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Arena Solutions, Inc | Software Engineer, Technology Group | Foster City, CA, USA | ONSITE, FULLTIME, https://www.arenasolutions.com/

We are looking for an intellectually curious Software Engineer to become a core member of the Technology Group at Arena Solutions, and help us build the next generation of product lifecycle management software.

We're a successful company with fifteen years of experience delivering our product as a software-as-a-service, and our market leadership position reflects our long history and strong reputation for security and reliability. Our customers are discrete manufacturers who put our applications, infrastructure, and reputation at the heart of their business. We believe the best way to meet our customers' needs today and tomorrow is to continually evaluate new technologies and apply industry-wide best practices as we iterate on our software and infrastructure.

You will be designing, implementing, and evolving the software and infrastructure tools Arena will be using for the next five years and beyond. You understand the technologies that drive modern multi-tenant Software-as-a-Service companies and have strong opinions on how to build scalable software and infrastructure. You can deconstruct a legacy system into its constituent parts and rebuild it as a distributed system with a focus on security, resiliency, and responsiveness.

You will evaluate existing and emerging technologies, build pragmatic prototypes focused on a current or future business need, and then drive adoption of the selected technologies by the wider software development team. Your completed projects will become the foundation of Arena's future software architecture.

Responsibilities:

* Collaborate with Arena's Chief Architect and Director of Infrastructure Engineering to plan and prototype the next generation of Arena's architecture
* Mentor and inspire fellow engineers on the theory and practice of proposed new technologies

Skills and Experience:

* Implementation of Software-as-a-Service using JVM-based languages

Interests:

* Building reliable, asynchronous distributed systems
* Event sourcing and related technologies such as Kafka
* Scala, Akka, Reactive Streams, VueJS, and/or AngularJS

HN Addendum:

We are omitting specific experience requirements to avoid great candidates self-filtering themselves -- we are investing in you rather than mining your current skill set. This position reports to the Director of Infrastructure Engineering. Please include a cover letter and mention you saw our post in this thread.
I've got a cottage about an hour away from Rouyn. (Roo-on, as the English folk call it.) It's definitely inexpensive, with good beer. Not sure about the internet though. And while the summer is short it'll be hot!
> (This is a bit of a stretch as it's not possible to deduce the laws of the universe rigorously.)

Not sure I agree. This is known as the problem of induction, and Solomonoff tackles it quite well I think.
To mitigate part of the "salt lake" issue you raise I wonder if a penalty tax on families sent to private schools could help. The public schools lose more than just a diverse student body when kids are sent to private schools, they also may lose out on engaged parents who are effective advocates for improvement. A penalty fee could help alleviate that as well as increasing the incentives for parents with the means to fight for improved public education standards/instructors/resources to obviate their desire to send kids elsewhere.
That's super true, though it's important to remember that ghettos are still a thing in all but name only in some cities. Public transit routes still get voted down because "they" might show up in the nicer parts of towns.
> but Uber as a company is very ethical

You've got to understand how directly this clashes with the media coverage re: driver rights.
I was homeschooled all the way through 10th grade, and as far as social development is concerned it's a really mixed bag. I was involved in quite a few homeschool groups where I got to see first hand the wide range of social skills of other homeschooled kids. In my opinion the majority of kids I knew were just fine socially. There was also a small percentage that had significant trouble making friends and vocalizing their thoughts, however that was the exception rather than the rule.

Being homeschooled I had a completely different childhood than most of my peers, and that alone can make it more difficult to connect with people. At the same time I can also tell if someone my age was homeschooled just by listening to them talk, so finding other people with similar backgrounds usually isn't too hard.
Look into 4-aco-dmt, a prodrug of psilocybin (and suspected to have some activity on it's own) that is legal to purchase in most of the world. Googling "buy 4-aco-dmt" will give you a number of sites that will happily sell it to you after you promise that you are purchasing it for reasons other than human consumption. I would recommend the Canadian sites over the Chinese ones.
Motorola isn't making a new smartwatch anytime soon
> All the feds have to do is enforce e-verify.

No, that is plainly not sufficient, which is obvious because many states already do this. Unless by "enforce E-Verify" you mean something far more drastic.
I'm fortunate enough to have a small taxi service that operates near me. I probably spend more but I like their API: call the phone number and get a ride.
Waterloo is cheaper than TO, Ottawa, Kingston, etc. But even cheaper (and just as close to Toronto) would be a smaller town without a university. I hear that Mt Forest, ON has fibre.
Would you be more agreeable if we gave amnesty to all existing illegals and then cracked down hard and built a much stronger border going forward? Where is the common ground?
Jan Koum donates $500,000 to FreeBSD
5 lifesaving online services in this cash crunched economy
Cognii | Boston, MA or remote

2016 Innovation of the Year EdTech Winner

2016-2020 Leading vendor for AI in Education market - Technavio

2015 Best Learning Assessment Innovation of the Year

Cognii brings the power of Artificial Intelligence technology to Education & Training market. Join us to participate in our growth, advance your career and get rewarded with generous stock options. We are looking for entrepreneurial candidates in the following areas:

1. NLP Research Engineers (Senior, Junior)

- natural language processing
- statistical machine learning
- syntactic and semantic analysis
- linguistically process text corpora
- information extraction

2. Full Stack Developer

- Front End Design, DevOps and manage the scalable web platform
- Experience with Ruby on Rails based scalable architecture

Please send your application and resume to jobs@cognii.com
Understanding of Parkinson's 'transformed'
The fact that there is so much concern over how to differentiate mined diamonds from grown diamonds seems like insanity to me. I understand that the diamond trade has a vested interest in differentiating, but why would end consumer care? They're the exact same product to the unaided eye. This is a purely emotional response. I guess the thing that bothers me the most is that it's a misguided emotional response -- it seems clear that it would reduce human and environmental suffering to purchase the grown diamonds.
Why cater to 0.6% of the population, at the expense of convenience for the 99.4%?

Do all those 99.4% of people consider it an "expense"? A lot of people are happy to make a small sacrifice if it greatly benefits other people.
You might have been equally socially awkward in a public high school. I had an extremely hard time fitting into the social scene at high-school because the people/tone were "fake" in my opinion. College however, was great - it was a new start with high quality people and good opportunities.
> I have no reason to believe we will ever have truly thinking, sentient computers

Unless you think human brains work on magical pixie dust, I'd say you have quite a few reasons.
Kudos for the idea ... getting people thinking about the possible engineering applications is awesome!
It takes many legal immigrants years to get status. Some of them wait a decade. I've known a few who had to wait this out. For these people having others jump the line is not a friendly gesture.

Most people welcome immigrants, so long as they follow the rules others have to follow.

Arguably our system is in need of reform or many kinds (it's our prerogative to seek immigrants of high value to the economy, for example, or those who fill a skills gap or labor gap -say farm workers)
Yes and as an employee looking from the inside out, I see how negative the press is, and before I joined Uber I was biased by the media coverage as well. But everything I've seen on the inside directly goes against the media coverage I've seen. Take it with a grain of salt obviously.
> Sometimes I can't tell whether I'm an ethical and honest person, or whether that's just an excuse for not being rich.

LOL. I ask myself this question every time. I look back at my life and wonder, was there any chance I could have screwed someone and got rich. Did I pass up on that opportunity?
Good writeup, with a surprise about OCaml. The authors welcome PRs for other languages. I look forward to seeing the results, and wonder if they will end up in a Techempower-style global brouhaha (which the Techempower folks have, I hasten to say, apparently handled with grace and integrity).
See where guests are dropped off, and where they go right afterwards such as if they're cutting trips short or being dropped off too far.
> If the Dems dig in their heals and cater more to non citizens than they do their own citizens, I'm afraid they may lose in the next election again.

This is precisely why Trump won more than any reason. He made an appeal to the most important group in America, the middle class, and they agreed with him.
Hidebound: The Grisly Invention of Parchment
Google is extremely politically correct. I'm a free speech advocate and someone opposed to identity politics and the privilege narrative. I don't feel comfortable talking about my views at Google, but my coworkers who feel otherwise talk about their views constantly.
It doesn't say that they both use the same data sets.
This is fantastic. I was in Singapore a couple of weeks ago and after mentioning that I'd narrowly missed out on getting an SMRT job earlier this year we got talking about the SMRT in general. He commented on this exact phenomenon of emergency braking for 'no reason', saying that the people of Singapore were losing faith in SMRT and their ability to keep up the reliability of the network after a spate of these issues due to 'interference'.

It's truly wonderful to see how they went about identifying the problem. This is fantastic work and the team deserves major kudos for nailing this.
>I know first hand that much of the poor are content to live off the government, never had any aspirations and ultimately don't need much to survive and be content enough.

Well, I know the opposite first hand. The idea that poor are content being poor is totally out of this world, especially in the US where the welfare and "handouts" for poor people are a joke (compared to Western Europe, nordic countries, etc).

>Things work and all you need is to be able to hold a minimum wage job for a few years at a time and when you get fired you can take a few years off while another friend or family member is on deck, meanwhile you're contributing food stamps the whole time, 6 months of an unemployment check, money from a few scams here and there, electricity bill deductions and many other such benefits you can get if you are below the poverty line.

This is crazy talk compared to all the people I've known and listened in such conditions. This is much closer to how poor people working such "minimum wage jobs" actually live:

https://www.amazon.com/Nickel-Dimed-Not-Getting-America/dp/0...
I've learned the hard way to time-delay app updates from over-reaching companies. A week or two is usually sufficient for major issues to surface on HN.

You're right - it would be better if Apple allowed users to rollback to the N-1 version of an app. That would send a real-time signal from users to app vendors, rather than slow complaints via press and social media.
I don't know what "cracked down hard" is supposed to mean, so I can't answer that.

I do know that I would be hard-pressed to come up with a more expensive, pointless, and futile way to attempt to restrict illegal immigration than building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, though.
A three-step approach to maximize customer orientation
You misunderstand. The App apparently can refuse to opt-in to the While Using option (Uber now only has Never/Always). This is ridiculous, and Apple's fault.
i got one of those, it definitely creeped me out
Ask HN: Insultingly Bad Bonus, Bay Area, Cause for Concern?
I work for a fairly large computer-centric company in the east bay. I relocated across the country from NYC for this job around six months ago. Overall I would consider it a great move -- I'm working on an awesome project, my coworkers are amazing and have told me that my work is great, and my supervisor has told me I was a great hire. I'm fairly certain that the work I've done in the past six months will lead to a patent for the company and to a major feature in our main software package. No cause for concern, right?

Well, today, to much pomp and circumstance, the C level company execs announced year end bonuses at a company wide meeting. The execs emphasized that this year we saw record profits, and reiterated how they felt privileged to take care of all employees, from the staff at the company cafe to the long term, senior engineers. This success, as was emphasized, brought with it financial rewards that they were pleased to share with the feet on the ground.

Caught up in the hoopla, I queued up for my bonus cheque, only to find it in the amount of... around ~100 dollars, about enough money for a one way cab ride to SFO.

Is this cause for concern? I realize that bonuses are, by definition, a bonus, and that I should be happy for anything. But if, after this whole production, the bonus comes to around ~3% of one's monthly rent in the bay area, that seems fucked up, especially given the state of the tech industry in the area.

Is this paltry bonus a cause for concern? Should I circulate my resume among friends and former colleagues in the bay? I've worked in similar job titles in the past, so I feel like I can, for the most part, fairly gauge my contributions to the company's bottom line, but this seems like an intentionally bad bonus (hell, just tell everyone that new hires don't get a bonus at all instead of giving them a rounding error).
Well, what about the attack on how the poor are "as people" in the parent comment?
Behind the stick of the SR-71
Surprise. If you have an AT&T Samsung phone you can't uninstall it. The best you can do is go into Application Settings and Disable it. And then make sure you answer the two confirmation dialogs correctly for it to actually get disabled.

And guess what? It's already running. Even if you haven't used the app any time recently.
I have to object: you've provided a description of how you think seniority based systems work, but no evidence to support your contention that it is, in fact, the way they do.
The Prussians also inspired modern military drill, goose-stepping in particular.

They really were pioneers of assembly-line indoctrination.
India’s largest survey on Demonetisation of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 notes
You didn't provide any examples, you just took what I said and treated it in a completely disingenuous manner.

I didn't say high school aged graduates are "off." I am talking about fully fleshed adults, and in my circle of friends ones that exceed 25 years old.

It's not that I necessarily have a problem with "just for the test", which I view as a cheap criticism of people who can't demonstrate what they know when asked to do so, it's that the people who claim such things and then homeschool teach directly for the test with no other insights into the subject because it happens to be that's all they're literally capable of doing due to their own personal studies -- or rather lack thereof.

>High schools are packed with "absurdly unqualified" teachers

That's another very lofty claim that you're going to have to back up in some substantive form without resorting to folksy wisdom.

>that homeschooled kids far exceed public-school peers in academics.

And yet there are hardly any notable contributions in any field brought forth by homeschoolers in a manner that is consistent with such a claim. I personally don't _work_ with people who have been home schooled, I don't know anyone in my field as a programmer who grew up homeschooled, and I don't know any homeschoolers who have actively achieved a high value professional career or have demonstrated their exceedingly good academic performance in another way. I'm also not aware of any metric that would lend any reasonable amount of credence to such a claim that homeschoolers will out perform students who attend a public or private school, controlling for everything from family environments and socio-economic status.
Yes. I will not buy from anywhere with "Quality" in their name, because I know that that is the thing they are absolutely not.
Is there any difference in your level of fitness? I need a lot of sleep as well.
Yes. And I've been doing this for the past week (Uber integrates better with Concur, which we use for expense reporting). I finally reinstalled Lyft, but I just don't take personal rides that often.
This has mostly been my experience as well with the over the top religious. As an adult I've only met people who fall into this category.

The other group that I was familiar with when growing up were friends who essentially dropped out but we're able to use the homeschool thing to stay enrolled a little longer. I'd guess they don't make up a large portion of the homeschooled populous though.
This is the most accurate prediction about VR market for 2016 so far. No bs or hype just realistic numbers.
Am I alone in thinking that the syntax for nullable types is bizarre?

"function example(): string? {"

vs

"function example() : ?string {"
It means you fine people or firms hiring people who don't have work documents. No excuses. Forged? They get fined and pay for the ticket back to home country of person using forged docs.
Uber's charging you more now
> John Taylor Gatto, former teacher of the year in New York several times over, has written extensively on the history of education

Anything you'd recommend?
Who makes the machines that grows diamonds?
This is totally impractical.
And republicans are fine with them because they need cheap workers they can abuse who will never call OSHA, that they can steal wages from, and that they can stiff on workers comp.

For just one of so many appalling stories: https://www.thenation.com/article/immigrant-workers-are-bein...

If we actually wanted to stop illegal immigration, getting serious about e-verify and levying enormous fines on employers would get the job done.
I'm unfamiliar with the term "growth hacker". I get the impression that it means marketing and sales. What I've read so far seems to indicate that, us that an inaccurate impression?
I don't know which android distribution you're using but mine has that. Can recommend Cyanogenmod with privacy guard to everyone: it allows you to deny wake locks to applications. After doing this my battery chart is flat for 6 hours straight if I don't use my phone (I think that's the longest time I've tried).

Telegram is the only application with wake lock permissions left. I once even tried denying my lock screen the permission, which was a mistake... Took a while to turn the device back on.
In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep owning a "real" animal was considered a status symbol, since most "real" species had died from radiation poisoning. The poor and middle class could, of course, only afford the synthetic animals.

Obviously this isn't exactly like that, but I imagine there will still be a market for mined diamonds and they'd be priced accordingly.
Once upon a time, I singlehandedly retooled my company's flagship app for an entirely new software platform in less than three weeks, in order to ensure we were available on the new platform when it launched. I worked days, nights, weekends, and even dreamed about the damned thing as I was porting it over.

Six months later: review time. My boss tells me that he was monumentally impressed with the dedication, perseverance, and capability I demonstrated throughout the year, especially on the aforementioned product. And, as a result, he was very proud to give me...a 3% raise. I was deeply offended, and that was the beginning of the end for me there. I quit a few months later. I hear that layoffs have been rampant since I departed, which makes me feel a little better.

Anyway, long story short: fuck those guys. Polish your resume and tell them you're doing it.
Sure. People that need to work to feed their family (as opposed to working by choice, on things they like at their own terms, and having the financial support to not work for years on end) are out of control of their life in that regard (they have to be somewhere for 8+ hours each workday, they cant change places unless they found a job at the new place, etc).
You usually need a car at rush hour, so I don't really see how car sharing would help with that. With the depreciating asset that sits idle 95% of the time you at least get the luxury of being stuck in a traffic jam at rush hour.
Your "penalty tax" is called "property tax" in most localities in the US.

I pay around 7% of my upper-middle-class income each year in property tax. The vast majority of that money goes to my local public school district. 3 of my 5 children are home schooled. In effect, I pay both for the private education of my own children as well as the public education of others. Sure feels like a penalty to me.

This is what makes the GP comment so off-base. There's no "salt lake" effect from a funding perspective. This is the whole point of the recent political rumblings to institute voucher systems that let parents take their tax dollars and spend them on alternative schooling options.
Whether a population that ages beats out one that doesn't doesn't matter as much as whether an individual that ages beats out one that doesn't.
> why do they need to know where I'm at after I get dropped off?

In China, there's a company that provides a free loyalty point program. The store signs up for it, and users download the app and can use it to collect points when a transaction is made at the store. The points can then be exchanged for discounts and other stuff.

All of this is free. How they make money is by selling the user behavior data.

One of the features is the app tracks where the user goes after a transaction is made, so stores can find patterns and possible ways to cross promote.

For example, it might show a trend that 60% of customers will go to the movie theater after dining at your restaurant. Or will go to the Nike store after visiting yours, so perhaps you want to adjust your prices, etc.
They are the circuit breakers. Our trains in Brisbane, AU run 25kV (Thameslink seems to be the same 25kV overhead, with a 750V third rail, but this will be the overhead section) and the circuit breakers trip during the entry/exit of a neutral section, causing an almighty bang as they kick out and back in. If you're sitting in the wrong carriage directly underneath them it's very loud.

For reference, 1kV arcs across about 1cm of air, so 25kV needs a full foot of space in air (obviously less with a dielectric, but you get the orders of magnitude).

Source: I design trains for a living, though on the mechanical side