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FanThreeSixty | Software Developer, Software Architect | Austin, TX or Kansas City, MO | http://www.fanthreesixty.com/

At FanThreeSixty we strive to build software which allows sports teams and venues to better engage with fans to keep them connected to their teams by providing more personalized and fluid experiences whether at game time or in the off-season.

Headquartered in Kansas City, MO, we are hiring in both KC as well in Austin, TX for multiple development positions to help expand our data science and data intelligence capabilities for real time intelligence, recommendations and predictions. Interest in machine learning, analytics, data, and system design is a must as you will be heavily involved in each area of the system. You will also work directly with data scientists on the team to scale models for production and provide an efficient available platform for analysis and insight.

The basics:

* 3-5 years of Java or Python experience required. We leverage both Python and Java, but Python is the primary language of the data intelligence team, however as long as you have a good Java background and are not afraid to learn than Python experience is not required.

* Prior experience in one or more of Spark, Kafka, Cassandra, Hadoop, machine learning application preferred, but not required

* Ability to learn quickly and work independently desired as there is a remote component to this position as we are a distributed team. No fully remote positions available though. All applicants must be able to work in either the KC or Austin office.

* Our interview process is fairly direct and painless with an hour phone interview and then a half day on-site before making a final decision.

* In addition to medical, dental and vision insurance, we also offer a competitive PTO package, matching 401k and reimbursement of attending 2 sporting events each year, for market research.

You can see more specifics about the positions on our site http://www.fanthreesixty.com/careers/ or contact me directly with any questions or to send your resume.

I will also be at the Data Day Texas conference in Austin on Jan 14th and would love to hook up with anyone there to talk further about the opportunity! Just drop me a line ahead of time.
That's the seductive side of design tradeoffs with rockets.

Shaving just a little weight (especially on the 2nd stage) or squeezing out just a little more performance can have dramatic differences in mass to LEO.

The question is how much this will increase overall operational cost. Up until this year or so, it has seemed that SpaceX has been willing to compromise on performance to get lower overall operational cost and reliability.

I'm a bit worried that they've started to go the other way with some of the improvements they've made this year.
`multirec` is a combinator, it transforms functions into other functions. `transducers` are "composable algorithmic transformations.”

`multirec` as presented here is not composable the way transducers are composable. It is, however, an extremely stimulating thing to consider.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13305176
Is Virtual Reality the Surprising Solution to the Fermi Paradox?
I am bep, the lead maintainer of Hugo. A plugin system will happen in Hugo, and I don't think it will take too long to get there -- we have been thinking about it for some time, and it feels natural to have that before we call it 1.0. CMS like editing is something that could live well outside of Hugo, me thinks.
I've had throttling issues in the past (though mostly on the dGPU side of things). Dusting out the case stopped the problem immediately. I also imagine that heat will be far less of an issue with the dGPU sitting idle.
Or a prequel to Fahrenheit 451 :(
Agree.

bep (Hugo maintainer)
> If the brain did select things from a probability distribution, then why isn't everyone a math genius.

If the apple falls predictably from the tree, where is the math genius who plans its trajectory? Does the apple itself know physics?
In university I had full access to LexusNexus, of course it's not free, but you could literally find any obscure legal text written in the country's history, in the click of a button.
Think of it from the government's perspective. All an IRA is, is a way to get out of paying taxes on a portion of your income. The government doesn't _really_ want to cut off its income stream any more than is necessary, so they put restrictions on it. The most obvious place to start is limiting how much you're allowed to shelter from taxes in the first place.

Framed another way, it's another form of progressive taxation. If you assume that people save for retirement in proportion to how much they earn, then setting a flat limit of how much of your retirement savings can be sheltered from taxes effectively means that less wealthy people can shelter all of it, and as you get richer you pay taxes on a higher percentage of it.
Six to Start | London or REMOTE | Full-time

We make the world's most successful smartphone fitness games with over 3 million players. Every day, we receive emails telling us how our games have literally improved our players' health and, in some cases, even saved their lives. Talk about job satisfaction!

Our flagship games, Zombies, Run! and The Walk, combine innovative real-world gameplay with captivating stories and design. We want to find someone who can help us improve our existing games and develop new games and fitness apps that are just as revolutionary and innovative as Zombies, Run! http://www.zombiesrungame.com

* Senior iOS Developer: http://www.sixtostart.com/onetoread/2017/senior-ios-develope...

* Senior Android Developer: http://www.sixtostart.com/onetoread/2017/senior-android-deve...
As they should. I'd just rather convince people out of religion and avoid antagonising them, if possible.
Sorry for the delay, kapitza..

Hard to think of something off the top of my head. I don't really think about this stuff with "internationalization" in mind so I've never paid attention to which authors were translated.

Not sure if you'd like content in a "History" perspective, I know Benjamin Stora is translated.

Henri Alleg also wrote about it (The Question. He was in trouble with Maurice Audin). Frantz Fanon was in the Algerian Liberation Front.

For novels, you can look up Mouloud Mammeri, Mouloud Feraoun, Albert Camus, Assia Djebar, etc.

Again, sorry for the late reply.
Viking Education | Course Mentor | Remote | Part Time | http://www.vikingcodeschool.com

Viking Code School is a 100% online development bootcamp driven by the mission of launching a million high-growth careers around the world regardless of a student’s location, prior experience or economic standing.

Our mentor-led program pairs students with industry veterans who perform weekly code reviews as part of the learning process. As a mentor, you work with students all the way through our back end (Ruby / Rails / SQL / Algorithms) and front end (JS / Angular / React) portions of the course, which typically takes students between 6-12 months to finish. You meet with your mentee 1-3 times per week for code review and can work with anywhere from 1 to 10+ students, depending on desire and ability.

Check-ins are compensated.

Requirements:

* 4+ years of professional development experience as part of an engineering team.

* Strong grounding in CS fundamentals like Data Structures and Algorithms.

* Relevant experience with CS, Ruby, Rails, SQL, JavaScript, AngularJS, React etc.

Email careers@vikingcodeschool.com with your CV, links and anything else that would prove your development or teaching ability and general awesomeness.
Why Microsoft isn’t the smartphone leader it should be
What I see at play here is a radical difference in philosophies.

For the record, I don't think any country or society owes you anything. If you want something, you should be prepared to work for it. That includes a goal like "comfortable retirement".

But I'm sympathetic to expectations that every individual learn money management and investment skills that are on-par with professionals. Exposing individuals to risk via complex variables such as life expectancy, investment strategy, and diversification is a sure recipe for a winners and losers type of scenario.

We want a system where the maximum number of people have the best probability of reaching a non-working retirement with enough accumulated assets to be comfortable.

You only need look at what's happened in Detroit to see how perilous it is to trust politicians or parties with divergent interests from yours with your financial future.
No one mentioned communism. The status quo vs communism is also a false dichotomy; obviously many, many nations around the world have chosen something in between the contemporary American system and communism.

Over the last hundred years, we've decided, as a nation, we want to do better than "let every individual fend for themselves". We weren't comfortable with the outcomes--old people eating pet food, dying for lack of heating in the winter, etc.

And there are certainly many low-paid workers who simply can't save anything substantial for any retirement, ever. Assuming everyone can sock away money to live on for when they're just too old to work is going to leave a lot of people out in the cold (possibly literally).

I guess what I'm trying to say is, your discussion about "let them all fend for themselves" doesn't really fit here at all, because we as a nation moved beyond that decades ago.

Whether to move back to pensions, or improve 401Ks, that's an interesting question and worth discussing.
I’m hard pressed to see how this isn’t a description of a resource sabotaged by its own snobbery. Completely artificial scarcity is not an effective gain for all of humanity, rather than a vanishingly tiny part of it, and now zero.

You do realise the attitude you're defending is why What.CD has completely failed to preserve culture.
Fair enough, and here is an interesting thing: In a talk, if you stop to explain every technical term, you break up the flow and make it tedious for those who know the words.

But in a web article, we have hyperlinks, footnotes, asides, and other devices for allowing some readers to skim and others to dive in.

So to me, the choice for whether to use a word in an essay is different than the choice for whether to use a word in a talk at a conference, which is different than the choice for whether to use a word in a conversation where I am familiar with the participants.
I signed up and tried it out. The "Public" thing on the right side apparently can't be shut off. About every third toot has four-letter words. Racism, sexually inappropriate comments, politics, you get to see it all. I don't see that working.
Since we're on the subject of recursion, there is a problem when somebody uses a term that they only understand 90%. Somebody else reads that and understands 90%, and then they use, and then another person reads it...

And then we arrive in the current situation where people use terms like "rainbow table" or "HFT" to describe who knows what.
10 most important things Google introduced in 2017
> into a strictly fat, meat diet.

Oh, I'm definitely not trying to do that. I try to have a good amount of fruits, vegetables, nuts and dairy. Basically your classic "balanced" diet, just lower on sugar and highly-processed grains.
That argument applies as well to any other form of savings. Maybe the only rational choice is to spend everything and not to own anything?
Linux has CLOCK_TAI.
If you look at the first chart in [1] and the cherry-picked example, it's easy for a casual observer to to come to the conclusion that MT is a solved problem, especially for "English > Spanish" and "French > English".
I have sent multiple email to the email mentioned. Nobody ever replied. check tusharg1993 [AT] gmail [DOT] com
Unsplash | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | Front-End Software Developer | Full-time, Onsite preferred

Unsplash is one of the world’s largest photography communities, dedicated to providing stunningly beautiful images released under Creative Commons Zero. Over 1 billion photos are viewed every month and our community is fueled by contributors who offer their photos freely for anyone to use, remixing and re-sharing in a way that has never been seen before. Unsplash photos have been used by millions of creators, from companies like Apple, to writers like Deepak Chopra.

We’re applying the principles of the open source movement to photography and what we’re doing isn’t just having a big impact on the photography industry, but the internet as a whole. We see it as an exciting chance to reinvent a major industry run by the old guard and covered in red tape. Unsplash started on Hacker News 3 years ago, and it’s been an amazing ride ever since. In 2016 we grew by over 250%, and we’re looking forward to beating that number in 2017.

Our stack is ES6 React/Redux, rendered on a Node server, and powered by a Rails API. Our team is small; right now I’m one of two developers on the JS side, and we’re looking to add a third. The ideal candidate should be very experienced with Javascript. Experience with React/Redux or contributing to open-source is a plus. Ideally, we’re looking to hire onsite in Montréal, Quebec, but we’re willing to be flexible for the perfect applicant. We can help with relocation costs.

You can read a bit about what our team is working on here: https://medium.com/unsplash-unfiltered/tagged/backstage

Interested? Email us at javascript@unsplash.com, with links to any open-source work if available. You can also learn more about our hiring practices at https://crew.co/hiring/
To avoid rocking the boat too much. There is a difference between the opt-out ruse and open coercion. The latter is more likely to cause problems I don't want to deal with.
Key pinning is not even needed. Entire point of SSL/TLS is to ensure end to end authenticity and confidentiality.

I believe the above poster does not fully understand SSL/TLS at all.
A good plot idea for dystopian novel.
The solution is actually quite simple. [1]

1. Use TAI-UT1 (International Atomic Time, monotonic, no leap seconds, with zero on 1958 Jan 1) for time keeping

2. Define conversion functions that map TAI-UT1 to/from UTC/UT1/etc

Use TAI-UT1 when you want to:

- synchronize the clocks of a network of computers

- calculate time elapsed

Convert to UTC/UT1/etc when you want to:

- Display a human readable date

- You're writing navigation or astronomy software

Introducing leap seconds into UTC would then just mean updating the TAI<->UTC mapping function. So all it would affect is how human-readable dates are displayed & navigation/astronomy software is re-aligned to celestial body positions.

[1] http://www.stjarnhimlen.se/comp/time.html
Pretentious or not, the term is used erroneously here.

Recursive data structures and recursive algorithms are, quite plainly, not isomorphic. They are not two equivalent representations of the same thing.

Something that is isomorphic to a recursive function that works on a quadtree would be an imperative function that works on a quadtree with identical functionality.

tl;dr: I think the author meant "synergistic".
This reminds me of the concepts written about here* basically trying to develop robust definitions for legal terms and objects so a question like 'what are my rights in X situation' could be answered accurately by a computer.

*http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2016/10/computational-law-sym...
My use case is admittedly a bit esoteric but: a) I need a MacBook for work, b) I only have room for a single computer in my life, c) I already have a pretty powerful computer with a TB2 port. Plus, it's nice to keep things relatively simple.
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Location: Santa Cruz, CA, US

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python/Flask, Android/Java, SQL, D3, Git, Heroku, Google App Engine

Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scsoftwaredev

Email: vicyankoff@gmail.com

My last project was a Facebook Messenger healthcare chatbot. I
was an Android and SQL dev in the past. I have a Masters Degree in Machine Learning and specialize in NLP and Data Science.
Oh that's exciting. Will be a great addition to a really good system.

Looking forward to it!
Cool, email is: cccccpherson@gmail.com
Ask HN: Is there a need of Real-Time-Inventory-Sync for multichannel eCommerce?
Your post is exactly right, this is a philosophical difference I have with the parent commentor.

> If you want something, you should be prepared to work for it.

This is the part I'm trying to get at. I agree with this statement, but with a caveat: There's a difference between "want" and "need." If you want some new jeans 'cause they look good, society doesn't owe them to you. If you need to buy basic clothing because you have none (or what you have is clearly insufficient, e. g., falling apart), it doesn't bother me to say society ought to provide that to you.

People see the idea that a sufficiently developed society ought to provide the very basics for all its members, and immediately assume that the only way to do this is some sort of draconian, single-party iron-wall communism. That just isn't true. In fact, there are already societies on the planet that get fairly close to doing this, and none of them are communist. (The "communist" ones tend to be some of the farthest away from this ideal.)

My question to you would be: How do you feel about making that distinction, and why?
My wife actually handled the bills and tends to have a better memory for this stuff than I do.

There was a stress-related stay in the hospital for her for several days with a $250 copay, around late January. Then the whole birth+surgery+NICU+breast pump rental was judged as one incident, with a $250 copay.

Individual doctor visits are $20. Hospital stays are $250. Medication is heavily subsidized, and most of it that we've ever gotten had a copay under $10.

There was an with a demand for payment for the entire bill+interest. A series of calls to their billing department led to them finding the mistake in their system and sending us the bill for just the copay.

I'm positive that we fall under the "uncommonly good" category.
Pretty cool! I also have a prototype microblogging project I'm hoping to release sometime this year, but it's very early. Information on OStatus seems scant right now. Can you discuss what's involved with it and why you chose to use it?
Trump's stand on technology, crystallized into the "fat hacker" and computer-expert son, is arguably his most accidentally good position.

The divergence of opinion on this between HN and reddit is also interesting.
I am less concerned with who they are and more concerned with what they're doing. What does their company do?
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I don't think you have to assume that.

First, the knowledge is there, the tools are there, it's just that it takes time to learn. All most all of this stuff is in RFCs and built in the public eye in the standards bodies and OSS. You can read the code, you can read the standards, you can get a book about it. It's just not intuitive, because most complicated things grow past that.

Second, there will always be experts at various parts of the stack. That's how 'capitalism' works, right? We all specialize until we only do one thing really well. I don't think we could have scaled the internet to the size it is now if everyone who worked in IT was still keeping the mail server off spam blacklists, and keeping the company web-server humming in the closet.

We get to a point as a group where we have bigger problems to solve and so someone learns to solve hundreds of peoples spam problems, and someone learns to solve hundreds of peoples route buffering problems, and someone learns to solve end to end encryption for web traffic.

Everyone can't be a functional expert in everything, that's how we moved past the middle ages. And that's how we are going to move forward as well.
Dolphin also runs on the PS4 ;)

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/814497640599658496
Elemental Technologies | Portland, Oregon | Engineer-in-test (SDET) | Full-time, onsite (mostly)

Elemental empowers top-tier media companies (think: Comcast, DirecTV, ESPN, FOX, Turner, etc) to deliver premium video experiences to consumers. Real-time video transcoders. Video Origin Servers. Both AWS cloud solutions and on-prem big-iron Linux servers.

We have various engineering reqs: http://www.elemental.com/company/careers/open-positions. But I’m personally looking for an engineer-in-test (SDET) to expand the capabilities of our Platform engineering team: http://www.elemental.com/node/4091. This latter position would be largely green-field work: new role, new process, initial test framework and infrastructure, in addition to actual test development itself.

Interested? Questions? dangaur at elemental dot com.
I think the point is that Google "understands" what you mean even if you don't say it quite right, or use the right phrases or words, and that's especially needed when searching for legal rights and things where what you're looking for often uses completely obscure or weird language. From the article:

> "However, most laws can only be searched using the dark-age, Lycos strategy—guess at keywords and hope—and it’s often necessary to pay for even that limited functionality."
You can press back in your browser to leave the public timeline, as well as opening anything else (account, hashtag, status) will replace it.

I make an effort to moderate the worst, i.e. hate speech, spam and vandalism should not stay on the public timeline for long (who disagrees with my policies is welcome to start their own instance). If I've missed something please let me know @Gargron@mastodon.social or per e-mail eugen@zeonfederated.com. A "report" feature is in the works in the next few days.
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Just wanted to drop a note here… I've been a long time user of SpiderOak and am really satisfied with it. A much better alternative to Dropbox and alikes.
We have free access to law with canlii.org in Canada.
That's OK. I'm not claiming that I was eating equivalent or fewer calories by controlling sugar.

I'm claiming that the set of dietary rules I chose which are based around limiting sugar and simple carbs have an end result of some weight loss. Whether that's a direct property of lowering sugar, or an emergent property caused by that is a good question, but one I don't need to have an answer for if the rules happen to work.

For what it's worth, my rules are roughly:

* No sweets unless I am socializing or it is a dessert I prepared from scratch. "Sweet" means roughly candy or dessert.

* No beer unless socializing.

* Minimize carb-heavy snacks like crackers and chips.

The last rule is fuzzier than I'd like, but I'm still dialing it in.

These rules may seem a little arbitrary, but they work for me and I find they do a good job of improving my overall diet without subjecting me to the real annoyances of rigid diets that make you do things like ask a waiter to bring you a burger without a bun, or not eat a curry that has a teaspoon of sugar in it.