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Amazon Studios - Seattle, WA - FULLTIME

From "official" job description:

Amazon Studios develops original film and television properties for Amazon.com. Amazon Studios is a unique experiment in collaborative filmmaking that is open to great ideas from creators and audiences around the world. Anyone can upload a script and within 45 days will be notified if that script is optioned. After receiving more than 18,000 movie scripts and 4,000 series pilots, Amazon Studios now has 29 film projects and 30 television series in development.

At Amazon Studios we test stories in creative development with actual customers, and use the feedback to identify problems and confirm suitability to audience--it's like iterative software development but for storytelling. Since movie and series customers consume visual stories on multiple platforms, we put visual/multimedia content in front of test audiences on our site, on mobile and social platforms, in focus groups, or on other Amazon.com sites. These can include, for instance, storyboards, trailers or full-length animated test movies.

See the site at: http://studios.amazon.com

As a Software Development Engineer, you will be working as part of a talented and nimble team of engineers to design, develop, test, and deploy world-class production software for collaborating on scripts, constructing movies, and getting actionable feedback from movie fans. The range of challenges includes scalable back-end media infrastructure, web applications with complex interactive customer experiences, and external social or mobile clients. We're looking for engineers who are excited about innovative rich user interfaces backed by high performance services, and have the scope, inventiveness and drive to make it happen.

In addition to demonstrated excellence developing customer-facing software, a successful candidate will have strong technical proficiencies, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve the right results in a fast-paced environment. You must insist on the highest standards for software quality, maintainability, performance and availability.

Send me your resume @ hn at softover dot com, or apply directly @ http://www.amazon.com/gp/jobs/236578
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In what way was Cairo the "clear winner"?
I've seen homeless people abuse entitlements (turn down jobs because they'd loose their handouts, etc.)

On the other hand, some of them would get laughed at in an interview without being "cleaned up" to look presentable, which a hand out could help with.
I would be seriously fascinated to hear Obama's honest reasoning on this topic. He's got a history all the way back to law school of public statements that are diametrically opposed to what he's authorizing the NSA to do. Yet when he's president, he lets it continue? I mean, maybe he stopped them from doing some even worse stuff, but you'd think he'd be opposed to the currently disclosed programs, from his history.
Good. The private prison industry has a financial interest in putting more and more people behind bars. To that end it lobbies legislatures to make more things a criminal offense and to have longer prison sentences.

This is counter-productive in a free and open society, which should have the goal of zero inmates. To THIS end prison management needs to be in the hands of those with no profit motive.

This along with for profit law enforcement activities(red light and speed cameras) should be abolished.
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It does, because motivation decides what that "something" in "something being done" is.

Rand Paul's party is by far the biggest supporter of NSA, TSA, and other TLAs. If he really wanted to change things, he could start by convincing his own party to stop fellating the NSA.
Amen. My fiance is a social worker and has been working with homeless for the past 5 years.
Other search sites dropped the ball on this one
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English is my first and only language and I still need to reference a dictionary when reading, you can be fluent but still need a reference.
Google is a business, and there is a very good chance that they financially benefit from Rap Genius being restored. Other companies that suffer don't have that financial link, and maybe the best course is for them to raise VC funds (and posture themselves so that Google stands to lose if they penalize)

I agree with you in theory, but in practice it sounds like you expect google to act as if they care about things like fairness. They are a company. The bottom line is what matters. If you think it's unfair, then try to hit the bottom line by using other services and convincing your friends and family to do the same
Although Simplenote now has an official OS X app [¹] I'd strongly suggest nvALT [²] which is essentially Notational Velocity with some nice additional features and under active development.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/simplenote/id692867256

[2] http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/
Crowd sourcing would be really tricky. It's inherently easier to manipulate, the more traction you got the more resources would be spent on gaming the crowd sourcing system. Look at what those "reputation management" firms are doing these days with sophisticated blackhat SEO and wikipedia astroturfing rings for example.

Some kind of bitcoin-esque system where you bought sponsored positions by doing search engine scoring related number crunching could be interesting though. Since, if you ever matter, you'll have people devoting resources to trying to game your search engine results you need some system to deal with that. Of course it's sooo "out of the box" to suggest a bitcoin inspired solution to things right now ...
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Ask HN: Have you had any success with African developers?
In a mainly white male dominated industry, it may be okay if recruiters do not look at Africa for their next hire. There's not a lot of good programmers here. I still want to know:

1. Are you open to applicants from Africa?
2. Have you hired an African developer or do you work with one?
3. Do Africans apply for jobs at your place?

I am a young Ghanaian programmer who is looking for a job (preferably in the US). I don't have any material job experience yet.
Their bottom line is to get more exposure to their ads

Anyone who says this or its many variants has no business acumen or creativity. It is the banal banter of the boring. This sounds harsh, but seriously it grows tiring watching people desperately try to stretch everything to fit some nonsensical hypothesis.

Google is a very large company and their product is technology. They happen to have entered the market at a time when advertising was literally the only way to make money online (they originally tried to use the web purely to sell business search appliances, but that didn't pan out), but assuming that their entire future business model is ads is the domain of simpletons.

And, as an aside, I see more ads on my iPad and iPod Touch than I do on my Nexus 5. Isn't that weird?
Do we really need a vector graphics library in standard C++? Why not just create a new ISO standard using Cairo as the base, and stop making the language even more bloated that it currently is. If the proposed graphics API does not require changes to the language it really doesn't need to be there.
As a copywriter, I know that the better you are at fine writing, the more of a disadvantage you are in.

When you write to sell, you want the focus to be on the product - not your smooth talking voice.

Imagine a salesperson using poetry to sell you something. Although it would be entertaining, it would not help sell the product.

Don't write to entertain. Don't write to make YOU sound better. Write for THEM.

The problem with academia is it is built around bolstering YOUR ego. In the real world, having a big ego is counterproductive to working your way up the ladder. It's like having a broken leg in a marathon.

Don't believe me? Just look at how much trouble people with degrees are having. They can't find jobs. They don't have social skills. They have big egos, but can't make money.

And yes, I have a degree. I have a piece of paper that I can tell people I have. My clients are only mildly interested in the fact that I have one.
"Barack Obama's NSA". What a disappointment is Rand Paul. How about making this about America instead of an unfair attack on a single president? Standing above partisanship will pay dividends to a political career in the end. This is the sort of crap that tells me never to support Rand Paul.

Yes, Obama could do something about the NSA, but so could Congress and so could have Bush. This is everyone's NSA.

Flagged for being simple political posturing instead of a legitimate push for change.
We have launched Varycode (https://www.varycode.com/) about a year and a half ago. It is online source code convertor between C#, VB, Java, C++, Ruby, Python and Boo. Have not been doing any marketing or PR for quite a long time because were still adding new directions of conversion, fixing bugs and improving design, but were getting new users by spreading word of mouth by customers who liked our service. Right now we are running social Like and Share campaign (unlimited access as a bonus), writing pitches to programing magazine’s editors and bloggers and planning on providing trendsetters with a free account. Daily users and registrations numbers have doubled.
The red light/speed camera issue is not that one-sided. While there are a lot of those with questionable motives behind their setup, a couple of them actually are needed to reduce accidents.
For those looking for a physical alternative that also converts to digital notes (and synchronizes notes with a audio recorder on the pen), LiveScribe is particularly amazing: http://www.livescribe.com/en-us/

It uses a special dot matrix notebook (5 pack for like $25-30) that allow it to record all notes written and synchronize with audio so that you can press the pen anywhere in your notes and replay what was said while you were taking notes. Comes with some smartphone app integration and desktop sync stuff.
Oh -- and just don't put your phone in the same pocket as your YubiKey! ;-)
238 years is actually decently long for a continuous system of government. Older countries like the UK, France, Russia or China tend to actually be a series of constitutions/monarchies/dynasties that rarely last longer than 300 years at a go. France is the 5th Republic, the Russian Federation is a little over 20 years old, the CCCP a little over 60.
its a matter of subjective taste.. particularly i think C# is nasty.. nothing to see here.

Edit: But i respect the man! :)
On a whim, I asked yandex.com: 'k-d tree'.

Nine results were about the space-partitioning data structure. Also, there is a tree-trimming service on Long Island called K&D Tree Masters.

Surprisingly, pleasantly -- all ten items are useful to me.
I'm certainly glad you've had a good experience. I don't want anyone to have bad experiences. I think the way things should work is that people with bad experiences speak out and people with good experiences do the same. Due to my experience I won't recommend T-Mobile, but everyone should take the balance of published experiences into account when choosing where to shop.

My litmus test of customer service organizations is how they handle unusual situations. If they sound helpless it's a very bad sign. If they come up with creative and/or generous solutions, its a very good sign. In your case they had a button to press that they were allowed to press and they pressed it. In mine, they had no button, and quite probably were told internally "Don't help too much." In experiences I've had with stunning customer support (Dropbox/Zappos) the button didn't exist, they had to invent it, then they pressed it as hard and as fast as they could.
I recently discovered the "speak, don't write" rule while finishing my thesis and I it has done wonders for me. I had written all the technical parts of the thesis but had writers' block writing the introduction. How could you possibly summarize 200pp of formulas and equations in a few paragraphs? I kept writing attempts-at-paragraphs then editing each sentence until the paragraph was a lifeless, unconnected jumble of ideas and facts.

At some point I was so tired that I went for a walk and recorder myself explaining the intro and, lo and behold, it came out good. After that I acted as my own secretary and transcribed it and I was done!

For those who want to try this, I recommend you have a little plan before yous start writing so you can have a high level structure in mind about what you want to say:

point-form plan ---> speak it ---> transcribe --> final edits
So. please tell, what their future business model is?
Google product is ads, plain and simple.
Motivation matters because you serve the goal, not the tactics. If Paul's motivation is not actually restricting the NSA, then at some point he's likely to pivot.
So you're saying they were given a Blueprint to fix their mishaps but got off based on Reasonable Doubt before they went thru with the recommended plan of action?

I suppose it's just a Hard Knock Life for companies that don't have prominent investors backing them. It's almost as if the investors pulled an American Gangster type situation on Google.

Well I suppose at the end of the day this is a reminder to Blackhat SEO users to Watch The Throne.
>The idea to allow one project to switch between Python 2 and 3 for individual files

Yes, I believe key parts of the standard object model changed between the two (e.g. strings vs bytes, many of the magic methods and operators) making this nearly impossible. Every time objects would pass back and forth, they'd have to be converted, which is wasteful and bug-prone (and this is a whole mess of library code that the python3 guys probably did not want to write). You'd also need to load two different standard libraries, which would waste memory.

You only need to scan through the upgrade feature list to see how hard intercompatibility would have been. http://docs.python.org/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html

Although I totally agree with Aaron that this would have allowed people to actually use Python 3 without fear, anything short of forcing the entire program and all of its modules to run in v3 mode as opposed to v2 mode would have been a disaster from a reliability and technical design standpoint. And that's closer to how things actually went down with 2to3, etc.
I think the strategy Aaron talks about makes a lot of sense. I especially like the idea of simply shipping future interpereters that can work with both 2.x and 3.x code. Seriously, it makes it even more dead-simple to get started with Python 3.

We can extend Aaron's ideas to even more radical ideas, for example, instead of allowing Python 3 and 2 code to be mixed on a per-file basis, allow it to be mixed on a per-function basis. In fact, allow running Python 3 code, and drop in "backwards incompatible" blocks inside of a function to let you program things that will be backwards-compatible. In other words, let people program in Python 3 as much as they want, but allow them a way to use libraries that only support Python 2 without making a mess. I'm not saying this will be easy at all, but it will definitely make Py3k adoption actually happen.

On the meta level, I'm really glad people are now discussing how to get the Python 3 rollout happening, because we really are dangerously close to having a "dead" language in Python if nothing changes.
He's not wrong about C versus C++. I'm probably just dumb, but I find the Mono source (C) way easier to follow than say the Sun JVM (C++).
Google hasn't used PageRank in its original form in many years. They have moved on from PR.
Staples -- one of the largest surviving brick-and-mortar chains -- announced recently that they were going to reduce the size of their stores, reduce the number of types of products carried on shelves, and (unspoken) focus on their web business.

If you're buying a known product, there's no reason to go to a store except immediate availability.
Readymades were a Duchamp thing completely. Warhol was influenced by them (and Duchamp in general), but he didn't call his work by that term, regardless of similarities in method or concept.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readymades_of_Marcel_Duchamp
Evernote is pretty good at that. The text can contain inline images, video clips and binary attachments -- the note editor is basically a small word processor.
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No, they're actually going the whole "buy a fleet jets and distribution centers" multi-decabillion-dollar route.
It's kind of amazing how you can stereotype huge amounts of people in two sentences.

And it's ALL THEIR FAULT.

Not the economy, not the insane cost of higher education to gain job skills, not the outsourcing and automation of modern society.

It's the homeless who are failures.

That's why I propose Gladiator hobo fights to the death.

Only the strongest hobo's survive.

Make them earn their cheeseburgers like a good capitalist.
There's this funny little problem.

There's a substantial slice of "hackers" who really enjoy saying Crazy Shit But No Wait It's Totally True And Makes Sense If You're Smart Enough To Process This Obscure Worldview That Makes It Make Sense. I know, I am one of those people.

Woz gleefully paying for things with sheets of $2 bills is a perfect example: http://hackaday.com/2012/08/03/woz-prints-and-spend-his-own-...

And really, it can be super fun! Most of us get a little rush from seeing something new in the world, and it can be a fun way to give people that rush.

It also really pisses some people off, and it can be really counterproductive. The trouble is that these hackers live in a world where there's never a bad time for a fun intellectual diversion. Fun intellectual diversions are the reason for being alive, of COURSE it's a good time. But other people live in other worlds, where getting to the school by 4:30 to pick up their child is actually higher on the priority list.

And so, to the word "Hacker".

I suspect there are a handful of people here who were hackers before the word "hacker" came to mean "cracker". But I suspect for most of us, myself included, "hacker" meant Kevin Mitnick first. Only later, when reading Steven Levy's "Hackers" did I learn about the MIT model railroad club, the "true" purpose of phone phreaking (it's fun, not profit!) did I start to understand the definition of "hacker" that Paul Graham espouses today.

The thing is, Steven Levy explained that everyone thinks hackers are undersexed males who break into computers, and we still adopted this label for ourselves. For the lulz. Because we get off on that moment of misunderstanding followed by the superiority of knowing that we have a different definition for the word than everyone else.

And if I'm being honest, this happened on purpose. We wanted it to be a somewhat exclusive clubhouse where you have to know the secret definition of "hacker" and it helps to know what a y combinator is. We wanted to keep out all the MBA riff-raff, remember?

I'm not saying it's wrong, or a bad strategy. But this is the chickens coming home to roost. When you make a secret handshake, you're going to alienate Susie Derkins.
yeah.. i dont think that add much to the language.. as for 2d we are better of pluging into the native 2d api of the systems we are plumbing.. thats the true value of C and C++

What c++ is trying to be, java?
incognito mode.
Here you go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l7ixRE3OCw
I'm a programmer in the medical field, and have heard complaints that some state medical boards keep important information behind pay-walls, like which doctors are sanctioned. (I wish I knew the details, but don't work directly with state medical boards.)

Did you new doctor just move from another state? Do you want to know if he was declared incompetent by the other states medical board? Then pay up.

I wonder if they do this out of greed, or they consider it genuinely expensive to give this data out. It makes me think of all the large corporations; often they make tasks I could automate with a few lines of Python sound nearly impossible.
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I agree with this 100%.

Python 3 is a disaster. The problem is they made the entire thing out to be a Big Deal, but they didn't really offer any compelling reason to upgrade. I mean, the unicode is... kinda better, and iterators are a bit improved, but couldn't those things have been point releases? 2.8? They basically said that python 3 was a new language, and then offered no significant reason you should use this new language. So we all kept using actual python, quirks and all. To me, as a python developer, Python 3 is a failed fork. Harsh but true.

IMO, if they were going to do that sort of thing, they should have had at least one killer feature. Like maybe if python 3 had been based off pypy they could be saying "Look! We're 5x faster! Want to upgrade now?". That would have been compelling. But their message was: "we cleaned up some stuff that most of you don't care about, and broke a bunch of things". Think about pitching that sort of upgrade to your boss. "Well it doesn't solve any of our problems, and it creates a ton of new ones, but it's the right thing to do because it makes some code slightly cleaner arguably! Convinced yet?"

If I were in charge of python, I would do this: announce python 4, have it be based on the pypy interpreter, and keep compatibility with python 2 the language while reforming the C extension APIs to be more future proof (for getting rid of the GIL and so on). (Or maybe get rid of them entirely and just have people use CFFI.)
Has someone already unobfuscated the source code?
Good. The incentives involved with private prisons are so obviously counter to the public good that it beggars belief that anyone would support them. Private prisons do not bear any costs of recidivism - they profit from it.
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"so leaving is cutting your nose off to spite your face."

Well, according to the article.....

"It has been nearly two years since the Amazon decision and I can proudly report that our company is still alive, well, and prospering. Our direct-selling division has recorded seven consecutive months of year-over-year growth, and new sales force hires are up 25% over last year as well. And, thanks to our loyal retail customers, we recorded the largest ever sales month in the history of that division in October—and we did it without Amazon!"

.... clearly not.
> because it had effectively become a “showroom” for Internet retailers—people would see books in the store and then buy them online.

I think there might be room for some retail outlets to embrace this. You could imagine a bookshop that was an amazon affiliate, stuck QR codes with their affiliate link to the book over all of the barcodes, had a nice cafe and environment for browsing the large numbers of books they have in stock, but don't actually sell any themselves. They could even arrange to be close to an amazon drop/warehouse so you could get things delivered super fast to the store itself for a small convenience fee.
Moz uses the original pagerank research paper published before google incorporated. It is the original seed formula which google later modified and now claims it is hardly using.
The growth would be exponential.
Every day Google sees 15% of queries that have never been seen before.
Every single day.
This is a relief. RG certainly gives the best search results for a lot of queries.

This whole story made me fear that Google was choosing power over user experience.

And that should never be the case, no matter how offending the founders of RG might appear sometimes. Don't be evil!
<i>I get it, you work for a registrar</i>

Or AFLAC.
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