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NGP VAN - Washington, DC and Boston/Somerville, MA

* Software Engineer (DC)

* IT Help Desk / Systems Administrator I (Boston)

NGP VAN is the world’s leading political technology firm, providing campaign and organizing technology to Democrats, progressives, and non-partisan organizations. We built the voter contact and volunteer management tools used by Obama for America. Nearly every State Democratic Party in the United States distributes our VoteBuilder tools to Democrats up and down the ticket, and we provide industry-leading organizing tools that enable labor unions, environmental groups, pro-choice advocates, civil rights activists, and progressive political parties to win their campaigns around the world. Our fundraising and compliance software is used by the majority of Democrats from the Presidential level on down, and our engagement platform has become the most-used toolset for Democratic campaigns as well.

NGP VAN has been recognized by Inc. magazine as a fast-growing company and an awesome place to work. And they are right!

Company Site: http://ngpvan.com

NGP VAN believes a diverse, inclusive staff makes us a stronger company and better partner for our clients.  Two of our founders are a gay couple.  We’re committed to hiring people of all races, ethnicities, ages, sex, genders, sexual orientation or gender identities, marital status, religions, and disabilities.  Women, people of color, LGBTQ individuals, and members of other minority or marginalized groups are encouraged to apply.

We interview across a pretty wide range of experience levels. Hit me up at dmiller at ngpvan dot com for more info or to apply. I'm the VP of Engineering here.

All job descriptions are available at https://github.com/NGPVAN/job-descriptions - feel free to flag issues or submit PRs, although if you try to radically redefine the role your PR may be denied. :-)

Keywords: ONSITE
Step.com | New York, NY | ONSITE | http://www.step.com

Step.com is an anonymous platform that lets software engineers and product managers find out what companies and experts think of them and would pay them. Step sends users feedback and compensation predictions, based on anonymized profile data and criteria provided to us by companies.

We're looking for an experienced software engineer to help us with the architecture of our systems, coding the frontend and backend, working on our algorithms, and more. Ideal candidates have a computer science degree from a top school and/or have worked as an engineer at a startup at scale. We use Java, Javascript, Bootstrap, Zrender, MySQL and Elastic Search, but we're open to all languages and skills.

Read about our analysis on tech salaries across engineering levels at some the major tech companies: https://blog.step.com/2016/06/16/more-salaries-twitter-linke...

To get in touch, email jennifer@step.com.

Keywords: Ruby, Rails, Python, Node.js, React, Spring, PostgreSQL, Frontend, Backend, Fullstack, NYC, Engineer
If it was Air New Zealand, they will allow the weight allowance for the long-haul part for your entire journey if booked as a single journey.
SEEKING FREELANCER - Winchester, Hampshire, UK or Remote

Telemetricor Limited

Looking for designers for our product brochures, user manuals, and reimagining our websites.

We are currently focusing on a radio based camera for crime prevention in rural areas. Which needs manuals, brochures, and a more polished website with analytics.

If you can solve any of our three problems please send an introduction and portfolio to contact@telemetricor.com, and we will get back to you promptly
I think it's a sign of commodification coming to notebooks, as happened years ago with desktops. People are no longer upgrading so frequently and no longer feel the need to go for a top-of-the-line model when they do. If sub-$300 notebooks are outselling $1000+ notebooks I'd say that's a very revealing development.
If you have the money to (comfortably) do it, then just get a MacBook Pro. Otherwise: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12815393
Ugh. Another one of these.

The only thing I take away from these "sign up to get our ebook" bits is that you don't have enough confidence in your material to believe I'd subscribe after reading it.
If you want to go after the simple stuff then blocking significant outbound traffic at the ISP level from a home user account until they agree it's something they want to do is the most straightforward solution. No need to change much infrastructure, no need to test devices, and no need to have costly manufacturing processes. You could even let specific traffic through (Facebook live streaming, online gaming services, etc).
If you don't like it don't use it. I read through your profile's comments, all you do is complain and bash other peoples ideas.
Just giving my honest opinion here and it may not be what you want to hear, but I personally think you might have a hard time pulling this off. As a junior dev, you are likely to have a lot of questions that are simply easier to answer in person. Sure, you can do video chats and share screens, but people will have an easier time answering your questions in person. If you are able to find something local, you will probably be better off for it when you are first starting out and then you can transition to something remote after you have some more experience under your belt.

I'd be curious to see if others who work remotely feel differently.
PlanGrid (YCW12) | San Francisco | Full-time, On-Site | Visa

We’re building software that is changing the construction industry (think GitHub for construction, but our ambitions are bigger). Our users love our app because it helps them build real things more efficiently.
By joining our team you can influence product decisions and work on interesting technical challenges (our client apps work with GBs of data). Our engineering teams are small; whatever team you work on, your impact will be huge!
We’re looking for new team members on our client teams: Android, Web, iOS, Windows.

We’re also looking for QA Automation engineers, data scientists and engineering managers. You can see our job postings and apply here: http://grnh.se/8fcutd
Street Contxt | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | http://streetcontxt.com/careers | Full Time | On-Site

At Street Contxt, we're currently building the world's first global information exchange for capital markets. Now, if you're not currently working in the capital markets industry, you're probably asking yourself what the means (the complexity of the problem we're solving is not lost on us). Allow me to explain. We're building an intelligent communications platform that uses machine learning techniques to: understand what financial research our users are producing, what financial research our users are consuming, and facilitate massively advantageous connections between these research producers and consumers.

We’re a well-funded team of ~40 and over half of our company is represented by the Engineering team. Fair warning, our standards for our technical team are high - however should you be successful in your interviews you can rest easy knowing you’re joining an effective team that’s headed places.

Tech stack: Java 8, Scala, Spark, Kafka, PostgreSQL, WildFly/JBoss, Play, React, Redux, AWS

What we're looking for:

Full Stack Developers -> https://jobs.lever.co/streetcontxt/920c1639-d26c-4836-afd8-6...

Product Managers -> https://jobs.lever.co/streetcontxt/e11e6a67-ac48-4251-9154-3...

A Data Scientist Intern -> https://jobs.lever.co/streetcontxt/52d703fb-ed18-48aa-992d-a...

What's in it for you:

Competitive compensation
100% employer covered, comprehensive benefits extending to your dependants and legal spouse
$2500/year in personal betterment allowance, to be spent at your discretion, doubling to $5000/year in your 2nd year.
Every breakfast, lunch, dinner, protein shake, coffee, tea, beer, and snack provided free of charge.
A unique, well-lit workspace in the heart of downtown Toronto, steps from St. Andrew subway station and the PATH

Press:

http://www.businessinsider.com/street-contxt-funding-round-2...
http://betakit.com/toronto-based-street-contxt-raises-8-mill...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-27/this-star...
http://www.bnn.ca/video/disrupting-data-why-wall-street-need...

My name is Jackson, and I can be reached directly at jackson@streetcontxt.com if you have questions.
> It always seemed to me that cursive was optimized for quill or fountain pens and was kind of counterproductive if you had a pencil or a ballpoint pen.

That's true of the Palmer method and related cursives most American students learn. The letterforms which are so odd with a ballpoint pen actually derive from sensible hand-, wrist- and arm-movements when using a fountain pen.

I use a variant of Getty-Dubay Italic (http://www.handwritingsuccess.com/), which is eminently readable and quite quick to write.
NeTV2
Running a the AC with solar, as mentioned in the post I was replying to.
Wow, chill down.
WeakMap?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Referen...
"That, right there, is a damning indictment not only of our industry but also of our culture."

Who is "our culture"?

Are you part of the same "our culture" as the people who made and shipped these things?

Since you're pretty much rhetorically constrained to answer "yes"... would those people agree with the answer you give?

The culture I am actually part of is not perfect, certainly. The people who are in my culture still write the simplest cross-site-scripting attacks like they get paid bonuses for them. But the vast bulk of the people involved in the production of the hardware that the Mirai botnet took over would probably not agree that I am in "their culture", regardless of what I claim about it, and they'd probably feel the same way about you is my guess.

Even if "we" do everything you would suggest, perfectly, Mirai still happens. Therefore, those suggestions can't be the solution. We must still address these problems via other mechanisms.
I really enjoyed The Three-Body Problem/The Dark Forest/Death's End and highly recommend them because of their unusual ideas.

It was also refreshing to read a book coming from totally different cultural mindset that goes after familiar sci-fi goals.

We all have biases and failures in our perspective, and it was interesting read a novel where the authors biases were so different from my own. Liu seemed bipolar in his treatment of women for example. Half the women presented felt vibrant (Ye Wenjie for example) while others, such as Luo Ji's perfect wife were fanfiction quality.

Overall, the ideas presented in The Three Body Problem and The Dark Forest are thought-provoking enough to recommend these books. Death's End on the other hand, was mediocre but worth a read just to finish the series.
My experience is that Microsoft and Acer are both more reliable than Asus.
Mirillis Action 1.31.5 Crack Patch and Serial Key Free Download
Why using it:

"As a js-library from 2016 it has all the swag you need."
... Oh well
Show HN: snapchat meets fruit ninja – GameFace (iOS app)
I'm actually on the lookout to recruit Machine Learning PhDs, specifically to work remotely, either on a temp fixed time or more permanent contractor basis. :) How can I best reach you to pitch you what I had in mind?
The solution isn't to have random security consultants come in and kludge up your process and generate useless reports of irrelevant statistics. The solution is to have a red team on staff permanently, to offer bug bounties based on actual access, to install on-server monitoring for outdated packages (like Appcanary, the authors of this piece), to monitor outbound packets for suspicious behaviour (this is currently the hardest part, imo, since, other than detecting major viruses, it's largely domain and network specific), and to have an automated "take the servers off the internet" button for serious 0-days and leaked credentials. Also, always use HTTPS / HSTS lists and two factor authentication.

You'll still get hacked, but you'll be far better off.
Josh Payton on managing creatives
If there's something on the internet you love, you should make a (local) copy of it. Online content can disappear anytime.
It's actually proof that internet architecture in general is broken. Well, not broken; it was broken, and then healed in a weird way so there's extra cartilage sticking out causing annoyances and won't move as easily anymore.

The security industry has absolutely nothing to do with the existence of a botnet that can take down massive internet infrastructure. The security industry just puts bandaids on shitty products. It's the internet architects/designers that are responsible for botnets.

In order to make the internet very simple, very compatible, and decentralized and distributed, the design allows a baby monitor to send arbitrary traffic to any device on the global network. There is no good reason for this. The reason is, anything else would be complicated, and complicated things become expensive and troublesome. But that's not a good reason to allow baby monitors to take down internet services.

The solution would be to segregate critical equipment address and protocol by function, and to put in strict controls in all routers to prevent illegitimate traffic from reaching the wrong equipment. This would not only improve security, it would make allocation of address space and application ports make some kind of practical sense, and allow for improvements in the way applications communicate over the internet, to say nothing of improved management of traffic.

But nobody's going to change the design, so whatever.
I think that’s true. I’ve met a lot of girls who tell me they are introverted or extroverted but the only difference between them is whether they are anxious or not around people they don’t know well so I’ve come to think that the other traits people seem to associate them are just kinda arbitrarily clumped together but I could totally see how you could define them differently and have the categories actually make sense.
Have you tried ambient techno?

Boards of Canada

Tycho

Ulrich Schnauss

Fisk Industries
I think a better name than "General American" is possibly the American Television Received Accent in that I think the key to the homogenization of a lot of the American English accent landscape is unintentionally a result of mass media consumption (primarily American TV) over a handful of generations now.

Personally, though I tend to think of it as the "American Chameleon" accent as I, like the poster above, find that it trends to adapting to regional variances (often without a conscious intent to do so). I have a hunch that this is a feature of the "accent" rather than a weakness in the speaker, but this is merely lay speculation. It's weird to think of a defining characteristic of an accent being its flexibility rather than rigidity to preferred forms, but I think that helps account for why this "General American" accent is so common in America at this point, because it seems to be sort of an American "Borg" accent: your regional distinctions will be assimilated.
Amen, the Security Industry is doing great, security is doing poorly.
Depends. I spent some time teaching high school students. A large portion of them will not write any code after taking the class.

Teaching them how to install and configure an IDE is a pretty useless skill in that context.

Instead, even if they never code again, teaching them a little bit about how to think like a computer and some basic computer skills (many of them were almost computer illiterate) seemed like a much more valuable use of time.
Everything I've read suggests that with NAFTA we are better off than without it. I wish folks like Trump/Thiel would point us to studies that show otherwise instead of repeating their rhetoric about job losses.

Further, I'm quite skeptical that mfg jobs will ever return. If low wages didn't force the death of low skilled jobs then surely automation will.

I know there are a few hackers here that follow politics and also support Trump, so I'd love to hear their answers to these concerns, as I simply haven't found these concerns addressed elsewhere.
Those things really resonate with me. In some ways it feels like a person riding an slightly unruly elephant, and the music is to appease it.
I am aware of the issues of direct democracy, but my hope is that the "defer by default" prevents most of the issues. On top of that there'd have to be education that makes people wary of others that try to convince them to specifically vote for issues that they didn't have a strong opinion on before.
Can surely be done with the original neural style transfer algorithm. You'd just have to use a soft mask over the picture when calculating the content loss function.

Don't know if there's an analog way for fast style transfer.
> It's a few honest people screaming to be heard above the din of snake-oil salesmen...

I think it more likely that it's a few honest, knowledgeable people screaming to be heard above many honest, well-intentioned, but misguided people screaming to be heard above the din of snake oil salesmen.

It's much easier to believe the wrong thing and sell it yourself than it is to be a confidence man. And on the same note, it's much easier to crucify a malicious hacker than it is to ruin the life of a guy who supports his wife and kids who just happened to make the economic call that running everything as root was okay.

To your point on economics, I think the old joke about two guys being chased by a bear applies to the economic mindset. One company is seen tying its shoes (for the sake of the metaphor let's add to the joke that he's otherwise naked), and the other company says slyly "I don't think you're going to outrun that bear." "We don't have to," replies the naked company, "we just have to outrun you."

It's going to be hard to justify the extra 80% effort on the remaining 20% when management and sales only want to go 21% just so they can outlast their competitors.
The Story of Innovation  Netflix
The law just needs to apply in a large enough region. Here in the US we got high efficiency switching wall warts instead of the slightly cheaper ones that idled away $4/yr because the EU demanded them, so manufacturers had to upgrade.

Similar with lead free solder.
I guess it's important for some people to keep flogging Microsoft hatred but what does Windows have to do with anything here?
Create a Family Photo Frame with Twilio, AWS, and Electric Objects
DTU Biosustain | Software Engineer (Front-end/UX/Back-end/Full-Stack Web) | VISA | ONSITE | Copenhagen, Denmark

Help save our scientists from their own data:

Our team is looking for one or more talented and enthusiastic software engineers to expand
our scientific web platform supporting experimental and computational activities at our
center just outside Copenhagen. The front-end consists of an integrated web UI with many
individual components. It is supported by a collection of services for data storage and
analysis methods.

We use primarily Python and AngularJS.

DTU Biosustain applies an engineering approach to the research of building new microbial
cell factories to bring them to market faster and cheaper.

Read more & apply here:

http://www.biosustain.dtu.dk/english/about/vacant-positions/...

This is a public sector job. The salary will be negotiated based on collective agreement
(with a union). We therefore do not have an official salary range, but expect something on
the order of 450-550k DKK excluding pension & very good working conditions.

We provide administrative assistance with VISA & relocation.

The interview process consists of a phone screen, followed by a short online code test
and then a round of interviews on-site or via Skype.

Questions? Email me at lays@biosustain.dtu.dk
SEEKING WORK - Remote/Freelance, with potential for on-site trips

Certified Xamarin developer here with mobile cross-platform experience in everything from Xamarin.Forms to native.
Designed, built and released iOS & Android apps for multiple happy clients in the double digits.

Proficient in:

- cross-platform development for various screen dimensions: smartphone, watch, tv & tablet

- MVVM architecture and adjacent libraries (MvvmCross, etc.)

- connecting mobile apps to backend services via REST APIs

- offline functionality, local storage (Sqlite, Realm, etc.) and syncing strategies

- authentication and sharing features using social APIs

- error-proofing existing mobile apps with Xamarin Test Cloud and other reporting tools

- designing and implementing performance & optimization strategies

- additional services around mobile apps: UI/UX, prototyping, server-side / APIs work

Website: http://crossplatform.io

Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/alexandramarin01

Email: alexandra.marin01@gmail.com
I wonder how effective LZ4 would be as default compression algorithm for NTFS. It is extremely effective with ZFS.
Why So Many Millennials Experience Imposter Syndrome
Do you mind to elaborate which pays you though were imagination but were proverb? Are you referring to the sun amplification and the way sophons are made? Those are the parts I assume(d) to be BS. The sophon thing seemed so bullshitty that it required some effort on my part to not be pulled out of the story too much by it.
Ubertesters annouced the latest version of Android app for mobile apps testing
...other than first-party Microsoft crap. But you would get that anyway in any other OEM version of Windows, along with additional third-party crap.

As long as you're willing to put in a tiny bit of effort, you can know that all the software on your machine is coming from known people and companies, that you chose to trust.

Apple is the only company I would trust [at this time] to put only Apple software on retail Apple hardware. But that is because even if anybody was willing to comply with the inevitable list of strict requirements, Apple would almost certainly try to charge the third-parties so much to bundle their software, that no one would reasonably be able to justify the cost.

Microsoft, I could see making a deal with some third-party to put into certain models of the Surface. It might just be something like hardware drivers with a Windows GUI to change some settings, but they would do it.
Armour Comms | Developers / Operations | London, UK | Salary range: £40-60k + options + bonus + biscuits | Onsite | Full-time

We’re a team of security-minded developers creating real-time communications applications for enterprises, finance and governments. We’re looking for like-minded people to join us in a variety of roles:

- We’ve got Android and iOS expertise and are looking to re-skin our apps for Windows Mobile and desktops, using C#, XAML, perhaps Electron,. as well as C++ for high performance native code. We look for people who can work autonomously, deliver ahead of schedule, and not hum annoyingly when listening to music on your headphones while programming.

- Good news: we have customers! We’re getting more and more of them and they all need stuff installed and supported, so we’re also looking for dynamic, adaptable Operations people, experienced in customer interaction and problem-solving. Ideally, we’d like you to bring a strong existing knowledge of networking, VoIP, SIP and stuff like that.

Armour is a 20-person company, offering share options, bonuses, and an unhealthy dependency on chocolate biscuits and doughnuts. We’re also very British, which is why we spell doughnuts the correct way…

Interested? Take a quick look at www.armourcomms.com then email us at info@armourcomms.com.
Someone smarter than me: why is this totally bullshit and will never work?
>>By the time that I had covered two sides of a small piece of stationery, my letters tended to get sloppier, and my right hand was cramping.

>It always seemed to me that cursive was optimized for quill or fountain pens

Definitely agree, cursive felt only marginally nicer to use than printing until I used a fountain pen; with one, it is faster and more physically comfortable (in addition to being more fun and prettier). Anyone here who is still attached to cursive is strongly recommended to buy a cheap fountain pen.
No vim plugin for VS? I haven't used VS in about 10 years.