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Know someone who'd make a great office manager? Tell them about Flexport (YC W14)
Flexport is a platform for global trade. We are hiring an office manager for our headquarters near AT&T Park in San Francisco.

We believe any two people on the planet should be able to trade with each other without regard for geographic distance, logistical complexity or regulatory barriers. In short, our mission is to bring the world free trade through technology.

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In addition, there will be an important project management component as you take on tasks to support our sales, marketing, finance, HR and operations teams. These projects may grow in importance over time, providing a clear avenue for career growth within the company.

Requirements:

2+ years experience in office management or administrative work
Bachelors degree or equivalent
Great written and verbal communication
Type 80+ words per minute

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Full health benefits
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Performance based bonus of 5-10%

To apply, please email jobs@flexport.com
if the configurability is there, I will happily withdraw my cynicism. I too am happy when I see technology being used in new ways to help people live richer lives.
Problem is, in regard of European laws, you can't tell them to fuck off if they are not doing anything unlawful.
And here it is the case, they exploit a hole in the law which allows to create subsidiaries in Luxembourg through which the French/German/whatever company is paying the products it sells.
This just looks full of Ads .. more detailed Analytical analysis is here - https://chartio.com/blog/2013/09/the-data-behind-h1b-visas
I appreciate the links!

My team is looking into using Closure for some smaller micro-services and it seems to be a good fit. Forgive my ignorance, but do Clojure applications typically run inside of an application server framework like Tomcat/Glassfish?
I already knew the altered qualia link, and actually meant that one when I talked about the post on HN (the link to which I got from the bottom of that page) xD

Thanks! I just use what the HTML canvas has to offer: circles, n-gons, and n-gons made of bezier curves. Those can get drawn both filled and as outline, which in turn aren't drawn with plain colors, but gradients made of 3 HSLA colors (alpha ranges from 0.05 to 0.85, to make sure everything matters at least a bit and doesn't just get covered up or disappear), with the position of the middle color stop, as well as the coordinates that define the gradient direction, being variable.

The linewidth is variable, and it can also use dashed lines with a randomized pattern, which looks funky but I haven't gotten a good result with it yet. Another thing I'll do is add allowing picking a random compositing mode (and in the spirit of the expedition, do that for both fill and outline), but then it will be too unpredictable to look like being made of shapes, I expect.

The background also has a gradient consisting of no less than 6 colors, with 4 variable color stops.. what can I say, I like enums and copy and paste haha. Though of course adding more degrees of freedom nilly-willy might not be the best idea.. I have to improve the whole evolution/mutation stuff a lot first, and then I intend to throw just about anything at it I can find, at least as an option. Right now I added words, though that doesn't seem very promising. But having one basic common function to setup fill and outline gradients for any and all shapes I might come up with makes experimenting with this a breeze.

I kind of feel I should be doing this with WebGL, but then I wouldn't have all those convenient drawing functions.. but still, whenever WebGL 2.0 comes (which will make a lot of compute-ish things a lot easier AFAIK), I want to do at least a polgon/circle/bitmaps thing with it, because I feel a speedup factor of a gazillion might just make up for that :)
Robotics controlled with Dartlang?
do any of you guys know a website or blog about DartLang Robotics? similar to like cylonjs.com but you can control robots with Dart. If not, do you know if there are nay developing projects in Dart robotics?
It often strikes me as ironic that the very people who build the connected applications that live in the virtual world of the internet are so obsessed about the physical location requirement of San Francisco (and Silicon Valley), in order to become successful in delivering that virtual offering.

That being said I have never worked in or worked for a company in "the valley". I've also been a remote freelancer for 15 years so maybe I just don't get it.

Do these talented people really need to be in an office in Silicon Valley, sitting opposite you, tapping away on their keybosrds with their headphones on to as productive or better than me or you?

Obviously the data suggests that the most successful companies are there, but is that not just cause and effect?
Yeah agreed. Once a new fashion comes out, people feel the need to rewrite everything in that language/framework etc.

Imagine how much more productive we could be if we stopped reimplementing the wheel every time a new fashion comes around...
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out of curiosity, what app(s) do you have them download?
You must be thinking GPL licensing?
For the record:

$ time ./c4 c4.c c4.c c4.c c4.c hello.c
hello, world
exit(0) cycle = 9
exit(0) cycle = 22614
exit(0) cycle = 9273075
exit(0) cycle = 933197195
exit(0) cycle = -1428163377

real	9m23.409s
user	9m22.673s
sys	0m0.020s

:)
So is a student who is willing to pay 10$ doing the wrong thing when they use the student discount and pay only 7$?

If not, why is it wrong for a non-student to desire paying only 7$?
I'm one of those who is extremely vary of FB.

What info can/cannot FB see?

Is there anyway you can highlight the aspect of data being kept private - that may go a long way way towards allaying (some people's fears).
I was surprised that India leads green card applications by such a huge margin. China and India should be about level since they both send about the same number of students to higher ed in the US and in similar specialties. Though I do see a lot more Chinese nationals in genomics/molecular sciences.
Virgin group: Brand it like Branson
I was hoping that this was an analysis of the new review system, or at least included an analysis of the new review system.

It doesn't; this is a two year old article that suggests that Microsoft's old review system ("stack ranking") was flawed. Which is a fine position, and this was a well-written criticism, despite being old news when it was written, but it doesn't hold up so much after the changes HR made to the review model. (Disclaimer: MSFT employee.)
Depends on your bandwidth pricing. Are you sure that adult websites' hosting bills are 'easily more than 99%' bandwidth charges?
Good, public docs and permissively licensed free drivers that can be used or cross-checked against by anyone.
Yeah, it's very evocative. It also properly conveys that it's for extreme states, not usual error handling.

The motivation was actually to tease apart the two meanings of 'fail': fail! or Result? Now, fail means Result, and panic means panic! (previously fail!).

Most of the patch was actually updating _all_ of the mentions of fail in the documentation, to switch some of them to panic.
Juries can be influenced by where defendants sit in a courtroom
I'm not saying I condone it (I especially don't like the part of routing all of your profits made in other countries through a single country with lower taxes, and don't think it's fair) - but maybe there's an argument to be made about low income tax for corporations, if that actually leads to much higher sales (on which consumers pay VAT, so tax money still goes to the government)?
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This is excellent in every way. Not only building a homemade UAV, but the presentation was spot on.

I expected the page to run badly with all that big content but had no problems.

The images and video add so much and not even a single click required!
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Enhanced compilers specifically for AMD chips, in the same spirit as Intel's ICC. Except open source, ideally, based on LLVM/GCC. I'm guessing this would let me take (more) advantage of the greater raw core count on Opteron vs Xeon. At least it would be an arguing point in favor of AMD--the only one I can see now is cost.
I'm sure there's some sites, but even if the percentage is in the low single digits (i.e. a smallish but still very significant percentage), I still think that browsers is probably the right place for this to be fixed.

Getting everyone to go through every part of their app and properly harden up their url routing to protect against this seems unlikely to happen - it's simply too much work for many companies.
Making Winamp skins and visualisation presets is what got me into graphics and coding, which led to web design, which led to my various web-related careers over the last 15 years. I owe Winamp so so much.
Building your business on top of someone else’s platform seems like a risky thing to do. But then again, everyone’s basically building apps for walled gardens nowadays.
How do you deal with the feedback loop? How do you avoid over adjusting making the plane go crazy?
Show HN: VoilaNorbert, find anyone email address
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I've spent hundreds of dollars on logo graphic design services. It's not something you want to skimp on--branding is incredibly important.
I took a bunch of CS classes a few years ago so I could build a software product. Now it's built and launched with paying customers and I have a real developer who has taken over coding. However, I've noticed that my own programming skills have lapse. I guess if you don't use it you lose it. Something like this might just be helpful for retaining hard won skills. Thanks!
Hey guys,

I wanted to share Voila Norbert with you and have your feedback. We launched this project about a year ago, and we built it in less than two days (just a minimal product for us). We then forgot about it and left it as is.

But a month ago, someone posted it on Product Hunt (http://www.producthunt.com/posts/viola-norbert) and it received quite a great amount of people. Since then, our project is featured on many other popular website, including (at our greatest surprise), LifeHacker! (http://lifehacker.com/norbert-finds-and-verifies-peoples-ema...).

We had in mind to rework the project, fix the false positives, check for catch-all and improve the UI along the way, and it's finally done and online now. We also took the opportunity to implement some paid versions for those who wants more. Maybe it'll work, maybe no, we'll see that in the future.

The mobile version is not yet ready but should be implemented pretty soon.

I think it's time to share it with the Hacker News community, hence the post :)
That was interesting.

Layout didnt work so well on my note 3 with chrome, the image sections were pretty flawless but the text parts were a tad difficult to focus onn at times.

Definatly going to look it up on the pc though :-)
Linux/BSD support is literally the reason I just bought an Nvidia card to replace my old Radeon.
If you like minimal players, recently came across a cool command line player:
https://github.com/np1/mps-youtube
Nice command line and interactive interface allows you to search and play music and videos (optional) from Youtube.
Interface is minimal and functional ... give it a try
I'd like to have seen a few tests with Windows Phone (somebody must care about us!). My Lumia Icon has 4 "high def" microphones with great claims of accuracy and background noise reduction from Nokia. In my experience they've worked well but I don't have an SPL to compare it against.
Being able to give your vote means you're able to sell it. I'm OK with this, but I'm pretty sure most people aren't.
Yes, but google did surprise the world by moving away from xmpp.
How do buyers view the house without an agent? I asked the sellers agent to show me a house once and they wouldn't do it unless I used them as my buying agent also :-(
Sensors/Awareness of environment is where the dream dies. Not just in that sensors give very limited input, but that limited input is far more than you can practically use effectively without a team of PhDs and a few years. You end up making very greedy decisions about behavior based on sensor readings, which work great in a narrow context of places and behaviors, but generalize poorly to human spaces. UAVs are a little better because their "specific context" is a bit more broad than most (in the air, minimal turbulence, and nothing to hit). If you want a similar interesting problem where you could feel efficacy look at robotic blimps or boats, you can get kits!
Fair enough. I always left it on default, and it's not the prettiest thing then, or wasn't at the time.
Lower tax rates, and simpler tax rules, often lead to higher revenues. Make it easy to comply with the rules, set reasonable rates, and companies may find it easier to deal with than setting up shell offices in another country and employing teams of accountants and lawyers and bankers to shuffle the money around.
I'd love a version of Winamp 2 that works on OS X.

I loved how minimal and fast it was. You didn't need to import and manage your media, just drag a folder onto it and blam, it's playing. Nice keyboard shortcuts, no extra crap.

So much of my music is still just folders of mp3s in /artist/album/*.mp3 format and I really can't be bothered importing it all into iTunes, meaning I just listen to the same few dozen albums I do have in iTunes.
link to the docs? Probably an interesting read.
I don't see such a huge distinction between people and companies as you do. Companies are just groups of people working together. They aren't totally alien things.

Governments always claim that their tax is "fair", that doesn't mean anything. We have to evaluate fairness ourselves. In this case, what does "fair" mean? People tolerate taxation because they get something back from it. That's it - that's the only reason. It's not because politicians or governments have some natural right to exist, it's because the benefits outweigh the costs (again, in theory, ignoring that no government is even close to perfectly representative).

But what benefits do companies get from the tax they pay? The answer is, very few and nothing on the scale as what people get. Companies don't use roads or schools or hospitals, their employees use those and they already pay tax. Companies can use the courts, but they usually have to pay for that at the point of use, they don't qualify for legal aid or anything like that. They can also benefit from things like copyrights or patents, except these days at least in the tech sector patents seem more of a cost than a benefit. I'd happily opt my company out of that "benefit" if I could. They certainly are not immortal, companies go bust all the time.

Meanwhile, people that can't afford to play the game and make deals with Luxembourg can easily lose out badly in your so-called fair world. A few people form a company and start selling some products. 20% of the sale price goes to the government where the customer was based. But then, in the absence of double taxation treaties, the government where the company is based (if there is a single such place) would take another 20%. Then when the company actually pays the people who did the work, those governments might take another 20-40%.

0.8 * 0.8 * 0.7 (let's say 30% personal income tax) == 0.448, in other words you ended up losing most of the money you earned just to corporation and personal income tax. That's before including things like employment taxes, taxes on property and so on.

This provides a powerful incentive to simply not sell to other countries at all, and this makes everyone poorer. Which is why there are double taxation treaties. But once you have those, you have to accept that other countries will have different opinions about tax and different needs, and trying to slice up the cake will inevitably result in big fights and compromises.
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That's... that's what HTML5 means. It's not just "HTML", it includes all of the DOM and APIs that you use through JavaScript to make any of it mean anything. That the <audio> element is reskinnable with CSS in this way is part of the HTML5 standard.

And it's rather much splitting hairs. HTML isn't very useful without CSS, CSS isn't useful at all without HTML, and JS is the only choice of languages for interactivity in HTML. "Can we please stop using 'car' to mean 'car'+'engine'+'tires'".
I think he GP was referring to visually impaired people, per the post they were responding to (about the "irony", etc.).
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https://s3.amazonaws.com/iw-files/apps/2014/12/luxleaks/sear...
Or rather we could stop saying "car5" meaning just "car". Oh, wait.. :)
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> Of course, with Go, it's a lot more ad-hoc and less boilerplate,

How is it less boilerplate?
First you need to communicate this to the public and show that the problem is only going to get worse, as globalization allows more and more elaborate schemes like this. This will justify lowering corporate taxes, or establishing official authorities that will negotiate special tax deals with companies. In short, what luxembourg is doing, all big countries will be doing soon as well.
The quesution is.... and what about small businesses? Why should they be treated differently than corps?
I totally agree. The first impression people get can make your project fail or succeed.

I don't think it's impossible to make it without a decent brand, but it's a lot harder, and your product must really be useful.

I personally spent $600 on this logo, which I think it's an average price: http://snaplive.com/media/images/shared/logo.png
>the homogeneity of the iOS ecosystem is a boon to this sort of measurement.

It was a boon to the researchers because it made their job more simple. Given equivalent or better hardware quality, the same measurements could have been taken without regard to which OEM produced the phone; albeit with more effort on the part of the researchers.
The hole in the law is not really a hole, it's designed to work like that.

The EU single market was created to simplify trade across borders in Europe, because that makes everyone wealthier. Imagine if every country had to make everything itself!

Tax is a big part of what makes trade complicated. If you had to file taxes in dozens of different languages, dozens of times, each year to every EU country, it'd be much harder to sell across the single market. So the EU does not require that, you can incorporate once and sell to the whole market. That means, you get to pick where in the EU you incorporate, and as different regions have different levels of taxation .... well, it's no different to freedom of movement for individuals. They can go live somewhere with lower taxes if they want to. The places they didn't choose to live might not like that, but you can't have both simplicity and every government getting to tax everyone else.
I don't know about this particular project, but the standard approach is to use a PID controller, which uses the derivative term to control overshooting and oscilations.
It's not surprising that a device around a mobile device can produce decent results. The Bruel and Kjaer 2250 [0] and 2270 sound meters (probably considered to be the highest-end sound meter on the market) is built around Windows CE.

That said, the JASA paper give this very huge caveat near the end: Furthermore, this study examined these apps in a controlled noise environment. Field measurement results may vary greatly due to the effect of temperature, humidity, long-term use, object interference, and overall stability of the microphone and electronics in these devices.

Furthermore, they tested the devices with relatively high SPL signals (65 to 95 dB), the only tested overall noise levels (no frequency response testing) and in a reverberant field so these results may not be applicable to many other situations (temperature extremes, lower sound levels, etc)

The week point of using a smartphone as a sound meter is going to be the microphone. If you can pair the smartphone with a precision microphone (using something like Studio Six Digitals iAudiointerface [1] for example) you can have the equivalent of a IEC Class 1/ANSI Type 1 microphone (I and colleagues have used this setup for sound measurement projects involving litigation). But if you're depending on the device's internal microphone, be very careful at how you apply those results, especially given the vacates listed in the paper.

That said a smartphone sound meter apps will get you in the right ball park, and as alluded to by SwellJoe they can be at least as accurate (if not more accurate) than some of the $50-$100 Type 2 meters on the market. Just don't rush to any conclusions based solely on data obtained from those setups.

[0] http://www.bksv.com/Products/handheld-instruments/sound-leve...

[1] http://www.studiosixdigital.com/audio-hardware/iaudiointerfa...
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Tax the sale of the item to the end buyer and do away with all corporate taxes? That would be easiest method but psychologically it may cause angst amount the populace when they realize just how much tax they pay on everyday purchases.

going back to other stories, if and when space tourism takes off, whats to stop someone from relocating to orbit and avoiding excessive and at times abusive taxation?
amalantony: are you a part of the team? It is brave of the team to have opensourced the entire code-base under AGPL. Success to you guys.
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I'm a student developer looking for Summer 2015/Winter 2014 internship.

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These solutions are rather flat, so I wonder how much energy is lost by not being able to tilt the panels.
No, because HTML4 really is a completely different beast. The syntax is 99% the same, the available elements are backwards compatible (though the recommended usage is almost completely different) and HTML4 did not include anything about DOM or APIs.