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Seeking part-time REMOTE contract Python developer to augment our team.

Entrepreneurial Finance Lab (EFL) is an alternative to credit scores in emerging markets that are enabling deserving entrepreneurs everywhere to expand their business.

Location - anywhere in the Western Hemisphere, Lima Peru if you're up for some travel, but not necessary.

About us:
- For profit social enterprise spun out of Harvard research project
- We have developed a psychometric test that is converted to a credit score (like FICO), that a bank uses to give a loan
- Small, flexible company, 25 people, with offices in Boston and Lima, Peru and staff also in Africa, India, Indonesia
- Working on a very hard problem across many geographies
- http://eflglobal.com

What we need help with:
- Core systems development: the way we capture, aggregate, scrub, clean and store our data
- Data analysis: we're working on additional types of data analysis to augment psychometrics and need experience with working with large datasets
- Front-end development: looking to optimize the user experience of the test questionnaire that's delivered in the field

What we're looking for:
- Senior level dev to work with the team 2-3 days per week for the next several months
- Python expert
- Deep experience with Django
- Experience with Celery a plus
- Experience with R a big big plus
- Better than average jQuery skills
- NoSQL experience would be nice, but not required

What we can offer:
- Good hourly rate
- Freedom to make high level design decisions
- Flexibility with your schedule
- Chance to travel to South America
- Trying to do some good in far off the beaten track places

If interested, please email careers@eflglobal.com with subject HACKER NEWS
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Hi, I work on Presto at Facebook and would be happy to answer any questions about it.
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"nickel-and-dimed"

Exactly. Experienced business people write this off to the "cost of doing business". You look at the total value and make a decision as to whether to continue the relationship. If you didn't know the way attorney's billed then you can be thankful for the lesson that you have learned. Read and understand before signing anything.

You are of course free to negotiate the fee down after receiving the bill and many lawyers will discount in order to continue the relationship. From my experience lawyers tend to be willing to accept whatever they can get that is reasonable - they aren't going to pursue an action against a client unless the majority of the bill isn't paid or there is something else causing animosity or problems.
You've seen it. 210.52 years. The passengers on the ship should only experience 65.7 years- (210.52)sqrt(1-.95^2). Hence the famous twin paradox- the twin who goes on a relativistic trip comes back younger than the one who stayed behind. What you calculated was how much time would pass on Earth for a trip that took 100 years and 100 light-years from the perspective of the people on the ship, which is not generally what people mean when they say that a star is 100ly away.
Just because there is a possibility that my work could be made obsolete, I can't stop working. That is a non-starter. Why do you think people keep working on various fields like physics when most of them are theories that might be disproved very soon?

You are also forgetting the reason where you want to address the engineering need in you: Some of us have fun making this. Believe it or not, We want to do this :)

I do have other time that I spend with my family etc. More or less is personal preference. Family is one of those things that one can sink in infinite time and still feel incomplete - we all strike balances. FWIW - I sleep only 6 hours or so, so it provides a bit of a leg up. I usually nap a bit on the weekends though.

My meta-point is: Some people look at a job as a means to make a living. I look at mine as an opportunity. Here I have a company that is willing to put millions of dollars in the direction I point at or into the work that I am doing, based purely on trust. This kind of scale / experience is impossible to get by myself. For this I have to go the extra mile. The end result might benefit the company, but I find joy in the process of creation.

The company is not exactly chintzy either. They compensate me well enough to keep that from becoming an issue to me or my family.
All Twitter API methods require authentication now-a-days. https://dev.twitter.com/blog/changes-coming-to-twitter-api
There are a few that stand out in that regard:

Last Train Home - Armored Saint

Forgot About Dre - Dr. Dre & Eminem

Wildside - Mötley Crüe

I'll Still Kill - 50 Cent

Thunder In Your Heart - John Farnham

Crazy On You - Heart

Leave A Light On For Me - Belinda Carlisle

Homage For Satan - Deicide

Holy Water - Mercyful Fate

Technologic - Daft Punk

Ridin' The Storm Out - REO Speedwagon

Asian Hooker - Steel Panther
I've been an active Libertarian for several years now, and just looking at the countless stories I've heard like this leads me to hold the same belief as you do. It truly is tragic the way many people are simply thrown in a cell rather than helped with what is clearly an illness. Addiction itself is not a choice. Using a drug is, but the consequences that follow oftentimes cannot be overcome. I'm sorry for your loss.
When we first covered the FS (Fourier Series) and FT (Fourier Transform) and the relation between the two in our Signals and Systems course in EE, I was amazed. It was the greatest thing I've ever learned, and I think it'll be hard to top.

Once you understand the FT, you basically understand how a signal is structured. By converting (or transforming) a time signal to the frequency domain, one can clearly see what frequency components (or harmonics) contribute to said signal. If one were to try the same in the time domain, it would be much more difficult to visualize.
A good precaution would be to use a range of mail boxes that, when plotted on a map, form a ring around a population centre far removed from the one you are actually residing in.
Not at all, but I won't be doing it I guess. If you'd like to pick this up, logic is out there. It has a bit of manual work for getting SKU numbers of products but I'm pretty sure it is doable.
Really nice to see posts like that from Facebook.
The moment you get acetone breath is also a great moment to begin a ketogenic diet if you want to experiment with that diet as well. The acetone breath is probably a function of ketogenic metabolism, and if you've already engaged it, why not continue and see what a primarily fat-burning metabolism paradigm does for you.

Also, self control. <20g carbs a day is a whole different kind of diet based self control.

But the results from 30 days for me was fun, definitely worth a month as a body hack.
Experimental kerning for web fonts
Honestly, I'm not sure that makes sense to me. Your criteria for "good form factor" seem to presuppose that the board is going to go into some kind of standard enclosure. That's not the way these are being deployed -- they're going in weird custom boxes (or costumes, or stuffed animals...) with a bunch of other junk. Making the board physically larger just to get all the connectors on the same edge is going to be a net inconvenience for lots of the target market.

Obviously for any one device there's going to be a better form factor. But that's not what the Pi is for.
Misread as "Google CEO Starter Guide" and expected a tongue-in-cheek critique of Larry Page.
Not sarcastic question: where is the good research? I'm a college student doing an independent study and would love more great sources!
I think you described it.

In all likelyhood though, her income drops to zero, she qualifies for medicaid...which isn't great, ever...but it works.
98% of gall bladder removals go fine, in-and-out procedures. I got to join the 2%.

Long story to the point: I wasn't allowed to eat for two weeks. Saline drip kept me hydrated, and that's about it. Connected to the drip, I wasn't really allowed to move either. For what it was, fact is I just didn't eat for about 14 days. Didn't feel hungry, but did watch a ridiculous number of cooking shows.

Yes, that had its special case factors. But now I know I can do without food for a prolonged period. Lost 10 pounds too.
What are the problems that can be caused?
Well, if you want to be 100% accurate, I think the section talking about how the high notes aren't important could be clarified. The really high "notes" have already been lost when you recoded the wav file digitally. The lossy step of mp3 encoding is not a result of the transform, but what you do with that information and is more complex than just discarding high frequency components.

Also, the the word "note" is confusing in the context of music, since really low notes usually contain a lot of high frequency information.
It's not a short pithy blog post, but this is a good intro to the Laplace transform: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-03-differential-eq...
Ha, haven't seen one of those in awhile, but what you say is true:

http://www.sj-r.com/top-stories/x766862973/Family-Video-pres...

They have been growing at a rate of 3 per month, and have presences in both large and midsole regions. One of their successful strategies apparently is to sell pizza at their locations
Interesting that on p. 59 they discuss the theory that the Po-210 was because of smoking, as smokers have twice as much. Conclusion: smoking still wouldn't account for the total amount in some samples, and he wasn't a smoker anyways.
Different strokes for different people I guess :). I respect your choice.
Biggest wins (in my opinion):

- Persistent storage of up to 4K of data on the watch per app.
Storage is a key/value dictionary. No single value may exceed 256 bytes. (Keys are 32 bit integers.)

- New JavaScript framework. Allows running of custom js in a sandbox on the Official Pebble Iphone app

* Supports communicating (bi-directional at all times) between a Watch App and an Android/iPhone javascript companion app.
* Supports HTML5 local storage (on the iPhone)
* Supports location APIs (via HTML5 navigaor.geolocation)
* Supports web requests (JavaScript's XMLHttpRequest())
* Supports sending a simple title/text notification to the watch
* Supports opening a webview on the phone inside the Official Pebble App and the ability to pass a string message back to the JavaScript app when the view is subsequently closed.
If anyone has any brilliant tips on getting line breaks in this text formatting would appreciate it... Call me a newb.
> violence impossible in anonymous marketplace

if you read the report about the 1st silk road, you'll see that's not true
To be fair it's a complete puritan/authoritarian culture thing. Most of the media avoids tackling the issue as well. If it wouldn't be for John Stossel's show, I doubt that there would be any news program talking about the positive outcome of Portugal and the negative aspects of the drug war itself.
I am not a ratings expert, just a (serious) player, chess programmer and amateur chess journalist. I am not sure ratings inflation even exists. If it does exist and you are talking about rating differences between world class players, then you are talking about small differences in big numbers and you are going to get a good approximation to linearity. But it's only approximate because in my previous example the linearity yielded 125 points v 129 points when the key underlying property of the system requires 125 points v 125 points. But unfortunately I don't know the answer to your question 2), I don't know how robust that property of the system is.

Why do I say ratings inflation may not exist ? It is true that in Fischer's time there was one 2700+ player. Now there are 30 or so. That's the evidence for ratings inflation. But it seems likely that the top players are just better than they used to me. Maybe there really are 30 players today who can play at 1972 Bobby Fischer level.
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As much as I like Vancouver, the article reads like excuses and whining for an inability to hustle.

I know people that thrive for around $2 a day in both valleys full stop. So the cost point is specious.

Furthermore, the talent war is nonsense. There are plenty of corporate experienced, startup compatible people globally looking for an opportunity to be part of an adventure. Finding what exactly motivates each candidate is key, because it's probably not napping pods: is it telecommute time, catered lunches or time for yoga? Candidates that are too demanding will be toxic or unmanageable. Also, having every imaginable perk at the beginning doesn't make sense; periodically add neat things as they can be afforded.

Finally, being entirely located in one particular place is also unnecessary and not a panacea. Eschewing either valley entirely for too long doesn't sound particularly wise either. 37signals and others have shown a global virtual office can work.

PS: Ramen isn't food, try oatmeal.
<ignore reason=probably not true>There aren't many with the capability.</ignore> Polonium has no stable isotopes and is naturally so rare that the nuclear industry synthesises it from bisimuth using neutron beams in specialist nuclear reactors. <ignore reason=probably not true>Also, apart from triggers for nukes and poisoning dissidents, it has very few uses.</ignore>
vk.com (one of the top sites in Russia) at least used to break with third party cookies disabled — and breaking one of the largest websites in Russia is a quick way to lose marketshare there.
This is horrifying to me yet I still have to admire the sheer amount of brass it would take to go through with. Though one does wonder if this is just a man pleading for attention.
> It is very easy for underage people to get hold of alcohol. It is ridiculous to suggest that drugs would be any different. It would make it much easier to buy.

While I was underage (I'm 24 now, so not long ago), it was easier to find weed than it was to find alcohol. The repercussions for selling weed to a 16 year old are the same as selling weed to an 18 year old are the same as selling to a 21 year old and so on. The repercussions for selling alcohol to a 21 year old versus an 18 year old or cigarettes to an 18 year old versus a 16 year old are entirely different, in that there are none if you sell to someone of legal age.

If you're already selling an illegal substance, there's no legal reason not to sell to someone who would otherwise be under age if the substance was legalized. What you're doing is illegal either way. With alcohol and tobacco, you're asking a store clerk likely making minimum wage to take a risk so you can buy alcohol. It's just way less likely to fly.
A thousand times this. My fanboyism dies a little each time shit like this happens.
> demonstrably wrong

Your inability to demonstrate it has been noted.
I can least say that I've used both a large Hadoop+Hive farm and a moderately sized RedShift cluster on the same large data set, and holy smoke, RedShift is orders of magnitude faster. Results vary by how big the nodes are you allocate to Redshift, and it's not cheap at all, but very impressive.
In general, I agree, but I think it does serve a valid rhetorical point in this case- i.e., that is the way in which we are likely to view a lot of the weird, different, unexpected practices of an alien culture. And yet, there will be people who embrace those things in all seriousness.
Actually, really good.
Hello Nick. If you don't mind, may you open the backbone boiler plate, and tell us what layout manager extension you use? :)
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Depends on how far away from the image you are, or how big it is. By taking the low frequency from one image, and the high frequency from another, you can get some interesting results. Take a look at this image, first sitting near the screen, then step away a couple of meters.

http://cvcl.mit.edu/GroupFaceHybrid.jpg
Those articles don't seem to talk about canola/rapeseed oil, at all. They seem to cover olive oil, which I stated is thought to be a health oil. Am I missing something?

Or, was my parenthetical comment about high heat cooking with olive oil confusing? I was speaking of canola/rapeseed oil when I said the evidence that it is healthy have all but evaporated. Olive oil is great, but burned oil is carcinogenic. Olive oil burns at a quite low temperature. So, cooking in grapeseed oil is probably a better bet, and adding olive oil toward the end for flavor.
have you setup Exchange protocol support (for pushmail on iOS devices)? Gmail disabled Exchange protocol support for newer devices, that would be my main motivation to move away from Gmail.
is this the same as sinc-interpolation? (effectively; that happens in "real" space, while this seems to be in frequency space)
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The moral of the story is that there is always a bigger fish.
Problem is that bootstrapped startups can't afford big names like Wilson Sonsini.

Any recommendations for cheaper alternatives that still offer similar quality?
I definitely can understand the frustration with thinking of the book as a product or business but in some ways it is. I think what is different in how I conceive of a product in this post is that in many ways the product (whether a novel, piece of literature, film, painting, etc.) is never finished. It is always a work in progress, a coming-to-be. I did my graduate work in philosophy and multimedia creative works at the European Graduate School, which took a smattering of filmmakers, philosophers, artists, etc. to come together and produce. I found an interesting commonality in the creative process amongst all of them. That commonality was that inevitably the creative work was produced for someone - the customer, viewer, listener, audience. And in that way creative works are a dialogue with an-other. This is what lean is all about at heart. It is making whatever you are working on a dialogue with someone else and incorporating that feedback into the build-measure learn loop.

I, however, do not think that the two are mutually exclusive and even if you are only concerned with the work as an artistic creation, the relationship between the author and the audience is still important.
> This is actually the exact same number of numbers as in the time-domain series.

In a way, it's twice as many, since they have both real and imaginary components.
Whirr just uses the AWS APIs to provision a cluster for you, but then you're getting a cluster built on EC2 instances rather than EMR, so you don't pay that EMR overhead. You can choose spot or ondemand instances. If your spots get reaped, I think it would fail pretty similarly to an EMR cluster built on spots. I have no idea how quickly it could provision a 500 node cluster, however.
The state of the art at Google appears to be F1 [0], although that takes a pretty different approach than Presto/Dremel and may be complementary. This area (interactive SQL on big data) has become very active lately. In addition to those you list, there's Shark [1] and BlinkDB [2] from Berkeley's AMP Lab.

[0] http://research.google.com/pubs/pub41344.html
[1] http://shark.cs.berkeley.edu
[2] http://blinkdb.org/
I dated a girl who did modeling and whenever a shoot would come up she would do a water/coffee fast. It only worked temporarily and she would be forced to do it before every shoot to get where she wanted to be.

There is no substitute for exercise and proper diet.
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Hardcore Gabber music make me code super fast, like this kind:

https://soundcloud.com/oligabbah/sets/gabber
What is the longest you've fasted for? How long would you be comfortable fasting for without medical supervision?
I code well listening to them because the music on this album has little to no lyrics. When I'm programming and I'm listening to a song that I like I'll just get out of focus because I'll start singing along.

If you like that album, listen to Before the Dawn Heals Us, their next album. Their last two albums, Saturdays = Youth and Hurry Up, We're Dreaming are also great but they have more lyrics to sing along to.
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I agree with everything. However:

> Sex during the fast is awesome

It's probably best to not do that, if you're looking to get more substantial benefits out of fasting.

In fact, what works really great is practicing some meditation while fasting - if you already have some experience with it. The calm, clarity and joy from both fasting and meditation amplify each other.

The association between fasting and meditation appears over and over again in many cultures, many places and historic periods, as people re-discovered the synergy between the two. But the classic recommendation is to abstain from "indulging" in sex, drugs, etc during the practice. YMMV.
Well, your query is funnier[0]

> Showing results for "Google SEO Starter Guide"

> No results found for "Google CEO Starter Guide"

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q="Google+CEO+Starter+Guide"
Any Daft Punk song for me. Great band.
The dedication to Malcolm Tredinnick was a very nice thing for the Django team to do. I didn't know of Malcolm or his passing before reading the release notes, but he seemed like a wonderful person who will be missed by many. Very sad that somebody like that is no longer with us. Reading his tweets I get the sense he was a really cool guy.

Really nice piece about Malcolm from his former boss: https://plus.google.com/+errazudinishak/posts/6j6iAMhNfnb

Congrats to the Django team on releasing 1.6, I'm looking forward to upgrading soon!
We'll also start hosting weekly open labs where developers can come hack with us and get help on projects at Pebble HQ starting in early December. Stay tuned to the blog for more details!
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In PHP I tend to do something like:

dd(__DIR__.'/'.__FILE__.':'.__LINE__);

Which prints out the current script and line, and then stops execution (where dd is var_dump+exit).
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Why don't they authenticate with their own Twitter account? I'm not sure why they would need mine.
Husband-and-wife team managed the MLB calendar for more than 20 years [video]
They don't set the mime-type on upload, or you set the mime-type on upload and they fail to set it when you download it via the Akami CDN?

I was planning to use Cloud Files and it's CDN. Thanks for sharing.
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>As mentioned above, development on Presto started in Fall 2012. We had our first production system up and running in early 2013. It was fully rolled out to the entire company by Spring 2013.

Wow. As somebody who skimmed through the original Google Dremel paper and thought for a while about how one would go about implementing such an interactive system, that strikes me as an amazingly impressive timeline.
This is important advice. Spend time finding someone you trust and that you feel comfortable talking to. You won't run into any of the unethical things mentioned in this post with a good attorney. In fact, some of those things are against the rules of professional conduct.

Another important point: You can always negotiate your bill. It is very common to pay less than the billed amount.

Full disclosure: I'm a former WSGR attorney. Now a WSGR client.