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There's three kinds of hiring in the tech industry. The proles must take an agility course of whiteboard coding interviews that maintain a pretense of objectivity, but actually are loyalty filter tests that only measure how much time are you willing to spend on studying shit books like "Cracking the Code Interview" which have no application in the real world.

Then there's the networked hire who basically lets people know he/she is on the market, and can land a job without having to spend 6 hours at a whiteboard answering trick questions about the space-time complexity of the interviewer's socks.

Finally, the super-networked can get in through an acquihire, so they don't have to feel bad about having spent a couple millions of investor money on their startup sabbatical.
That's pretty cool! Non fuel forms of sequestered carbon hadn't occurred to me, though you would still need to fund the process. Using a carbon tax to fund it as a government function seem likes the obvious solution if it were to be implemented at scale.
> On my UNIX days I used it as poor man's solution to track memory leaks, by overriding malloc()/free(),

That's not a poor man's solution. That's how Valgrind's leak checker works (AFAIK).
It's not just a website, though. There's the services offered through the website.

And while there might be some competitors that come in (no guarantee of that), it'll still take time. Time which the entrenched monopoly can use to entrench itself further.
And don't just go 8GB+ either. I speak coming fresh from an evening looking for a laptop with 16GB RAM, which was hugely frustrating.
Human API | Redwood City, CA | Full-time | Onsite | https://humanapi.co/ | jobs@humanapi.co

== About us ==

We're a small, product-centric team focused on opening the world of health data. We're solving a hard but interesting problem: health data exchange. We ingest health data from thousands of sources and transform that data into an API that developers can build apps on. This allows thousands of developers to create apps that improve peoples' lives. Our investors include a16z, Eric Schmidt, Blue Run Ventures, Max Levchin, Scott Banister, and Alex Payne.

== What you'll help build ==

Human API is the easiest way to integrate health data from anywhere. Users can now securely share their health data with any application or system, regardless of how that data was recorded, processed or stored. As an engineer on our team, you’ll be involved in one or more of the following areas:
- Modeling clinical data: organizing and normalizing the world of health data
- Developing and scaling structured APIs
- Scaling our ingestion platform
- Data engineering and building tools for data science - NLP and Classification
- Powering platforms and tools for customers to build health apps
- Building intuitive UIs to allow users to find and share their health data

== Open roles ==

Most of our stack is on Node.js, with some Java and Python on the backend. However, we gravitate toward using the right tool for the job. Some of our open roles are:
- Full Stack Engineer (node.js, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ)
https://jobs.lever.co/humanapi/7c411192-551e-4c6c-8133-99d34...
- Frontend Engineer (node.js, React, Redis, ElasticSearch)
https://jobs.lever.co/humanapi/f31262f1-6613-455f-96a5-2135a...
- Machine Learning Engineer (node.js, Python, Kafka, Cassandra)
https://jobs.lever.co/humanapi/b698a09d-a5f4-4667-a52a-9e893...
- DevOps Engineer (Ansible, Packer, Terraform, Docker, Mesos)
https://jobs.lever.co/humanapi/c74886f1-1e50-4323-a846-7ccac...

You can read more about all of our roles here: https://humanapi.co/company/join

We'd love to hear from you even if you don't "fit" one of the job specs -- we hire for people, not roles. If you're interested, contact jobs@humanapi.co
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If said salary is their main/only source of income, why not? Afaik as long as you need a salary to maintain your lifestyle, you're middle class.

Grey areas abound of course. Whichever definitionwe write down, someone can find an example that doesn't feel right.

Like, what if your 7 figure CEO is 8 figures in debt and all their assets are leveraged to the brim and if they lose their job it's all getting foreclosed by the bank and they're homeless in a month?

What if a 5-figure small business director/owner lives a comfy life well within their means and has 10 years of fuck you money?

Life's weird.
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It is the injection preventing code checking. You are missing a majority of the point. Even if it 'worked' it still prevents a more elegant, efficient, and effective process of sandboxing and self checks.
I would define it as: when a compiler operates on its own source code, the resultant compiled compiler executes as fast as the original. When an interpreter evaluates its own source code, the resultant interpreted interpreter is an order of magnitude slower. This definition allows for things like "just in time" compilation, and rules out silly tricks like bundling an interpreter and some source code into an executable image.
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Quid | Senior Software Engineer, Models & Data Store | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE https://boards.greenhouse.io/quid/jobs/136208

As part of the model and data store team, you will help us tackle some of the core challenges of Quid. You will help implement and scale services that build our data models and algorithms enabling our clients to find insights in data. You will work on designing and implementing our persistence layer and caching layer which enables quick iteration on our models and provides an interactive experience for our users.

## The Opportunity

* Design and implement scalable service oriented software

* Design, implement and enhance our Graph, Machine Learning, and NLP algorithms

* Leverage technologies such as NumPy/SciPy, Spark, and NoSQL data stores

* Work closely with data science, product, UX, and the web teams to quickly prototype and iterate on new models and ideas

* Own the architecture design, and implementation of our models stack from prototype through development and into a reliable scalable production system

* Evangelize and facilitate best practices, code reviews, architecture and design reviews, tested code, and a great engineering culture

## Ideal Candidate

* At least 3 years of professional experience building large scale software

* Expert level knowledge in Python, we also use Java, Scala, C++ as needed (any combination of the above is ok)

* Solid computer science foundation; good understanding of data-structures, algorithms, memory and runtime complexity and distributed systems

* Good understanding of data stores

* BS in Computer Science or equivalent

* Excellent written and verbal communication skills

* Bonus points for familiarity with Numpy/Scipy

* Bonus points for familiarity with Graph databases or NoSQL stores
The New Intellectuals: Is the academic jobs crisis a boon to public culture?
Lambda in general has starting delays for functions that havent been called in a while. You can create a cloud watch trigger to trigger your code to simply exit, poof, delay gone.
Well I think it's hypothetically possible for an economy to always improve, but nobody understands what policies to enforce to allow that. Even if you have good policies, nobody knows how to completely mitigate stock bubbles, housing bubbles, bond market bubbles, etc. So I mostly agree with you.
Just because I have never been made aware of one, it never caused me to doubt the existence of these circles ... just the existence of my own genius :)
Barriers to entry aren't the only thing protecting a monopolist's position. In many markets, network effects work against a newcomer's ability to acquire customers.
"Silently fail with no warnings" is like the angular
motto... At least in Angular 1 if something failed
usually angular would just show an empty string on
the screen.

not true, while still developing the angularjs 1 app in my company it actually prints either a useful error or a cryptic long stacktraces error.

But basically it still is a awful framework, still working on the replacement.
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They just announced during the ELB session that ALBs will be supporting full IPv6 also.
Hi Jeff,
Point of clarification for this:
In instances with more than one FPGA, dedicated PCIe fabric allows the FPGAs to share the same memory address space and to communicate with each other across a PCIe Fabric at up to 12 Gbps in each direction.

Does that mean you can have FPGAs running on multiple F1 instances connected via the PCIe Fabric? It's not clear if this means FPGAs within a single F1 instance, or between multiple F1 instances.
> MS Communicator/Skype for Business (one of them is the successor of the other, I always forget which one)

"Skype for Business" is the successor for Lync, at least in our org. I haven't heard of Communicator before, though.
No. Uber ran into the problem that they were a taxi company, but they didn't want to abide by the taxi company regulations.
Ask HN: Could the Carrier deal be a step towards Universal Basic Income?
The workers at the Carrier plant will get $26/hr [0] for jobs that could be done for $3/hr in Monterrey, Mexico. If it were the case that the jobs were done by robots at $3/hr, the case would be the same. American workers will be subsidized to the tune of $23/hr to do a job they are not needed for. If the government would take the extra step and tell American workers to stay home and do volunteer work for their community, then we'd have guaranteed basic income. A trusted and gifted politician, like some feel Donald Trump to be, could sell this to the American worker so they would accept it and not feel guilty about it.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/business/trump-to-announce-carrier-plant-will-keep-jobs-in-us.html
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We are looking for a server-side engineer that will work on core functionality for our cloud products, writing code that will help store petabytes of data in MongoDB all over the world, touching millions of users.

For the current opening, we are looking for Java developers (or C#) with experience with either running a big cloud service or building something big on top of AWS, GCE or Azure.

Any interest or questions? Please reach out to me at JC@mongodb.com or apply here http://grnh.se/kr5738
This whole thread is so bad I flagged the story as a form of psychic self-defense.

Like, apparently, the rest of you, I have no idea what "Yes" does, or why I should care. I don't know why 'coloneltcb submitted the story --- they don't work at Yes.

What I do know is that if you run a company --- really any company --- and it winds down, it is a normal thing to write a post like this. In this case, the company apparently has many dozens of users, so it makes even more sense to do it. †

Meanwhile, another perfectly normal thing to do in 2016 is to "acquire" a company as a means of importing a gelled dev team all at once. If the acquired company has no other real prospects, this isn't a bad thing; it's a soft landing. The availability of soft landings makes it easier for all of us to start companies. Since most companies fail anyways, it's hard to see how they hurt users.

Almost every comment on this thread seems to be taking Yes to task for putting a brave face on an acquihire. "Spot the duress acquihire" is one of our less appealing sports here on HN. I wish we'd do some more self examination about where the impulse to play that game comes from.

† We just went through this ourselves, and the anticipation of a thread like this is a big part of why I haven't gotten around to writing it yet.
The U.S., Russia, and China Prepare for Satellite Warfare
This is why I always use camelcamelcamel
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13082545 and marked it off-topic.
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You are on the verge of straw-manning me, I am absolutely not some anti-tax advocate. I willingly pay fees based reasonably on a fraction of my overall income to pay for those services, and I see nothing wrong with that. But wanting these services for other people in the use-pool, and my personal use-level of the communal service-pool are two different things.

The 'wince' from paying taxes comes from the psychological disconnect between my actual use-level of the services, it isn't logical, but it is definitely there. This psychological disconnect is where libertarian positions come in, people want to pay for what they make use of, and no more. I don't personally believe that individualistic positions make much sense, but I experience why people would advocate for them in a visceral way when I pay for services that I don't use.

I have never once broken a bone or been a patient in a hospital for any reason, I have still paid for it.

I have never once used a fire service, nor can I think of a single person I know that has off the top of my head, yet I still pay for it.

The roads in my city are a great example because in my city the money has been mismanaged and they have not patched any pot-holes for over five years now. My morning commute to work across my city is as bumpy as rural country roads. And yet I am still paying for something?

These things add up to that wince when I pay money, but that isn't to say that we shouldn't pay for the upkeep of these services and I would never advocate for people not acting collectively. I think the 'wince' is more of a symptom of how disconnected we are from the other people in our community.

When we don't see the fruits of our monetary subsidies because we are disconnected from all the people around us we lack the positive stimulation our brains require to tell us we made a good purchase with our taxes.
Probably will take a few weeks before the UK has to go "full North Korea"
:D Yeah companies like these strive on the fact that they have the power to purchase many, many companies and conquer markets from many directions.

Sadly for example the popular Finnish Penguin icecream was bought by Nestle, but they didn't of course change the name, so many people maybe still believe that it's still being owned by Finnish companies. The product didn't change, so that's good, but now the money is going to a multinational company instead of a local one.

So yeah, it's kinda difficult to avoid all of these.
You seem to want the traffic, so why not take the moment to write a redirect for this specific URL in your proxy or web server configuration? Make it point somewhere that works, and your problem is solved without editing the old comment. You don't have to change your URL scheme for the rest of your site, just make one exception.
> You may have also noticed that cookies follow a similar, but different format: x=1;y=2 which doesn’t actually conflict with HTML character encoding at all. This idea was not lost on the W3C, who encouraged implementers to support ; as well as & in query parameters as early as 1995.

I wish the w3c had won that one.
On the contrary, "C is so common today that most programs have C compilers to run C-coded files"
It's 11 papers.
The black and white film is still only going to record black and white images ... The "may be able to judge color" part of the theory requires "processing". You might however be able to digitize your black and white photo and "colorized" it.
> True. However we make purchases in the present, not the future.

For some people buying a electric car makes sense now. And government subsidies work to tip the balance sheet in favor of now rather than later.

> Sadly, because of the rate of improvements in electric cars, they tend to depreciate at a much higher rate as well.

Means you can buy them on the used market for cheap. Price out used Nissan Leafs on craigslist.
I would not like to do any business with social media corporation, that supress peoples opinions and delete they accounts! Noway Twitter, your business is censorship business and thats not my business.

Twitter, no thanks!
I found this: http://www.cloudtrek.com.au/blog/running-python-3-on-aws-lam...

Looks like you have to jump through a couple of hoops but that might work for running Python 3.
How would you get a key pair and certificate signed by Microsoft? The root certificate for this system is fixed so you can't just use your own.
Stackdriver Trace [1] is Google's external implementation of Dapper with additional analysis features. It's available for free, even for workloads not running on Google Cloud Platform.

(Disclosure: I work on it)

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/trace/
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Cloudera is looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer with distributed computing experience to help bring Apache Hive to the level of functionality, performance, and robustness required to support high-demand workloads. Candidates must have a proven record of significant contributions to several successful releases of software products of high technical complexity and have demonstrated technical leadership skills.

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...the opposite of a "shameful acquihire"?

Maybe they couldn't get him/them to abandon the app without buying it out.
The opposite direction is more interesting.

It might be finally possible to reach things floating out there on the internet which have an IPv6 address.
Do they have an official roll-out schedule yet?
Why Fitbit buying Pebble makes sense – at least, in the short term
All I can say is, it's not about "calling people out".

It's about finding out (and at least attempting to come to rough agreement on) what actually happened. Did 3,000 or members of various branches of the Russian armed forces slip over the border, not-so-covertly, in late February and early March of 2014 to enforce the expulsion of Ukrainian government authorities, or did they not? Did their surrogates in Eastern Ukraine manage to take down a civilian airliner (inadvertently, but that's beside the point) -- and top it off by interfering with the investigation -- or did they not?

You know, simple, blameless, matters of objective reality like that. To which "What about Iraq?" response really aren't very helpful.

Or as Trump surrogate Scottie Nell Hughes put in the The Diane Rehm Show, on NPR, earlier today: “It’s kind of like looking at ratings or looking at a glass of half-full water. Everybody has a way of interpreting them to be the truth or not true. There’s no such thing, unfortunately, anymore as facts.”
I believe it's being implied that the shame should be in spending all this money to hire a few people (that, supposedly, they could get cheaper on the market). Maybe that they should feel embarrassed in front of investors? That's what I understood.
Doesn't California City have something to do with Los Angeles's water infrastructure history?
> we’ll be shutting down our apps

so sad, they seem so useful.
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> It's a balancing act. Too weak of a yuan undermines their efforts to shift towards basing more of their economy on internal consumption.

It is a balancing act but that's not why. A weak yuan promotes internal consumption in China for the same reasons it promotes US consumption of Chinese goods.

But once the yuan is weak enough that manufacturing does move to China, making it even weaker is only throwing money away. It's like selling below cost to drive competitors out of business -- if you can drive them out of business by selling for $1 below cost then there is no reason to sell for $2 below cost. Otherwise they would just print a trillion yuan every day.

Also, prohibiting foreign takeovers doesn't increase the value of the yuan, it only solves the "problem" of a weak yuan encouraging foreign takeovers. If Chinese companies can no longer be bought and they're traded in yuan then that will only reduce demand for the yuan.
Here's an even better view: http://www.bittware.com/xilinx/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/20...

via http://www.bittware.com/xilinx/product/xupp3r/

Thanks OP
You'd think it would, but they're probably more arbitrary and less ideal than you would imagine them to be. For example, here in America we speak loudly about the importance of free trade, but we have a rather absurd number of cases where we don't allow it: we have ridiculous tariffs on things like cheese, sneakers and automotive parts. If I didn't know better, I would have thought that would violate international trade agreements.
Regulations such as creating a high, financial, barrier to entry that benefited incumbent, taxi companies more than consumers. Regulations paid for by lobbyists for incumbent, taxi companies. Corruption 101.
From language to logic
>>The argument for this style though is that some projects have a big public liability and records must be kept.

I don't get it... It's much, much easier to preserve records in digital format than in paper format.
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> I played poker, ran poker forum and did other poker related things)

How did that work out? Like seriously (not trolling). Did you make a lot of money? Always wondered about dabbling in Gambling / online games / casinos.

Why do you want back in on software development?
FDR and the bomb
I meant they are not even trying to act if their apps were gaining any traction. It's more an ego trip than an actual business operation. We live in a free country however.
> they still seem to have as much actual journalism as broadcast news sources

I don't think that assertion holds water, and if you broaden beyond "broadcast" to "mainstream," even less so. I love Last Week Tonight, and they do some genuine investigative work, but a lot of their news coverage is parroting/spinning other people's coverage that they find especially insightful. I'm glad that they're giving broader voice to some of that material, but it would be much more expensive were they to produce it all themselves.

Foreign coverage, in particular, is extremely expensive, and almost nobody in the new media space is throwing serious money at it; it's super important and kept afloat almost exclusively by old-media behemoths who maintain scores of foreign bureaus all over the world -- CNN, NYT, NPR, etc. (Vice is the one possible new-media-company exception, here, in that they do foreign investigative work at all, but they don't maintain a permanent presence anywhere, I don't think.)
When you say 21%, are you talking about the increase in inflation rate (so a derivative), or the actual inflation rate? Because the actual inflation rate was 1.64% as of last year Oct-Oct: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=US+yearly+inflation+ra...
>More mentions does not equal better.

Nailed it.
I'm wondering this as well. Is there no data available, or was it a political/editorial decision?
I honestly believe people working for three letter agencies don't see this as a distinction. They're both "because terrorism" and technically, that's correct.

You and I can probably agree that one of them is overreach, but I don't trust that they have internal mechanisms to discourage overreach - that would be counter to their interests.

Edit: Clarification