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Kickserv is Hiring Work from home with a great team (US Only)
We are looking for experienced Web and Mobile developers to join us.

Rub on Rails Developer

Description:
You will help Kickserv develop amazing SaaS products with Ruby on Rails and Javascript to transform the home services space.

Skills and Experience:
Proven competency developing software applications in Ruby on Rails, with a solid understanding of OOP in Ruby, MVC and relational databases. Comfortable using HTML, CSS, JavaScript (Angular a plus), and Git. Experience with Test Driven Development and Continuous Integration.
Ability to work with creation and consumption of APIs, and comfortable with technologies like JSON and XML. Strong skill integrating with external APIs. Experience working in an agile remote team environment using tools like Slack, Hangout, and Kanban boards.

Responsibilities:
Develop, deploy and maintain applications in a collaborative environment. Build and maintain APIs.

Mobile Developer

Description:
You will help Kickserv develop amazing mobile products for iOS or Android to transform the home services space.

Skills and Experience:
Proven competency developing native iOS or Android apps launching successful apps. Objective-C skills and inside-and-out knowledge of the iOS SDK. Java skills with extensive knowledge of the Android SDK. Ability to work with creation and consumption of APIs, and comfortable with technologies like JSON and XML. Strong skill integrating with external APIs. Experience working in an agile remote team environment using tools like Slack, Hangout, and Kanban boards.
Experience working with Ruby a plus.

Responsibilities:
Develop, deploy and maintain applications in a collaborative environment. Build and maintain APIs.

Please send inquiries to jobs@kickserv.com
Or did CISC win?

Old CISC: Microcoded interpreters interpreting higher level ISAs.

"New" CISC: JITs transpiling higher level ISAs into microcode.

Old RISC: Let's skip the middle man and deal with 80s CISC microcode directly, so as to simplify instruction decoding and pipelining.

Somewhat new RISC: Oh wait, instruction decoding is trivial, at high frequencies we can't ignore the fact that i.e. multiplies inherently take longer to compute than adds, and icache density really matters in an age when DRAM is orders of magnitude slower than the SRAM it feeds. I guess we'd better start reading those Ars Technica articles on the design of the Pentium from the late 90s.

Is "new" CISC wearing old RISC's clothing, or is new RISC just finally catching up to 90s "new" CISC?
Ask HN: How do you bookmarking?
I am curious about differente bookmarking tecniques.I am losing control of my bookmarks between dead lager articles, tutorials and useful sites. I can't fine any Hood enough service or tecnique. Nerd help HN!!
"Human SEO." I like that. Hadn't thought of it that way before. That's mad disruptive bro.

Other industries have it worse though, or have different issues all their own. Finance is a real shitshow.
They can release a press release to complain about Apple policies and get hits/donations?
The account is now deleted (or at least renamed, breaking the links)
My strong disagreement with you here is a good illustration of the practical differences between Bayesians and Frequentists. As a Bayesian, I'm horrified by the idea of doing anything other than building a segment model and letting the fatness of the posterior handle the low sample sizes.

But yeah, that is a pretty good way for a marketer to avoid being too stupid. And I can't say I haven't done this a bunch of times, particularly when doing quick exploratory calculations.
It's too bad there's no easy way to make resistance work for us, instead of against us. Like finding something else for these to infect, having them get resistance to the nasty bug, then using the same method to get rid of it.
> The hordes of android fans down vote me with no comment, no argument, because it isn't about the facts of reality, it's about ideology and hatred.

I do agree that ideology and hatred does contribute to why people are downvoting you.

We might disagree on whose ideology, and whose hatred.
They are dimensions but only two of them are independent: time and volume or frequency and volume. You can't arbitrarily set the three together.
I thought https://github.com/ljharb/is-object was a joke too, but... 37k downloads in the last month. Here's the full source code:

'use strict';

module.exports = function isObject(x) {
return typeof x === 'object' && x !== null;
};

Frankly, copy/paste is a superior code reuse mechanism at this scale.

The part that really blows my mind? This project has had 57 commits to it! That's basically proof that the project management overhead exceeds a sane cost/benefit tradeoff.
One of my best friends is gay. The mother of my child runs an abortion fund for women who can't afford abortions. I helped her set it up. Objecting to personal beliefs is why the LGBT group was persecuted for so long.

Perhaps you don't like the abstract idea of discrimination, but discriminating against religious groups is the same as discriminating against eskimos, hindus, blacks, whites, etc.
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Neuroscience and Destiny
I agree! Many small time devs had poured their blood, sweat, and tears into making apps to serve people, only to have apple kill the app with little explanation.

One day apple will eventually change their ways, but not until its clearly in their financial best interest to do so.
Definitely less than an hour (around 30 minutes if I recall correctly) as the SDKs, documentation, sample codes are automatically generated after entering the endpoint definition.
Please give it a try at http://restunited.com.
Unfortunately that looks to be the case. I had hoped they'd rolled their own push server implementation in the linked source (https://github.com/EFForg/pushserver), but it's just a wrapper around the GCM and APNS services.

It's disappointing, because both Android and iOS have support for periodically retrieving data without using the proprietary push services. It's not like the EFF is going to be delivering messages that have a 'real-time' requirement and therefore require a persistent connection (as opposed to say, Gmail/Hangouts).
> preventing the running of unauthorized code, which keeps malware off the platform.

This is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for controlling malware, yet you speak as if it is both.
That is not the case. The disclosures show some rules to match requests to Tor directory authorities (which most clients connect to to bootstrap) and the Tor website, amongst others (like some article at linuxjournal). It is unknown whether these are actual rules in deployment or just example rules from some demo slides, who can add or select rules for collection on what networks, how many rulesets there are and, maybe most importantly, how many rules your traffic has to match before it gets "flagged", and whether that results in full collection of the traffic or for a subset of the (meta)data.
>The streets of American cities are haunted by the ghosts of bookstores and record stores, which have been destroyed by the greatest thugs in the history of the culture industry.

I suppose this is a dig at Amazon and Apple. Two companies which have made it much easier than ever for anyone to share their creative work with a global audience. They've also made it easier than ever for a music lover or a reader to acquire music and books no matter the obscurity of the work or the consumer's location in the world.
Monster sues Beats over alleged ‘fraud and deceit’
Haven't the Buddhists who invented it, always been aware that you can have bad trips? I recall reading a koan along the lines of:

"Master, I see hell, demons torment me, I'm burning!"

"It's a distraction. Carry on sitting."

"Master, I see heaven, filled with love and bliss!"

"It's a distraction. Carry on sitting."

(heavily paraphrased from decades old memory)
I use meditation to deepen good thought "rivers". The way I see my mind is... something happens and triggers a thought which goes down the deepest "river". For example, I hear some bad news at work; my mind processes this trigger and goes down the deepest "river" leading me to a feeling of anxiety.
So I compile llvm+gcc often with home-brew, the compile time on my laptop takes total about 5.5 hours. But I setup vagrant and vmware to allow me to automate this all away and create txz's of the install.

And as for mactex it seems to work fine for what I use, though it installs to /usr/local/texlive when I tested it a month ago.
I like how subtle quite a few of these are. Impressive what is possible with pure CSS nowadays.
Reading this brings to mind very similar stories about people trying marijuana and suddenly undergoing long psychotic episodes and/or becoming diagnosed with psychotic conditions like schizophrenia or bipolar.

The vast majority of these cases always end up being result of a genetic predisposition to psychosis.

That seems exceedingly likely to be the case with those who undergo psychotic episodes due to meditation.

I think highly introspective and mind-alerting experiences and substances like meditation, cannabis, and psychedelics all have the unfortunate side effect of potentially causing latent mental illness to surface. But it only happens when there is a latent mental illness.

Better advice might be to warn people about meditation if their family has a history of mental illness or if a doctor thinks they have an increased risk of mental illness. It should not pose any risks for an average person.
> I think Apple's policy is mainly aimed at preventing competing app stores.

Yes. Malware is the boogey man which apple uses to justify this.
New Machine Can See Bones, Organs in Stunning Detail
$35 Quad Core ARMv7 PC
Many modern hearing aids already have ways to do what he's looking for.

Bluetooth receivers for television or phones, for example. In other cases, I've seen lapel microphones meant to be worn by the person speaking.

If analog wants to build their own for the sake of the experience, or for cost, then I'm certainly not going to discourage them. But if all they want is the solution to that particular problem, it already exists and is being sold.
I understand and agree with the EFF's position and why they'd want another method of outreach but you're right, this really doesn't require an app. SMS and email are perfectly fine methods to distribute this type of alert.
Very cool! This really brought back memories. Any plans on adding Heroes of Might and Magic + Lords of the Realm?
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Of course they didn't. Everything they called out has been in place since the first iPhone. I'm all for customer experience, but iOS devices are absurdly locked down, and crippled in many ways because of poor Apple policy and the cult-like mentality within the company that prevents them from improving it.
Free association of this nature can lead to both amazing creativity and innovation as well as awful paranoia, anxiety, and fear. The mind sure is fascinating.
Curiously, that sort of language is used by camera people. Aperture and shutter speed are not the same thing, but they are inextricably linked to each other (in a way that dynamic range (in the amplitude sense) and frequency response/range are not nearly so linked). In a "camera article", the phrase " ... its fast f/1.4 shutter speed." would probably be in the context of saying something about one or more of the sensor's size, sensitivity, or noise-floor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lens_speed

"Lens speed refers to the maximum aperture diameter, or minimum f-number, of a photographic lens. A lens with a larger maximum aperture (that is, a smaller minimum f-number) is called a "fast lens" because it delivers more light intensity (illuminance) to the focal plane, achieving the same exposure with a faster shutter speed."
True it would make it difficult to do third-party tracking across multiple sites (unless there was server-side information connecting your accounts, like an email address). And leaving aside browser fingerprinting.

That could also just by achieved by disallowing third party cookies though - feels on the cusp of being a browser implementation problem (just stop allowing third party cookies).
How to think about your startup idea by Teespring cofounder
Ask HN: Did Cloudflare Destroy My SEO Traffic?
I am extremely upset but I have come to the conclusion that after using cloudflare pro, my SEO traffic has disappeared. I checked to find that I didn't even show up in the search results for my own full domain name.

Prior to using cloudflare I did not have this problem. SEO traffic was good, I was seeing my site in the search results.

I am just at a loss for what to do. As much as I loved cloudflare paying $20/month for SSL, I now have growing suspicion that it was destroying my SEO traffic all this time and it actually leaves me infuriated.

How can I configure cloudflare or should I leave cloudflare altogether?
Exactly.

EFF is making a well reasoned decision here that is consistent with their stated goals as an organization, and with the stances they take on other issues.

Obviously, there are massive differences between Apple's policies and Google's policies, when taken as a whole.

EFF might (speculation) see the Google Play store as a minor compromise of their values, while the apple app store is a MAJOR compromise.

> Also, I don't see why the EFF would have published their Android app if they thought the terms were unacceptable.

It seems that the dominant theory by the enraged applephiles is relates to some imaginary 'holy war' against their beloved, innocent apple.
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I haven't heard of the first one before, very nice. Thank you!
I am among the disrupted.

- Books have never been cheaper.
- I can video call around the world.
- Almost anything can be delivered quickly.
- Email has taken over my life.
- I have free access to an evergrowing encyclopedia.

There is some loss, but I'll take this life over that of a small-plot farmer or industrial worker. It's much easier to be an intellectual with access to all this on-line knowledge. It doesn't kill our humanity, it elevates what our humanity is capable of.
FTA: The streets of American cities are haunted by the ghosts of bookstores and record stores, which have been destroyed by the greatest thugs in the history of the culture industry.

That's just what one would have expected from Leon Wieseltier. His columns at The New Republic often likewise came across as self-important, contemptuous, and entitled. The jury's still out about the recent management "changes" at TNR, but more than a few readers won't be sorry to see L.W. gone from there. (Except now he's at The Atlantic.)
Not at all obvious to the investors who value these companies at tens and hundreds of billions of dollars. They don't expect them to dissapear in 5-10 years
Agreed on the fantastic-ness -- the first 4-5 in the sequence in particular give you a very nice flavor of working in kernel-space, and they are doable. I taught a senior ugrad OS course and experimented with using this as the project sequence.

Some folks excelled (though they put in 15+ hours per week on average, which is quite high), some cratered and I needed a backup plan for them to make progress.
Bulk Inserts in MongoDB, CouchDB, and ArangoDB (Dec. 2014)
Do these companies actually sell these cables at these prices, or are these pranks? I have a difficult time thinking anyone with an ounce of sense would buy a $5500 patch cable.
"too lazy; didn't click" is what he meant. The question was answered in the headline of the article.
I have always wondered if that high pitched sound was real! No one else heard it, and it makes so little sense I always figured it was my hearing.
Those are extremely narrow categories. You pretty much have to scream obscenities in someone's face and get punched for it right after for those categories to apply to something you said.
This is the only context in which it's cool to like gc.
Mine was not over $1,000/mo but I'm working to get it there.

http://undupe.com was something I spun up one day, it gained a little interest and now it runs around $400+ a month(with under 10 users). Not very much, but a nice start.

I'm working on moving this one up a notch past $1,000/mo while adding other small products to my portfolio.

$1k/mo is still a milestone I've been working on reaching. Up until now, I've been an active contract developer.

Still have lots of product tests running and seeing what will be next. Eventually, this will turn into a nice portfolio of digital assets and income.
A bigger issue with separating the microphone and amplifier is cosmetic: hearing aids sadly have a stigma attached to them and people are more likely to wear them if they are invisible. There is a reason why hearing aids are produced in hair colors.

Also, I found that the best way to get rid of feedback was to get an ear mold rather than using an "open-fit" mold. This is a clear separation between the speaker and the microphone and pretty much solves the problem in my experience.

EDIT: I noticed late that you addressed the cosmetic issue in your post. I don't see the elderly changing but our generation just might.
Ted Nelson is one of my heroes, if only by his ability to connect so many dots in such an original way. The more his ideas spread, the better the world.
> Did Calculus exist in 3 B.C.?

> Math has always existed. It still exists to this day.

> Math is discovered.

I really disagree with Platonism; I had trouble explaining why I had such a visceral reaction against it until I read "The Reasonable Ineffectiveness of Mathematics"[1], which largely frames the Platonist/Non-Platonist debate as a difference in culture among engineers, mathematicians, and physicists. Of course you're right about the other examples - I think it's pretty uncontroversial to say that there's no crazy dualism / "Does a tree falling in the woods without anyone to hear it still make a sound?" thing going on.

[1] : http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=tru...
3D printer dev kit runs Linux on new Marvell ARMv7 SoC
I guess they only need to sell one to make a huge return
So basically, you can be draconian in managing how a user uses their app, in the name of "malware". Sorta like how content filters on "extremist material" and "child pornography".

User wants a legal porn app? Nope, but it's OK cause you didn't get malware. Ditto for any kind of app that Apple doesn't feel fits their brand.

There's nothing wrong with having explicit, manual, escape hatches. In your haste to hold Apple up as the great wall against malware, you forget they've completely taken away choice from the user. Considering it's the Electronic Freedom Foundation, that seems like a legitimate thing to complain about.
I checked to find that I didn't even show up in the search results for my own full domain name

What is your domain name?
Food for thought: of late, the 'D' in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is being left off. The reasoning behind this is two fold: to feel nothing substantial after traumatic experiences is more of an indicator of problems and the term 'disorder' is unnecessarily negative

I support this fully and I would like you all to consider it. Ino way am I advocating Political Correctitude. I hate that shit.
Based on the note he's replying to, I believe his statement was sarcastic.
Apple defends my consumer rights? Please tell me how I can make the hardware I've purchased run the way I want it to run.
My personal experience with CloudFlare is that it is best configured as a CDN for your public static front-end. Any CSS, JS, and images will see bandwidth reductions.

That being said, for the back-end I've never seen improvements. If CloudFlare detects a server error, it could show a static optimized page which is great for anti-DDoS protection but the recovery on their end was significantly slower (minutes behind). It's an unnecessary layer in the protocol.
I meant it mostly in the neurophyisiological sense, rather than as a mystical abstraction. It strengthens neurological pathways and thickens layers of the brain involved in directed thought.
What are people actually doing with tiny pcs that require much computing power? I use one to serve a dashboard on a monitor at work, but haven't done anything else with them.
This was covered somewhat in Peaky Blinders (series set in post-WWI Birmingham). One of the secondary characters suffers PTSD (or shell shock, to use the parlance of the time), up to and including psychotic breaks resulting in violence.
I forget the name of that drug but it is moot.

Are you thinking of LAAM? It was used as a maintanence drug, but was pulled off the market due to side effects.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levacetylmethadol
Changing locations to get clean is called "pulling a geographic" by the 12-step folks (at least those I was hanging out with). Obviously getting away from bad influences helps.

Glib suggestion: perhaps replacing that addiction with the addiction of exercise might be worth exploring?
Downvoting for PR BS. Amazon and Apple are definitely /not/ the "two companies which have made it much easier than ever for anyone to share their creative work with a global audience."

Submitting music for sale on iTunes Store is impossible for independent producers - you have to go through a third party intermediary such as cdbaby (it's actually more complicated than that: http://www.audiorecording.me/how-to-sell-your-music-or-songs...). Amazon Music didn't even launch until 2008.

There is a reason why most small bands and producers sell through Bandcamp, Beatport, or Juno Records.

If you're actually talking about "sharing" and not "selling" specifically, mp3.com and Soundcloud were the two companies that made the most impact for music.
>> You could start by improving Wikipedia.

No. I don't have sources for whats in my brain. I also tried updating Wikipedia - a simple matrix equation for the Clarke Transform. It's supposed to be 2x3 matrix converting from a 3d space to a 2d one. They had the 3x3 form which adds an additional element, but AFAIK that is not the form Clarke used. I fixed it, it got changed back later.
Where was the well-reasoned argument?
I empathize for your loss, and truly understand its pain from direct experience.