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Cuff (www.cuff.io) - San Francisco - Full-time - Full-stack Backend Lead Engineer

Cuff is leading a fashion revolution in wearable technology, creating first-of-its-kind assortment of fashion wearables: smart-technology accessories that people will actually want to wear. We partner with leading fashion companies to provide hardware and software for stylish smart jewelry. We are well-funded by top tier investors including NEA, Tandem Capital and Tugboat Ventures. (http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/06/cuff-raises-5-million-serie...).

We are looking for a Full-stack Backend Lead Engineer to join our team as employee #4. It’s an exciting time to come aboard -- you’ll have the opportunity to build and shape the engineering team from scratch. You’ll also work cross-functionally with the Product and Design teams on shared goals, while taking action and assuming responsibility for implementation decisions.

Responsibilities:

- Architect and implement our server-side components
- Scaling up our API and supporting both iOS and Android devices
- Manage and deploy our e-commerce marketplace
- Work very closely with our Product/Mobile/Hardware teams
- Thrive in a fast-paced startup environment
- Help us grow our team
- Laugh and enjoy yourself

Qualifications

- Intimate understanding of Server Architecture and RESTful systems
- Experience with Agile Development and Version Control Systems
- Passion for best practices and design patterns
- Comfortable in collaborative environments

Pluses

- Comfortable with early-stage devops and deployment
- Appreciation for unit tests and functional tests

We offer a competitive salary, best equity in the Silicon Valley and a killer benefits package.

If you are interested in hearing more about this position, please get in touch with us at: jobs@cuff.io
The article explains that the site had been compromised for 6 months, and during that time all the data being stored was being encrypted and then silently decrypted.

So, restoring from a backup wouldn't get you much of anywhere, since the backed-up data would still be encrypted. Even assuming your backups are separate and uncompromised, you'd still have to go back to before the original compromise and lose 6 months worth of data.
> these services simply contest everything in the hope that the officer in charge or the ticket will not have time to follow up

No. If you actually read the article, they generally contest things on the grounds that there was a mistake or error in issuing the parking ticket that makes it invalid.
Living in the southern portion of the USA, I get some mean looks when I wish people "Happy Treason Day" on July 4th.
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Ask HN: Gradients in UI Design?
I have reviewed a few online resources, and conducted a survey from a few friends who have done UI design and took art/design courses.

There seems to be an interesting split, many of my of the users I surveyed using my application enjoy the UI design. On the other hand, many of the designers hate my UI design and say it is horrible.

In all honesty, I am not attached either way and just want the best application i can make.

That being said, what are some of your opinions?

Here is the UI design:

http://synaptitude.me/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/brainbeats-app.png

The design was tossed together in an afternoon, so feel free to be harsh if you want.
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what is "terrorism" in this instance? Would the French revolutionaries of the 1780's be considered terrorists? I'm sure they would have had they lost the revolution. I suppose by your definition George Washington was a terrorist?

Take a step back and try to be a bit more objective and realize that "terrorist" is not a classification, it is a label. And the use of that label is politically motivated.
> If you think you can go around doing whatever you want with computers

But the the government is entitled to do whatever it wants with computers why?

> If I was added to the watchlist just for purchasing those substances, then -that- would be much more ridiculous.

Maybe that's already the case. We don't even know how many lists of this nature exist let alone why people are put on them.
Hey. Thanks a lot, never heard of Patreon. I'll check it out. The "pay what you like" hasn't worked too well so far, roughly 100 downloads and one donation. But I'll keep pushing. :-)
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-vidiots-closing-201501...
This one's actually not that hard to explain. Shirts can be worn under your armor, and these are the only two kinds of shirts. Normally, a shirt adds nothing to your armor class, but it can be enchanted (up to +7 safely), so it's nice to have one if you can find one. The problem with the Hawaiian shirt is that shop keepers will assume you're a tourist, and charge you extra.
Your comment reminds me of Timothy Leary and the Harvard experiments.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Psilocybin_Project
One of the main issues with Flow-Based Programming is often while it optimizes generally in the opposite direction of Functional-Programming (Currying vs. Topological Sorting I.E.: Execute when needed vs. Execute as soon as possible) is that you tend to lose control of your software.

While I'm not suggesting a purely imperative approach, to a certain degree gains can be had in an imperative context over either Functional/Flow Programming via in depth knowledge of OS/Hardware processes and are generally NOT developer fast/friendly.

From a personal stand point Flow-Based Programming is amazing for concurrency since it lets you see where you can use threads/processes. As which sections of code are less attached to the rest.
awesome. thanks for the clarification. if i am interested in a position. should i be applying to 18F, USDS or both?
Odd to someone who is a recipent of the riches of such a system.

If you were supporting your family on "time sucking drudgery", your perspective might be a little different.
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>disrupting computer systems randomly and maliciously is a type of terrorism

So hacking is equivalent to murdering people via bombs? Are protests that disrupt traffic also terrorism?
It's from this: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

Long but a very good read, and very relevant in the context of this discussion.

The quote itself is a mix of a poem ("They broke their backs lifting Moloch to heaven") and Bostrom's last book ("lousy Disneyland with no children"). It refers to the scenario when our economy/incentives system automates away all humans and we're left with a glorious economical machine with no humans inside, running without a purpose - like a fully automated, self-sufficient Disneyland that is never visited by any children.
You are out of your mind. You are equating pennies of damage done by Anonymous with terrorism, which involves killing people for instilling fear and reaching unpopular political goals.
I would not use it for a new project now, if you know you will maintain that code for more than a few years.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8961857

http://www.breck-mckye.com/blog/2014/12/the-state-of-javascr...
With their analytics, they could probably make a good guess as to what people living in a 5-mile radius of the store are likely to purchase.

Which could make for some interesting juxtapositions on the shelves. Kitty litter next to Blu-ray movies, etc. But if it sells, it sells.
torthrowaway123:

> A decade ago I knew Jeremy, a very little. Not enough to be particularly interesting even then, yet alone now, and I haven't spoken to him since he went to jail for the first time (I think around 2005).

> (And while on the subject of surveillance... I created a fake account from Tor to write this. Can't imagine anyone would really care about my saying I knew him, hell I'm 99% sure he wouldn't even remember my name, but I'd rather not make that tie if it hasn't already been made.)

I think this illustrates the real concern a lot of people may have over this story than the hair-splitting semantics about defining the word "terrorist".

How do we know who's labeled a terrorist and who isn't?

What if we're associated with someone on a terror watch list without knowing this?

What if you're on a watch list and don't know it?

What recourse do any of us have?
If this is as open as claimed, it should be easy to get FreeBSD running on it in short order:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/purism/librem-laptop

Downvoters - care to explain? Open hardware means it will work for everyone, which is pretty cool in my book.
> One can easily think of a situation where a beaver might actually do better to not build a dam - but a beaver will try to build one anyway.

The real question is if the beaver realizes this. I can think of situations where humans have done things that I believe it would have been better for them not to do based on my own information which may be different from theirs.
The other author of the Expanse is Daniel Abraham who is BFF with GRRM. And since the Expanse is an awesome series, they are more than capable of continuing his work in GoT if something nasty happens.
Of course wages were flat or down, there hasn't been a particularly strong - or sustained strength - labor market since 2000. In the 2005-2007 time frame there was a brief respite, and that of course was not only fake (powered by the housing bubble) but crashed.

Fact is, once enough slack is removed from a labor pool, wages rise. Happens every time.

It's exactly what occurred in the 1980s and 1990s. Wages weren't booming in the 1990s until the unemployment rate got to a certain low level toward the last several years of the decade.

I wouldn't expect wages to rise when U3 unemployment is 7% or 8%. I would expect to see it at closer to the 4% to 6% range. That's historically what has been the case, and we're seeing it happen again right now. If we add another ~3 million jobs in 2015, wages will rise at a healthy clip.
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Wow, that's a lot. But it could be right. There are a lot of people out there who are under employed, living on spouse's income, working under the table (hence under the radar), etc.

I'd like to conduct an experiment in special economic zones as was done in China and other developing areas in the recent past. Designate some place (my choice would be an impoverished inner city ghetto area) as an SEZ, and make it: no corporate taxes, no income taxes; no municipal, county, or state taxes; no unions; and minimal regulations - e.g., waive EPA environmental impact studies, waive minimum wage (down to some minimal amount like $4/hour). Guarantee these conditions for the next 10 years.

I suspect you'd see factories, plants, and offices flock to such a zone, and there'd be a mad scramble for real estate. Ancillary services would also boom--taxi, food, construction, office supplies, delivery and courier services, etc.

I doubt it would ever happen given the number of laws and rules you'd have to waive, but it would be an interesting experiment in cutting through the red tape and getting back to basics.
Keep in mind that I can see how many views those videos have. I can also see what the best selling books on religion are on Amazon, how many copies of the books he references are sold each week, how many views the most popular YouTube videos on religion have, etc. So it's not difficult to say that even if he is drawing from the most famous works in the academic study of religion, which he is, most people here probably haven't been exposed to those ideas.

And as for why most people here would be convinced, he has an engineering and science background, and his talks are largely aimed at engineers and scientists.

FWIW he's not trying to get you to 'believe' in religion, whatever that means. Rather, his points are more along the lines of that scientists should learn more about the academic study of religion and the commonalities between religion and science, rather than allowing the discourse on religion to be set by extremists.
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I applaud you not only for this idea, but for keeping the site up because I imagine everyone will be pounding it just as much as me :)
orly?

http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10369/which-tools-an...
And if you follow your link, you'll see that the MIT license grants all these freedoms and is thus considered to be a Free Software license.
I read that quote as his wife saying that she didn't want him to give up and die. She wanted him to fight the cancer rather than obtain a "profound acceptance" of it.
one advantage of this is that you can sandbox much smaller pieces of code.
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These are all good questions. I'm sure some agent of the government will respond very conclusively shortly.
Yes, that's it you've found it. It's an interesting effect: "Alan Turing's notes found...being used as roof insulation at Bletchley Park". It's a very unexpected continuation of the sentence. (If you know the end you'd expect it to be written "Alan Turing's notes being used in roof insulation at Bletchley park" if that's the main point.) Thanks.
ASP.NET is a big framework and indeed it's never been as smooth as it could be, especially with the very latest versions. It's not to say that web dev is not possible with Mono. I've been using Owin+Nancy+Signalr successfully on Linux.
Netflix streamed over 24,021,900 terabytes of data in the 4th quarter of 2014
"That isn't it, there is a cap on the number of volumes the libraries will keep"

I'm sure there is. Having said that, the Bay Area has at least a dozen public libraries, large and small. Add in public university and community college libraries, and that number could be as high as 20. It's not inconceivable that 20 libraries could absorb a single bookstore's inventory. The inter-library loan system works well enough that those books are effectively available to the entire Bay Area community.

That's not counting all the books they'll sell to private individuals in their going-out-of-business sale, and of course the libraries will pass up buying things they already have.

If you're going to buy something in the sale anyway, it might make sense to contribute that money to a common fund so libraries can buy those books and make them available to the community. Win-win.
Also, the person he was replying to did not make this claim. :)
> Was the third paragraph too hard to reach?

This comment would be much better without that acerbic swipe. Please stay substantive.
if i read this correctly, even 6to5 supports 77% of ES6, which is interesting.

too bad its taking so long, i cant wait until full support comes to browsers
This accurately describes many commenters in this thread and threads like it. Based on OP's description the US government is a terrorist organization.
"There's now a decreased likelihood that it'll be one of the quirky new businesses that make a city unique"

As an aside, I was reminded this past weekend that there is an honest to god gun store, in the mission:

http://www.highbridgearms.com/english.htm

I don't know what's more surprising and unlikely in 2015 ... the surviving bookstore on Valencia or a store stocking AR-15s right on Mission.
Care to elaborate? ...not that it's relevant to this discussion.
Honestly I think the issue really is with the compatibility problems you run into, especially when trying out newer stuff that was written to targin linux/mac first and foremost. You don't always run into issues, but every now and then you get some node-gyp build snafu or something that causes you to go on a google-fest for potentially obscure fixes. I've had a win7 laptop as my main machine for awhile, and generally did most of my development either in a vagrant VM or using Cloud 9 (fixes build issues and allows me to work on it everywhere). I think having a mac or using linux just makes your life a lot easier as a developer as long as you aren't doing .NET. Suddenly all the tutorials, example code, and default installation instructions just work.
Indeed,

In the former USSR and other totalitarian states, the government put out a false, rosy picture of the economy which was generally held in contempt.

In the US, the government puts out a "true after these many caveats" picture that most people are fairly doubtful of.

It seems like the present order is simply developing more defensible propaganda.
I could also see it acting as a showroom for certain products that people want to be able to look at, handle, etc.
> Angular 1.x won't magically stop working when Angular 2.0 is released.

But it will soon become older and older and with the info we have now it seems there won't ever be a way to port the code to 2.x. So that would make it a bad choice for a new project with a lifespan of 5/6 years.
That's the current URL, which appears to have copied the content without attribution.
Says RadioShack equity holders
Did you read the article at all? It says right in the second paragraph that he's retiring.
As someone who has done their fair share of psychedelics - I would feel like a coward consuming these substances if I had a terminal illness. If I knew damn straight that I was gonna die, I wouldn't want to numb it up with a substance. I'd want every minute of pain, suffering, and emotional baggage to be taken on with a sober mind.

But that is my personal choice. I would say it's probably a very positive thing on the other hand for people like Patrick who never consumed these substances. DMT might be the best one for someone who is dying, as it is hypothesized that pineal gland floods an endogenous version of this chemical into your bloodstream upon death. Consuming it prior to death could potentially work as a "practice run" to help cope with the real thing as sad as it sounds.
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Filipinos abroad can now use Bitcoins to pay bills back home
It's all in isolation unless the trunk takes pull requests. Forking doesn't change that either. There's still got to be someone evaluating changes in light of their impact on 20 million lines of code.
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I was just re-reading about the Drupal super-vulnerability of Oct 2014. This could be some of the fruit. That was an enormous vulnerability that might have compromised 100,000's if not millions of servers
What about the Tried to contact them without getting any feedback. part of the parent post?

Any plans to be responsive to customers that don't know a slightly insider-y venue to make your company look bad?
WOOO! Happy to hear it. :D Thanks for the response!
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Perhaps, but consider how much of the world still isn't digital (entire industries). Most business isn't - way more money flows through meatspace. I also think there is a good chance VR or AR will create another economic boon comparable to the Internet within your time span.
"I believe there's now an increased likelihood that it'll be a chain store catering to the well-off"

The Mission Merchants Association has a standing ban on chain stores. It is more likely to be a trust-fund enabled quirky new business. Not saying there is anything wrong with that, but it is very unlikely a chain would be able to move in.
Yeah, am I the only one who's skeptical of the whole "hidden in a box" part? More like "hidden until we thought we could convince her to publish".
Yes, I know what you meant. I was being facetious, as I don't approve of the implication that 'trolls' are somehow fundamentally different from other people. There is no law of nature that says "if someone is a troll, they will never be happy unless others are unhappy." That's not a fact, and I'm not willing to pretend it is.

Either way, I've already given you a potential solution to that problem, and I see no reason to elaborate further. Use your imagination.
I know this isn't a direct answer but I'm working on a new framework(that isn't ready yet) but I would love to hear your thoughts and see what you're excited by. Couldn't find your email mine is cammarata.nick@gmail.com.
It seems like a lot of people aren't mentioning the fact that a minimum wage increase cuts both ways. Small businesses must pay more, but low end consumers should now have more money to spend. Raising the minimum from $11 to $15 is a roughly 30% increase that will affect roughly 5% of Americans. The question is, what will those people spend that extra money on? I'm guessing it won't be books, or at least not vintage or trendy books. It will most likely being low end food, clothing and entertainment (mcdonalds, walmart, dvds) and childrens' needs of all varieties.

If stores have to raise their prices to cover higher employment costs, then the worst case will be a push for the lowest income Americans. They make 30% more and pay 30% more for most goods. But every walmart/mcdonalds/redbox employee doesn't earn minimum wage and their labor costs don't scale linearly, so the most likely outcome is that those earning minimum wage will get a small effective price break, the middle class will pay slightly more for things and the wealthy will also pay more but not really notice it. Bookstores and other middle class oriented businesses will be forced to close, while businesses that cater to minimum wage workers will see slight profit increases.

I'm not sure if this is an ideal situation not, or if it represents an intended or unintended consequence. But under a certain set of assumptions it could be viewed as this particular bookstore closing so that someone who is barely getting by has a few extra dollars to live on each month. It's a shame when any marginal business is forced to meet its fate, but it might be the best thing for the economy over all, or at least for the people who have benefited least from the recent recovery.
The announcement, to me, was way over the top. There was so much noise in the announcement with very little in terms of signal. It reads almost like vaporware, even though it probably was not.

Just give us facts, plain and simple. What it improves and how it improves it. When there are that many adjectives about the project, it just causes me to tune out a bit.

Was this supposed to be part of a sales deck or something? (An as aside, I use mongo and know its pluses and minuses so reading all that hoopla is just unseemly.)
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So this seems to affect… a lot of services. I'm surprised it's not getting more coverage. Unless this message appears when it doesn't need to, a massive number of prominent services rely on this, such as StackOverflow (if you attach it to a google account obv.).
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I'm certainly thinking of running the ebook through a statistical analysis to see if the patterns in the writing match. If they were both written in the same time period by the same author, they should be pretty similar.

I do hope there's nothing untoward going on here and that this book lives up to the legacy of To Kill a Mockingbird, but the possibility is at least worth examining.
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That's part of my annoyance with the announcement. Exactly _how_ did you reduce it and quantify it?

So much claim without any real information to back it up.
It'd be easier for Amazon to sell Amazon smartphones if their customers could first actually hold one in their hands at the local mall.
That's bold. What's a better alternative?
There is definitely a mainstream view supporting the media companies, and consistently angry about all regulation. This isn't even disputable.
Stack Overflow has already addressed this issue: http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/244367/61654.
Could you clarify how visual programming helps with building smaller isolated projects over traditional text-based means?