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TrueCar | Santa Monica, CA - San Francisco, CA - Austin, TX | Full Time
TrueCar is hiring Rails, Python, mobile (iOS and Android), and devops engineers in Santa Monica, San Francisco, and Austin. We're also hiring designers.

We acquired the talent of quite a few Carwoo (YCS09) alums a little over a year ago.

We've been around for 10 years and went public 1 year ago. The company has big plans for the coming years and is looking for good developers to help us grow.

See http://careers.truecar.com for the full scoop.

We're using Rails and Python (Flask) to serve out all kinds of APIs as well as consumer-facing web experiences and internal tools.

Let's see; what else?

* We prefer you work with us in-person in Santa Monica, San Francisco, or Austin. Remote definitely considered for the right candidates, but you must be based in the United States. We'll handle most visa situations.

* Benefits are exceptional: health premiums are 100% paid for (not only for you, but your whole family), we match your 401k (up to 3% of your contributions), and give stock options and performance bonuses. We also pay for your gym membership (up to $50/month) and have catered lunches every Wednesday.

* Our Santa Monica HQ is right by the beach and Third Street Promenade, so expect fresh air and plenty of food options. Our SF office is right off the Montgomery BART station with 360 degree views of downtown and the bay.

* A meaningful subset of some of the technologies we use: Ruby on Rails, Python, Flask, Redis, MySQL, Hadoop, and Elasticsearch (the whole ELK stack).

* VISAS are handled and REMOTE options are available under the right circumstances.

Send an email to me (Brett) (bemma AT truecar.com) with your resume and/or GitHub profile. Even if you're not applying but just have questions, drop me a line
No more attempting to make things 3D when you zoom in. Way way too slow.

Scroll wheel should zoom in instantly (go to maps.bing.com for how to do this a little better, though to be fair to everyone Bing did take a step towards Google in the last ~month with their maps update and it is much slower. It used to be open as soon as you hit enter in the address bar)

Generally the maps could label streets more frequently. Far too often I'm confused about what street I'm looking at because the label is somewhere off screen.
Sony PlayStation Is Hiring a Staff Application Integration Engineer
Infinix Hot 2 Quick Review, Specs and Unboxing Video – Onenaija Blog
We need to invent a language that allows people to not offend anybody.
Thanks! It's the first step but an important one :-)
What a $15 Minimum Wage Would Mean for Manufacturing
KDE has this out of the box, so I think you may refer to windows. I am using this with great pleasure http://www.outertech.com/en/clipboard-history :)
Best CC0 photos of month
Pariveda Solutions - Lead Developer - Houston, TX - Onsite only
We are looking to hire high potential developers with at least 3 years of professional work experience. We are looking for people with either project lead or team lead experience.
If you are interested, please email your resume to shanna.wright@parivedasolutions.com
I'm not sure where you think taste comes from besides evolution of ideas and data analysis done by black-box functions inside people's heads.

Formalizing that process and using externally-collected data is just de-black-boxing something that happens in a black-box form in the professional's mind.
I just linked this to my girlfriend who's going to her first HTML intro class tonight. Seeing the immediate results of your experiments is not only satisfying but highly productive. Installing code editors and "cryptic acronyms" is a deterrent to learning programming.
Which specific "communities and social groups" are you referring to?
Daala came up in the HN thread when Cisco announced Thor:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10042849
This is a huge pet peeve. Things growing and shrinking as you click on them. The link is in one place when my brain tells my finger to click but by the time the mouse button is depressed the link has moved somewhere else.

I guess it's just the sacrifice we make for a cool looking web page.
Hopping Through Time with Ursula K. Le Guin
Well, a, um, "literal" example was the initial occurrence of what I've just learned is called the "hamburger" icon/menu. Which was "backported" to Google's desktop designs.

A particular instance I recall was changes to the Calendar web page presentation. Mom initially struggled a fair amount with the controls in the left bar for selecting which calendars were displayed. This was in a Google Apps environment with 20-ish people participating.

I remember when screen presentations could be somewhat cryptic -- per your description as well as other instances. But, as you point out, there was usually a manual. Now? Often it seems to be down to guessing and poking around. Or asking friends. But if you are a bit older and not constantly talking over such things with your friends, that means of edification is somewhat starved.

P.S. Thanks for the response. And as I said, I'm curious about the perspective of someone on "the other side". I'm not trying to be unduly critical, here; just, this is an issue I've consistently bumped up against, from my own perspective.
I have a good understanding what dude means, my question was a rhetorical one to try to deconstruct what the author meant by "white dude". How do you know a person you see for the first time at a hackerspace is a "dude"? If we accept you explanation of the disparaging use of dude, how does the woman in the hackerspace perceive what a given person conforms to?

But why keep the discussion philosophical, after all a word's meaning is its use, right? As a simplistic experiment google "geek dude" and "geek" and look at the image results to try to figure out what the extra dude adds.
You of course are right. Tail between legs is embarrassing but in the end you won't go hungry or homeless.

Problem is in popular culture there are also stories about the 1 out of 1000 guys (just like you) that essentially gambled and came out ahead. Let me say that again. Gambled and won. You hear those all of the time. What you don't hear is about the ones who lost or hit the skids as a result of those chances that they took. Or maybe you do (there are always counter stories floating about) but the shine of the winners typically totally blocks those out.

For example I am sure in response to this thread someone has already mentioned the type of family that Steve Jobs came from.
> They actually give a reason why they changed it in the blog post.

This was the part where I literally thought "How do they come up with this bullshit?".

It doesn't sound genuine at all.
It's been twenty seconds for me so far, and this page still isn't loaded. I am giving up, Google.
I'm an advocate of blind hiring and promotion across the board. Study after study has shown that it is the only way to remove bias (race/class/gender/etc) on the part of the hiring/promoting party.

Here's an NPR/All Tech Considered story on it.

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/05/28/410...
Hackspaces are supposed to be safe spaces to do work, you aren't there for flirting/socialzing/picking-a-mate. There, like work, it is inappropriate to be trying to "seduce" someone. Try a bar.
To tell women that by being in public they have to accept endless random seduction attempts is a giant part of the problem.

Also gay guys usually don't just hit on everyone because at least they usually have the grace to know when it's appropriate and when it's not and also when it might be reciprocal (wanted) and when not.
Location: Normal, IL

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Maybe (US)

Technologies: Java, C++, Android, C, SQL

Resume/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7u23norc3gkgc5n/resume8-1-15.pdf?d...

Email: glen.feldkamp@gmail.com
When I played poker at MSFT in WA state, another rule was that you couldn't bet truly blind. You had to at least look at your cards. To see your cards and bet was a 'game of skill', to not was 'gambling'.
The biggest issue that I see is how much startup founders justify the idea that they need to hire and promote people that they 'would want to hang out with', aka the people they would want to be friends with outside of work. This leads to an extremely homogenous workforce with almost no diversity, because people generally are attracted to those who look and act like them. Guys usually don't see women and internally think 'I want to be friends with that person', white people don't generally see a black guy and think 'I want to be friends with them'.

Now obviously this isn't universal, plenty of cross-group friendships exist, tons in fact, but they are usually formed by the people being forced together (work, neighbors, school). When hiring based on first impressions, though, this becomes a huge problem.
Cool! Do you have a public server that's running the bot, or do you just run it on your local machine?
Design the Beginning
"New" VM thing? It's only been around for eons now.
I finally admitted my uncool like for 1960's easy listening music. I have quite a collection of it now, bought from thrift stores and ebay.

I enjoy inflicting it on people who still believe it is uncool.
How would hiring work in practice? Wouldn't you have to completely eliminate in-person and or telephone interviews?

Promotions I can see (although you need very formal promotion requirements). Hiring? I don't know.
Name one codec with specific support for DRM built into the compression.
True, also a well understood technology that they would have no trouble producing.
Related to a couple of answers, but I'd still sharpen it to: "Humans naturally seek reasons why they are right, but to understand the universe, you must seek reasons why you are wrong."

From that one insight, the entire rest of the scientific method flows; from there, science itself, and math, and pretty much the ~10 answers that didn't include this idea in it.
Show HN: Sync Google Docs to Your Dropbox
why not use a generic chatbot like errbot (http://errbot.net [shameless plug alert]) and get all the backends (hipchat, IRC, XMPP etc...) for free ?
there are existing poker AIs in python to integrate with: https://github.com/mikaelbr/AI-Poker-Player
Everything is a meritocracy until the bankers arrive. Well, the bankers have arrived.
I'm using an original Google Nexus 7 (2012 with latest Android) and try to view this page using an original Google browser (Chrome) and this is one of the few pages that make chrome crash. Same on my motorola razr i.

I love it when pages that talk about “cross platform“ behave this way.
Wikipedia:Long-term abuse/Orangemoody
does anyone know if this would work with postgis?
I had to port a product to Solaris 8 on similarly crusty hardware in 2011. Wasn't so bad other than having to work around an excruciatingly slow build process.
Tab Discarding in Chrome: A Memory-Saving Experiment
An intriguing peek inside one of the only handmade globe studios in the world
Once in my careerer I was already tasked with stripping a C project from a Python based building system (SCons, IIRC) because it was damn slow, buggy, and problems with Python and SCons were more severe than with a C codebase itself. I replaced it with kbuild, and it still works nicely in production even today.

I'm hesitant getting anything Python-related next to my C codebase, and IMO, C-people are generally not very enthusiastic about Python. Once the time comes, that something custom needs to be done in the building system, dealing with Python syntax, completely new abstractions, etc. is just more pain than using established solutions that everyone are familiar with (make, autotools, CMake).

Maybe Python 3 ecosystem (things like packaging etc.) does not suck as much as Python 2 (though I'd bet it still does), and maybe Meson is really great, but on top of my Python-implementation reservations, I also don't see much of a point: the billions of C legacy code will not be ported to a new building system, a there should be not that much new projects in raw C anyway, with languages like Go, Rust, D showing clear road ahead, baking their own solutions for common building system issues. Projects like "tup" have much more appeal to my C-developer nature, but then again, I didn't have opportunity to employ tup anywhere, as nowadays I write every new project in Rust.

Than again, it's just my personal opinion, and I guess somewhere, some people could find it really fitting their needs.
Hi,

I've applied 5 separate times with Magic Leap in the embedded systems domain over the last year, without a single response - no rejection letter, nothing other than an automated acknowledgement that my application was received. My background matched the job description at least 70-80% in every single case - I'm not sure why the responses are lacking. I would very highly appreciate it if you could somehow try to get my application to the right person or department. The reason I'm this persistent is that I actually think Magic Leap is doing something amazing, and would love to be a part of it.

I've sent you (email in your profile) two separate emails regarding this since the last "who is hiring" post for August, and I haven't even received an acknowledgement. It'd be great if you could let me know if my application is even being reviewed - I am actively interviewing with other companies currently, and whether I get to interview with Magic Leap would influence my decision with the others.

Would love to hear back from you.
I'm sorry but I beg to differ. Encryption is a very powerful tool -- the whole point of doing encryption at the client is that we don't care about data center security any more. As long as the data isn't lost, my data remains confidential. NSA, KGB, the Chinese hackers can't read my data. Period.

If you start telling me that I'm paying for security measures that have no effect on your service security guarantees, I think you're selling snake-oil.

At this point, I'm very reluctant to trust my data to your service.
But it was never a meritocracy. That's the pernicious myth of--well, most of modern society, but very much including tech. The unconscious and conscious biases of the first movers have shaped it since day one, and we still see the effects today.
Russia’s Fist Just Clenched Around the Internet a Little Tighter
I agree with your assessment of the problem -- it's the environment. But, as long as millions/billions of dollars are on the line then there will always be those who put all their time/energy into their job.

Maybe it's biology that allows men to lead less balanced lives; mabye it's culture. But the effect is what we have today -- when living an unbalanced life is rewarded handsomely, men dominate.

I'd like to hear counter examples.
SEEKING WORK - Victoria BC - Remote

I'm a full-stack developer who has built software with a number of technologies, including C#/.NET, iOS/Android, Ruby on Rails, Node.js/express, JavaScript (AngularJS, D3.js) and SQL server. I'm open to working with any new technology as required.

I can provide more relevant details (work experience, code samples) upon being contacted.

Email - connecteddeveloper@yahoo.com
Someone putting it all on the line is putting it all on the line, it doesn't matter if they are selling flowers at the corner or doing something larger than that. A plumber (or a small or trades entrepreneur) doesn't take failure lightly as you've suggested. Regardless of scale, a failure is a traumatic event and fighting against it can take months or years.

If you've never lived through the anguish of having a business go bad you might not be equipped to understand this. I have. It's not fun. And, no, you don't think "fuck it, I'll just get a job" three weeks into it. Again, you have to have walked in those shoes in order to truly understand it.

I am not trying to insult you, just stating a fact. It is really easy to have all kinds of nice sounding opinions from the outside yet there's only one way to truly understand what it is like to make the decisions to take out a second mortgage on your home to keep people employed, make payroll and try to rescue a business (as I have done).

It is impossible to understand something like that without having had skin in the game at some non-trivial business. Talking to a "well weathered" business person is very different from talking to someone who worked for the government or as an employee in the private sector all of their lives. Their understanding of reality is very, very different. That's how you get people saying things like "you didn't build that", because they simply don't have a clue.
I was working on WAP at the time (1999/2000) as well. And then a colleague brought back an i-mode[0] phone from a business trip to Japan.

It was small, had almost a week on standby (if you used it as a phone, which -- before the smartphone revolution, most people did). And it could actually browse the internet properly - gateways had to do some conversion, but unlike WAP, it was working with a real HTML subset.

It was that day that I understood the death of WAP is imminent, the mobile revolution is coming, and that HTML is here to rule mobile as well - because the future was already there, just not evenly distributed.

Prediction is hard, especially about the future, but describing the unevenly distributed present is easier.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-mode
I got another job quickly, and it didn't hurt me too much financially (I was still living at home with my parents at the time). But you're right, I should have, if only to force them them out of business and out of the next guy's misery.
How is it not a pipeline problem when according to the article:

> In the last two decades, the amount of women graduating with tech degrees has been in decline

If that's happening before they even have a chance to be hired, then it is a pipeline problem.

Is it even really a "problem" though? It looks as if young women are exercising their free will and choosing their own career paths which may or not be technical. Why are the choices they're making deemed problematic?
I understand the point of the list, it's just that most of the items on the list are not actually issues, or at least not difficult issues, and legalization has gone pretty smoothly in multiple states now. What he fails to take into account is that it actually is easy to just stop throwing people in jail for possession whenever we feel like it, and then take a year or so setting up a licensed legal distribution system.
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Please feel free to send over your resume to: ellis@bandpage.com
The technology underpinning this stuff has been brewing / percolating / developing for years [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...]

Automatic photos classification is just the most visible iteration of the tech.
"I have the ability to tell the difference ..."

But that's the whole point: it's hard to tell! Of course the classification is easy at the end points (super helpful guy vs total arrogant jerk) but towards the mean the probability of false alarm is much larger. Geeks are a diverse bunch, it may just be that the guy is from another country where interactions are different or it may be just that he's a bit awkward initially because he does not interact with women daily (it happens).

I think the correct approach is to give them the benefit of doubt for a while before labeling them as dudes or whatever. Isn't that the golden rule?
Seems like you actually haven't read the article. That's not what it says -- at best it's a very small part of it just to counterbalance the main part, which advocates that it's alright to do the inverse: judge a book with prejudice.
Armenian. Mostly agricultural terms AFAIK. The word for apple (xnzor) is one that I remember.
A technology can only succeed when the average programmer can use it without doing much errors, or can find quickly a solution using google.

Well, if you want to be successful like PHP, sure that's true.

For me, I'd sooner sue something which works well when used by a person who's taken the time to learn what they're doing. It's not important to me what a person of median skill and effort can accomplish: there's only so many things the average engineer is going to be able to learn, for whatever reason.
Am I missing something? Doesn't Google Doc/Drive come with syncing if you download it?
"..there is not much meaning to computation as a concept."

I kind of do agree with this.

So, if I want to calculate a parabola, and construct a machine to launch rocks at specific velocities and angles, then this machine is a computer, but if I just throw a rock without wantint to calculate a parabola, no computation has happened?

What if a kid is playing around with my rock launching machine? Is no computation happening because the kid isn't trying to calculate parabolas?
I once worked somewhere where we never switched an old machine off. It was 15 years old and would cost £15K to replace. They were recommended to never switch it off - on the basis that it was most likely to fail on power up.
I was in the control tower of an international airport as recently as 4 years ago, and can confirm that at least some of the systems were still built on 1960's technology - the radar scopes were basically pre-CRT technology. On the other hand, for something as fault-intolerant as air traffic control there's a huge amount of value in reliable, well understood systems.
AIRTAME (https://airtame.com) | Copenhagen, Denmark | Full-time, Onsite

AIRTAME is an early-stage startup in the heart of Copenhagen. Our wireless streaming solution helps people work better.

Our talented engineers are given significant ownership and responsibility over projects. We value rapid iteration, continuous integration and automated testing, and we are serious about producing high-quality, maintainable software. Frequent code reviews, linting, and pairing are all integral components of our engineering culture.

We are currently hiring:

* Backend Software Engineer (https://airtame.com/jobs/backend-software-engineer)

* Frontend Software Engineer (https://airtame.com/jobs/frontend-software-engineer)

* Software Engineer (https://airtame.com/jobs/software-engineer)

* Test Engineer (https://airtame.com/jobs/test-engineer)

* Infrastructure Engineer (https://airtame.com/jobs/infrastructure-engineer)

We can sponsor work visas for non-EU applicants

If you're interested or have any questions, send an email to tech-jobs@airtame.com
How easy is it to insert your own generators into a schema in cases where one can't be automatically created? I'm thinking specifically of pred schemas or Java classes as schemas.
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Data Loading into Amazon Redshift Simplified: The Podcast, Part 1
Algorithm Wiki
Oh, good point. I jumped right to the Joint Development Foundation part. Oops!
Using Samsung's Internet-Enabled Refrigerator for Man-In-the-Middle Attacks
Finally, I hope those sites don't even make it to the first serp.
is 18F hiring junior level engineers?
Hi, I'm a tech recruiter for Rapid7. Below is a listing of our current openings in Cambridge, MA. If you're interested, you can reach me directly at samantha.oliver@rapid7.com.

All positions are ONSITE.

Senior Automation Engineer (User Insight)
(http://www.rapid7.com/company/jobs.jsp?gh_jid=90877)
We use Cucumber and Java.

Software Engineer II (mid level) (User Insight)
http://www.rapid7.com/company/jobs.jsp?gh_jid=90721
Full-stack Java, but interest in security or big data & experience with AWS, MongoDB (or any NoSQL database), and/or Cassandra is a huge plus.

Cloud Optimization & Reliability Engineering - two roles:
Mid-level http://www.rapid7.com/company/jobs.jsp?gh_jid=90754
Senior http://www.rapid7.com/company/jobs.jsp?gh_jid=90756
We use Ruby, Chef, and AWS.