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SEEKING WORK - Remote (based in Spain and Romania)

We're Vuzum, a boutique digital studio focused on delivering great experiences. We are a team of 20+ developers and digital artists spread across two offices, in Spain and Romania.

We believe in delivering a quality service, in being direct, in transparent pricing and openness. We approach each project with the scope of delivering high quality for each pixel we put on screen.

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Below are some of the latest projects we did:

* US Navy Digital Signage: http://www.vuzum.com/work/project/us-navy-signage

* Camron: http://camronpr.com/

* Radian: http://www.radianboston.com/

* 1407: http://1407bway.com/

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We're building small to large scale projects using up to date technologies and PASSION AS A SERVICE. Find out more and get in touch at www.vuzum.com.
It looks very nice but why would I want documentation on my phone/tablet? Documentation like that is something I usually use when trying to find a solution for a very specific problem more than "generic reading" and in that case I will be in front of a PC. Best of luck.
HN, 1492. Christopher Columbus discovers America.
HN user comment : pretty misleading title, large parts of America are most probably not discovered yet.
Joke aside, I've seen far worse titles than this one.
Thanks for the feedback and good wishes. I agree that "generic reading" isn't the usual use case for this particular app. However we've found that a lot of people actually do want a mobile docs browser after their (great) experience with Dash on Mac.
Did you click on the link: https://www.facebook.com/zuck/friends?and=ChrisHughes

I can see 61 mutual friends, who are Mark's friends.
Stakeholders rally behind new U.S. rocket engine
Switzerland is not a direct democracy. No country is. Some have more democratic processes, at the extreme ends being Switzerland, Finland, and I suppose Germany, while at the other end, with least democratic processes being US among others. US has great constitution/rights, terrible democratic system.
I've seen this before here: http://www.jsfuck.com/.

It's nice that this guy actually explains how it works
My Dad is My Hero
9 years old Ocean Peace Silva from the group Silva performs "My Dad Is My Hero" which is dedicated to fathers all over the world who love and care for their children.
Runnable – jsfiddle for everything
114 friends here: https://www.facebook.com/zuck/friends?and=aaron
Another one in India http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jharia#Coal_field_fire
They could also route some Tor traffic from their community project.
I suddenly came across this on google (pos 2) when searching for a simple cropping example with jquery + carrierwave.

Looks pretty cool!
I sense optimism in that number...
Working alongside 2 or 3 other coworkers isn't really the same thing as an open-office though. At the moment I'm sitting in an office of approximately 30+ people. Working on my own in this environment is annoying. Working with my team (2-3 other people) is also annoying, as we can't speak without being overheard. And I'm sure when we're working as a team, and conversing a lot, we'll be annoying others who require some quiet.

A private office doesn't mean you have to work on your own, it just means you have the option to.
Yeah, the article doesn't mention it but it is likely that you could run Stockfish on a smartphone or so to get good moves without any form of connectivity. (The main problem, I suppose, would be that you would have to feed it the other player's moves somehow, whereas with connected devices someone else can do it for you.)
I don't know Dash so I can really judge but I am sure they will be happy with this one than.

I find it interesting that you are based in Croatia. How was your experience of setting up the company?
Reminds me of Firesheep. Simple side-jacking implemented as a Firefox extension with a real simple GUI. I recall that this prompted so many websites to migrate to HTTPS.
> Compare that to the $1 million fine, 35 years in prison (followed by 3 years of supervised release) Aaron Swartz was facing

Swartz was NOT facing anywhere near 35 years in prison. He was facing, if he went to trail and lost on all charges, and the court decided that he had caused a large amount of monetary damage, around 7 years. If he had taken the plea bargain that was on the table, he was facing a few months.

Prior discussion with more detail: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7004640
On Win, try [Win + Right/Left Arrow], or [Win + Shift + Right/Left Arrow]
SEEKING WORK -- remote (or Seattle/Portland)

Just want a banana, and end up getting the gorilla and jungle too? My experience will help you define your business needs, and come up with the right solution to fit your requirements.

Full-Stack Developer. Front end development in Angular, responsive HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript, and RESTful APIs built with PHP or Node.js on the server. Emphasis on a strong design to build projects that are simple and attractive.

Specializing in iOS and Android apps built with Cordova/PhoneGap that work beautifully on different screen sizes and devices. Newly added Ionic skills to the toolbelt.

20+ years professional software developer, 15+ years freelance

app website: http://imagenuity.com

http://github.com/jimbergman

http://codepen.com/jimbergman

http://stackoverflow.com/users/1678813/jim-bergman

more examples of work http://jimbergman.net

Let's discuss your project - contact: jim at jimbergman.net or http://jimbergman.net/
Sure did. At least for me it's about identifying the error to the editor especially in the case of a business selling a product and trying to cast a sense of professionalism. Spelling like that just taints their image IMHO.
Dash: http://kapeli.com/dash

Personally, I never had a problem with setting up the company, but I know many who did. Unfortunately, it is after the fact that the troubles start with various conflicting things and bureaucracy. Not panicking tho, every problem is here to be solved :)
Do Porn Watchers Have Smaller Brain?
Plan9 now has Linux emulation. 3 different web browsers, it runs qemu

see also 9front, a plan9 fork with stuff included that's not been blessed by the Labs (which is just Jim & Geoff nowadays I think).
Yes, it is dreamy.

Going back to other environments is like going back to stone tools.
> The name of the setting is "Who can see my friend list"

And the answer is "anybody" - if they just take a minimal amount of time and effort to piece it together.

The setting is giving the sense that the friend list will not be accessible, which is a false implication.

Facebook's use of language is misleading (IMO deliberately), and has significant privacy consequences.
Funny. Whenever I see a motorcycle, it's being driven recklessly and dangerously. So from my point of view, if you want to make roads safer, get rid of motorcycles first.
There is definitely a need for better working environments.

This small table with a wool shell looks nice, and the idea could (with heavy modification) be used to create long benches of private working space where noise and visual distraction is reduced and people are not boxed into cubicles.

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/13088/gamfratesi...
Iron-Chromium Flow Battery Aims to Replace Gas Plants
Would love to see this contract, could you post an anonymous version online somewhere?
The part that is completely missing in that article - and could be interesting to people from outside from germany - is that this shouldn't be necessary if you follow the official worldview. The ISPs are obliged to provide High-Speed Internet to the whole of Germany, but the government is not forcing them to do that, instead letting them promise and promise again to make that happen.

They do it somewhat with LTE, which they have to roll out first in rural areas before being allowed to go into the big cities (where the money is). But in the DSL-market, where there is no such force applied, they simply don't do it. Promises are worth nothing and the market doesn't succeed in providing basic infrastructure.
Well all I discovered is I have 0 mutual friends with Mark Zuckerberg, so now I feel even less important than usual, lol.
Sure, but forcing cheaters to rate-limit their improvements to within reasonable limits would already be a huge win for the detecting side, so I'm not sure I'd call it a losing battle. It'd severely limit the utility of cheating, while at the same time forcing a long history of slow improvement which can be scrutinised.

Taken by itself, I'd tend to agree with you. In practice though, I think this can easily swing the balance in favour of the detecting side. Another angle to analyse chess games would be to see the degree to which a player's moves correlate with known chess engines. Over a long term (say, a few dozen tournaments worth of games), this type of evidence would be particularly damning; the types of chess engines which play relatively human-like, yet still are top-tier simply don't exist. Given the difficulty in creating them, and the relative rewards, I wonder if it will ever be practical to cheat.
Well even getting to the 'visionary' stage is an iterative process.

Long before KITT (from Knight Rider) there was Sally:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_(short_story)

And for all I know there could have been earlier examples, that's just the earliest one I'm aware of off the top of my head and perhaps somewhat coincidentally relevant since the oldest car character in the story was created in 2015 which is pretty impressive ball-park estimating (though the cars in the story are general purpose AI, which obviously is still a ways off).

Anyway, there's been lots of other self-driving cars in fiction like Herbie (The Love Bug), though they are generally more "magical" than technical, like KITT and Sally.
This study was discussed at YC:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7815988
Hope they have created another enthusiastic way in wasting GPUs for eye candies.

EDIT: I like eye candies.
Bit of a bummer if you are self taught and don't have a degree.

I see the rigid stratification of German education is still in force.
The movie gives the view that dumber people get more kids compared to smart people. So the world will, after a point, contain more dumb people than smart people because they simply breed more.
I'm always interested to hear opinions from Acme/Sam users. While these "editors" have some unique features, don't you find annoying the lack of basic code completion and syntax highlighting?
So go hang out in other people's offices to regain that experience. Back when I worked in offices I'd do that or have coworkers do that all the time.
Politics: Civilization Style
While the recommendation is in general sound, I don't think the article applies to using ZFS on a workstation. It's about using ZFS as a storage subsystem (of multiple TB size) where data must be kept safe and without errors.

You can still get most of the benefits on a workstation with non-ECC RAM, consider that any other file system would have the same challenge to deal with on non-ECC RAM.

So, as in all things, it's a money/benefits tradeoff: Does the data you're working with warrant spending a ridiculous amount of money?
Interesting! I never really thought about cams as computational devices -- that can compute any "nice enough" function on the circle!
I've often had problem with stabilizing shaky GoPro footage where the footage has geometric distortion, and after the stabilization it gets very noticeable: as the image is panned around, at the edges it appears wavy and flowy.

A workaround for this is to account for geometric distortion when stabilizing. For example, in VirtualDub, use barrel distortion filter to "un-distort" the image, then do the Deshaker pass, then use barrel distortion filter to get the fisheye look back. This is a manual, error prone process, it takes time to get filter parameters right and to make sure no edges come into the view etc. Too much hassle if you want to process many videos.

When stabilization happens in-device, they can tune it for the exact lens used, and they can work on raw video data, before compression. They can also account for rolling shutter and avoid the "jello effect". Plus there is one less post-processing step afterwards. So this has good potential and I'd like to see in-device stabilization in more action cameras too (Sony actioncams do have steady shot, but they also have some other shortcomings--lower max bitrate than GoPro, kind of bulky with the waterproof case).
In case anybody is interested in coming to Berlin, /r/berlin has a helpful FAQ: http://www.reddit.com/r/berlin/wiki/faq
The Mappa Mundi
For those interested, there is also this sub on Reddit...

http://www.reddit.com/r/diydrones
On HN we definitely have a large crowd of leftists/anticapitalists which I find surprising since most hackers I know are libertarians.
Add :

* Scraped website and used the data for some other opportunity
Interesting, especially for its benefits for solar power.

(One sentence sticks out though: ". The company projects it can deliver energy for utilities and other users at a cost of less than $250 per kilowatt hour." This must be a mistake?)
Because modern configuration management tools like Ansible (or Puppet, or Salt, or whatever) allow you to do more things more easily.

Also, because Bash is a particularly horrible language. I have a lot of experience writing bash scripts, and I hate bash.
The title makes it sound like there's something wrong with using HTTP for REST, but the problem described in the article is that some people don't fully use HTTP for REST.

It's totally possible to use status codes properly, but I do see a lot of projects where status codes aren't used (not just for AJAX, but even for regular pages; instead they redirect to the homepage on a 404, for example). The problem here is not using HTTP properly. HTTP suits this purpose perfectly, so ignoring HTTP is a bad idea.
I get a 404 on that link. Can you check it out?
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Edit: found it http://www.designboom.com/design/gamfratesi-the-rewrite-desk...
If you go in the early morning in summer it's surprisingly easy to get shots of major landmarks with noone around. (I've done this in London)
What Plato would Say about Class Definitions
CORS is not a workaround; it's the right way to do it. JSONP is an ugly hack that should be avoided.
.. or C++. He's obviously a very bright guy but not necessarily a coder; there might be a lot of cut and paste in there, code for things that already exist in std, etc etc.
I can deduce a few possibilities from this, thus far:

- Nobody has had any success with the freelancer threads

- Nobody wants to share

- I'm impatient

- All of the above
Out of interest: compared to which other mascots?
Funny how for all the talk about diversity that goes here on HN and on the West Coast, you guys still don't get that it is perfectly okay to not want to be Silicon Valley.

In my opinion, one of the best essays from PG is "Cities and Ambition"[1]. As much as I'm enjoying my time here in Berlin, I still have the feeling that Berlin still doesn't know what to do when it grows up. Much of the hype here is actually the Kreuzberg types who are suffering from some Peter Pan syndrome, and have absolute zero ambition. Yet, even that is better than "if we don't have a plan, let's just mimic San Francisco".

There is no need to turn everywhere into San Francisco. If an European wants to assimilate SV culture, by all means let him/her go to damn Silicon Valley. But Berlin can and should do something else.

[1]: http://paulgraham.com/cities.html
Yes, this article doesn't tell much about the Berlin startup scene, but it really did got me curious about it!
Can some please link or post here a good review of the Berlin scene?
TransferWise is breaking UK privacy laws
Can someone please explain to me how this is not blatantly illlegal:
https://transferwise.com/blog/2014-04/watch-as-banks-admit-to-ripping-you-off-in-these-secret-recordings-video/

Transferwise is secretly recording a private conversation between their representative and a bank representative (which seems to be fine under UK laws), and then sharing it with the public to hear (which is not fine under UK laws, and subjeect to civil or potentially even criminal liability).

Disappointed that this is coming from a company I once respected. They can do better than this.
5 Inexplicable Stellar Mysteries
You can apply, yes, and don't forget to present your formal portfolio and/or business plan, proof of funds to support yourself for the duration, proof of German-equivalent health insurance, and a rental contract on an apartment. I believe you might also need at least a letter from a German company expressing an interest in hiring you as a freelancer. Unfortunately you cannot just show up at the Foreigner's Office, declare yourself a freelancer, and be issued a visa. They're notorious for being sticklers for details but I've not (yet) dealt with them directly.

That said, there's something in the Blue Card arrangement that allows one to come here for up to six months as a "job seeker". I believe that when doing that you need "only" provide evidence of self-support, a place to live, and insurance, that latter IIRC need not be conforming to German standards. Also IIRC this visa is non-renewable.
Those companies also usually pay part in advance. If you read a bit about other freelancers process (even here in HN there is a lot of advice) most will ask for some kind of advance.
This is where 'crowdsourcing' could possibly be taken at its most literal. All those Eiffeltower pictures that every tourist just has to take might contain enough data to allow a complex adaptation of this technique to produce an image without those very tourists.
To be fair it would really be misleading as he wasn't the one who "discovered" America.

>>He was the first person to establish long and meaningful

>>connection with the New World that would eventually tie

>>Europe to the Americas, but it is a misconception that he

>>was the first to “discover” America.

http://sites.psu.edu/mmancini/2012/09/08/1-columbus-was-the-...

Additional source: http://web.dsbn.edu.on.ca/~William.Randall@dsbn.edu.on.ca/FO...
Christine!
To be fair it's the guy behind Heroku which probably was the first company to really democratize the concept of PaaS and in addition to Engine Yard they were of big help in making ruby/rails more popular.

His statement is not wrong and I applaud his unbroken enthusiasm.
> GPUs run at a pretty low clock rate anyway (600Mhz-1100Mhz), should be able to get 300-400Mhz out of an FPGA

An ASIC (GPUs are ASICs) running at 300 MHz can do a lot more per cycle than an FPGA at the same technology node running at the same frequency. A lot. Think order-of-magnitude more.

> The faulty logic elements / LUTs could just be marked as bad and not used.

This will screw up your timing, unless you reserve more setup slack (which in turn hurts the achievable performance).
It's a great innovation, but I still prefer my mechanical gimbal. It offers a lot wider angles and I won't have to crop my footage. When I don't need it I'll just leave off, the reduced weight makes the drone ripping through the skies like a ferrari.
Monsanto hacked – but by who, and why?
167 friends: https://www.facebook.com/zuck/friends?and=aditya
Agreed, the original method seems very inefficient to me. (I think you would want a low-pass filter though? And probably a mode-filter rather than a mean filter?)
"Quality of a man’s sperm depends on how intelligent he is, and vice versa"

I don't think people know what "depends" means anymore. Especially the "vice versa" part.

That means if you improve the quality of your sperm, as a direct consequence you will become more intelligent, which brings forward all kinds of interesting questions, such as do men really think with their balls?
It looks very nice indeed but I wonder why there is .net and not just c#. It might actually be better because this way you can have all the web functions too but might take a bit more for simple things.
Your Wishes Fulfilled
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As a German, I feel very much the same.
Google is building 180 satellites to spread Internet access worldwide
Unless there are other compensating factors, like dumb people having higher mortality rates?
"I've personally had the opposite experience. I'm far more productive in a team environment. In video games my most product times are when an artist and/or designer and I sit together and work together."

A few people working together on a single task is not an open office. In a "real" open office you couldn't actually talk to the artist and designer beyond a few sentences because if you did you would disturb the other 10-20 people within earshot.
ZFS is perfect for home NAS. That article is talking more about business / enterprise usage so obviously mentions on the horror stories of consumer-grade hardware. But in all practicality running ZFS over a bunch of WD-Reds with non-ECC RAM is fine for home use (given how much worse the alternatives are).

Just remember to keep back ups. It doesn't matter how good you might think your storage array is; always make back ups.
A sample fixed price agile contract:

http://www.coactivate.org/projects/agile-contracts/sample-fi...

Innovative clause for early delivery encourages client to say you're done before you hit cap.
Well, the Center of Libertarian Culture near my home is anti-capitalist :)
Please! Not that horrible, horrid poop called XML. Keep it away from my beloved deployment/management tool. The world has plenty of other bloated packages that will gladly not care if they are bogged down with XML, just leave ansible alone!

I have a visceral hatred, a la Erik Naggum, towards XML. His arguments against XML capture a lot of my feelings, so I won't rehash them here.
KDE dragon, Tux, FreeBSD demon (old one).
Anyone here not ever work in an open-office since professional employment? I was going to say that I had never had an office, including my stints in food service and construction...and I had never even had a real cubicle, i.e. partitions where I couldn't see the person across from me.

But that's not true...I had about a year in the "dungeon" when I was moved to my newspaper's online multimedia team, in a windowless basement...by then I already had the habit of surfing the Internet, but I did manage to learn enough PHP and MySQL to build a crime-mapping site and do other data projects, and even do things like get Drupal working (which ended up not being very useful, but still, my first web framework).
Clojure Gotchas
Yeah dude, who could expect than in article titled "My journey blablabla" he talked about himself. The Internet police should fine this guy or something.
Sad to hear. You - by any chance - don't have any dev experience for plan 9 apps itself do you? Would be interesting to find out how hard 'ui' apps are to build. Incorporating webkit in a 'custom browser' might not be easy; but not undoable.
Cool! If this had python 2 + pygtk .. python 3, gobject introspection + gtk3 it would be awesome, since it's a pain to set people up with these.
This has been foretold by television: Liber8.
Ideally, this should be decided (or configured) by your window manager. But then, I also think that application tabs should be handled by the window manager somehow.
RPGs / Hellfire.