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Heptio Inc | Systems Software Engineer, Open Source | Seattle | REMOTE https://www.heptio.com

Heptio is a new (funded, 8.5M from Accel and Madrona) Seattle based startup in the systems infrastructure space. Our mission is to make mainstream enterprise more efficient in how they build teams and use physical resources. Our approach is based on experiences at Google and other first tier software companies.

While at Google, the Heptio founders (Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda) started Kubernetes. Kubernetes enables IT organizations to offer API driven services to their organization and drive up resource utilization. It is also a fast-growing open source community and the "seed crystal" for a groundbreaking set of technologies.

We are looking for extraordinary engineering talent to continue the mission to bring Kubernetes to enterprise developers and beyond.

What you'll be doing...

* Working with and growing your stature in the Kubernetes open source community.

* Building distributed server side systems and developer tooling in Go.

* Listening to users in order to make complex technologies usable.

* Concentrating on user experience, especially for other engineers.

It would be nice if you've worked on or with technologies that make up the new "cloud native" stack. This would include Kubernetes, Docker, Mesosphere, Go.

Important: we are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We’re strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all employees and all applicants for employment. We want to embody the change we need in our industry.

We are open to hiring remote but want to make sure we do it right so are being careful. Having someone that has successful experience working remote and can help get us on the right path would be highly valued.

Email me at joe@heptio.com if you are interested.
Nice job! A feature request: Filter or note showing if laptop has numeric keypad. I can't stand those, no idea why manufacturers add those to every single bigger laptop.
HTML5 Server-Sent Events and Examples
Solaris was finally done 10 years ago when instead of responding to what market needs, they were touting dtrace (and pouring into it all the dev cycle resources as i could see) as the biggest and shiniest feature. Well, that small and insignificant from market POV feature was really the biggest and shiniest thing (if compare to the rest of things :) in Solaris at the time (and has been since then) ... and that is the issue which did the Solaris. And the easy install, like insert the disk and go, windows and linux style ... i think some people still have PTSD from that.
I suppose this explains why some companies simply use universities to do their filtering for them.

It's been a while since I took the GRE and LSAT, which I tutored for a while, but they have questions much like the ones listed here. Some of these tests take place on a computer now, others are still large proctored exams. I'm pretty sure I was fingerprinted before taking them.

I thought that it was potentially illegal to use exams like this to hire, which is why it's convenient to use universities. I'm not so cynical as to believe that universities don't impart valuable knowledge and critical thinking to some of their student. However, the quality of education doesn't vary nearly as much as people claim between a very very elite university and a strong state school.

The real value is largely in the filter, high standardized testing scores, along with (at elite privates) a number of students admitted because they come from powerful and wealthy families.

Supposedly research shows that people who post these kinds of numbers but attend less prestigious universities do about as well as the people who post these numbers and attend a prestigious university (I'm figuring this is because they almost always attend a reasonably good university, and the quality of teaching doesn't really drop off much).

Anyway, I think that companies can't ask for SAT scores, but maybe they can just administer their own SAT? Having an outside company do this is probably valuable from a liability point of view. My guess is that some kind of end-run is going on here...
In what way is that an issue in the Nordic countries?
All major car manufacturers have plans to introduce EV very soon or have already done so. It's no comparison with cameras or TVs where some companies ignored new technology. The question for car manufacturers is just how fast it will happen. For a company the size of VW it's very risky to go into the new technology too fast if consumers don't want it yet. They still need to produce their current products (and make money doing so).

Finding a way to shift towards EV while maintaining economies of scale is the crucial part here. Tesla doesn't have that problem because they don't have the legacy. But they also couldn't produce 10mln vehicles/year within a few years and are not yet profitable.

I actually think that companies have realized how dramatic the shift will be. But EVs are still just a niche and will likely not gain traction before 2020 or so. Reducing capacity of ICE vehicles before EVs really take of is too risky. However, having EV models ready means you can likely shift most production within a few years and probably produce at very low costs.

In addition to that, brand reputation is very important when it comes to cars. Especially regarding security. Tesla has a great record but many Chinese producers do not. That's why you hardly find any Chinese cars on European roads. This will probably not change with EVs, people would still prefer a Toyota/VW/BMW to a lesser known Chinese brand (even if there's no evidence to back that up).
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Location: Rhine-Ruhr, Germany / remote. I'm fine with travelling as well though.

Remote: Yes

IT consultant, web and enterprise software developer with more than 15 years of experience.

I'm experienced in JavaScript, HTML5 and many other web-related technologies. I'm a long-time Java developer and I have lots of experience with RDBMS as well, particularly PostgreSQL and Oracle DB.

In the past 3 years I've mainly been developing AngularJS applications (having started with Angular 2 recently) with Java / Spring back-ends and PostgreSQL databases. Among other things, many of these applications make of use complex data analysis and data visualization (using D3.js, NVD3, Chart.js).
I help companies with the quality and knowledge transfer aspects of software development: Testing (both front-end using tools like Protractor and back-end with frameworks like JUnit and Mockito), continuous deployment, improving collaboration within teams, training developers regarding best practices and new technologies.

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Please contact me via the contact form on my website or send an email to bjoern / at / bjoernkw.com
I'd love to be able to filter it by the type of subreddits they're mentioned in. For example, what are development subreddits mentioning? Gaming subreddits?

Otherwise, great start.
Exploits in shader compilers will likley be a big avenue for exploiting platforms in the future because basically all desktop systems use Nvidia, and an exploit of the shader compiler can usually get you direct root access.
This assumes most people don't want car ownership.
xylitol is actually beneficial for your teeth. I really welcome a future of kit-kat bars made with xylitol, if its at all reasonable.
> UTF-8, for example, allows to encode the character "ä" as \xc3\xa4 OR \x61\xcc\x88. They look visually identical, yet fail any string comparison.

Well-designed high-level programming language (see Perl6) compares strings depending on how they look, not on their binary representation [0].

For example let's play with Perl6 REPL:

> my $a = Blob.new(0xc3, 0xa4)
Blob:0x<c3 a4>
> my $b = Blob.new(0x61, 0xcc, 0x88)
Blob:0x<61 cc 88>
> $a eqv $b
False
> $a.decode() eqv $b.decode()
True
> $a.decode() eq $b.decode()
True

As another example, Python3 would fail:

>>> a = b'\xc3\xa4'
>>> b = b'\x61\xcc\x88'
>>> a == b
False
>>> a.decode() == b.decode()
False

Perl6 is definitely going to dominate the world one day.

[0] https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2015/12/07/day-7-unicode-p...
London, UK - Pusher - https://pusher.com/ - Full time - Onsite Only

Pusher is a multi-tenant distributed system that allows our customers to deliver billions of messages to their connected users. We operate at massive scale, and this informs and affects everything we do.

Our engineering team is based in Shoreditch, London. We are looking for engineers who want to work on interesting problems in a production environment, and take responsibility for the real-world operation of a large and increasingly distributed system. Our software stack is built around Linux, Ruby, Go, Node.JS, Redis, MySQL, Git, Puppet and Ansible.

Our standard interview process is pretty straightforward: two Skype interviews and a half-day onsite technical interview covering real-world problems we've experienced (https://blog.pusher.com/heres-what-i-learned-from-3-months-o...), with travel and accommodation expenses paid.

We are currently hiring:

* Software Engineers: https://pusher.workable.com/jobs/346844

* Cloud Infrastructure Engineers: https://pusher.workable.com/jobs/90375

* Sales Engineer: https://pusher.workable.com/jobs/367029
In SF I see a lot of 20-something women with 40-50 year old (rich) men. This was a bit surprising when I first came here. In no other cities I have seen this happening at such a large extent.
Insurers grapple with cyber-attacks that spill over into physical damage
For most businesses, the name won't be the determining factor of success or failure. I'd focus on the product, and understanding the needs of your customers, and worry about the name later. If your idea has legs, there should be ample opportunity to secure a name prior to when the vast majority of your customers hear about you. Also - happy to help you screen domain name ideas if you'd like another set of eyes. Contact info in my profile.
I think that depending on your background, experience and ambitions, your mileage may vary.

All in all, I think that less than a year is too short. Less than a year will mean that you may not have learnt enough at the position you were holding.

As for too long, I'd say 7 years. Starting at the same (or similar) position the same company will mean that you've become too specialised, especially in the way you do things and you'll have a hard time adapting to a new company, environment, team etc...

Of course these can vary if you're particularly active in side projects or communities that will increase your experience, and thus, value.
NStack | London, UK | Full time | Onsite | Functional Developers | http://nstack.com

We’re a building a platform for composable, data-driven microservices using a mixture of Haskell and Linux systems technology (including containers, systemd, dbus), with some typed DSLs, systems code, and distributed systems thrown in. Our goal is to make it as easy as possible for the next generation of developers to build the next generation of cloud services, and we're doing this by applying the fundamental lessons of programming languages and operating systems to provide an abstraction over infrastructure.

We’re looking for talented programmers -- preferably with some knowledge of typed functional languages and *NIX systems programming -- to join our small tech team to make this a reality. It’s a challenging role, working on hard problems, but the chance to work with a top technical team and shape a company and product from an early stage.

NStack is funded by top-tier infrastructure investors from the West Coast, and the founders are both technical and ex-YC / academia. Salaries are competitive and include generous stock options. EU applicants welcome (other visas potentially possible), although roles are onsite only. We’re looking at a range of positions and experience levels - whether you’ve just left uni or been hacking for 20 years, if you’re interested please get in touch. Any questions please comment, reach out via jobs@nstack.com, or http://nstack.com/careers.

Cheers!
Great site. Did you finally crap out at poker or are you just bored with it? I have a theory that most poker "pros" aren't actually beating the game, but rather are making money from sponsorships and selling pieces of themselves at a premium. There are also probably a few that just happen to run lucky for a statistically unlikely period of time - enough to make them think they are "good".
Depends where you are I guess. Where I live, it seems about right, assuming there is no surge tax.

At 1.0x it usually costs at least a third less. The hard thing is getting the regular rate
Student Loan Hero - https://studentloanhero.com/ - Austin, TX - Full Time - Remote

Founded in 2012, Student Loan Hero is on a mission to help 44 million Americans manage and repay over $1.3 trillion in student loan debt. Student Loan Hero combines financial education with easy-to-use tools, unbiased personalized advice and repayment plans to help people become financially healthy.
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Current Openings:

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Show HN: Toggl-hammer – toggl for lazy people
Ask HN: Things programmers should get rid of in 2017
IIRC, Joyent's stuff is built on Illumos, which is an open-source fork of Solaris 10 created when Oracle announced Solaris 11 would be closed source. The Illumos developers put in considerable work ensuring Illumos would be feature-compatible with Solaris 11, but it's not like they were adding new bits of Oracle code or anything.

Illumos will continue on their own just like they've been doing for the last few years. They'll probably have even more freedom to innovate even, since they won't have to worry about chasing Solaris 12 compatibility.

Edit: And Joyent is one of the major sponsors of Illumos, too, so their platform definitely isn't going away.
It looks like Product Hunt raised about $8 million. Can someone explain how this type of acquisition pays out?
First stop: AMD – bluescreen via WebGL, and more
AWS CodeBuild – AWS Cloud Build and test code with continuous scaling
Estonia has 20% corporate tax according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_tax . Sweden has 22% according to the same document. Not a world of difference.

Reducing corporate friendliness to the tax rate is overly simplified of course. Sweden is on the whole a rather easy to start a company in, there is one single government entity to deal with and it can all be done online. There are relaxed accounting rules unless you reach a certain size etc.
It's not about perverse incentives, it's about "the secret sauce".

Traditional car manufacturers perfected the ICE and dealership network, while the "secret sauce" of electric cars is batteries and network of charging stations.

Practically, GM is right now at a disadvantage relative to Tesla
Good lord, that's hideous! I'd go for the Apple Watch over that, even though I also prefer round watch faces.
Ah, of course. Sorry for the mistake.
They already did that for several years with QE. They de facto reduced the outstanding US debt by several trillion. You could argue for more monetary stimulus but it's hard to get away with it now that they are very close to reaching their inflation target. Obviously the US and other advanced economies have suffered through a very long period of low inflation so they are in a unique position in history where they could print quite a bit of money and not end up like Zimbabwe or Venezuela.
AWS X-Ray – Distributed Tracing System
> tweeting to my 400 followers.

That must be the difference (or I was blocked by some filter). I didn't try to make a social-media call-for-action, because I didn't want to trigger voting-ring protections.

EDIT. As for the filters... PH doesn't allow comments which include "ps aux" or "curl" strings. I learned this by studying HTTP responses using Developer Tools, because the error was not signalled in PH's UI :).
> It's totally unreasonable to mandate a particular FS for modern general purpose software.

That is completely debatable. We are talking about a "a high performance distributed log service". Not a word processor.

> Multiple files does mean multiple threads.

Which is something entirely different from what I said...
SEEKING WORK - Remote (from USA, currently in Europe)
Offering a unique, unusual, but useful set of skills:

- Scraping: Lots of experience in creating high volume, high speed scrapers for any data source, whether on the web or in an app (after reverse engineering it).

- Reverse engineering: Experienced reverse engineering iOS apps, whether to gain insights into the protocols used, identify how an app is doing something, or review the security of your own app.

- Proxy servers: Need a custom setup of proxy servers for scraping? I can help. I have relationships with multiple data centers and can get you cheap deals on IP addresses. I can also setup custom rule-based proxies (i.e. rotate IP every minute, change IP based on header, auto-solve CAPTCHA, route through Tor, etc)

- Cloud architect: Experienced with both AWS/EC2 and Google Cloud. Especially good at setting up AWS VPC.

- parse-server: I maintain the python library for parse-server (https://github.com/milesrichardson/ParsePy), and have also setup parse-server multiple times on AWS, google cloud, and locally.

- VPN setup: Need a VPN for personal use or your business? Need a VPN to connect to your VPC? Or maybe some custom networking logic? I can help.

- fullstack dev - For the right project I am interested in fullstack development, but prefer scopes limiting development time to a few weeks.

- API integration in Python or nodejs - experience with stripe, PayPal, Amazon SES, various others.

- server setup / general sysadmin - very experienced with the most common server stacks, including Nginx, docker, redis, and others. If you need a production server setup and are feeling lost, I can help you.

Skills: Python (flask, bottle), Javascript (node, express), Bash, MySQL, Postgres, Mongo, parse-server, squidproxy, docker, redis, zeromq, html/css/basic frontend JS, nginx, haproxy, dns, iptables

Platforms: AWS/ec2, google cloud, parse, digitalocean, bare metal

Github: https://github.com/milesrichardson

LinkedIn (out of date): https://linkedin.com/in/milesrichardson1

Email: milesrichardson@gmail.com
(I WORK FOR AWS)

>Pokemon Go was able to scale to facebook level user engagement in a mere month time period with 4 backend engineers (and of course with lot of help from Google).

I mean... did they? I was trying to play for weeks and I couldn't even login. I loved the game when I was able to play but I don't think they scaled seamlessly. Maybe that had nothing to do with the cloud provider and had more to do with the application itself (I don't know) -- but I wouldn't personally use Pokemon Go as an example of successful scaling.

>Things like these are impossible to achieve with AWS.

Twilio, Slack, AirBnB, lyft, duolingo, FINRA, yelp, pinterest, foursquare, adroll, shazam, supercell, etc. etc. etc.

https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/

I'm curious why you think these things aren't possible on AWS? They really are... and I can think of hundreds of examples.

Regardless, it's important to recognize that the cloud provider is only ONE piece in your ability to scale. I have examples of failures on GCE and on AWS. Your application architecture is far more important than the cloud provider you choose when it comes to scaling quickly like this. Sometimes it's not worth the dev effort to be prepared for these things.

>"Fraction of the time", "half of the AWS's price"

Nope. As outlined in my linked post above, the comparisons in the article are not accurate.
I remove 75% of the sugar from cookies. It's crazy how little you notice the reduced sugar.
Curious about this myself. Marketing? Ads?
Announcing OSS-Fuzz: Continuous Fuzzing for Open Source Software
Glad you like it! Uplink is one of the (many) sources of inspiration for this game
SEEKING WORK - Remote (Bristol, UK)
Full stack Web Developer, freelancer for 2 years

I built sites, applications, extensions, etc. Additionally, I am picking up more work with machine learning and neural networks. In particular - nlp, machine vision, classification etc.

Tech:
Django, Aws, React, Redux, Angular, Mongodb, Redis, Postgresql, Ansible, Fabric, Go, Python, JS/TS, Linux
Keras, Tensorflow, Watson

Email: sviltodorov+hn@gmail.com
Uber | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Full-time onsite | Back-end, Android, iOS

Uber's Amsterdam engineering office is looking for back-end, Android and iOS engineers for its teams:

* Payments: do you want to build the future of payments for on-demand services?

* Mobile platform: are you passionate about tooling that makes developer more productive?

Learn more about our openings on https://join.uber.com/amsterdam-engineering

Learn more about the teams on https://eng.uber.com/amsterdam-team-profile/

Email charles@uber.com if interested!
Will Trump Target Iran?
>due to lack of APIs

This is the elephant in the room. Software vendors dont want to make this APIs as they increase complexity and cost so AV vendors use hackey solutions for a lot of security related tasks. This is a classic conflict that is probably never going away.

To MS's credit, they did remove ring0 access to apps like AV and have added OS-level APIs, but the application level guys still consider that bothersome and the AV guys simple need more/better and more flexibility as threats change. The recent stuff in 8 and 10 were engineered well before we had this rash of ransomware attacks.

Also from a practical perspective, its very rare to see an AV compromised but we're constantly seeing browsers, plugins, etc compromised. Heck, Firefox just had a zero-day yesterday. I think the argument that AV makes everything worse is the more questionable claim in this discussion regardless of how much we hate the necessary evil AV is. Especially when we consider how the next-gen stuff that's almost purely heuristics will probably replace AV one day and how its much less hacky than current solutions.
HouseCanary | https://www.housecanary.com/careers/?gh_src=82ai1f | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE

At HouseCanary, we’re using big data and analytics to predict the future of the real estate market in the US. Our goal is to use this data to help people make better real estate decisions. HouseCanary platforms forecast real estate values at a local level, and every month, we forecast 36 months into the future, and our models predict more than 95% of the variation in price over time.

We're hiring for a 25 roles in Software Engineering, Ops, Mobile, QA, Sales, and Design.

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Seneca Systems (YC S16) is hiring! | Redwood City, CA (ONSITE) | Ruby, Elixir, Postgres, GIS, mobile engineers | http://seneca.systems/careers

We build technology to help local government employees provide outstanding service to citizens.

Basically we're fixing cities.

Mature, values-oriented team (http://seneca.systems/values). We love what we do and are building products that matter!

Email chris@seneca.systems (no recruiters, outsourcing/freelance/consultancies, or sales)