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kCura | Sr. Software Engineer | Chicago, IL; Reston, VA; Krakow, Poland | Full-time, Flexible REMOTE | https://www.kcura.com/join-the-team/available-positions/

• Product: Relativity, handles large volumes of data and helps corporations, law firms, and government agencies solve their own unique data problems.

• Why: To fulfill the vision we set for our product, Relativity: to simplify and accelerate how the world conducts e-discovery by bringing the entire process and community together in one open, flexible, connected platform.

• Vision: Our mission is to help our customers organize data, discover the truth, and act on it. Building great e-discovery software for managing massive volumes of electronic evidence during litigation or investigations.

• Stack (Reston, VA): Java, Scala, JVM, Linux, REST, GIT, Akka, Jenkins, Bamboo

• Stack (Chicago & Krakow, PL): C#, ASP.NET, MVC, SQL Server, Azure, REST, Chef, Powershell

• Core Values: Be humble and stay hungry, Be an excellent communicator, Exceed the expectations of your customers and your colleagues, Hold yourself and your colleagues accountable, Enjoy and be great at your job, Embrace the talents of your colleagues and our customers, Do more with less

==Team==
• Founder and owner: Andrew Sieja, CEO
• Advisor: ICONIQ Capital

==Interview==

Phone call [30 min] >> Code Challenge (2 hour, at home, fun coding exercise) >> Interview in office to meet the team (3 ½ hours) >> Decision communicated to you within 24 hours

==Contact==
mmcfarland@kcura.com
Strictly on the car front (which largely ignores Tesla's real growth potential) ...

Ford also maintains an extensive dealer network which can disincentivize some painful adjustments that otherwise might need to be made to be more aligned with future sales, etc. People talk about direct sales for Tesla usually in a negative connotation due to institutionalized friction (re: lawsuits / political favoritism), but I think it's a strong asset in a savvy marketplace, and can illustrate how established infrastructure isn't always for the best. One less mule for the cart to pull, IMO.

I also think there are some signs that existing manufacturing practices can be / need to be rewritten around an all elective drivetrain. For instance, Tesla plans to operate its lines at full-speed using some new "invasive" robotic procedures that the full-glass roof of the model 3 will afford. This has dramatic labor and capital consequences for an automaker with a diversified fleet. Might be costly to rebuild the machine that makes machines.

https://electrek.co/2016/09/15/elon-musk-confident-that-tesl...
Why we believe mono repos are the best to ship code faster?
Yeah. This might be a selling point for a service doing seriously CPU intensive calculations my computer might not find easy, but for a service editing the sort of documents my 1995 computer could handle it's a negative: the more stuff that's done exclusively on Amazon's servers the less it's handling intermittent connectivity issues by caching views and backing up my incomplete edits
Sarcasm? I hope.
25k isnt even enough to pay rent after taxes in quite a few cities where the jobs are. If you take Boston for example and follow the rule of thumb of 30% of your net income for rent, youd need around 80k to afford a 1 bedroom apartment without roommates
[IANAL] New guidelines as to what constitutes as a speciality occupation are already in place at the other centers handling H-1B applications. The only thing this memo is saying is "Hey, someone issued you folks a memorandum in December 2000 that shouldn't be used anymore because things have changed. We're rescinding it so that no one uses it accidentally"
Yep, I've only had pasteurised in the UK and Ireland and those two taste the same. If I'm every in the US I'll have to try the milk and see if it tastes different.
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HR will need to answer that one, I think it will depend on your specific situation! ;)

Please contact jobs@minodes.com in case you have any questions prior to applying
You could check out some clinical informatics fellowships. It seems like there are more and more of them popping up every month.
I doubt there will be much profit at $35,000, at least not for a while. But does there need to be? As long as it's profitable on average, the base model can just break even. I bet a lot of buyers will pay for the Autopilot option, for example, and that's pure profit.
Let me disagree with some of the points:

> Ford has all the infrastructure that Tesla is attempting to build now

* no battery production facilities
* no charging infrastructure
* no vertical integration (unlike Tesla, Ford has to sell through the dealershits - I see it as a big disadvantage)

> They know how to mass produce cars

Yes - but can they produce the car the public will want in three years from now, when affordable all-electric, high-performance, autonomous Model 3s will redefine what modern car means?

> They have a large manufacturing and maintenance base that, frankly, Tesla can't replicate

I admit that they have some hurdles ahead, but what would stop Tesla from being more efficient at manufacturing than Ford? It is one of their objectives - and their track record is pretty good, to say the least.
Unfortunately, this is often true of larger crimes as well.
Middle ground between dropping [1] and buffering is Active Queue Management as wtallis pointed out above. State of the art AQM on Linux nowadays is CoDel [2].

Big network gear vendors that ship to ISPs have adopted early forms of AQM (both RED [3] and proprietary algorithms) quite a while ago - they had to:

(a) backbone routers have much smaller buffer-to-bandwidth ratio (compared to a PC or even home router), so endless buffering is not an option;

(b) buffer tail drops (i.e. what drop keyword does when added to tc filters/disciplines) interact really poorly with TCP bandwidth control algorithms, and rather badly with RTP streams, too (so drop is not an option either - it ruins user's connections; and

(c) ISPs and carriers would typically run links (on average) much closer to saturation than your typical home router, so situation where router has to make buffer/drop decision is much, much more frequent.

[1] My point above was that you don't really want to drop packets on the receiver side, after that packet already traversed expensive part of the network.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoDel

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_early_detection
Location: Remote, willing to relocate

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Django, Mobile(iOS, Android), jQuery, Bootstrap, React, React-Native, Docker, Vagrant, Ansible, AWS, Golang, R, Hadoop, Spark, TensorFlow

Resume: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sidmitra

Homepage: http://www.sidmitra.com

Email: sidmitra.del@gmail.com

Portfolio:

* http://www.moonliteapp.com - An app for freelancers and clients to work together.

* https://www.healthasaservice.co/ - An HR analytics dashboard to manage company health events and employee health reports.

* http://www.igrowfit.com - A corporate fitness subscription platform

* http://www.grapevinelogic.com - A platform for advertisers to work with Youtube content creators.

* http://publish.saxo.com - publishing platform where anyone can publish e-books, and soon printed books (print on demand) and online courses.

* Intuit CPASelect - An online marketplace for tax experts. [Formerly Teaspiller]

* http://www.hypedsound.com
> That way the fields are put to good use rather than being self servant.

I am a student and the way I see is that this is the writing on the wall. The university (and BSc in specific) gives you the basis to develop yourself into the direction you feel passionate about. You can take computer science and mathematics if you want to become a great software engineer or you can mix computer science with communications and psychology to develop yourself into more of a bridge-builder between industries rather than a hard skilled engineer. Whether people figure this out in the midst of alcohol-centric student life and handling odd jobs is another thing.

> I think we need to rethink what we consider academically important which should be taught at universities and then what should be taught as self studies.

In the Nordic welfare state I live, the three main objectives of universities are written in the law (advance research and education, give education based on research, educate students to serve the country and humankind). However, there are many points on what people see valuable and what they do not. Where I live in, the laymen think the mission of higher education is to produce capable and internationally competitive professionals. In Finland in specific, we had Nokia, thus many people see that universities should be teaching students to start new Nokias. The contradiction is that professors in universities are oftentimes so closed in on the academic circles that they start to think the only thing which matters is how competitive researchers the university produces. That tends to fall into the trap laid in the OPs post. I once read a paper from a professor of mine which had the outcome of this:

> In today’s heavily competitive game market, it has become very important to make a game that stands out from the other games. Even though the game design might not be very unique, a game can still offer a better playing experience by having a better usability than a similar game with worse usability.

I believe that when you need a 20-page whitepaper to prove this something is clearly wrong in the way the researchers are incentivized.
You are OK with not knowing how to invent, innovate, push the envelope, etc because you don't need to in order to collect your paycheck? Seems sad! Where is your passion for the craft?
What I'm most excited for based on my time in Liberia, is when these mobile first citizens wring all the juice out of mobile devices and are able to adopts tablets and then computers. The things they'll be able to do since their grew up on these tiny devices will be incredible.
SEEKING WORK - Brighton, UK, remote okay

Senior JavaScript engineer with a background in Design
I've been the Front-End Lead at a YC startup for the last 2 years (rainforestqa.com) and I'm finally independent again :D
The kind of services I'm good at and looking for are:

- Development, UI design and consulting as a UI engineer for MVPs/prototypes/early stage product.
- Refactoring legacy JavaScript into a modern web-app (using react) - I have a consulting service that is aimed at this in particular (switchtoreact.com)

Hit me up! julian [at] goodafternoon [dot] co
Not revealed as a terrible company, perhaps, but as a terrible interviewer.

If any company were to quiz me on algorithmic basics, it had better explain to me beforehand why it is among the x% of all hiring companies that actually need to roll their own new solutions in the face of so many well-established libraries.

That is, before you ask me to demonstrate a depth-first search, you had better explain to me why I'm going to need to be doing that instead of just writing an SQL query and tweaking an index, which is likely what I would be doing at most companies.

Part of development is figuring out not just the answers to the questions, but also figuring out "Of all the questions I could have been asked, why was I asked that question?"

A disappointingly large fraction of the time, the answer to "why did you ask that question?" is "we noticed a correlation, confused it for causation, and built an entire strategy around it".
It's a major factor for me as well. I'm even leery of these always-connected infotainment systems in modern cars.
I'm a millennial and this is the first I've even heard of it, which doesn't bode well for them.
Location: Moscow, Russia
Remote: yes
Technologies: http api, robotics, nosql, queues, ruby, c, security, workflow, ml, cep, full stack server-side
Email: sinmsinm@gmail.com
Does that mean google can't bundle a web browser with the operating system now?
Location: Boulder/Denver CO

Remote: OK

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Data science, machine learning, Python, Haskell, SQL, Spark, Hadoop

Résumé/CV: http://www.drive.google.com/file/d/0B8XBeyOkf1TILUpHbUgtamRO...

Email: scottmsul@gmail.com

Github: http://www.github.com/scottmsul

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/scottmsul

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My name is Scott Sullivan, and I am a data scientist living in Boulder, CO. I recently completed the Galvanize Data Science Immersive in Denver, and before that I studied graduate physics at CU. For my Galvanize capstone project, I performed topic modeling of the news using matrix factorization. My final presentation is a live web app, feel free to explore it here: http://www.topicstory.com.

At Galvanize we performed several case studies, including:

- Predicting the sale price of construction machinery
- Predicting churn rates for a ride sharing company
- Predicting fraud on an events website
- Creating a recommender system for user-rated jokes

For each case study, we worked in small teams to implement a working solution in under a day. There was no guidance, requiring us to work as a team, assign tasks, share code, and combine our results in one presentation. Some example high-level tasks included cleaning data, performing EDA, interpreting features, and comparing different machine learning algorithms, including SVMs, trees, and neural nets.

Please let me know if you're interested!

Best,
Scott
Hacking DNA: CRISPR, Ken Thompson, and the Gene Drive
The Importance of Interactive Data Analysis
The point is not really how much Ford is expected to grow, but how much Tesla is expected to grow. That is, it seems like the only way for Tesla to grow to reach Ford's metrics in terms of profitability would be perfect execution (plus Mars, Jupiter and Venus being aligned).

I'm a huge fan of Tesla and think that they will succeed, but saying that the stock is "priced for perfection" is putting it mildly.
Location: Vancouver, BC Canada
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Laravel, AngularJS 1 + 2, VueJS
Résumé/CV: http://matthewhall.ca/
Email: matthall28@gmail.com
Am I the only one who was extremely confused by the writing? I think the whole effect was just lost on me, because I went from thinking her brother was the one who died, to thinking he was the driver, to finally getting to the part where she actually says explicitly that he was the other boy in the road.
I'd say this is one of the most important things for startups and entrepreneurship as well.

Too many people get emotionally invested in their business or idea instead of listening to the facts.
Everwise | New York City | Senior Front End Developer | Onsite | Full-time |

Everwise is a startup that works with companies to help their employees grow and reach development goals over our platform. We do this from a new angle - harnessing the power of social relationships, including matching users with mentors and peer groups, and using curated content to supplement the experience. Our platform allows us to scale out customized learning experiences for both our enterprise clients and individual users.

Senior Front End Developer
https://boards.greenhouse.io/everwise/jobs/513628#.WN_-2RIrI....

Responsibilities

-Build and enhance the front-end of Everwise's web applications.

-Work closely with Product/UX to create simple and intuitive interfaces.

-Turn mockups into working products.

-Rapidly prototype new features and quickly iterate on what works and what doesn't.

-Analyze site/page speed and help provide performance solutions.

-Research, test, and benchmark new technologies.

-Design and communicate coding standards and architectural plans.

-Lead design of front-end framework using React.

Qualifications

-5+ years experience with large scale, high traffic/performance, web applications.

-5+ years experience with Core Javascript.

-Experience with client-side JavaScript and MVC frameworks (Backbone/React/Ember is a plus).

-Experience with mobile optimization, HTML5 and CSS3.

-Experience with object oriented server-side programming, Ruby on Rails a strong plus.

-Understanding of unit and functional testing best practices (Rspec, Jasmine, Protractor, and Selenium are bonuses).

-Strong command of cross-browser compatibility issues, browser degradation strategies, optimization and accessibility techniques.

Day-to-day we leverage React, Ruby, Redis, AWS, Node, and Postgres; we're looking for someone who can solve an array of problems with a broad set of technologies.

Interview Process: We have 3 structured interviews - A phone interview, followed by a panel engineering interview over Video/Coderpad, followed by a structured on-site interview.

If you are interested in this role, or any of our roles (https://boards.greenhouse.io/everwise#.WJNT2LYrI6g), please reach out to me over email at stephen@geteverwise.com.

Thanks, Stephen Fleming
Anyone interested in brainstorming how to make GSOC work, as it apparently doesn't?

The first thing that comes to mind is pay a stipend to the project and the student. So if the student gets $6K and 99.99% of them skip town at the end of summer no further contact, the project gets nothing but unmaintained code and wasted effort. However... what if the project ALSO got $6K of cold hard cash? Or credit for google services, adwords, donated hardware, who knows...
> Beyond the operation's length, its nature was haphazard and confusing, according to members of the team. Partway through the metadata project, all the team's contracts were supposed to end, but it was clear the job wasn't complete. Management asked part of the team to stay on but pretended everyone was getting the ax.

> "We all had to act like we were all leaving," one former contractor said. "They asked us not to say anything."

Sounds like someone very inexperienced calling the shots. Also asleep at the wheel. I really don't think version 3.0 is going to solve the root problems with this project.
Im sure i seen this on reddit a few years ago and someone said that they used to pre-curve wood for making cart wheels. Dont know if it sounds true - but sounds plausible
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Wikimedia Foundation | Operations Engineer (Cloud Services) | SF | Remote

I am an engineer with the team. We run a niche hosting operation directed at the Wikimedia community tooling and ecosystem. We are migrating some of our workload to Kubernetes slowly (from an aging Grid Engine setup), and maintain our own OpenStack cloud. We use a lot of Python, Puppet, and debug wherever problems take us.

We do a round of interviews starting with HR, hiring manager, and team members. All interviewing and hiring can be done remote. Some regular overlap with east coast US (UTC-7) hours is expected to coordinate.

http://stackoverflow.com/jobs/136920/operations-engineer-clo...

drop me a note if you have questions :)
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I stopped reading at

"Not only should we not be building more roads, we shouldn’t necessarily be repairing the ones we have."

I live in northwest Connecticut and I will not stand for this nonsense. Our roads are awful, and need to be repaired and. Unavoidable potholes, dangerous erosion, these are things that not only cause vehicular deaths but also severely decrease the lifetime of automobiles.

You can tell whoever wrote this article probably doesn't commute in their own car that they have to repair every 6 months because of shitty roads.
Developers seem to be willing to support two competitive platforms, but when there are three or more, they throw up their hands and support just the top one, or maybe the top two.

Source: my own intuition.
Delft – The Netherlands Riscure | Security Analyst |ONSITE | VISA | https://www.riscure.com/careers/security-analyst

Riscure is a young, ambitious organization specializing in embedded security testing for leading international clients from the semiconductor, payment, Pay TV, mobile and smart metering industry. In addition, Riscure is the leading vendor of specialist security testing products. We have 90 employees with mixed technical and academic backgrounds working from offices in Delft, The Netherlands and San Francisco, USA. Riscure is organized in two units: Security Lab and Tools.
We are looking for experienced Security Analysts who like to use a variety of techniques (for instance penetration testing and software reverse engineering) to discover a product's fraud risk profile in order to improve its security. Do you think you have got what it takes to work at Riscure as a security analyst? Please send your motivation letter and CV to HRM@riscure.com. For more information please check our homepage.
Most of Polish professors are actually retired in place. They do the minimum required amount of teaching and put their names on (usually completely unoriginal) papers of their subordinates. Most of them didn't do any significant original research in decades. To pass the time (and to gain power to protect themselves from being kicked out etc.), they take on administrative functions such as deans, heads of units etc.
If you haven't tried LibreOffice (https://www.libreoffice.org/) in a while I highly recommend it. Works great with Zotero for citations and they have fixed a lot of the formatting issues in Writer/Word and data manipulation shortcomings in Calc/Excel. I haven't needed MS Office for 4 months.
On a quick glance, with those numbers cited, it appears that you may have fallen into the Mbits/Mbytes trap.
There are a lot of examples of companies which, even when directed to do so by their CEO, were unable to pivot to technologies rising up from smaller markets. The term has been overloaded to hell, but that's disruption.

I would highly recommend the book "The Innovator's Dilemma." It provides case studies of disruptive innovations across many different industries -- from farm tech to disk drives.
"in crisis" is the end state of a pathology, where it has gone untreated for far too long and begun to have ruinous consequences. Academy is in crisis. Other fields suffering from the same pathology are at different points in their breakdown. Some of them will never breakdown, others will enter their own crises sometime soon if they haven't already (and many of them already have).

surely I'm allowed to criticize and highlight social issues without having a "preferred fix" that I'm promoting. I'm not nearly so arrogant as to think I even know what fix would work.

there is a crisis in our society though, and it has many social pathologies underlying it, and it manifests variously in disparate fields that yet suffer from similar pathologies. in the case of academia I feel that it is acutely important to address because of the role the academy plays in shaping elite culture and practices. in the modern world we've elevated the academy to the place that used to belong to Bishops and church scholars. The shaping of beliefs and all of the cascading effects that has on society is now in a state of breakdown and malfunction.
Tesla is also doing other energy-related stuff now though with solar and batteries. Lots of potential market growth there.
Why? Amazon already has a great and successful business model, why not focus their efforts on expanding this model rather than trying to compete with Microsoft in an area where Microsoft has domain and market mastery? Say what you want about Microsoft, office is ubiquitous, their products are everywhere - so why spend money, time and effort trying to beat them at their own game rather than trying to expand their own core business.