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Raise.me | Full time | SF (ONSITE) | Fullstack Software Engineer

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This is aiming to be better than HEVC, because it won't be ready for a couple of years.

Assuming the groups listed actually back up their words with action, then hardware support will happen, basically every smart TV shipped already has VP9, so if Google's Youtube and Netflix and Amazon and Microsoft agree on a codec, it'll be in hardware (both in the sense of it being available, and in the sense of it being in every video device you can buy almost instantly.)
>That cannot be said of today's highschool students.

Of those that have a chance to make it to college, it probably can be said.

>I truly enjoy being able to follow science even though is has nothing to do with my field.

And this is a great side benefit of getting a good education. But taking out a 5 figure loan to buy this benefit?

If you are already getting a degree that will ensure your ability to pay back your loans, then adding a few more classes just to explore areas of interest is a pretty good deal. Often the cost is only that of textbooks and lab fees if you were already at full time.
What's "really really" awesome about Fibonacci spirals? They're just log spirals whose growth factor is phi. I can generate an infinite number of log spirals with different ratios. What's so awesome about generating them with a ratio of (one plus root five) over two? Would one generated with a ratio of pi be even more awesome? what about e?

Sure, phi is the solution to x - 1 = 1 / x. That just means it's the solution to x^2 - x - 1 = 0. It's just the answer to a polynomial. It's not even the unique answer! both phi and 1/phi answer it.

What about x^3 - x^2 - x - 1 = 0? That seems to be related, and it has a unique real solution - 1.839. Maybe that number has magic properties when used as the ratio for a log spiral?
You mean football.
I definitely agree with this, but how could you specifically change the laws in this case such that they are still, by some measure, "fair" and "just"? Most people would probably agree that there is no reason to adhere to the letter of driving laws all the time. Speeding on an empty highway to get somewhere more quickly is mostly harmless. Running a red light in a dangerous neighborhood might be safer than waiting. To the point of the "real" laws, such violations are probably most often prosecuted when they result in danger to the driver or others. You could certainly generalize these examples from driving to a variety of other laws.

I guess the question is, you can beat the drum about this, but to what tune? What's the answer? How could a self-driving car decide when it is okay to break traffic rules without a certain level of human discretion? How could the laws be re-written such that the effect is the same?
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I don't see how you can say it offers any value. There are no actionable insights here. You can't change your family, so in the end, every individual still faces exactly the same choice: pursue the entrepreneurial path, or not. What other people did and what their circumstances were is irrelevant.

If the article purported to prove that it is impossible to succeed as an entrepreneur without coming from a rich family, and if there were no counter-examples disproving that assertion, then I could see saying it had value. But we know that's not the case. People do succeed as entrepreneurs despite coming from poor families.

There are lot of people who fall for the encouragement from PG and such and take risks without being aware of the expected financial impact.

A "lot" of people do that? I'd need to see some evidence to accept that assertion. And even if that is so, this article doesn't help them. They still can't change their backgrounds / families, and they still face the same choice.

who fall for the encouragement from PG and such

That's some interesting language. You make it sound like encouraging someone to chase their dreams is some kind of scam. Oh, pity the poor gullible fool, who "fell for" the idea of trying to make a better life for him/her-self...

A more useful article, to my way of thinking, would have been one that presented the data from this article and then continued by saying "OK, so if you're not from a wealthy family, here are the things you can do to improve your odds of succeeding anyway..." That what I mean by "actionable information. Give people something they can actually use.
That would be a valuable article, and a valuable discussion.
All I see here is negativity and anti-individualistic rabble-rousing.
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Are you seriously comparing expressing ones opinions in a more or less PUBLIC space to assaulting someone on his private property? Or enslaving you so you got to church? Are these the mighty arguments madmen such as I need to refute?
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Bear in mind that the phrase you quoted is from a third party, not someone who actually works on the project. And it's from four years ago.
>"It's all bullshit. At the end of the day it was because someone wanted to make their mark"

Anything them there MBA-types do is bullshit, am I right? In fact, I have no idea why Google doesn't run from the command line only!

I'm sure glad to have HN around to tell me how most of the machinations of a large global corporation are pointless.

By the way, do you have one shred of evidence that this was a VP looking to get promoted?
Cars give us freedom. The reason that technocrats love "self-driving" cars is the same reason they love trains of all kinds: it means that "the system" controls who may go where, and when. A lot of us are skeptical of self-driving cars because a lot of their advocates want the next step to be banning private citizens from driving, which you've just confirmed, thanks.
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I don't mind sites being able to send data to the clipboard, as long as 1) they have explicit permission, and 2) they can only do so in response to a user action.
Or Google could just chose not operate their cars in rain and snow -- ever, or at least not until they're sufficiently safe. The safety strawman you suggest (that safety in rain and snow is somehow necessary) doesn't need to exist, nor do the cars need to be a panacea to provide incredible value.
>it ought to be part of the compulsory education that everyone receives as a teenager.

There is so much material I would like to add. A better course in our modern day political system (with sub sections for specialized local government). Financial info. Enough psychology to understand how people are manipulated. A basic course in contract law. A course in one's rights. And a good statistic course that goes over basic human errors when dealing with stats.
> it's perhaps fair to call it that when comparing against today's java, but not against languages that allow explicit field-by-field layout (along with padding, alignment, etc).

It's fair to call it that when comparing against any language or runtime targetting general-purpose development, but not compared to languages designed for different purposes. I agree with that.

However, we're not discussing those languages here so I don't see the relevance. I'm also sure that many statements are wrong when compared to quantum computing, but I don't think there's any need to make that qualification. It's pretty clear from the context.
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Well, DRM is completely independent from the codec. You can put DRM on a free codec and you can have a non-free codec without DRM. As for Hollywood... note that the Alliance also includes Netflix.
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Come join our Data Engineering team as our first dedicated platform devops engineer. We have a number of in-house clusters (hadoop, cassandra, hbase, kafka,...) and we are moving towards shifting compute load as needed to cloud providers. You have solid scripting skills and a love of automation. You have experience with installing and tuning open source distributed compute platforms.

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Which of them match AM in terms of users, revenue, or ad spend?

Craigslist had to change "erotic services" to "casual encounters", which ISTM is exactly what I'm talking about.
Most people are given a very, very stupid idea of what the law is from the very same institutions whose authority is derived from the law being treated as a real object external from human subjectivity that has real power over humans. An education that provides a realistic comprehension of laws and how they really work is dangerous; demystifying legal power and demystifying politics makes for a conscious, more autonomous body politic. Let's not blame people for their cages: The cages were put up while they were least able to contest them.
Yeah. I wrote soccer to avoid confusion with American football.
By careful selection of metric goals, impressive results can be achieved with little change. (this is a summary of modern american corporate process LOL).

So if your metric is pounds of payload delivered to orbit, for example, rockets are usually pretty heavy compared to the payload delivered so a rather small improvement in thrust to weight ratio can have seemingly extreme improvement in pounds delivered. You're still launching a million pounds sitting on the pad, its just removing a mere 300 pounds of insulation over than million pound booster means you get 1300 of payload delivered instead of 1000.

Rockets have all kinds of interesting problems with thermal limits and combustion instability and its very easy to defeat those problems at considerable weight penalty and then when telemetry consistently shows the nozzle temp is fine at full flow rate and projections show 80% flow is fine, then next model has microscopically smaller pipes or whatever. And repeat many times and next thing you know you've gained quite a bit of performance. Its hard to add fluid flow baffles to an existing system, but if it works with existing baffles its usually much easier to slowly remove them.

There is another spacex specific issue that to do the "land on a barge" thing general opinion is they overspec the marketing numbers to about 30% less. I don't know how much, if any, current improvement is lowering that to 27% or whatever. If you were to give up on recycling boosters and one-shot the booster, the marketed performance specs would go up a bit without any engineering changes (well other than software to land wouldn't be necessary, LOL).
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Ruby, Rails, Hadoop, Hive, SQL, Git, Linux, AWS

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We’re looking for a QA Lead to work on automated testing and data validation processes. The project you’ll be working on provides analytic insights into social media, focused around tv-related activity. We process the whole Twitter stream in order to generate various reports on TV and advertising. The quality of data in these reports is extremely important to our clients, so we need to have the best possible validation and testing processes. But the job is not all about technical skills - you’ll be the foundation of our Quality Assurance team, responsible for planning the release process and managing the QA team. You’re going to work with both the development and product team in order to assure the highest quality in the software we deliver to our clients.
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Location: Remote, willing to relocate [But currently in Delhi]

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Django, Mobile(iOS, Android), jQuery, Bootstrap, Backbone, React, Docker, Vagrant, Ansible, AWS, Golang, Clojure, R, Hadoop

Resume: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sidmitra

Github: http://github.com/sidmitra

Homepage: http://www.sidmitra.com

Email: sidmitra.del@gmail.com

Some examples from the portfolio:

* http://www.grapevinelogic.com - A platform for advertisers to work with Youtube content creators.

* http://publish.saxo.com - publishing platform where anyone can publish e-books, and soon printed books (print on demand) and online courses.

* http://www.cpaselect.com - An online marketplace for tax experts. [Formerly Teaspiller, acquired by Intuit]

* http://www.hypedsound.com - A platform for music artists to share their content from various networks.

* http://www.igrowfit.com - A fitness subscription app [in-progress]

I am a full stack developer, who's worked extensively with Python/Django. I also have a background in data science, scipy, numpy, pandas, scikit-learn, nltk etc.
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Amazon, Netflix, Google, Microsoft, etc. partner up to create new video format
SEEKING WORK - Remote/Freelance Python/Django/Mobile/Front-end, with extensive experience building all sorts of web applications, especially e-commerce marketplaces. I've worked a lot over the years with AWS, and have a lot of sys admin experience with config management like Ansible, Chef, Docker. I have a research background in data analysis. I also have experience with Golang, React, Clojure, scipy, numpy, pandas, scikit-learn, nltk etc.

Contact details are below. Here're some examples from my portfolio:

* http://www.grapevinelogic.com - A platform for advertisers to work with Youtube content creators. and many more

* http://turbotaxcpaselect.intuit.com - Turbotax CPA Select, to help select accountants. Formerly Teaspiller.com, acquired by Intuit

* http://publish.saxo.com - publishing platform where anyone can publish e-books, and soon printed books (print on demand) and online courses.

* http://www.hypedsound.com - A platform for music artists to share their content from various networks.

* http://www.igrowfit.com - A fitness subscription app [in-progress]

You can look at http://www.sidmitra.com/portfolio.html for further links

Github: http://github.com/sidmitra

Homepage: http://www.sidmitra.com

Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sidmitra

Email: sidmitra.del@gmail.com
That doesn't serve justice, unless you have an actual way to enforce those laws 100% of the time. Theft is illegal, but there are ways for a rich banker to steal money that are undetectable, whereas a man who steals a loaf of bread to feed his family is much more obvious.