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Vidados | Senior .net Engineer | London, UK | https://www.vidados.com

We are a young startup with a small but very capable development team. We have very big plans for our activity holiday marketplace platform so need a talented, goal-focussed, pragmatic senior engineer to help us put them into practice.

We are looking for a C# developer with lots of web experience. We also use CoffeeScript and AngularJS though this is primarily a back-end role. If you are a brilliant developer without .net experience and this appeals to you please go ahead and apply!

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Eve-Lang: Bringing the power of computation to everyone
Also free service has limit, so older messages will be eventually lost.
Pretty neat is an understatement. It's genius. Love it.
"The other is the so-called Fermi paradox, which claims that we should see intelligent aliens here if they exist anywhere, because they would inevitably colonize the Galaxy by star travel—and since we don’t see any obvious signs of aliens here, searching for their signals is pointless."

Either this is worded wrong or illogical. If this is true, as it's worded now, then we humans either do not exist or are not intelligent, by its very definition. Both are ridiculous conclusions. The assumption is "because they would inevitably colonize the Galaxy by star travel". What if they're not advanced enough to do so yet? Does that make them not intelligent? If so, that would make us non-intelligent. Does that prove aliens don't exist? If so, then we humans are proven to not exist (which is ludicrous).

Finally the stupid conclusion: "since we don’t see any obvious signs of aliens here, searching for their signals is pointless." So as a corollary, other aliens searching for us would be pointless since we humans don't exist since there are no signs of us on other planets.

This is incredibly stupid. No wonder Fermi never wrote it. He would never write something this dumb.
My outlook on life has improved since I recognized that we're in an industry and a time that allows us to re-phrase requests like "I'd like to work remotely for a while to be near my parents in a time of need, please" as a statement of fact: "I'm going to work remotely for a while to be near my parents in a time of need" and simply ignore any attempt to contradict it.

This won't last forever—enjoy it while you can. Say no early, say no often!
To shit on China? It's de rigueur these days...
More policy. http://ucop.edu/privacy-initiative/uc-privacy-and-informatio... was adopted as policy by the Regents in 2013. These really are principles, not policy, but among other things it describes "web sites visited" by an individual as an aspect of "autonomy privacy", and claims to accord these a high degree of respect, invoking academic freedom, and suggests that policy should follow the first and fourth amendments.
How Venture Capital Works (1998)
IIRC, it's not trivial to link to msvcrt.dll in VS. In older versions I think you needed to download the Windows Driver Kit to get an import lib, and since Win8 I don't think even that supplies it any more.

Ref:
https://kobyk.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/dynamically-linking-w...
Course Hero - Redwood City, CA - ONSITE

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Engineering, Design, Product, Support, Community Management

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SEEKING WORK / based in Germany / remote or on-site (Europe/US preferred)

I'm a generalist developer with two decades of experience. I also have a background in biosciences and have worked for advertising agencies, research labs, and the chemicals industry.

My primary interest is in creating MVPs, but I also do maintenance, refactoring, and bugfixing work.

Languages: PHP, JavaScript / Node.js, Lua, Ruby, Java, C

About me:

* I started my career at an advertising agency
* made a toy programming language called np: http://np-lang.org
and I'm generally a language design enthusiast
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Contact me at udo.schroeter@gmail.com
This must be a common joke amongst programmers. We often joke that we should all become potato farmers. Being outside, watching things grow, working with something physical. I totally get the appeal.
I actually got fired once because I didn't work crazy hours. Now I work at another company where it's much more laid back. I don't do any work when I get home or on the weekends.
I helped write a parallelized version for the CrayT3E in high school. Our team described the implementation here:

http://www-pgss.mcs.cmu.edu/Publications/Volume18/Rhythmomac...
The universe exists just some 14 billion years, Earth some 4.5 billion. For all we have on the Earth the older generations of supernova stars and their explosion were needed.

Then the timeline of the life on Earth spans almost 4 billion years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_evolutionary_h...

But we're "intelligent" enough for space travel only the last 50 years. But notice how the backward ideologies even got significantly stronger during the last 30 years and add to that that we've also probably spent a half of all oil in the last 100 years, which was probably produced during hundreds of millions of years, and that the awareness of that simple fact and its effects is also low.

There's nothing that guarantees that "it's always going to be better for us" no matter what we do.

"More than 99 percent of all species, amounting to over five billion species, that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct." We initiated the last wave of extinctions.

Or as Taleb would write: "Consider the turkey before and after Thanksgiving." Every day the hypothesis "it's going to be better" is confirmed again and again. Until...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qok3PSFR6NU/Ug4_QOjDUZI/AAAAAAAAA6...

"This naive projection of the future from the past can be projected from anything."
I used to think that cost was the main incentive too.

But it doesn't explain why so many A-List silicon valley companies use open plan. Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc., all have intense competition for engineers, and they spend a lot on perks for their employees. And devote lots of footage to amenities such as gyms, game rooms, etc. It doesn't seem that cost would be the driving factor for these companies.
Openvote | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE | Product Designer

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You will shape experiences over web, mobile, and touch; working with engineers, fellow designers, and closely with our CEO. You will take ownership of Openvote’s interaction and visual design—laying a foundational layer for future designers to work within.

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- Foundational visual design skills.

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- Strong visual design portfolio.

- HTML/CSS/Javascript chops. Ability to code the designs you produce for Web

- Experience working with data to inform design decisions. You can separate signal from noise and define metrics that matter.

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Email sean@openvote.com
I've run into some issues with webpages I've designed where the users are browsing at 150%-250% regularly. I'm not quite sure what to do about it. It's different than when a tablet zooms, which is literally just zooming in... browsers make things bigger (text, images, etc) and it screws with things.
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Collier Research | http://hypersizer.com/ | Philadelphia, PA | FULL-TIME | ONSITE

What We Do:
We are a small company that makes, HyperSizer, a desktop CAE software for the aerospace industry. Founded in 1995 by former aerospace engineers at NASA Langely, HyperSizer performs structural analysis and sizing optimization for composite and metallic panels. Our end-users are structural engineers designing rockets, commercial aircraft, and UAVs. Our customers include Boeing, Blue Origin, The Spaceship Company, Bombardier, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Atomics, and more.

Stack:
The UI is a hybrid of VB6 and C#-WPF. Structural analysis, optimization, and plugins are coded in Fortran, C++, and C#.

Looking For:
We are looking for a software developer to join our team to help create slick user interfaces. Our UI centers on a 3D finite element model - so experience with 3D CAD-like applications is a plus.

Interested?
Contact me at ryan dot lucking at hypersizer dot com.
> "Your kid died? Well, what if BOTH your kids died? You have a lack of perspective..."

Glass half full vs glass half empty. The hedonic treadmill has nothing to do with it. It's about being thankful and making the best of things. That's the antidote.

However you look at it being a programmer in today's society has the potential to give you an amount of choice and wealth enjoyed by very few other industries. You can make your own luck by simply being motivated enough to learn, and the initial outlay to create a massively profitable business is tiny compared to many other fields. So make the best of it. You could work for 3 months a year and do what you love for the other 9.

Are you really telling me you can't make that work? It is about perspective.
The same reason I didn't learn woodworking, even though my house is mostly made of wood.

I mean, look, I'm a professional C/C++ developer, and have been for 30 years. But the fact that your tools are written in it doesn't mean that you need to know it. (I need to know it because I work in embedded systems; C/C++ is the language of choice there, even now.)
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10486541
Why not Mattermost?

http://www.mattermost.org/
I think that's a pretty big red flag for anyone using the API to think that maybe they should prepare for this thing to go down at any moment.
January 2016 Ocsigen releases
Because they're breaking the consumer's experience, not the vendor's. I guess their assumption is that angry consumers will trickle up to the vendor and cause them to go "genuine," but that seems unlikely to me. Why? Because as a consumer, I have no way of knowing whether the FTDI product I'm buying is genuine. It adds risk to buying anything that says "FTDI" on it. I'm not going to vote with my wallet for some nebulous, unverifiable assertion that a chip will be real FTDI before I get it. I'm going to vote for something I know I can plug in and use.

Already a lot of counterfeit users of FTDI (i.e. knockoff Arduinos and cheap "VAG-COM KKL" auto diagnostic cables) are switching to CH340 instead of buying real FTDI.
Hayek: The Use of Knowledge in Society
Hipmunk

San Francisco, CA - close to Caltrain
Onsite preferred though we've hired remote folks before.
Visa transfers ok and we support new green cards. New visas only if straightforward (like Canada).

Experienced backend, devops, and data engineering are our priorities right now. Always looking for fullstack, frontend, iOS, Android.

http://www.hipmunk.com/jobs

Travel is a huge industry and we're shaking it up. We consistently lead the pack in every measure of customer love (net promoter scores, app store ratings, etc) because delightful customer experiences in travel are why we exist.

We value the same high standards in our code and people. We value learning and growth (and not having bored people) and invest regular time in doing so. For example, every other Friday is open time for you to spend time becoming a better engineer.

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We're looking for folks that love all of the above and will help us keep our standards high. You can go to www.hipmunk.com/jobs if you're interested!
Exactly. As far as I know, except for the Andromeda galaxy, which will collide with ours, all other galaxies zoom further away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda%E2%80%93Milky_Way_co...

Far enough in the future, even if we survive, we won't see any other galaxy -- they will zoom out of our observable universe! The expansion of the Universe accelerates, according to our last estimates.
The counterfeiters aren't the ones being punished. They're getting off scott free.

The only thing the counterfeiters are losing is one of the chips they are fabricating. They're fabbing other fakes, they'll move on. And they can always try to push their pile of fake FTDI parts (it's sunk cost, and you can always find a sucker).

FTDI is punishing everyone except the bad guys.
I agree. Furthermore, I think pointers in C is a simple concept that becomes incredibly powerful, and also gives a lot of insight into how memory works and the different data structures.
> although I would if you needed a fast, native library to call from your webapp

Honestly, at this point you're probably better of using Rust for that.
Microsoft to count votes in Iowa Caucus for free
The ‘Maybe’ Pile in Recruitment
If you need a bunch of library features not found in the C standard, you could switch languages or you could ... use a library. "Use language builtin hash table or write your own hash table" are not the only two options as this article suggests!

Quite a few hash tables out there, and very complete standard-library-like utility libraries too. (aside: failure to use one of these is a major cause of bad, bug-ridden C code, containing for example calls to dangerous old-school string API from the standard library.
If your C is of any size and you don't have a good string abstraction you are doing it wrong.)

There are lots of circumstances where I'd use something besides C, for sure. But if I was using C for a good reason, and needed a hash table, in most cases I would not write my own.
Half of NASA's Newest Astronaut Class Are Women
I'm self-taught and I got my first job through going to user groups and scoping out what was going. Second job was with a much more difficult problem domain, but I'd taught myself some CS from textbooks during my first job so in the interview I came with lots of examples of work (both day job and freelance) and piped up about CS topics where I knew about them, and admitted when I didn't but stressed that I wanted to learn. I beat several other people to the job even though I was the most junior.

A lot of devs even at a mid or higher level have little curiosity for the theory side of things, and eventually you'll run into problems that require knowledge of it, so being enthusiastic (and a bit self-starting) in that area pays dividends in my experience even if you're not the most experienced dev going for a job.

The only caveat is that both were/are small companies, so no HR apparatus to go through.
I've heard this before, that Fermi was really questioning interstellar travel, not alien existence. Given all the matter we've found in interstellar space, from dust clouds to brown dwarfs, it seems pretty clear that travelling near the speed of light out there would be perilous indeed. Even a small rock, colliding with your ship travelling at .5c is going to destroy it.
It sounds like you had an obviously valuable service that if you had sold, could potentially pay for itself, why was the instinct not to create a paid version of the API?

If you can't find enough people to pay for it, then shut it down, but if you can, then you have a solid business. Of course, you'd still have to take down the public API (since it would be no longer free, and grew unsustainable), but...
I can select text in tmux without any problems.

I guess your browser is allowing the NYT web developers to remotely control it, e.g., to disable select/copy/paste?
customers defecting to competitors. employees protesting/unionizing, lawsuits... and if all fails, eventually government regulations.
Multi-Host Volumes Semantics with Docker 1.9
I don't think we should promote "expected to announce" articles.

Please just report on things after they happen.
Exactly. If I don't need to care about X, picking a language where I don't have to care about X is a win (for any value of X).

That is, it's a win right up until the scope or scale grows to the point that I now have to care about X. Then the language where I "don't have to" usually turns into a language where I can't, and I'm trapped.
Parallel Intelligent Game-Playing Algorithms for Rhythmomachy [pdf]
T-Mobile has LTE band 12, so if you have a iPhone 6S it may work better now. The 700Mhz frequency is a good addition for T-Mobile, as their biggest problem in my opinion is a lack of coverage when traveling. It also penetrates walls very well.
The software engineer’s blueprint on how to have a conversation
I'm really glad he's speaking out on the issue, Matt is a smart guy (I used to talk with him frequently on IRC) and it's sad to see many of the same people trying to act like they know better than him in that twitter thread. There's no easy fix to this issue, and regardless of whether an rm -rf / can hose your system there's bigger issues at stake with malicious actors that a stupid bandaid like that won't fix.
I'm not getting this. Does it require Javascript?
One-time pads as long as the message aren't security through obscurity are they? There's no way to brute force them. No future maths or quantum computer could ever crack them.
MediaZilla | Orange County/Los Angeles | Full Time | Onsite | https://mediazilla.com

Senior/Lead Full-Stack Developer

At MediaZilla we are building the future of professional video delivery. Vimeo and YouTube brought us a new way to experience online video; however, they both focus on sharing individual videos as opposed to creating an immersive experience for the end-user and allowing them to take possession of their content. We are growing our company and need a highly motivated person to join our team.

Learn more and apply:
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Euclid Analytics | Generalist, Backend, Fullstack & Data Science Roles | San Francisco (SF), CA, ONSITE Only | euclidanalytics.com

We are seeking data scientists and generalist, backend and fullstack engineers with at least one year of industry experience.

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You can email me at stephanie@euclidanalytics.com or apply online at euclidanalytics.com/about/careers/
Anecdotes like this make me wonder what will people in the bottom 1/4 of the bell curve do for a living in the future?
ZeroCater - San Francisco, CA

ZeroCater is a catering marketplace that makes it easy for companies to feed their people. We bring family style meals from top local restaurants to teams across the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Austin.

We are hiring Full Stack Engineers, Head of Product and a VP of Engineering!

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Given the sheer size of the galaxy, forget the universe, C is unfathomably slow in comparison.

It's no wonder, at least not to my imagination why we haven't found any other life yet, or visa versa.
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Maybe they have been turned into structure and intelligence, but we can't see it because it's operating in ways that are invisible to us.

The fallacy is that aliens must be using *technology that can be recognised as technology by early 21st century humans."

I suspect this is a low bar.

For all we know galaxies have already been transformed, and the curious science we're seeing - not least dark matter and/or dark energy - are the result.

Perhaps alien technology is non-material, and probes aren't any more necessary to aliens than head hunting is to us.

If you can manipulate spacetime and quantum phenomena directly, you're probably not going to spend a lot of time turning your star system or your galaxy into a showy megastructure.
Logs, Models and Metrics – How and why they need to be connected
Ideally, Slack can consider:

- doubling as an IRC client

- providing open source projects pro level services similar to github.
I see a lot of people bitching about meetings.

But what about people that their job is to collaborate an be in meetings. For example, I'm a business analyst, my job is to meet with users and devs. Eliciting requirements don't take me that much time. All my time is spent on being on meeting to understand what users want and review with them what have been done and make sure that's what they want.

That being said, I always try to make the meeting shorter and people thank me for that.
Well, the best way to put it is that, with n=1, the posterior distribution is going to be the same as the prior distribution, so any attempt to "explain" the Fermi paradox is dominated more by what you want to be true than what you can evidence to be true.

This is particularly clear when you think of it in terms of the Drake equation. We can devise reasonable estimates for parameters in terms of "number of habitable planets," but we know so little about how life works or how it starts that any later variable turns out to be complete guesswork. It's also sobering to learn that even our own ability to discover the history of life for which we have physical evidence turns out to be rather poor--being able to decipher Mayan script showed us that a fair amount of what we thought we knew about the Mayan civilization was just projection of archaeologists' opinions.
Africa’s Tech Gold Rush
There are also PTC problems that need to be ironed out so that mistakes don't cause unnecessary delays http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-metrolink-dela...