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Clay.io - http://clay.io - San Francisco, CA Hiring Full-Stack Engineers. Shoot me an email: austin@clay.io

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What we're building
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We're building Steam for mobile games - competing with the app stores to provide a better way to discover games on mobile. By leveraging the web we reduce the friction between discovery and gameplay, which we think is key in reaching the next level of viral games.

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Where we're at
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Our team is small, and our challenges great. Last month we had 5 million+ sessions, running on 15+ servers, with just 2 engineers (myself included).
See http://stackshare.io/clay-io/clay-io for our stack and to get a better feel for the code we write see https://github.com/claydotio/clay-mobile

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Our Stack
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Node.js, CoffeeScript, Docker, Zorium.js, Gulp, Ansible, MongoDB, MySQL, ...
Tetris in SPARK (Ada-Based Language) on ARM Cortex M4
> If most of those kids don't grow up to be serial killers, I somehow doubt a movie is going to do it.

That's not why most people want to restrict the amount of violent content their children watch.

See, for example, the "You've been Tango'd" ads in the UK. There's a soda called "Tango". One advert showed someone drinking the can, than a fat near naked man painted orage runs in, and slaps the drinker's face with both hands. Children imitated this, causing several perforated eardrums. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Man_%28advertisement%2... (see controversy section). That's one example of children imitating what they saw on tv, and other children being harmed as a result.

EDIT: i'm not saying children copy everything. But this example proves that children do imitate some behaviours; that children are influenced by some things they watch. Ask any parent about the children's show "Caillou" and the change of their children into whiners. Parents realise that some content will cause mild behaviour changes or nightmares and they want to be prepared.
I got "traumatized" by Baywatch (something with a ghost on the beach) and the short (2-4 sentences) teaser texts of mystery/horror-books in a book catalogue (with very broad sortiment) that came to our house.
On the other hand I coped well with Mad Max and Missing in Action. You just can't predict what hits.
That seems like a stretch - according to Wikipedia : "The magazine is published by Technology Review, Inc, an independent media company owned by MIT. MIT's website lists it as an MIT publication, and the MIT News Office states that "the magazine often uses MIT expertise for some of its content."
You can register for a demo at GDC 2015: http://store.steampowered.com/universe/vr
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Available to help businesses wrangle their design and user experience snags to improve their software and make customers happier.

Current offering is a detailed design and usability study of your current product that looks at aesthetics, usability, and language and offers suggestion toward improvements and refinements. Good for engineering teams who don't want to drop a bunch of cash on a full-blown redesign, but want some sort of "design thinking" that can influence better decision making around their product.

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The other big change is pacing. A couple years ago, we needed a Christmas movie to cover some baking time and picked Die Hard. Everyone commented on how much slower it was than modern movies and how much better it was as a result.

I think the main problem is that VFX has become so cheap that there's no check on including another action scene; neither the writers nor directors appear to worry about justifying the expense the same way they would if it involved paying people to build something real which could only be used once.
Periodic variability in cetacean strandings: links to climate events (2005)
Er, no - the question is closed, not deleted, because StackOverflow acknowledges that we have not always been at war with Eurasia.

Some time between that question being asked and now, StackOverflow's community decided that they didn't want to be /r/programmerhumor
Show HN: HipHopHeads.com – a community driven calendar for hip-hop release dates
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They have gotten more dissociated from MIT in the past decade, but I believe MIT still owns the company that currently publishes it, so ultimately has some kind of control (or could in principle have control, if they cared to exercise it). I think overall they probably aren't unhappy with it, since MIT has long had quite a bit of tolerance (or even love) for the scientific hype machine, and the backlash tends to be infrequent and almost exclusively among academics, while the general public eats it up.

I don't really single out MIT; plenty of universities' PR offices, if given the chance, would publish a magazine similar or worse. Though perhaps with their large reach and stacks of cash, MIT could afford to be more careful than most, and set a better example.
That seems like a really bad idea given the way heavy metals accumulates in one's body.
Scribd (YC '06), San Francisco - VISA, FULL-TIME, and INTERN are all welcome

Scribd ("Netflix for eBooks", top 100 website, 50 people) is hiring talented hackers of all kinds to help us build the library of the 21st century.

We've hired EIGHT full-time people and TONS of interns from these "Who is Hiring" threads ... it really works!

We're looking for people who want to work with:

* Data science / data analysis (using big data tools like hive to analyze an amazing proprietary dataset)

* Ruby on Rails (we're the #2 largest rails site, after Twitter)

* Javascript (well, we use Coffeescript)

* iOS OR Android (we're a top 10 eBook app with more reviews than Wikipedia, with a small mobile team)

* Machine Learning / data mining / recommendations - think Netflix prize, but for books!

* Product manager and design (UI or UX) roles too

* Internships: junior standing or above for all areas of engineering. We hire several interns every summer and year-round.

That said, we care way more about your personality and general hacking skills then what languages you've used so far, so if you haven't used these but want to break into mobile or web development, this could be a good opportunity for you. We've hired people from these threads with everywhere from 0 to 10 years of experience.

We're profitable, very well funded and have a really fun office environment (go-karts + a rock climbing wall!) in the center of the startup world in San Francisco. Scribd alumni have gone on to found 4 other YCombinator companies, more than from any other startup. We think this says something about the kind of people that we like to hire, and we love hiring people with entrepreneur and startup ambitions. We are also always looking for international people interested in moving to the US and can help you secure a visa.

You can read more about our "Netflix for Books" service here http://wrd.cm/1dJquzz or check out our tech blog at http://coding.scribd.com. Last month we launched the first "Netflix for Comics" - really exciting stuff! More here: http://wrd.cm/1MbaBA6

More info is at http://www.scribd.com/jobs, but as a HN user, feel free to apply directly by emailing me at jared at scribd.com.
I'm the founder of the r/hiphopheads subreddit.

The hiphopheads.com app features a post type for albums/release dates, where a user can enter the artist, title, art, release date, etc. for past and upcoming albums. The website will take the dates and arrange them into a monthly release calendar. Each album is editable like a Wikipedia article, so when new info comes out another user can contribute to it.

Thanks for checking the site out. I have a lot of features I want to add, but didn't want to sit on the site forever and decided to put it out there.
OK, I'll give them credit for strong-arming the web into giving up its addiction to Adobe Flash. That was a win for the open and standards-based web.
My guess is price discrimination. They are feeling the heat from Xiaomi et al.

Price the S6 more reasonably and place the S6 Edge to capture the higher end market where their premium brand is more valuable.
What amazes me is that not long ago this was Hollywood class specs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsters_vs._Aliens required 120TB of data.
I hope the irony isn't lost when tech crunch is one of the organizations which is not too different from the so called interlopers it decries. In other words, if not for tech becoming mainstream and significant tech crunch would not have much interest in reporting about tech. so it's not that they care about tech, they care about tech insofar as it affords them economic viability.

Do you see a 'tech crunch' of the mortuary industry? If embalming became the next big industry affording millions good earnings and made millionaires out of many, you'd see the same thing. And you'd see publications making much ado about nothing for reasons of self interest. Some times some of the things they would raise would raise valid questions but for the most part those publications would just ride the wave and decry the "posers" coming into the industry who didn't have to put up with decades of irrelevance and stigma --taking advantage of people's fears and weaknesses.

Just let people try and make a living wherever they see fit. Sure, they bring 'disruption' to the old guard, but so what. That's life.
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It's proven to be really valuable and we're growing like crazy.

The engineering team is looking for Full-Stack, QA Engineers, and SREs to join our team of 14.

We use LAMP, Agile, AWS, etc. Our current big initiatives are setting up strong APIs, creating a data warehouse, and scaling to meet the demands of training hundreds of thousands of employees simultaneously.

Yes, we have perks. Yes, we have a strong engineering team. Yes, we give 10% time for side projects. Yes, we give competitive compensation and equity. But that's not why we were named the #1 best place to work by NYC Tech.
It's because of the people [3]. Everyone here is absolutely fantastic and we screen heavily for passionate, ambitious, playful people.

Interested in a Full Stack Engineer, QA Engineer, or SRE role? Then email me directly at suragm@grovo.com. Mention Hacker News in the subject line and you'll get my immediate attention.

http://grovo.com/careers

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[1] We were named by NYC Tech as the #1 Best Place to Work: https://medium.com/@internetweek/its-the-people-how-grovo-be...

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Do you mean (r0 << 1) & 1? That would always yield zero.
I don't think this problem is limited to just kids. This is something that annoys me about a lot of adults, lately. It often seems like conversations lately are devolving into people tweeting at each other in the physical world. Something I've noticed for the past several years, but seems to be gradually becoming a common way for people to communicate with each other "in the real world."
My own point of view is biased, admittedly, but I couldn't stop thinking that Common Lisp was relevant for each item in your list.

Of course, much isn't built-in, but this is not as bad as it sounds: concurrent channels are not part of the language specification, but you can install the "calispel" or "cl-actors" libraries that gives you what looks like primitive constructs.

Regarding "modern" languages, I like this quote from the author of pgloader:
"I switched from Python to Lisp because I wanted a modern language" (also transcribed as: "[...] in searching for a modern programming language the best candidate I found was actually Common Lisp."; see http://tapoueh.org/blog/2014/05/14-pgloader-got-faster.html)
Correct TLDR. But with BTRFS it's not about 6 parity drives. It's about not support tripple-parity or even RAID60. Features supported by ZFS since eons.
Yeah, that's one thing that bugged me out when I visited Deutschland...nudity on public television. Totally unheard of in the states.
I'm a fan of the free school concept myself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchistic_free_school
Using a smartphone to watch a horror or porn flick without adults noticing is much easier than what it was to sneak to someone's home with a CRT TV and a VHS recorder and a cassette to watch.

Not that kids didn't see bad things in the bad old times - they probably saw more of it in real life - but the ubiquitousness of these devices is not necessarily only a good thing.
>I focused on lessons I had learned reading Lt. Col. Dave Grossman’s book “On Killing,”

Dave Grossman reportedly cites someone named S. L. A. Marshall who made the claim that only a small percentage of infantry ever fired their weapons, to support the idea that most people have some natural reluctance to kill in battle. I just want to point out that there is zero evidence for this claim: https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2014/12/28/shoot-to-kill/
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Dazed Group is the world’s most influential independent fashion & culture media group and with Revolution, our in-house publishing platform we are developing a unified platform that can power the creation of premium content & storytelling, melding brand advertising, to deliver that content our rapidly growing audience.

We are looking for a standout full-stack Lead Developer who can lead our development team on this journey and help us realize our goals and business requirements. You’ll be a smart team player, with great problem-solving skills, who is passionate about technology and publishing innovation and thrives on using the latest technologies in a startup type culture. You’ll believe in creating high-quality work, taking a simple and maintainable approach over a complex one, with the outlook that success is having a working product in production.

http://www.dazeddigital.com/info/article/23795/1/dazed-is-hi...
I created https://hashcash.io/ to try avoid spam by forcing bots and users to "pay" with CPU cycles.
Can anyone offer an explanation for why Kamita needs to specify that his name is not pronounced 'Kanda'?
Which theater? I'll start seeing films there :)
Agreed, I'm actually pretty shocked that they reduced it to a 15, there's some pretty strong stuff in there.

11-year-olds are young enough to get terrible nightmares from films like Aliens - if it was my child who wanted to watch something age-appropriate and got shouted down, I'd be pretty furious.
That's a very good article on that topic indeed. But in some way it's sad that you even have to think about this with ZFS. It seems that this is not or way less of an issue with BTRFS (or the magic unicorn file system that is still not there).
Nearly every browser engine has or had patches at one time to accomplish this. Its a call to mprotect/VirtualProtect after writing native code to memory. Theres a performance hit to JIT engines that update emitted code often due to dynamic JS typing. You could always just turn off the JIT engine and execute the slower bytecode. But thanks for coming down from the mountain to enlighten us, again.
I loved Blit! I used to subscribe to Interzone when Blit was published. Those Interzone anthologies were excellent. Whoever owns the rights should sell them as ebooks if they don't already. (EDIT: this is I think the third mention of Blit on HN)
I've more than once encountered people who genuinely seem convinced that they are "billionaires-in-waiting" and that everything in between is just a few formalities, and that even if they were to give away a sizeable chunk of equity they'll still be swimming in cash, and so giving away equity is no big deal.

In that kind of situation there is a subset of people that can hardly wait to start spending the money on their lifestyle, and conversely would rather not spend their cash on their business if they can spend equity instead.

In my experience these are the same type of people who go into a casino expecting to win because they feel lucky today.

At the same time, they can be so blinkered that they don't get it when someone else don't see it as an amazing chance when offered equity over cash, often at inflated valuations. Sometimes people take personal offence, because rejecting their equity offer means rejecting an idea they're extremely deeply emotionally invested in.
>MS could fix it all immediately by offering Android app compatibility.

Did you also switch over to the Blackberry and Jolla?
Very cool! Also very useful when job searching.
Pachyderm (YC W15) - SF Bay Area

We're building an open source ecosystem of infrastructure tools for collaborating on large-scale data analytics. Learn what we're about: https://medium.com/pachyderm-data/lets-build-a-modern-hadoop...

Looking for our first hire (company is just founders right now). Smart, ambitious engineers who think there should be a better alternative to Hadoop. Our codebase is written in Go, but Go experience isn't required.

pachyderm.io

github.com/pachyderm/pfs

Email: jobs@pachyderm.io
It is always an interesting experience when you recognize a little of your old self in somebody else, projection is really tempting. My head was in the same place almost ten years ago, after Fallujah - the end justifies the means. That is pretty much what the final two paragraphs say - yeah it is shitty, but the end justifies the means. This is a big step beyond "They hate us for our freedoms!", but still falls short of acknowledging the fact that a universally preferable end state isn't likely to be reached through violence or threats of violence. I wouldn't be surprised if the Captain Kudo eventually arrives at that conclusion.
I can only speak for myself. Being exposed to pornographic images at 9-10 years old had a negative effect on me. It made me want sex far earlier than I would be ready for the physical and emotional consequences.
So...it takes longer to download? Who is in such a rush to download an IDE that they will be significantly disadvantaged of they can't do it in under 15 minutes?
Imagine if we took the commandment "Thou shall not kill" to heart. Imagine if instead of killing those men on the roadside, it was the job to the soldiers to incapacitate them but take them alive. Is it possible? Of course it is possible. Perhaps harder, but possible.

Here's the funny thing about killing. Somehow we continually find excuses for doing it. And the easiest excuse of all is that the other guy did it first. And so it goes round and round and never stops, forever escalating. And it won't stop, until we stop making excuses.
So how are half of the children, who play violent video-games all day long, not imitating the behavior they see and do in those games?

We should be at least overrun by car-jackings at this point thanks to Grand Theft Auto.
> That's because the Ellen Ripley character was originally a man named Martin Roby.

That doesn't make sense to me. Martin Roby was the original character for "Alien" and in the first movie, for the most part Ripley wasn't the bad-ass character she would be throughout the second movie.

But the OP was anyway talking about "Aliens" and there Roby could no longer have been an influence for her character.
"The CDDL prevents ZFS from being included/heavily integrated into Linux, the BSDs, OS X and Windows" - no, it is included and integrated into FreeBSD with no issues, NetBSD has an old version that needs updating, OpenBSD thinks it is too complex. OSX could use it (they could get a commercial license anyway), but seemed to decide not to, as could Windows.
Show HN: A Haskell DSL for deep learning models
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The Nokia N80, launched in 2006, came with a Webkit-based browser. WAP had mostly died in the smartphone market long before the iPhone came along, in no small part thanks to Opera Mini & Mobile.
I don’t want to sound like a broken record, but Webkit was originally a fork of KHTML, which is LGPL, so they were required/forced to release it under the same license.

And based on the their upstream contributions[1] it doesn’t look like it was a gesture of goodwill.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit#Split_development
I had to look up what z for cd was, so to save others the trouble, here's a link (hopefully the original...):

https://github.com/rupa/z

SSH hosts tend to be long, so this seems like a good idea. I realize the .ssh/config exists, but this doesn't require setup per server.
I have about 27TB raw in my home, one btrfs and one zfs. The btrfs one is now primary, which is 'only' about 6TB usable, given 4x redundancy.

We take a lot of high-def video, which is 1GB/minute, compressed out of the camera. So 16 hours takes about 1TB.
Most people have not killed anyone.

(This is probably more true for people alive today than it is for all humans that have ever lived)
I don't think that'll work. Consider the positive integer 0b01: the shift yields 0b10, then the and yields 0.

I've actually tried to come up with a simpler example. It's tougher than you'd think, and you pretty much have to do weird stuff with flags. The superoptimiser trick is pretty neat.
Both Dota 2 and Steam are practically printing money, things seem to be working quite well over there. There isn't much in terms of released (and completed) projects, but I attribute that to Valve's stated policy to only release great things.