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99Gamers.com (Mountain View, CA) – https://www.99gamers.com

Open positions: iOS Engineer, Full Stack PHP Developer - Full-time

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Based in Mountain View, 99Gamers is changing the way we trade video games. To take 99Gamers to the next level we are looking for a developers who want to join our team.

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About 99Gamers

Born off a Reddit post, 99Gamers is a trusted community marketplace for gamers to buy and sell video games. With more than 118,000 members, $1,100,000 worth of games sold and 44,000 games available to buy, 99Gamers is the easiest way for gamers to get the most value out of their video games. 99Gamers is currently taking part in 500 Startups' Batch 11. Check out our videos on YouTube.

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Join a small, quickly growing startup working to push the marketplace space forward. You’ll help us get there. We’re looking for engineers/hackers who can learn/grow with the company on the go. Being apart of a small team, you will have ownership and responsibility for product development.

You should place a very high personal value on culture. We’re looking for a mellow coder with an insane work ethic. At 99Gamers, you’ll make a huge impact. You’ll be responsible for creating tools that will help shape our growing community.

We’re looking for people who love the internet & gaming as much as we do.

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We're also looking for a product designer and community manager. See more about the positions here: http://goo.gl/qC13Y0

If interested, send a resume along with a brief note about why you think you’d be a good fit at 99Gamers to brandon@99gamers.com. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
Thought for a second that was a work around for the iPad ;)
Well huh. I'd never thought I had ADHD, just a complete inability to motivate myself to do things. However, the descriptions in this article describe me perfectly! Everything seems dull, I'm constantly seeking new experiences, the idea of a daily routine terrifies me (even though my father keeps encouraging me to develop one), but I can play piano for an entire day.
everyone stopping trading gold would only happen if everyone stopped using gold, so how is it still useful. Imagine, if you would, a machine that can make as much of something as you want, replicating it from nothing. Put gold through it. Is there anything about the gold that would prop it's value up above the pure value of the effort required to push the button? If gold is valued because of both scarcity and subjective value, what makes bitcoin any different? It has scarcity, and people subjectively value it.
The Diagnosis of ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) has been folded into ADHD as a subtype Attention Deficit HyperActivity Disorder- Primarily Inattentive.

It is a symptom when normal people even if they are disinterested in a task can still summon the level of focus needed to effectively complete a task. That is a much harder proposition for someone with an attention deficit syndrome condition.
If you abolished drug patenting, then if the elite want to foot the bill on drug research, it is only a net positive.

It seems like no matter who you are, you have the commonality in death. I'm surprised more of the billionaires of the world aren't investing in curing it in all its myriad forms, considering their risk of succumbing to it at some point.

The dark side of course being that clinical trials become the fast lane for the rich to drugs that will save their lives but never reach the commoners cold. But if you got rid of the medicine patents, then once the drug hits market anyone can duplicate it.
Nailed it. But do yourself a favor and don't self-label. Go talk to a professional for a while and see what their take is. By which I mean an LCW or psychologist, not a GP. :)
Ask HN: Help with mobile app that works offline and sync data
At our startup, our target market is increasingly conducting their business, on-the-go. Therefore, we have to augment our browser-based desktop app with a mobile app.

Therefore, I'm now evaluating what it would take to develop a mobile app that could work completely offline and sync transaction data periodically with the central server.

I've read briefly about Firebase, Parse, Usergrid, BaasBox, master-master replication, and the CAP theorem. As expected, I'm royally confused now!

‎We already have an existing data storage infra, which is using Postgres. And since we're dealing with financial transactions, I'd like to stick with an ACID store and not some new-fangled JSON hotness. Our app also has HTTP/JSON APIs for various read &amp; write operations. I can even consider exposing very fine grained RPC calls over Thrift/Protocol Buffers, which frankly, seem more manageable than the JSON APIs.

Now, my question is, is there a project/service/SDK out there which has already solved this data sync problem? What about conflict resolution when it comes to transaction data? I understand that this is like resolving merge conflicts in git, which basically requires human intervention, but is there an SDK that will reduce dev time for such scenarios? Can said SDK work with a custom backend API?

Also, how should one be storing all this data on the mobile app? SQLite?

This is the first mobile app that we're about to write as a team, and any gyaan from the experienced folks would be appreciated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

Either way: LOL
I think the deportation was actually by transit country A because of his lack of a transit visa for transit country B. Country A didn't initially require a transit visa, but perhaps the airline did discover a potential problem, whereabout country A migration officials seem to have said "oh, well, if you don't have a plan for how to get out of country A promptly, we're sending you back to your home country".

His original itinerary involved six countries and four separate airlines across two bookings, so I don't think that's inconsistent with what you said.
What battery setting do you use? My Pro 2 does not heat up very often.
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I'm a software engineer and security researcher. I'm available on a consulting basis. I've found critical vulnerabilities in companies ranging from small beta startups to multinational corporations. I've also been featured in news articles from The Register, Security Week and CNET for my findings.

Email me and we can discuss a project together!
|his is fundamentally one of the biggest cultural changes we have to make. You have to be ok with talking about your personal earning. In a lot of places talking about earnings is more taboo then talking about sex, and sex is generally taboo.

I seriously loathe "inherently stupid" like you. Neither you nor OP knows actual components of package offered to new hires. Let's take gender out of picture for a moment. Now think, how many times you have seen posts coming out from such shitposters because "less salary" was offered to "male" or H1B developers ? Show me at least five.

Things change in two years. May be company does not have as much revenue/profit or "demand of new hire" as it had two years back.

So you literally want to make everyone state their salary ? Do you have any idea how much political environment we all play in ? How many people will literally stab in back for earning $1 more than them ? Because 99 % human nature is such that I work hard than anyone else then why S/He be paid more than me ?
We don;t think about background, education, training required to get to speed, expected time to active contribution etc etc.

Are you white ? In reality what you are saying is commonly known as "White Knighting". You are not going to get any more pussy by white knighting. Sure you will make more enemies. This might sound bitter to you but I am speaking truth and
Mate, truth hurts.
dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8545776
Here's an audio snippet of Alan Watt's perspective on this issue. In general, he sees modern mental illnesses as personality traits. Thoughts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN8B8jMuDZE
I think you might be reading the "provided" differently than the drafter intended. I think you're parsing "provided" as meaning "so long as" or "only when". I think the drafter intended for it to mean "additionally".

I realize that "provided that" in common speech more often means "so long as" or "only when", but "provided, that" or "provided: that" in statutory text could be read as simply introducing an additional and slightly indepedendent statutory provision. I think the comma is significant here for encouraging this reading.
Ask HN: Help with mobile app that works offline and sync data
At our startup, our target market is increasingly conducting their business, on-the-go. Therefore, we have to augment our browser-based desktop app with a mobile app.

Therefore, I'm now evaluating what it would take to develop a mobile app that could work completely offline and sync transaction data periodically with the central server.

I've read briefly about Firebase, Parse, Usergrid, BaasBox, master-master replication, and the CAP theorem. As expected, I'm royally confused now!

We've already built out or backend using Postgres and RoR. Ideally I'd like to stick to it, especially Postgres, as we're dealing with financial transactions. We already have HTTP/JSON APIs to read/write data. We can also develop fine-grained APIs using Thrift, if required.

Now, my question is, is there a project/service/SDK out there which has already solved this data sync problem? What about conflict resolution when it comes to transaction data? I understand that this is like resolving merge conflicts in git, which basically requires human intervention, but is there an SDK that will reduce dev time for such scenarios? Can said SDK work with a custom backend API?

Also, how should one be storing all this data on the mobile app? SQLite?

This is the first mobile app that we're about to write as a team, and any gyaan from the experienced folks would be appreciated.
That's really cool! I experience the exact same thing. I used to listen to Stern everyday for years. When I hear old shows with memorable parts, I can remember the exact location, time of year, lighting, and weather of the moment when I first heard it. And when I think about various locations, times of my life or things that I did, I start to remember moments from the radio show.

It's really fascinating how our brains form strong memories through these auditory and visual associations. It seems like the more interesting the the sources are, the more likely you'll remember it for many years to come.
That's the thing, I think. Treatment (both cognitive behavioral therapy and chemical) has enabled me to get on with my life in so many ways.

It's not about getting rid of the symptoms - they're still there. It's about knowing when your symptoms are getting the better of you -- and taking agency over them. If my brain is a wall of TV's all tuned to different channels with the volume turned to 11, adderal finally gave me a clicker to be able to turn all but one off. Or, at least, mute.

And in many ways, I'm glad I'm not asymptomatic on medication: many of the downsides of ADHD can actually be huge, huge upsides. I thought it would kill my creative problem solving, going on meds: if anything, it's put it into overdrive. Instead of stashing something in my subconscious and hoping a solution percolates up a few minutes, hours, days, or weeks later ... I can pick up the puzzle, look at it, really concentrate and think about it. It's a life changing thing to realize what it's like to actually ruminate on a problem. On the other hand, I still make the zany off the wall connections between two problems that let me come up with a solution to both of them.

Instead of hoping for the luck of the draw, though, I can stack the deck.
Consider that for interracial marriage, the US was lagging international opinion substantially. E.g. in large parts of Europe there either haven't been restrictions on interracial marriage, or they have been very limited and lifted earlier, and in many countries such as the UK, there is a history of interracial marriages going back centuries (e.g. many people married Indians that came to Britain after the establishment of the East India Company). Much further resistance evaporated when European countries had an acute shortage of men following World War I, that was filled by increased immigration from own colonies.

While that may not have had a direct impact, most of the arguments against interracial marriage were thus demonstrably false, by looking to other countries, and a substantial proportion of the population of the US had come from countries where interracial marriage was legal and somewhat accepted when they emigrated.

Further, with interracial marriages, the marriages had the support of a far larger amount of churches, and legalisation happened amidst a general major push for equalisation of rights that had rallied a lot of people.

On the other hand, many of the same countries that have been liberal about interracial marriages maintained laws targeting gay people far longer, and both domestically and internationally there was not nearly the same momentum for gay rights.

Again consider the UK, where it took until 1994 for a serious attempt to reduce the age of consent for male gay sex to the same as for straight sex (from 21 to 16; bizarrely the UK did not have an age of consent for sexual acts between females). It took until 2001 for that to become reality:

The first attempt was defeated; a court challenge to the European Court of Human Right forced the UK government to try again; it was defeated twice more, and then the House of Lords dragged its feet long enough that the government was able to use Parliament Act to push it through with only the support of the House of Commons in late 2000.

As late as then, people seriously used as an argument that we needed to "protect the children".
I grew up on linux as well (still use arch at work and at home). But for anything serious, use OpenBSD. Its just great.
Please don't do suicide. There are lot of thing you can do. What exactly you are suffering ? what is the reason that you don't have any money ? what you tried it ?

I'm not sure i can help you with money but i can give you advice and show you the track. Feel free to reply this comment... i will try my best to help you..(if i don't, there are certainly lot of great people here in HN to help you)
Ask HN: Help with mobile app that works offline and sync data
At our startup, our target market is increasingly conducting their business, on-the-go. Therefore, we have to augment our browser-based desktop app with a mobile app.

Therefore, I'm now evaluating what it would take to develop a mobile app that could work completely offline and sync transaction data periodically with the central server.

I've read briefly about Firebase, Parse, Usergrid, BaasBox, master-master replication, and the CAP theorem. As expected, I'm royally confused now!

We've already built out or backend using Postgres and RoR. Ideally I'd like to stick to it, especially Postgres, as we're dealing with financial transactions. We already have HTTP/JSON APIs to read/write data. We can also develop fine-grained APIs using Thrift, if required.

Now, my question is, is there a project/service/SDK out there which has already solved this data sync problem? What about conflict resolution when it comes to transaction data? I understand that this is like resolving merge conflicts in git, which basically requires human intervention, but is there an SDK that will reduce dev time for such scenarios? Can said SDK work with a custom backend API?
I know it's not the same as pure Java, but I found that trying to build an Android App was a practical way of learning Java. I had an app I wanted to make, and having that as the goal kept me going through all the boring parts of learning a new language.
It seems like no matter who you are, you have the commonality in death. I'm surprised more of the billionaires of the world aren't investing in curing it in all its myriad forms

Before they do that they better stop birth, because we would have some serious problems on our hands.
> I never heard of the issue (and it wasn't on HN) prior to the release of the patch.

What? HN is suddenly the be-all and end-all of security announcements? I heard of the issue way before the release of the patch. Anyone that subscribes to announcements from Drupal has heard of the issue.

You say that 5 days isn't enough? What period of time is? A week? A month? A year? You can always find people who somehow miss the announcement.

> It's trivial to find out what a patch affects but it's not necessarily easy to find out what the issue is unless the patch actually addresses the specific bug.

It is trivial Take the recent POODLE attack for example. The rumors floating around points to it being an issue in SSL 3 and not TLS 1.0. That contained enough information for someone to preempt the actual announcement with the exact attack.

> Nov 1st: Story about scale of hacks hits mainstream media.

Who the hell cares about the mainstream media when monitoring issues related to software you administer? That's just negligence.
There are some possible applications of this:

Better captchas that are optimized to be hard for machines, but easy for humans.

Getting around automated systems that discriminate content. Like detecting copyrighted songs.

Training on these images improves generalization. Essentially these images add more data, since you know what class they should be given. But they are optimal in a certain sense, testing the things that NNs are getting it wrong, or finding the places where it has bad discontinuities.
Kickbacks from the prison-industrial complex, of course. They're bribed to ruin people's lives, but that's fine with the prosecutors themselves because they're sociopaths.
http://www.pnas.org/content/109/11/4086.full

"Seven studies using experimental and naturalistic methods reveal that upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower-class individuals. In studies 1 and 2, upper-class individuals were more likely to break the law while driving, relative to lower-class individuals. In follow-up laboratory studies, upper-class individuals were more likely to exhibit unethical decision-making tendencies (study 3), take valued goods from others (study 4), lie in a negotiation (study 5), cheat to increase their chances of winning a prize (study 6), and endorse unethical behavior at work (study 7) than were lower-class individuals. Mediator and moderator data demonstrated that upper-class individuals’ unethical tendencies are accounted for, in part, by their more favorable attitudes toward greed. "

This doesn't explain which way the causality flows, but my own experience with silicon valley glitterati suggests that they start out nice (or at least pretty normal) and the money and power very, very gradually turns them into assholes.

As always, there are numerous exceptions.
MOOCs are merely a stepping stone along a much broader movement. They were based upon a fundamental misunderstanding of how degree-granting institutions work. For most people, knowledge gained during the pursuit of a college degree is secondary to the projected $17,500 increase in salary. [1] MOOCs have no such carrot motivating people to complete them.

Online courses are just that: courses + the internet. Anyone can load up on MIT OCW, Coursera, and Udacity lectures that have a value of ~$0 on a resume. What does a 10x improvement upon education look like? What happens when we stop watching talking heads in a video and start taking part in individualized tracks that can prove our knowledge of a subject to a certain degree of certainty, as it evolves over time, for any subject. The issue has never been learning, it's been proving that you know what you've learned.

As it stands now, college degrees serve as a signal for what someone knows. No matter how outdated that notion is.

[1]: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/02/11/study-income-...
LCW?
It's not clear how resistant the changes are to random noise. Or how easily it would be to modify their procedure to create images which work even with random noise.

I do suspect noise would help, but some of the changes are things like blurring edges and lines that NNs are sensitive to. Adding noise would just make that worse.
Here's a vimrc that showcases some of its features: https://github.com/bling/dotvim/blob/master/vimrc#L324

Pathogen loads plugins, but it doesn't manage them. Neobundle lets me list some plugins in my vimrc and it'll take care of installing them, updating them, and even only loading them on filetypes where they're useful.

Pathogen does none of that and I find every one of those features useful. One of the big ones, honestly, is just the simplicity of listing a new bundle in my vimrc, syncing it to all computers, and having it deal with getting it. Much better than syncing large git repos across computers.
The worst part here is that H1B visas allocated to these scumbag companies end up starving genuine companies of these visas.
Ask HN: Who is building hardware?
Would love to hear who is working on hardware products here, any stories, challenges and stories you would like to share with us?
I presume the dups are some sort of sync issue
Former longtime emacs (and previous to that, vi) user here.

vi and emacs seem like magic if you're coming from something like SublimeText. Compared to modern IDEs like VisualStudio or IntelliJ products, however - not so much.

vi users tout the rapid text editing features, but you can generate and navigate code just as fast with an IDE - out of the box - no configuration incantations or third party packages required.

Until very recently (early to mid-2000s), IDEs for open source web frameworks were non-existent, unaffordable, or slow. Once you have a working vi or emacs setup, there's a lot of inertia in place that discourages switching.

That explains the continued popularity of vi, imo.
Amazon may discontinue operations in India
The exact opposite would occur. If everyone on earth started living to 400, the world's population would rapidly shrink.

If you brought the bottom ~2 billion up to the median global living standard, the total human population would begin to contract due to the reduction in new births brought on by the higher standard of living. If you reach an income level on par with poor Eastern European nations ($10k to $15k), you start to see a decline or flattening in population.

With accidental deaths, and the huge drop in new births, it wouldn't take very long - relative to the new life expectancies - to cut the population of the planet in half.

If all people stopped dying at 65, and say lived to 400, the wealth accumulation would be substantial for most of the poorest (which currently reside in China and India). Their standard of living would skyrocket, as they'd have perhaps 300 good working years. Those 1.5+ billion poor living in China and India would also likely live long enough to see the conditions of the poor in said countries improve immensely. Not to mention the remarkable breakthroughs in technology / medicine that would occur during their lifetimes, a further multiplier lifting them up out of current levels of poverty.
Worse than that, it also destroys the local talent pool. Employers use visas as a club against local talent, so you go without equity, work 3 times as many hours as you're paid for and when the company is sold you're out of a job. Not to mention taking "hair cuts" so you work without pay and do without basic necessities to make someone else rich, this shit has ruined my life being a coder in Los Angeles, yes I survive but I can't even afford a computer for myself, the employers game the system until you have to go without food to make someone else rich, forget about the dream of being able to own your own computer.