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Technologies: Expert level understanding of the big data stack. Hadoop, Spark, Hbase, Storm, ElasticSearch. Java/Python. Backend Web development/Django. Basic Machine Learning/Statistics.

Resume: Double Major in Math and Computer Science, 3 years dev experience in technologies above.

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Note: Primarily looking for part time/development work.
It shouldn't be too much to ask for a Tesla to operate normally in -20F. This is a mass produced American luxury car in 2016, not a Lada.
How about them pyramids.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-03/unprecedented-leak-...
(I only know what I read on the issue tracker)

The part that GitHub implemented (uploading keys to the site, displaying verified signed commits in the UI) looks like it is both.

Configuring a project to only accept signed commits in various ways looks to be EE only.
Sure, but you've just made fraud cost them actual money.
Makefiles have some glaring issues that can't be easily fixed.

The big one is that they break if there are spaces in file or directory names.

Sure, you can argue spaces are bad practice. But they are common on OS X and windows. It's a little silly to use a build system that doesn't support them.
That's an absolutely ridiculous and ignorant statement.
Hands down, the state-of-the-art in semiconductors.

- Print pictures with features measured in single-digit nanometers

- Deposit layers of photo-sensitive, conducting and non-conducting materials measured in atoms

- Remove layers of materials measured in atoms

- Create devices at these geometries that execute logic at 238,310 MIPS (Intel Core i7 5960X)

There are >250,000 scientists and engineers globally working to make this happen. I can not think of another technology getting this much focus.
Was this knowledge public before the "leak"?
If techies are pushing away others from San Francisco, then why they do not elect better city government that would fix things for them?
This is 'grown-up' truth vs. children's belief they can have everything; you sometimes have to chose. How you chose determines everything. I was very successful at what I did, but I couldn't save enough to early, or semi-retire due to family dependencies. I made the choice to take what little I did manage to save and live in East Java, Indonesia, where the savings will last me approximately one year. They would last all of 2 months maximum in NYC, or any other big Western city. The flip side is that I have been healthier than ever before. Sleeping more than 8 hours per day, exercising each day, meditating and just playing with my one-year old in a very rural setting (half or more houses have dirt floors here), with clean air. It is about choices, and sometimes the right choice is clouded by our daily routine, or personal fear to break out and try something new. I may be returning to a similar job if I don't find a way to make a minimal income to remain here, but it will always have been beneficial to my mental and physical well-being moving forward.
I wish Jessica all the best, and regardless of her regrets with her family before, she is headed in a positive direction. Better late than never.
I'm not surprised really. I never worked at GH scale, but anyway learned early that simple solutions just work. Want a db cluster? Why not active-passive M-M instead. Want a M-M setup? Why not dual server and block replication.

Complicated things fail in complicated ways (looking at you, mysql ndb cluster), while simple solutions just work. They may be less efficient, but you'd better have a great use case for spending time on a new, fancy clustering solution - and even better idea how to handle it's state / monitoring / consistency.
Please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11435194 and marked it off-topic.
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Iran, a brutal theocratic dictatorship is going to keep a liberal democracy honest? You've got to be kidding me...
Not sure if the author tried this, but there are many experts on carding around the internet (the most famous being Brian Krebs) who might give advice for free on credit card fraud countermeasures. The simplest way to find them is to google for presentations at hacker conferences about carding, cyber criminals, credit card theft, etc.
You said: "Things they want are non-discretionary, other things are discretionary."

That simply isn't true. Things that are funded by an appropriations bill are considered discretionary because the level of funding they receive is up to the discretion of Congress. Things that are funded by a mandate are not considered discretionary because their funding is not up to the discretion of congress from year to year. The opinions of liberals or conservatives do not factor into which is considered which. There is a precise legal meaning here. It is not simply "a term the left made up".

In addition to there being a legal distinction, there is also an accounting distinction. Medicare and social security, the two biggest non-discretionary expenditures by the federal government, come out of entirely different piles of money than discretionary expenditures do. Were you not aware of that?

Your income taxes are not funding social security. Your social security taxes are not funding things that come out of the general budget. Cutting social security benefits would not free up more money to fund the things you think government should be doing.

So, although I get that you do not like the nomenclature, I don't get how it makes some particular thought unthinkable. They are two different things. They should have two different names. It seems far more Orwellian to pretend like there isn't a legal difference between the two, simply because it would make achieving political goals you happen to find favorable easier.

You seem to be under the impression we could take the money from social security or medicare and spend it on stuff you like better. Legally, that isn't true. So yes, in the sense that it would be totally freaking illegal, it is "unthinkable" to cut social security in order to lower income taxes.

You might as well refer to calling animals "lions" and "tigers" as newspeak, because they make the thought that they are actually the same species of animal unthinkable. Well, they aren't the same species of animal. So it ain't newspeak, it's just nomenclature that you don't like.

It is perfectly accurate to describe spending appropriated from the general fund as discretionary and social security as non-discretionary whether or not you like the terminology. They're two different things, one of which is up to the discretion of congress, one of which is not.

Come up with a new term if you'd like. But you've strongly implied you think the two types of spending aren't different. That's not Orwellian -- that's you simply not understanding freshman high school civics. You also claimed that "discretionary spending" is a term the left made up. Are you going to post a citation for that, or admit you were wrong?
This whole saga serves less as a warning to customers and more as a warning to businesses. Be careful about acquiring other companies - liabilities come in many forms.

It may have seemed like a great deal when Nest bought Revolv - after all, we know acquihires are usually based on the fact that the acquired company was going under anyways. Pay a minimal amount for a failing company and get some great engineers.

But it sounds like they didn't anticipate the brand problem they would ultimately face for ending support for a product that was inevitably going to disappear in either case. Something early messaging (say, at the time of the acquisition) could have helped soften.

Nest didn't build this product - Revolv did. And they banked their company on its success and lost. Nest might be alive and healthy but it doesn't seem right to say they somehow acted dishonestly just because they picked up the pieces of a failed company but didn't want to prop up a product which nobody wanted.
I know that "choosing colors" is everything but simple task, but after reading this article I believe I could do it if I had to (e.g. for personal page, or some low budget, nothing-serious-thing). But don't get too comfortable. For something more serious you need a designer. And also you need pay him to get something good.
Well federal can be as high as 28%. The US likes to point at various "socialist" countries in Europe but when you talk to someone from the UK or some of the Nordic countries you realize the difference is nominal. The difference is that you get health care and affordable university for those taxes on the other side of the Atlantic.
I didn't downvote you either. I agree with your premise. However, I think using the words "security theatre" is inflammatory and overly pessimistic, which is why you're getting downvoted.

Generally the general feeling here on that word has a negative connotation associated with things like the TSA and mandating backdoors (something I agree with). However, I do not believe (and the majority of HN, most likely) that GH is actively being malicious adding this feature in.

You do have some points: you should only do GPG verification on machines that you trust. This is true, I think we can all agree. However, you say it may train users to ignore checking locally, which remains to be seen. Further, there are some counter points that you're not considering:

(1) this move gives huge publicity to gpg signing of commits, which hopefully encourage more people to sign their commits and tags, which hopefully should promote better security.

(2) Absolute trusted hardware is hard to come by these days. At the moment, we do not suspect that Github is actively working against us. We can therefore trust GH to display the correct verified tag, for now. If you want to go down the absolute security route, you'll realize that you absolutely cannot trust your own machines either (at least a majority of us cannot). This brings you to a tricky situation where there is no where safe to run GPG. Then what?

I think the pessimistic view you presented shares similar ideologies as the view that iMessage can be easily broken because Apple can simply swap out keys. While I agree that this is a concern, I still think that this move by GH is overall positive, just like iMessage is overall a positive step to secure messaging. Incremental steps are good imo and we'll see where this takes us.
If so, that's pretty short-sighted. It's almost impossible to type them out.
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Haha I am running Windows 10 on a macbook pro (bootcamp). So in my case it would be ubuntu on windows on a macbook =P
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Maybe in some other Bay Area, but not here. New construction in the SF Bay Area is almost always "luxury" townhouses and apartments.
NYC is really the outlier. Not that I'm typically out eating late in the city but what you describe isn't all that different in Boston/Cambridge (and Cambridge bars closed at midnight until relatively recently). And, last time I got into downtown Chicago late (11pm or so) on a business trip, the only food available near the hotel was takeout delivery from some pizza place.
What do you mean? The home-hobbyist community has been doing this for years using protocols like X10, Zwave, etc. And we used Usenet groups like comp.home.automation to meet and discuss stuff. Home Automation has a very long tail of history and those of us who came up that way all knew Nest was going to be a joke.
Emulators. Detouring.
I hope you have a better day on the internet tomorrow.
It's not insider trading as long as everybody can buy the dataset on comparable terms.

There are a lot of industry specific data providers that build / license datasets for resale. They then to be used the the industry and investors. Comscore and its competitors provide it online, Nilsen in TV. Mint in the personal finance space. These services exist in the airline space, oil / gas ... Everything.

I'm sure Chipotle would be just as interested at understanding the behaviors of their customers.
Unfortunately lobbyists write much of the legislation these days.

Otherwise legal and permanent secretaries ( civil servants ) draft laws and parliaments ( congress ) debate and amend them.

I conceed the executive branch does propose the policy and ideas on which they are based.

I am all for legislatures ( parliaments ) and elected representatives but the executive ( govt. ) seems to increasingly be at odds with the citizenry and serve those who fund their election or pad their retirements with directorships.

Sure have govt. just much less of it - there are far too many laws and far too many bad laws.

Fewer better, well considered laws, informed by public debate.

Really watch a couple of episodes of Yes Minister, that shows how it works not how they say it works.
What kind of server pricing are you getting? Base servers are cheap, but add high-end Xeons and memory, not to ignore interconnect and I get something like 7 ok configured 1U servers for $129K (2 20 core w lots of RAM, 10GbE NICs and mirrored boot/swap). No interconnect switching. That's for 20 core Haswell because I don't yet have discount pricing for Broadwell Xeons. I'm sure one could do better at hyperscaler discount but this is startup low-ish quantity.
What are some smart dating strategies for a straight white male new grad in the Bay Area with 6 digits of disposable income? Dating market seems extremely competitive here.
> mingling your personal traffic with a Tor exit node provides plausible deniability for both you and the people using your node

Wouldn't it be more effective to simply use Tor as intended with somebody else hosting the exit node?
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As a protocol, it's quite old, complex, and has a huge surface area for attacks. E.g., the Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security#Attac...) lists over a dozen major attacks against TLS/SSL. Its only advantage is ubiquity; it's the standard in every browser and web server.
That's the idea. They're great for exploratory programming. In LISP, safety was optional. This was actually OK... would be in Rust... if your goal in that mode was to understand requirements, algorithm, solution space, etc. Get an idea of how you might handle it. Then, turn safety back on, try to get a solution going. When it works, compile that module. Future tweaks do incremental compilation.

Rapid development cycle doing features this way.
1) Testing PG's Top Ten Things That Kill Startups - co-founder problems, fundraising, etc.

2) Is this biggest mistake usually that people don't fire fast?

3) We know the unicorn growth rate - but what is the median/average growth rate for a semi-successful YC company?

4) What makes a company part of the walking dead?

5) What are the primary channels a lot of YC companies use for user acquisition? How has that changed?

6) What are the primary reasons for rejection for YC companies? Does it differ by partner or uniformly the same?

7) We know that airlines are hard. It'd be great to see what specific categories of startups that YC has funded that are just more difficult to grow in or are easier to get traction in - e.g. consumer v. enterprise, analytics, gaming/media?

8) In fact, I'd love to see a review of PG's claims in general either backed by data or refuted by data. I suspect they're backed by data, but it'll likely give more insight into the key area that people find interesting. For example, are more people now finally choosing NOT to go to grad school?
These articles are all so clichéd aimed straight at the masses.

A child seems to be doing something only an adult could do and better even! Stupid adults, kids showed them.

There exists an adult who's mean about it! OMG get out the pitchforks we get to be self righteous, the world is beating on a child.

Why can't we take things as they are. It's very cool she's writing stories. It's an interesting slant for her readers that she's a child. Leave it at that.
I didn't downvote you (else I wouldn't be able to post a reply!) but the downvote comes from not adding anything substantial to the conversation: it's the +1 of github issues - any "thanks for posting!" kind of comments tend to get killed (again, it would be better to post something more substantial, like why you liked it etc etc). Your reply to yourself got downvoted, 'cause "no complaining about being downvoted" https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The answer is a small book, but

1 - there aren't that many techies in sf;

2 - many people don't vote;

3 - sf has a huge set of entrenched laws that would have to be overthrown, plus relatively dysfunctional state government (see, eg, proposition system)

4 - some of this genuinely isn't sf's fault, but rather the entire peninsula dumping their housing problems on sf and san jose. See eg mountain view approving 2-3 million ft2 of new office space and maybe potentially possibly pondering allowing a couple thousand new homes. They're gonna study it. And then there's environmental review. Ground will not be broken before 2025 is my guess. Meanwhile, where the hell are all those employees gonna live? Not in mv.

5 - sf is a spendthrift city, and it needs techies. Besides all the jobs supported indirectly, sf has a 1.4% payroll tax (well, it's complicated, but 1.1 - 1.4%).
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I'm in the process of moving to Sacramento from San Jose. My wife and I sat down and looked at what made us happy and we decided that living in Silicon Valley was not high on our list.

I'm tired of the costs and crowding. The cost of living is about 30% lower and housing is significantly lower.

I'm managing my career by working for a San Francisco company and working remotely. I'll commute in once a week, which is still less commuting than I was doing in the bay area. I'll have a house instead of a condo. I'll have a nicer/larger place. I'll have plenty of things to do (though things still close early). I'll be closer to my family. I'll be able to support my wife when she goes back to school.

I'm looking forward to it.
Anyone have any idea of how the GPUs in this machine compare to the GPUs in their high end gaming products?
I think you greatly exaggerate the health of the SF tech job market, but no matter how good or bad it is, I agree that it's consistently 3-5X better than the rest of the country. That's essentially why I increased my cost of living by about 4X moving here from Florida. Here, if you lose your job, at least you have a chance of finding something else. In most of the USA, if you lose your job, you're moving your family to another state or at least another town.
Yeah, I agree the LS should be on the list
Yes there's no VAT in the US but when you add up all the "soft taxes" - toll roads, hotel tax, unemployment tax(unique in that you pay tax on money have already paid tax on) not to mention the other quasi/hidden taxes and fees like the following: gas tax, cell phone tax, electricity and natural gas, cable tv and alcohol the lack of a VAT in the US doesn't account for much.
From the article:

> She believes that a decade from now, she expects to see “tons of women-founded unicorns."

Tons? Remove the women-founded filter and it's still not believable. I don't think it's realistic to expects tons of unicorns in general. How many have there been (total) in the past 10 years?
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Exactly. What is always neglected in these conversations is that building housing is a process and it takes a long time.

Even if a city government has liberal attitudes toward development, it still takes years to create new supply. In the mean time the process is displacing people.
Thanks for the enlightening comment. That makes plenty of sense. It's part of the reason I didn't try to buy one: price/performance numbers just didn't make sense.
> it doesn't seem right to say they somehow acted dishonestly just because they picked up the pieces of a failed company but didn't want to prop up a product which nobody wanted.

Agree with all of your comment except except this part.

Had Nest acquired the company after Revolv independently announced it would discontinue its product, then customers wouldn't have reason to be unhappy with Nest.

M&A is risky and research is important.

This case seems like a catch 22 for Nest. Acquire the assets early and inherit the legacy product burden. Don't do that, and risk losing access to the same assets. I'm sure they did their research.

What is not known at this point is the cost of keeping up the systems that enable Revolv's product. Were they more open about that, I might be more sympathetic. As it is I'm not sure what could be done to right this other than give Revolv customers a refund.
How many up votes does that comment have? I want to know how many HNers are so offended by diversity initiatives that they will lobby companies to boycott github.
> What are some smart dating strategies for a straight white male new grad in the Bay Area with 6 digits of disposable income?

Spend the money on a plane ticket to somewhere with women?
Instead SF has chosen to make it's existing home owners and landlords very rich.

Democracy in action!
The majority of SF is two story suburbs (and as the song goes, they are made out of ticky-tacky). Height wise, it is underbuilt, and that's why SF has such a low population density despite every piece of land being covered in these rickety little bungalows. The bungalow owners fight tooth and nail against denser multistory construction because they realize that the housing crunch is the only possible way that their shacks can have such high prices.
Zydis builds cleanly on most platforms without any external dependencies. You can use CMake to generate project files for your favorite C++14 compiler.

I don't want to be mean here, but I think CMake + C++14 already ruled out many platforms as well as binding solutions. In which case the pure C-based Capstone might be better.
I am all in favour of imaging a utopian future but basic economics do not suddenly disappear in the future.

Even if we ignore the ridiculous cost of $5 for the travel itself, what about the cost of travelling to and from airports? Uber, trams, trains, car and hyperloop all will cost money.

Are we going to have an airport in every suburb? I thought not, so that adds quite some travel time. If not using your own car then you have to wait for the Uber, tram, train, hyperloop to arrive as well.

I guess the plane will carry no baggage so that travellers can get straight on and off without any delays. Just hand luggage everyone!
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The New Horizons probe. Not only combining the parts into the whole, but sending it so far away over such a long time, only to arrive with great precision fully operational.
so long as the accent color is differentiated by lightness/darkness in addition to hue it will be fine.
Nitpick: it's not "debounce logic" (that's for handling pushbuttons, because the contact physically bounce, meaning you get multiple on/off readings within a few milliseconds), the word you're looking for is "hysteresis".

Because there's a giant surge current when you start up a motor (like that in an A/C compressor), and it's just plain bad and even annoying to have your A/C cycle between on and off rapidly, a thermostat will intentionally overshoot the set point when cooling, and then undershoot that same set point when waiting for the house to heat up before it turns the A/C back on (or vice versa for heating).

Hysteresis is absolutely necessary to avoid both this problem, and also the problem where your temperature sensor isn't perfectly accurate and the readings from it will vary a bit from reading to reading.