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NoRedInk | Front-end, Backend, Infrastructure Engineer | San Francisco, CA | REMOTE Pacific Time (PST) to Central European Time (CET)

We’re an ed-tech company on a mission to help all students become strong writers! Our team may be small, but NoRedInk is used by 1 in 3 school districts in the US, and students have answered over 2 billion questions on our platform.

We’re a group of friendly people who listen to and learn from each other. We discuss past mistakes openly so we can adapt our processes to the challenges that come with progress. Puns flow freely across our San Francisco office as well as on Slack, and we have remote engineers spanning six different time zones.
Our engineering team [1] prides itself on code quality and innovation. We use the cutting-edge Elm programming language for all our new front-end code, and have been migrating legacy React code to Elm as well. We started with Ruby on Rails on our backend, and have lately been working to introduce Elixir to our stack. You can read about our experiences with these technologies on our team blog! [2]

In addition to spending work hours open-sourcing useful libraries we develop [3], we also invest financially in open source. We hired the creator of Elm, Evan Czaplicki, to develop Elm full time. [4] Evan discusses his plans for the language with the team every week, periodically pairs with other engineers on Elm, and cracks up members of the sales team with his lunchtime jokes.

We use Amazon AWS for our infrastructure and automate all of our deployments using OpsWorks and Chef. We write a lot of tests, and use Jenkins for continuous integration. Our process for new features begins with our product team and in-house visual designer, continues with a GitHub pull request from a feature branch into master, and ends with our in-house QA specialist trying to break it before it reaches production.

We’re hiring both engineers who have been around the block many times, as well as those who started their careers just a couple years ago. We’re looking for engineers who want to work on a mission that makes a difference and who are the type of collaborators that value kindness and open-mindedness, over convincing the group they’re right.

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I used to have that feeling. Reading The Shallows[1] made me stop and think about what might be causing it, and forced me to think about what I might do about it.

My solution was to drastically cut back my internet use most of the time I'd have spent online reading books instead. I do what I need to online for work, and I browse HN once a day to keep up with the latest and greatest.

I've found that my attention span returned relatively quickly, and reading books for hours at a time became easy again. The neat thing is that the increased attention span didn't just apply to books. I'm able to get more done at work, too, by staying locked on to whatever I'm doing and not getting distracted.

[1]https://www.amazon.com/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/d...
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Please see https://qbix.com/blog

Why doesn't Google do this?
I've been around central Berlin a good bit and honestly never had such a problem. If anything I end up with the opposite problem, I'm the foreign hipster who hasn't kept up with the trends enough to realize that this area has gentried sufficiently that I am no longer welcome here, because it's now an area for rich West Germans.
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Like I said, the federal government would handle screening. States just admit a number of people, they don't vet them- the fed has primacy there because of national security and immigration control. Regardless you can replace Syrian with Mexican and probably should. I only said Syrian refugees for the sake of variety.

But again, as a national security concern it isn't a problem. As long as the number of state green cards is less than the number of visas granted, a terrorist will be much more likely to get a visa and overstay it if necessary.
Right. And so my point is the expense and inconvenience of parking in cities is incentive for you to either (a) not buy a car, and instead use an on-demand (self-driving) rideshare service, or (b) buy a car, and recoup costs at little inconvenience by putting it into a self-driving rideshare pool.

The end result is fewer cars owned by fewer people, but utilized much more fully, so the cars that do exist in cities spend more of their time driving and in-service, rather than sitting parked and empty for 98% of their lifetimes.
It 100% is fruad.
Ugh, I've worked at a few banks with a few diff trading desks and it is annoying how much they love Excel. Excel is such a horrible platform for anything other than some simple spreadsheets, but traders always find a way to work it in to some production system at which point it becomes impossible to remove.
> It's a false dichotomy.

What part of the parent are you responding to here?

> Your private keys are just "obscure" information that requires some effort to find too.

I think this is highly misleading. There is nothing "just" or "some" about it. Your private keys are "obscured" information that requires a (mostly) specific and quantifiably very large amount of effort to find, and which if it were to become exposed, can be changed without requiring any new design to restore security.

Blueprints and wiring diagrams are "barely if at all obscured" information that requires vague, hard-to-quantify, and often trivially little amount of effort to find, and if exposed, can't be easily changed without requiring entirely new designs, manufacturing, and engineering.
Why? They formulate theories and test them against data to understand how the world works. Is that not the definition of science?
But it's either that or nothing. These people are not offering to sell their loyalty for more than a few years. The market has plenty of takers.
If you have FP experience and are interested in practical applications of category theory, I encourage you to reach out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14025110 - we're hiring mathematicians and computer scientists.
Yea, but that's like restricting NYC to Manhattan. I wouldn't feel that unsafe walking the majority of Manhattan at night either.

Or for another city center, I go downtown inner harbor/fells point/federal hill Baltimore at night plenty. Most city centers in America are perfectly safe any time of day.
True, but there are some partial exceptions (Britain and France) and reality hasn't stopped people from pointing to the EU as an example of the system gone horribly awry.

Despite the lack of conditionals placed on EU immigrants, the lack of tracking and free movement, there has been very little migration from border countries that accept migrants willingly.
XOR is rather easy to spot, you just XOR each byte with the bytes N positions downstream, and at the N for which the distribution of bytes changes dramatically, you've found the key's period. Finding the key is also not hard if you suspect that the file is a known format (and thus will have a known structure at some places).
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I wouldn't want to walk around Washington Heights in Manhattan alone at night; I didn't feel terribly safe there during the daytime.

The Bronx is not a terribly safe place either.

Sure, downtown/midtown Manhattan are very safe, but Manhattan is a minority of the overall area of NYC.
The actual criticism is the US not counting people not actively looking for a job as unemployed, thus dismissing those who have given up/gone back to school/retired early/found their calling as a stay-at-home dad.

Still: if you believe today's troubles are in any way comparable to the 20s, you owe it to yourself to read up on that period. Check for "starvation" in the index.
I agree, it looks grim. Actually losing half a billion+, though, depends on some hairball of laws, judges, juristictions, and so forth...around actual damages, punitive measures, forfeiture in a separate criminal case, etc. Handslaps aren't uncommon, and neither are the opposite...awards that seem too large. There's also the degree to which Uber is culpable (provably, legally) vs Levandowski personally.

Would be interested in hearing a prediction from an IP lawyer.
And janitors get no music, because we all know janitors aren't actually useful!
Minor quibble: It says std::deque is a doubly linked list, but that's what std::list is.

FWIW, Deque is actually more like a vector.
With respect, I would advise using other speed testing sites. Speedtest.net is well-known to be optimized by most ISPs, and so doesn't really give you accurate results.

Fast.com is provided by Netflix, and you use their actual CDN to download a part of a freely available movie, and so you get a really good estimate of what kinds of download speeds you can see from them.

The other one I like is from dslreports.com -- it uses only HTML5 instead of flash, and they adaptively test your bandwidth from multiple simultaneous server sites, with adaptive multi-streaming.

You can't make a reasonable conclusion if you don't have reasonable data to work from, and with Speedtest.net you can't trust any of their results.
Copying and Moving Data with the Visible Clipboard
I'm not sure how your example fits in. The police didn't use a state of mind defense in the Dallas case--the suspect was shooting at police officers, which is, objectively speaking, a violent felony. They couldn't capture the felon, so they decided that it was better to kill him than to let him get away.

I think the state of mind defense is mainly used to justify killing an unarmed suspect in self-defense. One benefit of drones is that the pilots are in no immediate danger, so they can make better decisions.
Open Letter to the Free Software Community [from Libreboot] (2 Apr 2017)
Let's see...

Taking over a machine thanks to autorun.inf, crashing machines with ping, unsecured shared folders, worms spreading everywhere, rendering fonts on kernel code, and a long list of other stupid defects... No. Android has never included this level of idiocy therefore it is not fair to hold it to the same standard.

Installing Windows was once the same as installing a rootkit in your computer. Android might have issues but never as bad as Windows. Windows holds all the incompetency records.

Then, "the operating system released 16 years ago" (Windows XP) is the 3rd most used operating system. It is still causing problems today.
Post this to the Austin reddit. Others may have been scammed as well. https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/

If you have the time, sue them in small claims court. Document everything.

Edit: I see you've already posted it: https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/63azq8/how_i_legall...
My argument for why you couldn't is more one of pragmatism than anything else. After 8 hours slogging away in a cubicle, you're unlikely to have the energy to work with the laser-like precision necessary to tackle a scientific problem. Perhaps it is possible in some exceptional cases, but for the vast majority of people I don't see it happening.

Plus, science is as much about your interactions with your peers as it is your work. Individuals that aren't highly embedded in a scientific clique are liable to miss important information that would have an impact on your research. You can't develop the same level of social capital as you'd need doing science part-time as a hobby.
And here I am on the Nokia 930 windows phone running Windows 10, and still expecting more updates :)
How does the i3 compare to the Snapdragon 820?
Sovereignty and the concept of hostile action/influence on life can make the line blurry.

If, through inaction, violent warlords displace thousands or millions of people, are the destination countries not adversely affected? The US has millions of economic and war-affected Mexican refugees.

Same with Syria... should Germany, Turkey, Greece, etc. say "Syria is sovereign, nothing we can do" when their countries are being overrun?

The US should look to improve life in Mexico and reduce cartel power first through economic and peaceful political means, and then, PERHAPS and after much thought, bombing the shit out of every cartel leader on the same night, Godfather style. I'm only half kidding.
Round-trip electricity efficiency is what I was referring to, assuming you'd use electricity. If you have to synthesize fuel using electricity and then burn it to produce either movement (shaft-power) or electricity, the efficiency is on the order of 10%. Whereas for batteries, the efficiency is on the order of 80-90%.
Do you ever read fiction?
I think we all know it much too well.

To me, it's next to impossible to compete with the web.

I vacationed in a wonderful place with no internet access. I read a 600 page book effortlessly and with great joy. It was a remarkable feeling. It has always been hard for me to read long books, even articles. But with broadband in my pocket, it's just too hard
Yeah, this policy is very clearly meant to curb immigration, not H1B abuse.
An ordered binary tree still can fail to N if you allow duplicates.

(AFAICT: Most of these trees have a "typical" case search time of some root of N based on dimensionality. The easiest way to visualize this is to consider a walk from the perimeter to a cell in Voroni space, and how many cells that will search.)
A few notes:

1. Main feasibility benefit: behaves like IEEE 754 numbers in terms of accuracy.

I think you mean "...in terms of allocation and storage"

2. I would like to disclaim that posits improve over IEEE 754 precision & accuracy over some value ranges. Over others, it's worse. The argument though is that you're more likely to be using those value ranges than the ones where you want. It's also not nearly 2x. For 64-bits, for example you'll realistically get about 6-7 extra bits of precision around 1. The standard DOES require features like "exact dot product" operation, which can allow you to do things that are "impossible" with the standard 754 spec; for example, exact solutions of systems of linear equations using convergent methods.

The way I've been thinking about it of late, is that floats and posits are a 'lossy compression of the real number line'; posits make better choices about how to compress this information, but there are of course tradeoffs.

The rest of it is great!
Eh it's a lot more complicated than just "gov bad private good"

The goals of the F35 were to be the fighter for all the branches of the military. The problem is that they all have very different requirements.

Marry that with a tech-fixes-everything attitude and you have a Frankenstein of an aircraft with so much "technology" that it gets in the way of the human pilot's instincts.

And lastly, the project has been strategically split up by contractors in a way that it creates jobs in so many congressional districts, so congress members are loathe to shut down a program that brings jobs in their district.

All this is done by PRIVATE sector contractors.
I never knew about the Mother of all Demos before watching him either. Still amazing today.
Wait a minute - users were requesting for years that Google change the permissions model of the Play Store from upfront to runtime permissions (like iOS does).

Google constantly shot that down and said how it works (agree to everything before downloading) was intentional and expected behaviour. They have finally changed that model now, but in my opinion this was pretty inexcusable and reckless.

I was unable to find the issue in the Android bug tracker now, but it's a pretty long thread.
It's all a trap.

While they say they have no plans1 to sell individual2 browser histories3.

They don't say:

1 Plans change when we need money

2 So you'll sell aggregate data showing who visits what sites/subreddits/facebook pages/etc. Combine that with public data and that can unmask a user and their private browsing history.

3 Is it true, as some have reported, that they have been storing this data for years and will use all of it in their reporting?

It's insane. The intel/marketing/privacy implications are huge.
> Even an embryo is multicellular, is it not?

I've not read the article yet, but an answer to this question is, "not at the very start".
Thanks! Yeah, we've made excellent progress and whilst we are still calling it an alpha it's a very, very solid alpha.

I know Nathanael and have chatted plenty with him over the years on the subject. We're trying to solve different problems really in the field and I really hope he achieves what he wants.

We've got pretty good performance so far ( faster than System.Drawing in many regards and we know how to improve it further) and a great feature set but we still have a lot to do.

https://github.com/JimBobSquarePants/ImageSharp/blob/master/...

I'm personally working with another chap on ICC profile support just now which is very complicated but will give us a full color management system once finished.

While I figure that out I'm hoping that some of the performance gurus out there will step up and offer to tweak the library where necessary.
Likely the issue is, with a large RO plant you hire people for the specific domain knowledge and develop a work culture around it. For a place like an oil rig none of this specific domain knowledge is central to the work at hand. So the technology isn't reliable in that context.
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Use Lola.

https://www.lolatravel.com/about

"We’re a new kind of travel company that provides on-demand, personal travel service through a smartphone app. The Lola app instantly connects people to our team of travel agents who find and book flights, hotels, and cars for our customers. We also provide support while they’re on their trips."

Aggregators are all fun and games till your plans change. And Lola gives you human curated travel (they really do consider your tastes) at aggregator costs.
> Then they made a photocopy of our ID for a file. Which again raised my suspicion, I’ve rented many apartment before and none of properties ever asked for that before signing the lease

That sounds like a red flag with the article/author. What apartment place wouldn't do a background check and want ID to make sure they go the right person?
I don't recall the official line ever being 'nuclear weapons'. It was always 'chemical weapons', which were redefined to be 'weapons of mass destruction' in order to then be grouped with nuclear weapons and have some of that fear become associated with them. The irony, of course, was seen in the US bragging about going into Iraq with the largest conventional munition ever made, the MOAB (mother-of-all-bombs).

The Iraq war was used to bolster voters for the next year's election - the US had been punching ghosts and getting nowhere in Afghanistan after 9/11, so they switched targets to one that looked similarly foreign and, more importantly, couldn't hide.
Interesting. I've heard of this practice as 'one box' or 'one pod'. And canary used to mean, 'tests that run continously against your production stack.'

I wonder which is more prevalent.
Who's fault is it? Why doesn't Google allow it to be installed on all devices?
If the goal is to prove that going to some godforsaken suburb miles out into the countryside is dangerous, sure. This is true in any country. But not if you live in an actual city.
What are the best practices redarding rollbacks when the database is affected. I would think a large amount of overhead would be required.
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Clearly lack of updates is not meaningfully hindering Android's success.
I've used Corelogic as a landlord as well. Any applicant with a reported history of non payment is a big red flag and would likely be denied. I'd compare it to very late credit card payments or a charge off. Not a scam. The employee doing the review would get in trouble for approving this application!
My wife and I have dealt with these goons before. Their favorite trick is missing a payment, leaving it on a desk and then despoiting it weeks later, after charging fees. Or, if you have 2 loans, they are sure you never pay any of them down, even if you literally tell them (pay loan #1 all of this months payments, ending it). They purposefully screw up...

All roads lead to money in politics allowing them to do whatever they want and not have repercussions.
I wonder how the botched Google Drive release issue from a weeks ago worked under this scenario?
But a self-driving car that can either find street parking or else drive to some suburban lot makes that incentive much weaker, not stronger?
For those who are potentially offended, I wasn't insulting citizen science projects (I, in fact, participate in some of them)- having actually worked as a hapless research assistant at the bottom of the totem pole, I was actually just making the blunt observation that qualitatively a lot of the work one would perform in citizen science project is indistinguishable from necessary, but particularly dull, work that higher level investigators don't feel like doing.
That an incumbent with substantial influence uses their position to suppress a disruptive technology that's an emerging danger of erroding their business model?

When an infant alternative is competing against a fully-developed and monetized legacy product, I'm okay with some coddling (e.g. the EV subsidies). You have to get to the point of "Is it likely this new thing will be more beneficial to society when equivalently developed?"

Otherwise we get stuck optimizing a local maxima.
How much cash is in a fully stocked ATM? 10k, 25k, 50k, 100K?