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Full-stack web design and development in Ruby (Rails, Sinatra), JS (Ember, other toys), Python (Django, Flask), & PHP (Laravel).

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I've been helping ambitious tech companies craft really excellent stuff for a few years now, from MVPs to UI widgets to new features on massive products. I work fast, communicate constantly, and leave you with clean, highly readable code that holds up well under future development.

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In Germany the cutting edge research is usually done by specific research organisations that do no or only very little teaching such as the Max Planck Institutes, Helmholtz Association, Fraunhofer, etc. Of course, as a student you do not really benefit from that at the undergraduate level - those world-class researchers are usually too busy to teach and leave it to their assistants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6iUm_Cqx2s
Here's a demo they did a while ago. I think it kind of explains what he intends to do with Eve, at least as a concept. On an older blog post he said that it has changed a lot since this demo.
My first introduction to miniKanren was Dan Friedman and Will Byrd's joint presentation at Strange Loop 2012 – what a blast!

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/miniKanren

Byrd's dissertation on miniKanren is an accessible introduction to the concepts involved in relational programming:

http://gradworks.umi.com/33/80/3380156.html
I'd much rather deal with the metal than with category theory.

(I'm not trying to be snarky here, but I've studied category theory and it seems like a whole lot of effort for very little benefit. On the other hand, it's fun to figure out the metal. (Although silicon's not exactly a metal...))
I dropped Dropbox due to the reports of security issues and personal files being scanned. SpiderOak seems to be the best choice at the moment though its application is not nearly as clean (due to a more complex feature set).
Lightweight compile-time evaluation is definitely a weakness of ours. A full-fledged syntax extension can get you pretty far, but those are a terror to write and ugly to import. While I don't know of any proposals in the air at the moment, I expect the developers will treat this with great importance post-1.0.
Hi, eight+ years of using NFS.net.
Support is great, they handle stuff quickly and JDW is also very active in the NFS forums.
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Zalando made their IPO just yesterday. $768M collected and $6.8B market cap.
Are you talking about this?

https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/libstdc%2B%2B-...

Do you know what the time complexity of their merging algorithm is?

As a side note, an optimal merging algorithm is in the paper called "On Optimal and Efficient in Place Merging", and it's too complicated for me to expect it in a standard library implementation. (Although the STL doesn't need to be optimal, I think the sub-optimal linear-time algorithms are also complicated enough to not be used for the standard library, but correct me if I'm wrong.)
Maintaining a consistent linear history for git log --first-parent
And a good example of how a lack of technical knowledge is dangerous. Why would they endorse a product if they weren't sure of it's effectiveness? These are government agencies, and they have access to technical resources that could verify the claims of the salesmen. Imagine firemen handing out smoke detectors (like they often do) without verifying that they actually detect smoke. It would be a catastrophe.
We accept debit cards & prepaid credit cards, too.
How to Build a Trivia App in Swift Language for iOS7/iOS8
We don't current accept paypal. But we're working on it.
I continue to use Dropbox, I think the ios app is far better than any of the others, and the other day when my wife accidentally deleted 2000 pictures from the camera uploads folder it was relatively painless to restore them.
All of the mass shootings in the US have occurred in "gun free zones" (for example schools) where law-abiding people can't legally bring guns. Regardless of what your TV told you, non-law-enforcement people in the US can't legally walk into a school with a gun.

As it turns out, criminals don't really care where they can legally bring guns and will happily walk past a "NO GUNS ALLOWED HERE!" sign.

When gun grabbing legislation is passed, it only hurts law-abiding people, not criminals. Criminals will still get and use guns whenever they'd like.
Mandrill Strips Multipart/signed PGP Signatures?
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really? Have you had bad experiences with gun wielding Americans? I acknowledge that the US certainly has a lot of guns and armed robberies/crimes are highly publicized, but if you aren't in a sketchy neighborhood the likelihood of running into a malicious person with a gun is very very low
They can ask. A court order to reveal your password is enough. If you don't comply you usually run into troubles. This Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law explains how it works in some countries.

There has been a ruling about that in the USA recently http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2014/06/26/mass-supreme-court-defen...
Smarkets, London, UK. Sorry, no remote.

We're always looking for generalist, python-happy software engineers. If you know, or want to learn erlang, even better.

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I don't get the title, since the body mentions app.net and diaspora.
No, it's just priorities and trade-offs. There are lots of things that may be a higher priority than "beauty". Beauty is expensive. Often it has good ROI, but not always!
I continue to use Dropbox, with no opinion about the Board
In the age of high level languages and compilers, that's exactly what they should have done, possible twice by now.
i had to use it once to after this to get a big repository of fonts. aside from that, fuck dropbox
I dropped Dropbox when it was only giving me like 5GB of storage, and my Onedrive had like 1TB due to an Office 365 Home subscription. They waited FAR too long to upgrade their storage space.
Can't handle it right now; we just launched and we're limiting one per customer to try to accommodate everyone.
They also have an adjunct member feature:
"Any members added will be able to use FTP and ssh to access the site just as you can."

That feature has been there for as long as I remember. (over 8 years)
> you may also want to take this opportunity to re-examine your AWS architecture to look for possible ways to make it even more fault-tolerant

Basically they won't allow blame to be placed on them for anything they do. According to AWS, it's your fault this happened.
I see the opposite, I see a world where the predator on the street corner cannot be sure I am armed, who has to pause and think before he mugs me or another, are they armed? They have to think twice about that home invasion as well.

You vastly over exaggerate the issue here, this level or paranoia needs medical assistance.

Gun laws will not make people safer, making an already illegal act; using a gun against someone/something; even more illegal solves nothing.

We have a major problem with drugs. There is too much money in this because of the illegal nature of it. From the use and sale of drugs to prosecution, treatment, and imprisonment. The establishment has too much to lose to give it up and those in that system have too little to lose to not resort to violence.

Fix the drug laws, find good work for those who have too much idle time, and then we can work on the culture of violence that pervades many inner cities.
The fees (student union and transport subsidies) that he mentioned are mandatory. There is no opting out.
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To be fair, that level of customizability is fairly new; It was only announced about 8 months ago[1]. I don't know how strict the previous recovery procedure was, since I never had to make use of it.

[1]: https://blog.nearlyfreespeech.net/2014/02/28/price-cuts-more...
This poll is a spectacular example of selection bias, and the uselessness of polls. There's not a chance in hell that 20% of active Dropbox users have stopped using it, even among tech circles.

I would be amazed if even 20% knew about this in the first place, and amazed if as much as 1/10 of those people truly stopped using Dropbox.
Bookstores, publishers sue to stop poorly woreded law against “revenge porn”
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I wonder if you can click on "I agree", and lie. Then you wouldn't be bound by the terms, because you didn't consent to them, but your wrongdoing would have been to access the service without permission.

It's a bit like violating the GPL: If you modify a GPL program and distribute it without source, you violate the license between you and the person you obtained the program from. But one could also argue you "stole" the program in the first place and used it without license. In both cases I wonder which "crime" would have the lesser consequences.
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yes, we're fixing the AUP today to remove cron jobs.

web app is acceptable. Sounds like a great use for one of our servers!
SEEKING FREELANCER - I'm in New Haven CT, partner in Taiwan. Remote ok.

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I'm not so sure that Facebook is the best example. It's not clear whether its existence has made a positive mark on the world or a negative one.

Also, Linux was created in another socialized state, Finland. I would argue that the impact of Linux is at least an order of magnitude more profound than Facebook.
Ask HN: Is HTML File Upload still needed for uploading files to server?
I am working on an application for those in the media business; my users need to send files to my server for processing. I am wondering if I should support form file upload from local drive vs letting users use Google Picker/ Dropbox picker to select files which my application can pull later.

I am asking this there is a wide spread adoption of Dropbox, Google Drive etc. and the fact that apple devices do not support file upload.
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Hm... interesting, I had the opposite experience. It was the "aha" moment for me when instances on us-west-1a and us-west-1b were rebooted at different times, which let us avoid any downtime.
You are ridiculous.
> Is there evidence that lowering fees does increase participation in university from poorer people

The Italian experience is that free universities were (are) routinely oversubscribed. They opened loads of new universities in poorer areas, and still were eventually forced to introduce limits with entrance exams. The most in-demand institutions eventually reintroduced fees, although much lower than UK or US rates (we are talking 100/200 euro per month, tops). So I'd say the answer is yes.

In fact, Italy has now the opposite problem: there are too many graduates and not enough jobs, so highly-educated people (especially from poorer backgrounds, i.e. lacking long-standing social connections) are now moving abroad in very high numbers.
Universe: What if we redesigned the web?
The protocol is open source and as far is i know you don't see it sending your secret key to some shady servers without permission at the same time the data is constantly in your possession be that one of your servers or your clients.

I admit that the client being closed source is not ideal however i would still call it more private then Dropbox or Google Drive.
They use usurious feed to find prison expenses.
You obviously haven't heard of SoundCloud then ;) (founders are Swedes but company is based in Berlin)
Feelings of #ModiMeetsObama Uncovered
It is quite reasonable to voice your disagreement with their policies _and_ take your money somewhere else.

Besides with that TOS it should have been part of the headline.
SEEKING WORK - Argentina

My name is Victor, a 31 year old developer living in Argentina.

I'm a generalist developer and has been for over 13+ years now, officially (career-wise) working as a frontend and backend developer with PHP, MySQL, HTML, JS, etc.

Unofficially, but decent: Android apps (native and web based), C#, Python, PostgreSQL, GIS and a bit of 3D development (Unity and WebGL). I also enjoy setting up and managing servers.

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But if you allow the tuition payments to be deferred, as is the case in the UK then the question of who can "afford" tuition changes from being predicated on their economic position before they go to university to their expected economic position after university.

If student loan repayments are capped at X% of income and you do not believe that getting a university degree will raise your earnings by at least X% then it probably is not in your best interest to attend university. The same math applies regardless of how much money you have before you start university.
>Hundreds of thousands are dying, and it could hit millions.

3000 have died so far. 6500 have been infected. It certainly could grow much bigger, but it hasn't yet.
Hmm. Patoline sounds cool, but in that book, I have a lot of trouble distinguishing text from code. They don't put a box or even whitespace around code blocks.
I'm a casual user and still use it.