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Futureproof - London, UK - Full Time

Futureproof is an end-to-end, creative marketing agency currently growing its digital team. We are looking for a frontend developer (with PHP experience) to be the heart of our expanding department. To start immediately.

Full details of the role and our clients here: http://www.futureproof.co.uk/jobs/php-backendfrontend-develo...

For more details, or to send CVs, email: jobs@futureproof.co.uk

We are also looking expand our pool of freelance developers, and occasionally take on interns, so do send us your details, if you're interested.
Does anyone know if Colorado is enforcing seed traceability? That is one of the rules according to Washington's I-502 (http://www.liq.wa.gov/publications/Marijuana/I-502/I-502_Dra... crtl-f "Traceability"). Theoretically, that means the Feds would be able to know where the pot came from if it was found out of state. If implemented effectively, that would negate some of the worry about the product ending up in the wrong hands.
Burn it to the ground and replace it with what?
In this case we're speaking more of the slaves' wealth than the masters'.

e.g. the housing crisis, credit crisis, student loan crisis, quantitative easing, increased cost of living, etc.
1. Is there some open protocol for a distributed storage of this kind ?

2. Or a plan to open the space monkey protocol ? À la dotcloud giving us docker. I don't believe you can change "how the world stores data, forever" without opening it.

I kinda like the idea but for it to really shines, I would like to see it survive the Space Monkey company. I would also see this more in line with the Internet design philosophy mentioned in kickstarter.

ie. being able to plug whatever hard drives I happen to have, share a portion to backup peoples data and in exchange have the rest of the available space backuped, remote accessible, being able to bring and plug my ssd to work for fast access if needed (no doubt about who-owns-the-device there), etc.

3. How big is the space monkey HDD to store your 1TB plus bits of a resilient backup of the other devices ? How does it compare to a local RAID setup ?

4. How are reliability, availability, performance and capacity balanced ?
We are the creators of Vista Point an iPad app for travel enthusiasts. We are currently looking for someone helping us in shaping our vision to offer new digital products in the travel sector. We want to create interesting content and travel guides and bring communities (photos, travelblogs,etc.) together with products in the mobile sector.

We would collaborate remote.

If you think this can be interesting for you, visit our homepage and shoot us an email:

http://taps.io/JzQA
That is a sobering thought, when "freedom" devolves into "freedom to change the channel".
It reads like a classic stir-the-pot rant fueled by cherry-picking a few extreme examples of misconduct, which can always be found.

So he wants to burn it to the ground. Then what? What will replace it? How will it be better? Most revolutions produce tyrants. Only a few have produced anything arguably better than what was in place before.
Social velocity for restaurants (API)
Digital currency | Palo Alto | evr.gr
This article does not claim or system is broken and needs fixing.

Then what do you think "burn it to the ground" means, exactly?
A lesser evil is still evil.
> if you have trouble waking up...just wake up.

uh
Just wanted to give Joe a recommendation. Not only did I have the pleasure of talking with him, but of viewing his code as well (disclaimer: I work at BuySellAds, one of the companies he did work for).

Joe developed an iOS SDK for one of our products and did a fantastic job.
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And drunks? We all seem to ignore the droves of them wandering around causing trouble. I've never had anyone high on weed bother me for anything but cookies.. drunks on the other hand, tend to be violent &/or obnoxious, destructive, and much more.
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My bank is essentially only online, no offices, certainly not just around the corner (I think the closest is >100 miles away). What then?
We have laser connection to the moon now, actually. And he was right about fiber optic cables, too.
Apparently its way way more cheap to buy it illegally(for now atleast). I am guessing it would not make much difference to those people.
lol about the Pokemon Evolution and the Darwin's evolution theory.

This is why I love Science, because the only thing I is believe and trust is humans and human intelligence.
All the high-school students will be taught the fundamentals of computer technology will become proficient in binary arithmetic and will be trained to perfection in the use of the computer languages that will have developed out of those like the contemporary “Fortran.

I wish that was the case.
Excuse me, but what would you say if I sent you a fully-trained biologist who doesn't have so much coding experience, but can easily learn?
I live in EU, and it seems our systems are better protected against fraud.

I have MasterCard dual debit/credit card with electronic chip (EMV), but no NFC (radio payment). At the POS, I can select between the debit/credit function. I normally use debit for small purchases. It's immediately billed from my bank account.

Every transaction is authorized by my PIN, that I understand is required to extract the cryptographic authorization from the on-card EMV chip. Since two years, almost every POS now has an EMV reader. If you can't remember your PIN, the card still has the magnetic stripe and signature function, but you must show an ID for every purchase.

I understand that EMV + PIN systems are now mandated by the credit card issuers in that the retailers are covered by an insurance against fraudulent transactions only if they have an EMV reader. That is, in case a stolen card was used, the retailer will get its money if and only if they had an EMV system and/or asked to see ID if the buyer couldn't give a PIN.

There's also an online database of stolen card numbers against which larger purchases (>150€) must be always validated, and a 24/7 phone service for both reporting stolen cards and checking if a card is stolen. If the retailer can't access the database electronically, they must manually call in and validate the card using good-old telephone for those large purchases.
My first thought:
AOL is still alive ?
Factual is currently hiring engineers and data lovers of all levels in the SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Shanghai.

Factual’s location platform enriches mobile location signals with definitive global data, enabling personalized and contextually relevant mobile experiences. Built from billions of inputs, the data is constantly updated by Factual’s real-time data stack. We were recently named one of "50 Disruptive Companies in 2013" by MIT Technology Review. We have a terrific team that is still fairly small and an incredible CEO who was previously the co-founder of Applied Semantics (which was bought by Google and became AdSense). Factual has venture funding from Andreessen-Horowitz and our partners/customers include Facebook, Yelp, Trulia, and Newsweek.

There are many challenging problems to work on at all layers of the stack: data cleaning and canonicalization, storage, deduping, serving, APIs, improving data using machine learning, etc. A great example is one of our most recent products, Geopulse Audience, which stands at the intersection of high quality places data and large scale analysis of user geo-data: http://www.factual.com/products/geopulse-audience .
If you love data, Factual is the place to be. Our main criteria are that you're smart and get things done, but you'll get bonus points for experience with Clojure (http://www.factual.com/jobs/clojure), machine learning, NLP, algorithm design, or Hadoop.

You can email me personally at jake@factual.com, or view our job postings and apply directly via Jobvite:

Los Angeles/SF Bay Area Software engineer: http://hire.jobvite.com/j/?cj=oQR1Vfwn&s=Hackernews
I'm a popehat fan from long before most HN before heard of it, but this doesn't have anything to do with HN at all.
China is tricky for a number of reasons, but we think there's a better than even chance we can operate from inside the country in 2014.

Latin America makes Asian networking look easy. Combine that with the extremely high import fees on equipment sent into a country like Brazil (150% duty in some cases) and it's a challenging region to operate in.

What I'm excited about is we've figured most these issues out and are moving forward to dramatically expand our network.
The same profit margins exist for tobacco and alcohol, especially cities like NYC, but there are relatively few bootleggers in both markets. I think the legal risk significantly offsets the increase in price from taxation. But then again, cannabis differs from tobacco and alcohol in many ways in that an underground market has become highly developed. It will indeed be interesting to see...
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Already pulished here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6965168
Although I've got quibbles with some of his points and emphases, I can tell his heart is in the right place. So now what?

There's reforming the system, but we've been reforming the system for decades, and it's gotten worse consistently since the 1970s. We elect a professed civil libertarian as President, and he brings the State to unimaginable and exciting new heights of violence against individual liberty.

Burn the system to the ground? Okay, sure. But we all know how most revolutions turn out. Which is to say, in the usual and best case they fizzle out, despite the strong emotions of would-be revolutionaries. Worst case scenario: well, look up any revolution, and let me know if you've got a solution beyond "Well I'm a good guy, I wouldn't be like every other revolutionary!"

I've settled on something in the space that's occupied by ideas about "counterpower" or "dual power" (using a Left-frame) and Konkinite agorism (using a Right-frame). We need to build up alternative institutions to government power to rebuild the civil society. Many institutions--certainly all the major media, corporations, unions, nonprofits, and universities--are so closely integrated in the network of State power that attempts at reforming them are pointless. Instead we should development alternative, parallel structures that we can live and operate in, trying to limit the amount we interact with and serve the government.

Doing that, and figuring out how to do that, is the hard part that requires lots work. As technologists, I think we're in an ideal position, as the technological frontier is relatively unexplored compared to other ways of doing this. Research decentralized manufacturing: simpler supply chains and homogeneous production facilities means more fault-tolerant production, which means fewer opportunities for the State to exert control. Support open source: software is going to eat the world, and code that anyone can access disperses power from large entities incorporated by the State to anyone who's able to use it. Be thoughtful supporters of structures like Bitcoin: despite their flaws, they have the potential to make large portions of the economy illegible to the State.

This approach also doesn't ask us to relinquish the right to interact with the government if it suits our ends, particularly in legal cases and occasionally electorally.
Most people dont realize the fact that every government collapses eventually. Every single one. You would think that gee maybe something is inherently wrong with the concept after so much epic fail.
@infinitebattery thanks a lot for share.

Will surely pursue this course.
Adding just the __packed__ attribute and not also an __aligned__ attribute is not necessarily a good idea -- if a struct is marked __packed__ gcc assumes it might be at any alignment, so on architectures which don't permit unaligned loads it may have to generate a lot of byte loads and shifts to do simple reads of integer members.
You can always add -Wno-error=padded to disable -Werror just for -Wpadded
Your website design needs work. I don't want to wait a long time for single words to appear.
The New Year’s resolutions – it’s not the how, it’s the why
The issue with transaction limits (while they're good in general) is exactly what you've mentioned, lots of small transactions quickly after each other do not get blocked.

Actually this is now one of the most popular card frauds in Poland right now: majority of newly issues cards are paypass/paywave-enabled and moreover, offline (not checking the balance while paying, and usually there's also no limit imposed on number of consecutive operations without PIN - though technically it would be trivial to implement).

I.e. you can even make someone a negative balance on his account with a series of rapid small (<12€) touch transactions, and many people are not aware of this, while banks keep telling people that everything's super secured.
Not that there's nothing wrong with that either.
sorry this site doesn't look very good designed and a thread usually provides more value to me.
"All political problems can be solved by the correct application of power."

- Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
SEEKING WORK

For various reasons, I'm taking some time off from school. I'm looking for some interesting work for anywhere from 3 to 6 months--maybe more.

I specialize in programming languages: DSLs, static analysis, verification, program synthesis[1] and so on.

Admittedly, this is a narrow field, but it's also surprisingly broadly applicable: there are many domains where a small domain-specific language can be much more expressive than a standard library; I then know how to build some powerful tools on top of the language including things like bounded verification and all sorts of static checking. DSLs can be used both to help expert programmers or to make a system more accessible to non-programmers. Especially for the latter, we can also design interesting interactive tools that help non-experts express themselves as they go along.

I also do a lot of functional programming: primarily Haskell along with OCaml and Racket. If you're interested in experimenting with functional programming at your startup, I'd really love to help. Apart from actually using functional programming, I really enjoy teaching people about it: for example, I'm in the top 10 for [haskell] on StackOverflow[2] and I've recently been teaching people about type theory at a meetup in SF[3]. I also have a particular interest in functional reactive programming (FRP); over the summer, I even designed an FRP library for OCaml (in the browser--with js_of_ocaml).

If any of this sounds interesting, I'd love to talk to you! My email is tikhon@jelv.is; you can see a recent resume at http://jelv.is/resume.pdf or on http://careers.stackoverflow.com/tikhonjelvis. My site, naturally, is http://jelv.is; I have to admit I'm unreasonably happy with the little domain hack :). Also check out my LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tikhon-jelvis/24/237/750

I'd prefer to find something in the Bay Area, but I'm flexible along both remote work or living somewhere else.

[1]: Program synthesis is a type of automatic programming--generating programs programmatically, by searching through the space of all possible programs. It's an exciting field that has really heated up in the last few years thanks to advances in computational power and SMT solvers. I think it's about ripe for some practical applications. I've done some research on the subject and implemented a few different synthesizers, so I have a reasonably rare amount of experience with it.

Program synthesis also involves verifying the programs we generate. Our approach to "bounded verification" is actually interesting on its own: we can reasonably quickly check conditions against code exhaustively, using an SMT solver. This could be very useful if you need high levels of assurance about your code.

[2]: http://stackoverflow.com/tags/haskell/topusers

[3]: You can see past slides at http://jelv.is/talks. Feel free to pop by our next meeting about two weeks from now; we're going to have an introduction to basic category theory, with very little mathematical background needed. The actual meetup page: http://www.meetup.com/SF-Types-Theorems-and-Programming-Lang...
How to avoid distraction and keep focused in 2014
>Perhaps Cinderella was a poor example due to its origins as a folk tale.

I used Cinderella specifically, bc my understanding is the folk tale was very unlike (violent, gory, ect...) the Disney version tailored for children.

In general satire is a much easier and obvious legal analysis as well. Say for example South Park's episodes with Mickey (although more of a Trademark issue than copyright), more on point with copyright is South Park's Star Wars episodes. However, to answer your question, is it possible to make a non-satirical Mickey story that does not violate Disney Trademarks? The answer is yes, but admittedly much more difficult and likely to infringe than a satirical story.

>Hackers tend to view any involvement of the courts as a failure.

As a lawyer, I see lawsuits as a cost of doing business and inevitable for any successful enterprise. I would encourage all hackers, especially, to view lawsuits in the same light (e.g. I am not successful until I get sued). I say this because hackers particularly set out to disrupt established industries, take Uber or AirBnB as good examples, but even YC itself has been sued, that is not a failure that is the cost of success.

> At some point, the public deserve to own their own culture, not megalithic corporations.

This is simply where we disagree, I am not saying you are wrong by any means, because I do not think their is a right answer, your point is sincere and well reasoned. My counter, is that the free market decides. Moreover, if Mickey is not going to win in the market place because society wants to take the character and run with it open source style, well then Mickey will lose in favor of another cartoon Mouse created by an pro open source artist, but I would say the reason Mickey became a cultural icon is because of the tight control of the story and character vis-a-vis Disney ownership/investment. In contrast and in support of your position Japan has a thriving culture based open source character, where even iconic corporate mascots are adopted by the public and the public creates their own stories, comics, commercial products, virtual concerts, ect...
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why not? it would be just like selling contraband cigarettes for the small guy. the big shots probably can just move to another market since they have a know how of dealing illegal stuff.
You could add it to Hacker News Enhancement Suite and submit a pull request. Tagging users is already on the TODO list of features the author wants.

https://github.com/etcet/HNES
This book is so informative it's unbelievable. I really hope Nick and Ian keep doing these platform studies because there is nothing else like them out there right now. A few things about the Atari 2600 make this book fascinating. It's like reading about some weird ancient civilization and how it tried to build nuclear bombs out of sticks and stones.

Case in point: The Atari 2600 had no screen buffer. You drew lines on the screen in real time, as the electron gun was firing. As the gun moves, so does your code, immediately rendering whatever is being drawn by the gun. This means everything had to be calculated at the exact moment the electron gun is where you want the tank to be drawn. It all took place through the TIA chip designed by Joe DeCuir and others at Atari.

Additionally, drawing the background of the screen was even more difficult, as the Atari 2600 could only address half the screen: you had to mirror whatever background was on one side, onto the other side of the screen, mirrored vertically.

But wait, it gets even more complicated! That one side of the screen was composed of 20 columns of possible addressing, making for 40 columns total across the screen. The 20 columns you could address on the left side of the screen were numbered, and I am not making this up, as follows:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 1 2 3 4

That means you addressed the first part of the screen in ascending, left to right. Then, you had to draw right to left in reverse order (though numerically, it was still ascending), then you had 4 more bits to address, left to right.

Absolutely nuts. You can actually see the graphics if you look at the assembly of a 2600 game because the graphics were literally dot, no dot. The graphics were stacks of one's and zero's. Check out these Distella maps. They're in the NY MOMA, and the MADE. http://benfry.com/distellamap/
Usabilla - Amsterdam - The Netherlands

We build cutting-edge feedback technologies. We have just reached a record exposure of 2 billion monthly Live Feedback button displays – serving an international client base, including big online players like Booking.com, Vodafone, T-Mobile and Spilgames. Time to expand our team with highly motivated and skilled web developers.

We use: PHP / Symfony 2, Go, NodeJS, Javascript, MongoDB, AWS

http://blog.usabilla.com/hiring-skilled-web-developers-amste...
Catalyst Repository Systems - Denver, CO / Remote

Software Developer - Backend

Job Summary:

Catalyst is seeking a software developer to work on the backend platform which supports our text mining and prediction product lines. This platform has active customers and we’re beginning the process of transitioning the platform out of R&D and into daily operations.

You will write code and tests daily for bug fixes, enhancements, and new features. The bulk of the development is done in python with some shell scripting glue. The code ranges from basic operational scripting to shared libraries and multi-threaded service applications. The platform also integrates with a variety of services including RabbitMQ, Redis, Elastic Search, and Swiftstack.

Additionally, you may find yourself handling light systems administration, gathering feedback from internal product users, and communicating with a variety of staff to create and clarify specifications. Documentation, training, and other communication on behalf of a new platform may also be required.

Catalyst is remote work friendly and this role can be 100% remote. The project lead is also 100% remote. We use email, Jira, instant messaging, a wiki, google docs, and google hangouts for communication and collaboration.

This role will be hired in to the development department, but work closely with the technical lead in the research & development group. Candidates should be comfortable working across team boundaries. There will be flexibility in defining the responsibilities of this role.

Qualifications:

* 1-3 years of software development experience
* Strong written communication skills
* Strong troubleshooting and reasoning skills
* Willingness to work across technical boundaries

Preferences:

* Python
* Linux administration
* Distributed systems
* Messaging systems
* Prior remote work roles
* Prior ISP or SAAS roles

Catalyst offers a flexible work environment, competitive compensation package (including base salary, bonus potential, medical/dental/vision coverage, and company-matched 401k).

Interested candidates should email their resume to numbers@catalystsecure.com. Questions, resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and public repo links are welcome via email.

(If you have any questions, feel free to email me personally. My email is in my profile.)
Hi!
If I'm interested in an internship at Flipboard (iOS), should I apply as an iOS Engineer?
Otherwise I could drop you an e-mail if you would like.

Thanks!
Testing Hardware
I think it's kind of awesome. You're trying to get people's attention, and while you're not going to go through the process of laying out the whole product and what it is (because it's not there yet), this kind of thing I find very effective.