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Flexport is hiring Full Stack + Front End Engineers in SF

Want to build software that connects people? Flexport is a platform for global trade in an industry that comprises 12% of the global GDP. We are building products that are enabling anyone to participate in trade regardless of geographic, regulatory or logistical boundaries. By dramatically simplifying the process of importing goods from overseas, we aim to empower a new generation of entrepreneurs benefitting from the wonders of international trade.

With revenue growing at 25% MoM, we are looking to bring on brilliant technologists interested in solving complex challenges & building a platform for global trade.

Started in 2013, we've raised $94M from investors that include Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, Google Ventures, First Round Capital, Bloomberg Beta, Y Combinator, & more.

Check us out if you:

-Want to be part of a close-knit engineering team that releases new code every day
-Take a product-first approach to building software
-Care about the real world functionality of your programming
-Desire to build scalable programs that standardize information flow and increase operational capacity
-Have amazing coding skills and CS fundamentals; and
-Know modern javascript frameworks.

Our stack:

Our continuous releases are integrated with Travis and Github. On the frontend, we use React for the views, organize the data flow with Flux architecture, and test our application with Jest. On the backend, we're a Rails shop riding on AWS and Postgres RDS.

Want to learn more? Email kerianne@flexport.com or check us out at flexport.com
What are you talking about? Webdesign has never been about taking functionality away. I'm talking about separating page elements more properly, setting a link color, maybe setting a fitting background color, making sure elements stay big enough on a small screen, thinking about a logo for creating an identity, and having a look at the typography. How would any of this relate to negatively to the function of such a site?

That you think pc-kombo.de is overly designed I take as a compliment. Just saying, the design gave me the idea of adding the arrows at the side of the boxes, and gave a good place for the advanced menu, as well as the box control button for dismissing elements. It helped give users more functionality, more control over the site and their recommendations.
Inasmuch as there is blame to be apportioned in this case, it's due to JavaScript / ECMAScript having broad definitions of acceptable variable names, and (arguably[0]) the fact that browser JS implementations will generally accept arbitrary 8-bit data within multiline comments, rather than the strict Unicode code units specified by ECMAScript.

JPEG comments exist for the same reason that EXIF tags exist – it's handy to store metadata alongside the image data, it gets copied around when the file gets copied, the tags can be transferred if the image gets re-encoded. There are enough error recovery mechanisms built into browsers that one could likely make a polyglot by just abusing the data segment, maybe even while crafting a legitimate standards-compliant JPEG.

Ultimately, bytes are bytes! Interpreting them with a variety of content types can give a variety of results, so keep it in mind.

[0] Resynchronisation / recovery from bit errors is one of the explicit motivations behind the design of Unicode encodings, so the browsers get a pass from me on this one. It's almost certainly possible to craft a suitable JPEG using legitimate code points anyway.
I don't suppose there are any HN-centric tips for getting past a surprising "do not currently have a position open for your skill sets" phase?
Hence the utility of having some people in a family specialise in staying in the zone, and others specialise in handling child-based interrupts, not entirely different from having one CPU devoted to main processing tasks and other processing units handling ancillary tasks.

During the nuclear-family era, the idea was that dad would specialise in in-zone work and mom would specialise in interrupt servicing, but both before and after I think it was rather more fluid.
I can't squeeze more than 4-6 hours of intellectually productive hours out of a day. I may delude myself into thinking I can do more, but it's not sustainable.
I tend to do this with a lot of cocktail books. Dale Degroff, for example, is a great writer but man does he like 'em sweet.
How is Vultr compared to EC2? Latency is my biggest concern since I do all of my dev work over ssh typically.
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Your fitbit experience is very familiar, and I feel like the same issues plague most of their products.

I've been through 2 wristbands from them. I bought the weight scale, and it also has a serious issue: after the battery drains and you replace the batteries, it gets into a funky loop of calibration/sensing. This quickly runs out the batteries as well as lights up the house at night. There is no fix.
I knew that was on the roadmap, but didn't know that it was supported yet. Very cool :)
Read the news with a grain of salt (ahem), as sugar prices have gone up 2x in the past year. http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=sugar&month...
> natural economic forces

There is nothing natural about the economy except in the unhelpful sense that everything is natural. All economies are regulated to a greater or lesser extent for the benefit of someone. The question is always: who is that someone.
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Smarkets | Full Time | ONSITE (London, UK)

We're a modern betting exchange, going technology first to enable proper price competition in a field of fat commissions. Join a small, agile, and fast-growing team, in our beautiful office in St. Katharine Docks.

Smarkets develops a reliable, low-latency, highly concurrent betting exchange based on trading exchange designs. We're also building a fast, modern web interface to allow for a smoother experience. Servicing our users is top priority.

The Smarkets platform is written predominantly on Python and Erlang, and relies heavily on asynchronous programming techniques. We use REST where we can. Life at Smarkets circles around people, version control, configuration management and automation. We can - and do - deploy to production several times a day.

We are looking for:

* Infrastructure Engineers, both junior and senior (think midway between SRE and devops; security background is a bonus)

* An Infrastructure Lead Engineer

* Software Engineers

* Web Engineers

If you like the idea of flat structure and practical engineering approach, see our jobs at https://smarkets.com/about/jobs/ . (A while back I wrote an overview about our engineering challenges, which you can find at https://smarketshq.com/the-challenges-of-running-a-betting-e... .)

P.S. We trust our employees to be responsible in all things. In that vein, you also get to set your own salary.
Entelo | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | On-site

Entelo helps companies build better teams. We use predictive analytics and large volumes of data to help companies like Facebook, Amazon, and Tesla hire better and faster. We also care deeply about promoting diversity in tech.

We're a small, efficient engineering team that's growing very quickly, and we're hiring for many roles including:

* Architect

* Data Engineer

* Data Scientist

* Senior Backend Engineer

* Senior Software Engineer

* Software Engineer

Our stack includes Ruby, Go, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, React, Lambda, Spark, Docker, Elasticsearch, CoreOS, AWS, and more. We work on interesting problems like predicting when someone will leave their job and matching people to jobs they didnt even know they wanted. There's a large market opportunity for a fast-moving, modern HR company, and we have a lot of growth ahead of us.

If you're interested, check out our open positions at https://www.entelo.com/careers, or better yet email me directly at nate at entelo dot com.
BAMTech (previously MLB Advanced Media) | New York City(NYC) | Ruby Automation Engineer | Remote OK | Full Time|

BAMTech is looking for a Ruby Automation Engineer to join our Apple & Android Platforms' Core Engineering team. This is an opportunity to help build tooling around industry leading apps while getting to work closely with some of the greatest minds in the app development world. If working in a collaborative team environment and facing new challenges every day while your apps get used by millions of people excites you, then this is the role for you.
Feel free to contact me directly through the details in my profile regarding any questions.

If interested, please apply at https://boards.greenhouse.io/majorleaguebaseballadvancedmedi...
Definitely. Anyone who's tried to market a new product should see the value that PH offers. There are issues with execution, fairness, and a cliquey community, but it can still get you real customers--lots of them--who have a sympathetic early adopter mindset. Finding these sorts of people in the early stages is crucial for anything new, and there aren't that many places you can go to find them. Show HN is decent, but interested and supportive folks are often drowned out by the same smug negativity on display in this thread.

Where such a rare and valuable resource is being offered, there are certainly paths to monetization available. And since PH is a discovery platform as much as it is a community, advertising doesn't necessarily conflict with the core value proposition if it's done smartly.
I come from poverty. There is a big difference between poor and working poor. The poor get handouts, the working poor get fines because they can't afford Obamacare. Then people wonder why the poor don't struggle their way to working poor.
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Instructure | Senior Software Engineer | Chicago, Salt Lake City, Seattle | VISA https://instructure.com

Build open-source software to help people learn! We make tools for schools and businesses that delight our users and make their lives easier, while helping them learn faster.

You can check out http://code.instructure.com to see our primary product, Canvas, and some of our open source tooling and libraries.

We're hiring for the following positions:

- Senior software engineers
- Android engineers
- Senior iOS engineer
- QA engineers

Our primary stack is Rails & React, but we also work with JVM/Go/Node, and we're not afraid to try new (or old) things. We have an engineering-driven culture with quarterly hack weeks, internal tech conferences, millions of users who love us (search twitter or instagram for #instructurecon ;) and use our products daily, and challenging engineering problems that come with being one of AWS's biggest users. Oh, and the benefits are amazing too!

I'm an engineer at Instructure, and genuinely love the culture and people here. I would highly recommend it!

Join us by applying at https://jobs.lever.co/instructure?lever-via=NiHimSaI8r

Feel free to reach out to me at neil(at)instructure(dot)com with any questions. Keep in mind I am not a recruiter. I can answer questions about culture or work, but you should submit your application through the URL above.
There are lots of services out there in the universe that I am not allowed to exchange money for.
Is "black box" tracing available, and feasible for production systems without a large perf impact?
I can only assume, this sits higher than EMR. EMR is a managed Hadoop (and likes). This talks about running frameworks like luigi which is a workflow engine for, for example, Hadoop jobs.
Most Common Mistakes of Tech Marketers
let z=$(readlink /proc/self)+1 && strace -p $z

probably a race. i'm not a real programmer.
His "Things I Won't Work With" series is absolutely delightful. Strongly recommended to everyone.

http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/category/thing...
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> Be realized they couldn't compete with Windows

Crazy as it sounds BeOS wouldn't run on X86 for the first few years. They were trying to capture away Apple people. Also it was close to being the OS X successor, but Apple walked away when BeOS upped the price.

https://www.wired.com/2015/05/os-almost-made-apple-entirely-...

PS The only desktop OS that could pull off this stunt. Play a bunch of videos and music files and unplug the computer. Boot back up and everything is playing again just as you left it.
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Working as a Freelance developer for 8 years, developer for 16. My specialties are PHP (Mostly Symfony), Javascript (Mostly Emberjs) & DevOps (Docker, Saltstack, Ansible).

Intersted in getting things done. Worked for all sorts of clients doing all sorts of jobs, everything from Frontend to Backend to general DevOps. Like delivering quality and thinking with the customer to figure out what best suits their needs. Ping me at my company page.

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AWS is not the place to be if you're on a budget
I'm not very familiar with mad-libs so correct me if I was wrong. I think generating a lyrics passage (zero hard-coded rule on content or grammar or anything) from an image would not be something you can do with mad-libs.
Ah, the old "follow the money" advice still holds true.
Remote Higher Education Data Visualization Project
For CollegeStats.org - Open to US and International candidates

Are you an expert in data visualization? We need your help coming up with creative and interesting ways to display data about educational institutions. The primary goal is to improve the usability and helpfulness of our site: www.collegestats.org. The primary dataset you’ll be using is from IPEDS which is from the National Center for Education Statistics and is the most comprehensive education data publicly available.

Compensation:
We’ve set aside a budget of up to $7,500 for this project, however will welcome lower bids. Please submit your proposal with the aforementioned details along with a timeline and estimated budget.

The problem: the current IPEDS data is not very accessible or useful for the average prospective student or individual seeking this information.

The project:
Create data visualization structures that leverage the IPEDS data and make pages of our site (collegestats.org) more useful to prospective college students (and their constituents).

How to get started:
If you are interested please message hiring@frac.tl for more information. Top candidates - we will ask to send a brief (less than 1 page) description of what you would like to develop and examples of what it will look like. Why/how will this help our users?
They've gotten away with shrinking products for years. When cost increase they make the product cheaper, aka smaller, instead of increasing prices. That's why the giant sized candy bar at the checkout line seems like a normal size from 10 years ago. I don't see how this will be much different.
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"Profit" and "revenue" are two very different things and getting them mixed up is how you get all sorts of economic excitement that's best viewed from the distance of history.
Location: San Francisco, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Elixir/Phoenix, Erlang, Ruby/Rails, Elm, Python/Django, JavaScript, Clojure

Résumé/CV: By request

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikdnilsen

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Angel List: https://angel.co/enilsen16

Email: enilsen016@gmail.com

Also interested in PM or Operations roles. :)
> suffered through a very long period of low inflation

Why do you say "suffered?" For my personal finances, low/no inflation seems like a very good thing. My saved money doesn't decrease in value.
Not so much for emphasis as because of different rules for spatial deixis. Even Standard English used to have more than just this and that; we also had yon to indicate things that were farther away than that, and there are finer distinctions in several dialects of English (and in many languages other than English).
Plain Concepts | Barcelona, Spain | ONSITE

We are looking for a software crafts(wo)man to join our Barcelona team.

Take a look at the offer:
https://plainconcepts.workable.com/jobs/335899 and the web https://www.plainconcepts.com/

Also, I can answer any question you may have :)
It's .NET core though, so you might be using quite a few classes that aren't available yet on core (at least for my use cases)
I don't track these things closely, but hasn't 18F come to be considered a disappointment in terms of results-per-dollar-spent, so far? (Not to mention results-per-unit-hype)
If it's broken, don;t fix it (minimalism)
One thing that affected me was drinking coffee through the day, and then stopping in mid-afternoon, I found that from around 8PM to midnight that left me in sort of a zombie state. I eliminated caffeine for a few months and now I consume a smaller amount.
Now I'm wondering if it's possible to create pathological images that should render vastly differently in the face of small changes. Specifically, anything which responds so nonlinearly to alteration that the small floating point variance mentioned could produce drastically new results.
Gamalon | Cambridge, MA (Near Boston) | ONSITE | http://gamalon.com

We are building a probabilistic programming language to perform bayesian program learning at scale. Learn more about our technology here: http://gamalon.com/technology/
We are looking for a Research Scientist to join our team. People who enjoy joining our team are:

- Generous

- Deeply interested in the fundamental architectures of cognition and statistical machine-learning

- Hackers who invent, brainstorm, and build stuff that works in the real world

- PhD (or exceptional undergraduate) in Physics, Math, Applied Math, or CS

- Comfortable with complex mathematical derivations

- Proficient with Python, C++, and any other programming languages that they encounter
Email us at jobs@gamalon.com for more information
I did a lot of computer consulting/fix-it work in high school (late 80s/early 90s), and one of my biggest clients was a guy who was the region's "Diamond" / biggest Amway distributor.

The first time I showed up at his house, I was surprised to see that he had a two-car garage converted into a pretty nice home office / mini-warehouse. Couple of desks with their computers and printers set up, lots of shelves to store tapes, videos, soap, and other products to be sold.. with a double glass door leading to his indoor pool.

We had an agreement: he wouldn't try to sell me or my family anything, and I would fix his computers as needed for money. It worked out well.

A few months after I'd started fixing things for him, I got suckered into going to a presentation by a friend (classmate). I'm sitting there on the front row, and the promised Big Important Speaker walks up.. and it's my client. He sees me in the front row. "Bill ,what are you doing here!?" "Hey Robert. A friend asked me to come.."

It was rather funny seeing all the people oooh and ahhh over THE AMWAY DIAMOND SELLER and I was just, "Hey, while I'm here.. need anything fixed next week?"
It means it's no longer nested under its original parent (13080432). That way, marking it offtopic will cause it to rank lower on the page.
To be fair, FreeBSD's NUMA support is nothing to write home about, and we tend to avoid NUMA hardware (though I have done a cool hack to improve VM scaling using fake NUMA domains that I really need to upstream).

SMP scalability in general is far ahead of OpenBSDs the last time I looked, as is device support for 100G NICs, NVME storage, etc.

The performance monitoring is also far ahead on FreeBSD, with tools like Dtrace, Intel's PCM tools, and Intel's VTune available for FreeBSD.
I know. So brilliant. Still remember the first demo I saw. Just floored me.
Not all work is (or needs to be) "intellectually productive."

I see statements like this on HN a lot, particularly from developers (myself included), but most of them cringe at the thought of having 2-4 hours of administrative work every day.
My brother had exactly the same issue with his modern PC.

Solution: Move the HDD such that tightening the screws doesn't bend the SATA cable out of making good contact!
This looks like it is Mobile Analytics 2.0[0]:

> All the functionality that was previously part Amazon Mobile Analytics is now included in our Amazon Pinpoint service.

I'm not quite sure if it is mostly server-side goodness and still uses the mobile analytics parts from the current Mobile SDK[1] or if it requires a new client-side SDK?

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/mobileanalytics/

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/mobile/sdk/

Edit: Looks like they pushed new SDK components an hour ago! https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-ios/tree/master/AWSPinpoint

I hope the React Native SDK gets some update love soon :)
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For just running instances, that's not true. You set up a metric that checks if the instance is alive every minute, ten minutes, whatever, and set it's alarm condition to trigger once the metric is true for six samples, 600 samples, whatever you need. The alarm action: stop instance.