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Location: London, UK

Remote: yes

Contract: yes

Available immediately: yes

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: ReactJS, AngularJS 1.x, typescript, CSS, SASS, Docker, automated QA.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-mcelroy-655b618

Email: phoey1@gmail

I am a frontend developer, co-author of a couple OS frameworks (searchkit, http://github.com/searchkit/searchkit and xenon, http://github.com/ten-eleven/xenon), and cofounded startups. Have over 9 years experience focused on frontend development. Last contract was working remotely for Opentable in SF. My business partner is also available if need 2 engineers. Together we can cover full stack very well.

http://github.com/joemcelroy

http://www.teneleven.co.uk

https://blog.searchkit.co/

http://searchkit.co
Probably not if they were all off by the same amount.

Position is based on relative difference between time signals received from different satellites, not absolute.
This is a great explanation, up until the last part, which is slightly misguided.

"So even if the universe were infinitely old as well as infinitely large, it would not contain enough fuel to keep the stars shining forever and to fill up all of space with starlight."

If the universe were infinitely old, fuel was consumed, and fuel had finite density, then the sky would be completely dark.
Because there would be no starts.

The author is really just thinking "It would require infinite time to receive light from infinitely far away." Which is the relevant answer to the paradox.
I found that nginx actually "just works", however not all software is easy to compile and many of us shy away from compiling for various reasons.
>what should be an open platform for free speech

I absolutely disagree with the notion that Twitter "should be an open platform for free speech", at least in the "i should be allowed to say whatever I want without any consequences" meaning of "free speech".
Sheesh. The repo allows the stuff like installing it via `npm install -g diff-so-fancy`. It's not like a public repo costs anything, and Github stars don't get you anything either.
And by ideally placed, you mean for the NSA, right?

I'd never put any GPG keys of mine in an American cloud provider. That sort of voids the entire point of it.
It's true that if a person just doesn't like them they won't click on them.

However, if Adblock becomes a default install, you will have more and more people never clicking on the ads because they never knew about them in the first place.

I hate annoying ads, but this will eventually make it impossible for small business owners to make a living through ads.

The playing field will be only big corporations, because they can handle ad blocks. The same thing has happened with the music industry over the past decade and it's just repeating in a new industry.

I feel like the new generation is pushing for more government and corporate control.
227's Rick “HITLER Chili' Snyder”? Michigan Gov. Killing Babies Flint H2o NBA
Yeah. Bandit is really nice. We're also really excited about it and are working on enabling many of the checks :).
Isn't it also the case that, because of the accelerated expansion of the universe, some stars are moving away from us at more than the speed of light, and their light will therefore never reach us?
A Crash Course in Modern Hardware (2010)
Introducing Vector Networks
Sounds like you were one of the interviewees.
Maybe this will help: https://www.semanticmerge.com/
You will never be refused emergency treatment just because your insurance
doesn't cover it. That's the law in the United States.
You will get a huge bill afterwards and there will absolutely be financial
consequences, but not medical ones.

Even ignoring the financial consequences, you literally have no idea what you're talking about. Hospitals are required to patch you up this second, yes -- but they don't have to treat underlying conditions until you're going to die from them. Regardless of how much damage that does. You can certainly die of very treatable diseases. Need a ct/mri, blood scans, cancer tests? Well, unless you're going to die of it this second, a hospital is not (and often won't) required to perform them.

The law you're citing -- EMTALA -- merely requires hospitals to stabilize patients.
Agree, in business it's enough to be right some of the time:

http://bytepawn.com/heisengames-business.html
Naming your Swift Packages
Isn't it a good thing that people see themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires?

No, because it implies that the only way to better your situation is not just to do well, but to get on top, and make a killing. That is, literally: to have access to wealth and security that is (greatly) disproportionate to what most other have.

Which (by definition) is unobtainable, for the vast majority. And which contributes to what we might call the "hollowing out of the middle." All structural factors (which others have cited as exacerbating factors to income equality in recent decades) aside -- the bottom line is that the middle class life not has not only come under pressure -- it just isn't valued as a goal, or a position to have in society.

How is that any different than seeing yourself as a temporarily embarrassed rock star, or astronaut, or breakthrough scientist, or famous artist, or successful entrepreneur?

Nothing wrong with wanting to achieve something great. If what interests you is the achievement in itself.

But if the only way out of poverty (or middle class stagnation) is to become a "rock star" of some form or another -- that suggests that something is very, very wrong with the incentive and reward structure in a society -- like ours -- that implicitly holds that value structure.
Actually this was the argument that bothered Newton, but about gravity. In an infitely old but finitely large universe, why wouldn't gravity pull everything together? Unless in all directions gravity canceled out.

Similarly, we can ask why the universe isn't filled with light. If the universe was infinitely old then indeed the light would eventually heat up all the matter and penetrate everywhere. But if it's expanding, then the light didn't have time to fill the space-time before it expanded further.
If you live close to a BART station, you can have the same 25-30m reliable commute like you would in new york.

Source: personal experience.
"That's funny, I-Dupe was the name of my character!"
A very good article for those who would like to follow the lead of NYT, Youtube or others who recently switched to all HTML5
Lately, instead of greeting people with "Hello" or "Hey man," I usually start off all my conversations with this speech.

I agree so much so I had to double check that I didn't actually write it.
http://www.fastcompany.com/3056478/the-future-of-work/new-re...
http://siliconangle.com/blog/2016/02/09/startup-aims-to-turn...
An announcement of an announcement is always off-topic here, so we changed the URL from http://www.ligo.org/news/media-advisory.php to that article, which is much more substantive. Thanks!

The announcement itself, of course, will be on topic when it happens, but we can be patient.
Other mailers should warn about Gmail, with "Your message was scanned for advertising purposes".
Hmm, didn't seem to mention the Inverse-square law, which I was waiting patiently for.
so you are angry because you misunderstood the quote. got it.

'temporarily embarrassed ___' != 'dream of being ___'

Why would it be embarrassing to dream of being an astronaut? its only embarrassing if you feel you are ENTITLED to being an astronaut.

So yeah, i mean if you feel like entitlement is a positive and cornerstone piece of our society then you should continue disagreeing with the quote...
I wouldn't want adblocking to be the default setting, but does anyone actually propose it?
"This is internal hardware for us, so there's not a lot we can share, and
you can't really grab a version of the hardware. If that's a problem for
the community, I completely understand.

Mostly, I wanted to offer to upstream this because it seems likely about
the same utility as the AMDGPU backend for folks without an AMDGPU, or the
XCore backend, etc. It's small, and we're happy maintaining it and taking
on any of the effort around it."

http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2016-February/09512...
The expansion of the universe also leads to red shift of the light from (nearly) all the stars that we'd otherwise expect to see. This means that the frequency of their light is moved away from the range that our eyes can see.
I love your reverse interview idea. I am gonna start doing that (:
Intelligence chief warns of threats from AI
for 1) you generally don't want to advertise that you are looking for work while still employed. Showing-up in results is the equivalent of painting a target on your back.
Are most rockets manufactued near launch site? Think not. BTW Long Beach port is just 1 hr away from Hawthorne.
makes me wonder if the reason why it is a lot harder to pick things up when one is older is primarily the lack of large blocks of available time as opposed to the brain being less "plastic" or adaptable as one sometimes reads.

When you read famous musicians' bios, for example, there always seems to be something along the lines of "I practiced 8 hours a day every day", hence lots of quantity over several years, but this is of course next to impossible to do in adulthood with all the demands on our time.
Yep, explained here: http://www.physics.org/facts/sand-dark.asp

Of course, if there were an infinite amount of light (visible or not) reaching Earth, you'd be dead.
My understanding of the expansion of space is that the expansion doesn't occur locally, but is only noticeable over large distances. is that incorrect?
Eventually you run into limits, that's when the real work begins. It took me 3-4 months to work up to where I could do cardio 3 times a day for an hour a pop. I use a hybrid cardio machine called the Arc trainer at Planet Fitness.

I did that routine exactly once before my right calf muscle developed strain. I've played this game before a dozen times with a dozen different activities. Every time I wind up losing focus and that's why I have a dozen of them and not three of them.

So rather than drop cardio entirely, I'm backing off to three or so sessions a week and cutting down the length to a half-hour to 45 minutes depending on how I feel. I'll pick the frequency back up as my muscles heal.

You really do have to get obsessive over little details to be able to do this. I have a fairly strict routine that I follow every single time I go out to the gym. One time my iPhone decided to start updating against my wishes just as I was about to get on the machine.

After some choice swear words, I packed it up and went back home. It wasn't worth sitting at the gym waiting for music and trying to work out without music wasn't going to give me a good workout. Focusing on quantity allows you to skip sessions knowing another one is coming.
Or the Universe is neither infinite or as old as it's assumed to be. Although there's strong evidence for it being as old as we (me included as a figure of speech) currently believe it, our belief is based on some fundamental assumptions that can only be strengthen but not proven. At least for the sake of honesty, one must be aware of the nature of this kind of opinions. Science is part of the larger discipline called epistemology, so all the rules valid there, are valid in science too.
Yeah, I fought with APIGW for a while in the beginning because I had to make scripts to create my route structures to I could call Lambda in a fully RESTful manner for my data model. A lot of stuff just didn't work when calling from the AWS CLI. After a lot of trial and error and a lot of bug reporting I got to a script that would quickly build my APIGW for me because that web interface is horrible.
Stars fuse light elements it into heavier elements. Eventually all the lighter elements will be used up.
What makes it hard is that you have just over a minute to answer each multiple choice math question
I totally agree with this comment. The questions he asks sound really old school to me. This interview style seems very academic, you should focus on their technical maturity for the role, and wonder if they'll be productive in a real world scenario (with Google). I find this sort of gotcha questions pointless.

I like to gauge the maturity of candidates, but I make sure to never use gotcha questions. I propose them comfortable real world scenarios, and help them show the best of their thought process.

I've interviewed many people who were very good at answering this kind of theoretical questions but were short on delivery when I proposed them the test project supposed to demonstrate how readily they use these concepts in real world situations.

Quite frankly, it looks like the author has the graduate syndrome : http://read.reddy.today/read/10/the-graduate-syndrome
Are Traditional Intranets Dead?
The general definition of an intranet is an internal database which can be accessed by all team members within a company for the use of carrying out day-to-day tasks. It is a local and restricted communication network that is used by companies or organizations to share company information and computing resources among employees. However, some fear that the traditional intranet could potentially become a dead technology.

Representatives of Plus Consulting believe that the original objective of intranets was primarily as a Knowledge Management system, a way to organize documents and information in a hierarchical way. It’s fairly simple to understand what an intranet is and how it works, but it seems t
he real issue lies in how it can genuinely benefit your business.

http://www.livetiles.nyc/blog/are-traditional-intranets-dead/
Free speech means that there is no censorship, not that there are no consequences.
Private school or some sort of shared homeschooling association are the alternatives. Not great alternatives :/
I think that one main issue is that many people unfortunately equate math with routine calculations or rote memorization. I think it's valuable to communicate that actually math is the art of creative thinking. To do this, it helps to share some "gems", or examples with powerful "Aha" factors.

Along these lines, I have a very fresh one: last week, I just had a very shocking (mathematical) realization while thinking about football:

There is a way to instantly see the optimal running angle when evading an equal-speed defender in football: eyeball the line which runs through the midpoint between you and the defender, and see where it hits the edge of the field - run straight there.

I was immediately floored by this observation, because it is so easy in retrospect that it should be common knowledge. Yet literally everybody I've told this to has said that it was new to them - mathematicians & people from the general public. I quickly threw together a video to share it across the community:

https://youtu.be/9sxVgJ_wPaM?list=PLqv4sKOD1bsUoSs-SbzlA2BE1...

I think that by thinking of and packaging cool nuggets of "math" like this to share, we can help rebrand the image of math. :)
A lot of the back-and-forth here reminds me of:

"Note that, with careful optimization, only 14 gajillion messages are necessary. This is still too many messages; however, if the system sends fewer than 14 gajillion messages, it will be vulnerable to accusations that it only handles reasonable failure cases, and not the demented ones that previous researchers spitefully introduced in earlier papers in a desperate attempt to distinguish themselves from even more prior (yet similarly demented) work."

from James Mickens' "The Saddest Moment" - https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login-logout_1305_micken...
> An important part of the QA process is ensuring that not just the creative, but the advertiser is relevant to our audience. Every single ad to appear on any of our sites is vetted by the operations team.* We check copy and content on the ads as well as the landing pages. What we repeatedly ask ourselves in this QA process is quite simple: is this relevant to users?

If other sites did this, maybe ad blocking wouldn't be so prevalent.
>If you receive a message that can’t be authenticated, you’ll see a question mark in place of the sender’s profile photo, corporate logo, or avatar.

This makes it sound like I (the sender) can set the image displayed if I am using DKIM. Is that the case? Or is it only if I have DKIM and have a Google account with that email?
>The entire sky would be about as bright, and as hot, as the surface of the Sun.

Not so according to “The Inverse Square Law”.[1] If one measures the light flux through a hypothetical sphere drawn around a light source and then doubles that spheres size, the light density must decline or you've broken conservation of energy. [2]

[1] http://bccp.berkeley.edu/o/Academy/workshop08/08%20PDFs/Inv_...

[2] http://www.compuphase.com/electronics/candela_lumen.htm
Seems like this article is sort of preaching to the choir around here. I'd be interested to hear if anyone on HN agrees with the Author's Guild or can make their argument in an interesting way.
Digging around a bit it seems like the Canadian equivalent of the TN status page is here: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/tools/temp/work/inter...

Basically get a job offer, have the correct qualifications and be on the NAFTA approved professions list, apply at your point of entry.
The ARM SoC marketplace's common hardware denominator is the CPU. The rest of that system differs widely between vendors, and documentation for the pieces is poor-to-nonexistent.

Two OpenBSD devs run the Garbage.fm podcast [1], and they often lament about this state of ARM hardware.

[1]: http://garbage.fm/
Yep. Currently, some galaxies are traveling away from us faster than light.

http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/about-us/104-the-universe/c...
> > Syntactic sugar is when you define a piece of syntax in a language in terms of the rest of the language.
> I believe that definition is incomplete.

Thanks for pointing that out. What I really meant to say is:

"Syntactic sugar is when a piece of syntax in a language is defined in terms of the rest of the language."
It's really tricky... But really, what's the alternative? Build larger homes people can't afford? That causes gentrification even faster, pushing people outside the city who can't afford it. In Amsterdam for example the waiting list for social housing is something like 10-15 years... so either you live way outside the city centre, have special connections, make a lot of money to pay the market rate or you leave the city. Building smaller homes would probably reduce the waiting list to something more sensible, the alternative is for people to leave the city and commute in... I'd guess that having the option to choose to live small bests not having it, but I'm definitely not completely sure on that, lots of counterexamples.

I do think regulations can and should say something about the number of people living in a unit, and enforce it. A small studio should be just that, a studio for one person or a couple. That's really hard to enforce of course, but if possible, prevent the issue of having 5 people living in a place designed for 1-2.
Vim's fugitive plugin also gives a similar split diff view. The command is "Gdiff".
Thanks for that; I was wondering why they were not showing up in Google.

So all 4 were released at the same time. I strongly question the use of a Early-Morning USA embargo.
Although FOSS has a broad definition[1], most technical people refer to Free Software by the GNU interpretation, in which the Free in FOSS is "Free as in Freedom, not Free as in Beer". FOSS is generally considered a subset of Open Source software.

You can charge as much as you like for FOSS[2].

Open Source is not the same as Source Available[3].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software

2. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software#Open-sour...
Title fix: "Olbers'" not "Olber's," named after Heinrich Olbers. It is wrong in the linked article's title as well.
Reality TV casts a dark shadow on a tiny movement
Firewatch by Campo Santo
Should I Upgrade to Magento 2 or Not?
The daily mail article talks about two people who were arrested and charged for attempting to do this. Hardly evidence of a no go zone for police -- quite the opposite. You're repeating nonsense that's been widely debunked and not providing any sources.
How much data does the Super Bowl create?
Magic (YC W15) Is Hiring Engineers to Build the Ultimate Super-Human Assistant
Yes. https://aws.amazon.com/gamelift/
> On Twitter, every voice has the power to shape the world.

> Grassroots advocacy organizations that rely on Twitter to build movements and momentum

> ensure that we are enabling everyone, everywhere to express themselves with confidence

Then why are they so eager to remove accounts of people they don't like or who speech they don't like. Weren't they bragging just last week about removing 125000 "terrorist" accounts.
Windows 10 updates finally get some release notes
Neither would malvertising, I wager.
If Rand is the best reference, then I'm not sure those boards are all that well worth taking part in.

Sanders isn't a Maxist/Marxian by a long shot. He might describe himself as a democratic socialist, but he's really a social democrat with much more in common with the aims of the Fabian Society than anything else: his ideas are pretty much those of any European social democratic party (such as the British Labour party, Dutch PvdA and GroenLinks, German SPD, French Parti socialiste), and whatever you might somehow think, none of those parties are hives of Bolshevism.

Also, whatever about the 'soak the rich' thing (which I haven't seen much evidence for), only one commenter seems to take Marxian though seriously here, and even they said that he's doing himself a disservice by using the label 'democratic socialist'[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11066351
I don't understand what you mean by balancing it against the up-front costs of hiring a ton of staff. The whole point here is that if you're not locked in to AWS (because you don't use their free-with-massive-strings-attached game engine) then you can migrate to some other cloud service if AWS no longer suits you.
The root has more to do with the socio-economic status of the population. In a country where everyone made more or less the same and worked about the same and respected each other the same, corruption would be an anomaly.

Long term solution is to improve the fundamentals - education, inequality, access to basics.
Oh yeah, Peake was brilliant too. I always lump him in with Edward Gorey.

The best namer by far, I think, is Dickens, at least for the comic style of naming, which all these examples are. I wonder if it's harder to come up with names for sad things.
The SAT subject tests and AP exams are usually easier than the general SAT because they require a narrower area of preparation and are typically associated with courses that students have already taken. At least that was my experience taking them 6-8 years ago. I had to prep for the critical reading section of the general SAT to get a good score, but did almost no prep otherwise.
I didn't read it as arrogant, but a simple list of prerequisites (as viewed by the commenter).
I think it's kinda like a LinkedIn recruiter account
Astroturfing.
No REMOTE option for location... (from your link).