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Ask HN: Looking for a Drupal developer
(Apologies if HN shouldn't be used as a job board)

Freelance - $50 / hour USD

Minor text changes, responsive changes, layout fixes in Drupal 7 for a Western NY client. Might be more changes in the future.

Email me at my profile address with your location, availability and a few samples of work if your interested.

Thanks guys.
Savoir-Faire Linux are a local Montréal company with a lot of clout. I don't consider their promises empty, and I'm excited to see them working on this.
I thought that'd be an abstraction layer so people who are not that familiar with SQL but need some basic information can easily get it but this doesn't seem any different than just giving someone access to a view with a regular GUI client or http://pgcli.com/.
CLISP, historically (which takes us back to 1987), did not start out as GPL-ed software, and certainly wasn't part of the GNU Project.

First it became GPLed, over a heated dispute with Stallman w.r.t. its use of the GNU Readline library.

Evidently, it is now part of the GNU Project. (So there is justification in referring to it as "GNU CLISP".)

Programs aren't going to switch their coding style just because they join the GNU Project.
There is of course alternative technical solutions to this problem, one being virtual credit card that can be used once per purchase. I would not trust that the outsourced payment processing system never get a breach.
Jquerymy.js – Purely declarative apps with complex two-way data-binding
It's the biggest/sharpest drop in WoW history. I used to go back to WoW once in a while, just to get back in a familiar surroundings, check out new content etc. But I've missed the last 2 expansions cause it is so different now. It's a completely different game, and it just moves further away from what a MMORPG is with each expansion.

I don't think calling it a MMO is even accurate anymore…
Top Startups from Munich
Create, Split, Sign and Convert PDF File to Other Formats Using Cloud Python SDK
> There is an obvious solution for at least part of the problem, isn't there?

Not without spending a lot of time configuring applications. Now I find Android more difficult to configure than Windows Advanced Server.

For example, in the past Twitter only notified you about tweets for you, then they started to play with the discovery stuff and send you all kind of tweets that may interested you. Sure, I can go to the configuration and disable this stuff but only after realizing their notification behavior changed. Thing about this multiplied by many applications.
CBC-MAC is really not fine. :)

In any case, just making a descriptive comment, not a normative one. Broken crypto is broken crypto, I agree. I just have a little bit of exposure to this particular design challenge, and those are two reasons I see people not using "best practices" simple cryptography in these kinds of applications.
Go Munich :)
Not used by MS, as far as I know (you specifically wrote originally "8 bit MS ADPCM also sounded horrible").

Microsoft's ADPCM was always 4 bits encode of the 16-bit sample. The distorted sound in some files was due to reducing the sampling rate.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/89879

"ADPCM stores the value differences between two adjacent PCM samples and makes some assumptions that allow data reduction. Because of these assumptions, low frequencies are properly reproduced, but any high frequencies tend to get distorted. The distortion is easily audible in 11 kHz ADPCM files, but becomes more difficult to discern with higher sampling rates, and is virtually impossible to recognize with 44 kHz ADPCM files."

I've already linked this article and it has even more details, highly recommended.
Boston does that.
There are a lot of CL open source tools and applications. But they tend to be specialized to domains which are exotic to many people.

Math: Maxima and Axiom

Blackboards: GBB

Robots: ROS

Music: OpenMusic

Bioinformatics: Biobike

Theorem Provers: ACL2, PVS

AI / Logic: Racer, KM

etc etc...
/etc/hosts is your friend.
Why wouldn't they need to go to a coding bootcamp if they don't have any relevant experience or haven't studied a related subject? They've all chosen to retrain to find jobs in new fields.
Why do we need transaction isolation levels?
Dicts are the fastest dynamic structure out of the box. Tuples will bite you with immutability sooner or later.
Wish – Get anything you want by sending a text message
Kids hack their Dad's computer on her Raspberry Pi [video]
BuyHatke India's leading Price Compare website grabs $1M funding
We use redash. This allows forking of queries, charting, and some light dashboarding. Also it supports full text searching of queries and descriptions. It's also stand alone and easy to launch on ec2.

https://github.com/EverythingMe/redash
These reminds me a lot of "Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visoionary Copmpanies"[0], where the authors of the book spend a lot of time pointing out how the companies they consider "better" (better performing in the long run, most likely to not fail, widely considered leaders of their field etc) have a few shared features such as a widespread shared culture, homegrown management, focus on building a lasting company rather than immediate benefits etc.

The book is very interesting, but I believe the conclusion are quite arguable and 25 years later many of those companies might not be looked with the same glaring eyes (i.e. HP, motorola).

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Built_to_Last:_Successful_Habit...
Mark Zuckerberg guest lecturing for a Harvard computer science class in 2005
There is going to be a tipping point if London property prices continue to rise. There's no point in having a start up in, say, Shoreditch if you can't afford to pay living salaries to people to work there, so either you a) move somewhere the salaries and office space is cheaper or b) you go remote and increase your talent pool. There's quite a few startups that have to be in London (e.g. they work in the finance industry) but there's likely more than a few that really don't need to be.
Frankfurt has it. It's still called subway, but everything apart from the city center is overground.
bundler is great. i really wish it worked for most major languages. switching between projects in different languages with different packaging systems is a bunch of weight i don't want to have to carry around or time i don't want to waste.

it sounds like you some-what 'ported' bundler to dart... what's your impression of how difficult it would be extend a tool like this to work for many languages?

it seems like i'm always asking them all to do the same thing... go get this at that version from there, include anything it needs, and stick that somewhere this thing can find it.
What Schools Must Learn from LA's iPad Debacle
I'm a neuroimaging researcher and I can tell you that Roses' perspective is hardly new. Very few people researching neurodegenerative disease believe that Amyloid is the underlying etiological (causative) factor for AD (or other neurodegenerative diseases).

Also we know that APOE and TOMM40 are relevant in some sub-populations of patients but certainly do not account for all (or even the majority of people with AD/neurodegenerative disease).

Amyloid is one of a number of agents involved in a cascade of processes that ultimately lead to the clinical manifestations of AD. Some of these include:
- Amyloid deposition
- phosphorylation and deposition of Tau protein
- vascular factors including blood-brain barrier breakdown, reduced cerebral blood flow and hypoxia.
- neuronal dysregulation through multiple mechanisms.

If you're interested in a better understanding of this I would suggest reading a few nature neuroscience reviews.
Just a quick pedantic note that RC4 is broken even if you discard keystream.
Machine learning is applied statistics. Elements of Statistical Learning was written by profs at Stanford and is free on the internet. It might be a bit hard since they don't really teach stats in high school. O'Reilly has a few ml books. I liked Programming Collective Intelligence it is beginner friendly and would probably help you come up with project ideas.
For a way to use tech to actually increase your focus: http://focusr.co
Meteor Books
> As a result of our effort in the past few years, 45% of our management team are in the post-70 generation, the post-80 generation make up 52%, while the post-60 generation only accounts for 3%. We are also fortunate to have 3,000 young people who were born in the 90s.

Basically they have declared management retirement/retrenchment age to 45 with a positive spin of culture etc.
Show HN: Buoys – Implicitly Anchored Sketches in Flowing Text
It makes more sense when you read its history (which is closely related to its name): it was originally built specifically from air photography for the National Geographic Society, for a Ndoki expedition (in northern congo).

Explains the pricey two-engine option (when you're flying above the badlands or rainforest you'd like to keep going if an engine gives up), and the completely open cabin and wings sitting well behind both seats were probably an interesting structural challenge. The frame is essentially unique, there's no other in that specialised segment.
Https vs. http – why not signed but not encrypted https?
I unfortuantely didn't understand what this was.
You Won't Find Any White Dudes at This Startup
Cool. fpm's a good tool, but it requires a lot of command line fu, and isn't source control friendly. One of the reasons for swaddle was to get more of this stuff into source control and less into complex build scripts. One of the others was a major headache we once had with broken ruby versions on build servers breaking things like fpm (especially when multiple versions were needed). Swaddle fixes this, too.
> By 2009, Yelp found itself in talks about a possible takeover by Google for at least $500 million, the Journal reported at the time.

An interesting bit of history is that the acquisition offer was scuttled when Yahoo put in a competing bid that Google could not match. Supposedly the management team did not want to work with Yahoo, but the board had a fiduciary duty not to accept an inferior deal, so both offers fell through.[0] In retrospect, it was a good outcome for Yelp; the market cap is now several times higher than either of the acquisition offers.

[0] http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/01/the-ugliest-girl-at-the-dan...
Mapping Scotland's Dramatic Shift in Political Geography
> Linux is a black box to a lot of devs.

That's not a problem you should get rid of, devs need to understand the underlying system.

> no shell == no shellshock

Only servers that needed the shell for some service exposed the issue, so this point is irrelevant.

> no libopenss = no heartbleed

no libopenssl = no ssl either.
The Green line(s) in Boston are like that, underground in a large portion of downtown, up on the street the rest of the way. Some share the way with cars, some use a separate right-of-way: a noticeable difference in travel time and convenience, or at least the perception thereof.
The difference is subtle. With high order function you coule define (abstract out) a new idiom, while with proper macros you could define a new special form.

In case of using high-order procedure all its arguments will be evaluated in order before application of the procedure while in case if a macro you could explicitly define all the transformations (evaluation rules) for each argument. This is why it is called a special form - it has its own evalustion rules.

Shortcircuiting if or and are canonical examples.

So, with macros you are extending Lisp with new special forms.
Not the OP, but also can speak for the perspective of some vendors other than Silver Springs (I'm unfamiliar with Silver Springs protocol):

1. Running on an RTOS platform, not Linux, so no VPN builds cleanly

2. Running on constrained platforms for which code space is not available for all the crap that comes with a VPN codebase

3. Operating a very constrained RF protocol in which every bit in every transmitted frame has to be accounted for, so not only is there no room to run something like L2TP/IPSEC, but what crypto can be run is also compromised (this is what makes me worry about "we use strong primitives unlike OSGP").

4. Operating simple protocols with simple service models in which lots of round trips for session establishment are unworkable.

5. Can potentially get AES working on the platform, but less reasonable to use anything that requires bignum math, which makes Diffie-Hellman a problem; instead just using static keys, or some simple key rotation schedule.
" never said popularity was an argument for quality. You did."

I'd tend to think your statement:

"And if MySQL wasn't robust then YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Alibaba, LinkedIn etc wouldn't be using it for core parts of their infrastructure. It's definitely robust."

..points out that many (popular) sites use it, and a prerequisite is robustness, which thesaurus-wise, sounds a lot like quality.

I get that

a) you didn't actually say it, and

b) you could mean something much more specific, such as "companies with many highly-starred, complex open source projects which have also re-written major parts of their tech stack, but chose to leave mysql in place".

I know thats a bit more verbose, but it just seems to obviously close to the other author's interpretation with the ambiguity of the statement.
Don't know about libsigsegv. configure mumbles something about needing libsigsegv-2.10, but I've got 2.10-2 installed all right. To be fair, configure also suggests a very special installation procedure, which I haven't tried.

Anyway, the configure script succeeds with "./configure --ignore-absence-of-libsigsegv", a subsequent make, too. This is on Trusty.

Nice conclusion.
This solution is already implemented in large parts of the world and good to go! But the incentives are sometimes not right. Ultimately, I want IC payments to be cheaper, as a merchant. I want my incoming IC payments to be in a separate bookkeeping from the non-IC: increase in fees on the latter, I'd like to keep my rates for the former.

Ultimately, I can then pass these savings on to the customers.

But as long as there is no incentive to ask for IC, why would I? It's just an annoyance.
David Cameron Wins a Slim Majority in UK General Election
What are some of the best known applications written in a lisp?
Turns out that configure was just caching the past test for libsigsegv. I cleared the cache and was able to build. The test suite ran for a good chunk of time but segfaulted.

So it doesn't look like CLisp is beyond all hope, just a little lonely.
Candy maker Mars backs labels for added sugar
I'd imagine you could compile them both down to the same thing, as there has to be a conditional at some point to determine what code to run (unless there was some kind of dynamic dispatch), I think it's just a matter of preference
Metadata: if it's good enough for the NSA it should be good enough for you!
This is one possible resource for you www.codecloud.me - what it does, people can code together on projects. The focus is on learning and unfortunately no payment. They do have some machine learning projects on there which could help you to start off & it comes with mentors.
Berkeley to Stop Adding Lecture Videos to YouTube, Citing Budget Cuts
Postgres's documentation is one of the best I've seen. Thanks to everybody working on it!
Happy Mother's Day – Say Mum I Love You with a Picture
Uber has reportedly put in a $3B bid for Nokia’s Here maps
Wait a minute... This "isn't work":

> Having coffee with investors - This can be confusing, because sometimes you need to meet with investors. If you're gearing up to raise money or need specific advice, this is work. Most of the time, though, this isn't work

But this is:

> Writing updates for your investors and meeting with them one on one - I've written about investor updates. These relationships are important, and can be incredibly helpful as you grow. Maintain them.

Notice the "meeting with them one on one" in the last quote. Wouldn't having coffee with them qualify as meeting with them one on one and "maintaining" the relationship?
The download link for Mac does not work for me.
Tried this instead:

http://gpl.savoirfairelinux.net/ring-download/

Choose a directory from here.
I like to paddle around local lakes and ponds with my wife in our homemade carbon fiber boats. It's amazing how even in the Boston area you can see a lot of wildlife when you get out on the water.

Why is it cool? The little 18 pound canoes are amazing on calm lakes.
Rudy Rucker's Notes on Writing
This makes no sense to me.

Ulster Unionist Party had 114,935 votes and got two seats.
UKIP had 3,841,346 votes and got one seat.
Conservative had 11,207,547 votes and received 326 seats.
In the first look at the frameworks between Rails and Django in 2008, I chose Django because it has a green logo.
I think that's mainly for the river as the MFL does the same thing.
I think you're setting a precedence that it is you vs company. If you're upfront and they work around this or even embrace it, you know they are a good company to work with.
Dotcomarchive
Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.
They probably meant 'window', i.e. what application had their focus. That's probably also not a very good metric though, given that developers will often flip between editors, terminals and browsers rapidly. It compares with 2004, although it doesn't specify in what area; I'm sure that single-application focus is also highly dependent on the area of work and the software used. Some people can do all their work in one application, others need half a dozen or more.

Also, iä! fhtagn!
> How can we fight this trend?

Do Not Disturb -> On. I'm not sure if that's a setting that propagates across all Apple devices automatically, but, the option is there.
I'm not sure what you do as I believe your profile is temporary just for this post. But the company I work with is hiring Perl devs and Dev Ops. We're based in Canary Wharf, if you're interested email me (available in my profile).

I know we'd embrace the fact you're starting a family :)
Why people don't use Fedora?
The large percentage of younger people in advance positions might be unique here since China only started to develop its economic in the early 80's. The people of 70's and 80's grew up with the rapid economic development and capitalistic market reforms. Also they were the generations that went back to school taking education seriously after the previous generations wasted their time in countless strife, like the Culture Revolution.

Alibaba probably couldn't find sufficient talents in the pre-70's generations.
For me personally it's not so much incoming notifications that distract me, but my colleagues. We're a small team of iOS and Android developers (about seven people total), and there's an almost constant buzz of random activities about various subjects - 90% of which are not directly relevant to me, but sometimes they are.

Plus I have a colleague that Demands I Look At His Code Now from time to time. On the one side I want to indulge him, on the other - could you wait until I'm not in the middle of something? Or not show me an update every five minutes? The headphones are there for a reason.
I think the major problem being made is people assuming Alzheimer's is one disease. Look at the history of cancer research for a comparison - it started out with all the researchers thinking cancer was a single disease and each researcher had their own pet theories as to the cause. We now know that each cancer is an unique swam of related cancers and the best treatment is found by identifying and exploiting the particular mutational weaknesses the swam displays.

You might wonder why this matters - the problem is if Alzheimer's is more than one disease then it is very hard to develop effective treatments as any new treatment will only work on a sub-population of patients. This makes it very hard to prove to the FDA that your treatment should be licensed.
How did you guys drop down to a read-only connection on Heroku Postgres? We directly connect DB clients like PGAdmin to a reporting DB on Heroku, but Heroku only seems to support credentials with full access. I don't want an analyst to "DROP TABLES" by mistake.
How to steal $1B in three days
This is a well documented problem and the crux of the net neutrality debate:

http://mattvukas.com/2014/02/10/comcast-definitely-throttlin...

Netflix buys backbone access from a backbone provider, the ISPs then have a connection with that backbone providers. The pipe from that provider to the ISP gets congested and there is an argument as to who should pay.

However the pipe to your VPN data centre and Netflix's backbone provider are congestion free so you get a faster rate.

Internet routing isn't as dynamic as we imagine and whilst Netflix offer to put caching boxes in the ISP network, the ISP's are not keen on that solution.

End result you are performing a manual re-routing of data to bypass congested links.
This is really cool, since Portal I've been fascinated by the concept of creating optical illusions and optical phenomena with programming. While I believe that my mathematical knowledge is capable of comprehending this, I don't have any experience with the languages needed to program them. I'd like to though.
I wonder why not use both underground and trams. A system designed like that could work like a skip list - you take "the tube" to quickly cover big distances, and use trams to cover the last mile or two.
As good as that is, see this: http://dlmf.nist.gov/, the online companion to the truly epic NIST Handbook of Mathematical Functions, itself the modern successor to Abramowitz and Stegun.
Seconded. Also Reactive Native please.
Such blocking, very concurrency
They probably mean task-specific application window, not actual computer screen as many people even today just have a single monitor. Also I doubt they used software developers for test subjects.
Communes and kibbutzes are almost universally democratically governed, so no it does not lead to a totalitarian state every time. That's a ridiculous claim.
Show HN: SimpleTasks – A material design todo web app with client side encryption
IMHO Django is one of the best open source projects in terms of "politics". I really like how the guys handle the process of working with a framework that has such an impact in so many people (and pockets).
Yup. Came to post a link to Wikipedia[x]. Only Clegg (now former Liberal Democrat coalition partners) stood in the way of this before. Now Theresa May can get to work implementing this lovely piece of legislation. Maybe they'll even manage to outlaw encryption if they're lucky. Sigh.

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[x] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft_Communications_Data_Bill
"For more than 160 years, Timisoara was controlled directly by the sultan."

This is probably an overlooked detail in the eyes of many which are not acquainted with Ottoman history. Not many parts of current Romania were directly controlled by (Ottoman) Turks, as in obeying turkish laws, having mosques in place, or having nothing more than administrative autonomy. Territories all around Romania have not enjoyed such status. It's mind blowing!
In Kraków, Poland, we have a single tram line like that.
Drug pump is “most insecure” device ever seen by researcher
Show HN: Bizongo – One stop solution for all B2B e-commerce
It doesn't: in fact, I think central planning is generally what breaks communism.

Kibbutzes and communes generally are communist but work without central planning
This. Not only for meeting life partners, but also friends, business contacts, and investors.
Yesterday I heard a woman saying to another woman "I don't want to walk over there, it's too far, I don't have any incentive since I left my fitbit at home" ...

Maybe they've got something else going other then being a 3-axis accelerometer.
Underground stations are also less accessible as you have to go down several flights of stairs.