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Cambridge Blockchain | Cambridge, MA | Foundational SR Engineer | Full-time | Cambridge/Boston, MA (no remote)

COMPANY: An early stage team of 7, new funding, and hitting the market.

POSITION
SR Engineer (Salary based on experience/max $135K).
Our next hire will own a lot of V2 product architecture & dev. of our product/system, and influence the next technologies we use.
Role listed here http://bit.ly/2pBkdkd
Or email alokb @ cambridge-blockchain.com (COO)

Technologies: Polyglot, Python, Java, Node.js, Blockchain, Cryptography, Distributed Systems
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If it's assets in a program you're also supplying, Ogg Vorbis has been typical for a while now. Presumably Opus does better though.
Not believing in software patents is unlikely to change a court's mind. Instead, support formats that are royalty free from the start - Vorbis, Opus, and Codec2, for example.
So is the FSF's campaign "Play Ogg!" [0] slowly becoming obsolete?

[0] https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/playogg/en/
I see!, thanks for pointing out this about 3dNow!.
Data Scientist/Quant | MarketInvoice | London, UK (we've hired two people from HN)

https://www.marketinvoice.com/

We're looking to hire an experienced data scientist who can take the lead in build out our credit scoring algorithms. Ideally we'd love someone with some experience in credit scoring but we're open to candidates with machine learning backgrounds who have a strong interest in finance (either from past work experience or otherwise).

This is a role that requires both commercial nous as well as technical skills.

MarketInvoice is the VC-backed peer-to-peer fintech platform that’s building the modern backbone of the economy. Imagine you’re a young company who’s just won a major contract but your client wants to pay you on 90 day terms when you need to pay your staff and suppliers upfront. That’s where we step in. Our platform uses the peer-to-peer approach to provide the day-to-day operational financing for companies as varied as mobile development agencies, food brands and construction firms.

We’re the largest startup in our space worldwide; last month we finance over £50m in deals. It's a £100bn/year market which is dominated by legacy lenders and banks with complex processes and shady practices. We’re bringing transparency and simplicity to the market.

All roles have equity options with low strike price and employee friendly terms.

Reach me at i.ghory@marketinvoice.com
I would suggest, just based on my intuition and no data (if you want to provide the data you're referencing, that'd be great), that this may be conflating correlation with causation.

Successful web startups are based in SV because to be a successful web startup, you need LOTS of money to burn on marketing and promotion. To get lots of money to burn, you must get investors with the appetite for watching their money burn up. Those investors have built out SV as their nexus not due to any magical qualities of the place, but primarily for personal convenience (traveling sucks, etc.).

The VCs in not-SV do not allow startups to run anywhere near the same way as the SV guys do, despite their attempts to imitate the YC model (most of which are, IMO, outright fleeces on naive locals). Non-SV VCs are just used to doing much more traditional deals, not seed-stage tech financing.

The people who want to start VC-backed companies thus have to trek out to SV, and then once they're established, they stick around because that's convenient for them too.

If you can decouple from the VC ecosystem, or if you can find good local VCs that know the field (and you probably can't), there is every reason to NOT start in SV.
Big Data Developer | Throtle | Red Bank, NJ | ONSITE www.throtle.io
We're building out our Data, DevOps and UI teams and we are looking for individuals who are data driven and want to use some of the latest technologies. We are hiring fast.
The most up to date roles can be found at:
www.throtle.io/positions
Submit your resume and in the referral box put Hacker News
I think the 'sane' reason here is that seeing these numbers encourages users to use the website more. In a world were more time-on-site is correlated with increased advertising revenue I don't think these numbers are going to disappear so easily.
Plato | Mobile Engineer | San Jose, CA | ONSITE | Full Time

Plato integrates messaging and pure multiplayer games on our own extensible platform. http://www.platoapp.com/

We're an engineering focused company of 16 people, and we're looking for more mobile engineers to build things the right way.
We are interested in both native iOS (Swift) and Android engineering (Java+Kotlin). Candidates interested in both are great!

We're well funded by early angel investors of WhatsApp and located in San Jose.

Requirements:
- Strong computer science fundamentals
- 2+ years of professional experience
- Demonstrated experience with iOS or Android: professional work with an app, or personal project -- app ratings matter
- Intellectually curious: Always asking why is it that way and how does it work

We value smart, passionate people over experience: if you want to do things right, and you like to dig to find out why things are broken or how things could be better -- that's what we like to see.

We offer a competitive salary, with equity and other incentives possible. Full health care, 401k, catered lunch, and flexibility.

Interested? Introduce yourself at jobs@platoteam.com
Rapid7 | Belfast, Northern Ireland / Cambridge, MA / Dublin, Ireland / Los Angeles, CA | Software Engineer, Platform Delivery | Full-Time - ONSITE

Rapid7 is probably known best as the company behind metasploit. While Rapid7 is a security company you will not have to be a security expert to work with us. See https://www.rapid7.com/company/jobs.jsp for the complete list of job openings.

All these jobs are for Platform Delivery, our version of SRE. We run on AWS and use everything from convection (our DSL for cloudformation) to terraform to ansible. What ever is the best tool for the job.

If you are interested feel free to reach out directly to udangel@rapid7.com
Thanks for your comment. There is no reason for HTTPS on our demo page because there are no secret transmissions there. Actually, this demo shows that our solution may be used on every kind of website even they don't use HTTPS. Of course, authentication itself and all API calls are via HTTPS.
Show HN: EuroKeks, a stock exchange parody for memes (open beta)
They developed MP3.
Some time after Java first came out, there was a product called Voyager from a Java products company called Objectspace [1]. Voyager was a product for creating and using mobile agents. I had downloaded the trial and tried it out a bit. It was quite cool. IIRC, Graham Glass, who was involved in ObjectSpace, was also the creator of Electric XML, an XML library, and was later CTO of WebObjects. Recently he had/has been working on EDU 2.0 (EDU20.org), an e-learning product company.

[1] They were also the creators of JGL, the Java Generics Library, which was like a Java version of the C++ STL, and done before Java got generics natively.
I highly recommend "How Music Got Free" for an entertaining and illuminating read of MP3 and how it changed the world - for the better or worse.

It also delves into how Fraunhofer (and its creator) benefited monetarily from its adoption.

Link - https://www.amazon.com/How-Music-Got-Free-Obsession-ebook/dp...
The idea is that because the manufacturer's costs also go up, there's no longer any reason for them to manufacture abroad, and the same goods are manufactured in the country instead. So while their prices are higher, the workers that make them are also paid more (and, perhaps more importantly, are paid at all, on account of having a job). And furthermore, that money remains in the economy of the country imposing the tariff. Ideally, the end result is that more people overall can afford that iPhone, for example, even if the sticker price is higher.

To what extent this works in practice is another matter. But I would posit that the notion that's common nowadays that tariffs are always bad is just as simplistic as wrong as the notion that tariffs can fix all problems. It all boils down to the specific numbers.
Why GPL Compliance Education Materials Should Be Free as in Freedom
Karlheinz Brandenburg... Stockhausen was a composer.
If they skip a second cpu socket, a second graphcis card, and any 3.5" internal storage then they could make it pretty small. I hope they don't however, they should at least have two full length graphics cards. CPU's are good enough that you can cram enough cores in one socket these days for most desktop workloads. Spinning metal storage isn't necessary either, an m2 slot + space for 2xSSD's is plenty for internal storage. The problem is the full size graphics cards, in the age of 4K, 5K and 8K and what have you, there is just no way around that content creators for games, video, VR etc will need two of the latest of whatever is on the market. And those are huge and hot. And they need a large box of moving air with an 750W+ power supply.
You have forgotten several important analysis routinely done by JITs that significantly speedup Java:

- deep inlining, by default the inlining depth of a JVM is around 10, you can not have this depth of inlining with a statically compiled language.

- prune non taken branches (and exception blocks),
so you do not fill the instruction cache with code never executed.

- branch re-ordering, the code executed more often can be read from top to bottom, less executed code is offloaded to a side block.

- CPU instructions selection at runtime.

- lock profiling, generate different codes if the lock is contented or not.

BTW .Net do not do any code profiling, so can not use most of these optimizations.
That series motivated me to learn Linear Algebra when I watched it 8 months ago. After watching those, I started this course: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr22xikWUK2yUW4YxOKXclQ/pla...

In my opinion, the latter is one of the best math courses available on YouTube, and definitely deserves more views.
Software is already covered by copyright. Granting it parent protection as well allows software companies to double dip in a way that no other industry can.
Parkinson’s Awareness Month with Michael J. Fox at Verily
Can I communicate with them well? (which is a huge topic in itself) Are the people I talked to focused and flexible? (this is not a contradiction) Do the team members refer to each other, and if so, in positive terms? Are the people interesting and curious?...
Why are you under the impression that what Apple calls "ARC" is substantially different than reference counting?
Bitcoin is eating itself
i used avian in the past for some small project, it was a bit complicated at first but i like it in the end.
I would love some integration in ide like intellj and build system
Video advertising is starting to see a drop in CPM that's going to lead to a leaning of producers, which is going to have a cyclical effect on Google's revenue.

Banner ads have already bottomed out for the most part, but you can see with Google's most recent search changes that they're struggling to monetize. Compare how much ads stood out in search results ~5 years ago to the incredibly minor [ad] badge that appears on current search results. Google would not have done that if they didn't have to.
My info may be outdated but what I originally understood was an application for sponsorship had to include details on plans for the gTLD which were subject to approval.

The idea was name brands like .microsoft could be kept private for trademark-protection but other gTLDs like .professional would go to applicants that intended to resell.

Not sure how this ended up in practice though.
The Priest purified potassium nitrate from bat guano.

And now I find that urea is a stabilizer, which increases the ignition temperature, and reduces the risk of accidental ignition.

> I have found that the above objects are accomplished when the black powder composition contains a stabilizing ingredient consisting of a solid organic basic compound. While the inclusion of such an ingredient is particularly desirable in black powders containing ammonium nitrate as a portion of the oxidizing material, I may include this stabilizer to advantage also in all types of black powders. Various compounds-may be used, with beneficial results, preferably from the class of solid aliphatic basic compounds, for example guanidine, dicyandiamide, urea, and the 5 like. Various aromatic basic compounds likewise may be employed, such as diphenylamine. Preferably I make use of urea for bringing about the desired results.

https://www.google.com/patents/US2030096

But that's a 1936 patent, so the Priest was either prescient or Corman was anachronistic.
why is Google doing this? They're helping everyone else build a spider that could easily serve as the front end to a new search engine. Is this their way of fighting back against the internet closing off? Give everyone a spider so perfect that walling in your content becomes impractical? I like the idea of Google lighting the match that burns down the walled gardens, but if not this than why?

It could be anything, but I feel like there's definitely another motive to Google unleashing something that could bite their core business.
Like most of the FSF.
I'd like to see a listing of all the billion dollar IPO's or acquisitions in past decade with location on it. Both where it started and where it spent most of its time. That mighy help settle the question.
There's no real-life example of software patents being good.
Seriously. Look at how google handles the Python2 to Python3 gap. They built a python2-go bridge and they are probably rewriting everything python2 in go. Make something expensive enough, and companies with resources will react.
Bloomberg does a pretty fair job for general reporting. Unsurprisingly, their Op-Ed section runs left of center. >https://www.bloomberg.com/
As background for discussions of RC vs. GC, keep in mind Bacon et al. 2004's result that refcounting and (tracing) garbage collection are duals of each other: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~cs415/reading/bacon-garbage.pdf

That is, for each RC system of a certain complexity / feature set / etc., there exists a corresponding GC system that requires the same amount of work, and as the RC system does more work, so does the GC system. The exact times at which you have GC pauses, or pool cleanups, or whatever you want to call them are different, but the total amount of overhead is the same.

Of course, it's still worth thinking in one of the two paradigms: for instance, if you need precise timings of a function's execution (but it's okay for that function to be slow), you may prefer the immediate overhead of refcounting instead of amortizing the cost into some later garbage collection. But if you can optimize your refcounting overhead based on some application-specific knowledge, loosely speaking, you could also optimize a corresponding GC system by using the same insights.
NEXEDI | Lille/Munich/Paris/Plovdiv | ONSITE | 4/12 months INTERNS

We are looking for new colleagues to help improve our FOSS software solutions and contribute to research and industrial projects. If you are passionate about open source software and like one of our topics on http://www.nexedi.com/jobs get in touch with us! Candidates will do a programming challenge followed by an interview. We're currently looking for:

- Nexedi | Web Mesh Network JavaScript Developer | Lille | INTERN

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About Nexedi: We are a small international team of about 30 programmers (headquarters in Lille, France) creating free software since 2001. We run our own stack with ERP5 (Business Suite), SlapOS (Cloud Deployment) and Wendelin (Big Data/Machine Learning) being the main solutions for which we provide customization services (our code is free, our time isn't). We have time to tinker, need to think out-of-the-box/ram/space and work mostly autonomous. We all use Chromebooks, our hierarchy is as flat as the area around Lille, our offices are paperless and we have no meetings. We mostly hack in Python and (vanilla) JavaScript. If you're looking for fame or gain, we're not the right place. For purpose and leverage, we might be worth considering. Join us!
If they really want to redistribute, they could reduce prices. They could return to shareholders, sure, but returning to the market (of their customers) would be more economically valuable.
Why do I want my private key on my phone instead of the computer where I am using it?
I'm not calling it one of the BSDs, but you still have to consider who's running the show. The FreeBSD part behind pfSense is as important as the Debian beind VyOS (although I'm not suggesting VyOS here).

If things are completely same from a management/security perspective, then I'd be wrong but it does make a difference when it comes to management, updates, and compatibility etc.

Your definition of technically capable is a bit vague. What can a technically capable user do? It can vary from barely being able to use the cli and minimal understanding of basic networking, to being able to compile/tune the kernel by themselves and write drivers in case they are missing.
> stuff like this makes me question things like vaccinating children

We don't vaccinate children because of some peer-reviewed article. We vaccinate them because infant mortality rates dropped dramatically when and where vaccination was introduced, and the drop wasn't explained by the parallel introduction of antibiotics alone.

We also have the correlation in the opposite direction - drops in the number of vaccinations due to rumours are correlated with an increase in mortality.

That's why anti-vaxxers are nuts.
Devil's Advocate here, so you are assuming there is a perfectly secure software implementation in this world, and only Intel has it for their Management Engine? I get your point, SemiAccurate may or may not have an exploit, but I think it goes without saying there is a security hole somewhere in the ME, it just is not publicly known at this point.
I think we need to be critical of the Moneyball narrative - and not just because Oakland hasn't actually performed that well under the MB regime ...

The understood narrative is that dummies were choosing players based on broken heuristics and that proper, sober heuristics would uncover hidden value.

Put another way: If you remove human decision-making and replace it with algorithms you will achieve better results.

I am skeptical of that conclusion in every other realm and I don't think baseball (or hiring, as is the case in this article) should be exempt from that skepticism.

Having read MB the book (and seen the movie, for what that's worth) I wonder if Billy Beane is missing the potential for deeper insights that only human brains can put together. It is the thing that we are good at, after all ...
> Woudn't that lead to more centralisation of miners in the end?

This happened long ago. These days you need chip designers to compete.
MotionMetrics (https://carv.ai/) | Software Engineer (Full stack engineer & mobile (Android or iOS) engineer) | London, GB | Shenzhen, CN

Compensation
£18K – £46K ,
0.0% – 2.0% (equity)

If you love skiing and technology, then you're in luck.

We're making Carv, the world's first digital ski coach (using some very intelligent sensors!).

We work with some of the latest and greatest skiers (Olympians included!) and are looking to boil down their knowledge into a personal ski coach that can help everyone ski better.

As a full-stack engineer engineer, you will be working alongside the CTO. Depending on your passion, skills and experience this could mean a mix and match of the following

Building Carv's iOS app in Swift

Building Carv's Android app in Java or Kotlin

Building Carv's server in Python or Swift

Building Carv's digital coaching in using C++

Improving technical processes across the board

Some of the tech we work with include. (Any experience with the following technologies will be helpful, but we're sure you can pick it up along the way!)

Android NDK,
BLE,
SWIG,
Protobuf,
Django/Vapor

Reach out to us for a chat at pruth -at- motionmetrics.co
I look after a pfsense box for a school on a 9 year old E2200 that is obsolete by this.

On one hand I cannot complain because the server is 9 years old and lasted well, but on the other hand, why not an option for those just needing a packet filter to bypass this?

Am I missing something?
I thought it was probably on SSC and I even searched there, but didn't manage to find the article. Thanks for the summary!
FilterBubbler – An infrastructure for collaborative content classification
Love the page width on that Summer Founders Program[1] link.

I also appreciate the fact that the URL still works! Well done making sure Cool Urls Don't Change.

[1] http://old.ycombinator.com/sfp.html
Unpoly, the unobtrusive JavaScript framework for server-side applications
I can definitely relate to that.
FYI: Go, Python and Ruby do share memory between threads.

JavaScript doesn't have threads so the point is moot.

Only Erlang doesn't share memory between processes.
Are these paid or unpaid internships?
Amazon Prime Now | Seattle, WA | Full-time | Onsite

Prime Now provides Amazon Prime members unparalleled convenience and ease of mind by offering one-hour, ultra fast delivery as well as two-hour scheduled delivery of tens and thousands of essential products. Check out the Prime Now video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjIH5dUQh7E

We're hiring for many roles including:

* Front End Engineers

* Software Engineers

* Technical Program Managers

If you're interested, send me an email and resume to primenow-hiring@amazon.com
It's realtime, got around 10.000 transactions already, can hold 400+ concurrent connections and got API for bots!
All the economic decisions are made using a liquid democracy (which is almost functional)
I don't think it confuses anyone that's worked on lower levels, particularly listening on sockets or kernel callbacks. It's a new concept to a lot of upper level programmers that used to be isolated from this stuff by threads.
There is so much statistical noise in any short series of 5 to 7 events that any coach whom thinks they have some magical eye at picking the "right" players is simply delusional.

Yes it worked out for Brooks this time and god-bless-his-success, but really...the whole idea behind Moneyball is that people totally suck at it.
> I read their posts, looked at their photos, liked their comments, left notes here and there.. Chatted with them..

Wow. Back then it had already degenerated into two things: chainmail and the trap of portraying a life that you don't lead. I left when I realised that absolutely none of that "keeping in touch" was happening. If anything, Facebook estranged people.

To the point of the article, imagine all the good that could be done with this data: an alert system for vulnerable teenagers.
Only for investments held in the fund for longer than 1 year. Read the Taxation section of your linked Wikipedia page again, it's petty clearly spelled out.
Are the communications between the phone and the computer going via the kryptonite servers?