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Lead front end dev - http://Prodthink.com

We need a front end developer! Are you naturally awesome at good looking design? We need someone to develop and maintain the front end aspects of our product. You need to be able to interpret wireframes, PSDs and sketches and turn them into a website that look great and function smoothly using technologies such as boostrap, JQuery, HAML, LESS, CSS3, etc. We are fans of clean and minimal design, where the design doesn’t overpower the functionality of the product. Good examples of web interfaces we like include Github and Moqups. You should have a good knowledge of UX to ensure our customer can easily use our product without explanation.

Skills:

2+ years experience

Frameworks like JQuery, Angular

HTML5, CSS3

Twitter boostrap

LESS

Source control management - Git

Some Php and MVC frameworks - Yii

- mark AT prodthink.com
They find your smashed lappy in the dumpster. "Oh, look, his fingerprints are all over it". There is no national DNA database outside of the penal system (yet) so your dandruff won't do you in. But a print will, if you've ever done something that got you into NCIC.

The idea is not to foil people who suspect you, it's to to keep them from suspecting you in the first place. If you are a NSA targeted suspect and you did something naughty, you've already lost the game.
Fine, FBI should let me smuggle all the Colombian cocaine through NJ/NY ports so the violence along the Mexico border is eliminated.
so ridiculous. The problem is that voters, as soon as they hear BS about police officers and teachers being laid off, blindly support rises in the budgets, unaware that so much money is being wasted and not being put to good use.
Sometimes whie trying to explain the problem to someone else. I find the solution myself. So maybe after the intial 15 minutes try to explain it.
I'm not sure you can work iteratively when your product is equally as much about the hardware as the software. Apple can't just iterate on a hinge issue because they pushed a MacBook line out quickly.

Software companies, especially ones that are service-based, have a distinct advantage in deployment.

Apple is fairly unique in that its product is both hardware and software.
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"They are using Twitter and other social media..."

And it will never lead to anything.
Maps might not be a great example. Apple was clearly banking on crowdsourcing to help with its inaccurate maps. They could have just released it as an optional app and fixed it over time, until it became mature and then replaced google maps with it. But it looks like they were caught with their pants down as the google maps contract renewel deadline was looming and they said "fuck it, launch with it, and we'll handle the PR of it sucking."
The perforce suffers with nouveau with anything needing fps.
I work in a hospital and occasionally have need of a scrub cap, but didn't want digi-cami like every other military doc. found this, hell yes.

Anyway, thought some other folks around here might have a use for such a thing, and, hey, I didn't see any python, or BSD, or ... So, more designs need to be send in my friends. Get on it!
Out of curiosity I checked out ecquire's homepage and without watching the video, I had no idea what the product actually was. The supposed 'great headlines and content' are non-existent.
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I think that what you are saying is true, but there is always a level of risk. It's more about mitigating it than eliminating it - you can't really do that.

Again, this is all hypothetical, don't go and do anything naughty.
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Often times I start writing out my question like I would post it to StackOverFlow. The very process of writing out what I know, what I don't, and what I have tried very often leads to a solution.
And what's even more scary is many people's desire to "extract the active components" and turn them into pills/supplements/apps right away.

[Copy-pasting my previous comment:]

Sleep helps replinsh brain cells - let's make a pill that does just that so we don't need to sleep as much! Vegitables are good for you - let's have a pill that has all their nutrients so we don't need to eat them! Exercise betters the mood - let's isolate those chemicals so we don't need to exercise! Being barefoot is good for you - let's all buy "barefoot shoes"!

I really don't get it. Why are people so averse to natural ways and ofetn simple moderation. I did not grow up in North America, so maybe it's just a cultural difference.
Can we translate that to something sane? Is it "shorter BGP/more specific route announcement?" Or some kind of MITM by being directly in line? Assuming it is TCP traffic, just being "faster to respond" doesn't help all that much without some other logic.

If I were MITMing with full cooperation of only a subset of a network carrier, I'd probably go for some route announcement tricks; easier to interface with the rest of the organization, and due to lack of filtering internally, not much config change required. Would fail safely (== non-detectably), also, and could potentially be explained away as "oh, shit, some stupid ISP leaked routes".

(I guess you could give bad dns responses, too, and then go from there, but that sounds more detectable at the end user device, which is very undesirable.)
The laptop breaks when you reduce image size - looks like the z-index not set right for the image / laptop after resize?
To the extent that it may permanently inhibit natural melatonin production it is not a good thing. There are tradeoffs.
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I suspect you already know this so this is for the benefit of third parties reading this.. but it's legal to buy prescription only drugs from overseas in the UK as long as they're only POM (e.g. modafinil) and not scheduled/classed (e.g. ritalin).
Thanks for the background. I understand that there is more to "coding"/"coder" than I implied, it's just seems that the words have become so appropriated that I now instantly associate them with the whole "brogrammer" thing.
Who does peer review?
Not the OP, but I think the open source AMD drivers support both DisplayPort and Dual Link DVI, so there's probably several cards from them that would work.
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If Google only cares about traffic, it would have certified Amazon and the Chinese Android clones.

I don't think we're contradicting each other though.

Google will go where the users are but I doubt it would help out OS gain a foothold that would threaten the Android ecosystem.
(I'm the author).

I completely agree with you that currently most banks only pay lip-service to modern technologies, even if they throw buzz words around like crazy. Mainframes, COBOL, etc, are still the standards in many, if not most, large financial institutions.

My point is that when you actually boil down what a lot of commercial and retail banking is to it's core (I would exclude capital markets here, mostly for simplicity) then it's a technology and data problems. It's a technology problem that is surrounded by legacy systems, culture, and regulations.

Ultimately, though, I believe that those banks that can most quickly infuse themselves with modern technology and -- most importantly -- actually run themselves like technology-first institutions, will be the ones that have the most success in the future. I'm not sure any bank is currently doing that, exactly to your point about compensation.
Aaaah... so this probably is not about Linux vs. Windows, but rather actually about 'GeForce GTX 560 Ti' vs. Quadro. They aren't worried about driving people away from Windows, they are worried about cannibalizing Quadro sales.

There is probably a lot of use cases for many monitors that don't really require Windows (perhaps pro power-users, like traders, who need lots of browser windows open at once), so they need to ensure that their premium cards retain their edge even on Linux.

That makes much more sense.
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The guy's post history is clearly that of an NVidia employee, and his avatar is a NVidia logo, the same as used by the forum's moderators: https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/573252/evo-push-buf...

There's no reason at all to doubt his status as a NVidia employee.
That's the kind of situation that watermarking handles well. With no time to remove the watermark, it would be straightforward for the stream source to find the offending stream consumer and shut down their stream.
People pay for Apple products, so they expect something that works well and looks good.

The switching costs are also much higher with hardware than software. You don't want to pay for a phone and find out it's half-baked, while if a 'free' web service doesn't work, it's easy to switch.

It's also about branding and culture, people expect different things from each company. That has pros and cons.
Yeah even Windows98 could run 9 displays. From the sound of it though, it looked like it was about presenting a single display to the OS across multiple GPUs. That's significantly different than Windows' built-in multi-display support.

Think full-screen apps that call APIs that aren't going to work across screen boundaries.
Prior to this one should not have (and arguably should sill not) assumed Tor is safe against the NSA.

Tor was explicitly not designed to protect against a global passive adversary. That's the price it pays for low latency. With the amount of network data the NSA has, they probably constitute such an adversary.

It is actually rather surprising that Tor gives them this much trouble.
I agree with your post generally, but has Snowden said anything about CAs? I did expect to hear that at least one has signed anything the NSA put in front of them, but I don't recall Snowden providing "proof"* of this.

* I'm in no position to verify anything Snowden leaks.
Based on this job post 50k to 70k: http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=7339582&goback=%...

Pretty much market average according to this: http://www.totaljobs.com/salary-checker/average-sql-develope...
The assumption is that the integration of those apps into use-patterns closely enough resembles what they do on the iPhone/Pad. The reality is that it's mostly people who have a predilection towards experimenting with technology who will switch. I doubt that user group makes up more than a few percent of the consumer market.

Apple, I'm sure, studies price patterns and knows well how far up they can push a price without losing the core of their market.
The Stasi and the Gestapo were genuinely pursuing a national security mission. They also did more self-inflicted harm to Germany than the A-bomb did to Japan from the outside. He's not exaggerating the amount of damage an intelligence agency can do.
410 GONE

EDIT: To be clear, this is more in regard to the original articles qualification on the permanence of links: If for some reason it can’t exist any more, don’t just let it go: it should show useful error. Using 410 GONE instead of 404 NOT FOUND after a DELETE is a fairly minimal but direct application of this principle.
Just in case you see this: consider http://hnnotify.com/ keeps you connected to all your friends on HN. You don't want us to miss you, do you?

(It really is quite useful, though.)
right on! it's like, we totally know that healing energy crystals benefit everyone, why do you have to come in here with your silly ideas about "reproducibility" and "cost benefit analyses"?
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It's very likely that their hand was forced by Google's contract renewal.
The original title of this project is 'who does peer review?' but this is not very informative of what it is about for people who are not regular readers of Science and who may not be familiar with the URL.

Please do not change it. Before citing the HN guidelines, I invite you to consider the difference between editing and editorializing.
They offer a deeply discounted option for startups and once you have lock-in (ie. running sharded, basically) and become dependent on the support, they increase the cost by 10x.
No, that is forcing a round peg into a square hole, by people that have an agenda against native applications.
It sounds like you're defining literally any society as "imposing" its traits on its members.

In a sense I am, but I should first clarify the comment of mine that you were responding to. I wasn't saying that private law anarchy imposes things on people per se; I was saying that it imposes things on people if they are forced to adopt it because the national betting market said that would be the best way to improve national welfare. The whole point of private law anarchy is that people choose it voluntarily.

With regard to the more general point, yes, living in a society at all imposes certain restraints on people, but there are different ways that can be done. One way is for people to rationally understand the benefits of living in a society as opposed to living as Robinson Crusoe individuals, and to be willing to accept restraints that are necessary parts of getting the benefits. The other way is for society to impose the restraints regardless of whether the people being imposed on agree with the need for them. In any real society, there will be some element of the second way; but I think all of our current societies are far too quick to adopt the second way instead of letting the first way work.
> the liberty of selling contaminated meat

That's not liberty. That's criminal behavior that stems from criminal thinking. If government has any legitimate function at all, it's to prevent injustice from criminals and other predators.

When government becomes the seat of criminality and predation, quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

> He's right, and you're wrong.

I parse this as, "I agree with him, not you" as these are all just our opinions anyway.
Use 500mcg pills. It only takes around 300mcg to get the full effects of melatonin. Once you reach around 1mg, your body will quickly adapt and it will lose effectiveness.

I used 300mcg for months and months, slept better, had vivid dreams, and the effect didn't change. I switched to 500mcg pills from Trader Joe's only because the 300mcg pills stopped being carried locally.

Source: an in-depth article I read years ago that I can never seem to find.
Yep. 85degC is super hot, and junction temp is usually a few tens of degrees hotter than the ambient temp. Even if the packaging and interconnects can handle it, the dies themselves will fail early due to metal migration.

Of course, if the average working life of a Google server is measured in months, then maybe that's no big deal.
I really like http://hn.premii.com. It's not a native app, but it works so well it feels like one.
No, but sometimes it does take them a while to re-group and reach mass due to competing markets and segmentation.

Maybe a winning black market site skyrockets rapidly, or maybe this causes trepidation in users and vendors who try to approach things more carefully, test driving many sites instead of flocking en mass to one particular site.

I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that a Silk Road replacement in terms of size and volume will appear in the vacuum; eventually yes, but I'm sure it's probably bought them a few months or years of disruption.
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The big difference is that in the enterprise the people who buy the products and the people who use the products are different. In consumer products, they are same, and so the details and the user experience matter.

A lot of the stuff that the enterprise does would be fatal in the consumer business.
>The concept of "natural rights" is motivated by protection against the government.

yes, there is no natural rights in Nature, except may be the right to run as fast as one able to away from the next up in the food chain.

The current stage of human society is akin to a situation when a pack of predators and a herd of prey make an agreement that the prey willn't be hunted as long as it stays withing specified bounds. The pack will also protect the herd there from other predators. It is a win-win for both parties - the prey get relaxed and spend all its energy grazing and procreating and thus becomes fatter and the herd's headcount grows tremendously (the bounds were extended several times and now it is a pretty complicated patchwork), while predators hunt smaller percentage (the ones who can't keep themselves inside the bounds) of the much bigger herd of much fatter/slower/tastier prey with total amount of meat consumed by predators being higher than before the agreement.

The herd with time starts to believe that not being hunted down while inside the bounds is the natural right.

The predators sometimes can't resist and snatch some very tasty prey from inside the bounds - as long as such transgressions are kept below some low percentage, the herd wouldn't make big fuss of it to avoid risk of destabilizing of the agreement that works so great for the herd (true story, some members of the herd even have time and energy now to develop various theories about the thing they call Universe and why a prey and a predator got created(or evolved?)) .
Sure, we are trying through global warming :)

On a serious note, take a look at cumulus networks[1]
who claim to solve the hw/sw disaggregation problem. They have a linux OS distro which can run on h/w of multiple vendors ( not the popular ones like cisco/jnpr/hp/brcd etc.. since those are closed platforms).

[1] http://cumulusnetworks.com/product/overview/
I don't want to use any schelling fence besides the one provided to me by authorities and YOU CAN'T MAKE ME.
It looks like you've done a great job with the widgets, but the copy on the site is very, very confusing.

Customizable "blank" for your website - this is confusing because it changes from "widgets" to "utilities", etc. At first, I thought it was some sort of web site editor that lets you change text on your page.

Who is the main user of your widgets? I'm assuming blog owners/publishers.

I think the headline should say something like:

"Easily integrate beautiful videos, galleries, and other widgets into your blog or web site"

Talk to the user one on one. Use words like "You", "Your", etc.

What is the main value you provide? Make sure you state that as a benefit, not as a feature.

that's my 2 cents
You can check [1] Sleep Cycle.

I'm using it mainly to track my sleep quality and to see my sleep patterns, but the app can wake you up when you're in the lightest sleep phase.

Unfortunately, I didn't use it extensively, so I can't give you adequate opinion on the wake-up function, but it's worth the try.

[1] http://www.sleepcycle.com
Outlook.com if you're small, otherwise Office 365. Depending on your needs, some subscriptions even come with Office licenses for Mac and Windows.
I just went here:

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/widevine

Seems only Window and Mac for desktop, maybe it's only in Chrome for Linux on ia32 and ia64?
It wasn't for 1B cash, it was 800M cash, 200M Sun stock.
The audience and money involved with e-sports is a microscopic fraction of any major professional sport. This is an interesting nerd culture thing, but if you want a serious example of sports adapting to the internet generation, look at what NBC is doing with the English Premier League.

I don't have the numbers, but I'd bet that the audience for football (soccer) is growing faster in America over the past few years than the whole of e-sports.
I wish I could upvote this comment more. I have to run over a hundred instances of MongoDB to equal the performance I could get from ten Postgres boxes, but now we have such massive lock-in on MongoDB we can't easily refactor.
Hmm. The article specifically says that disappearance of melatonin enables waking.
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> From the natural right to free speech.

Hmm, I like where you started with this, particularly in suggesting that a free press requires anonymous sources and authors. It is really interesting to see how the Supreme Court has historically balanced this societal interest against individual rights in cases on e.g. libel, slander, whistleblowers, and so on. The tricky part is in claiming that all of this applies to the extent that you believe to communication specifically on the internet. One could argue, and this is the justification for the earliest wiretapping laws for phone systems, that electronic communications increase convenience but also the potential for abuse, and if people need sacrosanct anonymity there is nothing preventing them from sticking to meatspace communication methods.

This is kind of like the conflict between rights granted for free movement within the U.S. and the security requirements for travelers to show ID before boarding planes, etc. Is plane travel a natural extension of the right to free movement, or can you safely tell such people they need to walk, drive, etc.? It is a tricky call.

> we could have built an Internet of point-to-point wireless links... The government could outlaw such things, but that does not mean that the lack of such laws is an allowance, unless you think that all your rights are things the government allows

Also an interesting point, but within a certain context, isn't it hard to separate what I'm allowed to do from the government's protection of my doing so? This is the problem that less-government people face when waving their hands and claiming that everything could still work. It is hard to comprehend how much the collective safety and regulation of common goods provided by the current system affects what we currently do. For instance, if everybody started making microwave dishes that burned each other's pets and gave people cancer, I think we would begin to regulate those ISM bands more tightly. When I breath, am I not breathing clean air because the government won't let the factory down the street burn rubber tires out in the open and my neighbors from building or buying cars that spew fumes? I'm getting kind of hyperbolic here, but I guess my point is that the Internet that would exist with ZERO government support, and that includes eliminating all the transactions of currency for goods that keep those net-meshed wireless routers and computers running, creates a very different picture of the Internet from the one that exists now, if it would even function at all.
It seems peterwwillis picked up on one very specific claim (that Docker is a portable standard) and called it out as false. That's exactly what we should be doing with false marketing claims, or else we end up with MongoDB all over again.

If the two of you have a history, that's fine, but I think the OP made a fair comment, and you've attacked him personally rather than replying to the seemingly-valid point he made.

I think the answer is that Docker is in fact less portable than previous standards (e.g. bare disk VM images), but is potentially a lot more efficient (now that AuFS has been dumped). Is that correct?
I would definitely make some exceptions to my statement for NYC and other similarly dense cities. However, lower density cities, liked DC or Austin don't really offer anywhere near the variety.
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I'd personally use multiple learning tools, as repeated exposure can really help coding concepts stick. A few people have already mentioned codeschool which I agree is a good place to start. I'd checkout the free tutorials at http://tutorials.jumpstartlab.com/
Also lynda.com, codecademy(to learn Ruby), http://teamtreehouse.com/
Are all resources I've used personally and found helpful.

If you want to take a full time course there are of course the coding schools like devbootcamp, appacademy etc. Or the online equivalent at bloc.io

Hope this gives you some ideas, and good luck.
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