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SEEKING FREELANCER — Remote preferred. (Austin, TX & Sarasota, FL)

Looking for an experienced full stack, Microsoft focused, web developer.

Stack: C#, Asp.net MVC/Webforms, MS SQL Server, SCSS/HTML/JS

Our fully distributed team is looking to add another .NET rockstar to our ranks. Our projects revolve around simplifying the broadband industry, most notably http://broadbandnow.com.

In short, we’ve got the best coverage data in the industry and we’re looking for another rockstar to help us make the ISP space better for consumers and businesses looking for service.

Interview process: We do a quick 30-45 minute coding challenge and a ~30 minute Skype call. If everything looks good, we set up a paid fixed priced test project. From there we look for a long-term mutual fit.

We’ve had great experience hiring freelancers off of these monthly postings, so figured it was worth dropping our info here as well.

Feel free to drop me a note via firstname @ broadbandnow.com (grab the first 4 letters of my username if in doubt) with your prior experience and what challenges interest you in the broadband industry.
When talking about employment law, "the right to work states" is often used as a generic category used to refer to states with weak employee protections, since the right to work states generally are also red states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Right_to_Work_states.svg
How often do you deploy servers? And how much of that is cloning[#] a prepared
virtual machine?

I realize that there are ways to install an OS and preconfigure it at one go,
but those need some non-trivial mechanics in place. Also, it is (was until
quite recently) much easier to share a password between machines with LDAP
than having the same with user keys.

Programmers tend to have quite skewed idea on what operates the production, as
they rarely see the details.

[#] Cloning an already installed system is usually a stupid thing, unless you
make sure that SSH host keys don't get shared (and several similar things).
DIAMONDS ARE a GIRL'S BEST FRIEND
Most production environments terminate on Cloudfront endpoints (or other CDNs) or ELBs/ALBs; not much need for IPv6 to individual instances (which can use IPv4 internally).
3rd Engineering hire (back end) at Shipamax, London
Hi,

We're disrupting the global ocean shipping market. Not containers, but massive bulk ships. Since our beta launch in July, we've acquired 15 of the biggest commodity shippers in the world as customers.

We are now looking for a backend engineer to join our small team. We have an insane amount of data which needs to be analysed and processed. Python experience would be great.

More here:
https://angel.co/shipamax/jobs/144249-backend-engineer

Best,

Fabian
fabian@shipamax.com
Eh? Why? Most people had Amazon Prime delivered to work at Google.. Better than letting it get stolen off your doorstep at home.
Are all heap-related structures be stored in kernel memory, though? There's nothing in userspace for bookkeeping?
"Uber is a much better example, Airbnb not so much. Uber is shitty in the way it treats drivers, but the majority don't seem to have an issue with the platform (doesn't excuse their behavior). "

I'll take that one. Especially "think of the taxi drivers silliness." It's the kind of stuff I'm talking about that's politically motivated.
No, not nearly that nice.
As a network engineer, it's amazing the amount of work and money that it costs to do high capacity long distance singlemode fiber between major metro areas. Doing something like a 288 strand cable from Boise to Salt Lake City along railway and highway right-of-ways is a huge project that involves massive, heavy equipment, tons of people, GIS experts, civil engineers, dozens of county governments, state governments, road closures, electrical system coordination, property leases for fiber huts, diesel generators, bucket trucks, bulldozers, excavators, trenching machines, flatbed trucks, spool trucks, traffic flaggers...

I could write a 5 page list with just individual single line item bullet points of all the factors/sub-contractors/sub-systems to take into consideration for a successful inter city fiber project.

And that is just at OSI layer 1 before you even start lighting the fiber.
Me too. I only feel at my best if I'm consistently getting 8 hours. A few days of 7 hours and I start to feel overly tired. Turn that down to 6 hours and I turn into an awful person.

My wife hardly ever sleeps more that 6-6.5 hours so she basically gets 2 extra hours a day compared to me. This has been true for me as long as I can remember (36 year old male)
Show HN: Neeto, a secure code box for developers
I stopped reading after "I used it for two weeks"
These stories are better if they contain an explanation for the problem.
I care a lot about people talking to me. When it happens stochastically a dozen times in a day, that day is completely destroyed for writing code. It needs to be batched when it's not an emergency.
The CEO is joining Twitter as their VP of Product.
I don't know that there was ever good AV, at least not in the terms that Schuh is talking about. That's interesting about Vess, though; where did you find that out?
Well, looking at the South (other than Texas), I'm not sure its really flat enough for the investment. To make it worth it you really need a large flat area with a lot of constant wind. The great plains (ND to Texas) is a much better investment than Alabama. I would bet offshore in the Gulf is worth it[1]. The great plains is not exactly built out yet. Never mind hooking all to a grid that can take it.

Plus, wind power (traditional) does kill birds and bats so there is a problems there.

1) it does apparently given the UK experience improve the fishing
Nestle has tapped into the water supply in developing markets like Pakistan. As a result the water table is lowered (and quality of water drops) so people in the area cannot get access to clean water from local wells, and are forced to purchase Nestle "pure life" water at an insane markup.

Scroll down to page 25 and look for:

"9. Human Rights Concerns about Nestlé’s ‘Pure Life’"

http://www.alliancesud.ch/en/policy/climate/downloads/nestle...

Nestle is not the sole water extractor that is causing this issue, but their business model (extract local water, bottle, mark-up, sell) is unconscionable in _this_ context. They aren't adding value, they are simply taking advantage of a developing country's weak regulatory framework.

Their business model (for this particular product) would not be immoral in an environment where access to local water was abundant.
Even those are way too large to represent "city areas" (i.e. metropolitan areas). A more reasonable comparison may be to use their subdivisions, MSA's [0], which can help overcome issues with city boundaries but they too are of course a bit arbitrary and misleading but can also give a better showing of size [1]. I've seen these used in many statistical scenarios concerning population centers.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_statistical_area
1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Metropolitan_Statistic...
Two weeks should be plenty of time to put something through it's paces and do a thorough evaluation.
ReflexionHealth Inc. | Senior Software Engineer| San Diego, CA | $100,000+, ONSITE, reflexionhealth.com

We are looking for senior backend/server engineers. Our current backend stack is Golang/MySQL with some legacy code in RoR/Nginx.

responsibilities:

* Design new API requests and server structures

* Implement new API requests and server improvements for our client application

* Maintain existing server implementations -- integration tests and bug fixing

* Communicate, brainstorm, and duscuss with product and design team

* Experienced in making SQL queries

* Experienced in using Amazon web services and other DevOps tools

send your resume to brian@reflexionhealth.com
Kraft actually succeed in (stealthily) removing artificial colors from Mac and cheese and keeping the bright orange hue that we all love. Didn't change the taste. I say stealthily because they didn't announce the change until a year later and nobody seemed to notice for a year.
Things can be made a great deal easier by employing highly knowledgable GIS system experts and building a GIS backend operational infrastructure designed to scale up to large projects.
This is great. Useful. Simple. Sharing it. Thanks!

[edit: personally I love the fact there's 0 images of the laptops, etc. Just data...]

[edit 2: regarding mobile friendly, I had no problem browsing this on mobile. If you do so, try to do it with CSS only and layout, IMO]
Twitter has a new head of product who barely uses the product
Despite what you intend to mean, I think you describe the "lucky poor", those who have a functional family and community. I think there is some truth to what you say; nobody on HN considers early retirement/FI as something to be depressed about. There shouldn't be anything wrong with banding together as a community to pool resources, work together, and enjoy leisure.

Yet you are actually addressing a different point than the commenters in this thread. The rest of the commenters are talking about the unlucky poor, those who are trapped and aren't able to live comfortably with the support of family and friends.

As to what proportion of poor are the unlucky vs the lucky, this is less easily discovered. I imagine the "unlucky" poor are at least half. I don't have any data for that.
I hate to bring up styling when it's been covered so much, but I think it is critical you make this mobile friendly.

There are a few big reasons for this:

- Since it's computer shopping, you'll probably have a fair amount of users accessing this site from a mobile device.

- Mobile users are more likely to leave your site if it looks even a little frustrating to use. Google offers several mobile friendly sites that recommend laptops.

- Google will not rank your site as high if it does not deem it to be mobile friendly.

- You said you are looking for a job as a Rails developer. It's a fair bet that any potential employer will expect mobile-compatible sites. Perhaps you don't really intend to do much front end work, but knowing more about it will benefit you regardless.

I understand that what your site offers is very special, and probably much better than hand picked recommendations. Many mobile users simply don't care. They don't want to zoom and pan to select options. Why should they stick around on your site, when they can just hit "back" and choose another result from google?

All that said, I really like what your site has going on. It seems quite functional, and the minimal design is a breath of fresh air.

There are two other things I would change, but these are just personal preference. Feel free to ignore them:

1. I would like the option to view more items per page.

2. The default, bright blue link color hurts my eyes. Something a little darker would be great.

Keep up the good work!
I agree with the GP and parent, and yes the i3 is awful (i3 driver here), but there are many EVs now that look like normal cars: Fiat 500e, VW Golf, Kia Soul, various Fords.
the EDA tools need your source code (HDL) to simulate or synthesize the design. But with these F1 instances, potentially the model doesn't have that problem. You develop/design an FPGA solution (some type of accelleration), then you provide it as a service. You don't expose your source code to your end customer, or the EDA tool companies.

You do however, potentially expose your source code to Amazon. But possibly not, if you do your design/testing on EDA tools under your control, then deploy FPGA build packages to the F1 instances for hardware testing.
Thanks. I'll email them.

Sorry. Crap post from mobile.

Someone references my site having a weird URL in the comments for averageweather.io. The Tokyo URL and I keep seeing people hit that link and then bounce off the site because that link is now an handled error page.
Cloudformation is for when you have a team of ops or a workflow where you have a lot of repeated resource recreation; Beanstalk is for when you have no ops, and you're happy for someone else to handle the environment; CodeDeploy is just yuck; and don't know about this one yet.

Cloudformation: infrastructure-as-code (but has sharp edges) (doesn't touch your app/code directly)
Opsworks: wizard-style 'drop your app here' kind of thing (less flexibility and control)
Beanstalk: a simpler version of OpsWorks? (never tried it)
CodeDeploy: install an agent, it pulls code/artifacts (janky workflow)
CodeBuild: no idea, just been released
Just Using The Web Console: convenient, but manual process (labour-intensive, prone to manual errors)

On the CI thing - from my experience at one of the places I work, there are a thousand CI systems out there, but very few CD systems. Pretty much anything can schedule and track builds, but few things schedule and track deploys (which gets suprisingly tricky suprisingly quickly). CD is the 'last mile'...

EDIT: missed some that I've never looked at. It is getting crazy...

CodeCommit: looks like it might be a 'github'?
CodePipeline: No idea. Perhaps a spruced-up version of CodeDeploy?
The life you're describing doesn't sound nearly as bad to me as it does to you. The people in this picture have family, community, people watching their back and taking care of each other. They may not have money, but they're wealthy. I don't think that describes anything like the majority of poor people though.
Ask HN: Should job announcements on HN have a prefix like Ask HN does?
I've seen an increase of companies posting job offers. It's been going on for awhile so I don't think it will stop. Should those individuals add a prefix such as "Offer HN:"? I think it would make it easier to filter mentally and then later in a search. Any thoughts on this?
> I suggest you uninstall Chrome if that is your view, it too will lead to a full system compromise in the future, I mean it will in the future yet again.

Chrome developers take active measures (sandboxing, research, patching, bug bounties) to secure their browser. They have done amazing work and really, in my mind, pushed some solid technology that we've all benefited from (seccomp, as an example).

AV has gone out of its way to disable modern security technologies like ASLR/Stack Cookies.

There is no comparison here in terms of effort to avoid exploitation. As Justin said - find me a single AV that sandboxes its parsers.

> For most people, yes it does.

Even if this were true, and it is not, Chrome doesn't - it runs in a sandbox. Therefor a compromise of an AV is not just a jump to Admin but a jump out of the sandbox.

> The browser pretty much wins here too.

Not really. The majority of attack surface in a browser like Chrome is isolated and hardened. Web browsers avoid malicious content where possible. AV goes out of its way to interact with malicious content.

> But no, it's AV vendors fault your browser is such a risk.

It's AV vendors fault that they avoid writing secure software. And, yeah actually, it is AV vendors fault that the browser is vulnerable when the browser takes every step to stay secure and AV vendors shit all over that.
Nerd self-sniping is the most ignominious of fates.
Obama's dirty secret: the fossil fuel projects the US littered around the world
This is correct for probably most of the railroads in Wyoming. Not sure about the other states mentioned but probably true for them too.
Awesome-kubernetes
Adhark founder profiled by IdeaMensch
Venice black enclave buffeted by police pressure and tech-driven gentrification
Javascript. Let it go back to what it's good at, basic web interactivity.
>Also, they have been calling for privatization and taking away water as a basic human right

In many places hoarding the water that falls in your property is prohibited. Nestle is far from original in going down that road.
I believe, respectfully, that you're reading posturing into my position where none exists.

In a typical scenario for us, we use some open source software for our SaaS platform. We need to extend it in ways that weren't envisaged, so we (a) add some hooks to allow extensions and (b) add the extensions themselves.

Our preference is to contribute both (a) and usually (b) back to the project. But sometimes for business reasons we can't contribute (b), or at least not until more people internally have their heads around it.

AGPL stops us from contributing (a) and not (b). So we just don't use AGPL software.

I wasn't trying to poison the well, I was just indicating what our decision making process is. Some people, like us, have valid business reasons for not using AGPL software, even though we love OSS.

I find it weird that this narrative thing pops up here. There's no narrative. If I was the owner of said AGPL software, I probably wouldn't give a rat's arse if anyone said they weren't going to use my software.

But my original post was a specific response to someone who said "Not sure what the downsides are." [of using AGPL].

So let me try again. Here's one possible downside - *you may miss out on some patches that you would have otherwise got, since your license is incompatible with some people's business needs".
Yeah, I wish he would just stop calling his blog "the Antiplanner" if he's not going to actually, you know, oppose planning. Ah well.
Nitrogen?
Location: Edinburgh, UK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Résumé/CV: See https://www.seanw.org

Email: sw@seanw.org

Technologies:

Full stack software developer with over 10 years experience including a PhD in software verification skilled in the following:

- Web app development: JavaScript (Node.js, TypeScript, AngularJS, jQuery), Python (Flask), Java, PHP (WordPress)

- Mobile app development: Android, iOS, PhoneGap/Cordova

- Cloud hosting: Creating scalable apps that run on Heroku and AWS

- SEO: On-page audits with the technical expertise to deliver the modifications needed

- Code quality: Reducing defects in existing projects by integrating test suites, staging + development environments, Continuous Integration and code reviews
Some have mentioned is this full APM and does this compete with New Relic, Dynatrace, Stackify, Appdynamics, App Insights, etc.

Those products are primarily based on code profiling. For example, at Stackify we automatically profile key methods for dozens of common dependencies and frameworks to understand their usage and performance. Every SQL, NoSQL, caching, queuing providers and many other things. Plus app errors, logs, etc.

So the best I can tell from the AWS blog and docs is the answer is no its not a full APM. It appears to track how long a web request takes and any usage of the AWS services via their SDK. More of a lightweight service mapping of AWS services. So SQL database or HTTP calls probably aren't tracked.

In the future could they expand it? Sure. But for now it seems limited compared to a full blown APM product. Although this could be help for identifying performance problems with AWS services.

Matt - Founder of Stackify
Neeto is a place for developers to store their commonly used commands and useful code snippets. It has a high emphasis on privacy while also making it easy to publish your content.

Snippets are encrypted server side before being stored. In addition, local encryption can be enabled so that snippets are encrypted before being sent over the wire. I also don't use Google Analytics, which tracks your web usage to serve you better advertisements.

You can share groups of snippets or an individual one. I've created a "blog" group and am using this to publish my blog currently:

https://neeto.io/mo/blog

You can also publish individual snippets anonymously:
https://neeto.io/JGefSCx9
>Oh darn I've over-pedanticized myself.

Eh don't feel so bad, in my other anti-nestle comment in this thread I actually contradicted my own statement above entirely...

That is, water as a global resource is incredibly abundant, _clean available water_ not so much... Which of course Nestle profits off of in horrific ways.
It's both. They exist at "all" points in their orbit at once (at varying probabilities) as a cloud like you say, but they also have an implied speed (but not velocity since there is no specific direction they are traveling) based on the electric potential they are in.
That's my thinking as well. Surely behind the edge is all implementation and should be hidden?

The only appreciable benefit i can see right now is that everything moves back to be a routable internet, no more NAT / nat scaling issues for EC2's sending large quantities of data directly to the public internet?
Facebook has the technological capability to fix fake news
A Dose of a Hallucinogen from a ‘Magic Mushroom,’ and Then Lasting Peace
Young blood does not reverse aging in old mice, UC Berkeley study finds
It should be noted that erythritol is not known for causing gastrointestinal issues. I don't really understand why we even use xylitol or sorbitol.
It's coming (one region now, more to come soon), not sure about Lightsail though.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-ipv6-support-for-ec2-in...
The "whataddabout x response" response has also become popular in recent years. It allows one side to do whatever they want, and at the same time call out those things when the other side does it.

That one side did a bad thing doesn't make that thing less bad when the other side does it, true. But somehow I care a little bit less when you call someone out on the thing you just did.

I'm an impartial observer here in the sense that I'm not american or russian (in fact, culturally I'm practically american). But when you say "bla bla Crimea" I think... yeah... Iraq... that's what countries do.
Howard Schultz Stepping Down as Starbucks CEO
It's available in the Ohio region, but not in us-west-2 or any of the other regions.
Uber's business is taxi dispatch which has been successfully turning a profit for many companies much much smaller for many years.
"The power of accurate observation is often called cynicism by those who don't have it."
When I was younger, I was perfectly happy to listen to music all day long while coding. Now I find even that distracting and need quiet. It seems insane that in order to do our job effectively we have to put headphones on and play white noise!
The naive orbit model predicts a limit of z=137. The Dirac equation (more realistic) predicts z=173. But that's only using QED, no other forces. We could end up being surprised with a much higher maximum limit.

One might argue that a neutron star is a counterexample that comes into play when you include gravitation. It's sort of a really big nucleus, with gravity as the dominant attractive force and degeneracy pressure as the dominant repulsive force.
Not a big deal (as there aren't many listings for Birmingham, AL) but it looks like many are UK rather than US based.
Maybe they just wanted the domain?

As others have pointed out the acquired company is worth next to nothing.
http://www.clash-lang.org/
Probably not with too much difficulty. 1.0's alpha was nearly 2 years ago. The github repo goes back to mid 2010: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/graphs/contributors
So you're like the Wordpress of icons.
Fascinating to see how closely coal and natural gas map to states that went red in the election vs. all the renewables in blue states. Here's a map: http://www.270towin.com/
Laura Vanderkam : Princeton

her husband: high up in McKinsey & Co

1%ers or 0.1%ers? maybe even 0.01%ers?
> Python is not usually considered a compiler, even though it writes .pyc files to disk, because its output is bytecode that only Python itself is expected to understand.

I'd disagree, simply because this is exactly what javac does too.
VPC ELBs and ALBs don't support ipv6 though. Presumably this is the first step to adding that support, although it's still not available even in the new ipv6 VPCs.
Sure, but Tahoe/snow residences are mostly called cabins and at any rate most people don't spend the whole season there so much as use it as home base when skiing or spending weekends and occasional weeks there.