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iCracked (YC W12) opens SF dev office and is looking for back-end engineers
iCracked is looking for Back-End Developers to join our team in creating the ultimate on-demand repair and trade-in service. We connect thousands of customers to our iTechs each week and are building a deployable service network of iTechs in every city worldwide that we have demand in. We're planning on adding an additional 5,000 iTechs to our network in the next year.

Our company is just under 100 strong with offices in the SF, Redwood City /Bay Area, London, and Berlin and the iCracked engineering team is currently 12 individuals and we are looking to grow that to ~25 in the next 12 months. Our system currently consists of our website, 3 sets of custom built business admin tools and 3 iOS apps (1 consumer and 2 enterprise). Our stack is powered by PHP, MySQL and Javascript (JQuery and AngularJS). We also have 5 people on our front end engineering team that are excellent (Check out iCracked.com)

We have a platform that powers hundreds of iTechs that’s based on managing and optimizing, on demand workforce through a robust backend platform and network. You can think of it as an Uber-like service, but addressing an entirely different market need. The company is on fire.

Revenues have gone from $1.7M in 2012, to $>17M in 2014 with massive growth estimated for 2015. We are a gradate of Y Combinator (W12) and #83 on the fastest growing INC 5000 companies globally. Backed by the preeminent Venture Capital firms in Silicon Valley and growing like crazy. We are poised to dominate a massive global market with backend technology that can be applied to a variety of different markets in the future.

We're building a complete Warranty, Repair, and Trade-In platform that should consolidate 3 multi-billion dollar a year industries under one consumer brand.

We have an incredibly talented, fun team and are excited for new members that can add tremendous value while doing the best work of their lives. We're a lean development team that moves fast. We push to production multiple times a day and continuously iterate on the core service. This is an exciting time to join if you truly want to be involved in developing the core product at a tech driven company.

To really set yourself apart, we'd love to see web projects, apps (maybe even your own startup, we love founders) you've created from scratch in your free time. Send us a link with a short description.

What we’re looking for in you:

-Demonstrated passion for developing your own projects

-Solid with: Object Oriented Programming, MySQL, Javascript

-Familiarity with: Git, MVC

-Bonus Points (but not required): PHP, jQuery, Angular, nginx, Munin, Nagios, AWS, Asana, Obj-C

With iCracked, you wouldn’t be starting a new job; you would be joining a family. We take care of all team members and provide almost all amenities to make everybody’s lives better. Salary is negotiable and we have set aside great equity packages and other benefits for you.

If you're interested please reach out to me at Aj[at]iCracked.com
> However, the "God-given Right to Free Parking" mentality would never allow it to work

Um, most cities in the US have metered parking, too.

It's only when you reach the suburbs that parking changes to free. And that's because, with prevalent car ownership, having to pay for parking will decimate a store's customer base.
Yes. The asphalt is probably the cheapest line-item in the $2.3B budget. Not sure what OP is on about..
I don't even see how my post is an opposing view. The first two sentences are statements of fact. I'd argue that the third sentence is also a fact, but I'll accept that not everyone believes it.

I honestly don't get what people disagreed with, I was just attempting to correct some of the factual errors that people had been making all over this comment section.

Edit: Ah, I see that the person I responded to edited their post from "Brandon" to the correct, "Brendan".
_This code is written in optimized C++ and is very fast._

Can you elaborate?

_but we're shooting for performance levels where you (as a user) might not even be able to measure the difference._

Benchmarks are almost always skewed towards the preferred workload of the DB (they're like science experiments, the result is heavily biased). How are you ensuring this isn't the case with your benchmarks?

Also what are you benchmarking against? I'd like to see one against Aerospike.
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The GVRD renamed itself to the Metro-Vancouver about 5 or 6 years ago. The Vancouver Metro area is the exact same thing as the GVRD. They aren't different things.
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Ars had good editors.
I also have the same reaction, but not so much for the irrationality of being excited. Generally it feels good to win, and it feels good to watch someone you like win, regardless of why you like them. What I really really dislike about the affair is group signaling. (Which is a signal of my belonging to the small group of people who detest group-signaling, but nevertheless...) Enjoy watching the game all you want, even as a crowd, but the moment the "we" comes out I have that reaction. I see so many society-wide problems stemming from mere classification of people into groups, and the so-natural next step of individuals of those groups making the group part of their identity. One of the creepiest social experiments I know about is the Robber's Cave experiment: http://lesswrong.com/lw/lt/the_robbers_cave_experiment/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelamis_Wave_Energy_Converter

The Pelamis, based on technology evolved from the Salters Duck at the Edinburgh labs, was installed in pilot installations for a few years through the company has sadly since gone bankrupt
There's a very different connotation. It's the difference between telling somebody they're wrong and telling them that their idea won't work. You may mean the same thing, but for the audience it sounds very different.
Because I cycle through a lot of tabs. Yes, some of them I leave up for months to pick away at, but others I finish in just a day. It's much easier to close tabs than to edit my bookmarks constantly. And losing those tabs isn't an issue because Safari can be made to reopen those tabs each session, even after unexpected shutdown or whatever. But then this happened. I need to write something that will back up my tabs.
It sounds like you might be assuming jerf is a Sandstorm core developer. Just to clarify, he is not. (No offense, jerf.)

FWIW, the Sandstorm team is: me, qiqing (Jade), jparyani (Jason), dwrensha (David), paulproteus (Asheesh).
I wouldn't say that's true. I had a father who pitched college baseball, and tried to instill the same values in me, and it only drove me further away from it. I'd rather we consider the alternate view, and rather than discussing how those who don't like spots are somehow infringing on those who are, select the MANY occasions (as in the parent post of school gym classes) where the opposite is certainly true; those who chose to abstain from sports are shamed and learn that laughing about their stance as a joke to both sides is a good way to disarm that.

The takeaway being, there are infinitely many different reasons to like or not like something. The fact that this comes up in particular for sports communicates to me that there's a different dynamic at play here. Do we often see this conflict for things like soy? Ballet? Curling? Sports in america seems to stand alone in that any deviance from the norm gets picked apart with a VERY fine toothed comb, perhaps as a factor of societal norms. I wonder if we'd see the same examination of soccer non-fans in the broader world or if this is a more american phenomena, I honestly don't know, and it asks many interesting questions.

Even beyond that though, I "enjoy" (sarcastically) how there's a tendency to turn differences into conflict. Anecdotally, choices around interest in sports seem to cue more dissent than as mentioned in many other areas, but I see similar trends in the "big three" of politics, religion, and money. Similar patterns have sparked in other areas (gender differences; and I'm probably risking a hailstorm for even mentioning this) as well, there are certain topics people seem to be less willing to "live and let live" about.

This turned into such a ramble. I may edit it later, I hope there are some useful thoughts in there somewhere.
Meh, most combat ships in the navy are gas turbine powered. Linux is used in plenty of places. That whole project is overblown. If the bow went the other way, it wouldn't be thought of as"futuristic"
The article is correct that one should not cultivate a disinterest in sports and talk about the "working class struggle". If you're going to be an elitist, do it right.

Spectator sports, rooting for a team, appeal to the most basic and stupid tribal instincts. This is why we end up with crappy policies, this is what we can't have nice thing.

So yes, it's fine to despise it, and to look down on people who make it an important part of their life.
Not to mention all the little variables, like temperature and voltage. I saw a video segment with Brian May's guitar tech and they run a very very specific voltage into his AC30 amps. A difference of 2-3v from nomimal will be audible, at least to them, and being out more than 5v or so effected tube life. This also lets them run 220v amps anywhere in the world.
Thank you for clarifying, it definitely helps clear up some of the confusion.
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I've got kids in middle and high school. And I worked in a large county educational computing facility in the early 80's, that had every kind of computer and piece of educational software for teachers to try out. My observations:

1. The computer is the "distraction machine." It is just vibrating with distractions. Even the supposedly educational websites have things that move, different colors, links, and so forth. Keeping my kids focused on their lessons requires constant supervision. Most of the time spent at the computer is recreational.

2. I think the content tends to be superficial, possibly because making the underlying mechanics work detracts from actually creating content. A lot of the software that I saw in the early 80's was glorified flash cards, and I'm not sure it's much better today. I'd estimate kids spend twice the time on half the content.

3. The bright side is, I think there's some tech, that is qualitatively different than a textbook. It tends to resemble "real" software that grown-ups use, such as programming tools, computer algebra systems, and so forth. Schools rarely use this stuff.
Sounds like a lack of sympathy.
Total available wave energy relative to present human energy consumption is minuscule.

Realize: wave energy is solar power twice removed. First solar heating converted to wind energy, then wind to waves. If you can capture the initial solar flux, you're better off. Wind is your second-best option, and where that's locally high, the EROEI (energy returned on energy invested) is quite high.

Marine installations are notoriously high maintenance. Water, salt, corrosion, marine life, snagging, navigations hazards, and other factors, all play a role. Few man-made (or natural) materials survive well, and those which do tend not to play a big role in power generation.

Even tidal energy, with both more available power and greater concentration than wave energy, has at best limited potential. As an example that may be relateable to HN, the energy avaiable from daily fluctuations in the San Francisco Bay, at the Golden Gate. In 2006, EPRI (the Electric Power Research Institute) established that the Golden Gate has a tidal energy potential of 35.5 megawatts of total extractable average energy power (852 MWh/day, 310 GWh/year), of which 15 to 17 GWh might be practically exploitable at costs comparable with current wind and natural gas projects.

The total tidal energy represented at the gate is 237 MW (average). Capturing the entire amount would require blocking the Bay to any and all shipping traffic, or installing locks or other means to allow shipping in and out of the Bay. The total daily energy (5,688 MWh) is still well below the 18,000 MWh consumed by San Francisco daily), though it is a healthy fraction at 32%.

Note that that's the power draw _of San Francisco alone_. Not the greater Bay Area.

Yes, all that water flowing in and out of the bay daily and the "immeasurable energy" it represents? About 1/3 of the City of San Francisco's electricity usage.

Human beings use a LOT of energy.

http://www.sfenvironment.org/article/hydro/tidal-energy
http://oceanenergy.epri.com/attachments/streamenergy/reports...
I'm obsessed with the idea that "Best," is not good enough.

What do you think?
I think the authors has issues with Snapchat because he doesn't use it a lot.

Snapchat's best User manual is Word of mouth.

First time users just send a picture, then receive a picture back from their friend _With Text On It_ ! , what do they do: Send a text to the friend to get an explanation on how to do this magic trick.
Same thing with drawing on the picture, lot of people gets it but didn't discover by themselves that you could actually change the color of your pen. When they first receive one with multiple colors, they ask how-to.
Same thing with the embedded MPH, etc etc.

You would also receive some gossip from your friends: "Did you see that pic on Joe's story?"
"His story?" And you get another explanation

On a side note, I think the ads "stories" are coming too early, Snapchat might loose its Cool factor.
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Music departments are budget drains since when? The arts and humanities are actually rather cheap, they need nothing more than buildings, staff and a library. Science and engineering are the real whoppers, and as a rule cross-subsidized by A&H. Tuition per credit hour is the same, after all. The dean of the School of Arts & Sciences at a certain state school is on record saying that for the price of a chemistry professor she can pay a whole department of English.

That isn't the point. The point is that the mission of universities is academic pursuits, not athletics. If anyone wants to practice sports, power to him, but let him join the sports club, or let him start an inofficial intramurine league.

The wider point is that in America you can't earn much social capital by being knowledgeable about any academic subject, you have to be wealthy instead. That's a problem, and probably also explains many things about American society. Universities finally getting rid of organized sports might perhaps be able to change that.
Cabs haven't done this?
What eSport are you watching where it is NOT "us VS them"? Starcraft is a 1v1 game. LoL is a 5v5 game. Not sure what other eSports there are, but the major ones are always pitting humans against eachother...
This is really cool, and it's the direction my project (with a large scope) will eventually go in. I already have a text editing component and highlighting working using OpenGL, but it needs updating to not use immediate mode so it can run in WebGL too.
I should mention, I also use mine with Yamaha HS-80 monitors most of the time, which takes a lot out of the equation.
This sends a terrible message to all designers and people involved in the industry out there; specially to the ones that are in an early stage in their careers.
>>I'm pulling in some 3MB of library code that I mostly don't want.

Doesn't LTO fix that?
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Easy for Uber to "raise the bar" when they're so ethically low right now they could parachute out of a snake's ass.
I never liked the bendy square "no clasp required" form factor, just looking at it made me question whether it would cause problems while typing. But they lost before I ever had a chance to put one on to try it.

Despite Jawbone having better apps and better firmware features in the UP24, I saw how bad the reliability story is and had no real choice but to get a Fitbit Flex instead (wanted the Force but it was recalled before I even started researching).

My flex just isn't noticeable to me while wearing it, even while typing, and the battery still holds for over a week per-charge a year later. Their attitude toward Apple HealthKit made me start looking at other offerings and particularly the Jawbone UP3, but they can't even get it shipped and who knows whether things will be different this time with reliabilty. And it's STILL a bendy square...
Maybe they mean logging into the web portal by authentication with an SSH key?
Speaking from experience trying out various SaaS products - if I hit an obvious bug or get corrupted data when I try out a demo, I immediately give up on the product and try something else. Reasons:

1.) It speaks really poorly of the level of polish that I should expect in the product later. You'd think that someone would at least run through the demo to make sure it works without error.

2.) Usually if I'm evaluating a product I'm evaluating multiple products, and also have the option of building my own on the table if none of them work out. An early error is just a signal to focus my efforts on one of the other products on the marketplace.

I think you might also have a problem with the product concept, if the folks who do try it without error want additional features or aren't using it even after training. But to answer your question - yes, a bad demo or onboarding experience will absolutely destroy interest.
This is nice but this is also 99.99% of solar related energy "solutions".

If we put <some solar tech> in <some place> we could generate enough energy to power <many things>; however it is still not cost-effective to do so.
The physician has a lawyer. The lawyer needs to send a DMCA notice to whoever is hosting the fake site, be it server reseller or webhost, then have the lawyer send Google[1] a DMCA takedown request. It should resolve itself quickly as technically it could be reported as phishing.

Google DMCA Information: https://support.google.com/legal/answer/3110420?rd=2
I see this outside academia, definitely. I don't participate in political groups, but I see these debates among friends and acquaintances, on the internet, and in the workplace, even (usually in relation to diversity initiatives).

The overwhelming message I hear (not that anyone ever says it explicitly) is: "you either believe everything we say, or you're against us". It's gotten to the point that I (as a white male) have a lot of fear of speaking out when it comes to these matters, to the point where often I just keep my mouth shut. Not saying there aren't times when I should be keeping my mouth shut. But I do feel like I have some useful things to say, but I'm afraid to say them.
Show HN: Keep up with news without visiting tech sites
Hi everyone,

I've been working on a technology newsletter for the few months that helps busy people keep up with tech news. The industry moves fast but is becomign relevant for almost everyone, so this 'slow web' style method seems to work really well for people who simply want to be told what's good in a given week.

Email newsletters aren't sexy, but they work incredibly well. People love getting a summary rather than having to look for it; we have an open rate of 60-70% and a click-through of 25-35% on a given week.

I'd love if you checked it out or had any feedback on if you think this would be useful to someone you know: http://weekly.char.gd
That's great. I'd love to see you guys completely replace the MongoDBs of the world. Once you eventually reach MongoDB's performance across the important areas, switching would be a no brainer for me, and probably for many others.
Your argument is cogent and expresses my own thoughts well.

>> having something that serves as a community focal point that crosses faith boundaries is invaluable

This is true up to the point that team allegiance is weaker tribalism than faith. Growing up in Manchester and not swearing fealty to red/blue, admittedly less so than orange/green in Belfast, was still more troublesome than it needed to be.

Yet all this seems a matter of identity development. My younger brother felt the opposite pressure of having to grow up in a family uninterested in sports. Each of us were yin surrounded by yang (or vice versa).
I feel the article's writer may have given up something more valuable when he arbitrarily adopted another identity for the sake of broader communication. Unless he had a latent need to belong to a group more deeply and is merely rationalising it in the article.

>> There might be a good reason, but for a disinterested third party, odds are it's a wash.

That's the nub of it. Tribalism in any form wants adherents to reinforce that there are no disinterested parties. You are either with us or against us. Depending on your starting assumptions, that's either valid or completely spurious.
From the article the author states:

What an insane number. I just can’t believe it. That income allows me to fund my next two games outright and continue pursuing my dream of being a top tier indie dev.

So it seems like it's profitable. One thing to keep in mind is that this game appears to have been produced by a single developer (it can be hard to tell because single indie developers still use we to seem more like official companies) working out of Texas. While the game probably wouldn't be profitable by Hacker News Silicon Valley engineer salary metrics, and might not be profitable if there are multiple team members, $610K is more than enough to sustain a single indie game developer living a normal life style for years. The game is also likely to have a longer tail, and will continue to make the developer non-trivial amounts of income during the development of his next two projects.
I live in Tampere, and I honestly can't tell yet whether I picked the best or the worst time to decide to retrain as a programmer.
I once wrote software for a Gilbarco gas station pump, basically a "next gen" model of the kind used by ordinary folks all across the country daily. I too was surprised then by how much Internet related tech we were expected to use and interface with. (I was not the overall architect. And I saw the practical advantages of those choices.)

Let's just say I could smell the security holes.
a lot of parking lots in los angeles are like this.
Yeah. Another questionable assumption:

>If you had the opportunity to feed harmless bugs into a coffee grinder, would you enjoy the experience? Even if the bugs had names, and you could hear their shells painfully crunching?

No doubt their nervous systems transmit pain signals but whether bugs experience suffering seems like an open question to me.
The most recently leaked news is just a confirmation of what was discussed in the parent comment's link to Physics SE.
Best comment I've ever seen on HN.
Is six months a short time? Maybe it's because I'm European but six months sounds like a really long time to go without even a short vacation.
Ask HN: Can you tell the weather from your reputation?
Looking at my reputation graph on StackExchange I noticed the ascent angle is steeper during winter months, when an evening in is more tempting.
If this is true for others also, given a sufficiently large group of users in a similar region, would you be able to determine what their weather had been like from their combined reputation growth. Alternatively, could you figure out the group's location by examining their reputation growth and comparing to weather data.
This occurred in 2009 and unfortunately I don't recall any of the details. I only remember that it was running on Windows. I was blown away watching her use a screen reader for doing all sorts of things. I know that some of the developers on the team had originally worked with COBOL on mainframe or AS400. I don't know how well (if at all) 3270 or 5250 terminal emulators work with screen readers, but I strongly suspect that COBOL source code was easier to manage than Java in Eclipse.