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Java/Web Fullstack Developer- NYC
Please apply to CGBtechcorp@gmail.com

Core tech team in a financial firm is responsible for developing the firms main portal and client facing apps within the portal. So development environment is purely web based with JS/HTML/CSS Front ends, Java Web & Rest Services middle tier and SQL backends. There is also some Mobile development.

Our tech stack includes modern presentation tier frameworks and JVM based middleware. We use combination of open source, commercial, and proprietary GUI and server side toolkits to deliver robust web and mobile application infrastructure to the business. These range from jQuery, Angular, ExtJS, SenchaTouch on the browser, to Tomcat, Jetty, JAX-RS, Spring, Scala, and Java on the server. We embrace polyglot programming, and use the right tool for the job. As a member of our dev team you will be expected to generate ideas for what to improve, why and how. As a part of the team your activities will include:
- Developing the next major version of our client facing platform and its toolings, including JavaScript UI development and JVM based middleware
- Enhancing existing systems by adding new functionality or providing bug fixes
- Communicating with the business, stakeholders & other developers
Yes, this is stupid...but I need motivation!
Although I agree that this doesn't seem like the most useful idea, I do think it is really cool and it sounds like some interesting image processing.

To the OP, how did you come up with the idea? Is the algorithm from image to URL complicated?
yeah, it's been written about before, but I wanted to clarify the exact steps that I took, as the previous articles have been a bit hazy. Per the Pando article "Using a handful of techniques that he still seems to shy away from talking about" and as you highlight, an "adwords hack" is a very bad description.

I haven't read that article from PG, I'll definitely check it out!
Sad to see everyone late to the party on this. There was a great company, Onlive doing this for the past 5 years. Not browser based in their case, but they were the thought leaders. They recently closed shop and were 'acquired' by Sony. I believe thats what spurred this recent trend of articles.
I hope you have the best of luck, Jaun Carlos.
I've never watched a live webinar but would be interested.
I highly recommend using Alien Tube [0]. It fetches reddit comments for the video, it's really well done. If it finds nothing, it displays the orignal YouTube comments.

[0] https://alientube.co/
DNotes Educational Guide brings digital currency learning to your smartphone
The cloud is too hard, so Intel launched a sweeping project to fix it
Dont forget KR Narayanan who refused to sign if proper procedures were not followed showing that President is not just a rubber stamp.
To be fair, exploding a few kiloton nuke at several km altitude (probably 30,000 ft or so) would have fairly minimal impact on the ground, and would, of course, bet totally worthwhile if it meant preventing dropping multi-megaton bombs.
Miniaturization technology has advanced enough that they don't need fixed installations. Low altitude anti-air defense is probably a bunch of Stingers stored in a locker in key target buildings. High-altitude ABM defense would be Patriots and THAADs, both of which are mounted on mobile trucks which presumably are housed in U.S. military bases and in secret garages or other locations. It's to your advantage to not let your enemies know where your defenses are; pretty much all missiles since the 1980s have been mounted on trucks that let them be stationed anywhere a road goes to.
Who cares if it's a luxury good as long as it's not a positional good? If a larger group of people take, I don't know, out-of-town vacations or buy cool-but-not-very-useful electronic gadgets or take classes in glassblowing or firebreathing, then that's economic activity which in turn provides jobs for hotel staff, factory workers, and craftspeople.

Your single example is a university education, which is at least arguably a positional good. But tons of luxury items aren't positional.
They asked me to pay the $200 first (which I did). After a couple of days, they banned me for no reason. There is nothing more to it. Like I showed in my original post, the feedback I got from the UBER Support.
TLDR: This guy used LinkedIn's targeted ads to target an investor and 6 of his friends to get their attention, leading to a $120k investment.

Side-note: Similar and just as amusing story, but with FB ads - http://mysocialsherpa.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-...
Ah well, my bad, I thought this was an IE-only thing but you appear to be correct, it looks like it was part of the CSS 2.1 spec.

Check out an example here: http://www.iangraham.org/books/xhtml1/appd/update-23feb2000....

At the time, it was Internet Explorer vs. Netscape, and we were building Intranet web apps for Windows users, so our target browser was pretty much only Internet Explorer. Mostly because of the more advanced JScript and XML processing capabilities, and eventually HTAs and early XMLHttpRequest support that came with IE6.

Surprisingly we never got into ActiveX components. Even back then, they seemed like a bad idea... :)
There's a lot of "the DA says", and "the prosecutor says", and "the DA argues".

And on the opposite side is a myriad of proceedings, of which the bank was exonerated, on every. single. charge.
I think you are looking at it wrong. It is not just "use unstable", it is "use unstable if you want to apt-get install stuff".

You can always install the version you want, you just have to compile it, including it's dependencies if needed (using a custom path for libraries).

If you need to do that for multiple machines, build your own packages.

You have a choice how you want to get stuff on your system.

People creating software packages that are in the official repository make it easy for multiple projects to reuse stuff and it works out for most people most of the time.
Where are you seeing a 10M exit? I don't see the purchase price mentioned anywhere.
Even the article title is a hustle! :-)

The takeaway of all this: always push, always aggressive.
Experiment cofounder here - we're hiring :)
> The title is misleading, it lead to $120k in investment for his company, it did not 'make him 120k'.

That's an important distinction. I was wondering what I was missing.
It's a matter of changing one's habits I suppose...possibly moving is the easiest and most effective way.
He's talking about average rather than median precisely because his point isn't that "the economy grew, but the growth was captured by the wealthy," but rather "the economy hasn't grown much per capita." So you want to look at average, not median.

And he isn't saying that trends didn't continue, he's saying trends went one direction, but the policy discussion is as though the trends went in exactly the opposite direction, and that that's important.
‘Sea Slaves’: The human misery that feeds pets and livestock
Maybe the government should split Youtube from Google and then Google+ would not be an issue... (maybe other services should stand on their own also)
I watched an extra credits video the other day that touched on this thought;

one option is to have AA studios / publishers fund teams of "indie" devs with license to go nuts exploring new aspects of the medium.

Personally, since we're running full-tilt towards needing something to replace "jobs," I'd like to hope that, at some point, that some places ( countries, planets(?)) might institute a universal minimum income, along with a flat-rate fair tax. Then folks could earn currency by playing games ( or creating art, music, solving interesting problems, whatevs...

Could go a long way towards building space-ships & eliminating poverty / starvation...
Government contracts require long sales cycles, constant relationship management, excessive documentation, and insider experience to navigate the system. What (if anything) has improved the chances for a small team of competent outsiders ?
I read an interview with MK where someone asked him if he felt guilty for designing the AK47, he just said something like, he created a tool for fighting Fascists and he was proud of that.
With local rendering, when you shoot a bullet you see the bullet shoot after local hardware latency (~50ms) and get a confirmed kill after local hardware latency + round-trip time (say ~50ms).

If the rendering is distant, the time until you will see that bullet shoot becomes 100ms instead of 50ms.
Has anyone tried anything like this, but instead of posting the information associated with the tag in a private database, to post that info into the Bitcoin Blockchain?
And they face(d) legal retaliation. Just like any other law. Sure, people can break it. That opens the door to justified retaliation.

Should we legalize theft just because people still get pickpocketed?
Third ones covered, what are the best resources for the first two?
win95.ajf.me is em-dosbox.
Certainly not, because the plausible kernel bugs in those open driver descriptors (I'm serious: vendor media drivers are not pretty things) would obviously not be subject to selinux controls.

But at least there is some sandboxing in place; the security architecture was designed to admit the possibility of a breach of the mediaserver.
Maybe if it was Bot vs Human. In reality, it will be Bot + Human vs Human.
> none
there's at lest one. see: team hacking android source code leak

very convenient timing for all that.
The Greek Warrior (portrait of Y. Varoufakis)
We've had very low inflation in the last 20 years or so. While certain numbers, especially short-term ones, are reported in nominal dollars instead of real ones (it's actually kind of hard to report on real dollars except in considerably retrospect), neither Yglesias nor anyone else in the broadest definition of economic literature is confused about the nominal/real distinction.

That said, productivity is not declining. The first derivative of productivity is declining -- that is, productivity is going up, but it's not going up as fast as it used to. Also, the population is going up. And that explains the (real, not nominal) stock market growth.
The only safe answer is for every country to invade the rest of the world immediately.
This is exactly why I'm afraid of this future. If the richest nation can send their robots to rape and pillage other countries with no threat to their own population, why wouldn't they?

It took public outrage over lost lives for us (the US) to pull out of a war that we were already losing (Vietnam). I can't imagine what it'd take if we were winning and not dying.
yeah that's a cool article as well. I liked his similar approach.
> all the popular brands have added tons of sugar since it became popular

This is a huge pain if you're not careful. I stick to FAGE or Safeway's store brand, both have no added sugar and only two ingredients: milk and active bacteria cultures.
That is a huge problem. A better solution would have been an app which takes a url and shows a sketch of triangles or squares which the user can then write out. Such an app could work offline as well.
> in all likelihood there is a logistic curve to human material needs as well.

Material needs, probably yes. But not all needs are material needs.

> as you go to higher income brackets more and more of the possibilities fall into "luxury" and "status symbol".

Those are loaded words; one person's "luxury" is another person's preferred entertainment.

> It's absolutely bizarre that in an era of low fiction information, tuition has actually gone up. That is, until you consider the credentialing as a form of signalling for limited jobs at the high end.

That's probably a contributing factor, but it can't be the primary reason tuition has gone up so much, precisely because, as you say, there are only a limited number of jobs for which this signalling is useful.

The primary reason tuition has gone up so much is the fact that student loans and grants are so widely available. Colleges have simply raised their prices in order to consume all that extra money. Most of those loans and grants don't go to people who view a degree as a status symbol or a signalling device; they go to people who, rightly or wrongly, sincerely believe that a degree will give them a chance at a better life, and the wide availability of financial aid means that more people are likely to come to that conclusion. (IMO, we've pushed that lever too far; many of the people now using loans and grants to get degrees will not get enough of a better life to make it worth it to them. But that's a whole other discussion.)
Interesting — the Sega Master System controller was based on the NES controller, but this NES clone controller is a rip-off of the Genesis (to the point where they gave the select button the position and shape of the C button on the Genesis just so the controller would have the exact same layout).
Your photo is a stone's throw from the well-known "Sunken City" in San Pedro (a neighborhood of LA). If you go two photographs northward, you can see a nice view of the remains of a sudden subsidence event in 1929.

There are still remains of roads, sidewalks, and other infrastructure. It's now a pretty well-known hiking spot, although you're formally not supposed to go there:

http://www.welikela.com/sunken-city-san-pedro-hidden-l-a-adv...

The land was moving as much as 11 inches per day, but most houses were able to be moved before they were destroyed.

So many of the houses along the Pacific coast were built before the geologic truth was known/admitted.
Getting SDL's incomplete types to work inside of a std::vector of std::unique_ptrs and compile with Visual Studio's compiler, and building a basic (rudimentary, probably not awesome) entity-component system in C++ to work with them.

And yes, I know a lot of what I just typed will probably put real game programmers' teeth on edge.
I am not hating - I am just giving my opinion based on what I read on the first page. I guess SEO engineers is a better way to describe your work (tbh like many people SEO is a killer word that stops my attention i did not click through too see this was a tool not a consultancy) so I apologise for that.

So what is the current status of the project? it seems like you have not done anything for a year on the project but now it got submitted to HN? Bitcoin must have changed a lot in that time so i guess this is already a dead business just a cool project idea?
One of the features of the Microsoft stack is a robust market for traditional books targeted at diverse technical backgrounds. Amazon or a physical store is where I would start. Congratulations on the new job.

Good luck.
Mimir (YC S15) speeds up feedback with automated grading for professors
UI Response time is at most 100 ms [1], as anything more that is very noticeable laggy.

Actual perception times are much lower than that, about 13ms [2]. You can see the difference for yourself by looking at a 30FPS (33ms) and 60FPS (16ms) video [3], and the effect is much greater when you're actually providing the inputs.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/536300/what-is-the-short...
[2]: https://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/in-the-blink-of-an-eye-0116
[3]: http://www.30vs60fps.com/
Les 6 versions de Star Wars adaptées en Little Golden Books
pretty sure that's what YouTube's founder was alluding to recently:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/8/5080630/youtube-co-founder...

they should've just listened to him
So basically, revival of the arcade slot machines.
Author here. If the steps to turn off auto-retrieval of media are different on your version of Android, could you let me know?
i started a little movement to get 4.4 update to get rid of that vuln.

unofficial Motorola word on xda was that there was a single intern handling releases for older phone. heh
i actually believe it.

everyone here with a short memory will say they are on 5 already. which adds nothing. and they will forget the 4 months they were on a insecure 4.x
foreign exchange reserve and capital outflow are not additive like that AFAIK.
Ah, that's an interesting idea.

We might say that Bresenham's Algorithm is not really about drawing lines; it's about doing a best-possible discrete approximation to linear interpolation, using integer arithmetic.

And since we can easily[1] change that line to any conic section we want, we should be able to use a variation on B's Alg. to do a perspective-correct interpolation, right?

Sounds good to me. However, as perhaps you were, I'm too lazy[2] right now to work out the details. :-)

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[1] For certain values of "easy".

[2] Or perhaps "too busy". That sounds a bit better, doesn't it?
How the Soviets bugged typewriters in the US Embassy from 1976 through 1984
How about for those factually innocent of the charges they face? There should not be a perverse incentive to "plead guilty (to something you did not do), or risk (even with your cap) twice the sentence if you exercise your rights. In this case, it is bad enough to be sentenced to _x_ for a crime you did not commit, and insult to injury to be sentenced to _2x_, let alone _20x_ for having the gall and audacity to demand a trial.

Lesser, but still valid issues may remain when you are indeed guilty, but feel that plea bargaining or sentencing recommendations are out of proportion, unrealistic or whatever. "Hey, contest it. If you lose, you suffer. If you win you suffer, 'less'."

Meanwhile the burden of "expensive" trials, lets be honest, falls largely on the accused, not the state, who has (for all intents and purposes) and unlimited budget (especially at the federal level) - while not strictly accurate, I realize, if there's enough determination, you will suffer that - how often does the government dismiss cases because they are "too expensive to prosecute"? Compare and contrast to the myriad of people who have no option but public defenders.
I'm confused how the indictment is considered facts, but the verdict of the case that resulted from the indictment is merely narrative.

They were exonerated from all charges after trial, wouldn't that make the pre-trial "facts" supplied by the DA/prosecutor the non-factual narrative in this case?
I have a relatively strict Omnifocus workflow that I use to manage everything. It genuinely was such a relief to get everything out of my head and into a system that I could 100% rely on if I just followed a couple of simple rules consistently. There is no way I could go back to trying to mentally manage everything again.
So much for no more prefixes :(

http://www.w3.org/blog/CSS/2012/08/30/resolutions-53/
What words would it possibly be trying to rank for? Stop being a hater.
yeah..and that's why verbal scores are lower than math ones lol
I'm completely happy with my Nexus 7 2013 (WiFi only).

I may look into jailbreak/rooting options that are compatible with ongoing Verizon service, for the phone.

In future, if I don't switch to an iPhone, I may well go with another carrier, and just eat the cost of e.g. a prepaid Moto G for the times when I travel and need the network covereage. Still, seems ridiculous. And if not Google, the FCC should be taking a good, hard look at Verizon Wireless. At some point, negligence should apply that, if nothing else, gets their spectrum allocations revoked. That would get their attention, fast.

P.S. Maybe a Google lobbyist and/or lawyer could have a quiet little conversation with their FCC contacts about this?
It's all the same thing from a high enough level. If your manager can do the work of two managers because he has an inventory system, you don't suddenly manage twice as much inventory (because everything else about your business doesn't change at the same time), you fire every other manager.

But the point is that society as a whole is richer because you can get a good from a manufacturer to a customer with less overall spending, and so while an individual inventory manager may or may not be able to get another job -- and might legitimately suffer -- ultimately the business does grow, and there are more jobs created than destroyed (though the created jobs may not be inventory manager jobs, and the displaced inventory managers may or may not ultimately benefit).
I find it incredibly convenient not to have to log into drive, gmail, maps, youtube, etc. separately. They all work seamlessly together, and I know I sound like a shill for saying so, but I've had nothing but positive experiences with it.
Interesting approach!

But that sounds almost impossibly computationally expensive for 3D games and the like. Furthermore most game inputs aren't discrete but continuous, making the problem even hearder.

Do you have a link to the paper?
Techniques for better spontaneous speaking
> Just because these treaties aren't 100% effective, doesn't mean they lack effect. It is the job of UN weapons inspectors to ensure chemical weapons are not being stockpiled. Stockpiles are harder to hide than the smaller quantities that many labs can produce.

I'm not trying to say it needs 100% to make an effect I just asked what your definition of successful meant in relative terms. We're getting a little off track here but the big takeaway here is that the process to create chemical weapons largely doesn't have a lot of areas in which further advancement in technologies can help people (some exists, sure, but I'm not convinced a lot). This is counter to AI where there are thousands of applications for AI in everyday life from driving to medical equipment; so much of this advancement is knowledge and technology that can easily be moved into the military sector.

> but hardware is part of the equation and needs to be manufactured.

But why? Yes I'm sure they would make specialized hardware but it's not like they need to. There is plenty of equipment on the ground and in the air controlled by either a remote human or by a human through direct interfacing with the machine. There is no reason these existing points which contain a human can't be swapped with a relatively advanced AI should one be created in the future.

So hardware is part of the equation but it's not like anything needs to be radically altered. In fact it may be advantageous to keep the same looking hardware so the enemy doesn't know it's an AI controlling it.

> Furthermore, in both cases, they are physical objects. Making these physical objects illegal to own and operate is the goal. Do you oppose this?

Making what objects illegal to own and operate? Objects controlled by AI, objects that contain weaponry, objects that contain weaponry and AI? How do you sufficiently define AI? What constitutes a weapon? Can the drone itself be considered a weapon?

It may make sense to make owning certain, dangerous things illegal but I'm not convinced it solves the problem we are discussing. In all honestly if someone could mass produce a machine with a decent amount of weapons on it then, depending on a ton of details, I could see those overtaking towns or cities; hell maybe even overtake small countries depending on how they're built. So it's tough to just simply say it's illegal for the members of the UN, so they don't research it at all, and non-members of the UN end of researching it and developing something incredible.
Plastic Road
How many shapes would you need to draw to encode even basic data like an 64 bit string of text?

Serious question...would it be something that a person could sketch out quickly by hand? Or end up being a massive diagram?

I've been reading the book "Code" where they start getting into the combinatorics side of things, but still relatively new to it.
Console.developers.Google.com is down :(