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NPR | Sponsorship Product Developer | Washington, DC | On-Site

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We are looking for a talented and knowledgeable web developer to help us build sponsorship products that live up to the high standards of NPR's digital efforts. A person passionate about polyglot programming, web technologies, database development, RESTful APIs; often things that have not reached mainstream, yet. We are looking for a person who both learns fast, but can also figure things out independently and show us better ways for building complex, highly scalable systems on the web.

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Fluency in HTML5/CSS3, including media queries and Responsive Web Design techniques.
Fluency in writing functional Javascript code, not limited to jQuery programming.
Fluency in LAMP stack: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP.
Extensive experience working with content-management systems.
Experience working with ad servers (DFP Premium)
Ability to work in Unix command-line over SSH terminal. Experience working with a version control system (SVN or Git preferred).
Bonus Points for:
Every additional programming language and framework you are fluent in.
Significant contributions to open-source projects Mad Node.js skills
Addiction to writing code in Test-Driven Development style.
It's been a while since I took a physics course, but:

t' = t * (1-v^2/c^2)^(1/2)

t' = 9.5 * (1-16000^2/299792458^2)^(1/2)

t' = 9.5 * 0.99999999857...

(t-t') years = 426.7 milliseconds
I love HN for things like this - personal accounts of people associated with groundbreaking projects. Thanks for sharing.

Most of your post is about visiting planets and exploring the solar system, but you close witha comment about disrupting science communication. What aspects of science communication are you referring to?
> I don't follow your logic at all.

I have another try at communicating the idea.

It sounds like the main problem with sleep apnea is that the air passages are collapsed when it comes time to start inhaling - preventing the process from occurring. Therefore the core of the solution is having "inflated" air passages at the point when inhalation starts.

The idea is to kick-start the next inhalation with the current exhalation. When you exhale you increase the pressure in your air passages which is work ("wattage") that completely goes to waste - it all goes out your nose/mouth. The device would gradually restrict the passage of air out of the nose (as the exhalation process completes), eventually cutting it off completely. This means that once you have completely exhaled your air passages would still be "inflated." This is what (2) and (3) do. In this situation conventional CPAP would be providing pressure (even though it's not needed) and would hence be wasting work.

That is the special sauce: relying on the human to do work that they don't have problems with. This will reduce the amount of work you need to do to assist with their medical condition: possibly down to 1 watt, or at least way less than you'd need with conventional CPAP.

> 1 watt

The problem is collapsed airways and not dysfunctional lungs, there's still plenty of wattage there: all you need to do is keep the air passages open using (1).

As I said: a long-shot, remotely plausible. Most importantly: if the above is a plausible idea there is no guarantee that it's the same as theirs or that they even have one. Show me the patents.

At the same time it's better to ask questions before initiating a witch-hunt. I think the first plan of action would be for them to prove that they have a working device instead of the seemingly common "warning off people" suggestion. A better suggestion to people is encourage them to ask for proof.
More precise estimate of Avogadro's number to help redefine kilogram
It's more than that; the mass and properties of a pentaquark will tell us a lot about the underlying properties of the strong force. People have been trying to predict the pentaquark masses and lifetimes for many years.

Computations of low-energy strong-force interactions are significantly more difficult than electromagnetism. As far as I know, the proton binding energy has not yet been calculated with confidence, though it should happen in the next decade or two.

If the result holds up, this will count as one of LHC's major discoveries.
The moment you realise Pluto (the dog) is on Pluto
What the Iran nuclear deal means for crude oil prices and the currency markets
To be frank, across the whole lot of NASA, ESA and even the Indian, Chinese and Soviet space programmes, I had never once seen any achievement as an achievement for anyone other than all of mankind. More than forty thousand years of human civilisation have lead us to where we are -- even if it's a team effort by people alive today, they're standing on the shoulders of millions of giants and they're achieving this for all of us, living or dead as well as all future generations to come.

This is actually why I never warmed up to Star Trek "Enterprise" (Captain Archer and friends) -- it basically presented itself as "Americans in Space", starting with the intro's repeatedly showing (exclusively) American flags. All the other shows didn't waste much time on modern nations because those were something mankind had outgrown: it wasn't even "us humans" anymore, the Federation spanned different species just like the UN today spans different nations.
Show HN: We're making online video searchable, sharable and interactive.
Of which, 130kb is from Firebase :(
My recommendation to the OP, since it was asked, is to engage in sustained cardiovascular activity, where the heart rate is elevated at a consistent rate. I'm not saying weight lifting doesn't have its strengths (no pun intended!) but it's not the type of cardio activity that I'm suggesting, for the same reason as what you've just mentioned: the idea is not to push your heart to an extreme and let the pulse "come down"... it's to get your heart to an elevated rate and keep it there consistently for a long stretch. For that type of activity, weight lifting is not the answer. For other types of goals, it very well may be.
Oh you mean like this way of working where you need to pay to discover what it is actually about?
I wouldn't mind these two as assumed business decisions. But please stop the hypocrisy. It's just hurting Mozilla image without fooling anyone.
I don't disagree at all, but the AMA format is really a one and done for a single person. For example, there are some hilarious responses from Jose Canseco (US baseball player from 90's) - if he comes out with a new book or something - how will the community come up with questions to ask that will generate interest?

Also the fact that the demographic is hard to advertise to leads me to think they may have the PR firms promoting movies, books, etc. pay for the AMA rather than try to rely on ads and people clicking. This may have been the contentious thing about people leaving.
They are fortunate that at present the core users (the people doing the vast majority of the moderating, submitting, and commenting) are somewhat captive, there isn't a logical successor waiting in the wings to shine. Thus far Voat, Snapzu, etc are far too immature for anyone to really switch to.

As long as that continues to be the case, the core will probably keep coming back short of literally pulling a Digg V4 and outright breaking the site/removing everything about it that people liked.

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It'll be a while still before any competitor gets their act together enough to start siphoning users in a noticeable manner. So I'd say they've got quite a bit more room to go....but they are getting closer to that cliff.
I clean my living space, clear out old baggage and remnants of old identities, to make space for the new. Lethargy seems to come when I am ready to let go even more and allow life to show me my next steps, but I need to listen to the message.

In the depression/anxiety/lethargy space I find it's not time for any major life breakthroughs.

The biggest breakthrough for me is finding the initial half ounce of mojo to begin the space-clearing and space-claiming process... whether washing a single dish, throwing an old piece of clothing, deleting an email I'll never get around to replying to.

Then, doing it again, and again, one damn t-shirt at a time.

Soon the momentum picks up and the clearing happens by itself.

Also, for me generally the only way out is through - I find it starts with acceptance of this moment as it is, so I'm careful to not add my judgments ("This should not be happening", "I fucked up", etc.) to the situation, but instead hold the lethargic/anxious/depressed parts of me in kindness. Not trying to change anything about them.

From that starting place of self-kindness I can take a breath, dust myself off, and begin taking one simple, tiny action – not to make anything happen but only to make space for the new and invite it in.

I ask myself often: Which old junk am I ready to let go of to make space for the new? I don't need to know what the new is, just trust life and start throwing away the shitty t-shirts.
Finding a niche that wants to pay more for content is nothing to be ashamed of.

If you believe that agreements are only reached when there is mutual benefit you are benefitting your customers by rehashing the content.

It's like an encyclopedia there's nothing new in it, however, there is great value in having all that information in one place.
WebAssembly will have all the good parts of the Flash VM, with the important advantage of being an open standard, right from the beginning, with multiple competing implementations. It will really be the final nail in the coffin for Flash.
Apparently dating websites are notorious for having high churn. See: http://andrewchen.co/why-investors-dont-fund-dating/
I'm not willing to learn a new set of markup just to not write some HTML (I'm glad that Markdown plays nice with it).
> Rosetta/Philae [...] barely gets mentioned

There was huge news coverage of the initial landing, and the amazing images. Then, when contact was re-established, there was another burst of coverage - so much, in fact, that many friends who ordinarily have no interest in space or science would mention it to me as a 'pub conversation' bit of trivia. I was actually very pleased with the coverage of the Rosetta/Philae mission, modulo the shirt issues, and I hope more space science gets that kind of exposure.
So,have you used it? how/what can we improve?(beside the TOS)
The US system is just mandatory national insurance, which is also the model found in some European countries, for example Switzerland. Single-payer is not the only way to achieve universal healthcare, nor even the only way it's done in Europe.

Maybe it doesn't work as well, but that's down to the details, not because it's inherently different in how it works.
> At this time, they wouldn't know what the best instruments to send would be.

There's an interesting BBC documentary series on the planets, called The Planets, that has an episode covering the Voyager probes. They had to do some quick redesigns on them after Pioneer 10 and 11 visited the outer planets and found fun stuff like radiation and unexpected rings. They said that if they hadn't had the earlier probes, Voyager would have been fried when it got to the system.
I think you have a great plan.

I just accepted an offer to move to SF and management is something i have to pick up pretty quickly (been mostly at engineering / architecting side of things).

Lots of people will benefit from such coaching instead of learning on a battlefield.
I enjoyed building the same websites as a kid. However, gone are the days of easy adsense money and the unregulated acai berry crazed industry of affiliate marketing. Their exists a lot more competition in this space now.
Where are all the aliens?
I work for a company of 41 teleworking employees, and we have avoided 42Floors.

We think they offer a great service, but we disagree with the CEO's attitude and view of his employees, and the world. This concern kind of began with the black hole phone number for recruiters. It seemed like overkill, and kind of a dick thing to do.

Sometimes just because a company offers a great service is not the best reason to use them. We disagree with the CEO and his attitude, so we chose not to ever use their service.
Employee Engagement Definition Podcast
Right! To put this in other words, we already had Mesons and Baryons (two- and three-quark bound states), and now we have Pentaquarks (admittedly less creative name). It's very exciting and hopefully we can learn more about QCD by observation of this and other new bound states. As jessriedel mentioned, we currently have no way to compute these states efficiently, and the computing power does not exist (yet?) to evaluate such systems on the lattice. Having this new entry in our "answer key" will hopefully lead to new insights in about the fundamentals of the strong force and/or at least some new tricks to compute bound states.
I uninstalled flash a long time ago and no issues. Don't miss it.
Maybe that's true on Windows? On Linux the HTML5 version of youtube is way more reactive, feels(!) to download faster, and the GUI itself is broken less often (flash player often had some broken lines, or some elements that seemingly haven't been in the right place)
The images we've been seeing the last few weeks, which grew by a few pixels every day or so, were exciting. I read about how much higher resolution the images would be as the probe reached its closest point in the flyby. But I had no idea how striking the best images would be.

When I opened this article, my jaw dropped. I never in my life expected to see Pluto in this level of detail. I always imagined it would be just a cold ball of rock. This is absolutely amazing.

And there's this still: Images set to be released on Wednesday will be more than 10 times the resolution of those already published.
Java Applets are hard to run on many machines (apple machines are especially bad in this respect), even for technically skilled users.

It would be very sad to see this become the state of all the old flash games/animations.
"A did X" is not refuted by "B would have done X too if B were in A's place."
Hello is just few (hundred?) lines of Javascript giving UI to WebRTC.

Unless you want to remove WebRTC and that's just stupid.
Don't know if one can say that about Pinterest...
Right? That's where I landed, but then realized that there's no enforceable way to do that. Have the moderators/an admin ban all the posts on AMA by people who... what, can pay? Make AMA pay-only to submit there?

Nothing feels right for Reddit -- AMAs are such an offshoot of the platform anyway...
No, I was not answering that question. I think Shanghai gets stuff done faster because it's in China. And because they actually have funding.
There very likely is no tipping point with gas stations.

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/07/the...

"A 10% reduction would be 221 million vehicles but that is how many vehicles there were in 2000. Was driving an automobile so much more inconvenient in 2000 than it was in 2009?"
I get really tired of the industry's widespread bandwagoning on this issue in particular. This bandwagoning dismisses more collective works and industries than any technology in the past just for the sake of promoting bleeding edge, evergreen tech.

What about the game industry? What about the animation industry? HTML5 doesn't replace Flash for those arenas. It's blatant ignorance for individuals to even come out and claim Adobe should set and end of life date for the product. Sure Flash has had some issues, and they came at the expense of FutureWave Software, Macromedia, and Adobe moving faster than anyone in the web industry at the time, with different goals, that just happen to now be of interest to web developers at large.

The reality is that web tech has just eaten into and provided standardized variants of features that Flash/Shockwave has had for over TWO decades. Yeah, real progressive of the web community. _Slow clap._
Sure, but the sweeping post-war changes to the urban/suburban landscape had already well taken place at that point. If this subway had been finished in the early 20s it would have had some time to affect the city's way of life before car ownership exploded.
This right here. This encapsulates the view of why my company never gave them a second thought. The leadership was not the kind of people we ever wanted to do business with.
> "Without a plan for preserving that material and continuing to make it accessible, I think that killing off Flash rather than deprecating it is a terrible idea."

I'll miss some of the content to be sure, but ultimately the security of hundreds of millions of users trumps nostalgia and old Flash games from the 90s.

If there's a good way to preserve the content in some way, I'm all for it, but justifying the continued use of Flash purely on the grounds of historical content is IMO pretty weak.

Side note: a lot of the old Flash animations have been "ported" to YouTube, the non-interactive stuff at least. Heck, the YouTube versions show up before the real Flash versions sometimes...
Wish the Irish bank bailout was going to make any sort of return in our investment.
+1 for cleaning. Really helps me when I get into a slump. Something mindless, but productive with clear results. Lets my mind process whatever it is that is slowing me down.
There is breathing going on here so is there any chance that the breathing out could help recharge the battery in a similar way that a hybrid car charges your battery when you brake?

I also don't think it is 'disposable'. I think it is recyclable and from what I've seen the $3 is dependent on recycling them.
The schema was written by Tony the Pony in collaboration with Zalgo. Everyone I've ever known to look at the codebase ran away screaming with bleeding eyeballs.
I think we are defining "cause" differently.
Inam referrring to an underperformer being let go for financial reasons or someone not fitting into the culture - similar to a layoff but only impacting one person...you seem to be referring to someone who gets fired because they did something egregious.
The Pro Cryptography Lobby: An Analysis
The Selfie Stick Is Killing Our Brains
Nexus 4 battery bloating
My bet calls for under 10 years.
Is the code on the Pocket servers open source? Can I point Firefox at my own Pocket server (or a Pocket server run by any organisation other than Pocket)?
Different types of cardio workouts definitely exist, and most trainers will tell you that a well-rounded health regimen requires a mix of many different types, including weight lifting juxtaposed with more cardio-centric exercises. But this thread is not about how to give your body the best workout.
... which we do. Your point being?
Which is why they're adding Subresource integrity to script tags so you can detect when a popular CDN/host is hacked and not load the script: http://w3c.github.io/webappsec/specs/subresourceintegrity/#h...
This is the biggest issue IMO. Seeing flash go the way of DOS and etc. would be very sad.
Gilmartin doesn't need to know the engineering principles involved, just that it provides the claimed the medicinal benefits. As a doctor that's exactly what he's qualified to assess. Besides, he's a doctor at Havard, there'll be some very qualified engineers around to assess that side of things.
The many challenges Reddit faces as an advertising business
I meant in the amount of water shifted - so you don't simply break a Tsunami like a wave, the water just keepscoming.
My experience is for Mac OS X only. I don't use Windows much and don't watch Youtube on Linux.
Well, in my case the firm approached me through LinkedIn with an offer that was relevant. I came into their office, we reviewed my resume and had my interview set for two days later.
where you're part of 15-20 small HN-like communities.

That's the problem though, right? The goal is to have one place to go. That's why posts on HN get read by billionaires and people living in homeless shelters—there's one source of "what's hot right now" ranked on the front page.

If you bifurcate your topics into 100 narrowly focused interest areas everybody individually subscribes around, you lose the inherent usefulness of being exposed to new topics you wouldn't have otherwise found. (it also provides a common social context around "did you see X today?" — you want to be part of the in crowd, so needs to see the same thing, and the same thing everybody sees has to be marginally useful/relevant)

In order to drive that communal "new things we all care about" feeling, you need a (loosely) coherent community, not just being surrounded by everybody who visits the DMV this month.
If you have ever been to a high school pep rally; most people don’t actually care about the school. But, it’s fun to stand up and yell really loudly.

Nationalism is IMO deeper than that. To use a EU example, many people in Greece complain about countries that are giving them money. “How dare they attach strings when handing us money!!!” That’s nationalist in ways I have trouble understanding.
How+to+Prepare+Yourself+to+Be+a+Great+CEO+|+SaaStr
Exactly, I think the success of this crowdfunding campaign speaks more to the opportunity present in improving the durable medical equipment marketplace than it does to the promise of this particular device.
> because the developer tested it in Chrome for Windows but neglected, say, Iceweasel for Debian.

Bad example, because Flash for Linux has been discontinued in all flavours except PPAPI so it wouldn't work in Iceweasel.
There is a privacy flaw with Web-RTC (leaks IP address for those behind a VPN or proxy):

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=959893
I find walks to be instrumental in keeping my mood up. I take a 15-20 minute walk in the mornings and in the afternoons -- I time it around those "will this day ever end" moments that come around 10:30 and 3:00. Getting some sunshine, focusing on other things, and getting out of the cube for a bit can do wonders.

I work for a government outfit as a programmer and I don't have the cool frameworks to play with, the pool table in the break room, etc. Sometimes you just have to get out of the space for a bit and let your mind wander.
C++ in second place and Swift coming up.... Swift will be in first place by 2016...
Apparently reddit has 71 employees. I would really like to know why reddit needs that many employees. It looks to me like an operation of maybe 20 people at most. That includes devops, engineering, social stuff and ads.
I'd rather Mozilla didn't just add third-party components via a silent update, without even giving me a choice.

I didn't complain, I didn't criticize...I simply uninstalled Firefox.

Lots of people use lots of extensions on a daily basis, but they don't give preferential treatment to those extensions. I am trusting Mozilla less and less and I'm not going to complain very loudly about it - but I am just going to leave.
It's kind of important to realize that those same users were angry at her for getting rid of a different woman. That was the trigger, being upset about a well-liked woman being fired with no warning.

That kind of destroys your premise, IMO.

The vitriol is terrible, but that's more a function of people being angry on the anonymous internet and saying whatever inflammatory things they can come up with to express that.