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SEEKING WORK, New York, remote work / freelance

I work with HTML5, JavaScript and CSS on the frontend; compiled from Hogan/Handlebars, CoffeeScript and LESS/SASS with Backbone as the logic handler.
For the backend I primarily use Node.js again either built with JavaScript or CoffeeScript. I have also worked with PHP and Django. Components are installed with Npm and Bower, then compiled and minified via Grunt.

I have web experience in many areas dating back to 1996. I also maintain some web applications: Gignal (http://www.gignal.com) with Parse as backend; Konfect (http://www.konfect.com) with Neo4j as database; I have used MySQL since 1998, but primarily uses MongoDB and Redis now.

For more information, please check: http://github.com/webjay | http://twitter.com/webjay | http://www.linkedin.com/in/jfsaxberg

Contact me via jacob@webcom.dk
This is where the original (fairly old) idea is on the wiki:
https://wiki.tox.im/Multiple_Devices

Here is a breakdown of the different ways they are considering on how to implement it:
https://github.com/Quoturnix/ProjectTox-Core/wiki/Multiple-d...
Seems like these would be useful suggestions to add to the respective github pages of those projects. Also, they are open-source, so there's an opportunity there if you have expertise in making UI's accessible.
I'd say that you might not have enough karma to have access to all the features.
I would vote for sex changed female crossdresser.
From wikipedia, it looks like they where not in a capital intensive market. (Also I can't be sure, did they have their own network?).
my guess is that "evidence" (in the form of bullet holes) shows hits on the engines are the least survivable.

(I am only saying that because I was told that the intuitive answer of "armor plate the most struck parts" is wrong.)
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I agree with the author entirely. But I still feel it's important to be able to do computation in your head if just to develop that "number sense". As a physicist, I use computers to do all my real calculations. But when I get the answer that seems wrong, I can mentally do some basic calculations that convince myself the computer-answer I got is probably off by a factor of two, and look for the bug.
For it to be legit, I guess it has to be male, no?
Yeah that's what I mean
The workloads you describe don't involve very much disk writing. The workload of a BTC wallet involves a lot of disk writing.
I think that if you want to understand how ordinary people use math, a good place to start would be by looking at their Excel spreadsheets. Excel is arguably the most widely used tool for computation and even programming. I've seen some impressive spreadsheets for solving complex problems, written by folks with no more than a high school education.

With that said, I'd endorse a move away from solely algorithm based (standardized test based) learning.
Co-ops don't expand as much as privately or publicly held firms because they maximise something approximating profit per worker whereas normal firms maximise straight profits. I think I picked up that argument from Paul Krugman.

r- and K-selection. Companies like Google and Microsoft, which grew large at the cost of culture, are r-selective. Valve and Github, which grow more slowly while maintaining open allocation and cultural health, are K-selective.

It seems impossible, in the long run, to be K-selective if you take venture capital. You're now controlled by people with the attention spans of five-year-olds.
No I have read the story elsewhere, the reasoning is that if they were shot any more they wouldn't have returned at all (hence skewing the statistics). So they can take lots of hits on other spots and come back safely, but not so much on the engine so we protect the engine
Home improvement and woodworking. It is a good change of pace, at work I shuffle bits and like to create new functionality (or improve the performance of existing software); but it isn't tangible. It is nice to look at a vanity or the like and know that you made it, and know what challenges there were along the way; whether it is something simple like getting the drawers to fit properly, a doing a bead on the inside of a flat panel door's frame, or something more complex a bow front. It is intellectually stimulating in a different way than software development.
>I hope it's clear that I love him for who he is no matter what...

Yes, that's very clear. I think considering who his father is, either way, he'll be just fine. I wish you both the best.
Todo. I'm doing some refactoring to make it easier.
> I hypothesise that offloading this brain work to a machine atrophies your cerebral muscles

Personally I think this is a myth and the brain is not like some muscle that needs to be kept in shape with a specific set of exercises. Certainly stimulating the brain has been shown to have positive effects in older people, but it hasn't been proven that there's a difference between learning a new language or playing bridge. And nothing proven was found to prevent Alzheimer.

Generally speaking, offloading computations to a machine allows one to concentrate his gray matter on other things and before we come to a conclusion that this leads to brain atrophy, evidence needs to be presented.
Glenn Greenwald says Germany's NSA investigation is an illusion to keep US happy
Maybe they save the phone numbers to send spam later. Maybe.
Real-World Haskell: Carnival, a Blog Commenting Service
(I'm still not sure that this is on-topic ...)

The Gizmodo article has more information (linked at the bottom): http://gizmodo.com/the-man-who-planted-a-forest-bigger-than-...

Direct Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkZDSqyE1do
> I have deployed 3 RPis as digital signage systems. They work flawlessly for over a year now.

I've got about 15 out for 8 months running OpenELEC. No problems so far.
I don't know if a single choice would throw many people off, but there's certainly software out there where there's a thriving ecosystem built on top of it to reduce its complexity and number of choices. Ffmpeg comes to mind. I've never used it directly, but I've used several apps that wrap over it and provide the user a constrained list of options that are presumably optimized for different scenarios. I then don't have to worry about selecting a set of bad options and wasting time creating and disk space storing bad conversions.
He was asking specifically about newly founded startups, while your answer is about startups in general?
Bullets can be considered almost random in where they will hit, so, if it gets back with lots of holes in the fuselage, it tells you that you can have lots of holes in the fuselage and it still gets back. If almost none return with hits to the engine, then almost every engine hit is bringing down a plane.
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I don't see much difference in the trend depending on age. We do see Node! We just see a lot more Rails.
It is refreshing to find an article with a false title that contains it's own refutation within the first five paragraphs:

"The only career in which a high school graduate can expect to continue to work on [problems with a unique correct answer] is academic research in pure mathematics"

Unfortunately for this article, the premise that mathematics is the same thing as engineering is false.

If an engineering problem does not have a unique solution, its because of complications introduced by the real world. Any engineering problem which can be well-posed as a pure math problem, does of course have a unique solution; as the author concedes.
>Utox seems to be C++ and a GUI framework I didn't look into.

utox is written in C and uses its own toolkit so that it looks the same everywhere. For that reason it will probably never give you the level of accessibility provided by more mature toolkits.
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That's so amazingly corny. I love it.
Trying to view the brain as "just a muscle" is probably simultaneously helpful and misleading in different ways.

But I believe the parent's point was more that what is taught is becoming fundamentally different. If you learn how to add using a calculator are you learning to add or learning how to use a calculator? It's a subtle distinction but in practice the ramifications become important.
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Distributing tasks on tech Startups
So what’s better? To have Phil coding the cloud, Peter coding the database, and Jim getting the design finished? Or maybe we should switch them around?

The common situation is to have technical founders, with studies in computer science or some charisma to learn to code. So it’s not really difficult to distribute tasks.

But then the nontechnical wanted to make his idea happen too. Teamwork is one of the most important things. I don’t mean nontechnical as someone who has studied philosophy, I’m including all engineers who don’t code in web languages.

For example, in our company we’re two. I’m studying Aerospace Engineering and my friend Biotechnology. We’re learning to code Roby on Rails through Michael Hartl’s book, but as we run into the book we find it’s fun the fact you’re creating a twitter clone, but if you want afterwards to create something accepting payments and applying big data, maybe going all to the same hill is not the best idea.

Do you think it’s better so specialize so one works with the design and the database for example and the other the rest?

What is the best distribution for 2-3 founders? What helped you the most when starting your business?

Thanks from Spain!!

Frank
HP Proliant 585 G2 from 2007. It has 4x6 AMD Opterons 8xxx with DDR2 etc. I guess it is no longer cost effective to run those 24/7, but they are still very powerful.

Old CPUs without power savings features are great for testing multi-threaded applications. Modern CPU might decide to switch-off some parts during test, rendering result inconclusive.

This beasts power requirement looks scary, but with some care it runs in ordinary house. I use separate AC circuit usually used for air-conditioning. It is very loud (like hoover). I usually run it about 30 minutes a day.

I work on concurrent Java stuff. Fork-join, CAS, low latency databases etc. I mostly use this machine to verify things I read somewhere. I found that about 60% of things I read about concurrency is wrong. For example messaging (actors) are not really that great compared to well designed threads with locks & CAS.

Right now I want to replace memory allocator with global lock (linearly scales up to 6 cores) with CAS version, which should scale up to 16 cores.
There is a funny story about Gauss from the book Men of Mathematics, in which Gauss asked two of his students to compute a certain infinite series to 30 decimal places. After many days and nights, the students had a disagreement over what number was in the 30th decimal place, so they asked for help. After looking at the calculations for a few seconds, Gauss accurately pointed at the correct answer and went back to what he was doing.
Initialization is language dependent, of course :-)
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That's not the point. PHP is the lingua franca of the server-side as it's by far the most commonly used language and widely understood. Do others exist? Sure. Just as other languages exist. But PHP's the big one.
okay i have thought of dropping out quite a lot but i don't see any people replicating in india anything of the sort of silicon valley guys who dropped out.I understand that india is still in its nascent stage and it will take time for a tech company from india to have a global impact but even then i don't see any dropouts who made a huge impact in tech sector in india.So how can i take such a risk?
Profile your JVM app with Riemann in production
There are a few activities I do but generally I prefer to disconnect from tech and noise so I go for a walk, run, or hike.
Trading houses accept that people are mercenary, which means it's socially acceptable to be that way. The result is that it's much harder for these companies (especially prop shops) to take advantage of their workers.

VC-funded tech, on the other hand, values effeteness and neoteny. You have to pretend to be a "true believer", and that creates enough actual true believers who'll take jobs with terrible terms, and that kills the market. Consequently, you have people working 80-hour weeks for "equity" that is 0.05% of a 60-person company. It's ridiculous.
This is from 2012? It'd be neat to see some in depth follow ups on stuff like this. I'm just now going from proto boards to building schematics and boards, so seeing the evolution and thought process on projects like this can be pretty inspiring.
"SVGAssets is a runtime library for reading SVG files and render them on Texture2D objects."

Neat, but, wouldn't it be awesome to have access to the actual vector data within the SVG as well?

Rasterizing an svg is trivial if the user had easy access to this information... As well as doing all kinds of other really cool stuff with the shapes, lines and curves.

Really cool though.. Good luck!
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It's one of the things I like about legal practice. No outside shareholders, no non-lawyers in the management chain, and every shareholder labors for a living billing hours. I understand the importance of passive investment to the economy, obviously. As an employee, I just prefer not to work in that framework.
Google tips off cops after spotting child abuse images in email
Didn't know about unmode! I checked it out and I like it very much, thanks for sharing!
I play in a local competitive squash league. Best stress reliever I know of.
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I don't think so. Yes, you do get paid more, but you're expected to put in more hours and forced to work within a much more rigid environment with less transparency. Also, throughout finance firms (even among the more tech-saavy ones), the programmers are ostensibly considered second-class to the portfolio managers, and this is reflected in the pay.

So yes, they get paid more, and as a result they may be more a bit more motivated, but there's nothing egalitarian about programmer pay on Wall Street.
Try working with ICANT without capital ;-) effectively the coop did a deal and sold 40%. It in the end didn't work out the first dot com crash an the lack of forward thinking by the coop movement did for us.

You right poptel was an ISP and I think was a small ADMD. I think originally it was in the business of doing software for foundry's

Still at on point all of the members where worth over 1 Mil on paper :-)
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Not the comment author and I wouldn't commit to the idea that co-ops are more efficient, but here's a stab:

1) Coops have different governance structures than traditional businesses. Diffused knowledge, institutional practices, and the legal system itself are oriented toward the dominant paradigm. Given a choice between a traditional business and a co-op that is otherwise equally well-situated, if I'm a profit maximizer I'm going to loan capital to the traditional business, since it's more of a known quantity. I've got no idea of the unknown unknowns that go along with getting involved with a co-op.

2) This goes along with the idea that co-ops are inefficient instead of trying to argue they aren't, but the incentives of a co-op are different than a traditional business. A traditional business will attempt to maximize total profit per unit capital (I think); a co-op will try to maximize something closer to total profit per unit labor. The former will succeed in a capital-poor world, while the latter is better for a labor-poor world.
It depends on what you mean by a math problem. It seems a common idea is: A math problem is a question asking for the set of solutions to some mathematical equation, and only the actual solution is useful.

But I would include all of the following as math problems:
-Prove that some equation actually has solutions
-Find some bounds on solutions to that equation
-How can I compute an approximate solution to that equation?
-How good is that approximation going to be?
-What's a way to try to separate large data sets into clusters?

With regards to the first four: many equations people are interested in simply have no hope of getting a solution you can write down. Simple example: sqrt(2). A more complicated example: solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations.
Hmm .. Wow ..
I have been looking for some project to build,can you suggest something which can be really useful ?
Web development would be cool!
What about the rest of the article? The conversations between Blair and Putin, etc.
Flapping happens due to the child's need for stimming. As the child grows, the nervous system matures and he'll feel less and less the need for it. Plus we all do it in one form or another, even if what we do is more socially acceptable - like nail bitting or gum chewing.
But only the ones at the top get to be partners the support and paralegal staff doing get nothing from the partnership.
"Photos" isn't just one category. Snapshot photography with smartphones is the biggest part of photography now. Social networks are the center of the snapshot photography universe. This is not going to change that.

A place to store and share serious photos, where they don't get automatically "awesome" or transcoded is a different thing. In the next couple of years prosumer cameras are going to lay siege to the last bastions of professional gear and the amount of high-resolution images that could be printed and that merit some digital darkroom work is going to go way up. That's enough reason for Google to get serious about photographers who are equipped to be serious.

But, on top of all that, Android is getting serious photo APIs that will enable Android to be used in prosumer and pro photo gear. You can already buy a Samsung Google-logo (i.e. it has Google's proprietary apps) Android mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera.

Google+ can be a gateway to a presentation that's appropriate to high quality camera images. But this category of photography needs its own specialized set of capabilities, storage, and possibly pricing.
24 hour stats: 143 resume downloads, 0 emails. Time to revise the resume.
Procedural, if you like -- the linked example uses a hard-coded sequencer to play the notes.

But this ought to be fun to mess with.
Are you suggesting that with enough karma one can down-vote a submission? I certainly don't have enough karma yet.
I think its more egalitarian than SV if only because if your working in that area your probably take a more realistic view of your value.

And what about all that unpaid OT that SV companies expect?
Your comment is a little unfocused at the moment. You should decide whether it's more important for you to accuse openbsd of having a chaotic development process, or to tell Ted you don't think he's cool. Then you should focus on a single point instead of general whining.
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I kinda agree with you, but there are counter-examples. For eg: Grothendieck.

> One striking characteristic of Grothendieck’s mode of thinking is that it seemed to rely so little on examples. This can be seen in the legend of the so-called “Grothendieck prime”. In a mathematical conversation, someone suggested to Grothendieck that they should consider a particular prime number. “You mean an actual number?” Grothendieck asked. The other person replied, yes, an actual prime number. Grothendieck suggested, “All right, take 57.”

( taken form http://www.ams.org/notices/200410/fea-grothendieck-part2.pdf )

Btw, 57 is now jocularly referred to as the "Grothendieck prime".
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Same as they have when workers don't own the company: siphoning money into their own pockets.
How would you like me to give you the best one? Wine first, delay, then meal? Wine then meal with no delay? Drinks and chicken brought together on a tray?

Cutlery wrapped in a serviette or not? Chicken with sauce or sauce in a jug? Chicken covered in sauce, or with some on it, or with the sauce around it? What temperature sauce?
How would you like the plate rotated - chicken towards you, or veg towards you? What kind of veg? How big?

Decisions are fractal, everywhere you look there are potentially huge numbers of decisions that someone, somewhere, might plausibly care about, but most people don't.

Beyond where you don't have a strong opinion (I guess one chicken option might be better, but I don't know which) and your confidence drops, you climb back up to a place where you have a strong opinion again and your opinion is "it doesn't matter [to me]", and from there onwards it's not a matter of "I don't know which to chose" it's a matter of "STOP WASTING MY LIFE WITH THIS POINTLESS NONSENSE".

I suspect that the internet puts people on both sides of this gap together, far more often, more quickly, and with less structure, than previous human history has.
That does not mean he did some tedious calculation fast. It is more likely that he understood some special property of those series to determine which number is incorrect.
Since the HN community does not necessarily represent the target market for the ideas you mentioned (except, maybe the Business Naming app), you won't get usable data by polling the wrong audience. If you're interested in generating income for your effort, you'll need to know how to sell the product — and to whom — to help inform what to build.
The challenge is to decide what you would want it to say in the case of, say, "14-59/15". Do you want it to list all the possibilities? That becomes tedious if you have something like 2-57/2. Do you want to try to create a more direct plain English parse?

14-59/15 - Every 15th minute starting with the 14th
up to and including the 59th.

2-57/2 - Every 2nd minutes starting with the 2nd
up to and including the 56th.

A choice needs to be made - the direct plain English parse is quite long, and not always easy to read.
Pretty sure this is wrong. For example, in poker, what separates the good players from the suckers is how good you are at making these tough calls. Bad players flip coins, good players use all the information available.
Are you actually based near Old Street? Would love to meet you for lunch some time, I'm at Google Campus every Friday.
Who exactly are these "known contributors", and why did they have access to this data? Why did they not report the problem earlier?

And if it was downloaded "mostly" by "known contributors", who was involved with the rest of the detected downloads?