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Vidpresso (YC W14) is looking for a person who loves events and sales – remote
Vidpresso, a way for broadcasters like CNN, Univision and dozens of local broadcasters (KTVU, KING, KOMO, others) is looking for a sales minded person to help broaden our events business.

About you: You should know and understand most aspects of sales and marketing. You should feel comfortable cold calling, building marketing plans, and contacting leads. You should ideally understand how big events and conferences work, the pain points of event producers, and the best people to contact.

Ideally our perfect person would also know how to code, not necessarily to do it every day, but to be able to talk to other engineers on the team about event specific requirements in an informed way.

We prefer to hire people who have something they're extremely passionate about. Most of our team are obsessed with TV. Some are interested in entrepreneurship. You should have a reason for working with us that is either learning new skills (how to work remote, working with an early stage startup, how to code) or you should be suitably obsessed with events or TV production. People with neither don't tend to be great fits for us.

We're a remote team... with team members (and customers) around the world. We try to be extremely flexible, and focus on results rather than hours spent. (Or try to as much as we can.) Many members of the team have families, and we try to encourage work / life balance, while still obsessing over product.

Email salesjobs@vidpresso.com and include why this specific job seems like a good one for you. We'd also like to get an idea of what marketing tactics you like / you've tried / you'd like to try, and if you like, take a look at our website and tell us what sucks about / what you'd fix. (Briefly, we just want to get a sense of who you are / what you think is important, not free consulting)

Vidpresso is funded by YC and the Knight Foundation, among other angels.
Ooooooh, give me about a week and your wish will be my command.
>SC2 had great narratives. Huk vs Korea, Boxer coming back, Nada coming back, Idra (love him or hate him), the EG/TL stuff then Huk going to EG!, so many great runs through GSL or MLG, White-Ra beating MC at that worlds game!, MMA the prodigy of Boxer, MMA vs MVP at Blizzcon, so many great stories.

Here's the thing. How long did any of these stories and themes last? Most of them tended to die within a few months of starting. How easy were they to follow? With a whole slew of international events to follow, it was unclear which tournaments even mattered. There was very little continuity from one event to the next. SC2 as a scene has lacked the linear progression that OSL/MSL/Proleague offered viewers (Though I was only around for 2004 - 2010 or so). I feel like even War3 was easier to follow than SC2 as a spectator.
Game of Thrones also has dragons and ice-zombies. 24 purports to be something that - while far-fetched - "could happen". I don't think you can say that about Game of Thrones. Also, in GoT you get a pretty good idea of the downsides of incest and feudalism, on the off chance the viewer wasn't already aware - whereas in 24 torture is presented as a wonderful thing in certain (or all) circumstances.
The fault in your logic is your failure to account for the extrordinary difference in timescales involved in the creation of tablets and ferns.

It's worth remembering that Charles Darwin was a geologist by training. At the time, geology was a relativly new discipline, and the first line of scientific inquiry that demanded any concept of deep time. Its development signaled the dawning realization that the Earth was a lot older than anyone had previously guessed ("possibly a billion years" speculated Charles).

Acquiring an accurate measure of the timescales on which geological events played out is what set the stage for an evolutionary theory of life's development. Indeed, the theory of evolution is virtually inconceivable in the absence of these scales.
Ruby on Rails' Speed
Any outlook on Rails' speed in the future? There have been actual upgrades to its performance but are there any performance upgrades in the future to give a big boost of speed?
I think one of the fundamental points that a lot of criticism of PHP misses (and there is a lot to criticize about PHP) is that it doesn't have to be a very good language to do what it needs to do, which is, almost entirely, CRUD.

Everything else aside, being able to get an iterable array from a database and crap out an HTML page with very little effort says a lot about its popularity. You don't need to be a good language to accomplish that, or even really a sane one. You can mix css, javascript and data sets together right in the same document. Insane? Probably. A bad idea? Almost always. But also weirdly liberating, and very easy to get from point A to B.
Working on summarizing key points from Kevin Rose's Foundation interview series
serializability != one giant lock around your database.

concurrency and serializability go together great. it's only if transactions actually read/write or write/write the same data that they are done one at a time (and even that's not exactly true, depending on the concurrency control algorithms). MVCC often provides better performance because read-only transactions will not block writers.

and achieving serializability across database nodes is DEFINITELY NOT impossible.
Uber sued by SF and LA prosecutors
An asterisk is only a Whatever if it's in term position:

(* * *)(2, 3)

will happily print 6.
Well, due to content management, I can't click play on the video in the website?

> This video contains content from SME.

https://i.imgur.com/4wlnL22.png

This has happened multiple times to me, today, all from SME. So many things in life require scissors, tape, and hacks to qualify for "decent" to me now.
a) <a ping> doesn't involve JavaScript and actually saves battery power by reducing the amount of time where the network is active without being fully loaded

b) It's true that you paid for the device but Google pays for the service – the deal is that they pay for everything by showing you ads. If you disagree with that you're welcome to use or start a competitor but it's absurdly entitled to think that you have any grounds to demand that they change their business model.
He's playing against the ridiculously bad AI in that video. Here's the more impressive "mortars only" style in the LieroX remake:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx3ivYFY4ig#t=67

I had a couple of years at uni where we played this on LAN in one of the computer labs during every lunch break. We even made some maps!
"but internment was the atrocity, not this."

I never was fond of you, but this confirms that you're truly a vile human. I cannot believe that there is an actual torture apologist on HN.

In your follow-up comment, you rationalize it by saying that they are not worthy of the same treatment as those from civilized nations.

I don't know if you're a sociopath or you harbor a lot of hate and anger, but in either case, I hope you get the help you need before you hurt someone.
No. In serializable mode it simply appears that one thing is happening at a time. You can touch unrelated data concurrently with no performance impact.
So what you are saying is that given enough time and some random events my tablet could actually come to existance all by itself?

And who set the whole environment for this to happen?
My mind is honestly blown by people here thinking that half-assed type checking, local variables, and classes are novel and unique features of PHP which make it better than most other languages. Am I really living in a world where people try PHP, and try Javascript, and consider themselves well-informed expert programmers who have seen all there is to see? :S

A perfect metaphor for me reading this thread: https://i.imgur.com/fKX2Xoh.png
This makes no sense.

The root of the problem didn't start at the voting booth, "Oh I'll check yes to torture those terrorist", or "I'm going to write my Congressmen telling them to torture some folks". In fact Congress voted to outlaaw waterboarding: http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/02/14/us-security-usa-wa... (although it was vetoed by President Bush). This report will help to further clamp down on brutal interrogation techniques. It will push Congress and President Obama to resolve the issue. The CIA, in fact mislead any type of oversight over the torture programs. So instead of jumping to "we're all blame" conclusions, why don't you blame the people in charge that secured the funding for these officers to do it?
Sounds similar to http://www.electricobjects.com/
> wouldn't they also greatly reduce the inventor's chances of ever making any money with their patent?

Maybe, maybe not. If the inventor wants to make money by implementing their invention, and also benefit from the ideas other people have and implement which are similar, then this would help them. If they also happen to believe that exerting most software patents are akin to extortion, and they have no interest in it, then no also.

> And if you can't make any money with your patent, why make a patent? It's costly and complicated. Might as well just publicly disclose the invention (in a legally acceptable way), and the result will be the same as filing a patent under DPL.

It's generally less costly to patent something than defend a patent suit based on prior art. For example, see the podcast patent fiasco. Plenty of prior art, millions of dollars to defend.
The second reason they've gained massive popularity is that people all want different shit.

"But I want Hot Tea"
"But I want vanilla frappa-bullshit"
"But I want Hot Cocoa"
"Your coffee is too strong"
"Your coffee is too weak"

It's the expensive convenient machine that shuts everyone the fuck up. What's the price on that?
>people will say some of the same things about Node.js or Rails that have been said about PHP for the last decade.

Really? Please tell me which of these things: http://webonastick.com/php.html applies to ruby. People have been complaining about javascript being shitty for just as long as javascript has existed.
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My favorite is the way Go does it. There is 1 level. Names have a sane default, are short and descriptive and can be simply overridden in the unusual case of a conflict. Prefixing the (short) name is required which keeps me from having to guess as I'm reading.
What Doesn’t Kill Me Makes Me Stronger
That's how S3 actually works. It's not that crazy.
Here are some links for getting into fighting game theory!

First, the pdf "Playing to Win" [1], from shoryuken.com; this is a pretty well-written resource that will go over the basics.

There's a youtube clip [2] discussed in the first chapter that demonstrates some important concepts as well.

Finally, read through the footsie handbook [3] by, i believe, Dave Sirlin, to learn about what footsies are; they are the most important fundamental skill to a player and what take you from "mash buttons and die" to "beating your friends every single time until they learn footsies of their own"

[1]: http://shoryuken.com/srk/FightingGamePrimer.pdf

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEIAy7kAeWE&feature=youtu.be

[3]: http://sonichurricane.com/?page_id=1702

Dave Sirlin has also written a bunch of really interesting stuff on balancing fighting games; you may be interested in his series of articles on how he rebalanced Super Street Fighter II: Super Turbo (http://www.sirlin.net/articles/sf).

Fighting games are actually incredibly interesting to play and to watch! I know that all of this stuff can be overwhelming, but good fighting games are surprisingly deep. You should give them a try!
On the other hand: when you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is to stop digging.

The broader landscape of IP is a more complex story, but when it comes to software patents specifically, they are clearly harming innovation far more than helping it. Software is well-protected enough by copyrights and trademarks.
That's really fascinating! :D
Sometimes I just think that the world is perfectly balanced in this regard. Corporate greed and DRM cuffs are offset by people's desire to be freed from them.

Until they start combating piracy by offering better service, they will still be subject to piracy treatment - the most effective and appropriate treatment for megacorps that have too much power in their hands ('overreach', quoting the other poster).

Seeing how fast it went back up makes my heart warm. Long live TPB.
I don't get what you mean by your comment. CS:GO is the best thing to happen to counter strike and the game and the players are doing better than ever.
How It Feels to Be a Young American in 2014 (Hint: Shitty)
No.

Why not just pay for your software/movies/music/whatever?

And before people start chiming in with "Torrents have legitimate uses too!", I'd say that isn't applicable in this question. Legal torrents don't get taken down.
I've started using this to measure the quality of a PHP thread. When a thread reaches 3 Fractals you may as well bail.
How do you know they were terrorists and not civilians?
In Bulgaria, we had a joke about our communist president Todor Zhivkov, who was supposedly hiding from the fascists in the forests. So, the joke was that he was hiding... but nobody was looking for him, because he hasn't done anything to get their attention. Anyway, trying to "hide" is "security by obscurity". It's like your defense being hiding your SSN from your computer, when other weaker systems can already be exploited and your SSN could be stolen from them. Whatever you have to hide, it's already kept somewhere else in most cases. Instead, find a defense strategy that does not depend on obscurity - this is the only defense.
While i don't have any great issue with the practice(BT does this in the uk) I also don't really see much benefit. Given the range you'd have to be in an adjacent house/apartment to actually connect(or sitting outside someone's house in your car?!) at which point surely there would be a wifi connection there that you could use.
Loss-leader market models don't HAVE to abuse customers. We're just not comfortable with licensing vs ownership arrangements.

Often market forces put us here. Locked, subsidized cell phones with contracts or DRM printers are sold to get people into the market; they wouldn't buy it at full rate.

I don't want to be part of that deal so I buy the unlocked cell phone and DRM-free coffee machine. The alternative is very nearly theft.
Another developer and I share an Aeropress I bought (he bought the metal filter, a must for dark roasted coffee) at work. It's brilliant, and makes amazing coffee with little to no mess. Well worth the money, and much better than a DRM-laden landfill generator.
Personal Capital, SigFig and Nvestly are all solid, but Excel ftw
Are these numbers so low because of rent control? I lived in a 300 square foot studio last year that cost me $1400 a month. That exact same studio now costs $2800. I've seen similar increases from craigslist posts throughout the city, compared to what I was looking at last year. What I wouldn't give for it to only have increased 15%.
I don't know enough about Ruby to make any specific criticisms of the language. I just know that Ruby/Rails is being recommend to beginners (through Code Academy). I guess I could have said Python instead, but I don't think Python's web frameworks (Django, Flask, etc) have the market share that Rails does.
May I ask what you do work on?
Who's complaining? Cyanogenmod absolutely does a full rom flash, you can look at the download... it's the full shebang. Other stock roms might just unzip overtop the system partition, which would "update" anything that it overwrites. They usually kill root because they reset the system partition back to stock as for a normal user is should be unmodified (yes for security reasons, but also because that's how they want it to be).

perhaps we're talking past each other... because you seemed to miss my point... phones don't update single packages as updates are available like a typical linux distro would.
"There's no real evidence that (1) is false"

Since there is ample difference in results, you actually have to demonstrate that natural talent is evenly spread throughout the population, as opposed to waving the magic wand 'I want to believe it, so it must be true'.

Let's step away from SV and look at academia - who gets CS PhD's?

http://cra.org/uploads/documents/resources/taulbee/CS_Degree... - page 5. 86% male, 80% White or Asian (and 8% foreigners - who are probably mostly Asian). So roughly 87% for both.

There is also research (sadly paywalled) that considers whether PhD attainment can be explained by factors other than natural ability (it can't)

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775797...
> whatever is being done in public health and medicine in the developed world appears to be working

"Whatever" is a pretty broad statement. What if we found out that the biggest factor is nutrition and health care while young: in other words, maybe poor health and nutrition while young leaves "scars" of a sort that come back to bite us as we age?

I'm not saying that that's the case. I'm just saying that "whatever" is too broad a statement. The piece is about the comparatively superfluous effect of so-called preventative medicine in late middle-age. If we just grant that point, for the sake of argument, then that's a whole bit of "whatever" that we could save our money on and do without.
I would hope most linux users knows how to use checksum.
some people (caugh caugh rent-the-runway) describe a junior developer as this: http://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=d399f4767bd2e859&q=Junior+F...

pretty silly
Obviously not. And that's for the simple reason that the theory of evolution describes living things. As I'm sure you know, a tablet is not a living thing. Therefore, the theory of evolution doesn't even try to account for its appearance.

Of course, people talk about the evolution of inanimate objects all the time. But most of them are aware that they're using the term loosely, and not it its proper scientific sense. In other words, when people talk about the "evolution" of tablets, they are not asserting that new tablets are the product of existing tablets having sex with each other and producing little baby tablets which ship themselves to retail outlets when they're all grown up and ready for sale. Rather, they are speaking metaphorically, and describing a process which, in many ways, looks like evolution.

Nevertheless, the incremental development of tablets is not actual evolution any more than a person wearing a lion costume is an actual lion. I hope this clears things up
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8724760
Warrant canaries actually are a relevant distinction: the state has the ability to compel you not to reveal something, but rarely if ever the ability to compel you to speak, outside of testifying (at least, in the US).

Dismissing them trying to exercise a different power than the one they're granted by the law as a "technicality" is a disservice to the rule of law. It's not a mere technicality, it's a fundamentally different kind of action.
Why have I given up on Windows Phone? Blame Verizon
They don't just refuse to work with non-keurig k-cups, they refuse to work with version 1 k-cups from the old system.

Sucks to be anyone who bought more than a box before their machine broke.
$35 quad-core hacker SBC offers Raspberry Pi-like size & I/O
ty. will do.
Wait, when did Pixel Qi die?
Alphatize It (The end of site bugs is now)
The AMA highlights one of the deficiencies of Markdown. Prof Hinton has attempted to number many of his responses to the highest rated thread, but they're all coming up as 1. 1. 1. 1.
>This video is not available in your country.
Interesting change.

It certainly makes some diffs more readable, but in some situations it makes them less readable.
If you give people your software under the MIT License, they can give it to anyone they want to.

"Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so"

http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
RIP Piratebay
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I'd recommend anyone trying this to be cautious with the amount you add.
I'll recommend using a really-fine mesh filter, like this: http://www.amazon.com/Finium-Brewing-Basket-medium/dp/B0037S...

You get a little bit of super-fine dust through it, but it's reusable for years and lets all the yummy oils through.
sigh http://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

Worth reading once, if you keep wondering why everyone is slagging off the language you love (and that language is PHP).
> Right now, writing code in PHP can hurt an engineer's reputation more than writing DRM code in any language. That's pretty ridiculous IMHO.

I mean, you just completely made that up.
What I like about PHP: ease of deployment. No builds or process restarts required. This makes it easy to prototype and rapidly iterate.
Actually, this isn't as relevant as it seems. The parole judges in the study are given a steady stream of cases, without deliberation. There's also a clear default: "no"

Some court decisions fit that mold, but many do not. Often, court decisions have no default, and the judge retires to consider the arguments.

The study in question was very important for showing that humans are often not guided by rationality. But it's not necessarily a great demonstration of how all legal decisions are made.
The article never mentions energy efficiency. How does such a rail trip compare to a mega freighter in joules per ton? The ship has to go through Malacca and Suez, of course.

On many routes in the US barge transport is still much more efficient than rail.
I strongly suspect it's serious fantasy-land stuff. The existing Alaska railroad network is essentially a Seward-Anchorage-Fairbanks line. (We won't count the narrow gauge from Whitehorse.) Anchorage has the only sizable population along that line--300K people live there. So to connect to the Canadian railroad system you'd build about 1,000 miles of track. There are apparently some resource extraction reasons to build such a link but my impression is that it's mostly Alaskan politicians who are interested.
I think their power is a tad less than that of the US :)
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How is it that they've been able to maintain a .se domain? You'd think that Swedish authorities could get that seized.
When I first moved in with my wife (well, fiance at the time), I moved from a place where my roommate owned the coffee maker to a place where my "roommate" didn't drink coffee. I spent several weeks making coffee this way, too lazy to go buy a coffee pot.

To filter the coffee, I had a large mason jar in which I arranged four chopsticks sticking out in an upside-down pyramid, on top of which I cradled the bottom of a half-gallon milk jug in which I had punched several holes. The coffee filter went in the milk jug and the weight of the assembly pressed on the chopsticks, which then levered against the rim of the jar and braced against the side, creating quite a stable setup.

Yeah, too lazy to go buy a pot.
I'd be curious to read about that, myself.
You know what's better than using a Keurig? Get an Aeropress. It's easy, awesome, and tastes better than Keurig.

Also, Aeropress doesn't have all that not so eco friendly waste that Keurig's K-Cups have.

There is no DRM on Aeropress.
Loda also had a good performance at the Summit recently, standing in for Tinker. Even if Alliance may not be so hot on the scene right now, the talent at the core of their team is still present.
The point here is to advertise Mathematica, not to solve a problem.