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Software Engineer - Singapore

Media Pop has been building websites, web apps and mobile apps in Singapore over the last couple of years and we’re looking to expand our team. We’re a group of technically strong full stack developed that primarily work with Python/Django, node.js and Cordova (in that order) on a modern development stack.

Our projects are weeks to months long and together span the full range of modern web development.

We utilize and you will pickup:

* Django, with a plethora of modern tools available to us like Django
rest framework, South and Celery and much more.
* Continuous integration
* Unit tests
* AWS with linux servers running Ubuntu.
* Git/GitHub
* Responsive designs
* Phonegap/Cordova
* Just about anything that relates to HTML5, javascript and css.
* Dozens of API's to Facebook, Instagram and other places.

Initially your responsibilities will be to support our currently ongoing and maintained projects. Over time you will accumulate projects where you'll be the point person by virtue of having done the work last or being the original developer.

It's our goal to nurture any candidate into a full fledged full stack developer that can confidently execute on projects, as well as assist our accounts people and clients in their needs. You'll be given as much responsibility and experience as you're interested take on.

We are willing to solve a visa for the right candidate.

Contact me at kit@mediapop.co
We've had interns come from lots of different programs and stay for different lengths, though most are in the 3-4 month range. That doesn't mean it wouldn't work out if it's outside of that range and it doesn't mean that we're not willing to consider other possibilities, though.

You should definitely feel free to apply and explain your situation!
if switching IM networks was as easy as that, Skype would already be on the way out. We use skype because everyone else uses skype.
The author says that you can't intentionally modify your language to change who you are, but there's not much depth to that section.

I can't help but to wonder if you really can "fake it until you make it". If you force yourself to write in a more "powerful" manner, could that not cause people to perceive you as such and therefore boost your confidence to where you really are that person?
Show HN: Watchman – Execute a command when a file changes
"Mother in Law's Tongue" does well indoors, and is also supposedly good at improving indoor air quality.
This is by far the best article I've read about this study. Thank you for sharing.

What most interested me was this quote about white children. "These children did not inherit college expectations. But they inherited job networks." I can verify this phenomenon using anecdotal evidence, where poor white children are expected to learn their parents' (generally their father's) crafts but not expected to learn anything beyond that.

While my own college-educated parents passed down their respect and appreciation for learning to me, I saw some of my childhood friends' parents pass down their mistrust and apathy towards learning to my friends. I was not surprised when I came back from college one spring break and learned that one of my old friends (white, poor, no college, terrible home life) was currently on the lam for killing a teenager over a drug deal. I was shocked by the fact that I wasn't at all surprised.

What bothers me more is how I can't relate to how hard life must be for this old friend, and especially how hard it is for primarily black children who inherit little but discrimination, through anything but anecdotes. I think this is more "friend guilt" than "white guilt." No one wants to see people they care for, or once cared for, victimized by systems beyond their control.

Therefore, based again on my own anecdotal evidence, I'm glad this study continues to receive attention.
For anyone who's interested in full-screen colored grids, I threw them together in CSS.

Green (horizontal) – http://codepen.io/ChristianBundy/full/iaAcq

Purple (vertical) – http://codepen.io/ChristianBundy/full/moshj/
punchline of what they actually studied: "As for Dr. te Nijenhuis and colleagues, they analyzed the results of 14 intelligence studies conducted between 1884 to 2004, including one by Sir Francis Galton, an English anthropologist and a cousin of Charles Darwin. Each study gauged participants' so-called visual reaction times -- how long it took them to press a button in response to seeing a stimulus. Reaction time reflects a person's mental processing speed, and so is considered an indication of general intelligence."

it seems like a big jump from reaction time to intelligence in any more general sense.
Thanks NASA!
Your bit about confrontational writing reminds me of E-Prime:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
Fair enough, and I agree with Dr. Morrow. My post was more about not confusing "à la carte" kids with mitochondrial DNA manipulation. I have read too many articles that fall into the "blonde, blue eyes and smart kids" category. This law is not about this at all.
No ambition. No goals
Also, you can't be the wolf who sidesteps established authority when you're the CEO. The CEO is the one who makes the policies that the wolves ignore.
Tapjoy - http://home.tapjoy.com/ (San francisco/Boston)

Interested in working in mobile advertising, if any of the jobs look interesting do shoot me an email

http://info.tapjoy.com/about-tapjoy/careers/postings/?depart...
seems like a good project. how is it different from say, mumble? http://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Main_Page
Thanks for applying! Our coordinator was away for a few days last week but I'll pass this on and we'll make sure we get to yours soon.
Urgent security warning that may affect all internet users
Aaaaand... That makes it appropriate how?
How the ancient Egyptians used the binary system for multiplication
Partially related: Here is a Python implementation of Conway's Game Of Life, using numpy.fft

https://github.com/thearn/game-of-life

This advances the game state image through re-expression of the game rules as a convolution filter.
You don't need to run a server.
Location: Europe

Remote: If part-time

Willing to relocate: YES

Technologies: Objective-C, C++, iOS ecosystem, Python, Unix shell, OpenGL, OpenCL...

Resume: Please ask

Email: curiositydev@gmail.com

I’m a young software engineer with experience of building large-scale iOS app that is used by millions of users. I have 2+ years of experience in iOS ecosystem gathered during work in agile team with designers, backend engineers and a product manager.

But more than an iOS developer, I’m a computer scientist (M.Sc.). I love solving problems and playing with data structures. I have fun by implementing neural networks or detecting actions in videos.

If you’re looking for a guy like me, preferably somewhere in Europe (Germany, Switzerland, UK, Ireland, France, Sweden, Norway…), I’d like to hear more. I would also consider moving to US if you’re willing to go through all visa torture. I will relocate.

Contact me with your offer and I’ll send you more info.
Location: Patna, India

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: HTML, CSS, PHP (Yii framework), JavaScript( Ember.js, Node.js, beginner in Angular.js), C, C++, Java (with Spring Framework), Python, MySQL, Scala, ASP.

Resume: http://in.linkedin.com/in/arun13pandey

Email: arun13pandey at gmail dot com

Will graduate in May 2015. (Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering).

Keen on working as a web application developer. Would love an opportunity as a UI/UX developer (beginner).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biophilia_hypothesis
I dunno, because you might learn something?
Last time I tried this, even my tiled floor and the blinds on the windows suddenly had colors. I think it will be triggered by almost every kind of striped pattern.
CypherChat - Software Engineer - REMOTE

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================ Us =================
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We're building a completely frictionless encrypted messaging service.

Our goal is to bring privacy and security to the unsophisticated masses, by targeting users who value those qualities in principle but won't compromise "for-your-grandmother" ease of use. Eventually, we'll be replacing conventional telephony/SMS.

Team:

* Ryan Lester (Washington, DC): Carnegie Mellon, SpaceX, Napster.fm, YC Hacks
* Josh Boehm (Los Angeles): SpaceX, Napster.fm, Baron of the Principality of Sealand

Status:

* Funded
* Pre-launch, but with a working (very alpha) version of the product
* We have a nice office in the DC area, which you'd have the option to work out of

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================ You ================
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You would be our first hire, so you'd get to help establish the company culture and probably end up managing a dev team. Right now, you'd be working directly with the founders.

If you have strong (mobile) UI/UX skills, you'll be a great fit.

Ideally, you'd be willing to start before the end of September (the earlier the better).

We don't care much whether you've already used any of these, but you need to be willing to work with the following technologies:

* JavaScript (okay, you should have at least used this one)
* Titanium (compiles JS/XML to cross-platform native apps; it's hella dope)
* Crossrider (cross-browser extension framework)
* OTR
* XMPP
* WebRTC

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=========== Compensation ============
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We'll pay well. We can negotiate the amount and the equity/cash ratio based on your preferences and qualifications/experience.

If necessary, we may be willing to provide hardware.

Also, any interest in being paid in Bitcoin? (I haven't looked into the recent IRS guidelines on this, so it may be a horrible idea. If you live outside the US, though, this could possibly turn out to be really convenient. I'll talk to our lawyer about it.)

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======= If you're interested ========
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Email me a resume or something at hacker@linux.com.
I'm not actually in charge of the hiring, and I think remote is on a per-team/-candidate basis. We currently have at least a couple remote employees in the UK though, so if you think you'd fill out one of the postings, please do apply!
Yeah I had a writing teacher that informed me that you don't need to write "I think" in front of everything -- that is implicit because you are the author.

"I think" is only for the purposes of softening a statement, which is sometimes (but not always) what you want.

Another tip that I got as a high-schooler was to not use "very" or "extremely". That also "dilutes your prose" (his words, which were apt). That came up in a recent NY Times Book Review. If you put "very" in front of every adjective, you sound like a high school student who hasn't been corrected yet :)
>Still, I expected better from Apple.

Here is another flaw in iPhone. If a person is casting their screen to an Apple TV and must enter their PIN number, the screen will highlight each button press on the TV. No fingers in the way to even block it. Simple solution: don't broadcast this or don't provide screen feedback for entering the PIN.
I don't know what you mean by "industry." I don't think there are many generalizations that hold true between, say, government contractors and internet startups. Also, many companies have their own cultures - deliberately so.
This. It doesn't matter what the tinfoil-hat techies think about privacy. What matters is what our non tech friends do.
If you want to put words in my mouth, I can't stop you.

I never said that software programming is easy.
DIY crowdfunding and Bitcoin (2013)
They weren't real specific (surprise surprise) but quoted the rule that "You may not use the Apple Logo or any other Apple-owned graphic symbol, logo, or icon...."
Genetic diversity is not a problem when your sample population is of 7 billions.
Peace Plants are great for offices: low maintenance, loves flourescent light.
Here is the paper about Dr. Fill that was published in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, if anyone is interested in a far more technical explanation:

https://www.jair.org/media/3437/live-3437-6039-jair.pdf
A lot of these things are already in Dart, which has a much nicer syntax. If they're going to switch from Java, I'd want them to choose Dart.
“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”

-- by social scientist, Herbert A. Simon.

Keeping our phone distraction free will definitely make us attention rich and free us from the information pollution that we're getting used to. If not a distraction free smartphone, we should probably make better decisions about what information we choose to spend our attention on.
It is possible.

Robert Anton Wilson in one or two of his books gives an exercise similar to this - consciously choosing to remove all absolutes from your conversations. Something like never saying "I am tired" but rather "I feel tired" and not saying "That is bad" but rather "That activity has badness in it" or something like that! Edits - it's called E-Prime and mentioned in another comment in this thread.

The point is that it would be possible to do it, but it would be very difficult and initially very strange.
Was anyone else disappointed by that guy? "Please clean up the mess" is basically what he said.
2007 called, and they want their complaints back.
Devil's advocate, but why not rename "Random" to "AlmostRandom" instead, and call "SecureRandom" just "Random"? It's not unreasonable for a lay programmer to expect "random" to be exactly that; though, obviously, non-experts shouldn't be implementing crypto regardless. But since they will, despite everyone's best advice otherwise, why not reduce their chances of introducing bugs?
>> Reaction time reflects a person's mental processing speed, and so is considered an indication of general intelligence.

This is so fallacious it hurts. I guess people who play CoD, StarCraft and other reaction-intensive games are the smartest people on the planet.
It's not so much "waiting until the last minute" as it is "not finding out until the last minute". People should do their research, but on the other hand there's almost no precedent for this sort of thing (you wouldn't expect to need a DUNS number for signing up for Facebook) and people have no reason to think of checking for something like that.
Thank you for the reply! This helps me think about learning in some new ways.
Location: Taipei

Remote: I could do part-time remote

Willing to relocate: within greater China

Technologies: Ruby, ElasticSearch, Go, Cassandra

Resume: Ask me

Email: matthewrudyjacobs@gmail.com
It's not necessarily a bad thing if the soil is covered in mould. At least not for the plant...
Quote: "New evidence has put into doubt the long-standing belief that a deficiency in serotonin - a chemical messenger in the brain - plays a central role in depression."

Let's summarize this issue:

1. Big Pharma has sold billions of dollars' worth of SSRI-based drugs, drugs whose mode of action is to regulate serotonin to control depression. Tl;dr: big influential companies, big sales, a gullible public who think psychiatry is an evidence-based medical field.

2. Studies show that the above drugs do not work for the majority of patients. In a meta-analysis conducted by the FDA that combined the results of published and unpublished studies, "antidepressant medications have reported only modest benefits over placebo treatment, and when unpublished trial data are included, the benefit falls below accepted criteria for clinical significance." Tl;dr: these drugs do not work.

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fj...

3. The linked study shows that serotonin has no clear correlation with depression in an animal model. Tl;dr: because serotonin levels and depression aren't correlated, SSRI drugs could not possibly work.

Guess what effect these studies, this science, is having on the sale of antidepression drugs? None whatever. The reason? Psychiatry and psychology aren't sciences, and (unlike in real medicine) ongoing drug therapies don't hinge on evidence for effectiveness.

This is why the NIMH recently ruled that the DSM, psychiatry and psychology's "bible", may no longer be used as the basis for scientific research proposals -- not surprising, it has no scientific content.

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-rats-of-n-i-m-h

Let the downvotes begin.
While I agree it's an interesting choice of demo images and I would have chosen differently, I really don't care. He could have used gay porn and I still wouldn't care.

It's a fun little project, if you're into electronics, but perhaps not all that useful.
I wonder if Magnus Carlsen will be there.
Dart supports shared memory multi threading?
And, in fact, as any other piece of software.
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I have this[1] closed ecosystem on my desk that I share with a coworker. Best decision ever.

1. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005IZOB5M/
Hi-tech Cars Are Vulnerable for Attacks According to Researchers
I call bull$5*7 on this article.

Explanation: they measured visual response speed and only briefly mentioned the Flynn effect with a "maybe" explanation? Not scientific.
How are these photos "objectified female bodies"?
How far do you want to go? The Javadocs state it plain and clear that this is not cryptographically secure. Is AlmostRandom enough? Maybe we should force people to set an enum? new AlmostRandom(AlmostRandomCertification.YES_I_M_NOT_AN_IDIOT_AND_WONT_USE_THIS_FOR_CRYPTOGRAPHIC_PURPOSES)? You have to draw the line somewhere.
Good point. They're probably too poor to afford to hire someone to do it for them. /s
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Clojure, PostgreSQL, PL/pgSQL, Emacs

Resume: Self-taught programmer. Don't work in a tech company now, though I am using PostgreSQL in my current job. I used Python and PostgreSQL in my previous job.

Projects:
http://courseisland.com/ -- Clojure, PostgreSQL, Foundation CSS, deployed on Arch Linux

http://coderedux.com/poker-bots/play-lizzie -- Poker bot in ClojureScript.

omark -- FOSS marketing, CRM, ERP, and channels management tool written in Python, PostgreSQL, and probably C at a later time. Just starting working on this one. Working on integrating the eBay API.

github profile: https://github.com/dt1/

email: dbtoomey@gmail.com
There's always the implicit thread of strong reprisals (e.g. being blacklisted for life) if you overtly try to trick them rather than just making a mistake.

It would be really easy to just show the reviewers a completely different app from what users see. All you have to do is detect the review process and alter your behavior. This could be something as simple as pinging a server which returns "yes" or "no", and you flip the switch on the server after you pass review.

But nobody does this, because the implied consequences for doing it are not nice.
So it's a Skype that's controlled by hackers?
> What most interested me was this quote about white children. "These children did not inherit college expectations. But they inherited job networks." I can verify this phenomenon using anecdotal evidence, where poor white children are expected to learn their parents' (generally their father's) crafts but not expected to learn anything beyond that.

What a coincidence that I was just re-watching the second season of "The Wire", which focuses on the white side of Baltimore, albeit the low-privileged stevedores. From a scene:

http://www.siliconvalleyfrogs.com/thewire/ep20.html

SOBOTKA: Your son... The oldest one, he goes to what school?

DIBIAGO: Jason's at Princeton.

SOBOTKA: Princeton. And after he graduates he's gonna do, what?

DIBIAGO: Whatever he wants.

SOBOTKA: Right, you sent him to Princeton to do whatever the fuck he wants. You know, back when we was kids, Danny Hay's father stole a case of cognac off a ship. 'Cept when he gets it home, it ain't cognac, it's Tang.

DIBIAGO: Tang?

SOBOTKA: Just invented. TV was saying it's what the astronauts drank on their way to the moon. You drink it, well...

DIBIAGO: You could be an astronaut too.

SOBOTKA: All summer long, that shit was all the hare kids drank, Tang with breakfast, Tang with lunch, Tang when they woke up scared in the middle of the night. What do you think they grew up to be? Stevedores. What the fuck you think? Something tells me Jason Dibiago will grow up and squeeze a buck the way his old man did.
Poker got lucky because it can be televised, giving it a lot of exposure. It combines luck, bets, all-in, you may lose it all in one bet, you can get a lucky hand and still blow it, you can bluff. But the real trick that made it popular was the camera showing each players hands. We knew we could play better than them, we could fold, raise, go all-in from our own houses and lose nothing just having a good time.

Chess can not provide that. Sorry to burst your bubble.

Now if you're looking for another kind of game to hit the jackpot, try dominoes. Four players, seven tiles each, same camera to immerse the viewer in the game, and the same million dollars jackpot.

There you may have a winner.
Justice?
If you want to be really cynical, it's GCHQ wanting a bigger talent pool.
If you've not pulled the plug on your users' workstations, the clients should be perfectly capable of retrying the broken transactions when the database comes back up. There can, of course, be constraints that make this impossible, but sloppy coding making it impossible is more common.
Check out the Up Series if you find this interesting. Video interviews with English kids from age 7 to 56. "Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_Series
The premise you (rightly) reject is misreported -- the actual reason reaction time is being used as a proxy for IQ is that it has been established to have a correlation with IQ, not for the stupid reason reported in the HuffPo article. (Its like whoever wrote that article didn't even read the abstract of the paper its about.)

OTOH, I'm not convinced there is enough of an understanding of that correlation (particularly an understanding of what other factors contribute to reaction time variations and how they have varied over the time in question) to simply assume that it can be treated as invariant in conditions other than those in which the correlation has been studied.
Are there any projects for Swift to JavaScript?
In the UK many software jobs have been outsourced and offshored. The roles of many people onshore have been reduced to "project manager", "analyst" or "consultant".

Of course this isn't true of everyone, but it is of many "mass employers". I just see a disconnect between the reality of the "mass market" software development in the UK and the "mass market" appeal of education programmes like these.

Is that fair ?
What you got are Sea Monkeys http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=sea+monkeys&qpvt=sea+mon...
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It's similar to how computers handle analogue vs. digital data. The court must "quantize" the facts before deciding policy (through restrictions on discovery, on issues to be ruled, on the length of filings, etc.) because it lacks the processing throughput to handle high-fidelity cases in a timely fashion.
From http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/192

> Taking the above into account, the actual expected benefit ends up at around 10% heap reduction. Note that this number is a calculated average based on a wide range of applications. The heap reduction for a specific application could vary significantly both up and down.