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Quadrant.io | CTO | New York City | ONSITE | Full Time

CTO w/ strong Backend (including AWS), financial data, data analysis experience. Competitive salary + benefits.

Stack: Python/Django, Angular, AWS (EC2, RDS, Aurora, more), D3,.NET, C#

Quadrant builds innovative tools to find, visualize, and analyze data. We are looking for an in-house CTO with strong AWS and financial data experience. You will be a core member of a founding team in a small office. Great communication and adherence to very high standards is essential.

We're building an industry-leading platform for querying, analyzing, scaling and distributing time series data. The Lead Engineer must be fluent in large-scale data processing using AWS services. Words that shouldn't scare you include partitioned tables, automated testing, Amazon Aurora, Cloudflare, recommendation engines. You must also like building things that have never been built before.

Here is full job post on stackoverflow: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/employer/jobs/118206/listin...

Please contact: dane@quadrant.io
For quite a few digital good you could check. The problem in this case was more that PayPal couldn't be bothered. Dunno with the ceiling tile thing unless you got an intermediary to inspect it. The delivery company perhaps?
Thanks. I did not know that.
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It's 180ms from a residential Canadian connection so I'd imagine it's similar from some parts of the US. Expecting ~300ms from my Australian ADSL connection (compared to ~190ms to an LA based DigitalOcean instance).

vpsbench on Scaleway:

CPU model: ARMv7 Processor rev 2 (v7l)
Number of cores: 4
CPU frequency: MHz
Total amount of RAM: 2022 MB
Total amount of swap: 0 MB
System uptime: 10 min,
I/O speed: 99.6 MB/s
Bzip 25MB: 32.62s
Download 100MB file: 70.5MB/s

Small DO instance:

CPU model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 0 @ 2.30GHz
Number of cores: 1
CPU frequency: 2299.998 MHz
Total amount of RAM: 494 MB
Total amount of swap: 1023 MB
System uptime: 40 days, 11:26,
I/O speed: 445 MB/s
Bzip 25MB: 8.76s
Download 100MB file: 25.8MB/s
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> There is no other way.

Well, we can always legislate. Even with encryption of data, you want legislation. Without legislation, the Government will just create a separate channel for data collection to bypass your encryption. It starts unencrypted at the remote site, so it's not that hard to do.

Even with legislation there will be problems, and overstepping, but at least then there's some semblance of recourse and ways to fight. You can't fix the problem for everyone and always, but you can fix it for most people most the time. This is the sort of thing that should be in trade agreements and treaties.
It would help your comparison if half of those countries existed as independent entities before World War I.

The Baltic States and Ukraine were part of Russia when it went through its imperialistic/colonization phase, reaching into Alaska and Mongolia, and Fort Ross as noted on the linked page.

The German Empire is conveniently listed as Germany on that page, which leaves out the fact that the German Empire consisted of land that is now part of the Czech Republic, Poland, and Lithuania.

Of course, these modern day countries were some times subjugated much in the same way that true colonies were subjugated. That being said, I don't think it's fair to say that Western Europe is solely to blame for world wide colonization.
> Taken a step further, the primary relationship of a government to its people is the threat of violence for not following the laws.

This is true in pretty much the same sense that it is true that the primary relationship of a people to its government is the threat of violence by the former against the latter for failure to deliver on demands. (The extent to which either is actually truly the primary relationship in practice is pretty much precisely the extent to which the government has lost legitimacy.)

> Free market thinkers challenge the assumption that government should be granted a monopoly on force but rather there should be competition in all areas of society.

The government is simply whatever entity (including a collection of entities) in practice holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of force. You can question what the nature, scope, composition, and role of government should be, but questioning whether it should have a monopoly on the legitimate use of force is exactly like questioning the assumption that a triangle should be a three-sided polygon.
I personally use Schwab, because (at the time I opened the account) opening an investing account also let you open a checking account with refunded ATM withdrawals. The brokerage account also has access to extended hours trading, though I don't know if that's a standard feature.

I also have a Capital One Investing account (partially because I rolled a 401k into an IRA there), and I can say that Capital One has cheaper transaction fees. But I'm an index fund investor, so I don't really care about the fees as much.

That's the extent of my experience with investing. It's not a lot, but I hope it helps.
There are so many red flags in this story, I have a hard time gaining even the slightest sympathy for the OP. Yes, PayPal has currently, and always has had, crappy practices when it comes to customer service and disputes. That's not news in my books and comes as absolutely no surprise.

Where I got lost though is the selling of an extremely valuable asset such as shop.com (a four-letter, dictionary, brandable, .com domain) at well under value. The first lesson in fraud detection is that if it seems to good to be true it probably is. A domain that probably has a value at close to a $1M going for under $1000 would fit the definition of too good to be true. Yeah, partners break up and can do some angry things, but selling an asset at such a heavily discounted price would certainly be shocking to me. A little more due diligence on buyer side would have prevented this. Otherwise I have a 100 foot yacht and an ocean front property in Nevada for sale for $1000 if you are interested. :) I mean even PayPal warns flat out warns about these types of transactions (https://www.paypal.com/eBay/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/gen/fraud-t...)

To me this entire story is like saying I went to Walmart and parked my car. They have security cameras in the parking lot and I asked an employee if those cameras were monitored. The employee told me yes so I left the windows down in my car with my laptop and a wallet full of cash on the seat. I was only going in the store for a minute and I felt assured that if anyone stole them I could easily identify them and get my stuff back. When I came out everything was gone. When I asked the security guard to review the footage I could not see who the people were and could not identify them. I am now going to complain about Walmart's security practices because of this incident.

The good news for the OP is that at least he has ads on his site and I am sure the traffic he is getting from this post he may make back a few of those lost dollars in ad revenue :)
This is brilliant because the main cost of running gear is power draw (PDUs / electrical circuits). Having OEM/ODM blade ARM setup a-la sgi cloudrack/supermicro is the way to drive costs to the floor, in a Backblaze/Google way. Unfortunately, it's a "Dell/Walmart model" hypercommodity where such a business has to maintain massive customer subscriptions to stay cash positive and still just trickles in $.

It's an interesting space, but if I were launching a cloud IaaS/VPS, I would probably optimize for the other extreme of "Apple model" premium/full-service expensive hosting that has fantastic uptime, gear and sales/support for enterprise/startup and IT/web operations... There's some more money in that and less headaches. (The most money seems to be in the upper-middle pricepoint area.)
As long as there is a data silo that is not under your explicit control you have indeed implicitly granted all parties willing to invest enough to break into that silo implicit access. Where exactly is that full of shit? The problem isn't the implicit agreements. The problem is lack of control and centralization.

P.S.: I'd also tone down the language. We're having a discussion and calling someone else's opinion "full of shit" defeats the purpose of having the discussion in the first place.
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Guilty.
I have seen a documentary on Arte.TV about fasting. It's from T. De Lestrade und S. Gilman, 55 minutes long - not available online any more, but the information pages are there with comments [1] (German), [2] (French). I found the French version on youtube [3].

It's the most complete documentary that I have ever seen on this subject. Fascinating documentary, starting explaining that the biggest studies on fasting as cure was done in Soviet Union with tens of thousands of records about patients with different pathologies. Ends with the newest findings in USA where fasting was used to cure cancer.

[1] http://future.arte.tv/fr/sujet/le-jeune
[2] http://future.arte.tv/de/thema/fasten
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytbXFXoT57w
Location: US, mostly California. I travel constantly. Never had a problem with coverage anywhere in the continental US.

Carrier: I've used Sprint, MetroPCS and Tmobile for phones. I've used Verizon and Tmobile for hotspots.

Plan and Cost: For phones I get unlimited-everything plans which cost between $65 and $100 a month, depending on the carrier and the phone. For hotspots it's hard to find anything like an unlimited plan, so I usually pay per GB. Costs range from $5 to $10 per GB. But obviously if you can figure out a way to tether your laptop to your phone (the difficulty of which will depend on the your carrier and phone) then you don't need a hotspot.
White vs Black pretty easy to notice :)
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"New York University economist Paul Romer recently complained about how economists use math as a tool of rhetoric instead of a tool to understand the world."

It's possible to love numbers and still not be interested in empirical data. One thing you may notice about much raw economic data is that it was selected because (a) it was easy to collect, or (b) it gives "reasonable results" according to the accepted theory.

See also How To Lie With Statistics.
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You're welcome I only wish the courts had ordered mandatory sterilization, perhaps then you might actually focus on creating and building rather than your simple consumer driven life...
As usual, a challenge to the drive-by downvoters: answer the question. At what point have we done all we can? We "can" give ourselves as slaves to refugees to make their lives easier but I don't think that's what was meant. So A) where's the line and B) how close are we to that line?
Hopefully we'll have the beginnings of a Qeng Ho fleet exploring space and setting up an interstellar network by then.
and "we" while you're at it.
Traditionally Zone 1-2 is central.

Anyone who calls Zone 4 central is deluded.
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Simplicity. It's become such a behemoth that it can be a bit unwieldy for new users.
Yes, MOSS does that.

I have been TA'ing a first year Python Programming course since beginning of this year; what you describe is the most common trick used by students---even though they have been told time and again that this will be detected.

As an example, MOSS picked up 91% similarity---between two students---for one of the module files.

# Student 1
at1 = input("Attempt 1:\n")
at2 = input("Attempt 2:\n")
at3 = input("Attempt 3:\n")
maxi.append(max(eval(at1),eval(at2),eval(at3)))

# Student 2
attempt1 = input("Attempt 1:\n")
attempt2 = input("Attempt 2:\n")
attempt3 = input("Attempt 3:\n")
maximums.append(max(eval(attempt1),eval(attempt2),eval(attempt3)))

I find it interesting that MOSS does a one-on-one comparison for each student.
Skiena's Algorithm Design Manual is really great, it's pretty comprehensive.

http://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steven-Skiena/...
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Anyone have a video of the silk shining? Would love to see it.
Because they are an European company and Discover is just an American thing.
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> But what's the fear about letting refugees into the country? Why are people so scared of this? (genuine question =))

It's the fear of letting people with very, very, different social standards in our countries. And it's warranted.

More than 50% of these refugees believe that whoever leaves the faith of Islam should suffer the death penalty and that adultery should be dealt with stoning to death.

We are not talking about a minority here, we are talking about the majority of them. So, you really shouldn't have to ask why are we afraid of letting them in in such big numbers, the questions should be, how can we do the right thing and still protect the social freedom values we hold dear in the West while doing so.

Source: http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-religi...

EDIT: It's funny that I'm being downvoted for answering exactly your question and providing evidence about it from a well know and neutral source.
Caveat emptor. You seemed to know what you were getting into and proceeded with a risky bet. Sometimes you lose those bets.
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Also, another great narrative of the event was posted a little while ago from the Damn Interesting podcast. Links to the discussions below; follow through for the podcast and transcript.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9816123

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9725851
I don't see how big of an IPv6 prefix do they allocate per server...
Partly that's due to competition for the small pool in SF being larger. There's a lot of people looking for fewer jobs in London (tech especially). In SF - reverse.
How was the weather in germany?
No, this is not a new knowledge, and not a new information (as defined by the algorithmic information theory), it's a non-falsifiable piece of, well, probably art. For this very reason mathematics is not considered a science.
This doesn't have any advantages over the goto version. So now you're defining a struct and a special cleanup function for every function that you write. And in the name of what? A religious avoidance of goto?
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I went from Pocket to Instapaper as well. For me, it was because the Pocket web client was getting progressively worse with every update. (Huge floating navbar in a reading view -- seriously? And the UI was dog-slow.)
I'm not saying you're wrong, but how would you go about implementing client-side search for Amazon?

(inb4 "server-side amazon search doesn't work anyway" ;)
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Please google 'Moises Silva' and 'Sangoma' and you should be able to find my contact info. I thought HN would provide my email on my profile, but seems like it isn't there.
> very special circumstances.

my experience is that these 'special' circumstances are pretty much "you need to use it in a proprietary production environment" and "you don't want to stop people using your software". this is close to what the FSF say so I don't think i'm far off the mark...

the problem with GPL imo is that it is manifestly not free. you must abide by severe restrictions to use the code, which for a lot of software development would incur impractical costs.

even if i want people to use my code for free I never use the full GPL license. i don't see any good reason to becasue i never want to dictate what other people can or can't do with their own software by virtue of having helped them out with mine. i really don't understand the sentiment...

for example, the choice of GPL here means that nowhere i have ever worked would touch this officially. i can tell you that most of those places are also not thorough enough to stop some random wannabe hotshot programmer from stealing large swathes of code from this repo and using them anyway... (i do not endorse this practice - but i am perhaps a little bitter because i am usually the one who spots these things and has to deal with them).
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Read fully, you will get to know.
> "If save-for-later service Pocket had a spirit animal, it’d be the American field ant."

We need an ongoing list of startups and their spirit animals. How else will I know what products to use.
I've had to do something similar a long time ago in the mid-90s when Linux switched from libc5 to glibc6. In this case, I hadn't deleted everything, rather I'd stupidly upgraded libc locally.

After learning a valuable lesson in exactly how dynamic library work and the recommended process for live libc upgrade (don't do it if ABI changes) I fixed it by using my IRC client which was already running so unaffected to get a statically linked copy of /bin and /sbin from another machine, via DCC Send...

Recovery then consisted of restoring libc5 from slackware 3.2 install media.

I can't remember how I got root, either su was statically linked (believable since it's setuid) or I had a logged in root session. I did have to used the tcsh "echo *" trick for file listing and the shell built-in cd...
In fact, the reading mode is completely unrelated to the Pocket feature, and was introduced separately.
Out of curiosity, which aspect of the US leal system scares you so much? I was under the impression that UK has a rather similar legal system in many respects, and has a number of problems as well. Personally I am a little scared of the French and German legal systems. And last year I read a very scary article about the Swedish legal system on HN.

US is doing a lot of things wrong these days when it comes to privacy, but when compared to EU, I find it to be about the same.
In those countries that it is illegal to sell personal data, what kind of abuse are they intending to prevent? Any abuse which is possible by having direct access to private data is also possible to do by going through a intermediate which does the data mining for you.
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What could possibly go wrong?
The membrane between academia and pop economics (i.e. the suspect gurus) is exceedingly porous.
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How sterile is "sterile"? We can reduce microbiota to so many parts per billion, but afaik they can never be fully removed from an environment. Won't any contamination from microbiota dramatically effect such an experiment. It may very well be that the conditions for the abiogenesis required no other life to be present.
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Author here. The examples with the golden gate bridge were generated using an earlier version of the code; later additions (L-BFGS vs SGD, TV regularization) tend to clean up the cross-hatch pattern quite a bit.
candl does not talk about neighbouring countries but about the Golf countries, so he is right.
I'm reminded of that children's story, "The Girl Who Swallowed A Fly."
Also Jeff Kaplan [0] and Alex Afrasiabi [1]. Given the origin story of WoW... I'm not sure I'd call it the spiritual successor, per se. Though I do understand what you're saying and it definitely took a turn towards EQ after the people we've mentioned here came aboard.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Kaplan_(game_designer)

[1]: http://wow.gamepedia.com/Alex_Afrasiabi
I don't know why, but I was able to recognize the non-words instantly (with one exception) even though I didn't know the meaning of every single "real" one. (Peristeronic, etc.)

Perhaps a remnant of my spelling-bee days.
They also wouldn't make any money from advertising and the government would pretty soon outlaw the practice.
Intel is still incentivized to provide much higher performance CPUs to the market because they compete with themselves - they want to encourage upgrades.

What you're seeing here is beginning of the end of Moore's Law. Dennard scaling is dead and that will limit performance going forward.

The implications are huge for the computer industry. As Bob Colwell liked to say - imagine if Moore's law ended in the year 2000. We'd never have smartphones.
Folks really seem to care a lot about a silly logo.
And all those sandwich discussions in grad school lounges/kitchens/deli ;)
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It is a respectable point of view, but I think that automatize some boring tasks to correct inside the code is a good idea because let you work on other more interesting tasks.

In fact, most of us use some automatic ways to correct and enrich code with IDEs. Is it also incorrect? In fact, what we are trying to solve are the following situations:

a) In a context where there are a lot of developers and you have worked hard into improve the code style and someone else pushed code that again violates your "implicit" code style. Do you need to correct these bad practices over and over again?

b) There are some boring tasks that punctually appear like "refactoring" when deprecated methods appear or developers need to upgrade one external library version (eg. one critical bug appears).

Anyway, thank you for your opinion :-)
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i don't buy the rhetoric at face value and i don't think it helps promote open source at all.

at best its promoting one flavour of open source methodologies in an authoritarian way. not open source software in general... it does little itself to teach us why open source is good, but its easy to learn why GPL is bad and tar all of open source with the same brush.

the MIT and BSD style licenses are open source, but not militant about it. they are doing much better work to promote open source software imo since people will actually use software that is distributed under them in large commercial projects without fear, meaning that open source libraries do actually get used a lot, which lets people learn their advantages first hand...

i like your quote about this. that someone will come along and make an MIT version... :)
"Today, we are announcing a huge price cut for Scaleway compute services. We believe that cloud computing is an amazing technology and that everybody should be able to benefit from its advantages. That's why we decided to reduce the price of the C1 to €2.99 per month or €0.006 per hour, effectively reducing the price by 70% compared to the previous price (€9.99 per month)."

Why must you say that? This is definitely untrue.
The title with quotation marks is a tiny bit misleading; I was expecting this to be a blog post or something where Paypal advised developers to handle user-generated urls with care, which would have made the paypal.me mistake (first discussed here yesterday[0]) that much more embarrassing. In truth, it's a quote from a post submitted to Reddit about an hour and a half prior to this one [1], making me think the url should probably point to that (or the quotation marks removed, since it's not really quoting anyone, but then it's a straight up dupe of a Reddit submission).

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10152224

[1]: https://redd.it/3jd1bj (from Artemis2)
I would love to have a server with them, but I can't think of any projects to put on it (that I have time for). :(
They're examples of successful and popular government interventions, which makes libertarianism look bad.
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