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UBiome seeks front-end web developer
We're looking for an experienced software engineer to join our team!

We're looking for a web developer / software engineer who can help us redesign our website (with the help of a designer), create internal tools, and return microbiome results to our customers.

Needed skills/experience/education:

- Excellent TDD, Python, SQL, and JS skills

- Experience with extremely large data sets

- Flexible and willing to do a broad variety of engineering tasks

- Code projects on GitHub that we can see

- Management or lead tech experience preferred; our team will be growing rapidly and we'd love for you to have experience running a small engineering team

About uBiome

Our mission is using big data to understand the human microbiome. We’re all covered in trillions of bacteria. We help consumers and organizations understand what they are and what they do. We're using tools like machine learning, bioinformatics, crowdsourcing, Illumina Hi-Seq, and robots.

We're a small team located in an awesome space in SoMa, working hard to change the world.

We're located in San Francisco and offer a competitive salary and benefits.
Agreed. Even when you find trivial to exploit bugs, there's quite often not trivial to bypass protections in place. Certainly ways around them, but developing an exploit used to be paint by numbers in comparison.
For the record, the "technique" linked is a 1-line import statement and a one-word tag to box an item as it added to a collection.
this sucks. every time google manages to coerce its for-profit features in firefox i cry a little.
Show HN: SVG rendering engine for Unity
Vardhman Camellias
Sony Says EA Access Offer for Xbox One Isn’t Good Value for PS4 Gamers
A new history of the Apollo moon landings
Matt talking about saving time check http://linkaudit.co.uk (save time dealing with google penalties). Fully automated
Will it have all the cool questions that OKC has? Will it match us with %? Will it be recommendation driven like LinkedIn? Will I be able to swipe left or right to collab or not?

Lots of wild possibilities - depending on the functionality that you decide.
Does Tox have plans to offer telephone numbers so that POTS subscribers can call Tox users?

If not, I don't see how it can be a replacement for Skype.
How this startup got from Crickets Chirping to 60 server RPM
Eric Wong on why Unicorn will not be hosted on GitHub
it's great! isn't it?
Could Ethereum perhaps function as a blind idiot God of the internet?
Dong Nguyen Re-Releases Flappy Bird
The money is sitting on special multisignature address before transaction is resolved. It's a 2 out of 3 address, which means that two signatures are required to move the funds further. The good thing about it is that you can totally skip the escrow party here if buyer and seller agree - they both just sign the transaction and send it to the network. Escrow is needed only in case of a conflict - he would have then to investigate and sign a transaction with either buyer to refund the Bitcoins or to seller to forward them to him as contract described (in a case that buyer disappears for some reason).

This setup has one downside though - if one party sides with the escrow, they could agree to sign a transaction to scam the other party. That's why it is not 100% bulletproof and you have to carefully select your escrow partner so that both parties trust him to an extent.
Related: Tinc open-source VPN with some P2P properties, http://blogs.operationaldynamics.com/andrew/software/researc...
Automate your tinder swipes
How Humans Respond to Robots: Building Public Policy through Good Design
To provide a bit more context, in early 2011 we made a conscious decision to move towards the password storage methods described here : https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAppSec/Secure_Coding_Guidelines

While we were moving in that direction (upgrading apps, etc) we also launched Persona (BrowserID at the time). Some apps opted to switch to Persona, others opted to upgrade password storage mechanisms.
Flexible particle system – How to start with software optimization
Toxic is the name of the CLI client. https://github.com/tox/toxic

I take the opposite perspective though. In nature toxins and poisons are used as protection against predators.
Yes they sure do.

I was referring to the OP's "deprecated" meme.
This article really resonnates with me, having had to choose between two very interesting jobs. It took me 2 weeks to decide and was a really anxious period, whereas without a choice I would have taken either without a second thought.
Stellar account with more than one million stellars
People generally write about Asperger's and autism as points on a spectrum; towards the autism end of that spectrum, people can be incapable of taking care of themselves on a day-to-day basis, which in my opinion (and I think mullingitover's) is the real issue.
This validates something I've suspected for a while: that decisiveness is valuable in and of itself.
I'm sure the zero-conf can be default. But for some custom enterprisy work or projects, having something tunable for eventual consistency is something I would use.
What does this mean? Anyone care to explain?
======= Funded by top investors and lead by Stanford CS Alums, Bitco is democratizing global access to Bitcoin. We’re solving problems not only on the tech and UI/UX front, but also in regulation, fraud, AML policy, etc.

Openings:
- Full Stack Engineer
- Senior Ruby Engineer
- Front-end Engineer/Designer
- Android
- iOS

Info:
- San Francisco Remote-friendly (within US)
- Pls reach out to eric@bitinc.org for more info.

Culture:
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What is the corner frequency of the low-pass filter? It is kind of pointless to use a filter without specifying its corner frequency.

Also, peak detection can be improved a lot by searching for local maxima of the level instead of taking a threshold of the amplitude.

As a scientist of acoustics, I find this approach frustratingly naive. Still, nice write-up!
I want to clarify that I find self-driving cars an amazing engineering achievement and will almost certainly make roads safer. However, I would almost certainly spend the extra 90 minutes a day in a self-driving car catching up on sleep, assuming the auto-drive was reliable enough to not need human oversight in case of emergency. And this doesn't even address the pollution issue from excess driving.

Also, there is plenty of evidence that sitting and driving, instead of walking, affects obesity rates:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/more-time-driving-incr...
That put a smile on my face
Web apps became attractive for three reasons:

1. No deployment/client maintenance cost. The browser was already on every PC by the end of the 90s.

2. Connectivity. Web apps became the new thin clients with most UI coming from server side rendering and as well as data coming from the same servers.

3. Ubiquitous UI. Without getting cynical HTML/CSS is more or less the same on all browsers.

Native apps mitigate the first two advantages and cast the third point as extremely suspect or at least irrelevant.

1. Apple introduced the Mac App Store and wrote brick and mortar software retailers like Best Buy out the equation. Microsoft is scrambling to keep up by moving things that were traditionally licensed via complex enterprise bundles into a la carte offerings like Office 365.

2. Connectivity. As somebody that considers themselves a web dev I really want to see a Net Neutral web win. But with almost all relevant web app activity being powered on the back end by a JSON/XML API the UI is no longer tightly coupled to server side HTML.

Which brings us to point 3, the ubiquitous HTML UI...

Decision makers don't care

If you are a consumer or executive type you want your apps to look like all your other iOS apps. If you are a call center employee working on a web app you have no input into the app you work with anyway. Us web developers aren't doing HTML/CSS any favors by adopting frameworks that attempt to blur the lines between web and native apps like Angular, Ember, or Ionic.

Disclaimer: I would prefer perrylaj is right and I am wrong. I just don't think that will be the case.
This is very true. I made a point to say "the frameworks available for Node.js" above, but I didn't feel like carrying the rest of that language throughout the rest of the comment. Feel free to replace occurrences of "Node.js" with the above language for comparisons to Rails.

Ruby/Node is a pretty fair comparison as far as evaluating "backend server tech". While yes, Ruby is a language and Node is a runtime (thus perhaps making JRuby/Node a more apt comparison), Node.js is far enough removed from client-side Javascript in terms of libraries, knowledge required, etc that I find it pretty easy to compare the two. With Ruby, you find a web framework, supplement with libraries, and code yourself up an app. With Node.js, you do the exact same thing. Good enough for me.
>there are a lot of articles from the newyorker which make the HN top?

There has probably been a higher frequency lately since the New Yorker has gone no-paywall for the summer.
Sounds familiar. I wish the article had some sort of suggestion or hint as to what to do when you're really prone to anxiety. I have several very good options in my life right now and have made a tenative decision on what to do, but I'm finding I'm crippled by anxiety over my decision.
I submit that "anxiety" here could be better defined as: the mental taxation of evaluating the opportunity cost for turning down each of the available alternatives, given a person's position on Maslow's hierarchy of needs
I get lots of junk mail on my address - people who try to open bank accounts, insurance, buying from catalogs, threats for debt collection (from agencies pursuing fraudsters)... So I'd be pretty annoyed if I ended up on a 'blacklist'.

Possibly your service might even be affected by the UK's defamation law.

(Incidentally, Langley Drive is about 15 minutes' walk from me!)
In Dezember 2013, Mozilla MDN switched to their self developed Kuma wiki software (from a hosted wiki solution). An open source wiki software written in Python and using the Django framework. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/Kuma
, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6876636
I haven't looked at the patches, but it seems unlikely that the checks for the fast path will add significant overhead to calls that aren't on the fast path. The fast path work should apply to other programs that use shared memory in the same fashion: large shared memory allocations, without a backing store, accessed by many processes across many processors.

The lock reduction work in the buffer cache and page queues should apply more generally.
It means someone is making a ton of money =D
In California the CHP (California Hwy Patrol) plane has to do the same thing the CHP car would have to do: match your speed and then note its own speed. Measuring time between points is forbidden no matter what the observer's vehicle is. Radar is also used from the ground but was not available to CHP when they started using aircraft. The planes are on the inexpensive side so sometimes they have to dive to achieve the speed. Also recently CHP got to use radar statewide so they don't use aircraft so much.
Not sure why you got down voted. I know Microsoft is open sourcing chunks of .net now. Perhaps that chunk wasn't one of them?
Right now, stellars are being handed out at 5K, if you are willing to give them a facebook login. This person is acquiring 100K/stellars an hour, which equals 20 facebook logins/hour.
There's a very large difference between stealing (looting) and selling at market value (auction).
Now we might see whether it's centralized.
Experienced PM with strong technical (enterprise/mobile) and engineering background

Location: Texas

Remote: OK

Willing to relocate: YES (ideally Palo Alto or SF Bay Area)

Technologies: iOS

Resume: Will email upon request

Email: anandchamarthy@utexas.edu
haha probably. It seems this as if this concept can only take you so far :P
For those who prefer video to text, Barry Schwartz (mentioned in the article) gave an insightful TED talk about this, as has Sheena Iyengar[1] (but I didn't know so haven't watched it... yet). Baba Shiv has an interesting take[2].

[0]: http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_the_paradox_of_ch...

[1]: http://www.ted.com/talks/sheena_iyengar_on_the_art_of_choosi...

[2]: http://www.ted.com/talks/baba_shiv_sometimes_it_s_good_to_gi...
A collection of game controllers from the past 30 years
Cognii - Cambridge, MA

Want to build the "Siri for Education?" Cognii's mission is to transform education with the help of artificial intelligence technologies. We are seeking bright and talented research and development engineers to work on natural language processing and machine learning technologies for educational assessments. You will have the opportunity to work with the experienced team towards developing compelling products and solutions for our growing customer demand.

1. NLP Engineer

You should have experience and background in some of the following areas

- natural language processing
- statistical machine learning
- syntactic and semantic analysis
- large scale data modeling
- information extraction and filtering
- educational technology experience is a plus

2. Back-end Software Engineer

Some of the responsibilities include:

- Design and implement the scalable web service RESTful API
- Data pipeline workflow optimization
- Write different scripts and tools to analyze the usage data logs
- Maintenance and bug-fixes of the system
- Experience with Ruby and Rails

Please send your resume and queries to jobs@cognii.com
This is great! Is there an Android version, and if so, are you OK with me writing a telepresence bot control API for it? (It's just a couple of hooks to a control app, if you're not releaseing source, I can just give you them).
Thanks for the feedback. We will correct them. What you mean sockpuppet account?
Well, proof that someone has a lot of stellars.

He could be gaming the Facebook promotion, or buying them, or stealing them, or _____
Sorry, I don't have a list of others. Australia (.au) stopped showing it to rule out all of those renewal/transfer scams and it has worked really well since.
Knowing the typical Arch/Gentoo tiling WM 8px console font anime wallpaper mindset on /g/, "bloat".
This is one of those pieces of World War II history that I somehow missed. I found the part about the mustard gas particularly shocking -- I hadn't realized the allies had mustard gas munitions ready for deployment, although I guess that shouldn't be surprising in hindsight.
Why would this be hard to spoof?
What's required here?

Multiple Facebook accounts and a quick script?
You can only associate one Facebook profile to a Stellar account.
I am a fullstack engineer, being one and liking what you do are different things. I do not want to write code as a profession. I code because it helps to do my job.

By the way, devops is not system administration. Thus migrating to devops is the same thing as killing the profession.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurosignal
What part of their registration is a positive experience?
I explored the rest of your site. Very nice. What's the difference between the $0.95 document and the $2 direct mail?

I'm definitely interested to see how you guys price the 6x9's. And, also noticed the bulk discounts by paying for monthly/yearly. Very nice.
Ask HN: Facebook down and police complaint. How people think about FB?
I saw a tweet https://twitter.com/LASDBrink/status/495246980075900928 from Sgt. Burton Brink about Facebook shutdown. What people think about facebook? Will they think same manner about Google, Whatsapp and other popular sites.
Please try also to improve the page load time by using a cache, faster hardware, etc.
We are in an age of “refactoring.”
Just a rant, but frankly, I'm tired of all this BS over frameworks, OOP, TDD, design patterns, factory classes, singletons, inheritance, structured data, and generally anything related to "clean code done the right way."

People are getting cult-like over this "clean code" mentality, it's like a fanaticism. The funny thing is, almost all the code I've seen is still spaghetti code, often interconnected within a larger system of more spaghetti-systems, with spaghetti-documentation scattered across the internet and various peoples in an organization.

We're sort of in an age of refactoring, aren't we? We've seen the demise of "messy" languages like PHP or Perl. Swift is a refactor of Objective C. Ruby and Coffeescript are more refactored languages. Plain old javascript just doesn't seem to cut it anymore either - we need framework upon framework, hierarchical trees, patterns, and everything's gotta be object-oriented for some reason.

But you know what...? Real life isn't organized, and just maybe, code doesn't always need to be either. My apartment's not hierarchy-based into neat little tree structures, but it's ok. I know where stuff is, and it's even convenient. My car's got a bunch of junk in it too, and I'm just fine with that.

When I code, especially for myself, sometimes I prefer no structure. Yep, I'll avoid OOP just because it takes me 10 minutes longer to type it all out and I think it makes things more complicated. I don't particularly care about private/public variables, I just make everything public - it saves me time typing the getters and setters. My variable names may be obscure, because I don't want to spend the extra time typing more descriptive names. Code might be messy and not the most efficient solution, but as long as it works, that's just fine with me.

Perhaps 20 years into the future, people will look back on this age of software and think "Why were we so obsessed over making everything OOP and so structured like that?"

Anyway, I think the true soul of programming lies in building stuff and launching. Users don't care how beautiful or elegant code is, that's something that employees/bosses/academics care about.
Wow, I saw his post earlier on the Stellar subreddit and thought he was full of it, but would you look at that. Here's the post:
http://www.reddit.com/r/thestellar/comments/2cebkm/selling_1...

Some people have been offering web consulting services in exchange for stellars, but no details yet on how this guy built his wealth.
> How can you know that? I mean, you seem to be just restating the status quo against this article, but they've provided evidence against it, and you're not providing any evidence for it.

Hi, autistic person here.

I was always relatively high-functioning, in some ways. I was always better than my peers at math and reading, but my social disability was crippling. In retrospect, I had a lot of the standard characteristics--repetitive movements, ADD, obsessive behavior, freaking out if things didn't fit my plans or expectations--but the inability to recognize social cues was the one that caused me the most trouble and pain.

And I fixed it. At some point in middle school, another autistic boy in my special-ed class was really annoying me, and I realized that he was acting exactly the same way I did. I could recognize it in him, but not in myself. So, to gloss over 20 years of effort and practice and failure, I taught myself to see myself as an outside observer, to judge my own behavior--first broadly, and slowly narrowing down to tone, word choice, and body language--as I would judge someone else's.

I'm pretty social these days. Most people don't know I'm autistic unless I tell them (which I do if it comes up; I'm not ashamed of it). A lot of the folks in the article would probably say that my autism had been cured. And they'd be full of shit.

I still obsess over minutae. Properly focused, it can be a genuine joy. It still really, seriously troubles me when plans are changed at the last minute, but most of the time I can take a deep breath and move on. I still stim, but I can suppress it around strangers. And, sometimes, with the right sort of data-analysis problem, I can apply the sort of absolute, crystalline clarity that people normally associate with Rain Man.

I am an autistic person who has learned good coping strategies. So are "B." and Mark Macluskie and Matt Tremblay and the rest. The article repeatedly mentions lingering autistic traits, like Mark's tactile aversions and Matt's flapping, but somehow they don't count. In this mindset, autism is a sickness, and if you're no longer visibly sick then you must not be autistic. That's bullshit. Autism is in the way your mind is shaped. It has good sides and it has bad sides. Some people, with the right treatment and insights, learn how to accentuate the good and minimize the bad. That's not a "cure," it's dealing with life.
Note, this particular user is willing to sell 100K stellars for $200.

Fun times watching a market being made in the early days.... https://forum.stellar.org/t/selling-100-000-stellars/716
Camera counting - every chain store these days has a camera at the front door counting people in and out - seems a well known, commercialised and direct solution.
Reading this I cant understand some people remove there unborn because it is diagnosed with a disorder like down.

Sure life can get difficult but reading your stories it seems that there is no difference between a 'normal' child and one a little different.
When faced with a difficult decision, it probably doesn't matter which choice you take. Emotionally it's difficult to accept this. But logically it's easy:

- If one of the two choices was clearly better, it would be an easy decision

- But it is difficult. Therefore, neither of the two choices is clearly better.

- Therefore, it doesn't matter much which you choose.

This doesn't work for people who feel irrational regret (ie, regretting a decision that turned out badly because of information that was not known at the time of the decision). Yes, irrational regret is very common. But it's just another logical failing that can be overcome.

If you still feel anxiety when forced to choose between two good choices, go visit a third world country.
I wish I could add the 'Samsung Whistle' to this list:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5h411OcttA

Every time I hear it on public transport (never anywhere else) it gives me terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side. I wish this sound to be extinct.

There is also some incoming mail sound on Mapple computers that I am spared at the moment - probably because all the Mapple products near me have upgraded to Zirconium Mountain Frog (or whatever it is) - but that sound seemed against what you would really need for concentration and productivity.

Some of the legacy sounds in this gallery were rather good - the Nokia sound wasn't thrown together, neither was the Windows 95 startup sound.

There are reasons for this, for instance, with Windows 95 'multi-media' was A Big Thing. Before then a sound card wasn't what you would have on a machine used for business porpoises, plus, before plug'n'play, you would have to spend at least a day installing it in such a way you still had some of your 640K free. With Windows 95 and the Altec Lansing speakers that came bundled with your PC It Just Worked.