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Busbud | iOS Developer | Montréal, QC, Canada - Full-time (Remote welcome) https://www.busbud.com/

Busbud helps you easily find, compare, and book city-to-city bus tickets for thousands of routes all over the globe.

Busbud is seeking an iOS Developer to join our team of talented developers and build our new mobile application, in Swift.

Main responsibilities

* Design and build advanced applications for iOS;

* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features;

* Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability;

* Work on bug fixing and improving application performance;

* Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency.

Requirements: 3+ years of iOS development (must be able to showcase at least one iOS application), experience in Swift - an asset

Compensation and Benefits: Compensation based on experience, 4 weeks of vacation (3 weeks + holiday season), Health Benefits, Stock options, Breakfast snacks, team lunch on Wednesdays, happy hour on Fridays, Team Events

More details (and link to submit): https://busbud.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=20

"Working at Busbud" video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RROTlX1QAx0
http://www.helionenergy.com plans to do direct conversion. It's a follow on to previous university work, dunno if they tested/measured that part.
Populism is the best regime until the money runs out and no one is left to shake down.

A lot of damage was done in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia and Venezuela.
GC changes is a big one in the JVM, but not so much in Go (so far) as Go offers basically no GC tunables.

So while your awesome CMS tweaks from JDK7 become worthless once you switch to G1 on JDK8, with Go all you can do to optimize the GC is to create less garbage to begin with.

Not trying to say one approach is better than the other: Go's approach is operationally simpler but far less sophisticated than the JVM's.
I'd assume a good amount if Steph can't find her copy of it ;)
7 Things to Consider Before Fuzzing a Large Open Source Project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_power#Heating

The one I heard of was the neutron blanket method
I wonder how we ended up talking so much about luxury watches in this conversation about Hollywood and the tech industry. I still don't think there's a useful comparison to be made, even if we assume that luxury watches are immune to the same sorts of factors that made fancy hats and canes disappear. It's an impossibly large leap for me to treat Hollywood movies and entertainment as a "luxury good"; there's simply none of the same motivations behind it. It really isn't a status symbol to own a copy of the Criterion Collection on Blu Ray.
Why is this being voted down? Someone doesn't like criticism of Rust or the web?
Can you please elaborate more? I would like to learn about this topic. Or at least give me some good pointers to look quality information.
No, it isn't, but that's not the question this part of the thread is asking. Rather, it's asking "isn't Snowden harmless to the USG?"
Oh yes, I'm just saying when you are claiming that a normally (relatively) priviledged group is being discriminated against, you have a certain perceptional burden of proof, and being angry doesn't help make your case.
No, it was a warm retweet. I do a lot of crypto work.
Ask HN: How can I be more social in a small startup
Hi HN!

I was previously in a customer facing role and recently transitioned to a pure development job at a small startup (<6 people).

I feel a lot of anxiety as I don't feel like I can be myself during the workday. I think a big part of it is that I am the only dedicated in-house developer whereas the rest of the house is focused on operations. A lot of the time I feel like the odd ball out and just sulk into my seat to do work.

This has gotten me to wonder if all pure development jobs are like this? Is it because I'm the solo developer? Is it me?

At my last job it was easy to make friends because it was a large company and we'd often grab lunch in groups. As of now I'm the only one who doesn't get lunch delivered via a subscription and eat at my desk.

I find myself feeling a lot of pressure as a result of not being able to goof off every now and then with colleagues. What should I do?
Slack is not mission critical, you mean.
The point of constructors in JavaScript was to mirror the "look" of Java. Brendan Eich has mentioned this. You don't technically need them and can use functions to return objects.
This is a medium.com link, which is advertising for

https://codebunk.com/
As he explained it, they will only dismiss the ticket against you (the registered owner receiving the ticket in the mail) if you identify the actual driver - so you have to go in and roll over on the driver if you want to get out of the ticket.

But if the driver is your spouse you can invoke spousal privilege and you both get off, IIRC. I'm not sure of the legal convolutions that lets you say "I can't identify that person due to spousal privilege" and not identify that person as your spouse but there it is.
The Why of Agile
Build it? Maybe. Secure it? Run it? Scale it? Not so much.

"Plus, you don't have the risk of some business executive randomly deciding to kill your backend"

This isn't really that common, so it's not really something to worry about.
This makes tremendous sense on all kinds of levels. As long as you have a stem cell population, eliminating senescent cells will trigger their replacement.

When you think about it, reproduction and the birth of a new human being is an extreme example of this. Start with one pristine fertilized egg cell and build a whole new body.

This does lead to a related question though: what the heck goes on in germ-line cells that keeps them 'immortal' like this? Of course whatever it is maybe it's something that is mutually exclusive with what has to happen in body cells after they differentiate. Maybe germ line cells just keep most of their DNA "offline" and more or less keep themselves pristine by not doing anything.
It's also going to hurt the next generation, but I can't tell in what way yet. Many of my friends in stable, well-paying jobs are far too broke to consider having children. On the other hand, all of the people I know who didn't get a 4-year degree have kids.
It is saddening to see names like Yahoo going through so much trouble, but there seems to be an inevitability here that many knew about for a long time.

Yahoo, after Marissa Mayer took over, also seems to have focused more on revenue from graphical ads compared to getting any revenue directly from users.

* Although mail may be a good product for Yahoo (as this article states), it's not really improved over time and has in fact gotten worse.

* The previous Yahoo Mail Plus, which was $20 a year for an ad-free experience with some extras (like POP email) was replaced with a who-would-even-want-this $50 a year ad-free option. Frankly, I doubt if many people even bothered to get this one, more so because among the people who started email with the likes of Hotmail and Yahoo, multiple email addresses were the norm (they continue to be so). For such users who stuck with Yahoo, there's no way to justify spending more than a hundred dollars a year for email.

* With no sign of IMAP in the paid option while Google has been giving free IMAP for years, Yahoo's offering in email was really substandard.

* Yahoo mail is still quite slow. Not the interface, but the backend. Sending a mail to oneself (by a CC when replying or emailing someone) still takes several minutes to show up in the inbox. In Gmail, this would be in the inbox in a second or two.

* Yahoo mail's spam filtering is many a times as bad as a coin toss. Emails that you mark as Not Spam for specific senders continue to go to the spam folder for subsequent mails from the same sender. Many emails that are true spam and have been marked as such don't seem to put similar mails in the spam folder.

* The vertical graphical ads on the right side, in an attempt to avoid ads from going off screen while scrolling through emails, are really annoying.

* Flickr, providing an astonishing 1TB of storage for "free" (with ads). The next paid option is $50 a year just to remove ads (double of what Flickr Pro used to cost). What???

* Any value assigned to user experience before was completely eliminated through these "more ads" move, where Yahoo was sure that almost nobody would opt for the paid options.

I wonder what would've happened if Yahoo had instead lowered the prices even more for an ad-free option, added some useful features (like IMAP in email) in a tiered pricing structure and made the product better (like handling email delivery quickly). Perhaps it's too late to wonder about these though. If Yahoo isn't bought by one of the top five tech companies, its products will likely disappear within the next decade.
Why can't imagemagick convert to 2k pixels.
Nothing about that is inherently leftist or populist or leftist/populist
Certainly has been posted a lot over the last several days :/
I get it, you don't like it, but the problem here is not exactly socialism, but a disfunctional economy. They have based the economy only on one thing, oil, and now that has 1/3 of the price they need. That doesn't have anything to do with socialism.
also called arbitrage
Thanks for the explanation. Can we expect to see large financial firms throughout the US economy begin questioning the basis of capitalism? I am also interested in the explanations as to why deflation and collapse in profit rate is not occurring. Any resources you could point to would be appreciated!
I get what you are saying, and even agree to an extent. The fact that Dell had to take itself private to be able to save itself is a good recent example of how the super short term thinking of stock market investors can hurt a company.

That said, if a company doesn't want to be exposed to that sort of investor, then it shouldn't have done IPO and become a publicly traded company.
NEXT time it's gonna work for sure. We just need the right people at the helm.

It's now Spain's turn, apparently.
So all your eBooks are bringing in $60 / month in total? For the incredible time investment required to write books, that is quite discouragingly low.
Attention, Americans in this comments section: even though you're complaining now, if you guys obediently line up to re-elect the party doing this come November, you are part of the problem.
Here's a use case where protobuf is terrible because it isn't self-describing: write a wireshark plugin which parses and pretty-prints protobuf messages for human consumption.

You can't, because such a plugin would have to have a-priori knowledge of the schema in use.
Is it possible to go the "work on deeply intellectual problems while shielded from pedestrian worries about revenue and users" route without academia? I suppose just do it on the side until you invent something which is valuable to industry.
I really wish this would just output to a json string. Then we can put it through whatever engines we want.
How Uber profits even when its drivers aren't earning money
This was my experience with JSON Resumes as well. I tried it out and eventually went back to MS Word.

I got all my data in there, although I found the schema to be very limiting. Then I went through 50-70 themes and none of them actually looked good when exported as a PDF or something you can email to someone else. Note to theme creators: 30px padding everywhere does not look good and makes things harder to read.

I could have customized a theme to fit what I wanted, but the schema was garbage. At that point, I might as well toss the schema and generator and implement my own resume template using something like Underscore, but it was a lot simpler to use Word.
My money is on incompetence too, but it certainly could be malicious. For example, imagine a small company run by two frat brother entrepreneur guys. They bribe some factory supervisor in Taiwan for the designs to a product. They cant understand anything about it but they decide to tweak it to make it cheaper. Their greatly underpaid sole engineer discovers his girlfriend is cheating with the main entrepreneur guy. This is pretty disgusting because engineer man is a good guy and main guy has an underage girlfriend living in a plywood loft built inside a storage unit. One day engineer man says "fuck this I'm going to be a fucking farmer now". He modifies the designs to suck before grabbing a check from the middle of the stack in the printer and heads out the door. Six months later the factory in Taiwan wants the designs for the new product. Main guy digs around on the file system and finds the modified stuff. His new engineer just started and isnt really an engineer but rather an engineering student- he says he will "do the needful". Instead of looking over the designs new engineer plays rocket league and smokes weed. Another six months later engineer guy is growing organic carrots and heritage lambs with his new gf who has kind of fucked up feet and not great teeth but she's nice to him and is good at farm chores. At night he goes to read /r/girlsgoodatfarmchores and at some point sees a link to a video of a cable frying the shit out of the thing its plugged into. "Huh, I really ought to clean this shit out from under my fingernails" he thinks.
> not exactly socialism, but a disfunctional economy

But you repeat yourself!
Finland's First basic income hackathon
Venezula is a really interesting example in my mind. Here is a country which has all of the fundamental things it needs to be a vibrant, robust, and generally great country and yet it isn't one.

It has natural resources which are in demand, and for which the tools and techniques to convert them into exchangable goods is well understood. It has few serious military threats from its neighbors and so militarily its primarily responsible for civil and criminal activities, and it has nominally "easy" access to nearby markets for trade goods (importing things it doesn't have domestically).

But it also has people in "charge" to have no idea how running a country even works much less the forces that act on it. And as many anti-libertarians will point out, the lack of a competent government does not result in a paradise emerging from the work of motivated individual actors within.

And understanding that, go back to the founding of the US and its fits and starts trying to go from being a colony to being a country, and most importantly the constraints on their own actions that everyone had to agree to in order to get the Constitution done. Try to understand why that worked is an interesting (and perhaps vital) exercise. Was it the people? Their values? Their education? Their understanding? Was it coincidence or luck?

I find myself desperate to know why one institution works and another fails. Both large like nation-states, and small like companies. How is it "no big deal" for some companies to get a new CEO and catastrophic for others?
Qatar and UAE are a good example too (overall) at managing resources. Libya is not. All of them have small populations. And they belong to the same Arabic world.

It's about management not money or resources.
>They have some terrible policies, like massive gasoline subsidies.

Cheap gasoline is the least of their problems. That is one thing they do have enough of to go around.

>I'm sure they've done a few good things too, but I think the bad has mostly outweighed the good.

Yeah like cutting the poverty rate in half. Something that apparently stops being laudable once the middle classes have to queue for toilet paper.
If colleges are worried about diversity they can do financial aid. Many elite schools do that.

But we aren't doing poor kids any favor putting them tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt for college.

Also, we have community colleges and public colleges. Tuition in my state for community college and a public school is under 30k for a full degree if you mix community and public 4 year. Motivated students could do part time school over 6-7 years while working full time.
Niche website. I built Casting Call Club (https://www.castingcall.club/homepage) for the voice acting community. Roughly 13,000 voice actors currently use the site, but it only breaks even with all the costs associated with it, so I couldn't call it income.
Native German here: ungefährlich means "not dangerous" also "safe" or "harmless".
Paint pictures of people's dogs. Yep, a little bit of painting is involved, but painting is fun, right?

There is an inexhaustible supply of middle class people wanting pictures of their dogs painted and they are prepared to pay proper art prices for competent or in-style renditions of their dog in some picturesque scene. Since we are not dogs* and are people, poor painting is not so obvious and efforts get well received.

On the back of paintings-of-dogs it is possible to also paint your own stuff. May not be entirely 'passive income' but holding a brush isn't hard and you don't have to work in an office from 9 to 5 for the man.

*on the internets nobody knows you are a dog.
Thanks for the note! I will look into it
> that they would accept, if happened, as a proof that leftist policies are bad.

Nothing. It's a belief based on intentions, not on outcomes.
Default rates on student loan debt are somewhere between 10% and 15%.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/national-stud...
David Letterman: "The lottery is the tax you pay for not paying attention in math class."

Once one has taken algebra (and paid attention) to the point of studying compound interest, one should be sufficiently forewarned about loans.

As for your remark about half the adult population: I truly fear you may be correct (it may even be greater - half the population has an IQ of only 100, after all. What IQ is required to understand compound interest? And then there's the training - making sure it is in place). If so, then perhaps stronger vetting systems for obtaining loans should be put in place.

All in all, good arguments for increasing the numeracy of the population at large and, barring that, putting mechanisms in place that prevent them from unwitting personal fiscal disasters. Unfortunately, to do so in the USA would be viewed as a form of fiscal, and therefore, political discrimination, so the disasters will continue!

Which leaves only increasing numeracy, Which is well-nigh impossible. Which leaves the task to our not-yet-here AI personal assistants to warn us not to make bad loans. Indeed the best argument for AI may be that we shall need AI to save us from ourselves, in ways both big and small.
Petition to City Council: “We do not want marijuana stores near kids in Redmond”
Looks very interesting!

Would you be interested in helping us write a SnappyData connector for Metabase? github.com/metabase/metabase
“Á á á á á á Á” is a grammatically correct sentence in Icelandic
They are dummies! How do I know? Evidence[1] and experience(having met a lot of professors/students).

They are completely worthless parasites who were bad at math/physics/chemistry or something like sports/art in high school.
They offer no significant contribution to society and are actually a net negative. You're mentioning gender identities, but they are the ones who primarily care about that BS, so it's self-referential.

[1] http://www.bachelor-of-education.org/college-major-iq/
No that's not how it works, if shareholders are unhappy (the ones that are still left) will just elect a new CEO and replace board members who they have more confidence in being able to meet their objectives. Yahoo as a company wants to attract investment, they'll never say for any Shareholders who want it to make money should get out - they're the ones who work for Shareholders not the other way round. Telling Shareholders and potential investors "we're not here to increase revenue/profits" so GTFO - will get investors to do exactly that, further decreasing the value of the company.
It may be less than 1% of the code by lines, but it's a large codebase. My point was that simply searching for the word "unsafe" in the code threw up 21 pages of results. That's not a rarely used feature.

By "core code" I meant the first results are things like layout code, a file called string_list.rs, string_multimap.rs etc. That doesn't sound like stuff at the edges to me.

Any compiler developer will tell you that pinning your hopes on autovectorization is a lost cause

I didn't mean that's the only thing that's needed, I think value types would be by far the biggest needle-mover there. But there's quite a lot of auto-vectorisation going on in the latest JIT compilers, a surprising amount (some of it not released yet).

What I'd like to know is how you propose to write a JIT in safe code, without trusting that the JIT is implemented correctly

Obviously if you're compiling code, the compiler has to generate safe outputs. But take a look at how the Graal/Truffle frameworks do it. Graal is a JIT compiler implemented entirely in Java. It generates machine code that's then handed off to the JVM for execution. Truffle sits on top and uses aggressive partial evaluation to convert AST interpreters for dynamic scripting languages into JIT compilers automatically. They have a Javascript implementation that's comparable to V8 in speed, and you can interop with it through safe APIs. Again, the entire compiler/JIT stack is written entirely in a safe language: eventually the CPU jumps to the result, but the code itself is all written in a safe way.
If you are interested in grids / city planning check out the new book "City on a Grid" about NYC.
I feel it is a start.
Keep your mobile phone out of your pocket, warns recent infertility study
The only good news, believe it or not, it actually got me my first programming job. So I guess it was worth it.
Well, yes, along with that came a lot of theory and stuff I wouldn't have learned (or wouldn't have even known to learn) on my own that has so far been invaluable to my career. But I'm not sure if that knowledge was worth the cost. I probably won't know for sure until I look back on my life in 10+ years.

As for the life that was pretty unique to college, it wasn't really for me. I enjoy having a job and working much more than I did studying, taking tests, and going to parties.
I don't disagree with the simplicity argument, but as it relates to backwards compatibility, we've already had 1 major change to the GC that caused performance differences that needed to be investigated. With Java typically they'd have left the option to use the old GC (again which increases operational complexity) so that in that case the backwards compatibility argument seems to favor Java.
Yahoo was only ever a power play by Google when they sent M.M. there.
3 Ways of Improving the Miami Tech Scene
Overall, I love this type of approach. We've begun doing something similar at work as well.

However, I don't get the restriction on code with side effects.

Would it not be possible to introduce another abstraction layer around those side effects to allow comparison between the old code's side effects and the refactor's code side effects?
Sure the price will come way down, but it will still be out of reach for the people who are most likely to perpetuate poverty in their families. Surely the price would not drop below the annual difference in median incomes between those with and without degrees. If I'm going to make an extra $5k a year just for having the degree, I can get my family to cover it. Poor people can't really afford that. In fact, I'd wager there is no price at which it is viable to run a university that doesn't make it unattainable for people with parents living paycheck-to-paycheck.
No joy on Chrome/Ubuntu/Intel GPU.
No True Scotsman?

http://progressive.org/news/2013/03/181214/hugo-chavez%E2%80...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/03/02/the-legacy-of-hugo-ch...

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/03/rep-jose-serran...

http://www.thenation.com/article/legacy-hugo-chavez/

Edit: Not American:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/06/hugo-chavez-and...