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SEEKING FREELANCE - REMOTE [PRODUCT MANAGEMENT]

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sean at prome dot ai

After 3.5 years leading Product and doing a global video streaming company turnaround (Piksel, formerly known as KIT Digital), I left last week to build PROME's Biologic Intelligence product for industrial sensors and robotics.

Our team is doing some freelance work to keep the lights on as we're self-funding everything.

I reported directly to the CPO, now the CEO, pulled together teams in Milan (new analytics), Paris (old OVP integration, new HTML5 player), Atlanta (50,000 live events annually), Solana Beach (UX) and York/London (net new microservices video platform) and managed high value customers including former ESPN, VW, Herbalife, and resellers in Japan, LATAM, and the US.

I’ve got patents in mobile live streaming, personalized linear channels, connected cars with video, and soon Biologic Intelligence. I’ve founded or been an executive at a number of startups across algo trading, gamification, social video with voice/AI/emotion, mobile apps, and some robotics.

Finally, I’ve created/invented a number of things in my free time (PROME: emulated the brain and nervous systems of animals in software and robotics plus Humanizing Tech media publication, one of the top 0.007% websites in the world).

I’ve written articles for Fortune, HuffPo, been featured in CNBC, Pando Daily, The Information, etc and am a top writer on Medium for a large number of topics.

Happy to help you figure out your hairiest of problems and then execute them.
Umbrella App:

Open source, Android App to help high-risk travellers, journalists and activists manage physical and digital security on the move. Take lessons to learn about security, checklists to implement and keep up to date with feeds from places like the Centres for Disease Control.

https://secfirst.org/
Is it just me or do they go to extreme lengths to avoid talking about machine learning as a 'pro' workload? Surely there are more people doing ML and BI on this class of machine ($6-12K) than there are producing high-end digital cinema.
Are there plans for https support? I like it as it's a pure ssh alternative to ngrok
> Apple is acknowledging that the Mac Pro they introduced in 2013 has run aground on the cleverness of its own design

Seriously? They're blaming it on "the cleverness of its own design"?
I think that 18 year-olds today are quite a lot more sophisticated than I was at 18.

But yeah, it's tough; you need to survey multiple sources.
There's a wonderful book, by the way, Proofs from THE BOOK, of, well, simple beautiful proofs. The book is named after

> mathematician Paul Erdős, who often referred to "The Book" in which God keeps the most elegant proof of each mathematical theorem. During a lecture in 1985, Erdős said, "You don't have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proofs_from_THE_BOOK
This is one of the most serious and instructive pieces of technical security work we're likely to see this year. In case it hasn't sunk it:

- This vulnerability affects tons of smart phones (iPhone, Nexus, Samsung S*).
- The attack proceeds silently over WiFi -- you wouldn't see any indication you've been nailed.
- Mitigations and protections on WiFi embedded chips are weak.
- The second blog post will show how to fully commandeer the main phone processor by _hopping from the WiFi chip to the host_.

Imagine the havoc you could wreak by walking around a large city downtown, spewing out exploits to anyone who comes into WiFi range :-)
I personally recommend against using Immutable.js, for a number of reasons (which I wrote as a Reddit comment a while ago [0] ). There's some additional info on Immutable.js-related perf in my links list [1]

FYI, there's also a bunch of other immutable update utility libs besides immutability-helper. I have a list of them in my Redux addons catalog [2].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/4rcqpx/dan_abra...

[1] https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links/blob/master...

[2] https://github.com/markerikson/redux-ecosystem-links/blob/ma...
It just so happens the bridge collapse mentioned happened late on a Thursday, the week before spring break. I think the real test might be on Monday 4/10 or Tuesday 4/11 when traffic is traditionally higher.
Thank for the kind words. We actually also try and cater for folks who are doing a more typical approach to online shopping (e.g. a desk lamp). The set design is a nice way of showcasing the product in use.
Linux works for me. Even the photography tools are pretty cool nowadays.
Ikutaro Kakehashi, Engineer Behind the 808 Drum Machine, Dies at 87
A mobile app for grassroots groups that are resisting Trump: https://getamplify.org

Currently spread thin between building features for group admins and improving the end user experience--- get in touch if you want to lend your skills to the country :)
prepending commands with a "!" runs it in the shell, assuming you are using python.

! git commit add ./my_file.ipnb

http://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/interactive/python-i...
Vaccinations significantly reduce flu death risk, CDC study finds
Aurora is also told from the PoV of characters that are extremely anti-extrasolar travel.

SPOILERS below

Note however at the end of the book cryo-sleep is developed. This technology removes the main moral argument and technological difficulty against extra-solar travel as presented in the book. It is even noted in the book that a new wave of human colonization is taking place. KSR seems to be making both arguments at once but only telling one side of the story.
$500 off the price tag would help with regaining customer confidence
> The added inertia acts both as a smoother and an accelerator

momentum = mass * velocity

force = mass * acceleration

momentum = (force / acceleration) * velocity

So, it looks to me like momentum is inversely related to acceleration. It doesn't seem right to call momentum an "accelerator".
https://usmnt360.com

I'm a big fan of USMNT and just wanted to building something for it.

There's also an Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.usmnt360.a...
I haven't seen it discussed but immediately it would appear that it would allow for new features introduced in x.0 to have the kinks worked out in the x.1 and x.2 releases, so the LTS ends up having the new features along with their fixes, and then you can move on to the next batch of bigger features
Making choices
>Minority ideas, whether good or bad, could not (even the art from small communities was only allowed to exist via alliances with larger communities that could easily destroy their art)

I'd disagree. /r/wales and /r/faroeislands have less than 7k subscribers between us. We had no bots, just a few people in a Discord channel.

Actual:
https://i.imgur.com/GtkaGlJl.png

SCtester Cleanup:
http://i.imgur.com/GQCTigC.png

Wales also had our dragon beneath the main UK flag along with NI, England and Scotland. There was also a cool Wales places heart.
Attending DockerCon? Netsil wants to discuss container monitoring with you!
The current Pro can be configured to cost a cool $7,200. I am sure the 'completely rethought' model won't be cheap, but I wouldn't expect it to cost much more than the current line. Which is still too much for most of us to buy for home use (I am running a 2010 Pro with a hex-core Xeon, raided SSDs and an nVidia 750 Ti which cost me about $1K to put together, and it benchmarks evenly with the current Pro), but the market for the Pro has tended to be institutions, or audio / video / photo professionals who could write off the purchase or charge it to their clients.
Music player not database. Browse visually by spines just like a CD shelf or record crate. Curate albums and playlists as m3u. https://twitter.com/ptaffs/status/849313415810121733
I'd highly, highly recommend Django REST Framework: http://www.django-rest-framework.org/

It's built on top of Django, and makes creating APIs super easy.
Reminds me of a more dynamic version of the Million Dollar Homepage from many years ago. http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
To just throw out a counterexample, this is exactly the kind of project I'd prefer to build with through-hole components, rather than buying a preassembled PCB with SMT parts. On the one hand, I actually enjoy soldering, which I freely concede is bizarre; on the other, through-hole parts can actually be worked with by hand, so that if, for example, I want to replace a resistor with a trimpot or a digital pot in order to play around with flip speed or the like, I can totally do that.

If I were going to turn this into a product-shaped product, I'd probably turn it into three: a bare PCB with a BOM for the buyer to fill, a prestuffed SMT PCB for people who just want to assemble the display and run it, and in between a PCB with a bag full of parts, for those who want what I guess would be a reasonably high-end-beginner-to-low-end-intermediate assembly project without a lot of hassle.

But that's just me! Opinions vary, and mine's worth exactly what you paid for it. This is a super neat project, though, however it ends up!
Project: Building a custom email service allowing users to send emails from their own domains, looking into eventually reinventing the modern modern email UI.

I wanted to originally create my own private email server, but realize I had the option to allow others to use this. I also got really frustrated with the current way email UI worked so I'm working on revamping the UI to something more modern.

https://quantummail.io
I'm building Artisfy, a marketplace where anyone can hire digital illustrators for any project:

https://artisfy.com/

I'm a solo founder using the Meteor.js stack.
>Would love to read more about it.
Welcoming FRRouting to the Linux Foundation
I've been meaning to learn Django as it seems to have a much more mature ORM and migration capabilities (currently very much productive with node via Sequelize and Express, but migrations are rather tedious). Is now a good time or should I wait till 2 is out? How big of a break will it be?

A friend also expressed that it might not be worth it to use Django if just for the ORM and migrations (backend is just api), is he right?
Show HN: Tradeship – Editor plugin to import missing JavaScript dependencies
Yes, this is something I've seen around quite a lot.

There's some just don't know, some take the attitude "it's on the net so I can use it" and then I've encountered people who are scared into going to the other extreme - linux is GPL therefore we have to release our software product on BSD if we don't want to open source the whole thing!

Some of the big corporates are quite hot on education in this area, but their actual FOSS-related proceses can be byzantine and weird.
Pick a spot [1] touched by more than one thick pipe, in jurisdiction known for political and civic stability and a regime with rough compatibility to the ideology and national security apparatus of western allies -- their home base and primary source of customers; receptive and promoting of foreign investment, and having access to multiple reliable, redundant power sources from which to draw energy.

As of time of writing it's a tough proposition.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Cable_ma...
Redux does deliberately add some indirection and overhead to things, but that tends to stay constant as the app increases in complexity. In other words, if you're just writing a TodoMVC app, then it's probably going to seem like a pain. As the app scales, the consistency and behavior usually winds up as a net benefit.

The Redux FAQ has an entry on "scaling" [0], and my React/Redux links list has a large section on Redux architecture and best practices [1].

[0] http://redux.js.org/docs/faq/Performance.html#performance-sc...

[1] https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links/blob/master...
Someone's gotta mention http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com :

Early in the history of the Internet, some high school kid set up a web page with a 1000x1000 image and a limited color palette. He sold individual pixels, plus a link from that pixel to anywhere, for $1. Yup, he sold them all in fairly short order.
I vastly prefer Windows. But use a Macbook Pro which is still the best Windows laptop because of the build quality, performance and features.
"There’s music creators, there’s video editors, there’s graphic designers — a really great segment with the Mac. There’s scientists, engineers, architects, software programmers — increasingly growing, particularly our App development in the app store"

This is going to be great for software developers.
These are the suggested steps:
1) Have a stellar board of advisors and mentors.
2) Build partnerships with well-known organizations.
3) Get some kind of external third party recognition.
4) Take design seriously and make sure you have a strong web presence.
5) Write about your experiences online.
6) Get a major VC behind you.
7) Do your research.
8) Sell. Sales solve every problem.
9) Don’t worry about it.
These are solid points, its important to focus on building something people want. Once its validated and youre making sales, people will take your word seriously, whether youre young or old.
> However, I think if I had a reliable income that was measured and paid out in BTC, then the answer would be yes.

I think you haven't thought it through if you still think that. 2BTC is currently worth just over 2g in dollars. In 10 years time, it might be worth 10g in dollars or it might be worth 4g in dollars. You'd be crazy to agree to pay 2BTC a month for 30 years with a currency that doesn't have a predictable future value. The dollar has a predictable future value; stability is not about not losing value, it's about predictable value.

> That's really the benchmark for when BTC can be used as a proper currency, when people are prepared to set their value in BTC.

No, people can do that now, but they do it in relation to exchange rates of more stable currencies. BTC will be usable as a proper currency only when its future value becomes somewhat predictable, predictable enough to denominate long term contracts like mortgages in it without relation to another currencies exchange rate. It'll take decades to reach that point.

A currency without a reasonable long term predictable value, isn't a currency, it's a commodity.
I'd have a hard time taking anything seriously in Forbes...
Once Linux is set up without hardware compatibility issues, it's substantially better than OS X for programming, in my experience: the software Just Works more, compared to brew or whatever. I know that's ironic, but I've used both of them over years. I'm sure other people have contrasting experiences in some other sub-ecosystem of software development.
> 8 core Ryzen

Neat, I hope AMD sells a lot of these chips to get back on its feet.
This is a great idea. I will certainly use this!
A couple...

1. Record one album a month. An album must consist of no less than four songs. At least one song must be an original. I can only record on a 4-track cassette recorder.

Problem: I'm getting older and find myself nostalgic for the days when I was running my record label and playing in bands. A small, manageable project with no expectations or demands to scratch that itch and get me away from computers for a few hours a week is nice.

2. http://postgra.ph -- Almost ready... just a landing page to test an idea: A GraphQL Backend as a Service powered by PostgreSQL. I just have to add the SSL certs tonight when I get home.

The MVP is based on ideas from PostgREST/PostGraphQL -- generating the API from the public schema of the database. It'd be the bare-bones service that I could throw together in a couple of weeks.

If it takes off then I'd look into integrations, adding PipelineDB support, auto-scaling, etc.

Problem: I just wanted an API-as-a-Service that would give me full control of the data schema but didn't require me to write yet-another-web-service-in-dynamic-language-framework-foo. There are nice solutions out there for different folks but I'm a big postgres fan and wanted something that didn't require me to learn a new framework, interface, etc.
As much as I'd personally love for an AWS region to be built in Israel, the fact of the matter is, Israel is a poor development target for AWS.

* Biggest problem is that Israel is an Internet cul-de-sac - there aren't any overland Internet links to Arab countries because of politics. Which means that the only people who are going to get great pings are Israelis.

* Sure, there are a ton of Israeli tech companies, but if they're going to spin up instances in an Israeli region, they're going to be low-traffic/requirement dev instances. Production instances are going to be located close to customers, and almost no Israeli tech companies sell to the tiny local market.

* Israeli customs infrastructure has a long way to go before it's probably reliable enough for Amazon to risk investment. Imagine a vital shipment of server hardware getting held up at Ashdod because Histadrut went on strike.... shudder

I refuse to believe that the bean counters at Amazon are ignorant - they've more probably come to the conclusion that it's just not profitable.
The bots thing definitely leaves a bitter aftertaste to the whole experiment. I still loved it and enjoyed watching things unfold, though. As for the logos/flags thing.. I think that had more to do with how short the experiment was. Maybe if it went on for a little longer, people would have been slightly more creative. As it stands, even the more creative stuff was very meme-y. Megaman shooting dat boi, for example.
Why this venture capitalist wants to make traditional VC obsolete
Population and consumption probably outpace efficiency gains, right?
Really cool idea, I think people would love that! The biggest hurdle would be getting enough interesting content. You would almost need to create a Wikipedia for real world locations.

If you were able to get enough content I think that would be an incredible app/service.
I'd love to use this, but due to an even bigger problem, unfortunately my body can't handle Krispy Kreme donuts: they're way too high in calories.
I've built a relatively large React app using Redux for state management. Etheryte's point is valid -- if state is only used within a single component (or maybe shared with its immediate children), you're probably better off leaving it local to that component. And if it turns out you're wrong later and actually do need it somewhere else you can refactor and pull it into Redux at that time.

If you have more than a few bits of state to manage, use multiple reducers and split your state into logical groups. Within each reducer, I use immutable.js `Record`s as the main state container. I also use Flow to strongly-type these reducers and get autocomplete and type checking of my state, but the benefits of that are mostly orthogonal to the benefits of using Redux.

You should almost never try to "denormalize" data (store the same thing in multiple places) or eg. use Redux state to initialize a component's local state. Trying to keep these in sync will kill your mental model. Instead, use selectors to keep components in sync, and if a particular view is costly to compute as a function of your state you can memoize it (I use https://github.com/reactjs/reselect for that). But that's extra complexity that should only be added in the few cases that warrant it.

I found that by organizing my code this way I was able to keep the parts of the app that I needed to make any particular change in my head easily, which did incredible things for developer velocity and happiness. :)
I have had a work Mac for the last two years. I haven't found Apple touchpads to be this revolutionary change that'd make me like touchpads that others have and still carry a wireless mouse around. I'm not the only one in my office.
Yeah. They didn't get Nvidia cards on the MBPs either. They did acknowledge in response to a question by Gruber that developers were the largest/fastest growing segment of pro users.
> No magical form of train will come to your house or go to your office.

Yes they will; the magic trains you're thinking of are called streetcars. And, with the oddities in oil and the difficulties of maintaining suburbia, we'll be moving back to dense streetcar suburbs soon enough.
But the whole point of a lot of the reaction pieces was that it was bad enough to finally shove developers off it and onto... whatever non-Apple laptop. (I don't really know much about PCs these days)
Curious, has this method been used for solving linear systems? How would it perform e.g. against conjugate gradient?

And how would it perform for non-positive-definite systems?
This is excellent news. Even if you don't end up using one, I think it's motivating if a powerful upgradable Mac Pro exists. Something to aspire to.

Depending on your area you might at some point have to do lengthy computations or you start working with deep neural nets and then want to have Nvidia hardware.

I think it's great if you can stay on your favorite platform and have everything on one system.

Also: continuous integration for iOS. If these machines will be reasonably priced it will result in faster test build times for many engineers out there.

So I'm very happy about this unexpected announcement.
I do quite a few talks for work with non-native english speakers. They are pretty good english speakers in general, but it's still easy for them to get lost especially if it gets conversational with multiple people.

Initially I took to putting more text on the slides to counter that and give them some words to lock onto if they weren't catching the word or otherwise something to follow. This helped to some extent but I have since learnt what works better is to write a lot more into the "Speaker Notes" and distribute a copy of the file to them before the talk starts. Then they can follow along and when they get lost look at the speaker notes to try and get themselves in sync.
I remember building a hackintosh about 6 years ago, has much changed since then? It was a lot of fun and a lot more challenging than a regular Windows PC build.
> Am I the only one that sees OS X as the biggest reason to switch to Mac?

No, you're not the only one. I can't stand non-OS X anymore.

The only thing that bothers me is the lack of window-based Alt+tab (Cmd + ~ and Cmd + tab are not equivalent).
What a weird coincidence, I just reinstalled and played a bit last night and was thinking about how incredible the enemy AI was for a what, 6 year old game? Older?
The 2015 MBP works very well out of the box, the 2016 refresh has a bunch of custom chips, so it's not really surprising.
I get a 403 error when I try to access the site ;(

```Forbidden

You don't have permission to access / on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.```
Less cars on the road isn't necessarily a categorical good - people are likely driving around for a reason. Closing roads will have subtle and long term impacts we clearly don't fully understand yet.
Software defined radios that can work in extreme conditions (like during or just after a giant disaster), an IoT kernel that does useful work in a mesh network without a back haul, a personal 'internet radio' that can stream your home market AM/FM stations to you anywhere, and computer system to teach the mid-levels of computer science between programming and and database design.
Hired Releases Second Annual Report on the Tech Industry’s Gender Wage Gap
That approach only works if your system is stateless, a caveat which excludes virtually all large-scale systems.
Ok, I'm actually looking at that for the last few days, but would make the same question replacing Django with DRF.
Animatronic "face" for trees (primarily Christmas trees).

It sings Christmas songs and tells Christmas-themed jokes.
I have lived in his small home town of Davis for a decade, and I still haven't bumped into Kim Stanley Robinson. From his writing, I was sure I'd run into him at Delta of Venus café one day. No such luck.