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Glance - Full-time - Join an early stage company solving high-impact problems

San Francisco (1 block from Caltrain and Philz coffee :)

We've been funded by an amazing set of investors including Reid Hoffman, Mike Maples, Greylock and NEA to solve the biggest problem in mobile today - driving retention and engagement while delighting users.

We're developing a smarter alternative to disruptive and spammy options like push notifications. Our approach is built on a next generation contextual platform and elegant UX that delights both users and developers.

We are hiring:

* Android Engineers - experienced developers who are passionate about writing code to do incredible things on Android

* Platform Engineers(Search / Machine Learning) - developers with experience gaining insights from large data sets and building scalable server architectures that are fast and efficient

* Front-end Engineers - engineers who are passionate about building elegant web products

You'll be a core member of our team as we grow the company and build the platform that will power the Glance experience across billions of devices.

As part of the team you'll receive significant equity and responsibility at a very early stage company. We talk iOS, Android, Python and Node.js.

If you're looking to join a small team that solves complex problems and is making something people will use daily we would love to talk.

Get in touch with us at jobs@helloglance.com
SEEKING WORK - Sydney, remote is fine

We are a team of two (UX + Dev) focused on functional design and MVPs. We specialise in building low-fi Rails mockups and prototypes. Looking for a project now, we have very competitive rates.

Get just the view layer if you like, or get it built up to a full MVP. We don't do graphic design.

Get in touch: connect@uifirst.com and I'll reply ASAP.

http://uifirst.com
I'm eagerly awaiting the C, C++, and Python implementations. Has anyone started on these?

Extending rapidjson, jsoncpp, yajl, and simplejson seems like a natural place to start.
I like Yoda conditions not only because it protects against the missing "=", but also because often the constant is the shorter side, so reading

if (42 == some_long_expression_here)
{
...
}

It is immediately clear that the rest of the line after the two equals signs must be an expression because the curly brace in the beginning of the next line. So folks don't have to bother that much about counting parens.
SEEKING WORK - Writing, Content, Marketing - Remote or Bay Area

I'm a writer and content marketer. Need an inbound specialist? Need a robust editorial calendar for all your audiences, channels, and content types? Need someone who can write a pretty sentence and back it up with analytics? Need a self-described "reasonably good-looking, like, I dunno, maybe 75th percentile" San Franciscan?

Look no further! I'm available for freelance content, marketing, and copywriting gigs. I've written for Slate, Priceonomics, Harvard Business Review, and other publications. I've also worked on some TV shows of equal audience size and lesser repute. I've run successful product launches and content campaigns for B2B and B2C startups, BigCos, etc.

Recent work...

Priceonomics:

http://priceonomics.com/the-economics-of-a-hit-tv-show/

http://priceonomics.com/the-economics-of-infomercials/

Slate:

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_bet/2014/02/faceb...

Email me at jonfnathanson {at} gmail.com
the US government issues student loans? really?

EDIT - sorry, just checked it out, and yes it does. incredible :D this is it's way of supporting college education, by making money off of it?
ack[0], ranger[1], and tig[2] are very useful tools to add to this list of "tips and tricks". Also mention gitk's importance, for tig+gui.

—

[0]: http://beyondgrep.com/

[1]: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/ranger/

[2]: https://github.com/jonas/tig
I thought it was sarcasm. It's funny because there is an unbraced if and a goto, but the error is sonewhere else
I suspect the author is parodying the reaction towards apples mistake, and bares these maintainers no ill will.
Female Founders Conference (live)
Scribd (YC '06), San Francisco/SOMA - H1B, FULL-TIME, and INTERN are all welcome

Scribd ("Netflix for eBooks", top 100 website, 40 people) is hiring talented hackers of all kinds to help us build the library of the 21st century.

We've hired SIX full-time people and TONS of interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads ... it really works!

We're looking for people who want to work with:

* Ruby on Rails (we're the #2 largest rails site, after Twitter)

* Back-end infrastructure like machine learning / data mining / recommendations - think Netflix prize, but for books!

* Javascript (well, we use Coffeescript)

* iOS or Android (we're a top 10 eBook app, with a tiny mobile team)

* Internships: junior standing or above. We hire several interns every summer and year-round.

That said, we care way more about your personality and general hacking skills then what languages you've used so far, so if you haven't used these but want to break into mobile or web development, this could be a good opportunity for you. We've hired people from these threads with everywhere from 0 to 10 years of experience.

We're profitable, very well funded and have a really fun office environment (go-karts + a rock climbing wall!). Scribd alumni have gone on to found 4 other YCombinator companies, more than from any other startup. We think this says something about the kind of people that we like to hire, and we love hiring people with entrepreneur and startup ambitions. We are also always looking for international people interested in moving to the US and can help you secure a visa.

We recently launched a service that's being called the "Netflix for books" and are really excited about it. Read more here: http://wrd.cm/1dJquzz

More info is at http://www.scribd.com/jobs, but as a HN user, feel free to apply directly by emailing me at jared at scribd.com.
Uh yeah, you're right. I'm surprised that didn't jump off the page at me but hey, I read the comments first and then the article too, failing "like a good banker", meaning succeeding in not spotting the bullshit but not any worse than my fellow hn-ers who also upvoted it.

I amazed your at bottom of the comments. But then again I was silly enough to upvote the parent before I read the full text.

"A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional and orthodox way with his fellows, so that no-one can really blame him" - JM Keynes
The Monuments of Tech
You can still be an outlier in terms of the population as a whole. With all due respect, perhaps you're in a bubble.

Do you watch American Idol? Do you read celebrity gossip magazines? Do you play bingo or the lottery? Do you watch Fox news? Do you buy a newspaper? Do you click on ads?

Millions and millions of people do all of the above - they are not outliers.

On your previous point "How should a lie be useful to me? I just can't see it.", we have this problem all the time outside of advertising with general information. Look at the average news story on Reddit. It's probably biased, probably a half truth, probably out of context, probably only half the facts of the story. Everything is biased and needs careful inspection before you can take it at face value.

However, there are obvious ways to do this. For example, I "trust" Lego. That means if they advertise a new awesome Batman Lego Arkham Asylum set, I'll know it's going to be quality, and awesome, and I'll buy it. If however it's some new unheard of company, I'd probably want to go examine it in a toy shop before I buy it.

I'm not trying to convince you that advertising is useful, I don't think you'll change your mind. But hopefully you'll see that you're not in a majority, and the majority think advertising is useful.
I guess that would technically mean "Who thinks the US can listen in?", which would mean that he's attempting to downplay the possibility that the US tapping things is a relevant concern, and all these international competitors are just using the NSA as a convenient scapegoat, to drum up business.

Which actually makes sense when you consider that he's part of the machine, and just toeing the party line.
They only come out at night. Or, in this case, during the daytime.
Email is the French / German / Dutch word for enamel.

Of course the pronounciation is very different.
What Tim Cook should have said was that he is thinking of ROI when Apple does these things that it does. That it helps the Brand, that it helps attract and retain talent that wants and is motivated to change the world. The next great product at Apple will be built by someone who believes in the positively impacting policies at Apple.

If Apple became a company that only believed in doing things for money, they would rapidly lose their innovators and market value would drop rapidly.
From: http://auroracoin.org/

> Auroracoin is a cryptocurrency for Iceland. It is based on litecoin and is 50% premined. The premined coins will be distributed to the entire population of Iceland, commencing on midnight 25th of March 2014.

From http://coinmarketcap.com/mineable-all.html

> Price: $ 17.31

> Total Supply: 10,594,451 AUR

If we discount the 10,500,000 premined coins, we get only 94,451 "wild" coins, increasing slowly until March 25th. In the "best" case, the circulating coins well increase x112. A less successful hand out to a 10% of the population will increase it only x12. With a 1% it increases x2.

I expect a big drop in the value, approximately 112-fold, 12-fold or 2-fold according to how successful the hand out is. And that's the optimistic scenario, because now it has a very small market and it's easy to manipulate the price.
Seeking Work - New York City

5 years iOS development, with a lot of product experience. I also enjoy working with Go and will do Rails to get a simple API server up and running.

Last worked at Betaworks before becoming a contractor, and have worked with a lot of startups from Techstars and the like.

Site: fabisevi.ch
Twitter: @mergesort (I'm hilarious, not really)
Resume: http://fabisevi.ch/_content/Joseph%20Fabisevich_Resume.pdf
Interestingly, this is still a style choice.

Just a few more to consider:

* webpage vs web page

* website vs web site

* lifestyle vs life style

* Asian-American vs Asian American

* e-commerce vs ecommerce

* cannot vs can not

* real-time vs real time (as one of the comments in this thread).

http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/e-mail-or...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/09/21/us-britain-hyphen-...

http://www.glendalenewspress.com/news/tn-gnp-aword-20100901,...

My English teacher tells us that we change grammar as we progress as a society. Articles from the 1700s will be different from the one from 1800s, 1900s and 2000s.

Also, writing style and grammar are also regional and industry dependent.

Some note from Oxford dictionary (http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/10/hyphens-in-the-he...)

> Let’s just step back from the hyperbole: how do dictionary-makers decide whether noun compounds should be hyphenated or not? It’s not an arbitrary choice: for our current English dictionaries, such as the free one on this website, Oxford’s lexicographers assiduously check the evidence of billions of words of today’s English on a huge database, the Oxford English Corpus. If they see that in the vast majority of cases, a noun such as ice cream is written as an unhyphenated two-word form, then this is the spelling they will select to appear in the dictionary.
would it be something like this:

if "setup by the NSA" then "goto fail"

I can think of a q that disproves p then!

not goto fail.

problem is

goto fail.

since q is true, p is either false or true, with no distinction either way. So... impossible to prove.
This just seems to fix problems for the lazy or those that lack architectural rigidity in their development patterns.

JSON is a data encapsulation format that doesn't care about the data contained within. That is up for your programs to consume and decide.

If you think JSON needs "more" like comments, parsing, multi-line, etc. then perhaps you need to revisit your architecture.

If you disagree I am sure there are plenty of frameworks out there that will babysit your data and document things for you. But upsetting the core apple cart here would be a huge mistake.
If web browsers had native YAML parsing, we probably wouldn't need JSON5. Web browsers aren't going to get native YAML parsing.
To be honest, if you had moderated that, I wouldn't blame you.

Freedom of speech doesn't mean you get to go into someone's house and shout in their face.
You can get 90% of the way there if you turn off gmail notifications on your phone.
Drop the "E". Just "Mail". It's cleaner.
Absolutely must agree with this. While you definitely need to put in a helluva lot of effort and passion and be absolutely driven... if you skip socializing, you won't just destroy your startup, you'll destroy yourself in the process. Seriously. Partying & socializing can be huge distractions for sure, but social skills atrophy, so you have got to balance the two. A startup founder that doesn't reconnect with the real world once in a while runs too much risk of building something no-one wants.
The Joy of Unix [1999]
Rounding Decimals in JavaScript
Yes but I think he is saying that if the left/what you compare to is not a constant then it will not warn you (if the type agrees, as it should anyway for a comparison).
The correct German spelling is E-Mail.
> To be able to put ink onto a piece of paper and have every other human on the planet willing to work for that paper: It is immense power, immense control & it is being abused.

I would argue that giving politicians and the banks access to that power was the point of Keynesian economics, i.e. it is a rationalization for Socialism.

At its root, Keynesian economics rests on an equivocation on the meaning of "price" and "wage" and a misrepresentation of Say's Law. In his book "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money", Keynes argues that "Supply creates its own Demand" is false but this is a bad formulation of Say's Law which Keynes did not refute. The proper formulation of Say's Law is "Supply IS Demand" and that is not open to dispute even under a barter economy. In more advanced monetary and credit-money economies Supply and Demand can become disconnected and diverge (for various complicated reasons) which is a bad thing and why we need a science of Economics to design a banking system that prevents it. Unfortunately today, thanks to Keynes, we have institutionalized the divergence of Supply and Demand (i.e. fiat money and the ability to create Demand out of thin air, which I consider a type of fraud).

You can prove this to yourself by reading two books. First, read Henry Hazlitt's "The Failure of the 'New Economics': An Analysis of the Keynesian Fallacies". In this book, Hazlitt logically shreds Keynesian arguments step by step and was promptly ignored because people wanted Socialism and/or the power to manipulate the monetary system. Keynes provided the intellectual rationalization to Socialize the banking system. Second, get it straight from the horse's mouth, read Keynes' work "The General Theory..." but wherever Keynes writes "wage" cross it out and write "price" and you will quickly see that his work amounts to a repudiation of the principle of Supply and Demand which is one of the cornerstones of Economics. Also, read up on what Say's Law really means and see if that is what Keynes refuted.

The title of the linked article should be "Keynesian Economics is Dead!, Long Live Keynesian Economics!" because this is a moral issue not an economic issue. As long as people want Socialism they will continue to advocate variants of Keynesian economics, even if they don't call it that. Unfortunately, giving the current primitive understanding of economics this is not going to end well.
Not the OP. I would role more into high school, maybe extend it by a year, and fund more schools at the federal level to even the playing field. College loans would be available only for careers with higher than average employment availability, and I'd replace unemployment insurance with retraining/relocation insurance and loans.
Though I agree cancerous physical plant growth is an issue, a couple of additional points:

1) Spending on non-faculty salaries have gone through the roof with the exponential growth of well paid but educationally marginal deanlets, deanlings, and administrators.

2) Although total salaries for the tenured professoriat hasn't necessarily exploded, salary per classroom-student hour has as tenured professors have seen their teaching requirements fall, and as large lectures are increasingly taught by poorly paid adjuncts.

A generation ago a 3-3 or 4-4 was typical for a tenured liberal arts or social sciences professor, and most freshmen seminars were taught by full faculty. Today many teach 2/2 or even 2/1, and they might well be all be graduate / upper class seminars and supervising student research.
> I can't remember where the article is that I read about all this though.

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RaminShokrizade/20130626/1949... ?

> Another novel way to use a progress gate is to make it look transparent, but to use it as the partition between the skill game and the money game. Candy Crush Saga employs this technique artfully. In that game there is a “river” that costs a very small amount of money to cross. The skill game comes before the river. A player may spend to cross the river, believing that the previous skill game was enjoyable (it was for me) and looking to pay to extend the skill game. No such guarantee is given of course, King just presents a river and does not tell you what is on the other side. The money game is on the other side, and as the first payment is always the hardest, those that cross the river are already prequalified as spenders. Thus the difficulty ramps up to punishing levels on the far side of the river, necessitating boosts for all but the most pain tolerant players.
> Maybe my job this weekend will be to write my own version of these documents but with a decent selection of programs, descriptions and example usages?

Maybe your job this weekend should be to get a little exercise before writing on the internet?

It's a nice little summary of cool tools. "Some are little-known, some are just too useful to miss, some are pure obscure".
Thanks. The French linguistic equivalent is the shortening of "courrier électronique" to "courriel".
There was a guy who failed 10 times...and never made it. I don't who he is because he didn't make it. Sometimes if you fail a bunch it really is time to pack it up and get a steady job.
I would be more willing to blame C if these bugs were unsafe memory operations. Unused parameters, logic errors and assignment instead of comparison aren't unique to C and the language isn't without counter measures for them.

The X one is probably the only very C bug on the list and compiler warnings and/or a good static code checker would have found it.
You should reach out to him directly and make a new thread with the results. You have a legitimate claim.
The word learning in this context doesn't mean understanding this simple trick, which any newbie should grasp immediately.
I am German and I did not know this, was only aware of the alternative form Emaille.
> And again, because humans and humans, colleges, which in America have little government oversight as to pricing, raise their pricing. Why? Because people will still pay it. For whatever reason, colleges are able to bank on their prestige and identity, on the promise of access to important social circles, and so pure pressure for price is diluted

Harvard could double its price, and still have no trouble filling every available seat. Same goes for the rest of the Ivy League, and also MIT, Stanford, Caltech, and other top non-public schools. How do your theories explain their costs being so much lower than what the market would bear?

Furthermore, these schools have been increasingly replacing loans with grants. Stanford has gone so far as to waive tuition for students whose families have income under $100k, and to also waive room and board for those whose families make under $60k. If you theories were correct, wouldn't Stanford be telling those students to get loans? That would make more money for Stanford.
Cocos2D-iPhone vs Sprite Kit vs Unity 2D
#2 is why the Affero GPL was invented. When you contribute to open source, be aware of what you are agreeing to, with respect to folks who might want to take and not share alike.
I asked the same thing a week ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7276780
love to see it native
Now Relax
1. Start writing tests. Tests will save your ass when you're merging a feature branch. Cause are you sure everything still behaves correctly after those ingenious refactorings?

2. Use an IDE and/or compiler that actually warns you about common human errors like unused variables, unreachable statements, and dumb mistakes like a case-block with silent fallthrough to the next case-block.

3. Acknowledge responsibility when writing security related code. Know that there's no room for mistakes.
Considering the age of AirBnB, "drifting" isn't really the right word.

YC likes hustlers, it says so in the application, and has for years.
Actually OSM does gather data about ski trails. They're just not displayed on default renderer.

See: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Piste_Maps

And something from the area you posted:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/216074683
SEEKING WORK - Remote / NY

I'm a Sencha specialist looking for ExtJS or Sencha Touch projects, either client only or full-stack (Rails or Node.js). Please contact me at barry[at]barrypeerless[dot]com. Thanks!
Pylint catches this, pylint categorizes this as a warning.

If your language has a lint tool and your code is remotely important, please run the lint tool as part of your build.
By the time we reform government lending to "fix" this, education will already be disrupted with MOOCs and other internet tools. I am talking about 5-10 years from now.

The problem isn't with fields like comp sci or history where people don't need a degree to work as professionals. The problem is with institutions with guilds like like American Bar Association and American Medical Association. You need a license to practice, and almost everyone only gets that after spending over $100,000 on accredited schools. (Are there exceptions?)

Soooo ... the price of education in every OTHER field will go down, but not med schools or law schools or other schools which prepare you for licensing.

I am a firm believer that basic medical insurance and education should be collectively bargained by the government. And we do - most libertarians and republican fiscal conservatives are clamoring for vouchers over public schools. But vouchers are the same kind of sigle payer system they find so distatesful in medical insurance. It's really funny, really! American political views, like many others, are influenced more by media rhetoric and culture than logic.

Basic education and medical safety nets are something everyone in civilized society has come to expect. I think this should extend to basic courses online such as MOOCs on history and other "core" curricula. The government should switch from subsidizing community colleges with professors teaching 50 students at a time and slowly shift to subsidizing online universities and MOOC initiatives. Colleges subsidized by the government should be required to invert their classroom and prepare students to learn online, instead of spending so much $$ on traditional formats from 100 years ago.

On the other hand how many doctors and lawyers do we need? We don't know. The market needs to determine this. If the government subsidizes THESE professions, it will distort the market.
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