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Purple | Los Angeles | http://purpledelivery.com/app | Full Time (might consider Part Time) | ONSITE

Funded startup of about 10 people. Our fleet of couriers deliver gas conveniently to customers' vehicles.

Looking for experienced HTML5 Mobile App Developer to work onsite at our Westwood, CA office.

Required Skills:

- CoffeeScript (or willing to learn, but with strong JavaScript experience)

- Sencha Touch 2 Framework

- PhoneGap

Our tech stack: Clojure backend, CoffeeScript mobile app on Sencha Touch framework + PhoneGap. May eventually move to React Native.

Email me at: chris at purpledelivery.com
YOU STOP THAT RIGHT NOW.

OUR LORD AND SAVIOR UNCLE BOB MARTIN SEZ WE NEED STANDARDS BEFORE THE GUBBERMINT MAKES US DO IT.

FOR THE LOVE OF <deity> DO NOT CONTINUE POINTING OUT THAT STANDARDS HAVE NECESSARILY SPRUNG UP IN SEGMENTS OF THE INDUSTRY THAT INVOLVE RISK.

UNCLE BOB WILL FIND YOU... UNCLE BOB KNOWS ALL, SEES ALL... PUNISHES ALL.

/end sarcasm
There is a lot here about the interpretation of "savings account" and I agree that it is problematic. I have 10x as much in investment/checking as savings. However I don't think that fixing the semantic issues would change the overall issue: the distribution of wealth is even more skewed than the distribution of income. Most of this country would be utterly ruined if they got into a car crash and owed $10k to medical/repairs. And then there are people like most of HN (and me) who get paid ~$100k and save 20-60% of it and are not worried about that situation at all. It's not because we are better people or really that we deserve anything, we just have the right skills/opportunities at the right time. We are the few.

I was born into the wealthiest gender of the wealthiest race in the wealthiest nation and I happen to find working in one of the wealthiest industries to be not only easy but enjoyable. I have won the lottery. I have no idea what it would feel like to be at the other end of the spectrum, I just hope I don't forget how lucky I have been.
Cygwin is terrible but there are alternatives, such as:

https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow

Which work extremely well. I can go back and forth between Debian and windows without too much trouble. Many tools are cross platform.
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One "savings" I see is that you wouldn't have to wash your car (which in the city for me meant an extra $35 a week). You also save on general car maintenance. The city streets are tough on the suspension and brakes. You can drive that rental into the ground :)
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There is a difference between liquid and volatile. Index funds are definitely a liquid instrument, but they are very volatile.

For funds that you know you will need in the next six months to three years, it is recommended to keep the funds in a liquid and very stable investment.

Personally, I use a California (I live in CA) tax free short term bond fund.

What type of expenses do I keep in this kind of fund? Tax payments I know I already owe (capital gains from an IPO for example), child's college tuition payments, planned major house repairs / remodels, pending car purchases, and as others have mentioned six months of living expenses in case of layoff or other emergencies.
I get that he earns a lot from rent. But I still don't understand the animosity. Would you be equally up in arms if he just invested in municipal bonds -- the bonds that pay for your parks, roads, fire stations, police upgrades, and schools? There are reasonable tax-free bond funds (eg. PMF) that pay >6% annually.

I've read most of his posts. He harps on things like biking instead of buying a new car. Or "why spend $150/mo on a cellphone bill when you can use Google Fi for half that?" Using that latter example, that's a difference of $900/yr -- or 8% of your Target family's net annual income; enough to make a downpayment after just a few years.

To be honest: It seems like y'all are taking away the wrong message. The problems you see are legit, but directing your animosity at a guy providing free, online insights and advise seems misguided. YMMV.
Very cool, thanks for the link. I'm interested in seeing how well this matches up with the Attorney General's data if they are not from the same source.
But that is on Apple. Copying music to an iPhone is about as cumbersome as Apple can make it without destroying their music business.
They have a bootloader now. I'm sure this is very beneficial for certain types of people.. my developer friends who are becoming sysadmins by way of 'devops' like systemd quite a lot.

Me? I've gone to freeBSD for personal things; until Apple successfully pushes launchd upstream..

If you want to see how far spread systemd is actually becoming install arch linux using the official guides.. it's very easy to set up- but you definitely can see how it's "everything that isn't linux that your computer needs to be functional"- I'm sure they'll have a wayland fork in no time.
You don't put that money in a stock market. And than it goes up by 10%. What's worse?

Either way you've lost money you could have had. Humans tend to be loss averse though.

In both situations you probably have liquid equivalents at hand
Thanks. I'm looking for something simple enough that doesn't require any accounts. Looks like Shazam and Soundhound have no Web services and require registration. Midomi has recording widget, but no sample upload (that's somewhat weird).

Echoprint is open, I'll take a look at that. Echonest doesn't seem to have any service on their site (not sure how it's used).
Didn't google use street view data to register allot of businesses?

On the anecdotal evidence side there are 3 laundromats within about 2 min walk from my house, 2 are on a high street and can be found in Google, one is a part of a chain but the other is owned by a Persian guy who's way into his 60's (which still owns a flip phone, and i don't think he knows how to register with Google), 1 is in a mews (like an alley for you yanks) and it's not listed, the coffee shop in the same mews isn't listed either even tho every coffee shop on the high street is.
If you open streetview you can walk through the high street but you can't get into the mews.
> I'm a little leery of articles like this that are so demonizing

Particularly when the article avoids comparison to either modern military drug usage, or allied military drug disbursement at the time. "British troops used 72 million amphetamine tablets in the second world war and the RAF used so many that "Methedrine won the Battle of Britain" according to one report."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alertness
They don't make great money so the tip is worth it.

This is the main issue for me. When tips are allowed, the floor for pay/remuneration drops. I would much prefer to know that people are paid sanely for the job they do than to know I am obligated to supplement their pay.
Amazing paper. Thanks so much for contributing this work. I work in civic tech and am very focused on trying to improve the gov system we have through technology. Are there any representatives you have seen recently that are doing a particularly good job gauging the pulse of their constituents? AND/OR is there an ideal scenario you have imagined that is left out of the paper?

As an aside, as someone who has started one company in the space of citizen engagement and been in product exec roles at two others, I wonder whether or not rep engagement with constituents is a problem that can be solved with technology or if it is cultural in nature and requires more individual leadership to right the ship. I have met with a large number of reps from city, state and federal levels in order to build an understanding of the strategic problems that are top of mind for them. I have found (generally) that much more effort is paid in "dealing" with inbound messages and heading off harsh judgement in the court of public opinion than procuring good data.

TL;DR tech is important but far from a panacea and something reps don't really think about.
“Shady Water” documentary on the plastic shade balls (HDPE) in drinking water
> You don't have to propagandize against him now.

But I mean the guy is, literally, Hitler.
I had only lived in big cities before (Buenos Aires and NYC) where is very unusual to have any kind of interaction with strangers. In my experience here people starts conversations all the time in almost any public space (grocery stores, parks, buses, etc.) and I have to say that I'm not used to that haha but I really enjoy it. I wonder if this is a neighborhood thing maybe?
It'd be interesting if someone got in front of that and ran Uber-Prime with Uber-Prime, Inc. employees as drivers, driving vehicles leased by Uber-Prime, Inc. Maybe go upmarket of Uber by offering a 100% guaranteed rape-free experience for your minor children, borderline medical transport, incapacitated people, rich/scared people, etc.
Best thing I've read all day! This data retention nonsense has been really disappointing as an Australian.
My car is paid off so I didn't factor that in. But you make a good point. Probably the majority of drivers have some sort of payment, whether that's a car loan or a lease.
A lot of people don't carry cash in their physical wallets nowadays, since it's not generally very useful.
Semi relevant: New York City advises you to "tip your driver for safety and good service" [1]. Kinda scary that safety is some optional thing that you do for the prospect of a passenger noticing it and paying you more...

[1] http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/html/passenger/taxicab_rate.shtm...
RenTec is pretty well known for it's aversion to the Street & that culture.
Ask HN: What is your NET worth?
Since the discussion about savings[0] turned into a conversation over semantics and investing, I'm curious to see if there are any trends in HN readership. I expect some people won't feel comfortable commenting about this, so a poll seems the best way to represent everyone.

Factoring in your assets and debts, what is your estimated NET worth?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10353954
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Power Network: Get out, meet people, there are worthwhile events daily > http://www.meetup.com/cities/us/ca/san_francisco/
> That dilutes the severity of this problem.

No, it actually increases the severity of this problem. One car manufacturer cheating emissions vs. most car manufacturers cheating emissions.
It's also, in my experience, much slower (inexplicably, since apparently Docker Hub is also backed by S3 under the hood). Using the official docker registry images (only modification was to point them to a private S3 bucket w/ credentials) resulted in frequent push/pull failures with 500 errors. Even when they succeeded, images were taking ~15-20 minutes to push. I filed a GitHub issue and the only suggestion was to decrease the chunk size, which did not improve anything.

Now we use quay.io and it's much easier and faster.
The title makes it out like he is a reclusive lone wolf programmer. He is the CEO of renaissance technologies, a hedge fund with 275 employees. I really feel misled and like they trying to portray him as a mysterious, dangerous loner. As a computer programmer, I take offense.

Here is an interview with James Simmons, the founder of Renaissance, fascinating guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNznD9hMEh0
Horses for courses I guess. Personally, I don't see the basic volatile tech belonging to CS curriculum at all, it's the things you pick up from user manuals on your way of doing bigger things.
Uh, in which first world country exactly? I'm not aware of any place in western europe where carrying cash is uncommon.
My freelance web developer disappeared mid-project. Now what?
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The problem with demonizing Nazis is that it makes them seem uniquely evil.

But they're not unique. There have been many genocides since the holocaust.

And while what they did was certainly evil many of the individuals involved were just regular people.
Watching how players in the space are evolving how and what they bill for is interesting.

I think that charging by host is a lot easier for general buyers to understand and things generally average out.

I was recently also interested by the new signalfx pricing model - its really priced by metric volume but they sell it by host. When you peel back the covers they're just including a certain amount of metric volume with each host and your actual bill will vary.

Obviously underlying costs are tied to the amount of metrics, not the amount of hosts.

We are using Datadog for a bunch of stuff right now, and we generally like it. The per-host pricing model does get a bit hard to swallow especially when you have a bunch of really small hosts. Your monitoring bill can start to approach your hosting bill :)
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I suspect it will run Linux but you're probably going to lose a lot of the hardware functionality. If you have dual-GPU version you can expect that not to work at all.

I have a Windows ultrabook and it's not worth running Linux natively because it won't be able to use the hardware to its full capacity. Luckily, it's painless to run Linux in a VM.
> in those days you could open a windows explorer and type an URL and then you suddenly have internet explorer right into your window

This is still the case, isn't it? You can type "//google.com" into Explorer's address bar and it will launch your default browser to that address.
We might have to fuck off because the rent is too high, but it doesn't mean we have to do it quietly. The people coming in should know how much they are resented by the people they are displacing.

The mechanics terraformed capitol hill, the current community colonized it, and now the next wave is buying it.

No one here is dictating culture - they are asserting their preference to a community that was built over decades over another that is superseding it, and which they find distasteful.
Let me guess - was this a 2-person mistake, too?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/major-security-flaw-lea...
That's not what I'm talking about. I was yielding 5% interest on an ING Direct account in 2006 -- not exactly a crazy time for inflation.

If you look at historical retail interest rates, 3-5% rates were typical in ordinary times.
Awesome, I've just upgraded our instance to 7.7.0 - when will 8.0 be available on Pip?

Will Sentry ever be useful for activities such as tracking occurrences of an event?
Tesla is on its way to doing this, no driver required.

"As Tesla Motors Inc. develops self-driving technology, an analyst asked Chief Executive Elon Musk a provocative question Wednesday: Will his company sell cars to a transportation service like Uber, or try to start something similar on its own?"

"Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas posed the question to Musk in an earnings call Wednesday afternoon, noting that Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has reportedly said he would want to buy Tesla’s self-driving cars when they are released."

Musk called it “an insightful question,” then added, “I don’t think I should answer it.”

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/will-tesla-launch-uber-like...

EDIT: I'd like to add, Tesla is building up massive manufacturing capacity and already is beta testing self-driving technology in end user vehicles. Uber has an app.
I've never wanted to downvote you before. I can relate to your complaint, but it's a distraction from the topic at hand.

If "savings account" excludes retirement and investment accounts then the article means nothing. If not, your assumption that a rate of return motivates the use of savings accounts is off.
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The change seems to be a transition from proprietary, but quasi-standardized technologies open to reverse-engineering, to closed, black blobs with no standards in sight. And that's not an error, that's by design.

Congratulations. With HTML5 DRM and actually standardized plugins, you've now made the cross-platform thing we called web not only browser, but OS-specific. And to think TBL actually applauded this.

Madness.
Why not tip the driver out of your wallet?

Tipping through an app allows the employer to pay them even less because "they receive tips", in the end you're tipping the company that hired them.

This makes drivers expect to be tipped (even if they did usual or mediocre job) and essentially becomes a hidden fee.
I'm still waiting on systemd getting its own text editor, with keybindings that are a random combination of emacs and vim ones, at which point all config files will switch to a binary format that cannot be read by normal editors.
How about installing Linux on it? (I am curious to know if that's possible because I'm considering to buy the Surface to put Linux).
The most viable opportunity relates to the application of blockchain technology to existing markets that are already dominated by major financial institutions. There is no doubt room for new companies to become blockchain technology providers to these financial institutions, but if you look at the Winklevii's investments and ventures, they are predominantly "Bitcoin as a big asset class" as opposed to "pure blockchain technology."

That's not to say that some of the technology they develop can't be repurposed for resale to other institutions, but a lot of others are already playing in the blockchain technology space and they don't have the burdens of trying to create and manage exchanges, ETFs, etc. for an "asset class" that is miniscule and heading in the wrong direction.
And if there is no advisor there doing something you find interesting? Then you quit grad school, right. Since you are arguing total freedom in grad school, then the answer is that it isn't total.
Starting as nobody is probably not a good idea if you have more than one service which does that. They'll be able to interact.
> Awesome, I've just upgraded our instance to 7.7.0 - when will 8.0 be available on Pip?

"Soon", but you can install it from the github master already. Since we generally deploy right out of master the upgrades are fine to and from there as well.
One problem is that you're not only time shifting but space shifting to digital media as well. And the laws as written are very specific as to what is permitted.

Example: In the US, the AHRA that makes personal space shifting digital audio legal (relevant to the submission) is fairly limited in the media that can be used for copying. Though I agree that they're being used for basically the same thing, computer hard drives aren't covered.

A relevant quote from Wikipedia [1] that sums up why I think this act falls short of its purpose: "In each case, the principal distinction between what is and is not covered by the AHRA is determined by whether or not the device is marketed or designed (or in the case of media, commonly used by consumers) to make audio recordings, not the device's capabilities."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Home_Recording_Act#Digit...
I tipped a driver well because he went out of his way to come back to my home to return my cell phone I forgot in his. That took time and money out of his pocket. I could have tipped cash, but having it in app made it nice and easy.
> And I'm aware that many folks are concerned about the legality of certain programmes. They have every right to be concerned, but absolutely no right to examine those programmes for themselves, nor to disclose information about those programmes to unauthorised parties. A few seconds' thought will indicate why: sure, you may be a patriotic American justly concerned for your Constitutional rights, and if you examined a programme's details and found it to be legal, you'd never reveal it; but some other person may be an agent of a foreign state, and not care one but about whether something is legal or not, and immediately disclose it regardless. In the real world, secrets are necessary, and the essential thing about secrets is that they be…secret. One has to trust those who are authorised to examine the legality of such programmes. And of course, one must hold accountable those who abuse that trust. And of course one must also be humble enough to admit that one might be wrong about issues of legality, constitutionality and morality

Poe's law.
Our goal is the next 60 days, but the realist in me is saying "sometime this year". We have an ever changing list of things we want to accomplish still as part of the 8.0 push:

https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/milestones/8.0%20Release

Regarding future capabilities of Sentry, we're not quite ready to talk about most of it publicly yet, but we'll making some drastic improvements in the very near future.
I believe when you remove all tags, it just deletes the image (takes a little time though, there seems like to be an async cleanup operation). I remember having the data gone from storage bucket too but gonna check again.
I think a good way is to split your emergency fund with cash and credit. Sock 3 months of cash and get low interest LOC to cover whatever else comes up. That way you don't get opportunity cost of saving all your money into a low interest account.
I actually intend to benchmark this myself in the future and write a comprehensive blog post on my findings. Personally, I would oppose any RFC that attempted to add such a compiler flag, especially if its only purpose was to prove a point.
Do you have actually ship your AWS cloudwatch metrics into datadog? Or just events?

I'm curious if the costs of doing that (sucking all metrics from aws cloudwatch) start to get really high at scale?
It's uncommon to carry cash in New Zealand. Everything is done with eftpos and credit cards.
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Wouldn't work because Uber pays per person, not to a company. You'd have to get drivers to voluntarily give a cut of their take home to pay for insurance, the car, etc. without having a way to track what they actually make.
What would you prefer? That Mozilla says, "Well, Chrome did it, so we'd better not." That would be asinine.
Some nice moves from Lyft. Feels like they've really upped their game with this and it will be an incredible case study if they're able to surpass Uber who has a head-start, which almost never happens.

Reminds me of the days when alltheweb had just become the popular SE beating AltaVista, Excite and others, and Google stormed in and cleaned up.
Short price comparison:

AWS ECR: $0.10/GB-month (+ data transfer)

quay.io: $12/month - cheapest plan (5 repos)

docker.com: $7/month - cheapest plan (5 repos)

https://aws.amazon.com/ecr/pricing/
https://quay.io/plans/
https://www.docker.com/pricing
My job title is "Software Engineer," but I have a Computer Science degree. I use the title because that's what people call it, but it's not an engineering discipline. I had to take some ethics-related course work as part of my general education requirements, but this mostly involved reading some philosophy that vaguely related to ethics.
Computer Science is math. Chef, Docker, Ansible, AWS are industry technologies. You don't go learn CS to learn these, you want a trade school instead. Industry generally doesn't even work on the same problems that university CS departments work on.

In industry, a "hard" problem is one that takes more than a few weeks to solve. In academia, a hard problem is one that you don't even know if you can solve, let alone put a time frame on it.

And yes, you can learn anything on your own, but the number of people who actually go and learn the deep maths on their own is vanishingly small.
Well here's an easy life hack then: enable tipping in any delivery app by keeping a single bill in your pocket.