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$150-180k

VCs: Foundation Capital | Bloomberg Beta | Fifth Wall

We have a rare opportunity to DESIGN AND BUILD OUR FIRST PRODUCT COMPLETELY FROM SCRATCH, BUT WITH THE RESOURCES OF A WELL-FUNDED SERIES A COMPANY.

We are reinventing the $14 billion market for title insurance as a first step on our mission to make homeownership simpler, safer, and more accessible.

We are a diverse team of entrepreneurs who have founded successful start-ups, led initiatives at big companies (Google, Kayak, McKinsey), and played material roles in government (White House).

We are looking for a seasoned Tech Lead who will own all technical decisions - from architecture and platforms down to code style and design patterns. You will partner closely with our Engineering Manager, who is taking on responsibility for recruiting, people management, and project management.

You have architected multiple products and systems before and are excited to guide an A+ team to success on a greenfield opportunity.

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I went through a similar experience last semester and decided to change my approach. From now on I'm going to be taking fewer classes and no longer worry if it delays my graduation date. Why?

What matters most in undergrad is what you do OUTSIDE the classroom.

Are you attending hackathons/programming competitions at your university? Are you applying for internships? Are you part of any club where you learn stuff? Are you preparing for coding interviews? Are you making friends?

Right now the competition is easy. Most students in comp sci are caught up in their course work so it's not hard to stand out. The tech giants and local startups will be looking for undergrads/fresh grads for their internships.

The biggest thing to realize is that the first serious job out of school is going to set the trajectory for the rest of your career.

So you should think of your time in undergrad as a time when you set yourself up to get that ideal job. Don't expect your classes to prepare you for anything.

In other words, don't worry so much about grades. Take a lighter course load if you have to. Focus on the extra curriculars instead.
Show HN: DiscoverDev – An AI powered engineering article curation engine
I find that a pretty strange approach to parenting. IMO you should optimize for happiness of your child, not for carefully manipulating them into the path you laid out for them. My perception of a good parent is to encourage your child to discover and pursue their own passions, even if they contradict yours. You can open doors, but they need to walk through it by themselves. YMMV.
Aha, you're right! Thanks.
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I hated when people asked not needed questions in lecture for over hundred people. At least attempt to answer it yourself, don't slow other 99 people down.
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Hey HN, one of the makers of DiscoverDev here. The idea behind our project is to track and tag high quality technical articles published by the engineering teams of various companies. Kind of like a "Product Hunt" for engineering blogs. We've limited ourselves to company published articles (for now). The whole process is pretty much automated, but all articles do go through human eyes for a final quality check.

We also run a mailing list and have a twitter account (https://twitter.com/discoverdev_io) for those interested.

Read our about page for more info : https://www.discoverdev.io/about
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See also luje. "An experimental (read: toy) Java virtual machine written in pure Lua."

https://cowlark.com/luje/combined.html#index
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What can we expect from the India-Israel $40M tech fund?
I think it is impolite not to give accurate credit. It is Typescript... and not vanilla javascript.

https://github.com/plasma-umass/doppio
For real. I've seen it more these days. A friend in a po-dunk town in Northern California I visited had IPv6 from Comcast. I was kinda shocked since my fiber Gigabit ISP in Seattle didn't have IPv6 rolled out to residential customers yet.

It seems more important than ever to roll out IPv6, since, at some point, IPv4 is going to become incredibly scares. Imagine a permanent/reserved IPv4 address on DigitalOcean/AWS/Vultr going from the few dollars a month to $70/month or $100/month. Forget network neutrality, regular people won't even be able to host their own content in a way everyone else can reach.
I decided to buy a long Ethernet wire and run it down the stairs. I trip over it sometimes,

Why not use Powerline Ethernet? In most houses, it's typically fast and reliable and requires no extra wires. E.g. the data rate between my desk and router is currently 784 Mbit/s.
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How to people get to IPv4 sites? Do they setup a transparent tunnel of some kind?
The novel approach here will become apparent when CloudFlare makes it crystal clear that Blackbird inadvertently volunteered to be Prenda Law 2.0 with their dissembling contracts ($1 plus "other consideration") intended to skirt the letter of the law/ethical regulations. That being that attorneys can't seek to acquire causes of action.
I worked at Epic a long time ago. They're a bad employer -- churn that would make the worst valley sweatshop blush -- and even when I worked there had 10s of millions of lines of vb6 and the same in mumps/cache, the world's worst programming language. I'd imagine their systems have broken 100m lines of code by now.

You're essentially using software to automate how hospitals and outpatient clinics work. Each one of those has established workflows/procedures; each of those workflows have started or evolved to be (at bare minimum) subtly different than everywhere else. Each and every procedure has to be build into the software or adapted to it. Installs are comparable to installing ERP systems into fortune 500 or fortune 100 companies, with at least comparable risks. Imagine how risk adverse you would be if inaccessible, incorrect, or incomplete health records could quite reasonably contribute to severe medical problems for humans.

If you were ever in a hospital for something serious pre EMRs, you would be unsurprised to have a file that is several hundred sheets of paper. Every single scrap of paper in a hospital has to make it's way into Epic's EMR.

Oh, and hospitals / clinics often buy these systems piecemeal, starting eg with labs. Your code has to talk to their code.

Lots of these got started before web clients worked well, so they're deployed clients. You can't upgrade 10k seats simultaneously, so both the clients and the servers have to be compatible up and down protocol versions. Ponder just how much fun that would be.

Or ponder just how convoluted the logic would be to ask if a person who does X in clinic A is allowed to see record B for patient C. In, for example, a hospital chain that may employ 25k+ people in the hospital and various outpatient clinics.

And follow up with questioning the idea (and expense!) of retraining every nurse, doctor, aide, tech, etc in a hospital on a new system.
I like having a laptop at uni just because I can program when the lectures are boring, I find the material is too easy in UK universities in CS at least, dunno about other courses or countries, but the amount of effort you need to get good marks along with the amount you're paying is a bit silly, and mostly you'll learn more by yourself...

That said, if you're in a programming class, having a laptop to follow along and try out the concepts is really handy, when we were in an C++/ASM class, seeing the different ASM GCC/G++ and Microsoft's C++ compiler spat out was quite interesting.
If it just had comments, trailing commas, and didn't require quoting names, I could forgive the brace matching. Really shortsighted.
Ask HN : How Do We Program Intuition, Instincts and Insights into a Computer?
I read some articles online and was wondering if we can ever manage to create algorithms that can create human like Intuition, Insights and Instincts ? Any thoughts would be appreciated.
They had a blog post that claimed that they were going to add local support when the Win10 version was first announced but quietly never provided said functionality.

That said, I'm quite disappointed in the direction that they are taking and it certainly feels like a money grab to me.

1Password could expand to add things like ssh key support etc. and I would be happy to pay for an upgrade just not an ongoing tax.
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Oh, you didn't - and I hope my flippant comment didn't mislead anyone into thinking you did.

There's already so many factors distorting the health care market that it is imho hardly an argument against single payer that doctors would have to negotiate compensation against a powerful customer. (It would, after all, at the same time remove a number of other distortions from the mix - while unlikely to leave doctors in the gutter in the process.)

External circumstances change in a lot of professions all the time; for instance, I do not expect the government to help me out (working in the petroleum industry) now that oil prices are more than halved from their peak - that's life. Better adjust to it.
http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/AlwaysMouseWheel

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html
I mean, the fact that WiFi works at all is amazing. We're encoding information--lots of it, too--and sending it through light forms of energy ripples through the air, which we can then decode.

All of this happens at a sub-millisecond rate. Technology is amazing, and we can sometimes forget that [0]. I wouldn't treat yourself harshly because you don't fully understand it.

[0]:https://youtu.be/zbCoe3vIskA?t=40s
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The docs for Mix are decent. You can start here:

https://hexdocs.pm/mix.

When you are trying to get help w/ a specific task, you check checkout the mix tasks docs:

https://hexdocs.pm/mix/Mix.Tasks.Deps.Get.html#content

And honestly, I often just look at the source code:

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/tree/master/lib/mix

The Elixir Slack channel is pretty amazing, too:

https://elixir-slackin.herokuapp.com/
Looks like windows does RAID (win 2000) and pooled storage (whs, win8). And you can setup particular folders for periodic backup and retrieve history.

But I'd like to be able to retrieve every single version for desired partitions/folders and the ability to store to cloud.
Your Best Teammate Might Someday Be an Algorithm
Yay, automatic code indentation. This was sorely needed, especially for CSS.

This editor is great!
"With the double DRAM supported parts, the 30% premium seems rather high. We were told from Intel that ‘only 0.5% of the market actually uses those quad ranked and LR DRAMs’, although that more answers the fact that the base support is 768GB, not that the 1.5GB parts have an extra premium."

AFAIK, GitLab's server proposal included them. They will probably not use 128GB TSV LR-DIMMs immediately though. I think the price gap between 32GB RDIMMs and 64GB LR-DIMMs are falling right now right?
Yet another phishing scam. Only targeted at ethereum users. Is it just or is such block chain wallets easier to steal from?
Take a look at TOML next time, very simple syntax and a lot of libraries coming around. I've been using it in every new project I start when I end up wanting configuration.

https://github.com/toml-lang/toml
Since then we've had no issues in a fairly large 6 bedroom 3 story house.

It depends very much on the construction of your house and interference of other nearby APs. We have an access point with a six-element beamforming antenna array (2.4GHz and 5GHz, Airport Extreme). WiFi in a room next to the AP is still reasonably ok. But once there are two walls between the AP and a device, the signal is basically gone.

We now use Powerline Ethernet and get excellent transfer rates around the house. (Of course, performance depends on the wiring, etc.)
how smaller do you think things could get?
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I am not sure. I used to say "sorry" and "I don't know". People assumed I make more mistakes and know less then collegues who don't speek that way.

I am training myself not to say those things (not there yet, but getting better).
I know that the story is nonsense -- I am part of a research group that's gotten such grants before. This is basically a story aiming to confuse those who don't understand how research works. Google is funding work that aligns with what they do, but the grants they give are no-strings-attached and are tiny. (Government grants are much bigger.)

Sure, Google only funds things that are related to what they care about, but of course that's the case. And these days the NSF is partnering with Intel, VMware, and others to give out grants on things that align with those companies.

The WSJ has been sniffing around for this for a long time, and actually was trying to get professors' private email claiming that their email should be in the public domain. (I don't know if they succeeded.) I actually see this as part of the larger trend of trying to discredit research.

Edited to add: the story focuses on policy and law research, which is easier to attack, and I don't have any interest in defending that. But I'm willing to bet that the amount of grant money Google gives out for that work is probably tiny compared to funding they give for CS research. And it's the latter I'm familiar with.
Yes they should get the money from selling your BigData profile AND pushing ads in your face.
No, I'm suggesting that we shouldn't push for kindergarten kids to read and analyze Shakespeare, because reading is so important (and in the process de-emphasize other subjects). I'm saying that the level of math education happening early (though I can only speak for my home country) is fine, just like the level of reading education happening in the early years is fine. It is completely okay to only reach Calculus and math as a structural science in your late teens and believing that you can teach that widely to kindergarten kids just doesn't work out particularly well for anyone.
This is more or less the exact setup I'm using (Ubiquiti AP and RB750). I've only had it for a few months but neither have required rebooting once they were set up and the performance is good enough to make my 150 Mbps connection the bottleneck.

I also enjoy the level of control that comes with having separate devices for cable modem / router / wifi AP, for example being able to ssh into the router to configure things like port forwarding.
According to Palmer Luckey[1], the Rift strap assembly (including back of head counterweight and earphones) is about 150g. That puts the HMD portion at about 320g.

The new Vives weigh about 468g. According to Amazon, a replacement back strap weighs 1.8 ounces (51g)[2]. The Vive HMD w/out strap would be - at the least - about 417g.

Even at a 417g weight, that's about 30% heavier than Rift's strapless weight. Since the 1.8g may include packaging, the HMD may weigh a bit more, bringing the % up to 40% or so.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/47rb3m/the_rift_cv1...

[2] http://a.co/6PUVw7v: "Package Dimensions 4.2 x 3.9 x 3.9 inches; 1.8 ounces" (so 1.8 ounces may include packaging).
Yes, these two oblasts are a great reason not to look solely at GDP figures.

It is largely a statistical illusion - a huge part of Ukrainian economy is in the gray sector. However government transfers, budget spending and industry does show up in statistics.

The two Donbass oblasts actually scored high on GDP per capita, but had much lower quality of life indicators. A large reason for this disparity in income is government transfers, like the big pension and health benefits provided to mine workers. You also had huge indirect transfers like the government propping up failing enterprises and buying production from the regions industrial oligarchs.
You're partially correct. Algorithms can't be patented. However, in practice, patent drafters work around this by adding phrases such as "A memory with computer readable instructions to [Insert Algorithm]" to turn the algorithm into an invented product. The bottom line is that the invention is the memory and the processor system whose novelty is that it includes instructions which implement the particular steps of the algorithm. This practically covers all implementations of the algorithm on Von Neumann machines, in effect covering all current implementations of the algorithm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottschalk_v._Benson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker_v._Flook

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_v._Diehr

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilski_v._Kappos
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Can you provide more background on what you feel that messaging clients are getting right, but browsers are missing?
It is, unless you want to use a custom domain with it. With the latter case your only choice to retain some semblance of HTTPS is to put it behind a CDN, but that still breaks end-to-end HTTPS. The problem really has to solved at Github's end, by allowing users to upload their own certs.
It's difficult to understand the purpose of your comment except as a Google apology, which I'm sure they can do fine without, seeing that they're a huge corporation paying a lot of money to have the friendly ear of government representatives.

Yes, there's a lot of things going wrong in the world. Today we discuss Google, tomorrow Microsoft, etc. There's enough for everybody.
I got real busy working on a project and dumped Facebook about 4 months ago in a ruthless mission to delete all distractions. I haven't really missed it. I can call or text anyone whom I really want to speak to. And when I text comments or photos to a group SMS, I know Facebook isn't filtering it.
1) I think that's an interesting idea.

2) Complex pricing is hard to implement well (both for valuations and for product prices). It's friction for what could be a straightforward transaction.

3) It's not clear to me why the investor would want their upside capped. E.g. if I buy stock in your company and the company becomes more 3x more valuable, then why would I be okay with my stock being 2x more valuable? Why not 3x just like you? (And likewise, the founder wouldn't want my stock to be 4x more valuable if the company is 3x more valuable).
If its too simple and boring for you, why don't you leave?
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Please read https://www.troyhunt.com/cloudflare-ssl-and-unhealthy-securi... - yes, it may not be 100% secure, but it almost never is in the real world anyway
In Australia it's now law for all government websites to be WCAG AA
You did not tell what is this "other purpose", but you might think about cryptography. Entanglement enables a mechanism where a secret key seems to exist only when it is activated from another location.

That way a satellite would be preloaded with hundreds of "hidden" secret keys and one of them would be available for encrypting only when it would be decided on the ground. A quantum twist to Merkle's puzzles.

I am not convinced by this kind of quantum cryptography. I am sure it would be possible to crack it, because all cryptography proposals are overly complexifying a little aspect of a much larger problem, and someone just look at another aspect of the problem and easily defeats the proposed cryptography scheme.

It is a pattern that we seen an incredible number of times, when do people will recognise it and adopt a more humble, honest and safer way to implement security?

Indeed I am yet another random guy on Internet, I am not versed in quantum cryptography, and I did not work on cryptography since a long time. But on the anecdoctical side, 12 years ago I had to work on identity/security and at that time when I told my colleagues that public cryptography was no more safe, they were baffled. For them it was pure non-sens, yet I could crack (factor in prime numbers) simple keys on my little laptop and RSA stopped a few years later their famous RSA challenge [0]...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Factoring_Challenge
I agree. When we made this video four years ago, we didn't know much about accessibility at all. We have been working since then to improve things. While we're going to leave this video alone as it's quite outdated (and probably remove the link from the website soon), we are building a web-based p5.js code editor that aims to be accessible to blind and low-vision users. In addition to being screen reader compatible, it will make the canvas, normally impenetrable to screen readers, accessible as well by providing and option of three different types of audio feedback based on what type of sketch you're trying to create. Claire Kearney-Volpe and Mathura Govindarajan are heading up the efforts, and Cassie Tarakajian is leading the development of the editor (more here: https://medium.com/@ProcessingOrg/a-p5-js-web-editor-for-all...). We're aiming for a release very soon. We are always looking for more accessibility feature testers, so if you are interested in previewing an alpha version please email hello@5p5js.org.
Yes, they use something called DS-Lite were IPv4 gets CGNATed (many customers share one IPv4).
The best data set will in general only be as good as the raw data that was used to prepare it.

I think you underestimate just how far along Google is with respect to the huge amounts of raw data they handle. They've been around for 20 years now and amassed a lot of expertise handling all kinds of data imaginable at scale.

If you disagree, who would you say is ahead of Google wrt general data sets that are valuable?
Clearly there is still tremendous interest in the type of efficient software you curated so well back in the day. So many of the programs still work fine today even though their original websites are long gone -- a testament to minimal dependencies, your efforts to archive local copies, and Microsoft's commitment to backwards compatibility!

Your blog is always a breath of fresh air any time I happen to stumble by one of your solutions in response to searching for help. Definitely one of my "trusted" sources - don't ever let that domain expire!
This kind of dismissal is at best unhelpful and at worst even suspicious. Why does it bother you that people discuss this topic? Science influences policy and influences our behaviour and well-being, of course we want to know when it's biased.

The fact that it's not "new" is irrelevant. A lot of bad things are happening and sometimes we forget about a particular bad thing. Some of us genuinely don't know.