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ftrack | Backend Developer | Stockholm | https://ftrack.com

We build collaboration software for the media industry, and have clients in over 60 countries.

You will join a team that shares a common interest in robust backend systems, their scalability, and continued development. Together, we find new ways to create a better experience for all of our users at all times. Above all, your work will impact the way creative teams collaborate around the world.

As a member of the team, you will work alongside bright and passionate colleagues to develop the best project management solutions used by top creative studios in media and entertainment. We offer an international working environment that supports your individual growth.

Please apply here: https://grnh.se/7135634d4us
Andium | (all Mid/Sr) iOS, Backend, ML, DevOps and Embedded Engineers | Full-time Remote (UTC-5:00)

Hey HN! At Andium we're tackling a big problem (climate change) with an unconventional approach (reducing the damaging impact of fossil fuel emissions today as they're phased out for renewables over the coming decades). We have a big mission, but one whose impact we hope will outlive us for generations to come.

Our team is passionate about working on hard problems, emphasizes collaboration and mentorship, and biases toward execution and delivery. Above all, we truly enjoy working together and learning from one another, a key ingredient to our success so far given the (seemingly) infinite scope of the problem we’re working on.

Send me a note at raryanpur at andium dotcom to learn more or apply - look forward to connecting!
True, but what you described are still collections of standard things, not bespoke tours of the kind that this company seems to be doing.
That's the really bad news of the age: I don't think we can.

"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." - http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_Planck

Ideas, just like science, advance one funeral at a time.
I have made many minor edits across many articles over the years, and never had a single one reverted directly. Some have been swallowed up during later re-writes and that's fine too. The thing is with Wikipedia, is a) register for an account, and b) start with very small edits.

That said, I've never tried to create an article - maybe that's where the real battleground is?
You can't honestly believe this is a helpful comment.
Because it would be impossible to make illegal effectively - that would just drive it further underground and make it even more invisible.
The problem is not lobbying. A lobbyist should be free to ask a member of Congress if their organization can have a tax break. The problem is the Congressman who grants the tax break. We need to stop thinking of our representatives as innocent victims of lobbyist culture.
I found that this article could easily have been written about my University, from which I graduated about a year ago. I wanted to do a startup-esque project for my Senior Design capstone project, and I had no end of complications in getting the project approved. It seemed every other student was doing some sort of "academic" endeavor working under a professor (with students all in the same major of course).

I would guess that a majority of Universities are somewhat narrow in their focus and what their definition of success for their students is.
Hate to look a gift horse in the mouth, but I don't think they're very good looking at all
> Normal life is pretty crappy

You're doing it wrong?

My "normal life" is pretty awesome. Happy hour and meals with friends and girlfriend several times a week. Exercise most days. Most weekends include at least one of: hiking, rock climbing, skiing, snowshoeing, mountain climbing; often in wilderness areas with no cell phone coverage. Movies, live music, theater. Time to read books.
Just leaving your hand on the handle for another 2 seconds would probably feel warm or a very slight vibration.

I'm having a guilty-pleasure chuckle right now because the "kings" of UI are getting sloshed with soapy water because of a bad design decision :)
Is there anything that prevents you from reading the mailing list a bit and mailing some helpful and competent people? It's not "official", but you may end up with more competent and cheaper help that way.
Maybe, maybe not. But I saw an awesome video from Standford on Youtube about a process to scrub C02 out of power plants and turn it into carbonate based sand, aggregate, and cement. This could offset our C02 production while providing more sand that we'd know what to do with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Unt7MRsV4&index=56&list=PL...
>> If I'm the smartest person in the room, I'm not learning.

Absolutely.

This is something that I cannot stress enough to junior developers that I work with.

This also applies to social and inter-personal skills as well as technical - just as you aim to continually improve your domain knowledge, there are always opportunities to identify and improve complementary skills.

If OP can determine strategies, survive and thrive in the environment described, this will be invaluable for progressing in a more accommodating workplace.
Now that is a sexy landing page
Awesome stuff. Now, how do we train dogs to bring us beer :)
Isn’t it a bit difficult to compare case numbers between countries when the approach to testing is so different? For example, in the UK we are only really testing people with respiratory issues in hospitals. So our number may be some number of thousands, but in reality we probably have 5-10 times that number.
platform agnostic, environment agnostic, cross-platform.

We already have words that mean exactly what is trying to convey. Taking a word that doesn't and adding it to that pool (especially when isomorphic has a meaning in mathematics and computer science already - e.g. two functions are isomorphic if for all inputs they produce the same output, even if their implementation differs) is a bad idea.

Edit: And we who argue that isomorphic is not the right word for this concept already know what the word means. We also know what the words in the definition mean, and also its usage, which is as a relation between two elements in the same set. Saying something is isomorphic on its own is against the definition.
Photobox acquired Moonpig in 2011 [1]. In 2010, Photobox got called out for emailing passwords in plaintext[2], and were quick to take to twitter to say "It will never happen again."[3] At that point, it had only been happening for 4 years [4].

Coupled with the tone of the job advert already posted by others [5], it doesn't seem too hard to imagine a corporate culture where security is not a serious concern until things go wrong.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14275632

[2] http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/security/360163/photobox-sorry-a...

[3] https://twitter.com/PhotoBox/status/20719242964

[4] http://blog.dave.org.uk/2006/06/more-password-s.html

[5] http://careers.photobox.co.uk/security-officer-moonpig/

[edited for clarity]
I'm not sure. The 30-under-30 accomplished more than Notch did. I'd feel like I achieved more being on that list.
But Notch has a better life, he didn't have as much stress as the 30-under-30, and did more fun stuff and can continue living a nice life.

I think my final choice would be to be Notch, but I'm not 100% sure.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1845918
Is this an ongoing trial? When are the results due? 3x100 subjects (is that correctly read?) seems quite powerful.
Personally I prefer to use the new Workflowy (YC S10) at http://www.workflowy.com

They just need to get those mobile apps done and I'd be in bliss forever.
Interesting, that makes sense then.
An actual decent piece of content posted on HN for once, what is the world coming to?!
Trump is the best thing that could have happened to Twitter. His content keeps millions of people engaged.
LMAO, the electoral college certification ain't democracy.
I can already see the amount of zeros on the end of those invoices on future work orders, German electronics are amazing when they work but have a tendency to fall in line with their planned obsolesce period, often just right after the warranty period. How they managed to do that is a total form of evil genius.

As more and more new cars are relying on these display screens to entirely operate the car its become clear that the money has skewed way harder on parts and labour (which was already high) and away from deliveries/sales since I left the Industry.

Personally, I want Cybertruck as its the first original design in ages (all other Teslas remind me like of crystal pepsi type marketing on design) but I already drive a Toyota hybrid and these screens put me off so much. I just want the option to go back to dials and buttons just so I know how to trouble-shoot things.

These things that are really computers with wheels but are now calling 'cars' will likely remain a total black box hidden behind a bunch of firmware walls that require proprietary software and code readers/tools, and an exclusivity on parts.

I'm so tired of the automotive Industry's, at large but specifically the German ones I worked on most professionally, attempts to maintain any relevance and have resorted to the captured market in such a disappointing way and seem to have given up on trying to innovate in engineering or design in any meaningful way: big screens? Really, that's the best you can do?

Why not a EV version of the AMG A Klass that can compete in price and range with a base model Model 3 all the way up to dual motor performance?

Hyundai is already working on that EV hothatch, too, now that they've refined their QC/QA issues this last decade and made the most of their alliance with LG.

Nissan is trying to bring AR into their cars as moves most of its lineup entirely toward EV.
> Also, at the current rate, the Uranium reserves last for approximately 140 years; if all fossil sources were switched for nuclear, it would last for 10 years. This problem can in principle be alleviated by innovative reactor types, but realistically they won't be available for large-scale production in the next couple years.

You either have to use seawater uranium or use breeder reactors of any fuel cycle. If you use both, uranium will last on the order of how long the nuclear fusion fuel of the sun will last (i.e. billions of years).

Most importantly, you don't need to only build breeder reactors right now. The "won't be ready in 10 years, forgetaboutit" argument doesn't really stand, especially as we look to powering direct carbon capture tech alongside decarbonizing a growing world.

National nuclear energy programs have always and will always consider a transition to breeder reactors essential for any meaningful long-term energy source. This has been the known plan since the mid-1940s.

Fun fact (pointed out to me by user pfdietz): If you dig up any average rock on earth, it has more energy in nuclear fuel (uranium and thorium) than a piece of pure coal of the same mass. WOW!

I wrote up a little page on this recently (featuring GNU Units if you saw that article yesterday): https://whatisnuclear.com/blog/2020-10-28-nuclear-energy-is-...
Php vulnerabilities are introduced by the developer.
“In the near future, it will seem unfathomably bizarre that one of the world’s most dangerous propagandists was allowed nearly unfettered access to the most powerful communication tools in human history, all out of some misbegotten allegiance to a warped notion of free speech, and that the only thing that could break the spell, in the end, was an attempted coup.”
Aha, interesting, where did you read about that? I just modified my vertex and normal arrays to half floats and the performance went down 80%!!!

Maybe the vc4-dri.so driver hasen't implemented it properly yet one year later? But does it still save the RAM?

So the texture uvs could be accelerated? But most of the data is in vec3... (vertex and normal)
It looks like Mali is now the "default" GPU in ARM SoCs; it's probably bundled with the CPU cores.
Where do you live where grocery stores accept checks?
I oppose all political violence, left and right.

The point is we should be consistent in condemning violence, regardless if it's your thugs or your opponent's thugs doing it.

A year of media-sanctioned violence in our streets, cheered on by many politicians publicly, paved the way for the shitshow we saw yesterday.
What's the advantage of sprouted nuts?
I mean this is nice and all, but it's a little like writing an open letter to a real estate agent. It's a transactional business. Your problem isn't with recruiters, it's with the recruiting model.
Visual Studio doesn't exactly treat T4 as a first-class language, which is a shame. Debugging it is much harder than it should be. I've found that it's frankly easier just to write your code generation in C# itself as an extra build phase.
My issues have never been the Micro USB cables, but the ports. They seem to often not be solidly secured into the device. (Amazon's Kindles' ports are pretty rock solid, to their credit.)
I wonder what happens when you close the lid and then open it again.
One of the issues is that most of the money comes from big corporate sponsors that are nearly exclusively going to be running Linux on a server with no GUI.

These businesses have no interest in trying to develop a desktop UI when Mac OS and Windows work fine already and someone else is doing all the work for it already.
OP is talking about concurrent execution of the task without serialization on the database (serializable isolation is almost never the default). Which results in 2 concurrent queries getting the same list of customers to charge.
This is why my 3D MMO will only have command line GUI for everything. GUI is a waste of the developers and the customers time.

I'll put the command line interface in the chat bubble above the players head.

/join <name> <pass> to register and /sign <name> <pass> to login will be the first commands.
I know I'm conforming to a stereotype by saying this, but I cant stop thinking about how this could be the premise of a Black Mirror Episode.

I also think we should restrict such technology. Without restrictions we can play God, and I am in no way approving of doing anyhting similar to that.

The part about pairing the monkeys NeuraLink Device "like you do with a speaker" made me laugh. Not becuase it's funny, but because it is so incredibly absurd. I dont know wether to feel good about how far technology has come, or to feel terrified about all the implications.

(I can't help myself; Nietzsche once said (or wrote) "God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?")
Your comment about task switching is fair but how much time do you spend in the file manager window?

You are apt to pay that cost either way and with a lot of tasks it's as easy to have both hands on the keyboard.
https://man.openbsd.org/tree.3
It’s four years of growth that makes the initial grant look generous. For example $GOOG was like $800 in April’17. It’s over $2250 right now. $AMZN went from $900 to $3300 during the same time.
vector clocks?
As Xoa posted in another branch, it’s not true that batteries aren’t much better in the last 15 years. Lithium Ion is not a single type of battery but a category of batteries with many types, each with their own benefits and challenges. Numerous changes have been made to the anode and cathodes to improve stability, power capacity, recharge cycles and cost. Recent efforts have focuses on reducing or removing cobalt. Capacity has grown about 5% per year and general stability has improved. I remember reading articles like this years ago where they talked about using LFP cathodes to improve the stability of batteries. Today LFP batteries are used in some Teslas and probably other vehicles.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/eternally-five-years...
Surprising fact: most people like working. Many people hate being told what to do and when to do it, but people have a fundamental desire to work.

Here's how to do basic income. Starting with 2010 GDP as a base, 50% of all GDP after that goes into a basic income fund that's distributed to everyone. It starts out small and eventually grows to a point where no one has less than a 1/2*N share. For example, let's say GDP/capita is $40000 in 2010. If it rises 2% to $40800, then $400 goes into the basic income fund.

If the result of the basic income is that people become lazy and don't work, the basic income falls or is phased out and we call the experiment a failure.
Except that’s only true because until now, nobody has launched an alternate store that offers web stack applications (WSAs). Maybe that’s because nobody is really building WSAs yet, at least not in numbers large enough to justify building a store to sell them. But then, maybe developers aren’t building WSAs because there’s no central place to sell them. The centralization of stores is at least as attractive to sellers as to shoppers.

We've done a poor job of raising awareness about this (I promise we're trying to do better), but we've been quietly testing out using our store, AppStoreHQ (http://www.appstorehq.com), as a mobile web app store (what Eric calls WSAs). We also promote native iPhone and Android apps. I could go on and on about what we're doing, why it's cool, and how it helps developers, but Eric does a relatively good job of explaining that.

Instead, I'll just give you a tidbit of information about how we're _actually_ seeing this work in the wild: In short, it works. I developed -- as the first test app available for purchase on our mobile web app platform -- an app I named fortysquires (http://fortysquires.com). Fortysquires is just an HTML5 frontend to foursquare's API. I open sourced it so developers could see just how simple it is to integrate with us (http://github.com/iseff/fortysquires).

What's amazing about fortysquires is that I really didn't expect to sell more than a few copies. It was built just to be a reference app. Remember, this is a paid ($0.99) app that competes against free, more well-featured native apps for Android, iPhone, and BlackBerry. There's also a mobile web version of foursquare (but it's not HTML5 and doesn't include geolocation, etc, like fortysquires does). I really thought I'd sell maybe two or three copies to developers looking to test out the workflow.

Yet, what I'm seeing is that real users are purchasing this app, everyday. Everyday, I sell at least one -- but typically more like 3-4 -- "copies" of the app. It's not a gold mine, of course, but it far surpassed my expectations. These are users from all over the world on all sorts of different devices. iPhone usage is >50%, but Android is close to 20%, and Symbian, Windows Mobile, Palm, and Samsung all make the cut. And 50% of visitors are from the US, 25% from western Europe, and the rest is divided between many, many countries like Canada, Australia, Israel, Russia, many Asian countries, Costa Rica, Maldives, Camaroon, Kyrgyzstan, etc. In all, more than 70 different countries have checked out fortysquires!

We have a lot of work to be done to build a great platform for mobile web app developers to sell their apps (read: we need to make distribution even better for developers, and the purchasing workflow even more frictionless for users, among many other things), but I think we're well on our way to doing so. Mobile web apps may never compete head-to-head with native apps in certain categories (Games), but I think we're proving that they can compete -- and even win -- when the ability to discover and purchase the apps is easy and the apps are great.
Right. All they have to do is sell their kids so that they need less space (cheaper housing) and don't need to spend money on education, and then "wing it" with regard to health insurance. "Just don't get sick" is great advice that I'd give to anyone in this country; I mean, can you believe that people in the US think they have the right to get cancer? The fucking nerve of some people.

[Follow-up: On a serious note, I know that's an obnoxious reply, but I'm sick of conservatives who somehow believe the problem is that people are spending too much on unnecessary things. There is some of that, but most bankruptcies come from the big-ticket items-- housing, healthcare, and education-- which ought to be affordable.]
>There are no problem sets, however.

This is one problem, the other problem is that there isn't a good way to sort the articles by prerequisites. There's also no easy way find out what you don't know you don't know about a subject.
i think the author misses the point about itunes, whether purposely or not, like so many others: it's not the functional capabilities of itunes apps vs webapps, but the financial capabilities
Zed's character in this piece (and others) is culturally-specific, so I can see how it would perplex someone from elsewhere. It's easy to imagine veins popping out of his forehead and his face beet-red, but it's actually just a voice for expression, in a "ha-ha, only serious" way.

One could think of it like heavy metal music. From the musical output of some bands, one might think they have serious issues, but if you look deeper you might see bright, engaged, and literate folk - perhaps fans of H.P. Lovecraft & Tolkein - adopting exaggerated characters for their own amusement, a little catharsis, and maybe a groupie or two. While it's not my favorite genre, I don't think anybody in Metallica really feels like a mute, paralyzed paraplegic - I just think somebody liked Johnny Got His Gun.

I personally think that the world would be a boring place if the only way to make a point was with your hands folded politely in your lap. Sure, it's valuable and effective to do so, but to disallow other modes of expression would be like saying that the only legitimate colors to paint with are pastels.

I think Zed is hilarious, but I can see how you might not "get" him. He's a writer. He may not be merely trying to persuade. He might also write to entertain, vent, or just to express.
This is a very, very crowded space. I suggest you have a good idea for marketing which cuts through the noise prior to trying to sell into it. Many of your competitors give away the 90% solution as a loss leader just to get a foot in the enterprises for the (much more expensive) last 10%.

Have you spoken to customers about this already? Who is saying "I already pay for monitoring but crimety I keep getting false negatives because while it checks status codes it doesn't let me fire regular expressions against the content."

Scrap the credit system. It adds mental overhead for customers. People who pay for monitoring systems will generally tend to run fairly reliable setups. If you get one idiot on the service who needs an SMS every hour, you can either educate him, rate-limit him, fire him as a customer, or just subsidize it from your customers who know what they are doing.

Charge more. If I care about uptime, I care a lot more than $10. You'll get pushback from poor college students. So what. They are terrible customers to have and you won't keep them, anyhow, because somebody can afford to offer this cheaper than you can.
More and richer checks per dollar. Better reporting. Better interface. Active development. Post-MVP will add a lot of features they don't have.
Consult a lawyer for legal advise and start your search for prior art now, don't wait until a patent dispute arises. A lawyer may be able to work out a royalty deal that is agreeable to all parties or he may be able to invalidate the patent with prior art. Either way having legal council is your best option for dealing with legal issues.