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Federis Group
We're a small software consultancy looking for front end and full stack engineers. Rails and/or mobile experience a plus, but not strictly required. Our team is based in Chicago, but we're open to remote as well.

Contact: ben@federisgroup.com
That seems to propose a lot of crazy shit without anything back it up to explain something that is already pretty well explained: The world is complex.
The reason this is important (if it works) is that currently there is no known propellantless rocket that produces more thrust than light pressure. Light pressure is incredibly weak:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light#Light_pressure

The formula is F = P/c so 1 watt of power (say, from a laser) only results in a force of 3.33 nano newtons or 0.75 nano pounds. In other words 1 kW (a little over 1 horsepower) results in about 1 micro newton or 1 micro pound of force. A craft that used light pressure for propulsion would use up most of its mass (even with fusion or antimatter fuel) to get to some fraction of the speed of light.

So if this effect is real and has a performance higher than 3.33 nano newtons per watt, to me it's one of the greatest breakthroughs in the history of propulsion. It would have all kinds of ramifications for science because even though it doesn't break any laws of physics, it means that we can no longer assume that motion only comes from reactions with other matter or light. It would basically open the door to modifying the mass and energy of empty space. So I will remain highly skeptical until someone reproduces the claimed results, but I would love it if they did!
> browser-side certificates (...) the average computer user will need tech support

That's an example of good security with a bad UI. It's an order of magnitude better than passwords. But history didn't make them sexy and it's too late to start.
Depends on your brand of static typing.
It certainly does if your keys are not strings but objects.
Yes, and passed via distribution
NYC based consultant. Full stack developer (Rails since 2005). Coffee Script/Javascript. ReactJS. Backbone. More languages than you can throw a stick at. Etc. . . .

Available in April

Either for remote or on-site consulting, particularly around getting teams set up with good development workflows. I'm great to have for a project kickoff. Lots of startup and small biz experience (ex CTO, VP Engineering, etc. . .).

I'm picky. Very happy with the company that I'm consulting with now, but will be doing some heavy traveling this summer (based in Berlin for June and July). Looking for short gigs.

scott weeks at gmail. Mention HN.
When I grew up I could roam freely (well, mostly, and I didn't always make as good use of it as I could, often preferring books to soccer) and I still have absolutely no problem with the concept of the safety belt. I know my safety is my responsibility, and if I have a device that can (and arguably already did) save my life - IMO only idiot won't use such a device. So I don't see any connection between rejecting belts and having freerange childhood.
Chicago - OpinionLab - http://www.opinionlab.com/senior-rails-engineer/

OpinionLab is seeking a Senior Rails Engineer with strong development skills to join our Chicago, IL based Product Development team.

As a member of our Product Development team, you will play a critical role in the architecture, design, development, and deployment of OpinionLab’s web-based applications and services. You will be part of a high-visibility agile development team empowered to deliver high-quality, innovative, and market leading voice-of-customer data acquisition and feedback intelligence solutions. If you thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced, get-it-done environment and want to be a part of one of Chicago’s most innovative companies, we want to speak with you!
I run Ubuntu at work and Fedora at home; i also ran Fedora at my previous job. Ubuntu has been very far from a "trusty rock" (eg two weeks ago it wouldn't boot to X because it had somehow installed two conflicting versions of the Nvidia drivers, and was running the kernel module from one and the userspace client from another, wat), whereas Fedora really has been hassle-free, despite generally having fresher versions of packages.

Given that Fedora is so good, and given that it has an impeccable pedigree and is not exactly obscure, why do i never hear about people using it?
theScore - http://mobile.thescore.com/ - Toronto, ON, Canada

We're looking for backend developers. Right now we're focused on ruby and python, but looking to get into other languages (see this speakerdeck[0] for all the technologies we work with, given by one of our devops guys).

Currently we have 4.8 million users -- about 50% more than we had last year at this time. We send over a billion push messages a year... lots of cool things going on here, in other words!

If you like sports, this place is great. Not a big deal if you don't, though.

Lots of perks:

* foosball (we have a league and it's serious)

* ping pong

* PS4 (FIFA and NBA2K are popular)

* Wii (Mario Kart Double Dash is the go-to game)

* various computer games (CS:GO, TF2)

* outdoor deck with bbq

* free snacks

* free drinks

* espresso/coffee machine

* top-of-the-line macbook pro with cinema display

Any other questions? Contact me (below) or reply to this and I'll try to fill you in on more details.

Interested? Email me (mark.campbell@thescore.com), tweet me [1]@Nitrodist, or connect with me on [2]LinkedIn!

[0] [https://speakerdeck.com/lreeves/scaling-applications-at-thes...]

[1] https://twitter.com/Nitrodist/

[2] http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mark-campbell/33/856/818
Seasonal affective disorder
I am not assuming that this is blind spot in YC selection process. After all YC is just another organization trying to reap the benefits our society's disproportionate investment in a minority of population at the top of socio economic ladder. (I might be totally off target on this but my impression of typical winning applicant was of a top 20 school graduate [1].)

I am merely suggesting( and hoping) that this not something that shouldn't be emulated by everyone.

Can we play G.H Hardy once in while and discover Ramanujams from social and economic ghettos?

1. https://www.airbnb.com/about/founders
any screen users? not sure if this works if you constantly start new screen sessions
>Teaching rigorous safety consciousness in children

Yes, watching the video reminded me that no-one taught me how to tackle when I was playing Rugby as a skinny 11 year old. Good to see the kids at the school have someone to help them avoid those common injuries and still get some decent play in.
It sounds like you're suggesting that Windows 8 would've been fine if they had just forced Metro, but people dislike Windows 8 because its default view is so obviously designed for tablets and touch, not because they're able to turn it back into something close to Windows 7.
>> The mobile gaming is just 6 years old. We're in the 'Space Invaders' era.

Game developers have access to over thirty years of video gaming knowledge when designing a game. People have access to multi-platform SDKs, etc. Today, anyone with a computer can produce and publish a game.

When Space Invaders was around, this was not even remotely the case.

The expectations for quality on a 6 year old platform today should be much higher than it was in the 80s.
No kidding. Some say the odds are known, so you're not being ripped off, but that's not always the case. Beyond that, there is a science behind separating you from your money: free drinks, no clocks, no windows, ugly carpet and ceilings to keep you focused on the games, slot machine sounds, and likely a bunch of other stuff that we don't even know.

I'd say undertaking such a massive clandestine effort to liberate you from your cash is pretty customer-hostile.
Bitcoin buys French fries with gravy and cheese curds
Pathable (http://pathable.com) - Seattle or REMOTE
Pathable is hiring expert javascript engineers and UI designers. We're innovating how single-page applications are built and we need your help. Our industry leading social networking application is focused on conferences and events. It's 75% JavaScript and 25% Ruby. We support several open source projects including Backbone and QuiltJS. We've embraced remote working to a degree you won't find anywhere else. Learn more: http://www.pathable.com/
Did you twitch when you read OP's article?

"Image in your bank treated you this way..."
yep then what about 4 year factor,s they just pose a threat to degree mill,s who do the same thing the fact is you can learn to code in12 weeks to some degree i am teaching my 4 year old to code ror and he is getting it
How about a combination of you paid for a ticket and freedom of movement is a basic human right?

Neither are. We have passports. We have laws in place which restrict movement if needed. Just as driving is not a right, flying is not a right.
SEEKING FREELANCERS : Pathable (http://pathable.com) - Seattle or REMOTE
Pathable is hiring expert javascript engineers and UI designers. We're innovating how single-page applications are built and we need your help. Our industry leading social networking application is focused on conferences and events. It's 75% JavaScript and 25% Ruby. We support several open source projects including Backbone and QuiltJS. We've embraced remote working to a degree you won't find anywhere else. Learn more: http://www.pathable.com/
As far as I know design, Metro could well be a fantastic way to make design-oriented apps.

The problem is that full, complete, design orientation doesn't give you enough clues to accomplish tasks. Maybe no one ever cares to accomplish anything on a tablet but if they do, it doesn't seem like Metro will be helpful.

I mean, the problem with the Metro start button isn't that it's touch oriented - you can click the tiles with a mouse just as easily. The problem is you look at the start button and say "beautiful - WTF is it?" If you just feel like experiencing an endless beautiful demo, it's great but if you have a goal, it's opaque how you'd achieve it.
> [...] until the current paranoid approach to minuscule lawsuits took over.

FTFY. But, then again, I'm a helpless cynic.
Jay Machalani's concept for fixing the Metro+desktop are the way to go IMHO. http://jaymachalani.com/blog/2013/12/12/fixing-windows-8

Basically the concept is to include both the Metro + desktop UIs and let the user explicitly choose. When you're in tablet mode, all desktop apps run full-screen (or using the Metro-style split screen) and when you're in desktop mode, Metro apps run windowed like Desktop apps.
You're assuming all people who pirate jailbreak their phones themselves. Nope.

Lots of people pay some kid to do it and install N amount of apps.
I remember than after downloading Spore (the game) and finding it to be very poor quality I checked the forums. No official EA people were there but literally the advice everyone got was "here's an illegal version, it runs faster and doesn't have most of these bugs, don't worry, it's just as good but much better". Goes to show that pirated software is rarely an inferior product at all.
If you truly care, develop a free alternative that is just as good as their products. See RMS.
A structurally-typed record would be a frame, as defined by Richard O'Keefe in his paper [1]. Maps aren't frames. Maps fit where dict and friends do.

[1] http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/staffpriv/ok/frames.pdf
There is something to be said for the fact that it's a different game. They took some of the mechanics and IP of the original game, and made a new game, so he shouldn't have expected it to match the original experience.

That said, from what he did review, it seems pretty clear that this new game is up there with the worst of the freemium/IAP model. I think your advocacy veers a little towards being willfully obtuse. I would say there has never been a single game that has been made more fun or interesting by the "wait a few hours or pay money to continue" mechanic. Resource and time management is certainly a valid mechanic but that assumes that the player can continue doing other things (as in actual "gameplay") while the time-intensive operation is happening. Even failing that, if we assume there is some game that is fun to not-play while you sit there waiting, the fact that you can pay money to advance invalidates it as a gameplay mechanic. At that point it can be nothing but a business decision.

On the coffee shop example, you are paying for the intrinsic value of the coffee, so no, other offerings should not affect you. But with the "bag-o-coins" type of IAP, you are not paying for the image of your character holding the coins (i.e. a cosmetic item, which is considered somewhat less evil), you are paying for a means to an end, to continue playing the game.

It would be more like this: the coffee shop advertises free wi-fi, which is one of the main reasons you went there. But by default your bandwidth is crippled to the point of near uselessness, and you have to buy the ridiculous mocha to unlock a decent speed. Now are you annoyed about it?
Of course not. There's no risk too small for preventing. We should have kids wrapped up in bubble-wrap and never near any activity that could harm them - even a paper can give you a paper-cut which can then get infected and the kid would die of sepsis - true story, I've heard it from a guy that heard it from a guy that worked with a brother of the kid who went into school with the kid that heard it from his cousin who saw it in his own eyes! So clearly, no safety measures are ever enough - because think of the children! They could die! Do you want kids to die? What kind of a monster are you? If you don't want kids to die, then you should support any safety measure if it has even a minuscule imaginary chance of preventing some harm. No matter how much it hurts real kids' development in the overwhelming majority of cases.
SpaceX, Hawthorne, CA - http://spacex.com (US citizen/PR only)

You've probably heard of SpaceX -- we build and fly rockets! Check out http://youtu.be/DjpUf__4vPA and http://youtu.be/9ZDkItO-0a4.

What you might not know is that we need software engineers. Some of the positions we are looking to fill currently are:

Lead front-end software engineer - http://www.spacex.com/careers/position/3895

Software engineer for Borg, our flight data logging and analysis system - http://www.spacex.com/careers/position/3366

Simulations software engineer, writing the software used to fool the flight software into thinking it's in space - http://www.spacex.com/careers/position/3858
Sounds good, but I don't see the floating bar. I am on Mac OSX Mavericks in Google Chrome.
Hey Christian, my name is Ulises and I'm a full-stack Software & Video Engineer. I've been working with professionally with Ember for 2 years, and with Ruby/Rails/Chef for 5 years. I'm living in Austin TX and willing to travel. To quickly learn more about me, I'm at http://ulisesrmzroche.info. My email is ulisesrmzroche at gmail

Here are the slides to a talk i gave at Ember ATX about Ember App Kit in January.

Ember App Kit In Depth @EmberATX - http://goo.gl/UJfs6j
So, "faster" means "more frequently", and the solution is a while loop with a sleep in it. A loop which doesn't make any attempt to account for the execution time of the command.
That is not only a valid point, but a major one upon many levels. I would of thought storing the credit card in full (double eek if they also store the 3 digit security code) would be against the PCI compliance guidlines.

I'm aware if the customer gives permision (repeat customer) is an exception. Though in these situations if it is proven that access was your companies fault then you are liable. Which in this situation, whilst no charge to the credit card (we are aware of) was made. The lapse of security did have financial reprocusions.
With pools moving towards paying miners the transaction fees it becomes more difficult to recover from mistakes like this. The pool would have to contact the miners that received the fees to recover them.
I wouldn't mind at all if the next generation was more comfortable with fighting. It's a basic human instinct and when basic instincts are completely suppressed pathological behaviors will bulge out instead.

The current state of "assault" law is appalling, especially in the U.S. We need to get more than a bit back to what we actually are.
You know that maps as envisioned in the EEP (http://www.erlang.org/eeps/eep-0043.html) should let you do pattern matching using variables, right? It's not there now because it's a provisional implementation, but it will be there.

We will be able to do X = 3, #{X := Val} = Map, ... to extract the value of 'Val' under the unknown key 'X'. This just hasn't been implemented yet, but is part of the total specification.

What you see is the incomplete implementation of maps, not up to the total spec, because this is a RC1 implementation. They will support part of the record use case, but the entirety of the dict use case with more flexibility there (including comprehensions, from_list, etc.)

They are, by specification and once complete, going to be far more feature-equivalent with dicts than records.
Reading `man hier` tell us that /etc is for files local to the machine, userspace is somewhere else. If you don't care about man hier, that's your option, but this is the way Unix is designed.

I do wonder if you login as root, though.
Do you design for Neophytes, Early Adopters, or tech nerds?
When designing your software, app, platform, etc do you shoot for a middle ground or do you look to create the lowest common denominator product for understanding and usability by the masses? It frustrates me to no end that we all forget we had to 'learn' FB and twitter. We had to explore, discover, get dirty. When getting friends and family input, it is very frustrating when you get back 'I don't understand's' and while they are very valuable, it is certainly annoying when they forget there is always a small learning curve with a new idea and concept. So, for your best projects, did you just say to hell with it and design/UX for the LCD, or did you say 'they'll learn it and I'll get it as close to simple understanding as I can, but they need to stretch a bit too'.
selection bias. we of course inevitably hear about the cases where Apple is not fair or acts inconsistently. but we do not hear about the vast majority of cases where they either allow apps in the store immediately or work through the issues with the developer so the app is compliant with the rules.
Looks pretty good. I'll submit my email to test if you need.

Send me an email the address I submit clickbrain.com
I don't mind their new subscription model but:
1. why do i have to pay 50% more because I am in Europe?
2. why do I need to keep running a 500mb service just to keep adobe's apps licensing working?
ok... so what's the message?

Maybe the author just didn't think of Kolmogorov complexity and thought it was a good idea.
How did we get there?

By ignoring human nature and geeking out about the technical side of things? It doesn't matter how technically advanced and theoretically secure an auth solution is. If it has certain kinds of usability problems it will never be willingly adopted by large number of common people. I think to move forward with security we (engineers) need to simply accept this as a fact, and stop bitching about supposed user stupidity.
I wonder if they actually thought they would eventually port the major applications to Metro? Somehow hard to believe that the master plan was to have this mess between Metro and traditional desktop going on forever. On the other hand porting apps like Office to Metro would have been quite a job. The whole concept would probably have to be resigned.

For my usage it would be been quite fine if the old desktop apps could run as Metro apps. I really liked how the splitting of the screen between multiple Metro apps worked in Windows 8.1. It was easier to use the screen efficiently than with traditional desktop windows.
Paper will eventually come out for Android. Facebook Home obviously is not something that can run on iOS due to its limitations.
SEEKING WORK: Remote or San Francisco Bay Area

Ruby [+ Rails], Clojure [+ Om Pedestal], JavaScript [+ Backbone.js Ember.js React], CoffeeScript, Python, C developer seeking short-term or long-term gigs.

Some sample projects here: http://projectdeck.herokuapp.com/
Most bullies are power-tripping on the effect they have. Standing up to them is unexpected, they don't know how to react, and quickly back down. It's not worth the risk to put up a fight when you can just pick on someone else.

It works when you're an adult as well, though if they're your boss they might fire you.
Yup, I guess there is little overlap between the CS community and electronics community.
Lol me too. Hi guy from Washington.
That would work too. Although I fear the cat is out of the bag for a lot people.
Santa Monica, Ca - Draftster.com

FULL TIME Javascript(Angular) & Python application developers

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Are you passionate about sports? Do you like money? Draftster.com combines the two by offering daily fantasy sports contests for cash. We are a private equity backed, large-scale fantasy sports gaming startup that includes founders with previous exits. We have disruptive aspirations, an aggressive customer acquisition strategy, and a vision that will transform sports as we know it. Draftster is entering into beta with plans for a US launch in spring 2014.
We are looking for brilliant application developers to join our team as we bring our product to market. Our ideal candidate will be a self-starting, code-shipping, team focused engineer with a passion for elegant code. Our technology includes python, nginx, tornado web, angular, and mongoDB. More info: https://angel.co/draftster-com

Javascript Developer Job Description:
The javascript developer will be a lead for the UI Engineering team. This candidate will work to create new UI architectures, interfaces, and functionality by integrating back-end API’s, create and maintain UI Development Standards and Best practices, and provide technical leadership, feedback, and oversight for various technical initiatives across the organization. This candidate should excel in all components of the Rich Internet Application development skill set, as well as the UI Engineering/Web Development skills (CSS 3, Javascript, HTML 5, AJAX and Javascript Libraries such as jQuery and Angular).

Python Application Developer Job Description:
The Senior Application developer will lead the engineering team. The candidate will work with our CTO to create and maintain architecture standards, implement application features, create supporting web API’s, and provide technical leadership, feedback, and oversight for various technical initiatives across the organization. This candidate should excel in all components of the Rich Internet Application development skill set as well as NoSQL database administration.

Please contact info@draftster.com for more information.
Cheers, --Michael