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Join'em, TX
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Join’em is the first community-powered marketplace to provide an easy, fun and collaborative way to leverage the collective buying power of like-minded shoppers with quality merchants. Our core proposition is based on WePower™ to enable groups to shop, share and beat down the prices on thousands of brand name products and services.

We are open to all levels(junior, mid and senior):

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Back End Developer
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Responsibilities:
Your work will span many areas of the Join'em platform, including but not limited to:

- Playing with large datasets
- Developing our RESTful APIs
- Working on machine learning (such as recommendation systems)
- Developing dashboards
- Scaling applications across distributed machines
- Requirements

- Fluent in python language
- Write great code, view it as a craft, and be proud of what you do at your job
- Experience using Git

Pluses:

- Have a college degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Experience with a good portion of our technology stack
- Experience in working in i18n projects supporting non-Latin languages (as we expend future markets)
- Familiarity with standards and guidelines; including: Unicode, CLDR, ICU, PEP 8 etc..)
- Experience in A/B testing
- E-commerce experience

Our stack:
You will work with a broad and bleeding-edge back-end technologies, including but not limited to:

- Python and Django
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Redis
- Amazon Web Services
- Third party apps (such as Braintree, Optimizely, Twilio, Paypal etc..)

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Front End Developer
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Responsibilities:
Your work will span many areas of the Join'em platform, including but not limited to:

- Developing device agnostic & responsive frontend code
- Work with creative and production team to bring ideas to life
- Code HTML marketing campaign emails

Requirements:

- Must be able to communicate well with designers and developers
- Solid understanding of core front-end web technologies (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript)
- Understanding of emerging UI/UX concepts
- Experience with jQuery
- Responsive design experience
- Experience using Git

Pluses:

- Experience with Bootstrap, Backbone.js, AngularJS
- Experience with LESS CSS pre-processor
- Experience in A/B testing
- Experience in template engines such as Django, Jinja, or Smarty
- E-commerce experience

These are full-time position based in our Dallas, TX office. Relocation assistance may be available.

Please email your resume to dev.hr@joinem.com.
> "oh, things got bad in some far away country, but this is america, something like that would never happen here. our politicians would never abuse the powers they are illegally giving themselves, so we don't really have anything to worry about".

I actually believe free speech is a strong set of checks and balances, which once acquired, is hard to remove. It's a strong safety against abuse. It's something people actually believe in. Do you really think evil people are crazy enough to plot against free speech ? It's easier to just use free speech to prove someone's claims are stupid.

Oppression occurs mostly because of economics, not because of surveillance.

Aren't you happy Snowden remembered free speech ? It's a great example of summoning the courage to defend important concept, but there is no reason to compare a developed country, democratically-elected government, using congress and plenty of other of other functional institutions, with developing and third world countries. You got to watch history too.

On top of it, I agree about how surveillance can be used to blackmail people, but I doubt you can entirely shut dissent with just blackmail. Blackmail is not a good thing, but you can't honestly believe, with the amount of communications and books, that Orwell predicted the future. Orwell warned us, just like Huxley, so it's not like it's going to happen in the US.

I just want to have a honest debate, and I will shoot any emotional attempts to explain how this or that is good or bad, because it's not enough. This comment is just using emotions and fear to make a point. FUD if you prefer. I want to believe that surveillance is setting an apocalypse, but I'm just skeptic enough to just think twice.
cool thing is, we can start watching them back ;/

and critique whether they're joy riding or actually working etc
Does the USD lose 5% value each year?

FIVE percent. Think about that.

I am hoping it is a zero to 10k block reward which would change all this. But looking at the code I think it is 10k fixed.
Man, I really feel like those who are upset about this truly wanted it to be "their Bitcoin" -- the cryptocurrency they got on the ground floor for and were hoping would turn out like BTC has. And to be fair, it sorted started looking that way. But now, as it's been decided to be "inflationary" (like the USD currently), they feel that the party is over.

And I get it. That sucks. Personally, I think it's a great thing for Doge. It'll keep up the current "tipping culture", discourage hoarding, and encourage us doge to trade and share, til we get to the moon. Such wow. Amaze. :D
I've been intentionally writing KCM control modules for various traditional command line functionality recently, with the intent to get them in some early series 5 KDE release. Just proof of concepts, but so far I've gotten working ones for xrandr, wlrandr, and saned (ie, network scanners). They aren't usually very complicated, just a bunch of widgets. I intend to finish them with a qml rewrite, most of the work was before you could embed qml in widgets.

The point is, yeah, you shouldn't have to go to a terminal, but that requires the development of guis to overlay the complexity. I use my relatives as test beds for whatever breaks that requires a "control panel entry" to fix.
Oh god, they really are master trolls.

The hilarious thing to note here is that -- over the short term -- this is barely different than Bitcoin's inflation rate. Bitcoin halves its inflation rate every 4 years, but 4 years is a long time in internet time. Here, let's lay them out side by side:

INFLATION RATE BY YEAR
YEAR BITCOIN DOGECOIN
1 inf% inf%
2 100% 100%
3 50% 50%
4 33.3% 33.3%
5 12.5% 25%
6 11.1% 20%
7 10% 16.6%
8 9.1% 14.3%

So while there is an important distinction between Bitcoin's and Dogecoin's inflation rates (Bitcoin's money supply is convergent; Dogecoin's is divergent despite a monotonically decreasing inflation rate), 8 years after their respective epochs, Dogecoin's inflation rate will be 5.2% higher than Bitcoin's. The horrors! The horrors!
Yes Paul, you are right. Lack of exits definitely hurts.
For programming jobs I find cwjobs.co.uk pretty good. For management jobs I have no idea.
Oh, but we're laughing at them!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x38jkFlPeg
My father and mother work at this University. The same login gets you into email, that gets you into payroll and all other employee areas of the employee website. So if the attacker was able to get the login and password through whatever means it would make any sort of email confirmation useless.

As far as the WMU police investigating this I think its a bit of a conflict of interest as their system was hacked and they will likely blame the 2 employees who lost their paychecks as its in the universities intrest no to send out more money.
finally some major alt coin done this :)

One of major complain about bitcoin is the fact of limited supply of coins. I.e. deflationary currency. But as you can see now - this is nothing more then just an agreement between people using bitcoin (or dogecoin)

If majority of dogecoin owners will not like it - they will fork it. Otherwise we will have nice example of inflationary currency.
Upvote for trying something. I do think there are serious trust issues, though.

As the seller/traveller, I don't want to get screwed in terms of time and money. It's a hassle to around my city to pick up an item, and then to pack it, haul it through two different airports, get it through customs, and then to have to meet the traveller during my busy schedule (and who really wants to do this during their vacation?). It better be worth my while, and I'd like the money upfront so I don't have to take this thing back with me in case the buyer flakes.

As the buyer, I don't want to get screwed by the traveller. I'm sending them the money, and they may never show up.

I would consider trying to find a niche of small, portable products that don't present any customs/duty problems, and then try to scale up from there. Trust platforms like Facebook, PayPal, or escrow may help mitigate in some cases, but not all.

I would actually consider focusing on the very low end. For example, what if it was just a $5 candy exchange. It's actually a meet-new-people-platform, with candy as an excuse for traveller to meet locals.
Occam's Razor - Which is more likely?

1) The US government has persuaded major media outlets CNN, FOX, MSNBC, NYT, etc. to bury the interview.

2) The German media company that did the inteview is asking foreign news outlets for more money than they're willing to pay for the interview (and is protecting its copyright by having internet copies taken down).
Get the concepts right, then find the perfect language (and maybe framework) and start building real-world projects.

Try finding a language that has some employment potential too.

Once you feel you've gained adequate exp and you are either using Rails or Django or Laravel, contact me and I will get you working on real-world stuff.
Its not that expensive; you get a discount for a further 2 years and if after 5 years you aren't making enough money to afford your licences you might just want to start a new company and re-enroll.

And that's not being able to afford your licences that you are using beyond the program: "BizSpark Alumni can keep, at no charge, all the software they downloaded during their three years in the program, including a standard configuration of Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server."

It would suggest you are doing something wrong if you can't afford what ever extra licences, you need to use passed this and 5 years on...
Hmm. Interesting chart but could you explain how you are calculating inflation?

Dogecoin reward halves every other month until mid 2015
I'm not sure how this would look very different from current pure functional languages. Think about programming in Haskell. Everything is immutable but you can compile down to machine level binaries. So at some point the programmer is presented with an abstract immutable model and under the hood some runtime does real pointer arithmetic and all. Even garbage collectors could be optimized already for knowing that the programmer has no knowledge of memory locations.

If this kind of OS encourages hardware changes, that's one thing. But aside from performance, it probably won't look too different from current FP languages.
It doesn't. If you want NSA stuff, here you go:

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/5/5263/1.html

Short version: ADVAPI.DLL contains - or contained - keys, one controls the implementation of crypto to help with US export regs. The NSA looks highly likely to own the second key (MS devs failed to remove the debugging information in NT4 Service Pack 5 and it was labelled as 'NSAKEY'.) The third key was supposedly a surprise to the MS folks.

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That said, I'm not sure why you'd want me to respond along those lines given that we're talking about a UK Gov report.
Android engineer - London - Mixlr
http://dev.mixlr.com

Mixlr is a fast-growing platform for social live audio with millions of users across the world.

We would like an experienced engineer to join our small, passionate team and take responsibility for bringing the Mixlr experience to the Android world.

The app will include live audio streaming, chat, discovery and all the key features that mobile users already enjoy in our successful iOS app.

You will have experience of building at least one non-trivial native Android app. The following attributes would also be advantageous:

* dedication to designing and building fantastic user interfaces

* knowledge of live streaming protocols, especially on mobile

* passion for music apps and/or audio programming

* experience working with JSON and RESTful APIs

* broad knowledge of different Android devices

* experience with test-driven development

* proficiency of at least one other language apart from Java, especially: C, C++, Ruby or JavaScript

For more information please see our dev portal: http://dev.mixlr.com
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I think HN, much like Slashdot, loves to hate on MS.
They don't have to be in cahoots to black it out. The truth is far simpler: the advertisers and the majority of the staff don't like pro-snowden stories.
I had a similar incident where my free tier went over some restriction and charged me. Amazon wiped it out after one single email from me. And I got some free credits. Amazon's support is second to none, in any area. I have no experience with azure to make a comment but anything that uses microsoft tech is just not going to work for me, free or paid.
When will someone make a DOUCHECOIN?
This is the one feature that will uniquely distinguish Dogecoin from other cryptocurrencies:

- It makes the currency much more democratic -- missed the first few months of mining? jump in any time you like and still reap the benefits!

- It neatly circumvents the issue of lost coins -- Bitcoins will keep dwindling over time and there will be no way to keep a consistent number of coins in circulation

- Inflation puts to bed one of the major concerns raised by many traditional economists about Dogecoin; deflation does seem to encourage hoarding

- As a corollary, inflation encourages spending, the growth engine of every modern economy. Like it or not, it works.

I'm mining as much Dogecoin as a I can and will keep doing so. I think this is great news! To the moon!!
That was my first guess for this story too - six people is a very small number if someone found a system exploit. Although it is still possible that's the case, and only specific passwords/accounts/etc were vulnerable.
A quote from the linked article: "My siblings and I grew up thinking that French toast grew hair on your chest, that acne resulted from negative thoughts, that watching a bag of popcorn inflate in the microwave could shrivel gonads and cripple sperm. My mother’s authority blossomed in situations where access to reliable information was limited. Neighbors would drive 45 minutes to a remote butcher shop she’d never visited but — whether out of boredom, mischief or malice — warmly recommended."

Wow. Several thousand interesting words, but no mention of malignant narcissism, the condition this writer's mother obviously suffered from (and, so far as anyone knows, incurable). More here: http://arachnoid.com/ChildrenOfNarcissus
False choice. It's far more likely they're not running it because the advertisers and the corporate brass don't like snowden.
I've built Tracks (http://www.buildtracks.com) a sales tracking application. We use it to track our sales of Tracks.
This is just so much nonsense. What can they do, deny your press-pass?

so what

If the whitehouse denies access like that - cutting off some of their own ability to disseminate propaganda - the journalist can simply write on the subject anyway.

Even better, while other journalists are busy copying down the usual stuff, the "cut off" journalist can run the "government interfering with the Free Press" story. Loudly.

Denying "access" merely changes what the story will be about.
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Android engineer - London - Mixlr
http://dev.mixlr.com

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Mixlr is a fast-growing platform for social live audio with millions of users across the world.

We would like an experienced engineer help our small, passionate team bring the Mixlr experience to the Android world.

The app will include live audio streaming, chat, discovery and all the key features that mobile users already enjoy in our successful iOS app.

You will have experience of building at least one non-trivial native Android app. The following attributes would also be advantageous:

* dedication to designing and building fantastic user interfaces

* knowledge of live streaming protocols, especially on mobile

* passion for music apps and/or audio programming

* experience working with JSON and RESTful APIs

* broad knowledge of different Android devices

* experience with test-driven development

* proficiency of at least one other language apart from Java, especially: C, C++, Ruby or JavaScript

For more information please see our dev portal: http://dev.mixlr.com
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other sources about mirageos :

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/mirage-os

http://decks.openmirage.org/qcon13#/
Thoughtful and well-written can often mask being wrong.
I hope Facebook Paper doesn't allow these kinds of non-american news sources. It would totally spoil my reality.
In the last 18 months I've entirely stopped buying mobile games because of this trend. I know that any game I buy is probably going to become less fun if I'm not willing to buy virtual cranberries.

This is not sustainable as an industry practice. People will eventually get wise.
An operating system whose main goal is not performance is forever going to be a toy of professors. Linux is a mess compared to the beautiful code that would comprise this OS, but it's a mess that runs fast on real hardware and let's people get stuff done. That matters.
>>"Unfortunately, it's pervasive," Porter said of such theft by computer. If the criminals are willing to dedicate "time, brains and fortitude, it's hard to stop it all."

This article reads like it'll be difficult to catch the person who stole the money. I remember all the arguments about bitcoin being more (pseudo)anonymous than a Bank, but if authorities can't even get the person who got this Bank ACH Deposit then I must have a horrible understanding of the Banking process. What's the problem? I thought bank-fraud was the easiest crime to catch assuming the culprit isn't someone with connections in high-places.
> I'm saying that something that can be trivially implemented by someone skilled in the art who is told what the invention does, but not how, should be below the bar.

Right, but what I'm saying is, that is not a good measure of the value of an invention, which is also why patent law is structured the way it is. Think about physical inventions like mechanical linkages or arrangements or other structures. Let alone someone skilled in the art, even we, knowing nothing more than how objects interact in the physical world, could look at it and figure out how it works, but that does not necessarily mean the mechanism was obvious before the fact.
Ask HN: How do you determine what features to charge users? – Business Model
Building a productivity product. First assumption is that it is going to be the Freemium model.

But from there, how do you know what features to charge users for Free vs. Pro account?
Probably because these are mainstream news station and most people still don't know who Snowden is. And here's the kicker: they don't care who Snowden is or what he has to say. They just don't. It's a big deal for us, but it's an issue that has yet to surpass the unemployment rate and the declining economy as the chief concern for most Americans.
MSNBC is following the money, just like everyone else in US media. A 30-minute Bieber special on CNN had their best 25-54 ratings for the day: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/friday-cable-ratings-justin-biebe...

Also, it's worth noting how much more popular FOX News is.
A garbage collector that knows that all values are immutable will be rather interesting, I think. Typically, a garbage collector will stop the world (i.e. halt execution) to do heap defragmentation of the old generation. When all values are immutable, though, you can defragment the heap by copying a value to another fragment and just swap the internal pointer to the value.

This might actually have significant performance benefits. When everything is immutable, GC can also be inherently incremental. You just do your defrag copy faster than new object creation. Then you cam limit your stop-the-world to a small "catch-up" so your copy-from can become a copy-to. Incremental GC nirvana!
Happy to see this is speeding up fast and becoming more and more solid! Great work!
I guess some people genuinely believe that they "choose" their leaders. Ok.
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That doesn't really matter if the idea is to experiment.
Sorry; I was just working off the "5 billion coins a year" title.

I am just taking the number of new coins created in a year, and dividing it by the number of coins already in the money supply. So if Bitcoin was creating X bitcoins per year for the first four years, the inflation rate for year four was X / 3X = 33%. In year 5, they halved the reward rate, so the inflation rate for year 5 was X/2 / 4X = 12.5%, and for year 6 it was X/2 / (4X + X/2) = 11.1%.

If Dogecoin were minting a constant 5 billion coins per year, then the inflation rate is much simpler: it is always (100/N)%, which is the well-known harmonic series.

Accounting for the initial money supply of 100 billion Dogecoins, it basically just starts further down the harmonic series, and Dogecoin's inflation rate would be 100/(20+X)%, which looks like 5%, 4.8%, 4.5%, 4.3%, 4.2%...
This is not funny. Unpaid wages are never funny. Actually, the Catholic Church classes it as a "sin that cries to heaven", and groups it with murder, inhospitality and exploitation of those with no clout. What they all have in common is a disregard for the humanity of your fellow man, and you can't punish that enough.
To me, this model is closer to gambling than gaming. In fact, some gamedev studio actually build some slot machine games, where you put in real money through in app purchase and you get game money in return. It's disturbingly successful.
You mention that one of the benefits would be that memory can be shared across processes without any defensive copying or protection semantics, but isn't the entire idea that immutable values are a special type of defensive copying and protection semantic?

I imagine that this would be useful if doing many calculations on readonly values, but would take a performance hit for readwrite operations.

I'm not one for purely functional programming, but this seems like an interesting concept. I'm interested to see where it goes
As shown on reddit[1], this hasn't stopped a number of other news organizations from covering it, but the coverage has been very limited. In addition, Fox, MSNBC, and CBS seem to have ignored it completely. It might not be a media blackout, but this is a somewhat significant story (moreso than Bieber being arrested, which I'm certain garnered far more time, even on the political-oriented stations).

[1]http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1wddfp/us_media_bl...
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