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Dash / Android Developer / NYC / Full-time

http://dashwith.me/

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Are you looking to join a small team that wakes up every day working to innovate the way we transact at restaurants and bars? Are you passionate about building killer software and doing whatever it takes to deliver amazing experiences to our users? We work really hard, and have a lot of fun while we're doing it. If you're not a software hustler, turn back now.

You will play an instrumental role in our dev culture, establish best practices for our team, work hand-in-hand with both product and code, as well as help create a KILLER Android app for our services.

RESPONSIBILITIES
•	Loving code, but also loving constant collaboration between a killer team
•	Building a way for Android users to pay for beer using their phones
•	Clean, Object Oriented Design and Coding
•	Documentation and Collaboration
REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
•	BS or MS in Computer Science or related field
•	Solid understanding of the intricacies of the Android platform
•	Proficient in Java language and related frameworks as well as multi-threading and memory management specific to mobile devices
•	Working Linux knowledge
•	Experience with one or more database systems (MySQL, Mongo, etc.)
•	Solid oral and written English communication skills
•	Experience working with Git version control and continuous integration
•	Passionate about delivering the best user experience possible on mobile

Ready to apply? Please send an email to jobs@dashwith.me including links to your previous work, github, your background, and a story about something (anything). Don't send your resume. We hate resumes.
You got downvoted but I think this is a pretty valid point, at least in the US
Offering previous iPhones as a price-reduced version works well for the development ecosystem (i.e. minimize fragmentation).
Visualizing npm modules by geography
COPPA makes compliance tricky, that is why Google (and others) try to avoid it altogether.

There's still no wide agreement on how to properly implement the ‘paternal permission’ provision, and what sort of data would be allowed to be collected, as even the sort of data that is required to run the service such as processing inbound and outbound messages to identify and filter spam for example can get you into a gray area.
Is this Mike Rowe of Mike Rowe Soft fame? Who got sued by Microsoft?
Gold has a much higher total value than bitcoin, and already has the potential to be a massively deflationary currency substitute. It is very easy to buy gold. many people have no idea how to buy bitcoin. Clearly, gold didn't suck all the value out of paper money.

If the "bad" scenarios ascribed to bitcoin actually occur, they won't be caused by bitcoin itself. They will be caused by mismanagement of conventional currencies.
The fact that a reactor is fueled by waste doesn't mean it doesn't create waste or have a waste-disposal aspect.

In the case of any nuclear reactor, the vessel and mechanism itself becomes radioactive and must be disposed of (the same process also leads to embrittlement and other issues with the vessel/structure itself). And the resulting fission products are also still radioactive and require disposal, though my understanding is that thorium designs tend to produce lower quantities with lesser radioactivity than other designs. Or at least, that's the PR / theory, as the designs haven't been put into production use.

Nuclear power in general has been a huge exploration of unintended consequences.
I don't understand why people in America are so keen to pay for expensive monthly plans.

I pay $5-$10 dollars per month on average for my cellphone on prepay. It doesn't make sense all to buy a phone on plan.
I'm intrigued by this system you suggest that manages to get an entire engine for obtaining 'verifiable parental consent' squished into a single configuration bit, along with an engine to directly notify parents, to allow parents to view all the collected data, and provide deletion from backups. That's one busy bit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Pro...
What relevance does Chernobyl have with modern nuclear power plants?

A honest question, because I am under an impression that with modern regulations and reactor designs the chance of a meltdown or less severe nuclear disaster are infitesimally small, granted that 1) regulations are being followed(which they weren't in Chernobyl) 2) safety of operation is being maintained and that the plant itself isn't faulty(which again wasn't case with Chernobyl).
Music tastes better with vinyl
The dynamics by which nuclear reactor design cease to be "fun" resonates very strongly with yesterday's post on creativity, and in particular on simonsarris's mention of John Cleese's video on creativity. The how to kill creativity bit at the end in particular.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6862240

I've got my own thoughts and doubts over the ultimate viability of nuclear energy and of the net potential of technology, but brakes on creativity itself, whether introduced or intrinsic to the system, are of concern.
Right, that's a zinger response, but the main thing I'm driving at isn't that I want my life to be as easy as it possibly can be. I'm driving at the value of not being judgemental and condescending, especially if the topic is really arbitrary. I think the case could be made that in some circumstances judgement and criticism are perfectly valid and useful, but I don't see vitriolic condemnations of someone's sitcom preference as ever being particularly useful to anyone. Moreover, I think that it's actively socially counter-productive.
> without requiring a particle accelerator the size of the solar system.

Spoil sport. I was looking forward to RFHPC in the next millenia or so.
Entanglement arises from the mix of mutual exclusive states and superposition. Superposition of two states is what is missing in the classical world.
let the cross-domain surveillance continue!

[EDIT] since i'm getting downvoted, maybe someone can tell me how a CDN is not a perfect tool for cross-domain tracking. and also how it's not convenient that Verizon can track the browsing habits of users coming from their competitors' IP address blocks
Ah, that's important. I need to look at the other options and see if they all support custom URL's without .htaccess magic, as you put it.
The fantastically inexpensive motoX has two flaws, and you're already down on it. Wonderful.

It's good to know we should be unsatisfied by budget devices that don't have every single feature of a flagship device. After all, what kind of slob would be satisfied by a phone that doesn't do everything?
Agree with the advice about monads. You're going to think monads are weird because the first one you encounter is used to hide a particular detail of how Haskell works in the real world, namely that Haskell can't mutate objects, but that running your program mutates the real world. Ignore this use case, because while interesting, it's a messy implementation detail, not something to model in your own code.

Use monads for bailing out of computations early (Maybe/Either) or passing some state along through a computation (State). When you're comfortable with those concepts, look at ST for a generalization of what IO does. That is something you can actually use to simplify your own programs.
I seen someone on Facebook post about the Copenhagen Wheel yesterday and knew I'd heard about it before. Good old Andy.
Why I won't do a startup and (probably) neither should you.
I'm not quite sure if this is submitted because there is news about new Motorola devices or if it's just another innocent submission, but if you haven't noticed, that post is obviously about devices and management pre Google acquisition.
More than worth closing the resume employment gap.
Marketers choose quality over quantity over adding social followers
Cascadia IT Conference: Call For Proposals
How come Wikipedia doesn't show how to do 4?
Who cares if some people don't accept an idea at first if it's backward compatible? Make a client that checks if the recipient isn't found in the encrypted network and gives you the option to fall back to regular email, even without the benefits of anonymity and privacy.

Besides that, the idea is to attach two "stamps" to an encrypted message. One goes to the recipient and one goes to the mail server, but only in tandem. That pays the mail server for storing the message until the recipient goes online to pick it up. And it also stops people from running their own fake mail server that just skims stamps and throws away the messages. It's basically a throwaway dropbox.

I'm dreaming and have no idea how to implement it, but I've kicked it around for years ever since pondering the Your Idea Won't Work "form" (http://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt)
If that's all it was, it wouldn't be so mysterious. It's been shown that the billiard ball can be either red or white up until the point you check it, and that the other ball will spontaneously resolve.

That's based off what I know, though, I may be wrong.
In theory, but we will have to pass the speed of light. That will take some time.
To counter many of the points made here, nothing lasts forever. Some businesses are built for the ages, others are not. There's nothing wrong with doing something that makes money for a while if you provided same value in the process. I am sure the founders and early investers did well and they still have a business valued at a quarter billion!
A non-US citizen here, so I have practically no understanding of the politics related to US nuclear power.

However, the Wikipedia article for Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository seems to mention that the cancellation was for political rather than for technical reasons. Wouldn't this imply, that the opposing forces aren't technological, but rather political? As in, if there's will, the problem can be at least partially solved?
I think you are dissatisfied with the program you were in, which is understandable. My sincere advice would be to transfer to another college that has a CS program you're interested in, on the west coast if you're so inclined. do your research and find a few colleges that match your criteria. Good luck!
What ensures that the merchant (or buyer) is not identical to, or controlled by, the arbitrator?
just to be clear, tuition is inversely proportional to the amount of funding the government gives to higher education:

http://www.vpcomm.umich.edu/pa/key/understandingtuition.html
Epic Fail?

I didn't see it in the article, but how much did the founders/investors walk away with? If they walked away with a tidy fortune of cash (which I suspect they did), then no: Not an epic fail. An epic win!
Heads up - the formatting on the page is kind of screwy. The bottom 2 buttons are partially obscured by the white bar on the bottom of the screen, and I'm not able to scroll down and reveal them. I'm on Chrome v 31 on Xubuntu.

Just an FYI :)
Oh, no disagreement there. I don't think there is in principle a problem with safely storing nuclear waste, in the sense that it would be technically impossible to do it or anything. The problem is that in practice the current solution is to have a bunch of it hanging out in "interim" storage that is not really well planned or designed as permanent storage. That's mostly a political problem, and secondarily an economic incentives problem.
As far as I can tell, DesMoines Startup City is a startup incubator. That's quite a bit different than a coding school that turns non-programmers into programmers.
I don't think inability to perform these jobs is the limiting factor. In the past, larger percentages of the population have had hard labor jobs.

Maybe we're all fatter, but if we are talking about 18 year olds getting into a physically demanding job, that should be far less of an issue (less of an issue as it would be for, say, a 35 year old, who has had 17 more years of their body decaying and 17 more years of eating too much).
UFO and Alien abductions documentary produced by Disney and presented as fact
There is something a bit ironic about Variety, a legendary media giant of more than 100 years that was sold in a fire sale in 2012 to an entertainment blog network, writing about the downfall of another online media outlet.

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/in-a-fire-s...
I guess if you're google, you might worry that someone could come along and do this to you. Someone say for instance Amazon decides to sell a very good quality phone at near cost and starts to capture marketshare. From Google's perspective, better for them to preemptively do that if that's where the market is heading anyway.
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The theory on time travel is incomplete. We need the unifying theory first if we are to make any assessment about General Relativity's and Special Relativity's projections about inertial frames.

Special Relativity says that the fundamental laws of physics should be the same across inertial frames. I suspect that our next great Physical theory will do to this idea what Relativity did to Newtonian physics. The answer will be, "well, most of the time".
Sources, please? I don't disbelieve you; I want to know more. (And precisely what you're referring to.)
Here's an experiment for you: when they're doing that, call out their name every five minutes or so. See how long it takes before they try to kill you.
Exactly. IO is nearly the worst first Monad to learn, because none of the internals are visible, making it look far too magic. (Only something like Cont would be worse.) The best choice would be something like Writer or State, where you can see exactly what the abstraction hides, why you'd want it, and how it would look if done via explicit state-passing.
There is also reference one can print out:

http://clqr.boundp.org

A a redirect service for Common Lisp documentation:

http://l1sp.org/html/

A search engine:

http://lispdoc.com
i am unsure of details (a long time since i came here), but i think also chile. i am unsure because i do have a degree (a phd) and did provide it at some point. but i entered on a tourist visa, got a job offer and then applied for change of status using that. as far as i remember they were happy to take me provided i would work and pay taxes. if you speak spanish most of chile's laws seem to be online, so you can probably dig up more info yourself.

since you are with a family, things may be more complex. public education here is not very good (i understand; i don't have children, but it is one of the issues in the current elections). there are private schools, but that implies you have to earn more. but if you can earn a decent wage then life here is pretty good - friendly people, relatively little crime, a more relaxed pace of life, great weather, good, low priced, fresh food (but imported goods are more expensive), very stable politics (for s america).

downsides are large variations in wealth, and relatively little in the way of public services, compared to w europe (i am english) and a certain lack of experience with foreigners (which if you are dark skinned can be quite obvious, and often rather naive, racism). also, hours are long in many chilean companies (how long you are at your desk can seem more important than what you do).

i don't regret coming here, at all, but i am (relatively) well off (and, i realise i haven't said anywhere above, live with - but am not married to - a chilean, which makes life significantly easier when first finding your way around).
1860, but still very cool. Thanks for the link!

I note that banking apparently drove the entrenchment of the technology: "The most common use of the Pantelegraph was for signature verification in banking transactions."

Bonelli's Typotelegraph is also an 1862-era invention: http://www.hffax.de/hauptteil_faxhistory-Dateien/Caselli02.g... (from http://www.hffax.de/html/hauptteil_faxhistory.htm)
If you have something that's of real, meaningful value to users, I think big players are less of a problem. If I'm selling a better mousetrap and suddenly Walmart won't distribute it, there are a lot of other ways to sell mousetraps. If I have valuable content, search is one way I can get people to it, but it's far from the only way.

The mistake Demand Media made was creating a lot of crappy content. They weren't delivering much user value; their real skill was search-driven eyeball arbitrage. When Google tuned their search engine to deliver more value to their users, Demand got squeezed out and had nothing to fall back on.
How Day One powers my Jekyll Blog
HIV is hard to immunize against because it targets immune cells. Some types of immune cells that bear HIV-binding antibodies may actually vacuum up viruses and infect themselves. Some vaccines have increased the likelihood of pervasive HIV infection. The trick will be to make a vaccine that only stimulates the production of HIV-non-susceptible cells.

Hepatitis B mutates about as rapidly as HIV. Although it is a DNA virus, it replicates from the RNA stage using a sloppy, unreliable reverse transcriptase. (Wikipedia quotes a mutation rate of >1 per nucleotide per year.) But hepatitis B does nothing special to immune cells, so when they vacuum up a virus particle it dies.
Why can't I combine quantum entanglement with the two slit experiment? Observing one particle will collapse the other's quantum state, so lead to a classical result for the dual split experiment rather than a quantum one?
This automation argument applies to everything in the US, and the world.

Previously in the history of the world, we had to do things with our own hands, or use manual tools that used our hands. (Shovels, spades, rakes,...)

Then we migrated to machines that we could sit in or stand in, that could greatly magnify our strength (vehicles, trains, gas powered stuffs).

Now, we entered a realm back in the '60s with powerful automation via computers. And it's only gotten more powerful, smaller, and cheaper. But yet, computers have always been bad for many types of manual jobs because of fuzziness.

And now, our computers are dirt cheap and damn fast. And they can handle fuzziness and broad input. And they are replacing jobs rather quickly. But so what? Whom does this make money for? Well, people who can afford the means of production. And that answer takes us back to a treatise that was written back in the late 1800's: The Communist Manifesto.

But wait a moment... Communism fails because people seek "fair" compensation. For example, a doctor _should_ get paid more than a burger flipper, right? It seems logical that the more work you put into attaining the position should be relevant to the pay of that position. But what happens when those screws are turned, and you now compete with auto-doc or auto-flipper? You end up with lowering wages. Most of the times, those wages get lowered directly to 0.

But we then hear the old saying: When the buggy whip manufacturers died out, it opened up automotive manufacturing. Well, yes. When a segment closes, another opens, but usually the segment is smaller. For example, when a factory is mostly laid off due to automation, the few that are kept are the ones that can program and debug software and hardware. And they then are also 'encouraged' to work harder. Then this harder is the new average.

And these new employees are doing the work of 2-3 people, because it is what is expected of them to keep their job. And then automation takes over even these people, because automation can do the job of 10 people (or more!) with low error rates. But this is a look at an individual.

Now, what happens nationally? Well, we see higher numbers of unemployed and subsidized users (food stamps, WIC, housing, other means tested benefits). But why? Because automation does work, and well. But it leads to the ones whom can afford it more money, and workers without. But is Communism the answer? Maybe... Or perhaps a post-capitalism answer is needed; one that blends all of the needs of citizens and some of the wants, whilst not ignoring that those whom work harder/smarter should also be compensated for their hard work.

And of course, we've heard about the the Canadian program of Mincome, as well as Switzerland's possible venture into this territory. Is this a solution? I believe so, even as a simple humanitarian solution of compassion for fellow man.
The State monad is what really sold me on the concept. Right before encountering a tutorial that mentioned it, I had just spent some time writing some code in Common Lisp, where I was trying to find a nice abstraction to avoid threading a state variable through absolutely everything. So this came across as "dear god, the abstraction does exist!" Whereas the IO monad at first blush comes across as "lol PLs geeks realized they had to actually do I/O", which is not as compelling, in part because that version comes across as a solution to a self-inflicted problem.

It's slightly disappointing, though, that State doesn't work that well when translated back to Lisp: http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/monad.html
We already can travel to the future. The faster you move through space, the slower time moves for you. So astronauts have travelled a few nanoseconds into the future because they travel so fast orbiting the earth or going to the moon.

Travelling back in time is another issue. Supposedly time reverses when moving faster than the speed of light, but we don't how to do that.
> unlocking the bootloader will void your warranty (just as on Nexus devices)

Unlocking the bootloader on Nexus devices doesn't void the warranty on the hardware; it just removes support for the software. I had a Samsung Galaxy Nexus with a failed USB port. When troubleshooting clearly revealed it to be a hardware problem, Samsung replaced my device even though it was running CyanogenMod and very obviously had the unlocked padlock on the boot screen.
Thanks for the suggestion. The JointJS core library, basically anything except of what is described here: http://jointjs.com/rappid/docs (in other words, anything that is downloadable here: http://jointjs.com/download) is licensed under the MPL v2 license. The rest is licensed under our own, commercial, license. Commercial support is indeed optional and covers bug fixes, general advise, help, online troubleshooting and more. We also do custom developments that are priced individually, depending on the project.
His point is more "own the domain you use for email" and less "first@last.me," I think.
If you only have enough money for one of these programs I suggest you save it and use free or cheap resources to learn the same skills. Build things that stretch your current abilities, bit by bit.

You need experience, keep launching things so that you get a feel for real world development and the problems that come up outside of programming tutorials.

Look at some available programming jobs and read up on the specifics that they are looking for (I've seen API integrations mentioned a lot, etc), then learn that stuff.

If you are going to program for web then I suggest learning to love JavaScript and the DOM as soon as possible.

[I dropped out of UCF (Comp Sci) in 2007 because the company I co-owned was succeeding so much that I could no longer pass classes and keep up with the business]
The arbitrator history and reputation should be taken into account by both parties before agreeing to use him.
Plus I'm pretty sure that would be clearly unconstitutional.