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Aisle50 (YC S11) is hiring a mobile developer in Chicago 
We’re hiring a developer who will be our lead builder for native apps and for our mobile-optimized experience. This job is in Chicago.

About Aisle50:

We are indelibly changing the $2 trillion grocery industry like no other technology company. Our VC investors include August Capital and Origin Ventures.

We save consumers money on groceries by partnering with big manufacturers and retail chains. Shoppers buy our offers and subscriptions through web and mobile for 15% to 50% off of normal prices. We then load those items to the shopper’s store loyalty card. When shoppers checkout at the grocery store, they receive full credit for items they already bought on Aisle50. Manufacturers pay the difference between our prices and retail, plus a fee to Aisle50 for marketing and facilitating the back-end technology that allows for the conversion consumers before they ever get to the store shelf.

Our solution is unique in that it melds the brick and mortar world of grocery stores with the web. We alter shopping behavior in a powerful way: we drive extra trips to the store and, once the consumer is at the store, we drive shopping baskets that are 31% bigger for our retail partners.

Some of our manufacturer clients: Kellogg’s, Procter & Gamble, Unilever, General Mills, PepsiCo.

Some of our retailers: Raley’s, Shop ‘n Save, Homeland, D’Agostino, Foodland, Jubilee.

About you:

Right now, Aisle50 offers an iOS app and optimized views to its users, but with our current team’s focus on the evolution of the webapp and our live connections with retailers, the mobile half does not get the attention it deserves. You will change that.

You will have experience building mobile applications from the ground-up. You will lead the effort to create the next generation of Aisle50 mobile offerings as well as help vendor our code for use by our grocery partners, some of whom have their own mobile apps that can utilize modular pieces of our solution.

We already own the consumer outside of the store as that’s where we reach them; but we want to own the consumer inside the store as well. That means integrating mobile with location-based solutions that allow us to communicate with our shoppers at critical moments in the brick-and-mortar buying funnel, from when the shopper enters the store to when the shopper browses the bread aisle to when the shopper checks out this week’s gossip magazine in the checkout line (we work with Time Inc.!).

Our strategy involves both iOS and Android and we would love to find someone with deep knowledge of both, but we're excited to meet people who are stronger in one or the other as well. Bonus points if you have some Rails experience and can work on the APIs the app will consume as well as the app itself.

You will be joining a dev team of 4 + 2 cofounders + 8 sales people + 1 customer service specialist. We roll fast, so you should, too.

Interested? Email us at mobilejob@aisle50.com
i read the description and there are 2 things that you might want to improve:

1. how does it help me? why would i want to install it?

2. if i am convinced i want to install it ... you need to have a better design - it should look cool and be basically not noticeable
> Mercurial is able to pull changes into a working copy which has uncommitted changes - it essentially just treats it as a merge. This, with Mercurial, i need to stash much less often.

JFTR: git 1.8.4 has --autostash as argument to rebase.
The bathroom is the shower. http://www.nomadmicrohomes.com/uploads/3/2/7/6/3276237/51529...
I was trying to recall the name of OneTick ... It does work well for market data (especially with corrections and stuff), but is not a convenient general database.

kdb+, on the other hand, is a time series database that works perfectly well as a general database, with a query language that is at the same time infinitely simpler than SQL and yet much faster, more expressive and useful. There's a learning curve, it is steep, but it is well worth it.
I'm looking forward to hearing from Brian Granger (IPython) and Peter.
I can't speak to practices in Scandinavia or Hong Kong, but I've lived in Singapore, and while it has plenty of good points, and lots of things just work, it also exhibits much of what I consider to be crony capitalism.

First, there is a great deal of overlap among the leadership of government, the military, education, and business. As in, the same dude is CEO of a large company and a Colonel in the army and last year he was minister for something-or-another. When he gets tired of this company he'll teach at NUS for a bit. If you're on track to slide into that top echelon when you're still in your twenties, you're golden, otherwise your prospects are more limited.

To a seemingly greater extent than is true even in USA, the government is involved in everything. Fortunately, the bureaucrats seem to make generally good decisions, but they're still making decisions. The genuinely competitive industries are export-focused, which I guess is OK for a small nation for which exports are so important.

Everyone has heard about the fairly severe punishments Singapore has for various crimes, but perhaps not how much enforcement varies based on the identity of the criminal. Even before you get to the punishment stage, law enforcement and related surveillance pervades society, and affects different classes of people in wildly different ways. This isn't an economic effect per se, but the choices people make as a reaction to this have economic consequences. Also, I can't get over the fact that for 34 of its 48 years, Singapore's PM has been LKY or his son.
The trader in me smells fear in this post, not confidence.

To (quickly) test my intuition I compared the language in this post with the last two [1,2] using the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level (FKGL) statistic [3]. This statistic tends to decrease by 0.4 to 0.8 following trauma [4]. The original post was written with the sentence and vocabulary complexity of a 6th or 7th grader (6.9). The other two were more at the level of an 8th grader (8.4 and 8.8). Thus, we see a -1.7 change in the FKGL.

[1] http://willweinraub.com/post/44506341885/the-happiness-equat...

[2] http://willweinraub.com/post/53269730823/stop-saying-you-hav...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch-Kincaid#Flesch.E2.80.93K...

[4] http://www.researchgate.net/publication/227792923_Relationsh...
This is a great case study.

Representative forms of democracy solved the problem that polling all citizens in a city/state/country is impractical.

Now we can poll everyone on most important decisions using technology.

So, are we not in an era where technology can make direct democracy real and practical?
A number of the members of the Chrome team. If you watch the announcement from when Blink hit, they did some developer talks. When asked about the integration of Dart into Chrome, it was fairly obvious that some of the guys didn't want Dart in there [0]. But at the same time, a high-level direction is being set to try and get Dart added.

Google employs a LOT of developers. A lot of those developers feel the same way members of HN does, that we don't need a language to replace javascript. Google is using their weight in the web world to try and get a new/alternative language added.

As long as Dart isn't completely shoved down our throats, I'm willing to give it a try. I think there is enough opposition within Google to make sure that Dart will at least have to live in peaceful co-existence with Javascript.

Google is pretty realistic that it'll be many more years before they can even have a chance of getting other browsers to add the DartVM. Heck, Chrome doesn't have it yet (outside of the Dartium build which has some fun memory leaks).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlJob8K_OwE&t=17m26s
Whenever I see these new DBs I promise myself to try them in a side-project but I almost never get around to thinking of one. Can someone be kind enough to hit up a few ideas for side-project where this DB would shine?
If you design based on trusting other nodes (committee and/or trusted peer groups), you have to inherently trust those nodes, and they have to be highly reliable/available, which is kind of ridiculous if you're trying to account for things like oppressive nation states.

If you design based on anonymous communication, it's still subject to analysis of network traffic. Even if the messages you're sending are secret, and you have some peers in the middle storing and handing things off, you can still tell who is sending something and who is receiving something and tell with a high probability if the two events are linked.

If you design based on the premise of hiding amongst a bunch of nodes, or wandering randomly through a maze of lots of nodes, you're dependent on lots of nodes and their expected behavior. The number of nodes may diminish, or their routes may be controlled, or their behavior changed, depending on the influence of the observers/controllers of the networks.

I'm of course only speaking about the delivery mechanism. The encryption of the message on either end is the easy part. It's getting it over there secretly that's really hard.
I'm not sure I understand what you are saying or maybe you didn't understand me. I am saying the it doesn't use the built-in locking mechanism but instead it's own "screen lock" that looks similar.
Yes, you are of course right about that. It might just be a sign of my age that I just mentioned Facebook as the bad guy in my post… :)
When a great product hits the funding crunch
Don't forget the IE11 which pretends to be Gecko and to not be MSIE [0].

[0] http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2013/07/02/internet-explorer-1...
Might be obvious to some of you, but I use this to check what my macros expand out into to make sure the syntax is valid.

#include <stdio.h>

#define atoa(x) #x

#define mdb(x) printf("%s\n", atoa(x))

#define swap(type, x, y) do {type temp = *(x); *(x) = *(y); *(y) = temp;} while(0)

int main(int argc, char *argv[])

{

int cat[2] = {33, 44};

printf("atoa(cat): %s\n", atoa(cat)); // "cat"

mdb(swap(int, cat, cat+1)); // expands the macro inside to text

swap(int, cat, cat+1); // the macro itself

printf("cat[0]: %d\n", cat[0]); // 44

return 0;
}
The article mentions one team who wanted to use it.
What backbones? We had an option to get much cheaper pricing on Cogent. We decided to pay a bit extra for premium.

Also, most of our cost was for the hardware(not the bandwidth). We went with top-notch storage with RAID and a bunch of ram. In hindsight, we should have bought the hardware for one-time fee but didn't for cash flow reasons.
I completely agree, I'm actually really annoyed because I paid $4 for something that I wouldn't have paid $0.99 for if I knew this is what they were doing. Now $4 isn't going to break the bank but still I thinks it's misleading not to point that out.
What's the goal of a startup? The unscalable stuff works if the goal is to be a real business that provides real revenue.
Most of those FOSS developers are paid by (a) consulting/support fees on the FOSS they develop or (b) working for companies which use that FOSS in their products. That works fine for B2B products, but doesn't translate well to Minecraft - nobody really needs consulting/support fees on Minecraft mods, because the hosting services mostly handle that, and they sell hosting at near bottom-dollar.
not sure. its pretty easy to send voice notes on windows phone. maybe if it was something fun?
It may be open source, but it makes it more difficult to work with existing js libraries, and shoehorns you into a particular environment that is not standard frontend (html, css, js). Sure, Dart may compile down to js, but that adds another layer to a build process, and increases complexity unnecessarily.

As a fairly knowledgeable user of Angular & sometime contributor, this is a disturbing rumor.
Well thats disappointing. This looks like the service I've been looking for for all these years.
ISRO justifies Rs 450 crore Mars mission
Looks like a case of blogspam linkbait. The original TC article has a lot more interesting details, and it doesn't even mention race in the entire article, much less with a sensationalist headline, which in this case seems to be extrapolated from a much vaguer and less controversial quote in the article.

I'm flagging this article, but I'd upvote the original TC one.

edit: and here it is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6660099
Please provide some proof. My tests using the built in lock hotkeys and trying to unlock with my phone say otherwise....
I'd say we're entering that era. Still, both Democracy and its help from technology have a long way to go. DemocracyOS is trying to shorten the distance between citizens and representatives, by letting the formers debate and vote on the same bills that are treated in parliament, prior to them being actually voted, so the formers may take their opinion and actually carry the people's voice into the House.

That's pretty good for starters, IMHO :)
No idea if it's enough start a job board but seems to me like requiring the name of the company and a salary range is not a bad requirement for keeping quality up.
Etymology of “dude” is traced to "doodle," as in Yankee Doodle Dandy
On Introducing New Ideas to Free Software Communities
As I understand it, Ladar's plan for Lavabit is to open source it (and implement the Dark Mail protocol) so you can run your own instance of it... exactly like Mailpile.
State wide gigabit Internet coming to Mississippi
Ah. Well, as they say on YC they are being extremely selective with non-profits and considering them to be "charity" (their own words). I personally wouldn't take it to heart at all if YC didn't select your company.
Most of our problems would go away if mm was actually a mm and the dpi differences were taken care of by the OS + screen + browser... Ugh.
Sounds like we're stuck with inconsistency for various dpi devices for many years to come still :-/
I pretended to use WinRAR (long time ago to make fun on some boards), until I've encountered https://panopticlick.eff.org/
Developing Mobile Apps with Web Technologies – My thoughts
Thunderbird is "done".

Mozilla's development efforts are limited to security and maintenance updates.
s/legal/smart ftfy
"You are currently not signed in. Please sign in to access subscriber-only content."

How do you watch these videos without a signup?
I would imagine you have a few groups:

1) mid-large companies - 1000+ employees. Most of them use a wiki-like platform for storing knowledge transfer. I would take the 37signals approach and price it within a range that can be put on a credit card and NOT have procurement process. Most turn around for people may be 2 or 3 years so storing all that insights or "for a new project/website" that may have launched

2) Companies that hire interns - I know when I worked for a small startup they had a intern program every summer. They would get all this data and information and want to store and be able to easily access it. Look at universities who have a jobboard/intern board and find the companies who fill that and market towards them

Just some thoughts :) good luck
well, the new frontier is "dark mail" or more generally "dark net" where interoperability again is the key [as the only way to grow. It is like natural evolution - any non-interoperability efforts will just not grow, and only an interoperability based effort will produce the critical mass]. It is organically decentralized and by its nature a user is the owner of its data even though actual [meaningless to 3rd party] bits may be stored by one or spread around multiple distributed providers ("dark money" style as if you BT wallet is encrypted and replicated though the BT network itself). Content mining and "user is the product", and thus FB and Google as we know it, would be for some time problematic at best and it will be some time before segmentation era of the new net dawns and new Serge/Larry/Zuckenberg appear :)
Hi, I haven't received an email, so I think something must have went wrong.
An ideas whether this would make a decent bitcoin miner?
See mention of CME upthread. The choice is really:

1. Attend CME meeting, often at nice resort locale, usually unpaid, but deductible. Acquire at least 25 hours of such attendance per year.

2. Lose medical license. Pump gas, if you can find a full-service station.
"though I've heard Ubuntu got better"

I've heard that about linux every year for the past 14 years, usually from people who've only been using desktop linux for a year or two. Not exclusively, but usually.
Single-Atom Optical Switch
Urbee 2, the 3D-Printed Car That Will Drive Across the Country
netiquette: downvote must be followed by a comment.
They're advertising for a PHP/Ruby dev so making outlandish bullshit requirements like that, along with iMac fawning, is a must.

Firms like this that dictate the technology stack you'll be forced to conform to are unemployable to any good developer.
This is totally me. I spend tons of time bitching about Windows, but I never just up and move to *nix because of some Windows exclusive things I want.
You can't cite your own post as evidence that Taibbi is not reliable. Taibbi is an accomplished journalist who is credible enough that he is routinely featured on radio and TV programs as a worthwhile guest to discuss financial systems and crimes. I'm not sure what part of that suggests he should not be trusted to have knowledge of international banking.
Getting started with Bootstrap 3 and Teamwork
I would urge you to consider whether you have an accurate picture of the world. It would be a staggering claim, to me, that even most of the people who get VC money could be characterized as "kids". Getting VC money is a lot of networking, calling, follow-ups, and frank discussion of terms. I don't think that selects well for "kids".
I wonder how the JVM will compare to .NET in 10 years time.
I don't know, my xcode builds 'release' builds directly into a customized DMG that has background / README / some extras + layout all set.
Could some please please please explain what this "webapp crypto problem" thing is. I think of a browser as a client. Isn't the javascript done client-side. Why is everybody saying that the browser (javascript) is a broken platform for crypto. Have a even characterised what the issue is correctly? I don't even know.

I figure that if this is explained to me then surely the solution should present itself at the same time :)
Your response seems to assume that she has earned MBA, but she has not. http://www.linkedin.com/in/juliesupan
Does scala follow semantic versioning? It sounds like they should still be in the 0.x stage if there are enough breaking changes to merit this discussion
Sounds fun, but I'm not moving to the bay area. :P
Yup. I improved mine as well.
Is there any rhyme/reason to the title change? I'm interested in the discussion specifically related to how Helpouts will impact telemedicine, and healthIT culture, particularly as Google moves to federal licensure.

This is a huge game changer for the health innovation community.

And for those who don't think so, Google, Amazon and the like have been quietly rolling out new BAA to fall in step with fresh HIPAA omnibus requirements.

Edit: http://www.emrandhipaa.com/emr-and-hipaa/2013/06/19/amazon-a...
They will both become just compatibility layers implemented on top of node.js.

/s
Brad Feld: When Washing Potatoes Got Me Fired
There are a massive ton of events, pretty much if you wanted to, you can find one almost every day/night, any time of the year. There are TONS of meetups, conferences, hackathons, panels, private or smaller group events, and the list goes on and on. Additionally its a bit hard not to run into someone doing a startup, especially if you're in startup centric districts like SOMA in SF or University Ave in Palo Alto and the various other areas up and down the entire Bay.

On top of that, you have various things people engage in to meet other people (dinners, stuff like LetsLunch, etc...). The problem isn't really meeting people, its actually avoiding wasting time and going out too much that leads to non-quality eventful meetings.
Here's a wild thought: open source the client apps, so maybe it can be rewritten to work with Flickr or any other service. That way it keeps the 'set it and forget it' alive. Because right now I can't think of a tool that does the same so smoothly for Flickr.
SEEKING WORK - remote - India.

Creator of xtopdf, a PDF creation toolkit for Python (used by Packt Publishing, the Software Freedom Law Center, ESRI.nl and others.) xtopdf can create both business reports and ebooks, and currently has support for the following input formats (more are always in the pipeline): text, DBF, CSV, TSV/TDV, XLS, ODBC, SQLAlchemy, MongoDB, XML. xtopdf links:

http://slid.es/vasudevram/xtopdf
https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/xtopdf
http://www.packtpub.com/article/Using_xtopdf
http://google.com/search?q=xtopdf

Independent developer for the last several years, with many years of experience in many tech areas. Contracted/consulted to multiple startups based in USA and India. Earlier worked for large well-known US software product and Indian software services companies.

Skills: Good - Python, C, Linux, UNIX, many open source technologies, databases, XML-RPC, PDF programming, file and data format conversion, data munging, command-line utility development. Some: Flask, MongoDB, Bottle, various others.

Worked on Ruby, Rails and Java earlier. Server lead / senior engineer for two commercial Rails-based dot-com products earlier, by US companies. One of them was TaskBin - http://taskbin.com - for the first version.

Databases worked on: Oracle, Sybase, Informix, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, HSQLDB, MS-Access. Used (relational) databases in practically all projects I've worked on.

Did a lot of UNIX support and successful troubleshooting for years (some years earlier), still have some of those skills, which are useful in development too. Had many times recovered clients' data from corrupted file systems or crashed machines (with no backups :), using various tricks of the trade learnt on the job, and solved various other software problems, often involving various interacting software components (from OS level through language compilers to application programs and databases). Wrote lots of utilities in C and UNIX shell tools (sed, awk, grep and friends) to automate various tasks (for both users and developers), convert data between various formats from one platform to another, etc.

Not really looking for full-time UNIX / Linux admin work now, mentioning it as a possible value-add, depending on the job required.

Worked on a best-selling retail banking product (much earlier, in C with proprietary DB and UI libs). Team leader for a database middleware product widely used in client projects by a top software services company.

Relevant links:

Biz site: http://www.dancingbison.com (see Home, Products, Services, About pages there)

http://www.binpress.com/profile/vasudev-ram/3425

Posts about Python:

http://jugad2.blogspot.com/search/label/python

Posts about xtopdf:

http://jugad2.blogspot.com/search/label/xtopdf

Blog: http://jugad2.blogspot.com

Article by me about "Developing a Linux command-line utility" (in C) was published on IBM developerWorks and translated by IBM into Chinese and Japanese for those versions of their site. Some organizations have developed production command line tools using that article as a guide.

Contact info: http://dancingbison.com/contact.html (email, Skype). Twitter: @vasudevram
Thanks for the encouragement, needed it.
There's a huge difference between running your own mail server and running a mail client. Most people are not well positioned to run their own mail server.

Mailpile is an MUA, not an MTA.
XFCE is pretty nice. Still not as fast and using as low resources as LXDE, but it's still much better than Gnome 3-based DE's.
It wasn't me, but let me try to help - maybe your comment was posted to the wrong story?
After just finishing their REMOTE book, I feel like this is the next natural step.

I hope some higher quality companies begin listing on this job board soon, however.
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