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Nylas | https://nylas.com/ | San Francisco, CA (Soma) | Frontend (JS), Backend (Systems+Ops)

Hi! We're Nylas. We build N1, the extensible, open source email client, and the infrastructure powering it. We're looking for fronted application engineers (React, Electron, JS), designers, backend systems engineers, & infrastructure/operations engineers.

We recently launched N1, have accumulated over 16K stars on GitHub, and are looking for core application engineers to design an extensible platform around email, calendar, and contacts.

You'll not only use modern web tech to build a better email experience, you'll design the developer platform to power the next generation of email apps. See more about N1 here: https://nylas.com/N1 & code: https://github.com/nylas/N1
We take pride in the diverse culture we've built and are looking for more than raw technical talent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7sHc4P4zPg

== We're particularly looking for folks who ==

* Take personal pride in their work and value autonomy and ownership

* Want the chance to step up and lead a team

* Put the work before ego. We've got each others' backs, and we want you to be with us on that

== A bit more about us ==

* Our backend is built on Python, Flask, gevent, nginx, MySQL, AWS, and Debian. We've been careful to keep our architecture componentized.

* N1 uses javascript (ES6), React, Flux, SQL for offline caching, Electron, and no jQuery

* Tons of our code is open source. Check it out: https://github.com/nylas

* We're a small team

* We have a paid vacation policy & value personal responsibility and ownership.

Benefits include free Lyft to & from the office, full health, dental, vision, and lunch every day. Some remote work / work-from-home is OK too.

Apply at https://nylas.com/jobs or ping me directly (karim@nylas). We're a diverse team, and encourage applications from all backgrounds.
Ask HN: Advice, books, blogs etc. for a CTO of a young SAAS startup?
Background: 1 year old startup, co-founded while in college, joined it full-time 3 months back (when I graduated), have a product and paid users, currently focused on growing our user base.

I have found a lot of material (books, blogs, videos) on starting/running startups but nothing I have seen or read tells much about how to lead the tech team or what a tech team should be doing early on.

I am plagued by so many questions: How should I split my time between bugs, features and refactors? For any month, what should my targets be? How to estimate the time to fix a bug/release a feature? Is it ok to work on something that may not bring in more revenue in the near future?

Or maybe I am asking the wrong questions altogether. Please guide.
RIP, Seymour Papert.

Scratch is the spiritual successor to Logo.

As Scratch becomes more and more popular, it has been sad to say that there is a tension between the spirit of Scratch and commercialization. Scratch is all about exploration and making mistakes and experiential learning. However, there is a deluge of companies who are trying to create curriculums for Scratch that fit into the traditional School lesson models (canned, cut and dry).

Here are some of the better alternatives:

Google has developed the CS First program which uses Scratch. The interesting thing about this program is that it tries to scale the problem of teaching CS by making it less necessary for the teacher to know CS.

https://www.cs-first.com/

There is also a curriculum guide for Scratch.

http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/guide/
On site Stockholm, Sweden | Instabridge

4 billion people are without access to cheap and fast internet on their smartphones. Giving people internet access increases equality and improves people’s lives. Instabridge is solving it by crowdsourcing the world’s largest wifi network. We are VC backed from US and EU and are looking for a fantastic product director to join our team.

Take the opportunity and experience Stockholm, Sweden, Europe’s most unicorn dense startup city! We help with relocation!

http://jobs.instabridge.com/jobs/4112-product-director
I'll believe you if they don't provide a simple analog adapter.
Oh sorry, you misunderstood! I was thinking along the lines how This particular type of research (qualitative, based on written work by drivers, low #N, interpretative but nevertheless a sorted argument) could help my thinking. Not how 'my' type of research could answer all sorts of interesting questions! Give me the data and I would deliver you a scheme that should benefit both Uber and the drivers ;)

For economists the idea of platform economics (two sided markets) is well-established. The micro-economics pretty generally goes in the direction of game theory, since there are many interactions between consumers, platforms (Uber, publishers, Google analytics) and producers (drivers, writers, marketeers). Often great network effect for the platform and thus the direction towards natural monopolies. After reading a few paragraphs I thought 'oh they are re-establishing a known field in another science', but I got hooked by the details.

But what can you Do with those details?
My wife and I just got into that show again recently. (I prefer the Japanese, honestly, because IIRC they don't waste as much time on human interest stories, but YMMV.)

One of the things that I sort of like about it is that most of them do seem to have jobs and such. Most people aren't IMHO-wrecking their lives to compete. Though the description of what it takes to "walk on" is a bit BS; people literally quitting their job to camp out for a week or two is a problem, ANW, not something to brag about. Most people don't quit their job, but still, that is an awful lot of time to ask people to piss away to show up on your show.
I don't get what you're suggesting. Add a hash type? The syntax isn't much different from a list, and sometimes it is a macro on top of existing lists.

In other words, what is a concrete example of list syntax being inadequate? Literally every data format of which I can think can be expressed as a list or a derivative of lists (e.g. association lists).
The advantage is obvious for Google and the rest of us that run hobby search engines.

For example:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-tsvwg-quic-protocol-00

Section 4.3 "A QUIC receiver advertises the absolute byte
offset within each stream upto which the receiver is willing to
receive data."
This is saving the crawler bandwidth by a ton. Limit stuff to 64k and skip all non text data upfront in a very clear cut fashion.

6.2.1.2 prevents hosts spamming you with data after your decided to stop receiving from them.

6.3.2 makes this system fire and forget on a 10m limit and then decide what to do with the host that did or didn't respond with data from the request.

10. Properly download everything from the website (actual priority stuff, central to she protocol, aren't even written, it's a to-do :).

All in all, great protocol to help whoever is running search engines.

For the rest, won't be the default (they seem to be aware of this in this in 11.5)

So trying to guess the future: push quic to Apache/nginx (because 11.5 bypass lots of deployment stuff too), hit websites once and determine who had latest code, cash in on bandwidth.

Not bad for a company start.

Do we need another protocol? Probably not. Will this see light of day? Probably yes since Google's money are pushing it.
For perspective, Kagi was around before Paypal. They let the little guy sell online, in an era when e-commerce meant in-person appointments with your local bank manager to seek approval for a merchant account. (And then you'd have to discuss how your system would actually interface with the bank.)

You're probably being downvoted for the "Never heard of them", which may sound dismissive of the company.
I hear you. I would say that we are not omniscient, yet we know which footstool is intended in the context, and without any conscious effort. Human-like general intelligence is marvelous. And it's well out of reach, and will remain so.
Alan Perlas, Dick Lipton, and Richard De Millo addressed this question in their POPL3 paper, Social Processes and Proof of Theorems and Programs,
https://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/BLOGPAPERS/social.pdf. It is still a good read.
The FSB's announcement doesn't speak of any new technical capability, it just says that they formalized the legal procedure by which everyone should share their crypto keys with the government.

Source: I'm a Russian.
The xkcd solution should work : https://xkcd.com/538/
Apologies for assuming it wasn't commercial just because it was open source, my mistake. In any case, in my experience, comments regarding related non-commercial and commercial projects are quite welcome on HN.

It also looks like you have some support for GPU acceleration, which is cool since as far as I know (barring recent developments), numpy doesn't have this natively.
Smartcar API | Frontend, Backend | Mountain View | Onsite

I'm an early employee at Smartcar. I joined in the fall last year after parting ways with a $3M VC-backed startup I cofounded 5 years ago. When I was job hunting, I was specifically looking at industries that were going to change dramatically in the next decade like eSports, VR, insurance and transportation.

Transportation is that massive one (9% of GDP). The future of transportation is Autonomous, Electric, Shared and Connected. Smartcar is building the "connected" part of it.

Great investors, founders and early team. We just brought 3 more engineers on the team last month but looking to get 2 more with 2+ years of experience immediately. Our stack is Node.js, Postgres, Redis, Docker, AWS.

$95K to $130K + up to 1.0% equity

If you want to learn more, email me at Martin@Smartcar.com or call me at 415 404 5650.

No recruiters.
First things first http://www.businessinsider.com/inequality-is-worse-than-you-... AND this http://www.businessinsider.com/social-mobility-is-a-myth-in-...
what's your startup doing now?
Its usually the low brow idiots who live life like its a popularity contest who watch the olympics. All their idiot friends are going to talk and ask about it so they have to be prepared to partake in the gossip. I come from a family of scientists. The olympics is never a family event. Patriotism + sports is entertainment for plebians. Plus the olympics is always held in some piss poor country where slave labor is used for construction of the stadium. And after the event the effects of abandonment, pollution, and other collateralized effects devastate the local city's economy.
What Does Broader Relationship Between AWS and Sinnet Mean for AWS in China?
I plan on holding my nose voting for whoever I think can beat Trump. If you want somewhere to channel your political energies, channel it into getting Instant Runoff Voting in your state. Or some other non-plurality based voting system.

We really need some way where people can vote conscience without spoiling.
SEEKING WORK - Lisbon, Portugal or Remote

Full-stack web developer specialized in Python (Flask and Django) with 10+ years of experience on software development.

I have a PhD and published work in statistical Natural Language Processing, so am also looking for interesting opportunities on NLP. I have experience as teacher, so if you need one-to-one consulting or mentoring on any of these subjects (software architecture and development, web development, NLP, programming, algorithms, data processing, developing with Python, C, Java, others?), I'm used to make complex things seem simple.

I'm currently bootstrapping my own software company (http://flatangle.com) with an online product (http://elements.flatangle.com/) and an Android application almost ready for the Google Play Store (Java frontend app which interfaces with CPython through JNI and uses the same Python codebase as my web software). I have experience on designing application architectures, implementing and releasing working products.

You can check my personal website for more information, http://joaoventura.net/ or my github accounts for some hints on my work: https://github.com/joaoventura/ and https://github.com/flatangle/.
Road test your new business idea > https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1194905.The_new_business...
Also, it should be noted that many female athletes hit their peak marketability / competitive age much earlier than men. Not allowing teens to cash in is a travesty. Worse, looking at soccer, the men's team is much better treated than the more profitable women's team.
You buy a stock, create a company, build a house, because you expect it to increase in value and be a worthwhile investment. If growth stops it will be increasingly hard to do this, because all stocks that are still increasing in value will be bought up, until they cannot anymore. So you keep your money. Deflation. System collapse.
SEEKING WORK

Location: Rhine-Ruhr, Germany / remote. I'm fine with travelling but different rates than usual apply in that case.

Remote: Yes

IT consultant, web and enterprise software developer with more than 15 years of experience.

I'm experienced in JavaScript, HTML5 and many other web-related technologies. I'm long-time Java developer and I know a fair bit about RDBMS as well, particularly PostgreSQL and Oracle DB.

In the past 3 years I've been developing AngularJS applications (having started with Angular 2 recently) with Java / Spring back-ends and PostgreSQL databases. Among other things, many of these applications make of use complex data analysis and data visualization (using D3.js, NVD3, Chart.js).

Website (contact): https://bjoernkw.com

GitHub profile: https://github.com/BjoernKW/
The answer is these things have an immense amount of value. To even say the value of technology an average person accesses today is double that of 1970 is wrong, it is a lot more than that. Much or even most of that value is underutilized.

I think a combination of the following lead to a completely perverted understanding of money:

- politicalization of economics
- the reflexive nature of markets
- the tendency of both academics and professionals to seek the assignment of natural laws to market behavior
- time lags in the market making it take years or even decades to discover something was worth a lot less than the amount invested

Fundamentally money is just meant to be a way to account for limited resources between trading parties. If the trading parties are doing something destructive, money doesn't know that. I've also used the analogy before that the trying to measure things in prices as money supply changes is also like trying to use a yard stick which changes in size frequently. Simple if you have some metrics from the central bank, but actually not so simple because of all the complex moving missing pieces (including what other currencies are doing.)

The real global fear factor right now is that a great deal of institutions and individuals have a strong interest in inflation rather than deflation. These are groups whose future is based on prices for things largely going one direction, up. If you earn a living by spending borrowed money -- or being paid by earned interest -- you need this.

A lot of people thrive in situations where someone can hand them a blueprint of what to do along with a bunch of money. They follow it, copy, and get the output. That is largely what current growth numbers measure.

The reality is, of course, everything can't grow forever. That isn't a bad thing.

What I think is the greatest concern right now, the greatest danger, is not 1% global growth or even -1%. Instead, it is how nation states decide to react to slow growth. Quite a few are trying to finance their way out. Others may attempt to do disruptive things such as wars. I think we are more than a decade in to these reactions, by the way.

If fossil fuels are as dangerous as we think, a global slow down or contraction may end up saving us. Right now the countries which are growing are still copy and pasting their way to a pretty non-sustainable future.

There is another situation where real growth is negative but available money supply is increasing and prices are going up. That is very painful to be in, but a real future possible outcome.
Yes, it does: "That same 2012 study by former athletes found that just 6 percent of USOC spending actually goes to athletes as cash payments."
White Noise.

I've found that it lulls me into being present in the moment. With any intake of caffeine, there is a tendency to start thinking about new projects, past mistakes, daydreaming, etc. White Noise has been a really good solution to that tendency for me.
What better way to do that then make the two primary parties afraid of losing ground to third parties?

In a race where two third party candidates can siphon votes off the two primary parties, it's finally in the interests of the main parties to move towards something like Ranked Choice.
Adult supervision required?
Show HN: Inspiring Transparent Startups – One Every Day
Franz Liszt: Musician, Celebrity, Superstar
In related news "Invention of the wheel could cause wide spread accidents due to collisions"

Let's stick with foot transportation.
Compose | Remote (Canada, US, UK)

What: Databases-as-a-service. We offer production grade, auto-scaling, automatically backed-up, add-on compatible MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, and more.

Hiring Process: Blind hiring! First, a light application. Second, all candidates who complete the application receive a work-sample resembling the work one would do in the role. No deadline. Final step is a paid work day ($500).

Compose has grown into a vibrant group where folks can feel comfortable being themselves, living a balanced life. We welcome you to enjoy comfort when taking risks, collaborate with spirited peers, and to unleash your creative and talented personality.

* Work from anywhere!

* Many neat conundrums to solve.

* Self-managing, distributed decision making. Choose your projects. We're deadline averse and quality focused.

* Hardly any meetings.

* Ruby/Go.

* Fizz: https://www.compose.io/articles/the-tool-we-built-to-help-us....

Roles:

* Platform Engineer / Application Developer

* Support Engineer

* Technical Content Creator ('Developer Advocacy' type of role)

To begin: https://compose.interviewed.com
Just South of Paris, near Fontainebleau. Where they keep all the good bouldering.

It's all about:

- Choose the thing you like to do most

- Find the absolute best place in the world to do that thing

- Find a house there

It doesn't always work out though. I spent years trying to find a place to live that was walking distance from a good surf break in the sun. Can't be done unless you're happy spending five million dollars on the house or are willing to live on a dusty scrap of land in Central America where you need to hire a guy with a gun to sit at the gate all night every night. Or want to strand yourself on a little sand and mosquito island a day's boat ride from Sumatra.

Fortunately, my (and my wife's) first love is climbing. We were worried we'd quickly "climb out" any crag we moved to, but Fontainebleau has just over 20,000 problems so it'll be a few years before we can get to them all. And they have proper French wine and baguettes and Paris 40 minutes away on the train. Sorted.

But yeah, if you can pull this whole location independence thing off, I'd highly recommend it.
I agree.

One thing that Windows does really well, in an all-Windows environment anyway, is network file access.

Need to open a remote file? Open \\servername\share\path\to\file.txt. No need to 'mount' a filesystem, or map a drive or anything, it just works. No need to supply credentials since Windows already knows who you are signed in as. It's really quite nice. Of course, this all relies on the Windows monoculture - it doesn't support sshfs, nfs, etc, only CIFS/SMB.

This is all done at the Windows API level, so it works across all applications with very few exceptions (like cmd.exe). It doesn't rely on an application using specific libraries (e.g., Gvfs, KIO) or having some kind of addon to enable that functionality.

Honestly, this is the number one thing I miss since switching to Mac/Linux. I can still access network resources from the Mac and Linux, but it's not as convenient or transparent as Windows.
We're hiring production engineers, frontend and backend developers, UX designers, and more. Work on mostly open source software!

https://about.gitlab.com/jobs/

We're a remote-only company so everyone is on an equal level. GitLab is an open-source Ruby on Rails project with over 1,000 contributors.
This is exactly the same thing we hear every election. You can't climb a hill if you don't ever try to go up.

Of course I don't believe in elections so this whole debate is academic to me. In a world with ALEC and WPP, elections have nothing to do with governance.
I am looking for a job anywhere in Asia. I have moderate Mandarin proficiency and very beginner Japanese.

Location: East Asia (Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Mainland China)

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes (I currently do not live in East Asia)

Technologies:

- Hardware: embedded, cpu uarch, coherent interconnects, RTL + validation in systemverilog

- Software: OS/kernel impl, networking + web stack, bitcoin impl, Java, Go, C, C++, Python, Perl, Javascript, several flavors of assembly

Résumé/CV: https://goo.gl/gXOYTf

Email: Listed in resume.
In Lua's case I agree that spelling is a predictor, but only because if you ever type LUA somewhere in the internet there is a 100% chance of someone showing up to correct you :) Its actually a bit funny.
Just curious, any company operating in Russia have to comply or only companies hosted in Russia ? Basically, does Facebook have to comply ?
MaxScale-An intelligent database proxy
There really is no such thing as missile stealth. Just penetration aids:

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

Both sides worked endlessly on producing and overcoming these and in hindsight a lot were snake-oil. I seriously doubt any ICBM could come down undetected at any time during the cold war. The US had listening/detection posts very close to Soviet territory via NATO nations. The Soviets also had listening/detection posts in Siberia, Cuba, and South America.
Ford is 113 years old, Tesla is 13.
Ugh, all the recent articles I've seen on this are subtly or entirely wrong about the reasons for a datum change (though this article is a lot better than most).

It's possible to account and correct for most of the 1.5 meters when transforming between GDA94 (the current Australian national datum) and ITRF2008 (effectively what's used by GPS), and the transformation published by Geoscience Australia is particularly simple, having only 14 parameters.

If you want to know about this from a reliable source, the ICSM site is the place to go. They actually know what they're talking about, and their faq in particular explains a lot of points of jargon and convention rather clearly:
http://www.icsm.gov.au/gda2020/faqs-2.html
Ouch!

I never write those import statements by hand anyway, that's one of the many reasons I have an IDE.
The docs describe a lot of ways data can be corrupted if you don't have the right configuration and database engine:

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/constraint-invalid-d...
Oh, sorry, missed this. Sure. Send me an email to the listed address if you're still interested.
London, UK | Osper | ONSITE

Osper (https://osper.com) is mobile banking for young people aged 8-18. We give children the power to manage their money, and parents the confidence to let them. We've already helped tens of thousands of young people learn what it means to spend and save in the digital world. We are growing fast, and need to expand our team.

We are looking for an experienced Backend Developer with DevOps skills. Our infrastructure is built on python and Flask; postgresql and dynamo db; docker/ECS for deployment. We integrate with quite a few third-parties for card payments/subscriptions/kyc checks etc.

Feel free to contact me directly to talk more about the position or send an email to jobs@osper.com .