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ClassDojo

FULLTIME in SAN FRANCISCO, CA

ClassDojo is used by over 15mm teachers and students to manage behavior in the classroom, using real time feedback and rewards that can also be shared with parents. We're an edtech startup with funding some of the biggest names in the valley (Jeff Clavier, Ron Conway, General Catalyst, Mitch Kapor...), and we're one of the fastest growing education companies of all time. Last year, we raised an $8.5m series A round led by Shasta Ventures. We're the only non-YC company that Paul Graham has ever invested in.

We've built a product that makes a real difference and gets huge engagement with millions of kids, and we're about to take it to the next level, hopefully with you on board. We have a strong team, an extremely comfortable and relaxed environment and great salary + benefits. If you're a strong hacker who wants to use JavaScript to change the world, apply here:

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https://classdojo.wufoo.com/forms/join-classdojo/

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Or email jobs@classdojo.com. You can read about the work and environment here:

http://www.classdojo.com/jobs

Right now our most important hire is for a visual designer. You will be joining our talented UX/visual designer Monica, and you'll be defining our visual style across web, iOS and Android while working on some exciting features that millions of students, teachers and parents love. We think there's someone out there that will love designing an amazing product that makes teachers lives easier and improves lifetime outcomes for kids.
If you are a great designer with some product experience, get in touch below - we think it will be the best move you ever make!

Apply here:

https://classdojo.wufoo.com/forms/join-classdojo/
The original:

http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/the-canadian-government-has-f...
Boltzmann machine
Me too (they are in closed beta, at the moment, as far as I know). But I have to admit that I don't appreciate hemlis: a solution like TextSecure, i.e. allowing federation, looks better to me.
I just meant in order to find some more sites! There are quite a few this month I don't think you have...
> You can't not lose weight if you burn more calories than you eat.

True. However, you can eat less and not lose weight, or eat more and not gain weight, because while Calories Consumed = Calories Stored + Calories Expended, by the laws of thermodynamics, the variables are not independent. If you exercise more, your body acts to try to get you to consume more calories -- and if you don't, by making you not want to expend energy the rest of the day (some studies of kids exercise programs show that the kids become more sedentary the rest of the day). Further, the type of calorie consumed affects the balance of the other side of the equation as well.

20 calories a day is theoretically 40 pounds of fat over 20 years, but nobody can perfectly maintain their caloric input to within exactly 20 calories of maintenance level a day -- our body guides us with signals and changes our metabolism. The arguments about things like fat, carbs, etc. are that the wrong foods mess with these signals and the metabolism in ways that make it substantially harder to stay at a healthy weight or to lose weight.

http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1199154

>Effects of Dietary Composition on Energy Expenditure During Weight-Loss Maintenance

>The results of our study challenge the notion that a calorie is a calorie from a metabolic perspective. During isocaloric feeding following weight loss, REE was 67 kcal/d higher with the very low-carbohydrate diet compared with the low-fat diet. TEE differed by approximately 300 kcal/d between these 2 diets, an effect corresponding with the amount of energy typically expended in 1 hour of moderate-intensity physical activity

>In conclusion, our study demonstrates that commonly consumed diets can affect metabolism and components of the metabolic syndrome in markedly different ways during weight-loss maintenance, independent of energy content. The low-fat diet produced changes in energy expenditure and serum leptin42- 44 that would predict weight regain. In addition, this conventionally recommended diet had unfavorable effects on most of the metabolic syndrome components studied herein. In contrast, the very low-carbohydrate diet had the most beneficial effects on energy expenditure and several metabolic syndrome components, but this restrictive regimen may increase cortisol excretion and CRP.
At some point they'll claim that a private FPV operator interfered with an investigation (their drone gave away to the suspects that they were under surveillance, control frequencies clashed, etc) and then they'll push to ban private ownership.
Google’s new Quality Report will tell you how amazing (or awful) your ISP is
If you actually repeat the speech into the microphone, you can go quite a bit higher.
Thanks for pointing that out; I can't imagine they do. I've fixed the issue, thanks again!
SEEKING WORK - Front-End Developer - Copenhagen, Denmark - Remote or local

I've just launched my own agency, 51ˢᵗ, and am looking for work from the end of June. I've been working as a front-end developer since 2009 both as freelance and as an employee for a successful danish startup for the past 3 years.

I do responsive web design, client-side JavaScript applications, scalable, modular (S)CSS, optimization of existing websites both decreasing page load times and on site performance improvements such as animations. I also work with PHP and Python/Flask.

I'm happy to do both on-site or remote work, and both Europe and US time-zones are fine.

If you're interested feel free to contact me on cr@fiftyfir.st or check out http://fiftyfir.st.
There is no doubt at all about the trial. But as for the arrest, no, no need to bribe anybody to simply execute the sentence.
If you're not sure who he was (I wasn't): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Lake

> Joseph E. Lake, Jr. (b. June 6, 1964 - June 1, 2014) was a science fiction and fantasy writer.

> ...

> Lake publicly revealed his advanced case of colon cancer. He was diagnosed in April 2008, and it then "progressed from a single tumor to metastatic disease affecting the lung and liver, recurring after multiple surgeries and chemotherapy courses." He used crowd funding through YouCaring to pay for whole genome sequencing, towards the "small possibility that the results of such a test...may suggest a treatment path." Eventually, however, Lake succumbed to his illness on June 1, 2014.
I'd hardly call some of those companies start-ups. Take Blinkbox for example, that's backed by a FTSE 100.

On a more serious note, what do other devs feel about working at startups themselves (freelance + perm)? The only I nearly got involved in was folded within 6 months. I'd have potentially been in a very bad situation as a result had I gone through with it.

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I'd do piece meal work. Throw in hours along side my regular job but going full time without a decent golden parachute would worry me.
You can always just select stuff with your mouse and press the delete key. We're writing code, not prose, here. When was the last time you used paragraphs anyway?
I've fixed this with a decent debounce delay. I failed to test the back button, hence the poor UX.

Thanks for checkout it out!
As I've written, there is a core written in C. The ratio of Emacs Lisp vs C is about 80/20. 20% might look rather large at first, but if you keep in mind that Emacs supports a large variety of operating systems (from MS-DOS(!) over Windows, OSX, Linux, *BSD to various other Unix flavors like AIX and Solaris), and also supports various toolkits (like Lucid/Athena and GTK), it actually isn't that much. Most of the C code works as a sort of hardware abstraction layer, providing a common interface to the Lisp layer for handling (bidirectional) display, processes, memory, and so on. Compared to that, the actual Lisp interpreter is tiny.
SEEKING WORK - Cape Town - Remote

Proficient in:
Ruby on Rails
PHP (Laravel)
Javascript (node)
Responsive Design

Helped build MVP for few startups here such as washr.co.za (RoR) or simple CMS websites

flacchio@gmail.com
When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a “viitor”. Not a “emacsitor”. Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!

For the uninitiated: http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
Actually, you can have paredit-style structured editing for whatever languages you want to support. For example, there is a pretty capable structured editing mode for Haskell[1], which has a syntax significantly less regular than s-expressions. (On the other hand, it's still more regular than most languages...)

[1]: https://github.com/chrisdone/structured-haskell-mode
Sweet, I'll pop it the list. Thanks!
Not about the UI and the database
Well, there's vimacs (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=300) which gives you the basic keybindings and modeless editing. I agree though that the vi modes for emacs give you more than the emacs mode for vi.

I started out in Emacs, used it and customized it for years. Then I decided to see what I was missing in Vim, so I switched entirely for two years. I became very comfortable with that world.

Then I spent about a year in the strange netherworld of viper-mode and vimacs, switching around more or less at random.

Eventually, I landed back in plain emacs for most things and have been there for the last ten years. I have nothing against vim and still use it from time to time, particularly when I'm working on a remote server. I just realized that for me, emacs was at least as capable on every front and seemed to suit my way of working better.
TV Show Silicon Valley Technical Analysis 
I was watching Silicon Valley today and noticed some irregularities in the Hooli employees' work on the Nucleus Project. So naturally, as a normal person, I wrote an IEEE whitepaper and made some MATLAB plots.
SEEKING WORK - Remote

I'm a Ruby developer based in London, looking for contract work to go alongside my part-time work at a successful YC startup and my undergraduate studies.

I love working in Rails, and have particularly outstanding experience building Twilio applications, from whole-company phone systems to small SMS services. I spoke about a cloud-based phone system I built at Twilio's European conference in 2013.

Apart from that, I have plenty of general Ruby experience, working with clients from charities to web hosting companies. I'm not afraid to work in Javascript, HTML5 and CSS3, and am happy to negotiate on price to find an arrangement that works for you.

https://github.com/timrogers http://timrogers.co.uk/portfolio

Think I can help? Drop me a line at me@timrogers.co.uk.
SpaceX's first manned spacecraft can carry seven passengers to the ISS and back
"I'd consider dropping out if my science teacher couldn't distinguish correlation and causation in their paper."

Are you arguing that higher grades might be causing femaleness? Interesting theory.
Your profile has no email address. The email field doesn't show publicly, so it needs to also be in about field.
Firefly - London, UK http://fireflysolutions.co.uk/join-our-team/jobs/junior-deve...

Firefly is a tool for schools to make it simple for students, teachers and parents to create, share and learn. We're small (~30 people), which means we can stay close to our clients and develop and improve our products very quickly to meet their needs. It also means you'll get great exposure to all of the things that go on in a fast growing business, and have a chance to have a big impact very quickly. We're also quite a close-knit team, so we're keen to find somebody with good social skills who would enjoy and thrive in this environment.

We’re looking for a junior back end web developer to join our growing development team. Development deals with expanding the functionality of Firefly, as well as providing support for the existing areas of the product. Previous experience in real world web development; familiarity with databases, mobile development and other school systems are helpful but not necessary.

We're looking for someone who is:

• A keen and efficient problem solver
• Independent in their work
• Able to locate and fix problems in existing code
• A good team player to work with other members of the team and work alongside
our support team when necessary
• Good with time management
• Happy to take on responsibilities
• A logical thinker
• A good communicator – within the team and with other areas of the business

Knowledge of any of these would also help:

• Microsoft development technologies (especially C# and ASP.NET)
• Mobile app development (iOS or Android)
• Linux, PHP and scripting
• Experience in the education sector

Most importantly, we're looking for someone friendly, enthusiastic and good at picking up new skills quickly.

Salary would be competitive and depend on experience. All of the Firefly team also participate in a yearly bonus scheme based on the success of the business and their contribution. We're committed to your own professional development, so we offer a flexible training budget for you to spend on attending courses or other events.

Apply online at http://fireflysolutions.co.uk/join-our-team/jobs/junior-deve... or please drop me an e-mail with any questions at robin+hn1406@fireflysolutions.co.uk.
Apportable (YC W2011) - San Francisco, CA http://apportable.theresumator.com/apply

Apportable is a 3 year old company. The Apportable SDK automatically converts iOS applications to Android, without extensive changes to the original codebase. Optimized for performance, Apportable cross-compiles the Objective-C code to machine code that runs directly on the Android device’s processor, as opposed to translating the app to Java or running a virtual machine.

With Apportable, developers can use the best tools (Objective-C and Xcode), seamlessly maintain app parity, focus on feature development instead of rewriting a second codebase, and reduce time-to-market or launch simultaneously! Not only that, games that run Objective-C on Android will normally perform better than an equivalent Java version.

Release Manager; Mobile Games: http://apportable.theresumator.com/apply/aHb8Ny/Release-Mana...

Software Engineer; Graphics: http://apportable.theresumator.com/apply/pwWHvV/Software-Eng...

Software Engineer; Mobile Consultant: http://apportable.theresumator.com/apply/rSj3z6/Software-Eng...

Software Engineer; SDK Platform: http://apportable.theresumator.com/apply/AXsBPW/Software-Eng...

Project Manager: http://apportable.theresumator.com/apply/mDx3Ep/Project-Mana...
Maybe that feature actually took 300 "real" commits to finish. Squashing good commits also makes bisect hard because while yes it's easier to find the right commit, that commit now has conflated functionality which makes tracking down the issue within it harder.
Rinse - San Francisco, CA https://www.rinse.com

Despite the negative press recently, Laundry and Dry Cleaning really are problems that would benefit from today's technical prowess. Modernizing laundry has real environmental benefits to water usage, not to mention the convenience factor of a delivery service. As humanity becomes more and more urban and less and less likely to have space for a personal washer and dryer, demand for efficient laundry service is growing.

Rinse needs to tackle interesting technical challenges as well. Of course, the routing problem as popularized by the Traveling Salesman Problem (except with multiple, load-balanced agents) is a challenge, but since we are also taking photos of the clothes we process, there are interesting data mining, machine learning, and image processing applications as well. This is in addition to the joys of rapidly scaling an operational system, while continually optimizing a consumer-facing product.

We're looking for skilled developers of all types to join us. Since we haven't taken any VC yet, this is a chance to earn a significant equity stake (while still earning a competitive salary). We're a Python/Django/Heroku/AWS/PostGIS/Backbone/Sass shop currently, but since we're small, there are opportunities to steer us technically as well.

More information at https://www.rinse.com/careers/ or just contact us at jobs@rinse.com
And that understands the difference between Java and Java script! :)
> Their problem is a lack of logical thinking.

If you're trying to equate the psychological impact of things like 9/11 to the equivalent number of coal deaths or traffic accidents then I'm not sure the lack of logical thinking is limited to them.

Treating humans like they should be Vulcans is one of the most illogical things of all. People are not Vulcans, and any systematic policy that fails to take that into account is doomed to failure.
If running TPB was such a lucrative activity as you assume, why would they hand TPB over to the Pirate Party to run? If you watch the movie (TPB AFK), you'll surely get that they weren't in it for the money, and that they don't even know if they made some money out of it.
SEEKING WORK - Remote or periodical onsite. Based in Georgia, Europe.

Experienced C++ engineer with a diverse background, including systems programming and rich cross-platform software development.

Interested in projects involving:

C++, C, Go (Golang), Erlang, Prolog, Haskell

Games, AI; Systems programming; Complex desktop or server systems; wxWidgets, Qt; Mobile apps; Logic and functional programming; Compilers/Interpreters/semantics

github: https://github.com/zura-kh

E-mail: zura.jobs 'at gmail.com
SEEKING WORK -- REMOTE or Cologne, Germany

Developer & Designer

http://mygnu.com
Oooo, good thinking! I'll have a butcher's...
Just an aside...

>>> Like any group of people given a metric they will try to game it.

Reminds me of Paul Graham's interview question: Have you ever hacked something that wasn't a computer?
Excessively long data is a cornerstone of security vulnerabilities.

> I wonder if excessively long session id values can break something else as well?

Yes, with p~=1.
I'd like one message to come across to all child-prodigies and precocious geniuses: You're not a "rare natural resource", "human capital" or any other such demeaning term. You're not responsible for solving ANY of the world's problems: you don't have to cure cancer or AIDS, you don't have to extinguish poverty, you don't have to solve the energy crisis. It's jut not your problem if you don't WANT it to be. Do what YOU ENJOY and LIKE, forget about other people's problems, forget even about the problems of your future selves! And do take advantage of you "special" or "celebrity" status, use it to get money and any unfair benefits you can get and waste them having fun. You're human beings and you are only supposed to live for your own enjoyment! If you enjoy helping others or solving the world's problems, do so. If not, fuck it all and just have fun!
See also: The Opa Framework at http://opalang.org/.

(Comparison on http://www.impredicative.com/ur/opa/.)
> why are you making a joke out of one of the most serious loopholes in the whole system?

Because the rulings are not secret. They just happen to not be public, like many other court rulings that the people are perfectly fine with accepting.
In this particular case, I think that's about right: The RIAA/MPAA publishers should consider Pirate Bay disreputable and everyone else can make up their own mind whether to do business with them or not. That's how GPL violations work in practice.

That's about how O'Reilly views people posting downloads of O'Reilly authors' books. That's why they don't use content protection on the e-books they sell. Content protection mechanisms are poisoning computing.
I understand. Which ad do you think is too distracting, the interstitial after pressing the send button, or the banner at the home screen?
This looks awesome! Great work and thanks for sharing!
While it's definitely possible to re-write commits, a reasonably strong protection against this is to treat a force-pull of master as a stop-the-world-and-figure-out-what-the-hell-happened type of catastrophe.
TCP does that and that's why latency is important. If latency is low the optimum TCP window will be bigger hence less ACKs need to be sent :)
SEEKING WORK - Remote from Omaha, Nebraska, USA

I creating reliable software by using safe languages as much I can with high test coverage and excellent documentation. A current project is a standards-based, web front-end and associated back-end code for a call center contact management system written in Ada, adding new features and updating and rewriting existing code. Also, create a complete RESTful API and more modern, more extensible interface from the ground up.

I've developed solutions in many languages on both front- and back-ends using languages like Ada, Java, C and PHP on the back-ends and standards-based HTML, CSS and JavaScript on the front-end using well-known tools like jQuery, Prototype.js, SASS, LESS, Bootstrap and a host more along with custom written tools when necessary.

Recently I converted a display that updates in realtime from a Mozilla technology that never caught on, long-lived HTTP requests, to WebSockets working through bugs in the third party library's implementation and working with the vendor to get them fixed quickly.

@jrdkmbl or send mail to ir0.us mailbox jk
Cool, I only knew two from that list. These sources are surely really useful to follow to keep up with the field. Thank you!
Just noticing: The bus would also drive there if you wouldn't enter it, and assuming the bus isn't full, you're not even costing the public transport company anything.
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wow, these charts really look stylish! Good work :)
I switched to Vim because my left pinky was getting numb, *(thanks vim!) and then to Sublime, and now, Atom, for aesthetic reasons, really. Easier to read, I don't wanna wind up needing glasses. I'm still using the vim packages though.
There was (probably still is, but I haven't been following for a couple decades) debate analogous to vi-vs-emacs among Esperantists, between word formation by composition and calquing (which fits the language's agglutinative core) vs word formation by borrowing.
Life is a marathon, not a sprint: John Lee Dumas, Founder of EntrepreneurOnFire
For simple English (and other major languages), I would assume so. But with all the jargon, nonstandard language, and acronyms that ar used at tech (and other fields to a lesser extent) conferences... I would expect significant decreases in accuracy.