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Dstillery - NYC, New York
Dstillery is hiring Backend and Full-stack Software Engineers!
We're #10 on Crain's Best Places to Work in NYC list, #47 on Forbes' America's Most Promising Companies list. We play Ultimate or Soccer on Fridays, we have a company band, we work sane hours, we don't track vacation (and not in the 'so nobody ever takes any' sense), and we Get Stuff Done.
You'll learn a lot from working here, regardless of your current level of experience. You'll work directly with a world-class data science team (winners of multiple KDD Best Paper and other awards) that keeps us on the cutting edge of learning at scale, allowing us to build customer-specific models from billions of events per day. We're hooked up to all the big ad exchanges, and have direct working relationships with companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and more. But we're also still pretty small on the engineering team, and everyone gets their hands dirty and makes a real impact.
We write mostly Java. Hadoop, Cassandra, Mongo, and Kafka are big parts of our stack, and we're always looking for new tech that helps us work at scale. Experience with these is a big plus, but if you've never used them before that's fine too, if you're eager to learn. If you write clean, working code, think through problems, and deliver on time, we want to talk to you.
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Sorry, but the director of product vision, who's my boss (as dictated by a complicated blame-shifting matrix of dynamic management) heard 12 years ago that Java is a good language for the kind of things he thinks we're probably building. He even gave us an incomplete UML spec to get started with!
And extremely buggy.
> I take issue with the idea that adding more restrictions improves freedom.

Yes, but that isn't an idea the OP posted, it's an idea that you posted. A discussion of software license types doesn't automatically lead to either a preference for one kind of license over another, or the idea of governmental involvement. Those were things you made up on your own.

> If you want to download possible malware that is your choice.

Both closed and open-source code are susceptible to malware. The issues of licensing and malware are orthogonal. Closed-source code should in principle prevent malware, but it's quite obvious that it doesn't. Open-source, by being visible and readable, should reveal any vulnerabilities and prevent malware, but that doesn't work either, primarily because the more interesting vulnerabilities aren't obvious to someone reading the code.

Which means your argument is just an argument.
Oh, for local apps? Sure, you can do that. file:// doesn't work well though (you can't load textures from it, for example), but you could use a local server.
A game with very stylised graphics will always win over a game with very realistic graphics as far as I'm concerned. If you've got a game with unassuming graphics it's a lot easier to focus on the gameplay.

Alternatively, stylising things _just right_ can get you a lot further in creating a specific atmosphere - games like Limbo work because everything fits together so perfectly.
The imbalance between how much energy the Earth receives (mostly from the sun, but also including terrestrial sources like radioactive decay in the Earth's core) and how much energy it radiates into space.

The number I have in my head -- it's been awhile since I looked it up -- is that the imbalance is about 200 terawatts. For comparison, about 122 petawatts are absorbed from the sun, the Earth's fiery core generates about 45 terawatts, and humans currently produce around 16 terawatts. So the Earth is absorbing hundreds of petawatts, radiating hundreds of petawatts, and the tiny, tiny surplus of 200 terawatts is slowly heating the Earth (mostly the oceans).

Incidentally, this heat gain could be counteracted by dumping about 12 cubic miles of ice into the ocean each day. Antarctica has about 6 million cubic miles of ice, so you'd get a good thousand years out of that strategy.
If you assume the conspiracy involves the Air Traffic Control and fuel handling services at Male Airport, plus any tourists or Maldivians in the two population centres a few hundred metres away, then the theory of them sneaking a massive jet in and out of Male airport without anybody noticing becomes a distinct possibility.
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Ask HN: Chat bot, AI. Any good open sourced references?
Can anyone refer me to good chat bots, open sourced ? I would like to develop a chat bot with my own personality tweaks and don't know how to go about it. Appreciate any pointers.
Political economy and dealer franchise laws
SPDY was an experimental protocol that's only used by evergreen browsers and servers, so there's no need for backwards compatibility.
Be authentic in what you write. Spam mostly sounds the way it does because it's lying to you.
Well I wasn't looking to engage in a battle of baseless statements. I asked if you can elaborate on the 60,000 employees you said his financial company employs.

Medium-size (Icahn is no Goldman or BlackRock), multi-billion dollar hedge funds and private equity groups (and similar) do not have 60,000 employees. Take a quick look reference at how many people Buffett has employed in his offices over the years. The industrial firms he owns stakes in employ lots of people, he didn't start those companies of course, and he doesn't run them.

BlackRock has 11,000 employees with a couple hundred billion in assets. Goldman Sachs has 32,000 employees with $911 billion in assets under management. To name two examples.

I'm willing to bet Icahn's financial company is extremely small in fact and employs very few people relative to the value of its holdings.

What does it matter? Because I'm fascinated by where those 60,000 people are employed.

Who's hating on bankers? Not me. Who said he isn't extremely savvy? Not me. I asked where you got the 60,000 figure, simple.
Their practices are fairly transparent, they show me that they sell my info in a way that I dislike.
If you're in to bitcoin mining at all, you see something like this a lot - 2FA to sign in, and email authentication/confirmation when you want to transfer coins. I also built a site a while ago that used email as 2FA, it worked just fine.

Honestly, I think it's not being used because it's not sexy.
Yes, I agree with highly ideological and would tend to favor conferring patent appeal jurisdiction onto the general courts of appeal, because I think those judges don't experience the same echo chamber. As for concerns about subject matter expertise: we expect federal judges to understand complex RMBS cases, is patent that much harder?
What is wrong with that? The program described in the article is legal.
All you need to know about Clinkle is here: http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/t_ku-xlarge...
IRC does not solve half of the problems all of these products do. Persistence, for starters.
> People seem to be trying to deliberately misunderstand my point.

Welcome to HN :)

Btw, <3 whomever did the fruit loopt video.
Just need some rocks. Well, a lot of them really. http://xkcd.com/505/
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Who on earth made that law? I mean seriously, what rational, feeling human being thinks: "Oral Sex? Ew! No thank you! Best make that illegal!"

There's a world view I can't imagine.
There was a problem with multipools exploiting the 'random' block reward - which wasn't truly random - and getting more coins than they normally would. As of now this has been fixed and the price should go up a bit. Also, in about month time the block reward will halve.
You could lazily evaluate the universe and save some cpu power.
Fair enough, I did not test Google Now for a long period of time, and I would not be able to use it as it is meant because I stopped using smartphones the way they are meant to be used many years ago (circa Nexus One). Now they are just a target platform for work, occasional mp3 player, offline map, emergency travel thingy. What you explain sounds perfectly useful if you already use an smartphone.

That Google is able to give you the information you where going to check anyway is not an small accomplishment and, while a bit creepy or invasive on sensitive data, is an amazing achievement for a search engine (I do not know for "don't be evil", but at least for "the search engine" it makes total sense).

My mind might have associated looking at a smartphone as a depressing feeling, and that would be it (and is wrong). I decided I want to spend time figuring out things by myself, even when that will cost me my own time. The backlight from the screen has something it makes me want to play with it when I am idle. Similar as my laptop at 4 AM in the morning.

What I think might explain this a little bit more, I like to see devices as what they are, hardware that can be used to do stuff. When devices start being life enhancing experiences I am out. What does bother me is that as a developer I am no longer a target for the things I do develop. The moment my 70 y.o. uncle is more connected than I am really speaks for my future in technology as a career.
Yeah this is something that's bothered me for a long time. For awhile I felt bad and tried to focus on doing the whole "side projects" thing, but now I've just come to accept that some people will never hire me, and that's OK.

The fact of the matter is that I have a job where I work on different things and am encouraged to learn. It's not a dream job, I don't "love" what I do, but I like it. The fact of the matter when I get home from my 8 (ok, often 7) hour day, I really don't feel like programming anymore. I feel like curling up on the couch with my girlfriend and watching a movie. Or hanging out with friends, or going for a motorcycle ride. You know, those things that keep you from burning out?

So, at this point I've decided that if someone doesn't want to hire me because my Github profile isn't cool enough, well OK. That tells me that the culture there values work over work/life balance, and I don't want to work there anyway.

I work on side projects when I have to urge to, and rarely does anything worthwhile to anyone but me come out of it. But I'm done feeling guilty about it.
Using a data set to create a function able to produce that data set.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_analysis
My Experience With Mob Programming
Yeah, I was "0.0 Wtf?" Seems very undeserved and comes off as mean.
I think you're still late; a quick look suggests August 1988 is the date you're looking for?
Try a NATO watchstrap. The buckle bit ends up sort of on the side of your wrist rather than right on the bottom. That how it works out on my tiny wrists anyway.
About the last point about generating content, I think it's extremely likely that this leads us down the path of Voxels and Procedural Generation. Both those techniques together would help us at least get a starting point for an environment that's generated from certain chosen parameters, and then the "least effort" becomes modifying that environment for your game needs.

I mean, if you can have a procedurally generated jungle with a huge mountain in the middle and a river cutting through the jungle, all you need to do really is to cut through the mountain for your secret underground base, create a couple of roads, camps and checkpoints and you've got a better remake of FarCry 1 (yeah I'm extrapolating of course but you get the idea).
10,000 Linux servers hit by malware serving tsunami of spam and exploits
3 reasons Microsoft will release Office for the iPad
Simplistically, it seems like this is something that a team could do for themselves using tools like Vagrant (with Packer and/or Ansible), individual user licenses for Sublime Text, and a Github account.

Host the newly created development VM locally, or on AWS, Azure, or DigitalOcean and you're good to go.

Sure, that's a couple of tools and subscriptions (that you'll likely already need/have, even if you use Nitrous.io), but I'm not quite sure I quite get what benefit Nitrous.io would provide over a company-maintained and customizable deployment "solution".

For a team that is starting with a blank-slate, maybe it's a short-cut and easier to maintain?
Well, i imagine radley has seen quite a few shops in his time.
I've been eating Zesty's breakfasts for several weeks now and the overall service quality is dramatically better than any other catering I've seen.
Is Analog the Answer to Cyper Terrorism?
I'm pretty sure 96,000 bits/s vastly overstates the required storage. Common VoIP codecs uses as little as 5,300 bits/s[1] and military communication systems typically only require 2,400 bits/s and can go as low as 600 bits/sec[2]. Note: this is before all the transport overhead.

And this is for live communications. Recorded voice communication can be compressed further. For example the popular G.729 VoIP codec compresses down to something like 1,000 bits/sec in archives from it's normal 8,000 bits/s required during a live call[3]. Although lower bandwidth codecs probably don't compress as much.

Please correct me if I am wrong - not an expert.

[1] http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/voice/voice-qualit...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FNBDT#Voice_compression_using_V...

[3] http://call-recording.tmcnet.com/topics/call-recording/artic...
So I'm not actually advocating writing an ORM just a data mapper. You map from one hash of data extracted form data base to something like a Struct. There's no SQL generation involved.
You are right, copyrights are about copying. Copyright licenses cannot address software patents any more than they can address US export restrictions, trade marks, contracts, or any other international or local laws that might deny you some freedoms. Theo cannot grant you rights to Microsoft's or Cisco's patents. What he can grant you is rights to his code.

Now you can try to "address" software patents e.g. by obligating distributors to grant rights to their patents, but that is a restriction; it might be giving someone more rights, and by the same token is taking more rights away from someone else! More importantly, that would be a restriction imposed by the copyright holder, rather than an external restriction imposed on you by a third entity the copyright holder does not control.

OpenBSD does not want to impose such restrictions on you or anyone else. They make their code free.

You seem to think that OpenBSD or Theo simply disregard patent issues because they hail from Canada. Maybe you should learn about CARP[1][2], or figure out why many of the ports' Makefiles have a line like this:

PERMIT_PACKAGE_CDROM= patents

[1] http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#35
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Address_Redundancy_Prot...
absolutely absolutely this. Patterns don't suck. Implementing patterns in Java sucks. Ruby's got a lot of fantastic things going for it, and duck typing means you don't have all the ceremony of defining and implementing interfaces.
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Haha if we wanted to get acquired by EA, I'm pretty sure that's a good strategy...

"CodeCombat II: Dungeon Keeper"
LOL
For me, the timing could not have been better; I'm to write and present a summary of that paper this week. It's an excellent paper, and while I am probably wrong, it feels like it defines the vocabulary for talking about time in computer systems. The very first episode of Star Trek: DS9 comes to mind; Captain Benjamin Sisco has met an alien species that does not exist in our system of linear time. Sisco cannot explain 'time' to the creature as he sees it as an innate part of communication. It is my belief that he would have a much better chance, had he read this paper.
$4000 is insane for a piece of consumer electronics OR a watch. A watch that expensive is purely status-indicating jewelry.

If all you want to do is tell the time quickly, a $10 quartz watch does the job just fine.

I am sure Vertu or some other ridiculous company will sell you your insane diamond-encrusted titanium penis size signifier with a touch screen and Android Wear integration, but it won't be any more functional than the regular version.
If they'd put a full-bleed screenshot at the very top of the page, it would have looked like part of the page and potentially made the page harder to navigate and understand. In this case, the photo of the screen is used as an illustration of their Kickstarter campaign, not something you're actually meant to look at/understand.
Its a little strange that all of the promo pictures on the site are of male arms. I wonder if it was on oversight or if they really are only going after a male demographic.
Wasn't there something about people actually prefering non-photorealistic renderings more, at least in Google Earth?
Yes I think that's a fair one, which Apple completely owned up to. In fact one of their top executives list his job over it, that's how seriously Apple takes slip ups like that.

How many Google, Samsung, HTC, execs havevlietvyheir jobs over putting out sub par products? Not over losing money or failed business decisions, but purely over the quality of the user experience?
My understanding is that the military radar tracked the plane for hours after the transponder went off. This raises some important questions:

1. How did the military not know this plane disappeared from civilian tracking systems?

2. If they did know, why did they not scramble planes to check what's going on?

3. Why did they withhold for days the fact that the plane changed direction?

The GP is right: some serious WTF going on in Malaysia.
Remove the CEO.

Yes.

Start over.

Scrap it, especially the shitty name that is now a liability.

No one at 22 can lead

False. It's extremely rare to have leadership skills at 22, but not impossible. Joan of Arc died at 19.

especially not one coddled by the Stanford/quasi-ivy/ivy-league system.

It's not about Stanford. It's about the lack of grit and pain. It's also about a broken selection process that happens after college: the VC chickenhawk culture. For more, go here: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/12/14/vc-istan-6-th... .

There are 22-year-olds who can start great companies, but they aren't likely to be found by chickenhawking VCs taking on midlife crisis proteges.
The article is evidence of the capability. And if you look at other leaks you see a clear pattern of them vacuuming up all the data they possibly can.

Then take into consideration their budget and various data centers and it seems that they are capable of doing this at any scale desired.

So they've shown the desire and capability. It's not direct evidence but it's pretty strong.
Why Warren Buffett is wrong on Bitcoin
I just found this super interesting that corporations (General Electric, Apple, Merck, etc...) own entire 16 million address blocks.

Seems like we could easily reallocate half of IPv4 by getting these corporations to sell/give up most of their blocks.
If it's legal, then we need to change the laws.
I had meant to refer to the date RFC 1459 was published. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1459.html
As an former interviewer, I also preferred to give algorithmic problems to candidates, though I avoid the kind of problems that involve practice, such as graph stuff or dynamic programming. The rationale being that developers need to know the basics of CS, since we were into algorithms. With the mention that I didn't want to see perfect solutions, being much more interested in how the candidate approaches the problem.

But yes, I agree - my only problem with real world stuff is that it is hard to come up with a set of 15 mins problems that involve analytical thinking.
> anyone know of a mirror?

http://siyobik.info.gf/main/reference/
CIA/NSA above the law since 1975, long before the Snowden revelations
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Definitely disagree. 'sama has clarified that he meant YC would volunteer to beta test it. Probably the fairest way would be for govt to take applications and select X at random.
There's a book called 'Get Clients Now' which details a step-by-step sales & marketing plan that I found pretty invaluable. I went without nothing for a year or so, and now I get leads every day.
She's an internist, not a surgeon, but my wife has no shortage of simple medical equipment in our home.
It is useful, the controller in this case handles web concerns and translates a HTTP message into a message that is meaningful to application.
Ah OK so you were considering android and Google services together. I assumed they were easily extricable but I've never used android without Google so I suppose that assumption may be incorrect.

That being said, I don't really understand the assumption that Apple would be a good steward of personal data. As someone else alluded to on this thread, it came out _years_ ago that Apple was collecting fine grained location logs and storing them in a fully readable (unencrypted) file on each ios device (and I believe on any computer that the phone was synced to). I can't think of any behavior in Android that's even close to as egregious as that, for me.
lucky you: you have a good memory and/or don't fly very often.
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As a shibe, I always like it when Dogecoin stuff is on hackernews.
>Not me. I asked where you got the 60,000 figure, simple.

Their 10k lists each subsidiary and the number employed:

http://www.ielp.com/sec.cfm?SortOrder=Type%20Ascending&DocTy...

2/3 are employed by Federal Mogul, an automotive parts supplier controlled by IE.
I don't know about that, I bet there is a certain level of pride and being right that motivates him too.

Profit is a measurable of how "right" Carl Icahn is.