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it's just a stripped down version of intellij, at a lower price. Pay for intellij and you get all the languages that are supported.
I would love to use this for the app I am building, only thing thats preventing me from using this is, I already have some data , and I need a way to use my exiisting data ( may be offering an import solution would serve the purpose )
For backporting to 3.3/2.7. 3.4 has it.
If you are a "senior-level" programmer (ie you have a bunch of experience and have shipped products) one possibility is to make contact with a SV consulting company for subcontracting to larger enterprises. Such is the dearth of talent that big, boring companies can't find anybody and end up hiring a lot of H1Bs and contractors. Going with a contracting company rather than contracting yourself directly has several advantages, like you don't have to buy your own insurance (can be very expensive) or incorporate, if you don't want to.

A caveat is that you'll almost certainly be working with Java rather than iOS, but not necessarily. Just get your name out there and talk to a few places.

I know this approach works because it's what I did. I don't even live in the US (western Canada) and it's worked out fine. I have to fly down and hang with the client once a quarter and that's about it.
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Poster was probably thinking of directories of interpreted code (i.e. Python, PHP, Ruby), compared to compiled binaries (C++, C, C#, Java), since many compiled languages have dynamic deployment mechanisms like OSGi's hotswapping of individual modules.
This is ridiculous. It's possible to make money in the stock market without inside information, but it requires alot of knowledge. Markets are very fluid, complicated, and behaviour patterns are constantly changing.

Unless you're prepared to devote alot of time to learning, it's best to stick to index funds, or lower risk investments (GICs).
> for next day

I took up the free month again this year, and have decided to keep it for the year. The finial decision point was when I realised that the free faster delivery often includes Saturday delivery, which I find more convenient than having larger and/or heavier things delivered to work.
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Financial speculation
Indeed, if I think of how much time I waste working on project that the world doesn't need... so many people could spend so much more time on things (also out side of software development) that matter more.
Since you are a young developer with an ambitious product idea like this, I say Go for it! Awesome stuff!

I would however, advise you to take a very hard look into, and embrace these topics:

* CSRF tokens

* Best practices on password reset emails

* SQL Injections and SQLMap

* XSS Scripting

* Robot auto-logins

* Password Hashing and Salting strategies

And probably a couple of others before you launch and accept this resposibility.
(People will come back to you if their site gets hacked or they find a bug)

It'll save you a lot of nights of fixing prio1 issues.

All the best with your project, good luck!
Securing Real-time Web and Mobile Applications
Thanks very much for your comment. Appreciate you spotting this and will update now.
So I want to point out that I wasn't thinking of hiring some outside company to make you look good, I was talking about Bob in PR putting in a link to the press release when they retire product X. There's no bias in "On January 15, 2013, Initech announced end-of-life for X[12]".
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Source code trees on the Kindle (mobi format)
Assuming that Wikipedia's computers are neither used in nor affecting interstate commerce or communication, that would be true.

Of course, since the whole reason for Wikipedia-oriented PR management is that Wikipedia's computers -- and, particularly, the hosting of particular content on them -- does affect interstate commerce, that's unlikely to be a successful argument.
Green account, utm campaign garbage in the URL. No click.
How do you on-board new employees?
For those who use Angular, the Angular UI Bootstrap plugin is CSS agnostic, so the datepicker would be nice and easy to use with Foundation :) .
Reminds me of an answer my old boss gave to a terminally ill patient...

"How long does it take to die?"

"A lifetime."
From a quick overview I really like your approach: you start by a hello world directly (then template, then models) instead of doing this strange approach of the django official tutorial that starts with model then admin interface then show an hello world at part 3. I also really like the presence of exercices.

Quick comment: here, you are teaching render_to_response http://www.tangowithdjango.com/book/chapters/templates_stati... while you should be using render instead https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/topics/http/shortcuts/... which is simplier than render_to_reponse (where you have to use the horrible context_instance=RequestContext(request) to be able to do certain things in the template which confuse a lot people).

Thanks for this contribution to the django community!
IDEA runs well in OpenJDK 7. Have you just given it a shot?
I work in Atlanta for a multinational company with 20,000+ employees, almost daily I connect with people from the Midwest, West coast, India, and UK. We allow remote workers, have flex time (although 8-5 is considered the "norm"). Our dress code is relaxed (I prefer jeans + polo daily). I know that we are hiring because I am meeting new hires daily (along with new contractors). I just got hired in July.

Let me know if you would like to know more I saw you were in Atlanta (we are not downtown).
Here's the story :)

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/10/obligatory-grindr-joke/

It's from a music video made by folks at Exec.
Varnish won't cache anything for logged in users by default because they'll have a session cookie. Actually, the main challenge with rolling out Varnish is making sure that anonymous users don't have any extra cookies set that could make Varnish think they are not all the same.
Has anybody figured out how to add headless tests to this stack (Rails 4, AngularJS)? I've tried using Karma and Teaspoon and they both ran into problems. Karma would cause PhantomJS to crash on launch and Teaspoon could never load the asset pipeline properly, so Angular was never being included. Example links would be greatly appreciated.
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There's Gangplank (http://gangplankhq.com) and Cohoots (http://cohoots.com) for people in Phoenix. Pretty cool vibe and I believe Gangplank is entirely free and Cohoots is pretty inexpensive.
skeleton was great when it came out and I used it a lot, but I think it's gotten a bit dated. Not being mobile first is a the largest issue for me.
Google is a long-time NSA collaborator. The risks of what they could share with them should always be scrutinized.
I work out of Projective Space on the Lower East Side and it's wonderful. Light and open, unlike wework, and tons of coffee shops, galleries, bars, and restaurants in the neighborhood.
Here's the Django Source code in mobi format: https://www.dropbox.com/s/lq3gzmz0wrigt33/Django%20Source%20...
If there's ever been a good time to revert a submission to its original title, it's now.
oh really if the US had a system like we have in the UK the house of commons would have eaten quite a few high profile US polticians (including some presdents) alive.

Id love to see Paxman interview sarah palin or Ted Cruz for example.
They are better than an open office plan inside of a company - because those people are collaborating more loudly and feel that as long as it's on topic it's okay to be loud. Generally a bunch of professionals working on different things are quieter than that. It obviously won't beat a dedicated office, though.
Won't most customers be getting the high end one with the E5-2697 and 2 Firepro W9000? I guess that'd be around $10K?
>Give yourself a dedicated space (very preferably behind a door that closes if you don't live alone)

IMO, this is one of the best pieces of advice you can give. This is also one of the things that I got very wrong for a while.

Don't work where you decompress. Don't decompress where you work. Otherwise the two start blending together and both suffer.

If your living situation isn't suited for a dedicated workspace, don't fall in the trap of working from your couch or kitchen table every day. I've had days where I worked from a coffee shop in the morning, drove to a park and sat under a tree when I could work completely offline, and finished the evening at a pub typing over a pint or two. And I still accomplished more than the days I'd sit on my couch and "work" while marathoning Star Trek.
Shouldn't you be protesting the fact that your government signed a data sharing deal or are they totally helpless?
You're going to love how Walmart ships boxes of crayons then:

http://imgur.com/a/g4Hi5
Spaces was part of 10.5 in 2007. Apple were late to the game, but not that late.
My team is 100% remote working, some of us get to meet up during the year but not everyone has met in person yet. A couple of the team would do better if we had a group office but it's also good experience for us to figure out how to solve these kinds of problems as it's not an option for us to hire an office for just one person in every city, and the kind of work we do doesn't translate to co-working spaces.

We make it work through solid communication, and I'm sure like us there are many opportunities for you to get a great remote position. Would the HN admin team consider adding a 3rd Who's Hiring entry, dedicated to remote positions?
Yes, of course it's a case by case thing. But for a lot of software development work, which is sort of the point of this story, working remotely is quite appropriate. Nobody likes to commute and happy programmers are productive programmers, in my experience.
Firefox OS on the new LG Fireweb [video]
The impact of killing Google Checkout for customers using it was probably minimal, since nobody was using Google Checkout (hence the reason Google killed it.)

Cloud services on the other hand, killing those would be highly disruptive and would probably effectively kill any products built on top of them. It's hard to imagine Google killing any of these services, unless one of them say is wildly unpopular and only a small handful of people will be outraged if it is killed. Even then, it's seems insane to think about Google shutting off database or computing services people are using to run businesses.
No, I say that from a paranoia perspective. Any security measure is only as strong as its weakest link.
Some words should be universal... like shark. But I don't think start-up falls into that category.
> What evidence do you have that this will not happen?

"This" being "shut it down"? My evidence is that this is a third-party extension, developed by a third party and doesn't touch Google's infrastructure at all. They couldn't shut it down if they wanted to. The most they could do would be to cut its funding, but it's still open source.
Java is singled out because it is "too big to fail".
Pretty amazing drawing going on there!!!
Django Source code in mobi format (Dropbox link)
We're a team that's partially remote, and partially in an office. One tactic that's worked well is instead of forcing the co-located members of a team around a conference phone, we have everyone join a google hangout from their individual computers. It puts everyone on the same footing, and helps deal with sound quality. You just have to sometimes ask people to upgrade their mics so they don't pick up too much room noise and cause echoes.
I would definately recommend ZURB foundation, and would try to leverage use of mixins, although it is a bit more advanced.
They seem to flip back and forth about remote working. Less than 3 years ago:
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2838-were-relocating-everyone...
Google buys France’s FlexyCore for better-performing Android
The NBA Is Making a Big Data Play
It's really incredible how PaperG has been able to differentiate themselves in what otherwise would appear to be a totally saturated market. I got a glimpse of one of their ad generation tools a couple months back and was blown away. Their software is top notch and solves a real problem for all sorts of businesses.

Congrats to Victor, Roger, and the entire PaperG team. You guys are rocking it!
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my amazon prime pays for itself every year just off my dog food purchases. 30lbs bags of food dropped at my door can't beat it.
This is how YC funds all it's "no idea" applications :)
I think you missunderstood the idea. A smart house system will be invariably an embedded system, and not a generic multi purpouse PC, which you all reply-ers immediatelly implied.

There is no need for USB mass storage drivers. It will probably have an own class ( USB-home-automation ) that can only do/read/write some sort of data. This kind of closes any type of attack vector based on making the system execute arbitrary code.

So I don't see the fuss with autoruns, or some obscure USB sound card buffer overrun - which was fixed the next day : this will not happen.
It's not an argument for only dealing with the short term, it's an argument for not hand-waving away problems like "X million people can no longer earn a living" with responses like "oh, in the long run that will sort itself out."
Healthcare.gov: It could be worse
And 20 years from now government will still be working as we are trying to connect a 26-year-old micro usb cable in one attempt.
> Dealing with the short term is really appealing, but it typically has the worst long term affects.

At the same time, focussing only on the theoretically-projected long-term effects while neglecting the near-term effects is really appealing, but then we keep getting changes motivated by long-term (=infinite horizon) effects that never are acheived because what we are always dealing with the short-term results of the most recent change that come from real-world friction on the way to the theoretical infinite horizon effects.

To deal with the real world, we need to concern ourselves both with the long-term effects and the path to them.
Successful Metadata Management
Delusions of the Tech Bro Intelligentsia
You can either have independent spaces (switch screen 1 to a different space while screen 2 remains unchanged) or you can have them linked (when switching screen 1, screen 2 also changes).
Call Tiger a cheater? Agent threatens legal action
It's partly because is amazon is high margin business, so it view almost everything as an opportunity to raise revenue and 9maybe margins) , but apple is a high margin company, and those opportunists are harder to find.
OK, but that's a serious performance and functionality tradeoff.

Most modern architectures make the choice between having nodes serve as master for a subset of the data, and the increased cross-link bandwidth needs and reduced flexibility of a master-less system.
Agreed 100%. The PaperG ad builder is really nifty.

I messed around with Google's new insta-ad maker and was amazed at how bad it was. Not a single one of the auto-generated templates it built was remotely useable.
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just cute. Poor soul, has no idea how USB mice works on linux shakes head.

( appollogizes in advance for the unavoidable ad-hominem comment ).
This article from TC explains this in more detail. http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/10/obligatory-grindr-joke/
Network Solutions is experiencing a DNS outage
https://twitter.com/search?q=Network%20Solutions&src=typd
It runs fine in OpenJDK, at least in my case.

(ArchLinux x86_64 https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/jre7-openjdk...)

Anyway, you can always download Java from the Oracle Downloads website and put it somewhere in your home directory and just define these variables in ~/.bashrc:

export JAVA_HOME="/home/username/Software/Java/jdkx.y.z_w/"

export JRE_HOME="$JAVA_HOME/jre"

export JDK_HOME="$JAVA_HOME"

export PHP_STORM_HOME="/home/username/Software/PHP/PhpStorm-x.y/"

export PATH="$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PHP_STORM_HOME/bin"

. ~/.bashrc

phpstorm.sh > /dev/null 2>&1 &

echo "Enjoy the ride"
How to create a simple python webservice
India’s Earliest Product Entrepreneur: FACT CEO Arvind Agarwalla (Part 1)
People should fear neither lightning (it's spelled without an e, by the way) nor the US government. At least if they are not involved nor plausibly confused for being involved with inciting terrorism. At least, if they want their fear to be a tool of survival rather than just an irrational impulse. They should fear car crashes and things like that.

The US does not abduct people to get a message across, as much as you may want to believe that there is some equivalence between what our government is doing and what the government of the USSR did. Now, I'm not claiming that these abductions were right, but it's laughable to try to equate them.
Python: Which XML parser supports DTD internal subset?
Implementing The Enigma Using An Arduino Mega
Live London bus map lets you look at where every bus on any route is right now.
Americans Use Their Phones Every Waking Hour
Listview with AlphabetIndexer and cursoradapter on Android
But you did find it necessary to reply. Which not only has impact on front page ranking, it also makes a reference to this page show up on the "new comments" section which will result in even more people clicking on this thread and eventually the link.

Then, you will get downvotes for your comment with little to no value and you get me people like me wasting time trying to explain how you clearly didn't think this out very well.
Gangplank is great. I worked there for a few years up until 6 months ago when I moved to SF. I also know many people involved in Co+Hoots, and it's also a great space.
This feels like an "acquhire." I haven't yet seen a performance booster get any traction with OEMs. This sounds more-promising than Myriad's idea of replacing the whole VM with their Java VM.

Optimization in a battery powered device is tricky. After the initial work on Android's interesting JIT strategy, I have not heard much else about boosting performance. Developers who run into performance limits are stuck "doing it by hand" with native code and Renderscript. Maybe this signals a revival of interest in extracting better performance from Android's runtime environment.
Check the date on that post. (it's an april fools joke)
You can do Gaussian filter in 2 passes: first along X, then along Y. Then you only grow linearly in size, rather than quadratically. This change should also improve your cache hits.
They pay taxes where they're required to. In 1992, the Supreme Court ruled in Quill Corp. v. North Dakota that states cannot compel out-of-state retailers to collect taxes without the company having a physical presence in the state.

We all know it's up to the consumer to pay the sales tax on their tax filings.
A New Mythology: The Internet is the Next Great Story
Foundation 5 looks incredible, might be worth checking out too.
I'm very dubious of your claim. Violent crime and homicide rates have been dropping for decades in the U.S.
That was an April Fool's joke (posted on April 1st). And even if the date wasn't the first...the whole article reads like an over-the-top satire.
Firefox OS on the LG Fireweb
I'm going to check out neat, thanks for the link. I also dislike seeing grid markup all over the html.

As far as foundation vs bootstrap I've used both tend to prefer foundation.
Web Developer needed for product in exploding market (YC W11)
Web Developer - HelloSign (YC W11)

The eSignature market is exploding and we need to hire fast to keep up. Help us capitalize on the trend.

We're looking to expand our existing 4 person web development team with another full-stack developer. That means you need to be comfortable with the entire stack, from JavaScript/jQuery and HTML/CSS to PHP and MySQL.

In addition to being highly skilled on the technical side, you should also be able to put yourself in the user's shoes and think critically about what you're building. Our developers have a lot of input into what gets built and how.

Requirements:

- A get-things-done attitude
- You live in the SF Bay Area or are willing to relocate to it.
- Previous full-stack web development experience

Bonus points for experience with:

- AWS (EC2, S3, etc.)
- PHP and the Symfony framework
- Asynchronous job queues (beanstalkd, SQS, RabbitMQ, etc.)
- Image manipulation (ImageMagick, OpenCV, etc.)
- PDF creation and manipulation
- iOS or Android development

Some challenges you'll be helping us with:

- Help us enhance the signing/requesting experience within our JavaScript-based editor.
- Develop our electronic signing API. We want third party developers to be able to easily integrate electronic signing into their own websites.
- Continue to scale our system to support more and more users.
- Integrate our signed documents (PDFs) more deeply with Adobe's electronic signature SDK.
- Formulate experiments, dig into analytics, and help us improve our key metrics.

About us:

- We're all experienced engineers with several years under our belts.
- Our traffic is growing and we have interesting scaling problems ahead.
- Variety is the spice of life. Projects we've worked on recently include improving our jQuery-based document editor, improving database performance, scaling workers across multiple servers, and iOS/Android enhancements.

Compensation and perks:

- Competitive salary, relocation package, health care, and stock options.
- Your choice of computer, chair, and monitors. Most of us have MacBook Pros and Thunderbolt monitors.
- The startup norms: Free snacks and drinks. Free lunch on Fridays.

Please send your resume/github/portfolio to jobs@hellosign.com
"if I was teaching someone Django/Python development from scratch today, I would definitely include pip, virtualenv, and git/mercurial as part of the baseline."

They DO show you how to use pip, git, and virtualenv.

Check out the overview:
http://www.tangowithdjango.com/book/chapters/overview.html#w...

One of the first things they explain is how to use pip:
http://www.tangowithdjango.com/book/chapters/requirements.ht...

They also show how to get started with git:
http://www.tangowithdjango.com/book/chapters/git.html#git-cr...

and virtualenv:
http://www.tangowithdjango.com/book/chapters/requirements.ht...

edit: I actually think I might have misunderstood your comment. Sorry. Anyway, just leaving this comment here for posterity.
npm badly re-implements what others have done dozens of times. The whole node ecology suffers heavily from "not invented here" syndrome.
Sounds more like AOT compilation from Java to native code to me.
GoInstant offers a hierarchical key-value store that is synchronized between all users inside your application. We offer a couple of mechanisms when last-to-write is not sufficient.

You can use set overwrite[1] (similar to redis SETNX) with key expiry[2] to create locks and then leverage our ACL[3] to secure[4] which users and groups can modify the data.

We are currently planning to implement MVCC based transactions and operational transformation primitives into our core Key interface. I can't say when these features will be ready, but we definitely want to get to them!

https://developers.goinstant.com/v1/javascript_api/key/set.h...
https://developers.goinstant.com/v1/javascript_api/key/expir...
https://developers.goinstant.com/v1/guides/creating_and_mana...
https://developers.goinstant.com/v1/overview/security.html