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PlanGrid is looking for senior JavaScript hackers
PlanGrid (YC W12) is looking for senior javascript and Rails engineers

Want to own a product that’s transforming the construction industry?

Our users are building some of the most amazing construction projects in the world, and our website is their central information point.

As a senior web engineer, you will tackle difficult and interesting challenges for the web. Things like:

- Marking up construction drawings with sophisticated annotations

- Visualizing thousands of user generated data points (like photos and building issues)

- Replacing Excel workflows with simple, powerful tools

PlanGrid is a team of 40 construction engineers, software engineers, and ex-rocket scientists, building intuitive, beautiful tablet apps for construction. We’re reinventing the way builders access information and are looking for an amazing engineer that wants to take the lead role on an app used by over 200,000 construction professionals.

We've been around for three years and we're growing fast. Unlike a lot of early stage startups, we measure our growth in revenue, and it's been exponential since the day we launched.

Learn more about us here: plangrid.com/about

We’re located in the Mission district in San Francisco (5 blocks from BART).

Perks:

- Unlimited vacation

- Construction site tours of cool SF projects using PlanGrid (past tours: Github’s new HQ, Square’s new HQ, 101 Van Ness)

- Monday catered lunches

- Tahoe trips

- Annual company workcation (this year: 2 weeks beachside in Belize)
- Work from home Wednesdays

- Health/dental/vision insurance with zero contributions

- Whatever gear you want (most engineers have a retina MBPs and Apple Thunderbolt displays)

- Free transit pass

Interested? Send your info to: jobs@plangrid.com
Great explanation.

(I am a lawyer, but this is not legal advice!) I would just add that HIPAA does limit what constitutes a permissible disclosure. Without a written authorization, PHI sharing is usually limited to disclosures necessary to provide treatment, seek payment, or operate the healthcare business.
For SIP, I wonder if he tried T.38?
"Exploitation is a foundation of Capitalism"

For every voluntary buyer in capitalism there is a voluntary seller. The NY Times presents this as exploitation.
Crazy people mean what they say, even when it is so bad its unbelievable.
It'll certainly destroy a few if not hundreds or thousands of species. Transoceanic ships will bring strange species, displacing natives. The environmental studies will, among other things, try to model which species will be able to fend off the new competition, but ecologies can be chaotic (in the mathematical sense).
Australian Businesses Getting Hit With A $500 Fee Designed To Kill Solar Power
I got a totally different impression from the post. What I thought of was (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_many_angels_can_dance_on_th...).

In particular:

In modern usage, this question also serves as a
metaphor for wasting time debating topics of no
practical value, or questions whose answers hold
no intellectual consequence.

Python will (or won't) be used for a particular application regardless of whether some contrived test takes 0.158 usec or takes 0.256 usec per iteration.

This sort of misunderstanding comes up so often that there are a plethora of cliches for it. Here's another one: "Missing the forest for the trees.".
Hmmmmm...it's something you'd rather maintain as 4x3 right?
I get a dialog that says "Don't hack" -- must have been fun to watch while it lasted.
wait until you can add captions ahaha I'm already thinking of a few good ones for this gif
Posting once about this was ok, though the ring votes and (especially) the sockpuppet comments were not ok—we penalize and ban those, respectively.

Please don't post about it repeatedly though. Rallying support for a cause is mostly not on topic here.
Workers capacity to fill those desires for people with capital is limited though. At what point does the majority of un-capitaled humanity become irrelevant?
tyty :D
It sells better. People like good-looking food. There are whole businesses built around just that, like Edible Arrangements or GoGoCake.

You can also shape it into something that hasn't been possible before.

http://mocoloco.com/fresh2/assets_c/2013/04/3d_printed_food_...

http://cdn.wonderfulengineering.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/...
> Quote again from the article, did you read it?

Yes, I saw the "shock and awe" soundbytes too. I ignored them. They are irrelevant to the question of whether what is happening is good or whether it should be stopped.

> Price offset gained was greater 1.5 million

What does the scale have to do with any of this?

> Key term here is 'maneuvers'

I'm not interested in who used which loaded term. I am interested in the marginal incentives provided by these trades. Do they point in a direction that benefits society or in a direction that hurts society?

> Their _intent is to ensure they are not signalling_.

If their teams of Ph.Ds had figured out a way to avoid the signaling inherent in the price changes due to supply/demand swings, they wouldn't be wasting their time in a specialized energy firm. Instead, they would be making trillions of dollars by robbing blind every financial institution in the world.

Here's what it looks like to me: The smart PhDs figured out that the energy firm was performing too little maintenance. The energy firm was not willing to employ them to learn this for itself but it was willing to bet against them. The PhDs won and the power company lost.

Justice was not served: although it is good that the PhDs got paid for predicting a problem, it is bad that consumers wound up paying double for the problem. HOWEVER, marginal incentives were corrected. If the trend continues, the incentives will continue to be correct tomorrow, and hopefully the power company will wake up and start paying attention to the predictions so that it can head off problem before they occur. The hypothesis of capitalism is that these incentives to fix the actual physical transmission line problem are more important than the unjust costs conveyed to consumers.
AWHH! Thank you :D.

Sure! I will email you about this :D. Cheers
I am indeed. Happy to answer your questions.
It's dull. I don't think anyone has actually finished it. That's why Orwell spent more time reviewing the photograph on the latest British edition than the book itself. He probably put it down by page 20.
Pinball was more popular with everyone I knew because you could see the whole table. It was fantastic on my friend's giant 21" CRT!

Android wasn't as fun because it scrolled, and you couldn't see anything except a tiny slice where the ball was.
From the Flytenow TOS:

"Flytenow receives an administrative fee of $30 (the “Bulletin Board Fee”) per Enthusiast for each flight."

Interjecting a third party into the agreement is the point at which it starts being a business and not a gentleman's agreement or whatever it should have been.

A bulletin board in an FOB doesn't count because the bulletin board, nor the provider of the board, doesn't make any money off someone putting up a 3x5 card or piece of paper. The bulletin board doesn't actually give a damn about whether anyone accepts the offer or the request, whether money changes hands or not, etc.

I could probably put up an electronic bulletin board for pilots and enthusiasts as long as I had no interest in the offers of, or requests for, flights. I could possibly even charge a yearly or monthly fee for it, as long as it was for access, not about the flights. (I'm guessing on that last bit - the FAA would probably give me squinty looks for a while until they were satisfied I wasn't charging for flights).

But Flytenow had to go putting a per-ride fee on things and that's the moment it because a business transaction.

Their TOS is here: https://flytenow.com/terms

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Really and honestly, without ever having been involved, I'm thinking the existing system of informal agreements and bulletin boards, etc. is way preferable to dealing with Flytenow. They're adding a middleman where no middleman was really needed, except maybe a neighbor who knows a guy who has a plane.
This sent chills down my spine:

"He [Hitler] had crushed the German labor movement and for that the property-owning classes were willing to forgive him almost anything. Both left and right concurred ... that National Socialism was merely a version of Conservatism.

Plus ca change...
He, the author, is saying that characterizing people as desiring struggle (as referenced in the book) is more psychologically sound than characterizing them as seeking pleasure as an end-goal as a hedonistic principle would state.

It's not saying nazism is 'correct' and should be practiced, but rather the way nazis view human psychology is a better model than that of the hedonist.
If you love this kinda stuff, Inner Loops [0] is an excellent book that covers low level performance optimization. And the author Rick Booth handles it in a way that allows the reader to transfer the techniques to new platforms.

I like it so much I buy used copies and give them as gifts.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Inner-Loops-Sourcebook-Software-Develo...
As the article states, this is incorrect.

It could have been converted to 64-bit, but they didn't have the time.
Thank you Paul :D
maybe it was mentioned elsewhere in the series, but it seems like they buried the lede with this story: fractional employees.

as opposed to the post-WWII boom where value and growth were predicated on economies of scale/scope, the value of the sharing economy seems to be predicated on exploiting fractional employment to create a more fluid and continuous labor supply.

technology is enabling an economic shift (arguably an innovation) around labor, where value is derived from the efficiencies of better matching supply to demand as a result of being able to get some fraction of a person's labor capacity. on the other side, labor can mix and match jobs to suit lifestyle needs. unfortunately, power shifts further toward capital, leaving labor earning less.
Besides some text readability issues, I thought the site was perfect for what it's for.
Definitely. At first we wanted to target general audience and then transition into more technical.

It's a little conflicting because I love HN and reddit, so my* general preferences differ from what I think is actually the best transition :3
>Doing so is probably banned in Germany and I am not sure what there is other than kiddie porn or some al-qaeda training manual that you totally would not want in your browsing history.

So, merely reading it transforms you into a monster?
Most people accept the notion that access to things like electricity, road capacity, heating gas and similar commodities are different than other commodities.

It's ridiculous that it is acceptable for the owners of critical infrastructure to stand back and allow easily foreseeable market disruptions to take place. In businesses where meaningful competition exists, doing so puts you out of business. Peak energy demand is very easy to project with great accuracy, there is no excuse for a saturated/failed electrical grid.

Government isn't here to promote capitalism -- it's broad charter is to promote the general welfare if its citizens. Unstable market prices for electricity is a market and governance failure, period.
The annotated version is legal, the unannotated version is illegal.
I think there will be a very robust market for 1950-1980 cars in the coming years.
Ethereum, Maidsafe, Meshnets,??
I want to hear from you all about new models that are or are going to radically change how the internet functions in the next 5 years.
> He was a communist for a long time, then got disenchanted because of Stalin (he wrote 1984 in this period).

This is wrong. It's hard to succinctly characterize Orwell's political views[1], but it's simply incorrect that he was "a communist" for any length of time. An uncharitable reading of your comment might be simply that you think democratic socialism and communism are the same thing, in which case it might be very helpful for you to read some of Orwell's political essays [2] and other non-fiction. 'Homage to Catalonia' is wonderful.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell#Political_views
[2] http://georgeorwellnovels.com/essays/
Result is essentially trying to only be an error-handling technique, its two variants are Ok and Err (less generic than Left/Right). I believe the 'Result' name actually comes from OCaml.

Rust used also to have an isomorphic type called Either, but error handling was found to be by far the most common use of these two types, so it was decided to standardise on a single one with obvious variant names (i.e. it's clear with Ok/Err which one is the error and which one is the real value, while Either requires getting the Left/Right convention right).
If you work in Oregon but live in Washington, you'll still pay OR income tax. Property tax in Washington is higher than Oregon, I think.
I would like to emphasize that "guess_bytes" is not what ftfy is about. It's there for convenience, and because the command-line version can't work without it. But the main "fix_text" function isn't about guessing the encodings of bytes.

Not all text arrives in the form of unmarked bytes. HTTP gives you bytes marked with an encoding. JSON straight up gives you Unicode. Once you have that Unicode, you might notice problems with it like mojibake, and ftfy is designed for fixing that.

Like you say, encoding detection has to be done statistically. That's a great goal for another project (man, I wish chardet could do it), but once statistics get in there, it would be completely impossible to get a false positive rate as low as ftfy has.
Just increase the timeout to 250.
Automation increases the benefits of owning capital over providing labor, in ever growing proportions. The less people are needed to provide labor, and have any resources distributed to them at all, the more fruits accrue solely to capital-holders.
I'm also interested in how you're doing this. I also wanted to do youtube previews for a website and this seems strictly superior to the thumbnails they offer :)

Also, why don't you throw Adsense on this page?
Result makes sense to me: you either have an Ok(value) or an Error(reason). As for the name clashing, types and values have different namespaces, so no worries there.
This doesn't seem like a very well thought out or innovative business model.
uh huh.
A more detailed account of the incidents:

> And there was that pit on Dionisio Pulido’s farm. It had been there a long time. Señora Severina Murillo had played around it as a girl, fifty years before. It was maybe five meters (16 feet) in diameter, and maybe a meter and a half (5 feet) deep. It made strange noises, underground noises, sounds like rocks falling. The kids found it warm, and their sticks never reached the bottom. Storm waters drained through it in the winter, and sometimes there would be a mist, but it was never hot, not so Sr. Pulido noticed. He’d stash his yoke and plow there, sometimes, when he didn’t feel like hauling them all the way back to Parícutin village. He and his brother would sometimes try to fill in the hole, but no matter how much material they threw in to it, they could never fill it. A depression had formed around it the previous August. But no one thought much of it.

Part I: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/rosetta-stones/2013/02/2...

Part II: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/rosetta-stones/2013/02/2...
Are you willing to add a way to easily export to Mediacrush (https://mediacru.sh)? Would be super useful.
The style of archetecture, food, decore, etc. used to be hand made with complex ornate patterns.

Then "modern" (I'm sure there's a more specific term here) came and things that were flat, "same-y", 90 degrees, and facuets that look like this: [1]. Mass production. A reflection of the industrial processes that were developed.

I am curious to see if 3d printing can bring back some of the ornate patterns of old. This time without the hand work.

[1] http://www.homedesignbee.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/mini...
Yes, I have (yay protection of free speech!) and it is dreadfully boring.

It is amazing though how it pretty much spells out exactly what he would end up doing once he took power, in all the horrid detail, and yet some politicians of the time believed that simple appeasement would work...

As someone else here said, the lesson is that crazy people sometimes mean what they say, even when it sounds totally crazy.
You're way off base as it pertains to most of the world.

Having anything about Mein Kampf in your browser history is absolutely zero problem in the US at least.

You could read about Hitler and read his book all day long if you like, nothing will come of it. Not an exaggeration, not a joke.

Mein Kampf can be purchased at just about any major bookstore in the US. Very few people in this country would find it weird or shocking if you read that book. If you proclaim an association with his ideas or the Nazi movement, that's an entirely different matter.
After you call 911, yes.
Parícutin: “Here Is Something New and Strange” – A volcano is born
Excellent job! I love url hacking =). I still frequently type "repeat" after "youtube" in order to loop songs, but I probably wouldn't bother to cut and paste the url into a third party site.
In Australia this is how you used to top-up prepaid phones with a credit card or check your balance. You can probably still use SIM applications to do it now but it seems to be mostly replaced by web portals.
It's begging for captions!
I agree that the article is unclear. Perhaps this is a dubious analogy, but this sounds sort of like Twitter making a bet that their site won't go down in order to fund improvements to the system so that the site won't go down. This would seem to increase the consequences of failure, which is the opposite of what a reasonable engineer should do.

So I understand why financial firms might want to buy these contracts. I don't understand why anyone is selling them. It seems like a big distraction from the energy company's actual business. Don't they have enough incentive to keep the system running already? Shouldn't they be building their own monitoring and models to predict energy supply and demand? It seems like that would provide more useful information than a market, which is noisy and opaque even when it's working properly.
Focker: Cloud Foundry + Docker
Today's bachelor program is the high school of yesteryear. Not optional anymore - and it's the complexity of life which makes you study till you're 22 - when some century ago in 16 you not only learned all you need to learn by studying, you'd already have some serious experience.

Why now, in 2014, one with a B.S. makes about as much despite all that knowledge escapes me as well.
Awesome. I was in the process of that.
Oh cool. I've used BeautifulSoup and UnicodeDammit, but I didn't know the "detwingle" function was in there. I'll take a look at if there's anything I can learn from its heuristic.

You should perhaps take a look at the "sloppy-windows-1252" codec in ftfy, and it may help "detwingle" handle some messier cases. (For example, Python will say 0x81 isn't a valid byte in Windows-1252. It's technically right. But there it is anyway.)
Why didn't they mention ebook beats on "objects"
I wanted to suggest gifyoutu.be, but I guess you've got it already.
I don't think in the context of Spain, at least, the various versions of libertarian socialism saw themselves as that clearly distinguished. POUM had people who described themselves as "communist", "socialist", and "anarchist", some of whom were the same people. They specifically dissociated themselves from the Soviet Union (and more specifically from Stalin), but were largely supportive of some kind of non-authoritarian "socialism" or "communism". I mean the party flag was the red flag with a hammer and sickle!
That art looks next to impossible to paint onto the printed piece. Seems plausible that it could be done during printing. Some of these are really beautiful...
Putin is almost entirely lacking the cult of personality, the movement, around him that Hitler, Mao, Stalin, Lenin, Fidel, etc. all had. He wasn't a revolutionary, he's primarily a gangster, and historically those are relatively short-lived and weak political types. Putin has more in common with Capone than Hitler, he leads a cult of money and theft.

Even Putin's attempts at nationalistic projection have been remarkably pathetic by historical comparison. Putin's dominance of Russia won't leave the mark / impact that other far more dangerous people throughout history have. Stalin would eat Putin for lunch.

I expect Putin to be forced out of office, rather than die in office. If Putin's inner circle wanted him gone, he'd be gone tomorrow. Eventually they'll tire of him.
Who says that democracy has to be 100%? If you want to get technical, we all live in republics anyway, not direct democracies.

I know I am an outlier, but it seems a totally strange and foreign concept to me that one could criticize the UK for being hypocritical in promoting democracy abroad because of the House of Lords.
What's the difference between the two editions? I can't imagine what these added annotations are about that make the book legal. Is it the occasional "Editor's note: genocide is very naughty"?
This is great! Reddit/4chan and what not is gonna abuse the service.

:)
Not wanting something in your browsing history ≠ reading it will turn you into a monster.
A more up-to-date and complete treatment of these exact topics can be found in the recently-published book, _Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning_ (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0674729013/). For those that have already immersed themselves in spaced repetition techniques via Anki, SuperMemo, Mnemosyne, etc., some of the material in the book will be review. But there is a wealth of useful information for both students and lifelong learners. In addition to that, the intertwined, real-life case studies and anecdotes drive home the points. And lest my comments come off like a back-cover endorsement, I will say that I was a bit disappointed that the authors seemed to have little awareness of SRS' momentum on the Internet with the aforementioned programs. For example, even though the book spends quite a bit of time discussing spaced repetition and flashcards, it never once mentions Anki, SuperMemo, or other popular SRS software. Aside from that, it's still an excellent book.
I'd certainly be interested in that.
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OMG! This is awesome! http://the-sugar-lab.com/gallery
At the risk of falling into the "All heatmaps end up generally being a reflection of population density heatmap" pitfall, I'd cite the fashionable argument that education is inversely correlated with happiness, coupled with reasonably recent census data http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer to point out that, with some exceptions, there does seem to be similarities. If anyone has information that would support or refute this, I'd be curious, a brief searching didn't turn up anything solid.
This has been an issue in Python talk selection for several years. One year the PyPy folks didn't have a single accepted talk despite having heroic accomplishments that will greatly affect Python's future. And last year, scientific and numeric talks almost non-existent despite the booming growth of PyData community and the wide adoption of Pandas.

See https://twitter.com/dabeaz/status/413287588426809344

Part of the reason is that there has been an effort to get new people on stage regardless of experience level and to get substantially more women on-stage as well.

See https://us.pycon.org/2015/speaking/cfp/ and https://twitter.com/tarek_ziade/status/455409302912921600

The overall net effect has been positive, making the community more inclusive and giving more stage time to new, fresh talent. The downside is that there is less room for other players (for example, none of the proposed talks from Continuum were accepted).