like adults and professionals and don't whine about every single thing that offends you. It's your right to be offended, it's your right to also be booted off a team that you create problems in.
Right. Teaching depends upon age level - attention span, available concepts to build on, interests. I have dealt with boys for years as a Scout leader, and age matters a lot when determining the teaching approach.
Old Compose Brings Back Gmail's Classic Compose Window
Slightly reluctantly, but agreed!
Bucket Brigade is a better term for this kind of attack. Non-gendered speech and all.
This reminds of Little Brother by Cory Doctorow that I just read two weeks ago: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/954674.Little_Brother
Not when you are morbidly obese like the author was. When you are that big( pushing 300lbs) it's not uncommon to loose 5lbs a week at the start.
Is there any way to install a switch to kill the tag when you don't plan on using it? If that's possible, how difficult would it be to control this on/off switch with a spare smart phone based on approved GPS location?
Your license plate is always visible, it's probably a nicer target for people interested in tracking you.

Search for "license plate" on http://www.zdnet.com/wikileaks-uncovers-trapwire-surveillanc...
I dropped around 60lbs (5'10" SW: 285) in first half of 2012 and have roughly maintained since (crept back to 235 - down to 230 again, still aiming for 200!).

I made two small habit changes that I feel made a drastic difference:

* Bring lunch to work everyday (brown bag, leftovers)
* If I want to watch TV, I must be moving on the treadmill

I would still go out to eat at work about once every two weeks and I would sometimes sneak in an episode of Breaking Bad on the couch, but overall, I stuck to those rules and everything else seemed to fall into place.
The Steve Jobs 95 Interview unabridged
Clarion Android IVI head unit includes WiFi hotspot
a) Fog Creek doesn't have an HR department. At most, it's been the two office managers dealing with incoming resumes, booking travel for candidates, and scheduling interviews.

b) If you step back and imagine taking a non-cynical view of this, it really is just a simple suggestion. "We've found everyone's happier if you try to do this." Add to that the fact that it is under the huge header that begins with "Suggestions..." and you might actually believe it is a suggestion, not a policy.
Wow, I really like this.
Thank you for redesigning Webmin. I used it for a client's server and the functionality was fantastic, the design a bit less so. A Bootstrap'd frontend sounds fantastic.
Ad hominem attack, really?

A single post or two on the name I could understand, but every comment? HN fixates on the absurd.
Why is the weight loss mechanism different under those circumstances?
I think what you're not-so-eloquently trying to get at is that while some people consider a particular cause noble and worth effort, others might consider it out of scope.

However, in the context of this particular cause, it's often the case that those who set the scope are the least directly impacted by the problems which the cause is fighting against. Given lack of experience, and especially a lack of empathy, it often looks like a non-issue. People who just want to focus on their problem domain at the expense of their duties to their personnel can easily can fall into this category.

Put bluntly, people like that should not be responsible for other people.

Edit:

> Create problems on a team, you will get bounced from the team

As it should be. However if this is implemented correctly, standing up for yourself should never be viewed as creating a problem.
For North American phone numbers, it's fairly common to input your phone number with the preceding country code of 1. It would be nice if the library accounted for that.
The average weight loss is supposedly that. Not everyone falls into that range and so long as you are eating enough to live, are enjoying yourself and not starving to death and are getting exercise it's not dangerous.

That said, he (and anyone doing it) should probably check in with the doc just to make sure something internal isn't getting out of whack.
FastTrak (used in the SF Bay Area) have a warning, laying this out when you buy the devices. You don't actually need the device though, as each bridge using it also uses cameras to read license plates. It's more convenient this way, as you just need to register your vehicle on their website.
Rape sentence reverberates across India
What opinions are "not acceptable professional positions"? Supporting regulations that might harm one's industry? Supporting deviant sexual practices? Supporting communism?

You also seem to be implying (without explicitly stating) that Dickinson was racist or sexist while hiring. Is this an actual claim you are making, or was the implication unintended?
The technique in this post doesn't account for an intrinsic people problem in organizations: butthurt.
I have done this the last 2 times I changed jobs. It worked out well for me both times. If you are considered to be a valuable employee, and you have management that is the least bit competent, you won't "just be replaced" for looking around. Why would they trade you, an employee who has proven herself to be valuable, for someone who just might be adequate? Also consider that we currently have a talent crunch on. No company with high standards for engineers is able to hire as many as they would like to.

It is a great idea to tell your employer that you're looking around, because it frees you to tell friends and former colleagues that you are looking for a job without having to worry that your employer will find out. In my experience you can get great job leads this way. This also gives you the opportunity to control the job search process such that you have multiple offers available at once, which improves your leverage.

When I do this I let every company that I am interested in know that I have a deadline by which I need to receive a job offer or not. Typically this deadline is my search start date + 1 month. After that I have a 2-week negotiation window, at the end of which I will accept 0 or 1 new jobs. This gives me a lot of leverage in soliciting counteroffers and minimizing stupid recruiter games like exploding offers.

Do be aware that if you follow this strategy some recruiters will bitterly resent you. This is because they know exactly what you are doing and how it minimizes the informational asymmetry that is one of their most important weapons.
Check out http://www.youtube.com/user/defconpukingmonkey/videos for live demos.

His presentation is at https://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc-archives/dc-21-archive.... (The first section is on license plate readers. ezpass details start on slide 84. He starts with modifying his own ezpass to detect when it's being read then makes his own detector (slide 97) and runs it side by side with the pass. The new detector is much more sensitive and picks up being read basically everywhere.)
This is an excellent writeup, and one that I have a few friends that could benefit from. I try to tell people that it is the little things you do every day that add up to big change. My friends mostly have this idea that you have to make huge sweeping changes to your life to see any results at all, but that is simply false. Start going on a walk or jog every evening instead of sitting in front of the television. Start having nuts instead of candy bars for snacks. Stuff like that adds up quick to some pretty impressive results.

Excellent read, and keep up the good work!
A point worth making here: antisurveillance technology like TACK does more than make it harder for NSA to MITM TLS. As we've apparently discovered, it also makes it possible for us to detect TLS subversion. It is, right now, a major news story if someone has obtained a malicious root certificate; we need to know when that happens and to which CAs those certs chain (which is discoverable from the certificate).

If you don't pay much attention to how TLS works, you should know that NSA (presumably) does not have a magic ability to inject new certs into your root cert repository. If you remove every CA cert from your browser and selectively allow certs, they can't MITM that. The CAs aren't baked into TLS! They're a software configuration detail. And when MITM certs appear on the wire, for them to be honored, they have to somehow chain to a specific CA.

What things like pinning and TACK do is give us the opportunity to discover MITM certificates and start tracing them. If that capability becomes widespread enough, it can potentially foreclose on dragnet TLS MITM attacks, because there will be too much of a risk that deploying a dragnet MITM net will result in the death penalty for the implicated CA.

TACK (and the related efforts) are hugely more important than I think most people think they are. If you want to advocate for something in the wake of the NSA debacle, I think TACK is a great choice.
Yes, you can put it in a special bag that blocks its signals. If you buy a FastTrak device for the SF Bay Area, it actually comes in the bag. Still, you have a license plate. (Unless you are like Steve Jobs, and lease a new car every 6 months)
I don't think all of these are necessarily "less cool" technologies, some of them are both very cool, in high demand, and fun to work with.

Scala is a good example I think, if you like Ruby, Erlang, Haskell, or even F# / C#, it might grow on you the way it did on me. Some say it's a complex language, I don't see it as such (coming from Java) I see it as a typed Ruby, with pattern matching copied from Haskell, and concurrency system copied from Erlang. With 100% Java interoperabilty. Cool enough for me...

it's both fun to work with, high performance, and still considered pretty cool in most parts. It's the only language that can be used enthusiastically by both a bank and a SV startup (and the academia) using the same philosophy and methodology. It's the peace maker language.

I know, Go, Haskell, Lua, Clojure, Rust, Julia, Nimrod are much more on the hype spot, but hypes come and go, and you end up choosing what technology you both enjoy using, and that has a job pool. For me it's Scala currently, can change any time.
I'm so sick of these "Twitter takedowns."

1) An individual says something mildly offensive
2) People incite mob anger via Twitter
3) Person gets fired.
4) Twitter applauds itself.

How many more times are we going to see this?

Maybe it's sick for these people to hold these views.

It's also sick to try and get people _fired_ when you 1) don't even know them and 2) probably didn't even hear their offensive remark in person.

No one can ever claim they've never said something inoffensive.

I'm going to delete my Twitter account. We're living in an era of mob rule.
I upped my exercise, cycling 30-40 miles a day, every day for the first couple of weeks.

Good to see!! When you are burning this level of level of energy every day, its actually <hard> to keep a stable weight. (Author must have had some base fitness, too so good for him.)

At its core, Weight change is simple input/output math. The key variable is %deplete your glycogen levels (as % of full everyday.) That is the "cache" of energy from your daily diet. If you burn enough energy to deplete this, you will lose weight, as your body replenishes itself from non-dietary reserves (fat, protein en extremis).

Surprisingsly, these are highly realistic numbers (<1lb/day>), even for relatively fit (height/weight proportionate) people. Moderating the pace to emphasise endurance over power will lead to more loss of net-mass. Asympotically, you will reach a point of gradual returns, but it is not at all surprising to lose significant mass under such prolonged workloads.

TLDR: Glad to see this is not a crash diet.

edits: clarity
>> I’ve gone from a 42” waist to a 36”. I’m now buying t-shirts in a medium or maybe a large rather than an XL or XXL.

Clothing is not sized that way in the USA. 36" waist fitting into a medium?
Maybe, but they're all WIMPs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_matter#Detection
I couldn't find a link in the article- is the presentation available online somewhere?
Ha! That would be a much bigger headline. Well, in a sense, its already been detected, but just not directly detected in a lab, produced by the LHC, or observed via any self-annihilation process. We know something it exists through cosmological observations - so in that sense its been found.
Inspired by a presentation on magic methods at the Seattle PHP user group last night, I created something that should never be coded: a small composer-enabled php lib that implements prototypal inheritance.
The guide does include ways to whitelist sites [1] you'd like to support (and mentions it's a good idea!) and is on a per-site basis. It pulls in an ad list from a popular site [2].

[1] http://learn.adafruit.com/raspberry-pi-as-an-ad-blocking-acc...
[2] http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers
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No. Not at all.
OOCSS focuses on patterns that are reproduced in the page (or site) multiple time with little variation of look or positioning.
This is everything but that.
A few of them (phone number) break if you CMD-A to select all and start typing, to replace the entire value. It just deselects and appends rather than overwriting.
This is so, so important. The people you surround yourself with (and this is just as true personally as it is professionally) really shape who you become. Want to do amazing things? Surround yourself with others who already are (or are at least trying really hard).
There are lies of commission, but also lies of omission.
It's been linked often, but allow me to re-recommend the Matasano Crypto Challenge for learning more. It has a section on pseudo-random number generation. http://tinyurl.com/mtsocrypt
If the website creator is reading this - Please do something about the moving background image. It's nausea-inducing, and I had to exit the website due to it.
Of course that won't work for HTTPS sites, which are becoming more prevalent

(PSA: install EFF's HTTPS Everywhere: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere)
I try to explain to my clients that one of the advantages I bring (one of the reasons they pay me the "big bucks") is that I have knowledge about these kinds of things and I can bring that to the table.

Of course, that means I have to be judicious. I am NOT going to tell the US bank that I work for that they should support people without a separate first and last name when that is FAR more rare among their customers than people who type wrong and SHOULD have entered a space, so checking for a space will annoy 2 customers while protecting 1000 from stupid typing errors.
.. having said that, there are a few experiments that have data which some have claimed or interpreted as direct evidence for dark matter. but the community is far from agreement on that. in fact, most people are skeptical.
I think yes. It continues to deliver, month after month.