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Sensor Tower Is Looking for Full Stack Engineers (Ruby)
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You missed the point about "open source", or information sharing. With the right machines and a library of shared knowledge, you don't have to be an expert at everything.

But if people actually strived for it, and their lives began in communities where building, maintaining and operating your own machinery is a part of life, most people could actually actually know heck of a lot about them.
Thanks, I was not aware of the SIR model.

Regarding your original question... if you can identify individual regions where the model can be applied, maybe you could use Markov chains to model the transitions between states in each region. I am not qualified enough to do that, but I imagine that the result would be a few endemic nodes where the disease is always present (with different degrees of intensity over time) and from where outbreaks get sporadically "exported" to disease free nodes.
What's darkly funny to me is that those things are illegal. Perhaps the biggest event in favor of keeping such weapons outlawed was the North Hollywood shootout (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout, basically IRL Payday), and yet only two people--the robbers--were killed!
Any way to get around the login? Can someone copy + paste the text?
We're doing some clever stuff between constraint layout and relative layout that will make a lot of that concern disappear. We also intend to present this as almost a statemachine, or a storyboard where you see the various states of your UI laid out, which gives us an opportunity to surface a lot of the "unseen" aspects of UI.
You have an incoherent mental threat model of this. Those two systems are functionally identical to the end user to which they are being sold, but one is vulnerable (in this specific way) to the actions of other customers with the same service provider.
It's not just "x86 is more popular, therefore better." It's that the performance of x86 was better than SPARC or Power. Regardless of the cost of the chip, performance is what is really important here. In some instances, performance per watt is more important, but either way... it's performance that's key, not market forces driving cost savings.

I haven't had much experience with SPARC, but I've done some work on Power systems (long ago). Back then (10-ish years ago), Power chips were more powerful than their x86 contemporaries. But at some point, that relationship switched.

However, I wonder how much of this is the chip, and how much is the tooling. Its been awhile since I've needed to think about C/C++ compiling, but from what I remember, the Intel compiler produced (slightly) faster binaries than gcc. Now this is where popularity could prove to be decisive... if the compiler that the OP uses works for x86, SPARC, and Power, how much do you suspect each of those architectures has been optimized? Even if the non-x86 chip itself is capable of running faster than x86, if the toolchain isn't similarly optimized, they could end up having worse performance.
Same here, though it helped that they appointed her about 10 days before my paid renewal was due.

I miss the ease of use and I've had to put much more work in to (mostly) match the features I gave up. Owncloud, cron, rsync, and a few other tools are all tested and working now, but it isn't as slick and requires occasional maintenance.

I miss using Dropbox but there are some things that are unacceptable to me, and require a permanent change even if burdensome. It isn't that I trusted Dropbox before - I used client-side encryption for most files. It's appointing her and the huge 'fuck you' message it sends to those of us who care about privacy. There's just no overlooking it.
I wish it could make this into 100% :)

http://www.80percentarms.com/products/0-billet-ar-15-lower-r...
FlashFunders - Santa Monica, CA
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FlashFunders is a Santa Monica-based online equity funding platform and we’re hiring experienced full-stack Ruby on Rails engineers to join our small, energetic and cohesive team, to help us re-envision how startups raise capital. You'll hit the ground running, become an integral member of the team, and start contributing towards our goal of becoming the industry standard in online capital raising. Some of the things you’ll be working on include: Simplifying the investment experience - Integrating with state-of-the-art banking APIs using modern tools - Crafting an intelligent, intuitive user experience

Here are a few of the reasons why we think you’ll enjoy working here:

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-Join our small team, make a BIG Impact

Now, tell us a little about yourself, we’d like to see candidates with the following experience: Full-stack developer
4+ years development experience,
2+ years working with Ruby on Rails
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Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science preferred,
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(opinion of a non-gun owner)

It is my understanding that the important part of arming a group of people is quality/reliability of the weapons. I was watching an interesting History channel episode of some series (back when they were good) about the horrible gun that was the Chauchat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauchat Basically these guns didn't have interchangeable parts and would often jam. The narrator said that the Americans who received this gun would basically throw it away once they encountered an enemy gun.
I'll say it again [1]: Thank God for Florian Weimer! And after this excellent post I'm adding Michal Zalewski to that list.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8378515
More info: AFAIK we are the first to offer screening tests for web developers that require live coding in the browser, correct me if I am wrong. We use PhantomJS in the background.
Are you going to cite facts to back up your claims of a $100,000 university? You roughly doubled the tuition, room and board, and required fees of NYU, commonly cited as the most expensive private U.S. university.
Georgia Tech to Accept Bitcoin on Campus, Football Games
Ya I carried a laminated two-sided copy of the info and signature page of my passport scaled down to the size of a credit card/driver's license. Worked throughout Western Europe and Latin America for authorizing credit card purchases in person and entry into venues. Cost me $2 to make at FedEx Office/Kinkos and an employee did it all for me, since I came at an off-peak hour. Of course at official border crossings, you need the real passport.
Does Google Drive have a different privacy policy to GMail?
This paper was an interesting read! And thank you for the exceptionally well-selected references: I think I will enjoy reading several of those.

I'm not sure about the others, but as far as Julia goes, the main parts of the language implementation are: parser and lowering in about 5000 lines of Scheme; type inference is 3k lines of Julia; and codegen to LLVM is about 6000 SLOC of C++. (and then there are a few tens of thousands of LOC of runtime and library code in C and Julia). I suspect it would be possible to implement a nice, smallish, LLVM-backed DSL using the Ocaml bindings in well under 10k lines, but I am likewise unaware of such an experiment. On the other hand, implementing Julia in Truffle or RPython would be a neat project.
The question is whether it is possible to run a significant business in the United States without interacting with the federal government. I don't think that it is.

It's not like ISPs and tech companies went to the NSA and offered up their data--there is no proof at all of that. What the evidence shows is that the government used its force of law to compel cooperation from these companies.

The people's tool for controlling the force of law is politics. So, being politically connected is an important part of playing defense against government action.

Whether Condoleeza Rice is the correct person to fulfill that role is in the eye of beholder. I certainly don't fault people for opposing any connection to her. But I would fault anyone who thinks that that is a universal sentiment. There are quite a few people (in government and out) who still respect and perhaps even like her.
http://habrahabr.ru/post/131223/
This is the podcast, and the company in question is aviasales.ru.
EULAs like most standard terms will contain severability clauses which basically say that even if one clause is invalid the remainder still holds...
What It's Really Like in the Secret Service
The sticking point isn't the "visual" part, it's the "not text" part.

What's the big deal? There is an entire family of conventions and tools that have been built up over the years to support coding in text: editors, version control, diff tools, patches, linters, code generators, naming conventions, meanings of special symbols, etc.

It's definitely technically possible to change the paradigm entirely, but how does one avoid reinventing twelve wheels?

To paraphrase, "I know, you won't write my language in flat text files. And now you have a dozen problems."

What am I missing?
"An Apology": https://community.rackspace.com/general/f/34/t/4341
Chicago. New York City. San Francisco. Mountain View.

Matasano Security / iSEC Partners

Job Title: Senior "three year endless winter whose storms rattle branches off world-tree, hearkening the end of this world, the rebirth of the next" Engineer.

Startup devs work to build things people want. Matasano team members work to break things people want.

This is, I expect, my last HN hiring post for Matasano. My last day is next Friday. Yggdrasil's branch has struck the world-serpent Jormungand, Heimdall strides towards the Gjallarhorn, the garbage around my desk is being picked up, the yeti pictures torn down.

I confidently recommend Matasano. The team is amazing. There are too many great people here to list, but let me talk about a couple. Do these sound like roles you'd like to play?

* The German PhD who hit the ground running as one of our best C/C++ vulnerability researchers, wrote the "idb" iOS analyzer, and schooled the rest of the team on timing attacks.

* The person we moved from DC to Chicago, along with their... notable... Windows driver security and exploit development skills.

* The Mountain View line-of-business web software dev we found who picked up a Rails CVE within an hour of looking at Rails for the first time.

* The Santa Cruz shorts-and-flip-flops-wearing RTOS spelunker and Microcorruption coauthor; that guy has seen some shit.

* The devops from STL who'd never so much as poked at a web app who implemented an impossibly tricky lattice-reduction+FFT cryptanalytic attack that Nate Lawson showed me as a joke, inside of a week.

* The Chicago .NET dev who found us on HN and wound up writing half the crypto challenges

I give up. This post would be 5000 words long if I tried to capture just one awesome thing about everyone I work with here. I will miss working with all of them terribly. You could be working with them now. I think you should!

As Patrick McKenzie once put it: "If I were looking for a day job, I wouldn't be looking for a day job any more: they're friendly, happy people who get social license to join the Dark Side, do smart stuff all day, and then go home while it is still light out.".

Matasano tries very, very hard to be cool about hiring. You can't waste their time, and they'll respect yours.

www.matasano.com/careers
I was able to put together a stripped lower receiver with the lower parts kit in one hour. My background in firearms is from owning a pistol and a 22 magnum bolt action rifle.

It is trivial to put together a lower receiver. You can do it with a hammer and a roll pin punch (and you really don't need the punch).

There are numerous vids on how to assemble a lower receiver and how to mill out an 80%. You could even buy a polymer and carve it out with a knife, if you felt so inclined to do so.
I continue to use Dropbox, but treat it like a semi public storage. I do not particularly fear that someone will go around looking at my files, but if they do, they won't find anything very valuable anyways.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_McCarthy#Gun_control last paragraph:
"When [Tucker] Carlson pressed [Congresswomen Carolyn McCarthy] twice more on the question about barrel shrouds, she admitted that she did not know what a barrel shroud was, and incorrectly stated, 'I believe it is a shoulder thing that goes up.' Carlson replied with, "No, No it's not.'"

In case you don't know the meaning of the word shroud: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_shroud
Luxe - San Francisco, CA - http://www.luxevalet.com - Full Time - Various

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The founding team hails from leadership positions at Google, Zynga, Ducati and Tesla. We've assembled an ever-expanding core team of 16, whose diverse backgrounds include the U.S. Marines, Code for America and YC. What unites us is our shared passion for solving complex problems and a commitment to creating a work environment, based on mutual respect for one another.

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Is My Shift Key on or Not
For anyone curious, here is the dissasembly of the above code:

http://pastebin.com/R3QiCBsK

And the entire resulting object file:

http://pastebin.com/a21pqaKW
iCloud and GDrive have stepped up their game, making Dropbox no longer needed.

I don't let the politics of one board member of a company determine if I use their service or product.
This is my exactly my point. In the US, many students take an educational loan -- but, I would argue that most students in the lower social strata (e.g. African Americans whose parents have not had the benefit of college education) still think consider it a risky option and that 'it is not for them'. And those who graduate after a student loan are forced to take suboptimal choices (because now they have to pay back that loan). Also, I don't understand why a university education has to be so expensive -- you can get great content through MOOCs. If you can somehow combine that with mentoring (from senior students), you can easily provide low cost, high quality education to those who need it.
Thumbtack - San Francisco

Thumbtack helps people get their person projects accomplished by introducing them to local service professionals. We can help you refurnish your kitchen, hire a wedding photographer, and even a bartender for a party you are throwing. We work hard to empower small businesses to grow and be successful.

Some of our core values are 1) to help locally, scale globally, 2) to obsess over our customers, and 3) to improve relentlessly. To that effect, our biggest markets are actually in other cities such as Los Angelos and New York, and we offer employees a stipend for learning materials and conferences to encourage personal growth inside and outside of the office.

Our engineering team is now 18 people working in an office of about 70 total employees. We eat family-style meals cooked by our in-house chefs, study CS theory together, build robots, brew beer, and play board games.

We offer competitive salary and equity along with great health insurance and a flexible vacation policy.

We're hiring software engineers with the following kinds of expertise:

* Front-end
* Back-end
* Site reliability / DevOps
* Analytics and big data
* Statistics
* Data science
* Android

http://www.thumbtack.com/jobs

http://www.thumbtack.com/engineering

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H1-B full time employees and summer interns are welcome to apply.

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Let's say that the EFF wins. Let's say it exceeds its wildest dreams.

How do you know it had any effect?

Until the next Snowden comes along, you don't. And I'm sure there won't be any more Snowdens. The NSA is going to redo its systems so that nobody can get anything out. This isn't a stretch of the imagination. They obviously have plenty of very technically talented people working there, and they'll get much stricter with access controls now.

Democratic processes cannot change a fundamentally undemocratic system. Secret courts, secret laws, secret executive orders, none of it is even a pretense of democracy. And so, nothing the EFF does can save you. Nothing you can do within the political system can save you, because it is a rigged game, or more accurately, an irrelevant game. It does not matter who wins or loses. It is not the game the NSA plays.

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I'm sure people will ask what my solution is. I wish that I had one, and I hope that you realize the fallacy in insisting that until a more comfortable solution is in front of you, the "solution" you have that will obviously not work should be invested in without any faint expectation of a return.

There is one thing you can do that's simple, though: Don't work for them. Don't work for SAIC. Don't work for Booz Allen. Don't work for the NSA. Without people like us, without engineers, they can't do anything.

And more then that: If you have a friend from undergrad, if you meet someone at a meetup or a hackfest or in a bar that says they work for the NSA, directly or indirectly, treat them like the Statsi agent they are, spit in their face and tell them they're not welcome in your life. Make sure they know that they aren't doing a good thing or the right thing. Make sure they know how utterly, baselessly evil they are.

That's one solution. It's not as blandly palatable as donating to the EFF, but it's one that's less of a waste of your time.
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Just wanted to also add that in an area of design with lots of strongly held subjective opinion and rampant bikeshedding, Aaron has shown himself to be incredibly thoughtful, well-measured, and diplomatic. Really a great addition to the team!
> Imagine a world where everyone has access to computation without having to become a professional programmer - where a scientist doesn’t have to rely on the one person in the lab who knows python, where a child could come up with an idea for a game and build it in a couple of weekends, where your computer can help you organize and plan your wedding/vacation/business.

This seems to misunderstand fundamentally what it means to be a professional programmer. Knowing some programming language isn't it, its a mode of thinking and analysis. I think that with programming things get confused in people's minds because there is less of a clear professional distinction between construction and design than in physical engineering, but learning languages and syntax is the trivial part of programming already. Eliminating the hard part of the requirement to become a professional programmer is an AI complete problem, because it means you are getting the computer to do your thinking for you.

Many people who try to make programming better starts out with tools like IDEs or analysis tools, maybe proceeds to actual new languages, and ends up tilting at the windmill of transforming programming by replacing it with something that eliminates the need for professional programmers entirely -- and while we tend to get useful tools out of the other step, that last one is pretty consistently a place where we get vague hopes and pretty demos and, if anything of lasting use, salvaged pieces that end up as analysis, etc., tools for professional programmers.

I'm not saying this isn't interesting or that I don't want to see where it goes, but the description provided of both the goal and how the people promising they can deliver it have "found the way" by "studying the past and revisiting some of the foundational ideas in computing" is something I've heard from some group or another every few years for the last several decades. What I don't see is why this time is different.
There is however a reasonable chance the person clicking I agree is not the end user. Setup a Facebook account for your grandparents who never click agree. Are they then bound by the TOS?

In the end TOS are generally weakly enforceable. If facebook adds a 10,000$ annual fee in the fine print and there unlikely to be able to collect.
I am always happy to help, time and circumstances allowing.

Before joining Amazon I earned my living by consulting for startups. I could always tell when they were about to run out of money when they would offer to pay me in servers. This was always the cue to find my next gig.