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HelloSign (YC W11) is hiring its first Marketing Manager 
HelloSign saves people from needing to print, sign, and scan documents by letting them fill out and sign documents online. This is a massive market – everyone needs to sign documents. We're backed by Y Combinator and other great investors, and people love and pay to use our service.

We’re growing and looking to add our first marketing team member! Seeking a creative and results-driven Marketing Manager who will be responsible for establishing our marketing and PR processes and ensuring successful marketing campaigns and launches. We’d like to find someone who is passionate about executing marketing and communications strategies. We have tremendous natural growth, and we’re looking for a marketer excited about using data and analytics for performance tracking. In addition this position will oversee our messaging and press strategy.

Responsibilities include:

- Creating and executing marketing campaigns
- Developing and managing ongoing PR campaigns
- Managing all social media channels (FB, Twitter, G+) and campaigns
- Developing and updating web content and writing company blog
- Writing and managing user emails, drip campaigns, and monthly newsletters
- Generating analytical models to track and optimize key metrics
- Creating consistent growth channels
- Driving top of funnel traffic

Requirements/Qualifications

- Excellent written and communication skills
- Experience in technology product marketing
- Experience with marketing analytics and an interest in analyzing data that describes marketing effectivenessand company performance
- Strong analytical skills - must enjoy testing and optimizing different distribution channels and ideas, focused on maximizing ROI
- Highly proficient in Excel
- Experience defining messaging and positioning for brand and product launches
- Great consumer and media instincts
- Must enjoy the fast pace and unstructured environment of a start-up

Interested? Email us at jobs (at) hellosign (dot) com.
Well if Nanobots can do that, we´re talking on a whole different level, where flesh wounds could be healed, organs could be grown back etc., but then it might be possible
There are a lot of power hungry people out there. In fact, our genome is essentially made up of the most successful conquerors and rapists. If you have a bioengineered virus in hand, you have tremendous power (through blackmail), even against powerful governments. You can also hunker down in some far away place (obviously madagascar) while the virus carries out your destruction.
Reminds me of http://www.displayofwealth.com/
Great point.

> If you gave me a perfect happiness drug, I wouldn't want to sit in bed all day and take it. I would want to take it and go about my normal day only without the burden of misery

I've been reading some meditation related books lately, and this was one of the ideas they were trying to get across. That meditating for a sense of fulfillment doesn't replace your desire to go about and do good work, it merely changes your perspective on how you feel while doing those things. Additionally, it (allegedly, convincingly argued) enhances your ability to do the things you like well, and to make better choices in general.

> I suspect this is just because many of our current drugs do this as a side effect of inducing euphoria, and we're imagining that instead of a real happiness drug.

A useful way to contrast that is with uppers. I took my friends aderall a few times in College - in addition to staying awake, I felt profoundly happy - yet I didn't give up my goals (study all night) - I merely had a good time doing them.

I know there's some science around parts of that - far too lazy atm to search and link it (sorry!). But perhaps it is a bit counter-intuitive that feeling deeply happy and satisfied could also drive a person to do more meaningful work at the same time.
Nah, just like listening to the radio.
No idea, but virt-edit will let you remove the root password from any disk image:

http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-recipes.1.html#remove-root-pas...
Defaults are important. Most users of the web don't know referrers exist.

It's irrelevant how useful you find the information. You'd probably find it useful to know the name and email address of everyone that visits your site too... So?
Cool idea! I get an internal server error when I go here: http://btcbutton.com/queue
Anyone have a good link (video? blog entry?) discussing what problem QML solves and why it is better than other solutions? Within the docs the biggest thing I am able to find is the following hand wavy statement:

"QML is a user interface specification and programming language. It allows developers and designers alike to create highly performant, fluidly animated and visually appealing applications. QML offers a highly readable, declarative, JSON-like syntax with support for imperative JavaScript expressions combined with dynamic property bindings."

I have heard about it for a number of years, but never been able to wrap my head around everything it is offering and why various choices were made.
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How did you code up the handling of payments? Was this easy to make?
I am just thinking, if that applies mainly in US or if thats similar in germany.
Worked just fine in Firefox.
Yeah, encoding issues :/ working on it
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Looking at the (American) houses of me and my siblings, there is an inverse relationship between price and convenience of home delivery. One of us lives in a 100K house and gets mail put right to their front door. Another lives in a 800K house and has to drive to their mailbox.

How much of a say does the local Post Office have in how much service it will provide new developments?
> Only people who live in older, more affluent areas built before community mailboxes receive home mail delivery. It's effectively a subsidy from us to them. Good riddance.

My parents' old house in a suburb of Vancouver is not in an affluent area and received such door to door service. Their new neighbourhood (which is rather upper middle income) and the apartment block that I live in doesn't however have this and has the "new-fangled" community mailboxes.

I personally am not a fan of this but the amount of mail I have received has diminished to just bills.
Gmail UI sucks in part because they are going for the masses, not the power user. It isn't HTML5's fault.
What if instead of going to charity, the bitcoins went to the visitors of the page?

That way it could be self perpetuating?
Seriously. a bunch of snow that follows my mouse around. why?

coming from haskell. i'm glad auto seems to be working better.
A very good argument, but definitely not what the other folks were talking about.

"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. When there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."

I think what you need to fight then is the absurd amount of laws on the books. I don't think we're close to the point you're describing. Sure cops overlook J-walking and driving 5 mph over the speed limit, but that's minor in the grand scheme of things. I think if the government found out ever law I'd broke... I'd probably have to pay a large amount of fines for all the stuff I've torrented, and maybe quite a few speeding tickets. But you've got to understand that if everyone that speeded and torrented was caught, the system of punishment would have to be completely different. The punishment - right or wrong - is scaled inversely to the chance that you will get caught. As an example: If they saw each time you went over 65 mph, you'd probably be dinged 5 bucks, not 100+.

In a sense it would make the system a lot more fair.
I'm anxious to see how much Valve has learned since the launch of Steam a decade ago. Steam is great now, but it sucked pretty hard when it first came out. I remember the genuine shock I felt at having the friends functionality actually work the way I expected it to after about 4 years of pure shit. I have no doubt this will eventually be awesome, only question is how long it will take.
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Americans who say “college isn’t for everyone” never mean their own kids
Insert row is:
1) Shift + space (highlight current row)
2) alt + I (open insert menu)
3) r (insert row above)

vs Excel which is:
1) Shift + space (highlight current row)
2) ctrl + shift + "+" (insert row above)

Slightly different key pattern, but it does exist. Difference probably exist b/c ctrl + "+" is reserved in the browser for zoom.
Then I must be mistaken, thanks.

I've tended to associate CentOS with Gnome, and I installed from live CD with a reduced package set. I still think it is significant that Red Hat are publicising the choices.
it was a naive blind faith in so-called desktop apps (built on top of a wired third-party toolkit), while it was obvious that a browser is the proper way of visualizing an information

Use the right tool for the job. Desktop apps may indeed be preferable to browser based apps in some cases. Actually, I would argue that it isn't obvious that browsers are better for anything other than what they were built for - rendering and browsing hypermedia content.

Now, whether or not Delphi per-se is a Good Idea as a means of building desktop apps is a different issue, and I'll grant you that I'm not necessarily a big Delphi fan. But that's not because I find desktop apps to be inherently bad.
I tried Google Shopping Express (a similar idea) for a while and found that what really matters is how delivery works. I'm typically at work all day and I (like most San Franciscans?) don't have a doorman to receive deliveries.

These Amazon pages don't say much, but they show pictures of delivery trucks in front of Victorians like mine and a grocery bag on a welcome mat. If they left a bag full of food in my entryway like that it'd probably last 20 minutes before being stolen.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Senator

> A state senator is a member of a state's Senate, the upper house in the bicameral legislature of 49 U.S. states, or a legislator in Nebraska's one house State Legislature.
For anyone who is interested in the Dinosaur asteroid, may I suggest listening to or watching the latest RadioLab, which went into some interesting (speculative) depth about what may have happened.
You're right, if we could do it properly.

The sad thing is that we're not starting from a first principle that animal welfare is even something to care about. Ignoring the fact that they're all slaughtered, these animals live a really bleak existence.

You make a good point, but despite all the farming subsidies, the economics of raising animals to eat them are still pretty bad. Fecal management, spacing herds, different feed...none of those things are viable at any scale approaching what is expected to meet the demand. Small farmers aren't paid enough and the larger places are just factories.
At least in the US, bulk mail subsidizes the rest of the system, because it's a system with very high fixed costs spread over a larger volume.
tbh. that doesn't satisfy me, because infinity isn't something that we cannot understand. Actually infinity is much easier to understand than the big bang theory. When there is one thing that nature has thought us from day 1 to now, it is that everything in nature is highly efficient. I feel the need to repeat that "Nature is highly efficient, in every aspect!"
So imagining that a maximum entropy universe will result in the quasi violation of the first law of thermodynamics is ridicule. See: [1] Energy will not cease to exist, yes, but I also think that the transformations of excited energy states won't stop.

As an example: "Where does the fire go, after you blow it out? The question is irritating, because fire is a side-effect of quantum interactions, while the wind that blew it off, absorbs and vaporizes this energy into measurable quanta and is comparable to what black holes do.

The rate at which vapors of flames excess from this reaction, is dependant of composition of the matter and it's catalyzation rate.
The flame contains many atoms with electrons in highly excited states and keeps decaying into lower energy levels, causing the excess energy to swing in the frequencies/wavelengths or just colors/spectra of the burning material. You can learn more about that in [2].

Why this seemingly unrelated example of "fire and flames" is simply explained as an „autocatalytic set“ [3].

Adding that matter is both particle AND wave dependant on the observation is very simple to understand, when you know that we live in a two dimensional space and that energy outside of our space exists as a wave function.

--

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Rip

[2] http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/HPS_0410/chapters/qua...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocatalytic_set
> Efficient Ops allows for innovation to reach consumers faster and more often.

So I have an IRC channel I can contact the developers at all time, and rollout of upgrades is automated? That's good I guess, but hardly groundbreaking.

If I'm Joe C. ComputerUser with Windows XP running on a circa 2007 Thinkpad, what is Docker and why do I need it?

Good to hear it's open source.
I don't think this changes the point. A single McDonald's franchise would pay its employees a different minimum wage than McDonald's Corporate, and Fred's burger cart would still be paying a different minimum wage to his two employees than both.

If you find there's some legal manipulation that could go on so larger companies could avoid paying the higher minimum wage, well, then that's no different than every other progressive law on the books.
I'm glad you said something. I was about to freak out a bit...
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You can call chef/puppet/ansible from your Dockerfile to provision your container, but that loses the cool caching behaviour that docker gives you.

We have a large set of well-tested ansible scripts that we use for deployment, so we thought we'd use the "run ansible within the Dockerfile" approach. However, when we started doing that, we found that the configuration of each docker is actually fairly simple so we converted to (almost) pure Dockerfile. The ansible complexity was configuring and setting up a bunch of images and their configurations on a bunch of servers.

IOW, we use ansible to schlep around & configure the environment variables for the containers rather than creating them.
Ask PG: Why is HTML-like text stripped from titles? Why can't be used?
The title was "Ask PG: Why is HTML-like text stripped from titles? Why can't <angle brackets> be used?", but the "<angle brackets>" bit was were stripped, so I had to rewrite it without it.
This page isn't working?
http://www.indysci.org/details.html
Semi-offtopic: water vapour is by far the most powerful atmospheric greenhouse gas per unit volume and as a whole, many times more 'powerful' than CO2. Hardly anyone mentions it because it is not something we can change.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_vapor#Water_vapor_in_Ear...
Fair enough. This is how I reason to that particular statement. My observation is that the judgment of 'superior' or 'inferior' requires a standard. In the absence of an unbiased exemplar, the first exposure and use becomes the 'default' standard. Further, that exposure tunes the work flow to minimize 'pain' which creates a pattern of behavior that achieves an objective at reduced pain (a trained workflow).

On the exposure to a new system, the combination of using the previous system as the default exemplar, and using the trained work flow that the previous system encouraged, results in the second system being rated 'inferior' to the extent that it does not exactly duplicate specific characteristics or support exactly similar workflow.
It wouldn't seem that difficult for nerds to game this. Randomized searches on Amazon and Google run occasionally in the background, while all real traffic passes through an encrypted VPN (the speed hit theoretically being negligible over fiber).

Still, most users will probably just shrug and accept it as normal, much like with Kindle "offers". Not exactly a positive trend-line.
I was being somewhat facetious with that last line.

However, I don't think that it is outside the realm of possibility that relatively small entities, on the order of a small-cap corporation or private laboratory, could eventually create a weapon that has far more global destructive power than a radioactive dirty bomb.

This would afford the entity more leverage at a global bargaining table- as opposed to a negotiation with a single government. Combined with the relative anonymity one may be able to maintain when releasing the virus, these entities might see a higher expected value in engineering a virus.

It would be "DIY" in the sense that you wouldn't need the backing of a large nation state to produce an ICBM, or opportunistically steal some radioactive material to create a dirty bomb.

Also, a virus is implicitly cheaper to distribute: with a longer incubation period and an exponentially increasing rate of propagation, a virus could reach critical mass before there's time to react.

In a sense, this makes them more effective than other types of WMD- which may have lower singular chances of successful detonation, have high per unit capital costs, tend to have local area effects only, and are generally difficult to produce far removed from military industry at scale.

Personally, I think the world is more likely to end with a bug than a bang. I honestly don't know which is more terrifying to me.
The Beatles, presumably. Their catalog is an iTunes exclusive, legally at least.
The US provides order. The seaways, markets, etc are largely what they are due to US power. Sort of like the British Empire v2.

Consider 2013 vs 1913. A 21st century WW1 scenario could be set off by some two bit nuclear power like Pakistan without US dominance.

Everything isn't all roses, but I think the net impact is positive.
Some of us don't like any of the current alternatives.

In my opinion Gmail beats Outlook for mail, but Google apps are not really enterprise-ready for calendar and docs. Editing a document offline is not a feature that should just now be becoming sort of usable, it should have been fundamental from the beginning. Confusion between Google Apps and personal Google logins is common. Managing a Google calendar is painful, and basically has not improved at all in years.

I have no desire to go back to using Office for everything, but I have very little confidence that Google is actually going to spend much effort in getting things right for these use cases either.
It'll certainly work with a cheap Xen or KVM instance but those are usually more expensive.
Race to Mars, a 4-part miniseries by the Discovery Channel, is also worth while. The spacecraft and lander are based on existing ideas for trips to Mars. The physics in it are depicted accurately, as far as I could tell. Problems that arise seemed plausible, too. The interactions of the crew are well done, and aren't hammed up for dramatic effect.
When you say "open notebook" does that mean outside people can see your results and contribute intellectually to the project? Is there a synthetic route to 9DS? I didn't see much on a quick google search but it doesn't look like a terribly difficult molecule to make.
I wouldn't be surprised if they try to sneak in a provision in the Terms of Service prohibiting VPN use.
It can be even more seamless and convenient than that with Systemd.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemdLightweightCo...

I’m not sure what Systemd version they’ll end up shipping though.

The best part about Systemd is that the default framework for launching and monitoring services is essentially LXC without the padding (extra PID0 etc). This means every service can benefit and there’s no need for the unnecessary abstraction (the container) and all the (mental not necessary performance) overhead that goes with it.

Needless to say, I’m quite excited about what is happening on Linux nowadays :)
Good to know, appreciate it
Is this an 'open' beta or do you need a subscriber key? Just curious, I usually wait for CentOS for a desktop installation on a laptop
I'll look at your Github repo, but is there any documentation on running multiple processes per container? The tutorials on docker.io all include just one process. And having separate ENTRYPOINT and USER directives suggests that if you want to run several things at once, they must all run as the same user.
I wonder how Instacart feels.
They are still holding on to laws left by the British.
I'm also seeing a nice change to using custom formulas/scripts.

Normally when I return a 2D array, most of the grid is results from the CONTINUE function - now it writes the actual cell value calculated.

This is a lot nicer for then sorting this data.
For comparison, here's one of many online tables of "Global Warming potential" (GWP) for different chemicals:

http://unfccc.int/ghg_data/items/3825.php

A 100-year GWP of 7000 seems typical for the type of chemical described in the article. Nevertheless, it's good we are identifying them.
They do the same thing in the US at apartment buildings, subdivisions, even some streets with single family houses.
Society deems it "unproductive", in the sense that society is a team-sport at a high level. Not being productive implies being a net-sense of entropy (neutral is not really an option, as society views you as under its umbrella of resource expenditure).[edit: put forth only as devil's advocate position]

The other and perhaps different explanation, is that Philosophically, man is happy only when exercising his facilities. This has been said as either his 'reason' or his 'power' depending on your taste in philosophers. But in either case the notion of perfecting some craft-work. In particular, this should further some functional inter-relationship with the outside world (not to mention family/informla political skills). The idea one could be both 'vegetative' and 'happy' simultaneously tends to imply 'ok, but that's not a human life...that is a vegetable one', or something similar.

These are good arguments, in many ways. Enough so that the burden of proof should be on those putting for completely contrary ideas, eg: "why is sitting in your own filth objectively "bad" if you're happy."

IMHO, Its not the filth, or the sitting, but the lack of anything evidently positive. Sitting in filth might be, after all, a corralary to "getting shit done" with limited resources. For instance, sitting is rest from other work; and 'filth' is just debris that has yet to be cleared away or moved away from (the latter being imminent).
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Pay-as-you-go Pricing for mobile app- why or why-not?
I am developing an app to address a latent need in the photo space (and no it is not yet another photo sharing site!). I am trying to think through a business model and the one I want to mirror is the Dropbox model

1. Offer x GB storage for free
2. Charge for any x+ GB (and some premium feature-set)
3. Add free GB by inviting users/sign-ups

AFAIK DropBox (and similar companies) offer tiered pricing i.e. $99/year for 100GB etc. But are there any start-ups that offer metered pricing (pay-as-you-go or pay-per-GB-Used). Is that a viable pricing model?

I haven't seen any start-ups offering it (other than Telcos, Utilities etc.), why isn't this approach more popular? Would that be more attractive to users than the "tiered"?

Welcome your thoughts!
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"Docker is a very lightweight VM. Or a much nicer chroot."

Come on, it was obviously their attempt at explaining it using familiar terminology. It's definitely closer to a VM than it is to a configuration management/orchestration tool.