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I totally agree with you. I also liked how they said the motivation is to make Google infrastructure for everyone else. How did Google do this? They basically imitated and improved on clustered filesystems developed in HPC. There were a lot of lessons to learn for emerging cloud market in all tooling done in HPC. Some was FOSS.

Whereas, many companies seem to be doing the opposite in their work on these cloud filesystems. They don't build on proven, already-OSS components that have been battle-tested for a long time. They lack features and wisdom from prior deployments. They duplicate effort. They are also prone to using popular components, languages, whatever with implicitly-higher risk due to fact they were never built for fault-tolerant systems. Actually, many of them often assume something will watch and help them out in time of failure.

If it's high-assurance or fault-tolerance, my manta is "tried and true beats novel and new." Just repurpose what's known to work while improving its capabilities and code quality. Knocks out risks you know about plus others you don't since they were never documents. Has that been your experience, too? Should be a maxim in IT given how often problem plays out.
- 11.8x 2015 sales
- Company was growing around 50%/ year
- With -18% opinc margin
- Customer base mostly mid tier and less savy ecommerce customers, read: future Amazon victims

=> Extremely steep price
Apply! Remote will work for the right people. :)
Jupiter Technologies Corp. | Chicago, IL | Full-Time and Internships | Onsite

Early stage stealth startup seeks extremely-talented founding engineer to help build a new gateway to the internet. Founder has a demonstrably strong track record in perhaps the most competitive quantitative field there is, and, in his new field, he expects to win. Hours will be longer than you would work elsewhere, and, for a period, cash pay, while sufficient, will be lower than you could get elsewhere. Equity percentage, meaning, control, responsibility, opportunity, learning, and power will all be much better than you could get elsewhere.

You would be working from a small office in Lincoln Park, right by the zoo and park.

Looking for a winner. Someone with high standards, high ambition, and the judgement to know what’s important and what’s not. Track record and attitude much more important than pedigree. The more experience building world-class software the better, but junior candidates will also be considered.

Technologies: Java, Kotlin, Swift, a bit of JavaScript, and AWS.

Also hiring summer software-engineering interns. You will work hard and learn a lot.

Email resume to austin@jupiter.ai. Next step is phone screen and then an interview at office.
Yeah holy crap I'm still reading the footnotes and they may be even more interesting than the article
The first question on my mind is: Can we use this to get the cell to make new tools? Can we inject DNA to produce our nano-robots?

It seems to me living cells might already have everything we need if we can figure out the right code.
> But really, a new storage system?

I think the post outlines quite well why they chose to build a new distributed storage layer. From a product perspective it makes a lot of sense for them to have an offering in this space. Also, the fact that it's a hard problem is what makes it a compelling product offering. You can't make much money solving easy problems.
Unless of course the governing body deems the massive revenue the 20k employees generate as "excess" and is confiscated for Basic Income in Africa - the company employing these people will have practical upper limits on what they can pay their employees as exists today - but with the additional caveat that governments can just take the money for "the common good."

It's globalism. It's socialism/communism.
As an aside, I'd be willing to bet there's a direct correlation between Hackernews karma and amphetamine use.
I thought giving people adhd meds and seeing whether it relaxes them was a pretty good (not perfect) indicator? Am I wrong?
Kina Grannis's story about being stranded in Jakarta for 100 days
Many schools have separate software engineering majors/disciplines. When doing my MS in CompSci, there was only one required class on software engineering. I can imagine that other schools would not have that requirement at all.
Aconex | San Francisco, CA USA, Melbourne, Australia| Full-time | Senior Software Engineer, Senior UI Engineer | ONSITE | $135k+

Aconex is a highly profitable project collaboration company with most of the worlds largest construction companies as customers. We are to construction projects what Atlassian is to software projects.

We're looking to build a team of experienced software developers to help us bring a new product to market with a strong financial aspect. Our stack is based on a service oriented architecture, so we have a number of different technologies at play - Java, Go, Ruby, Python etc.

To begin with, you'll be working with Java 8 (using Dropwizard), Angular, Typescript as well as many other tools.

Love to chat stack, so if you're interested - reach out! Technology choice is open for discussion on new services that we start.

More about us: https://www.aconex.com

If you're interested, email me at tolshansky(at )aconex( dot)com
Why does this article describe these stimulants as "narcotics"? They are neither opioids nor illegal when prescribed, so it seems like a needlessly provocative, and factually incorrect, description.
I have found Hacker News to be a very concentrated source of useful material, with a high ratio of "want to read / glad I read" articles.

... but nothing compares, nothing has prepared me, for the sheer awesomeness, of these two links. I now must store the PDFs in a safe repository with GoogleCalendar note to re-read them frequently :->
Developer Marketing Manager | Zapier (YC S12) | Fully-Remote Team (Work Anywhere) | Full-time

Hiring Process: Application, Phone Screen, Skills Interview, Offer

Role: https://zapier.com/jobs/product-marketer-spring-2016/

By year's end, we'll have more than 1,000 partners on the Zapier Developer Platform. This role is at the center of improving education and marketing materials created for our partners and their user bases.

More about Zapier: https://zapier.com/about/

Zapier Code of Conduct: https://zapier.com/jobs/zapier-code-of-conduct/
Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Remote: Maybe

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Numerical stuff (Python, Matlab, C++, some HPC mostly MPI and OpenMP), Web stuff (nginx, Python (Bottle/Flask), SQL, Javascript).

Resume/CV: On request

Email: kallerennes@gmail.com

Website: kallerennes.com

I have a strong mathematical background and knowledge in systems modeling, control and FDI, computer vision and machine learning.
For sure. I've found getting that to work with a rails stack & webpack setup to be rather challenging. react_rails is pretty straight forward, but then you have a lot of global react components, and it gets trickier to leverage NPM. With webpack there's react_on_rails which is a sizable & complex gem, but it does work.

While I wouldn't use vanilla rails & UJS much today, I still think it has value in getting things going.
That solution would fail to catch several of the examples that were requested to be caught. Sometimes something that appears overengineered is built that way to meet the actual requirements a problem presents.
I have docs... but not in a publishable format currently. I have been considering doing a series of posts about the techniques tho as they are widely applicable and do significantly increase robustness.

Currently you do pay a performance (and hence power-usage) overhead of ~5% depending on how many 'domains' you wish to protect but that can be optimised and tuned to your particular application.

Certainly for some applications the robustness and protection from malicious message payloads is well worth the performance hit.
“You get paid for streaming, my ass - Musicians are getting robbed”
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No, that's fine; nothing wrong with that. I just thought it was unfortunate to own nothing but work shirts.
If you take an excess of any chemical substance, there will be consequences. Barring an underlying latent condition, amphetamine use at therapeutic levels causes cognitive improvement in the general population with minimal risks.
Artory | Berlin, Germany | Full Time | ONSITE

(Senior) Developer

We are looking for developers interested in fine and contemporary arts (our focus is not in the buying/selling portion of the market process). We have a small team of designers and developers, and would like to add more developers to further drive our development efforts. We are putting a lot of user research into our product, in the hope of allowing developers to guess less about what our users want. Decisions around the stack are still in the making and you can be part of these discussions, too. Development efforts organized with scrum, so you should be comfortable with that.

Current interview process:

* Short programming test, shouldn't take long and you'll receive a reviewed version back, regardless of our decision to take hiring further
* short call on getting to know each other, figure out open questions from CV etc
* 1h skype call/coffee/onsite casual/technical conversation, we'll send you a rough set of topics beforehand when we're interested in specific knowledge/topics
* potentially another conversation on team fit
* 1-2 compensated work day(s)

Our stack: python (django), postgres, elastic, angular2, typescript, docker + (what you might add)

Some benefits: Market pay rates for Berlin, Apple-y hardware to work, awesome office, (maybe) stock options.
Specializations/topics we are interested in (non-exhaustive) and if you like any of these, please get in contact:

* Full stack security
* Data deduplication/cleanup
* OCR text recognition and extraction
* Blockchain-related technologies
* Infrastructure automation

If you are interested in other topics which you think might be relevant to startups in the art world, please don't hesitate to still inquire.

If you are interested to hear more, get in touch through sebastian.hillig -- @ -- artory.com. Or apply through: https://artory-gmbh.workable.com/j/DBF103A447
King Tut's dagger blade made from meteorite, study confirms
Switzerland has an interesting political system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_in_Switzerland

"Switzerland's voting system is unique among modern democratic nations in that Switzerland practices direct democracy in parallel with representative democracy. That's why the Swiss system is called semi-direct democracy.[1] Direct democracy allows any citizen to challenge any law approved by the parliament or, at any time, propose a modification of the federal Constitution.

...

Approximately four times a year, voting occurs over various issues; these include both initiatives and referendums, where policies are directly voted on by people, and elections, where the populace votes for officials.
"
Karius | Menlo Park, CA | onsite | full-time
Sr. Software Engineer

I am an early engineer at Karius.
I work here to help create revolutionary technology in a great work environment.

Our technology stack on the front-end is React + TypeScript with great VSCode integration (we will publish this on github as a starter kit, it is really a great development experience).
On the backend we are out-growing many of our original startup systems and taking the time to make sure things are well-architected going forward. You will play an important role in shaping how these systems work at Karius.

There is a lot of collaboration at Karius. Working on the backend means getting to know biologists. Working on the front-end means getting to know designers and being involved with product design and marketing.

Our ideal hiring process would be based around working on a small project onsite with you so that we both understand what it is like to work together.

gstock@kariusdx.com
https://angel.co/karius/jobs/89401-senior-full-stack-enginee...

www.kariusdx.com
The Job Market Cooled in April but Is Still Strong
Persistent storage on today's filesystems and complex hardware is a hard problem. All kinds of failures can happen during any write. Some are obvious with some silently corrupting data. There's been decades of work on approaches to dealing with this with a variety of tradeoffs. Picking the right one for a widely-deployed, portable, distributed app is tricky by itself.

They're aiming to do a lot more than that. ;)
A word of caution to those readers who might want to try self-medicating:

I have used pharmaceutical grade methylphenidate and amphetamines. The former inevitably led to suicidal thoughts and feelings or worthlessness at the end of the day (i.e. once the dose is gone). This happened to all of my peers who tried it. The effects were mild, but still quite noticeable. And we were healthy (both mentally and physically) young men.

My advice is you just get a prescription from a doctor. They are unfortunately quite easy to come by. At least your dosage will be supervised, and you will have someone to talk to about possible side-effects without fear of reprisal.
Latest in DevOps and continuous delivery at last week's GlueCon conference
Major League Baseball Advanced Media | NYC | Full Time Engineers & TPMs

MLBAM is the technology and digital media division of Major League Baseball, providing end-to-end content delivery solutions over web, mobile, and connected devices. Partners outside of baseball include HBO, PGA, WWE, NHL, GoPro, and more. Check out our CTO's keynote at last year's AWS Re:invent conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAmpZ2sk400.

We are growing extremely fast and looking for talented software engineers and technical project managers to support that growth as we scale our platform to more partners. Our headquarters is inside Chelsea Market in Manhattan with another development office in San Francisco. Please shoot me an email for more info (I'm an engineer, so I can answer some questions for you and forward your info along to our recruiters).
FirebirdSQL introduces stored procedures in Java
Speaking as someone who's wrestled with ADHD all my life, as has my spouse, this is definitely not false. And your claimed test makes no sense; if you haven't exhibited symptoms of ADHD, how can those symptoms be erased?
The thing is Mozilla is all about Chrome technology, Chrome parity and Chrome design.

Everything they care about is Google and Chrome. I miss the times where Mozilla was able to think on their own and was no follower and admirer of a dangerous and utterly greedy and disgusting tracking company called Google!

As long as they are following that path which leads more and more away from users with knowledge to users who use Chrome, Mozilla's downfall will continue.

It should be more than clear now, that Mozilla's big hope that users of Google Chrome will fill the void which is ripped open by advanced, power, geek users leaving, is not becoming a reality.

Mozilla can invent whatever they want, but as long as they do not remove the core issue - their new found ideology that only being like the competition will lead forwards - things will go more downhill.

I wonder if Mozilla can be saved.
I love how its named like its a mid-2000's start-up.
I'm very skeptical. I think something like Voxiebox has a better chance of creating an immersive 3D experience, because it doesn't require you to hijack your senses.

http://www.voxiebox.com/
ARM is better for <5W applications when performance is secondary to power consumption, but Intel is beating them at performance/watt ratio everywhere else.
Size of organizations involved was never mentioned, so I really don't see how it's related to "too big to fail".
His logic was completely different, and pretty straightforward: that anti-laundering legislation first threw mens rea out, and then ended up in a state where everybody is guilty be default.
Digium | San Diego, CA | Front End Software Engineer | Full-Time | Onsite

Digium is looking for front end software engineers to join our San Diego team to help build realtime web applications on top of Switchvox, a turnkey phone system targeting small and medium sized businesses.

Our stack includes Linux, PostgreSQL, node.js, React, and socket.io

If you are interested, you can find the full job posting here: https://recruitingapp-7001.umantis.com/Vacancies/423/Descrip...

Or feel free to email me at bhorsley@digium.com
Medallia | Palo Alto, CA or Buenos Aires, AR | Back-end, Front-end Software Engineer

Medallia builds reporting and survey technology for hundreds of the world's best companies like Hilton, Vanguard, Mercedes-Benz, Four Seasons, Nordstrom, Delta Airlines, etc.

Sequoia recently invested more money into Medallia than they ever have in any company.

We use many technologies and tools throughout the company; some web technologies include Angular.JS, React Native, and Java but there are many more throughout the infrastructure and operations teams. Please send me your resume and I'll make sure it gets looked at.

my HN username @ medallia.com
Location: Edmonton, Canada

Remote: Maybe

Willing to relocate: Yes: Toronto, Vancouver, Seattle, Victoria

Technologies: Ruby, Python, Java, SQL, Git

Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-z--2YaX6ntZklwMkJVdU1ab3c...

Email: karljparkinson@gmail.com

Github: https://github.com/KarlParkinson

Recent University graduate looking for junior backend or full-stack work.
Another bit of sensationalism I noticed, the article mentions people have died after mixing adhd meds and alcohol. But the link was to an article about a person who died after mixing adhd meds, narcotic painkillers, and alcohol. It's well-documented that mixing narcotic painkillers & alcohol on its own is very dangerous.

There may also be dangers of mixing adderall and alcohol, but it does everyone a disservice to casually reference such a different situation.
>To address your complaint on fairness, yes, you can be forced to sell because if most of the shareholders want to take the company private, it would seem fair from the majority's standpoint to accept its rule. Not perfect but I don't think there exists a better mechanism.

Why not just allow the option to let the company go private but let these stockholders retain their minority holding? If you, like the PE firm, think the company is undervalued by at least 20-30% why can't you just retain ownership through the deal and receive your proportion of dividends?
This is all very true, but on the other hand: if you're coding and you're tired it's exceedingly unlikely that your mistake would kill someone.
Believing in the rule of law doesn't oblige you to believe in rule of stupid and illogical law.
> I learned two things that weren't widely reported at the time.

For what it's worth, the Anandtech review [0] mentioned your first issue in their review back in October. Anandtech has missed things in the past, but I trust them a lot to find and point out possible issues with hardware.

[0] Linking to the last page 'Final Words' section as it is mentioned up front and centre there. A lot of times, I'll read or skim the first page, and jump directly to the final page conclusion for hardware I just want a quick overview of - http://www.anandtech.com/show/9702/samsung-950-pro-ssd-revie...
For God's sake, please price your products and services appropriately and make money from the start. Then, you won't have to beg vulture capitalists for scraps. If you raise money, those vultures become your bosses. Why are you even starting a company when you'll be enslaved to vultures that will push you short-term gains, forced growth, exit and all the other BS. Be your own person and say no to Vulture Capital. That's how you become independent, free and able to work on something you like on your own terms.
I think you and I are talking about the same thing. I was more responding to the extreme circumstances the other person posted. I agree that when you're making public facing content, it should render on the server. The faster UIs is true when you don't have to do full page reloads to load new content, but just grab serialized data from the web server instead.
Personally, I think the root of society's issues with drugs is rooted in moral judgment. It's our nature to be compelled to engage in certain activities (reproduction, sleep, obtain food) yet collectively rules and standards have been created to select which ones are okay, casually speaking.

It's not so much as "why can't Americans go without" as much as it is a "why can't Americans admit Prohibition doesn't work" type of question to me. The latter is a lot easier to fix than the former, I think.
You look at similar past deals which have gone ahead or fallen through.
You sound out some large shareholders, see what they might accept.
You run your own modelling - what you think it's worth, what it will cost to finance the deal. That gives you a cap on what to offer.
Then you use your judgement and make a bid.
After you make your bid, you will get more feedback and can raise the price if necessary.
Trademarks are adjectives, not nouns. When you apply for a trademark, your lawyer will insist that you provide samples of marketing materials which use the mark as an adjective. So Toyota probably occasionally refers to "Toyota Automobiles", and I'd bet that Daimler's marketing refers to "Smart(tm) cars" all over the place... and they do, see google results for ["smart cars" site:smart.com]

Looking at the Google results for [smart cars] and ["smartcars"], it boggles the mind that anyone would try to register a new mark in the auto sector like that. So much potential confusion!
> * use a safe-but-explicit language like Rust/Swift and have to "show your work" to the compiler quite a bit more, finding a different way if safety is too hard to prove.

AFAIK Swift is semantically in the garbage-collected pile, it uses (statically injected) reference counting.

I believe Chris Lattner has noted they'd left the door open for something like affine types (ownership) in the future, but that's not really their goal at the moment.
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Bitmain Technologies Unveils First Commercially Available 16nm Bitcoin Miner
San Francisco/ London/ Barcelona/ Madrid/ Sydney | TokBox | Product Managers for 1) Developer Experience and 2) Vertical Solutions, Product Marketing Manager, BizDev Managers in 1) Healthcare and 2) Education | 98% Onsite and mostly in San Francisco, remote for the right fit

https://tokbox.com/

TokBox does embedded communications powered by WebRTC. We make it easy for developers to embed real-time video, voice, and more into their applications and websites. We build a platform and SDKs, and have great clients from individual developers to massive players in tech, entertainment, education, and many other industries (customers include Mozilla, the Minerva Project, Chegg, esurance, Major League Baseball, Double Robotics, and Fox Sports). We've been doing real-time communications for over 8 years. We were acquired by Telefonica 3 or so years ago. It hasn't changed the culture much, and has helped us reach more customers around the world.

The product is industry leading, but the people make this place where I work. It's an awesome group of 90 or so people- nice, smart, skilled. We are laid back and have a sense of humor. Minimal politics. Good salary and benefits, relaxed, enjoyable environment!

We're looking for a PMs who want to build a strong developer experience (PMs, evangelists, and engineers encouraged to apply!), a PM to manage the platform, someone with product and/or marketing experience to do product marketing, as well as people with strong experience in either healthcare or education for business development.

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or

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Come join us!
> I feel like every 4 or 5 years, everyone gets together and celebrates terse writing like it's some new insight.

Every 4 or 5 years everyone celebrates terse writing like it's new.

FTFY.