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Location Labs| Emeryville,CA | Senior Systems Administrator ONSITE |http://grnh.se/ju7o6c

Our current team is skilled, but we are looking for someone who can take our troubleshooting and infrastructure design to the next level. As a Senior Systems Administrator, you will be able to join the team and immediately contribute to Location Labs' success. Our team is in constant communication with all the other departments in the company to enable them to design, deploy, and maintain the best software possible.

What We're Looking For:

* You are passionate about the architecture and quality of the work your team does.

* You build for uptime first and care about application and network stability.

* You are fluent in advanced Linux usage and administration.

* You can identify and troubleshoot problems in your network.

* You can design a modern, highly available platform at scale.

* You work in a repeatable and maintainable fashion in whatever you do.

* You excel at breaking down complex topics into easy to understand chunks for your colleagues.

Tech We Use:

* Linux: Ubuntu LTS Releases, standardized on 14.04 Trusty

* Networking: BGP, OSPF, Strongswan, keepalived, HAProxy, LVS

* Config Management: Ansible for everything

* Managed Hosting: We mostly host bare metal ourselves (We had 350+ hypervisors at last count), but also have some
products deployed in AWS.

* Integrated collaboration tools: Git, Slack, Jira, Fisheye, Confluence, and Crucible extensively. We develop in a team and emphasize collaboration and code review.

Apply here http://grnh.se/ju7o6c or contact alicia.loewenthal@locationlabs.com
Given that precheck basically brings us back to pre-9/11 screening procedures, I think it's fine. There isn't much about the airport security checkpoint changes since 9/11 that have actually improved security.
8 Questions You NEED to Ask About Microservices
My aha moment came by reading Unity's 'built in shaders', which are faily simple. I found tutorials for shaders are for rendering things far more complex than a simple sprite.

You can download just the Unity shaders via the download dropdown:
https://unity3d.com/get-unity/download/archive

Those shaders give you (battle tested) base cases for really common functionality.
> What about playing light linux games like Civ 5 or Crusader Kings?

It uses an integrated Intel graphics chip -- it won't be able to do any decent gaming.

At the 16GB price point of this thing ($1k), you could get a more conventional laptop instead of Google Chrome/Pixel OS systems and get a lot more power and flexibility out of it.
Payday loan shops.

Don't pretend you can legislate around that problem-- if payday loans against UBI were illegal, the black market (loan sharks) would fill in the gap.
Your advice is sound, if maddening (it's maddening to have to debug a black box; I've hit bugs in shader compilers before that had me tearing my hair out. Things should not be fixable by multiplying a quantity by 1.0 in a sane world ;) ).
Dubbed "Image Tragick" ~groan

POC and updates will be available at this URL after some time has passed to allow patching: https://imagetragick.com/
What is this 30% tax credit you speak of?
Quiver looks really interesting, thanks for sharing. I love that you can export as plain text or markdown. The idea that this would count as "no vendor lock in" to me hinges on exactly how the text export works -- when exported, can I go back to a text-only experience pretty easily, or will I have 1000s of separate text files for each "cell". Sort of a tangent, but hey.
The reason why "You paid for it" is a valid argument is that Social Security is explicitly advertised as a forced retirement system.

Imagine if you put money into your 401k, and then the government came along and decided that you didn't need that money so they just took it all away from you. Do you believe THAT would be OK?

Because if SS is a retirement system, that's effectively what the government would be doing.
It depends on what it pays, remember even though your basic needs are met that doesn't mean you have zero aspirations.
One thing I've heard talked about is to use deep learning to re-learn arbitrary programs from their inputs and outputs... Then you can throw away the program and just run the neural network.

I'm sort of a skeptic, so I think that would just make the programs massively less efficient (usually), more incorrect, and harder to maintain, but I guess it's a research direction. Maybe programmers need to be put out of a job :)
Study: Humidifiers may help fight flu
A developer is new, and early on we want code reviews
A developer is working on a big (or risky) feature, and wants a one-off code review

This implies you don't normally do code review??
Nobody is getting tricked by ABP.

I'd be surprised to learn most users ever even touch the homepage, rather than the plugin installation mechanism for their respective web browsers. Result #1 on Google for me goes straight to the Chrome store.

The immorality comes in when the program actively subverts its own purpose for existing... imagine an antivirus with "acceptable viruses" allowed out of the box. They don't steal your info, or ruin your computer, but its authors gave the company a backhander to leave them unblocked by default. This is directly analogous to ads.

It's also a conflict of interest, and gives the developer a perverse incentive to allow more ads, since they charge ad publishers actual money to be on the whitelist. ABP's customers are the ad companies, not its users. (Something something if you're not the customer...)

And "hating capitalism" is such a ridiculous strawman that it deserves no further comment.
> And that is why it is a huge problem for the power companies

It is a problem, but not necessarily in the way you may be thinking. Peak residential power usage is in the evening when solar isn't available. Power companies therefore end up spinning down coal and natural gas during peak solar, then just spinning them back up again as the sun begins to set. [1]

So you haven't replaced the coal and natural gas plants, you're just running them less. This results in higher overall costs, because you pay $$$ to build huge plants then just let them sit most of the day, which results in higher per-watt cost of non-solar power because the infrastructure and maintenance is no longer amortized over whole-day usage.

[1] My friend, a manager of 30 years at a huge mid-west power company
My experience with PSYOP was limited to watching idiots with megaphones trying to get an interpreter to read poorly crafted statements, and watching them hand out "leaflets" which rapidly became litter. Such a waste of money.
If you live in the United States, that's not the social contract we've agreed upon and you should leave if you feel that way. As a citizen of the US we have decided to collect taxes to provide certain services for the common good.

You are free to fend for yourself in many parts of the world. But not if you like that blue passport.
While forest fires could be a risk, could those also be beneficial to the affected areas? For example, I wonder how well this disease stands up to heat.
A cushy job with minimal responsibilities? Those will be the most wanted jobs. Hopefully someone would wise up and lower the compensation.
> Almost all of those solutions end with, "do it my way or get out."

Agreed. My style is to contribute to creating the goals of the team in addition to the projects. She'd probably call me a trouble maker haha! And I'd be proud to be one. Aren't computer programmers supposed to be troublemakers? We're hacking the system ... ;-)

Working effectively with other people is definitely a skill. Some people have it from birth and some have to learn it. One blog post isn't going to solve everyone's problems but it is interesting to hear her experience.
Fun fact: since Linux has no built-in DNS caching, most of the DNS queries are looking for…itself. Oh wait, that’s not a fun fact — it’s actually a pain in the ass.

Surely that should just be a very fast lookup in /etc/hosts?
As an EMH guy, I'd like to think that if an Einstein–Szilard cooler was more economical than grid power for A/C and/or food refrigeration that there'd already be systems for sale.
PlateJoy (YC S15) partners with Instacart to make healthier eating easier
Is eholk no longer active in Rust-land? I remember reading his post [1] about compiling Rust for GPUs (i.e. app code + OpenCL kernels from a single source) back in 2012 and getting quite excited. Presumably generating SPIR-V wouldn't be vastly different in principle.

[1] http://blog.theincredibleholk.org/blog/2012/12/05/compiling-...
The question of how to create general AI is fascinating but I don't think OpenAI is actually aiming for anything like a leap to full general intelligence at the moment. Rather, it seems like their goal is to follow the same incremental path mainstream AI is following but without having to hide it's methods.

"OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return."

"In the short term, we're building on recent advances in AI research and working towards the next set of breakthroughs."

-- Which is to say, ordinary progress, not extraordinary progress.

https://openai.com/about/
Amazon, Web Giants Shift to Reporting Real Cost of Equity Pay
I grew up in northern New Mexico, in an area where piñon and juniper trees grew together, dotting the landscape as far as you could see.

About 15 years ago, after years of drought causing tree weakness, we had a bark beetle epidemic. It affected only the piñon, but losses were close to 100% in many areas. We had probably around 150 piñon trees: after the epidemic, 4 remained. It was heartbreaking to drive around and see huge swaths of brown, dead trees covering the land. The alteration was dramatic.

Only now, the progeny of those dead trees are beginning to come back. It will still probably be another 20 years before things start to look normal to me. The makeup of our forests in California will be altered for a long time, in the best case.
It's a rhododendron disease from the Netherlands. You're right, that this is Darwinism in play, but it's due to human influence. So human intervention is no more artificial than the original evolutionary pressure.

It just depends whether we value preserving diverse ecosystems, or if we're happy to spread species / diseases around the world and just see what survives. I'm not saying there's a fundamentally "right" answer, but I prefer diverse ecosystems to the point I think it's worth trying to intervene when possible.
I'm writing this on a Core M. It really doesn't feel like 800MHz. Compiling stuff might be a bit slower, but the main performance bottleneck in most modern PCs seems to be disk IO anyway, rather than raw processing speed.

If you're doing video rendering, or using a bloaty IDE etc. then you might need something more powerful. For general use though, a Core M is completely fine.
The software engineers who write drivers for graphics hardware have, unfortunately, an ill-earned reputation for being unable to code their way out of wet paper bags.

The fact that the GLSL standard forced every hardware vendor to vend a fully-functional compiler for a C-like language (even a simplified C-like language) is no small part of the source of that reputation.
I don't think "most of the advantages of C no longer apply [if you use static analysis or bounds checking]" is fair.

Even if your claims about losing libraries, experienced developers, or automated tools was true (which think is false), you still get portability, close-to-the-metal code, full control of your processes, direct access to the native ABI, full access to the platform facilities, fast compilation, small executables, standalone libraries, memory layout control, ...
Ask HN: Are there any online banks that have a decent user experience?
I've seen the web interfaces for JP Morgan Chase, Citibank, and Bank of America. They are all almost unusable in my opinion, clunky, and not at all easy on the eyes. Anyone know of a bank that has decent UI/UX? Simple Bank is great, but unfortunately they don't have business checking accounts (which I need).
I don't think anyone is trying to blame someone for this.. Absolutely this is nature taking its course, but we happen to like oak trees so it might make sense that we would try and protect them.
Well we have the judge's ruling in this exact case we are discussing right now as evidence that sometimes people in Italy need to steal food to survive.
Yes, we don't normally code review stuff we don't need to. We trust each other.
How neurotechnology could help treat dyslexia
5 simple ways to become a digital nomad
I think you missed that they used Ubuntu on their previous Chromebook (I do too) and so would probably do the same with this one
Why is space three-dimensional?
While I also find it hard to believe, the Federal Poverty Line is $11,880 for individuals. If you make $12k a year you are not considered to be in poverty (if you live alone).

So yes, 10k a year would still leave people below the current poverty line. But over 45 million americans already live below the poverty line. So evidence suggest it actually is enough to survive by some standard and may be a good place to start since it's likely that people will be able to find some supplementary income through work.

In the long term the goal would be to significantly increase quality of living for all and hopefully change the horrifying numbers I just presented.
Actually, it was. (Structurally speaking.) Greg and I had had plenty of conversations about what he was looking for and I asked Sam to share his honest assessment with him. It's no good for Stripe to have a CTO who wants to be something else :-).
The article cited total pay and compensation as a proportion of the economic output. It does not mention median pay increasing for workers, so the situation you're describing may very well be the case.
The internal quality team should 'dork' the code randomly and make sure reviewers catch it.
BMW: autonomous driving is 'many, many years away'
The accelerating payments in the PPAs might not be so great if electric prices drop due to solar (in the example below they go up 2.9% per year).

https://www.solarcity.com/sites/default/files/sc-contract-re...

Being responsible for the full 20 year term is also a somewhat onerous financial agreement.
Appraisals are not strictly tied to price of homes. Only the value for the loan. That's not to say you're not going to associate the two together (if you're buying a house with a loan), but the $30k one way or the other isn't a huge percentage of a 30 year loan.
How people manage git and source control tells you a lot of things about a company's culture. They said that most commits go directly onto master and this works for them, which indicates:

- Good rapid communication about who is working where. People are generally not touching the same code or else you'd run into frequent collisions (solvable via rebasing of course but they would be doing more branching if it were a thing to happen very frequently I'd suspect)

- The developers are given autonomy and have assumed some level of mastery over whatever their domain is. Trust in each developer's ability to commit well-formed and considered code.

- They have a comprehensive test stack, which helps verify the above point and keep it sane
There are no error bars on this chart, and the deviation is so small as a percentage of the total change, that we have no way of knowing if this is signal or noise, so the article is somewhat pointless.
Cheers. I feel slightly less dumb now :)
...which can have wide-reaching implications if you release work product produced during work hours as OSS. While your company may seem like they don't care now, that can always change. Copyrights last a long time. Please don't risk the well-being of an open-source project by surreptitiously submitting code that your company owns.
What are the best contemporary alternatives to Vault for secret storage?
Googling around, it looks like there's Vault... and most everything else is just storing PGP encrypted files in Github or stuff like that. Is there a good list of all top products in the secret management area, or a good recent comparison of features?

Thanks HN!
> What it likely will do is over time dramatically change the makeup of the oak woodlands, especially along the coast and in the Sierra Nevada foothills.

Once the disease has run its course (read: all affected oaks dead), couldn't we reintroduce the extinct oaks? We've bought back a species from near-extinction already[1].

[1]: http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/02/24/147367644/si...
"Fair" in the context of a heavily regulated utility should have some relation to social benefit.

It's not fair for utilities to force costs onto consumers just because of a differential of political influence. It's not fair that solar reduces grid load at their peaks and saves them money on building out grid capacity and expensive and inefficient CO2 producing gas peaker plants and that benefit is not returned to the provider of that service.

Overall the many benefits of rooftop solar can be calculated and a value assigned. Most seem to come out at net or above, so talk of average wholesale prices is misdirection.
Is speed really an issue today though? With multiple cores, multiple machines etc.. Seems like a simple enough engineering problem. How many "pages" does a big site have? How many can be touched by a single update?

Also see Hugo, as someone mentioned..

Not doubting that you're right regardign the history, just that it has to be this way today. OTOH, a dynamic page can also be plenty fast, it does not have to be Wordpress.
Isn't this phenomenon consistent this this?[0]

[0] http://www.ibtimes.com/ceo-pay-corporate-executives-got-rais...
To summarize the article, the long-run correlation between stock prices and economic growth rates is positive at 0.51, and in the short run the correlation is actually negative (no number given), because investors bid up stock prices in fast-growing economies, because they expect the growth to continue.

If the growth did continue, then they would make money, but often it doesn't, so they overpaid, so they get below-average (and often below-break-even) returns.

Also, per-capita GDP growth is irrelevant; what correlates positively with equity returns is total GDP growth, including the change in population.

So, on the contrary, this article provides a great deal of reason and even empirical evidence to believe that returns on US stocks should follow US economic growth rates.
In the special case of Result, the new ? operator is going to subsume try! and offer more flexibility:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/243 (note that what was actually accepted differs from the text of the RFC, you need to scroll to the bottom)

As steveklabnik says, there's nothing resembling generalized monadic do notation for now.
It doesn't take a huge drop in production to cause famine, either. The Wheat Stem Rust epidemics in the US caused famines at regular intervals before genetics made wheat resistant, and production was down under ten percent in some cases. It's about getting food where it needs to be, and it sounds like the English weren't helping.
Exactly, take away the cyclical component of the wage graph and it's still trending down.
As solar prices go down, surely the added house equity goes down with it?
Web Motion = Rubymotion framework to do hybrid apps on iOS
A lot of travelers can barely afford to fly as it is.

I can certainly understand that the family of four who only gets to travel once per several years might find $85 per person to be a burden, but I still can't believe that for most people who travel it's that much of a problem. I mean, a US domestic transcon flight is going to run you at the cheapest $300 round trip (and that's only by shopping around like crazy, having super flexible travel dates, and taking advantage of travel deals). Do that once a year, and your $300 flight becomes $317 with precheck. I know many Americans are frankly terrible at personal finance, but... c'mon. Even something shorter like a SFO<->LAX trip is going to run you at least a hundred.

The only way this fast lane can function is if it's exclusive to a small segment of flyers.

If there's only one fast lane, sure. My hope would be that as more people enroll in precheck, they'll be able to turn more and more "regular" lanes into precheck lanes, keeping the efficiency (or lack thereof) of both lane types the same.
I couldn't agree more.

I refuse to use a black cab in London on principle. Their drivers fight against regulations limiting the maximum age of their cars, so filthy, worn-out diesel engines from 15 years ago are still polluting the city.
They're working on enabling tab discarding (from mobile Chrome) on the desktop. Check out the tab discard experiment, but it doesn't have automatic discarding yet, just manual through chrome://discard.

They want to add dom state serialization before they enable automatic discarding.
Johnson and Johnson hit with $55M damages in talc cancer case
That's why the US government's reaction to Cablegate was so funny. I was still in the Army at the time, and memos were released saying not to read the news because it contained classified information. Like the news was some kind of Voldemort. It was pretty funny.
There's a similar story in Israel. There used to be two lakes on the Jordan River (which isn't much a river anymore but that's a different story). The famous Sea of Galilee (Kinneret) and one further to the north called Lake Hula (Merom) that existed until it was drained in the 1950s.
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7's the key number here. Think about it. 7-Elevens. 7 dwarves. 7, man, that's the number. 7 chipmunks twirlin' on a branch, eatin' lots of sunflowers on my uncle's ranch. You know that old children's tale from the sea. It's like you're dreamin' about Gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly Brie time, baby. Step into my office.
I wish, someone would build an OSS CMS on top of Apache Sling. The concepts of JCR and Sling are perfect up to a point, where I don't want to deal with anything else. If my company had the money, we would instantly buy Adobe AEM licenses. Unfortunately its soooo expensive and they are the only ones who have a CMS frontend for Sling.
Well, buts it's NOT free money. The money is coming from rich people and being given to poor people.

The 'amount' of money in the system stays the same and therefore inflation stays the same.

Also, at least recently everyone has been talking about how inflation is too LOW not too high.
There are Taxi tours of Belfast where they show you around the sites. The guy we got made a pretty good tour guide.
One interesting library for building shaders is: http://acko.net/blog/shadergraph-2/
or https://github.com/unconed/shadergraph

Made by the guy behind MathBox.
My personal take: a demonstration that the burden of proof in a scientific (or technological) sense is very different from the burden of proof in a legal sense.
The odds aren't great that a given person knows what "sudden oak death" is, so that doesn't seem to add much except an extra expectation on the reader. I'm pretty sure this headline is not far from what it would been as a newspaper headline 30 years ago. It would have just been "Disease" rather than "This disease" since newspaper headlines favor brevity, but using common nouns in headlines for things that aren't super well-known is a pretty established practice (e.g. "Florida man" rather than "Robert Johnson").

I guess basically, it doesn't seem like the name of the disease is really the point of the article.