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Thumbtack - San Francisco, CA - ONSITE

Thumbtack's mission is to help people accomplish their projects by matching them with the best service professionals in their area. From wedding photographers and DJs to home contractors or French tutors, Thumbtack can help.

We are backed by Sequoia, Google Capital, and Baillie Gifford. A friendly, ambitious team of ~50 engineers, we work in a bright SoMa office with daily home-cooked food and unlimited vacation.

We're looking for engineers, SREs, and data scientists interested in working with Go, Scala/Spark, machine learning, Angular, iOS, Android, full-stack, and AWS. Join us!

http://www.thumbtack.com/jobs
http://www.thumbtack.com/engineering

Please reach out to (nate@)thumbtack.com with any questions.
For drivers other than Linux:

The manufacturer's website is http://wch.cn

Their drivers are here: http://wch.cn/index.php?s=/page-search_content-keyword-USB%E...

They don't appear to be open source, but I believe they are signed drivers for both Windows and OSX.
Is Apple losing its touch? Don’t count on it
Being "just" a programmer was okay. I'm loving life as a software/information architect and "general problem solver" though, it's fantastic. I get to play with lots of interesting algorithms, data analysis/machine learning techniques, data structures and storage tools; I write the most interesting part of applications, and I get to hand off most of the boring testing/CRUD/user interface/etc stuff.

Another benefit is that at this level management is more concerned with the quality of my work than the volume, or whether I get in at 10:00 or take a two hour lunch break from time to time. I like to say "you're not paying me for the code I write, you're paying me for the code other people don't write because I'm here".
Failure: A Checklist
Most people make games, but you can do a lot more with it. there are functions for lots of things.
Dallas, TX | ONSITE | Full Time | Software Engineer (Scala, Go, Java) | StackPath | https://www.stackpath.com

StackPath is hiring Software Engineers for our Platform team. Our Software Engineers are responsible for designing, building, maintaining, improving, and integrating our software platform. Software Engineering team members are key contributors to the products vision in addition to writing code.

Our goal is to make the internet a safer place. We need more help from people with the right passion and skills to help us get there.

Learn more and apply: http://stackpath.applytojob.com/apply/IyDgQ7/Senior-Software...
Hahaha! If you have to ask, you can't afford it.
Been coding professionally 37 years. Started as a self taught video game developer back in the Apple II, Commodore era. I loved it at first. University had me working at a 3D graphics research lab with Mandelbrot himself, later on I was an OS developer for the 3DO and the first PlayStation. I worked on tons of high profile video games, and later transitioned to VFX for film, and worked on a ton of popular blockbusters.
But the thing is: I love the work, but the management of software development is stone age voodoo and witch hunts, deceptive management, and psychological manipulation. Our career is create on demand on schedule. It's a recipe for stress and burnout. And I burned out.
I returned to school, got an MBA (2nd in my class) and found that no one would hire me because my technology past was "too exciting" and "I'd never be happy with what they do". But that is exactly what I wanted! I even tried not including my previous "exciting" past work, but that read as either an unemployment hole or was figured out with a Google search of my name.
I had to eat, so I returned to developing. I created a startup for my technology passion (www.3D-Avatar-Store.com : neural nets that 3D reconstruct people) and now work in facial recognition. All the things I love and hate about the career at still there. If I could do it all over again, I'd have thrown that temper tantrum at 17 and gone to animation school rather than a normal university.
University of Chicago, Humanities Division — Chicago, IL — ONSITE — Full Time — Web Application Programmer

Humanities Administrative & Academic Computing is a small development team (4-6 people). We are looking for a lead programmer for administrative web applications & misc research projects. This position will maintain existing applications as well as build new ones from the ground up.

As a part of a small team that operates the entire stack (from the physical servers up) and has personal relationships with our clients you will have the opportunity to learn or get involved in many aspects of web application development beyond just writing code:

- Consulting with the actual end users to build exactly what they need rather than just something that looks good in a powerpoint deck.

- Training end users, giving demos, mentoring student assistants

- Automated testing, config management & deployment, basic performance tuning

Our stack is presently Ember.js / Ruby on Rails / Postgres / Solr / Redis / Ubuntu Linux (and a bit of Drupal/PHP) and this position would have a significant role in making future choices in technology direction.

This is a full time on-site position in Chicago, IL with sensible working hours.

Application & more details at:

https://jobopportunities.uchicago.edu/applicants/Central?qui...

The University of Chicago is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity / Disabled / Veterans Employer.
FreeBSD uses a library and I don't think it suffers from criticism that its not UNIX. UNIX isn't Plan 9, and exposing something that can brick your system in the filesystem is just irresponsible. You can blame the vendor, but it should have never gotten as far as the vendor's bad decisions.
Why would anyone want to use Edge? There are alternatives on all platforms,no?
Show HN: Crypto, our NES game that we did for 2016 GGJ
Hi everyone.

For this year me and 3 friends of mine developed a NES game for Global Game Jam 2016. We developed it on C using Shiru's neslib. There was a time limit of 48-hours. Here is a video while we are playing it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2TEsonhl7o

It is a co-op only game. So a bit hard to play with single player. There are 4 items on map and your objective is to bring them to their correct places at center.

You can play it here: http://www.enginmercan.com/crypto/

You can find find binaries/sources on GGJ page.

If you want to support us, you can buy it on itch.io!

http://kabraxis.itch.io/crypto
I've heard and read that for Plan 9, but I too would like the source for UNIX.
SEEKING WORK. Remote front-end specialist.

Front-end specialist with 6+ years of experience, currently focused on all things JavaScript and a full-stack Node.js developer.

I enjoy writing code in small modules. I love working with ES6, architecting Angular and Backbone apps, and helping out with React and performance. I'm a prolific open-source developer and I've published hundreds of small modules.

Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina (GMT -3)

Technologies: Node.js, JavaScript, (Angular, Backbone, React, Open-Source Modules, etc), CSS, all things web

GitHub: https://github.com/bevacqua

Blog: https://ponyfoo.com

Resume: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/bevacqua

JavaScript Application Design (a book I wrote): https://ponyfoo.com/books/javascript-application-design

You can reach me at hire@ponyfoo.com
This problem - anxiety about switching to a mobile carrier with unknown coverage - is an opportunity waiting to be exploited. Imagine Sprint or T-Mobile sending someone to your home and walking around with you so that you could see exactly what kind of coverage you'll get with them. The ads practically write themselves: "Here at Sprint we're so confident our network is better that we'll send someone to your house and show you! Call today!"
Exactly this.

I've been consulting with various clients for the last 4 years. I make a few multiples more than I need to survive, and do not work more than 50% of the working days per year.

This is relatively easy to achieve:

- I have no debt outside of a couple school loans, which I prioritize paying down to zero. Everything else is either living expenses, or discretionary spending.

- I ensure my clients pay for everything they need—hosting, Github, any and all services. This is an easy sell, as it keeps everything firmly in their control and they can replace me at any time.

- I charge by the day, not the hour. My clients have never complained, and they seem to find it easier to think and budget in per-day terms.
I bought my mom a Chromebook Pixel and everything is so much better now
REMOTE front-end specialist.

Front-end specialist with 6+ years of experience, currently focused on all things JavaScript and a full-stack Node.js developer.

I enjoy writing code in small modules. I love working with ES6, architecting Angular and Backbone apps, and helping out with React and performance. I'm a prolific open-source developer and I've published hundreds of small modules.

Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina (GMT -3)

Technologies: Node.js, JavaScript, (Angular, Backbone, React, Open-Source Modules, etc), CSS, all things web

GitHub: https://github.com/bevacqua

Blog: https://ponyfoo.com

Resume: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/bevacqua

JavaScript Application Design (a book I wrote): https://ponyfoo.com/books/javascript-application-design

You can reach me at hire@ponyfoo.com
Much like the "Associate complexity with added value", for example, we see unlimited challenges in the computer science field that don't move the needle at the big picture level.
CodePens of Well-Designed Emails
Twilio | San Francisco | Full-time Onsite Sr. Engineer | API Tools

Twilio is a platform that has always put the developer first. This means building APIs that are easy to understand and easy to use. Over time the platform has evolved to provide richer communications capabilities to a broader array of developers across a much broader set of web and mobile devices. The challenge is therefore to make sure that no matter what kind of applications a developer is trying to build that they have the tools they need to easily debug and thoroughly test their integration before pushing to production.

About the job:

As a member of the API Tools team you will build software that runs the gamut from command line interfaces to real-time cloud-based logging services to auto-generated testing simulators. This will require real world experience using 3rd party APIs, a diversity of programming experiences and a strong desire to improve the software engineering experience (prototyping, debugging, testing) for Twilio developers.

More: https://boards.greenhouse.io/twilio/jobs/93900

Hiring Manager: Carter Rabasa, carter@twilio.com
It's really interesting how often I can get it very close and sometimes I am just way way off.
Wingspan Technology, Philadelphia Suburbs (Blue Bell/Whitpain), ONSITE

Join the Wingspan eTMF development team, creating a next generation of cloud-based document management solutions for regulated industries. Our web-based client makes heavy use of React.js and Kendo. Our server side is written mostly in Scala, and uses Jersey for RESTful services.

Wingspan Technology is a small, family friendly software company headquartered in Blue Bell, PA. The Wingspan engineering team is responsible for architecture, implementation, and maintenance of the company’s enterprise software products that target highly regulated industries, primarily life sciences. Current projects span the whole software lifecycle, from maintenance of industry-leading solutions to the development of new, unannounced products; some are on-premise and some SaaS.

Our engineering team has exposure to a wide range of technology; for new projects we’re using Scala, React, Solr, and Postgres, with an emphasis on functional programming techniques where appropriate. Internally we use Atlassian tools for defect tracking, continuous integration, and code reviews. Engineers involved in tier 3 support typically work with older technologies, but are able to see how real customers use their work.

Email - gsieling@wingspan.com

http://www.wingspan.com
>So.. you have to buy from a distributor. Those distributors also buy from 3rd parties

In countries that respect IP this isn't a problem. The larger issue is China, Taiwan, etc don't respect IP and hard tactics like the FTDI driver bricking becomes a reality. No one wants to talk about the elephant in the room: Asian manufacturer corruption and lack of accountability with IP issues in those countries.

Lets get one thing straight here. Multiple people/management in the supply chain here know these things are fake. They aren't stupid. They know that a no-name manufacturer who suddenly undercuts everyone else and uses FTDI's driver is a counterfeit. They chose this knowingly to save cost and said 'fuck all' to any issues later down the line.

>Let's just not buy FTDI any longer.

Dell didn't need to buy FTDI to have the nightmarish capacitor plague issue. FTDI didn't make all the toxic dogfood that killed all those US dogs in 2007. FTDI had nothing to do with putting melamine in infant formula. Again, you're ignoring the real issues of how China and Taiwan and other governments do a "wink, wink, nod, nod" when its comes to IP issues and encourage and even protect counterfeiters for the sake of economic output and underselling those who respect IP.

Oh well, here comes the downvotes because on HN you can't criticize China, only Western nations.

edit: to the person who thinks the capacitor issue was just a 'QA issue.' It was corporate espionage against Japan from China to get around IP issues:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague#Industrial_es...
It wasn't landscaping but, I worked in a shop where the supes were often abusive. That isn't always true.
Nope... not necessarily. Not when hedge funds and speculative parts of banks create virtual imaginary money. Modern capitalism is NOT a zero sum game.

It may be logical yes but it's not how it works right now. It's how it worked when the gold standard was around...

I wish it was a zero sum game, but it's not.
Commit Logs from Last Night
Britain Okays Gene Editing Experiment on Human Embryos
Interpreting the Quantum Pigeonhole Principle
Center for International Development, Harvard | Cambridge, MA | ONSITE | Full-time

https://github.com/cid-harvard/job-descriptions

* UX Designer * Web and Data Developers * Web Development INTERNS

What we do:
We take real world government data and research, and turn them into interactive data viz tools. The Atlas of Economic Complexity is our current online tool that lets you interactively visualize a country’s trade and explore growth opportunities for more than a hundred countries worldwide. Last year we launched a Mexican Atlas http://complejidad.datos.gob.mx/ which allows users to explore data and understand policy effects at regional and local levels. This year we are launching similar tools in Colombia and Peru.

Our stack:
We use python, django, mysql (hopefully postgres soon), elasticsearch, ansible for the back end. For the frontend, it's ember / d3 on the country projects, jquery/d3 on atlas.cid.harvard.edu/ and WebGL with Three.js on some 3d projects that we’ve launched such as globe.cid.harvard.edu/ Everything we do is open source: https://github.com/cid-harvard

Demo of the current atlas:
An example of how the atlas is useful take this story here: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/03/21/world/europe/h...

Recently the EU placed sanctions on sales of oil equipment, but not on oil imports. Why could this be? Almost 70% of russia's exports are petrol products: http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore/tree_map/export/rus/all...

And Russia exports the overwhelming majority of its petroleum products to Europe:
http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore/tree_map/export/rus/sho...

The big blue chunk is europe, meaning a sanction would really hurt Russia. However, when you look at who else the EU could buy from, the situation is grim: http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore/tree_map/net_export/sho...

There’s practically no one who’s a real political ally that Europe could depend on, save for Norway. It’s interesting how it’s practically impossible to buy oil from a country that’s relatively stable and doing well on the HDI front.
It’s worse if you consider the cost of transporting it, and how close Russia is:
http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore/map/net_export/show/all...

Which probably explains why EU hasn't placed sanctions on oil imports from Russia.

Think you could design/build/use this better? We think you can too!

Get in touch:Send us some work you're proud of to greg_shapiro at hks dot harvard dot edu.
Traits aren't evenly distributed throughout the population. Natural selection doesn't operate on the individual level, but at the _population_ level.

In other words, there is no "wash"-- genes aren't all shaken up until they're randomly distributed.
How the misunderstanding of risk destroyed a shuttle
Beautiful and works great! But I prefer to use stadard (alt,title) HTML tooltip :)
Yes, let's just shove a few billion poor people underground (because that's what would happen).

edit: but seriously, power isn't even close to our only issue. our population just isnt sustainable
> I got burnout of web dev, I just couldn't see myself doing it any longer. I hate JavaScript and the whole current ecosystem, it's a fucking mess, I don't want to have anything to do with it. PHP bores me to death, it's getting more and similar to Java syntax. Traditional web apps are dead. Everything is an API with a frontend-app, and that's fine, but I'm done.

I fear I'm on this path. PHP is dead to me. I also hate the JS ecosystem and I'm not fond of JS as a language in and of itself. I loooove Ruby and doing the backend of Rails site. Sadly, frontend is the new backend and JS takes up a larger and larger percentage of my Rails apps.
API PLUG Has Launched – Owned API Alternative to Parse
It's fast. It's standards-compliant. It has a touch-friendly UI. Once it supports extensions, I'm looking forward to using it a lot more.
Why do so many threads always have to devolve into a bizarre condemnation of capitalism? If you don't want to code for a living, then don't code for a living. Do it for fun and make money some other way. If you're upset that you have to work to survive, well, then maybe you need to have a reality check.
Weft - http://weft.io - Cambridge/Boston, MA -- ONSITE

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= What we do =
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We're building skynet (except we're focusing 100% on logistics, less so on the murder part) -- we track every boat on the water, every plane in the sky, and pretty much everything else that moves in the supply chain (all the way down to the container/pallet level) so we can make predictions about what's going to happen!

We help solve problems like the multi-billion dollar asset repositioning problem (people literally ship empty containers to try to meet customer demand) and answer questions like is the port of long beach about to go on strike, is my shipment going to get stuck in customs, and who's the best person to ship with between point A and B?

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= Notes =
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- Clojure, Clojurescript, Python/PySpark

- Cassandra, postgres, redis, kafka, accumulo, docker

- We have one of the world's experts in Deep Learning on our team

- We have paying customers across multiple verticals

- We eat + drink together a lot...

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= Looking for =
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- Clojurescript engineer (frontend tech lead)

- Clojure Data engineer

If this sounds interesting, please shoot us an email at jobs@weft.io!
I would not call it an achievement, per se, but my repository Timelined(https://github.com/andriussev/timelined) gained over 400 stars. Haven't really had a repository that had stars before.

I have yet to determine how I become a multi-billionaire from this achievement :)
The China's own ponzi economy will be mirroring the collapse of Ezubo .

"So in two short decades, China has erected a monumental Ponzi economy that is economically rotten to the core. It has 1.5 billion tons of steel capacity, but “sell-through” demand of less than half that amount.... The same is true for its cement industry, ship-building, solar and aluminum industries—to say nothing of 70 million empty luxury apartments and vast stretches of over-built highways, fast rail, airports, shopping mails and new cities.

In short, the flip-side of the China’s giant credit bubble is the most massive malinvesment of real economic resources—-labor, raw materials and capital goods—ever known"

China’s Monumental Ponzi: Here’s How It Unravels http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/chinas-monumental-ponz...
The article is talking about the paid inclusion model for the widgets that Google returns when you perform certain kinds of searches, like:

- flights from NYC to Los Angeles

- compare credit cards

- hotel near los angeles

You'll notice that in each of those cases, there are no organic results above the fold. Also, if you want to see what happens when you don't pay to play, search for:

- flights from dallas to houston

Look for Southwest Airlines in the widget...they won't pay Google.
The Lord of the Rings too much like “a crappy enterprise IT project” (YouTube)
More Chinese Mobile UI Trends
Find a friend or fellow techie to subcontract for.

Use that as a time to learn time management, invoicing and billing, taxes, etc, while you build up a network. This is basically freelance apprenticeship.

Do that for maybe a year and then start doing your own thing.
> I think it's easy for programmers to hate life sometimes.

This is almost entirely due to a severe lack of perspective.
100% zoom is only usable on relatively large monitors with Full HD resolution or worse.

For anything with a higher DPI (including UHD/4k, but also lower resolutions), zoom is required to be able to read the text on most pages.

I run with 125% zoom on the 5+ year old iMac I use at work, and it makes a big difference.

If you'd like to see what size the fonts are with 100% zoom on a UHD monitor, try setting the zoom to 50%. You'll see.
H&R Block Builds Brand Awareness Through Unique Customer Engagement Campaign
'Needs of the capitalists'... You mean like plumbers, grandmothers, schoolteachers, homeowners, and software developers?
How we use Slack in our family
I was expecting that (or the T-rex variation of) when he mentioned optical illusions. The image he posted is more related to perspective than how the visual cortex works -- that is, it can even be done inside a 3d game/engine, with clever texturing.
That's a red herring. It's not the absolute number of staff in a particular supermarket that we're talking about, but the ratio of people employed to work done. Using their lowered operating costs to expand their business doesn't negate the fact that their checkouts are operating with less human labor.
This is not at all new news. We've known how to transcribe Greek notation since at least the early 20th century (and probably long before that; my memory of Greek music theory is failing me this morning). This particular piece is one of Greek music's greatest hits, and has been in standard music history anthologies for at least 30 years or so, I'd imagine.

It's also not at all apparent that the Greeks used the mathematically pure ratios (2:1, 3:2, 4:3, 9:8) consistently in real music. One of the earliest debates in music theory is whether we should trust the ratios or the ear: Aristoxenus was advocating in the 4th c. BCE for a phenomenological view of intervals.

(And Ptolemy, whose intervals are supposedly used in this recording, had some truly bizarre scales in his text. He only allowed superparticular interval ratios, and so the standard Pythagorean semitone of 256:243 appears nowhere in his text.)
problem is how does basic income effect inflation? more demand for basic goods and service less people to make those goods and services aka inflation.
Only sissy fagboys use firefox