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Faithlife | Software Developer, Payments | Bellingham, WA | Onsite, full-time, https://faithlife.com/jobs/PaymentsSoftwareDeveloper

Faithlife is seeking an experienced payments engineer to join our engineering team, helping build out our payments platform.

As an engineer on the payments team, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the services and infrastructure that move funds for Faithlife. The ideal candidate has experience with payment systems or FinTech startups.

This is a full-time position at our office in Bellingham, WA.

Please email your résumé, GitHub profile, StackOverflow profile, or other contact information to devjobs@faithlife.com.

Find out more about getting hired at Faithlife: http://faithlife.codes/blog/2017/02/getting_hired_at_faithli....

Please note that Faithlife will not sponsor applicants for work visas.
This suggests that both generics and inheritance are unnecessary.
Countdown: https://www.epochconverter.com/countdown

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14765198
> gaps that are best bridged with hands-on guidance from a senior developer

Yup. Also, there are situations where that gap becomes problematic to fill. As a lot of bootcamp people get hired, you start getting in situations where everyone in the team is a bootcamp grad. Then they don't have someone with an actual CS background to compensate.

I only have an IT degree myself (which, while longer to get, for all practical purpose is just a longer bootcamp). That was fine: I learnt a lot on my own, and 15-20 years ago, everyone else on my team had a CS background. I got coached, i learnt, I went from there.

Fastforward today and people without CS backgrounds might not have someone who does anywhere near. You don't know what you don't know, and have no way to be guided in the right direction. That's bad news.
Apparently you haven't used Venmo, or any of the other tools for paying your friends using government backed money conveniently, for free.
Because it's not absurd, the advantages of city living are too numerous to count. Your premise is flawed.
it's scary walking on 5th ave and being hit with freezing air every time i walk by these huge shops that are mostly empty all day. I doubt any of them turn a profit, probably there for brand awareness. why don't we turn them into
street facing displays only
The problem is that the community did indulge the author and the other Go maintainers 5 years ago and their was an apparent refusal to see lack-of-generics as an issue, almost as though Turing-completeness was sufficient justification to not include them.

"Find us examples and show us so we can ponder this further" is incredibly condescending after we did that 5 years ago and they decided to stall (or to use the author's term, "wait") on the issue. Honestly I think it might be too late for generics to be added, because the large body of existing interfaces aren't generic and likely would have a very high transition cost.
You may find this hard to believe, but moving heat around (i.e. air conditioning) is more energy efficient than straight up heating. It is more environmentally friendly when you consider that in many cold locales in the US, heat is provided not by electricity, but by a shitload of on-site oil-fired devices.
I run CopperheadOS: https://copperhead.co/android/

It's Android, but without non-free software, and without any reporting to Google.
The first company I worked at had cool biz tightly tied to time with zero regard to the actual temperature outside. It usually came too late and ended too early. Thankfully the next place I worked at was a lot more lax in the policy.
Most of the discussion here seems to be around generics, and it sounds like they still don't see the benefit of generics.

I like Go, but the maintainers have a maddeningly stubborn attitude towards generics and package managers and won't ease up even with many voices asking for these features.
vagina.to is available, so it seems that medical/technical/'proper' terms are not blocked, merely slang.

Edit: I love the web page design, unironically. Makes it feel like there's a cgi-bin directory full of Perl scripts in the background.
Plenty of people live all over the eastern half of the US. It's only the western half that is mostly empty except for the coast.

Here's the population by time zone, in millions:

Eastern: 150.2 (47.1%)
Central: 92.3 (29.0%)
Mountain: 21.3 (6.7%)
Pacific: 53.0 (16.6%)

https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-the-US-population-l...
> Just for fun

...or to retarget engineers on FB and other channels :)
> Bootcamps can still be quite valuable. I've worked with many wonderful bootcamp grads that got tons of value out of them.

I interpreted the title to mean that the owners of the businesses are making a mistake, rather than the students. Only the fourth point relates to whether the students are getting value, and it still seems to be from the standpoint of whether someone would want to start a bootcamp or not.
16 gigs working on internal code, but apparently the culprit is boost::units....
What Dog Shootings Reveal About American Policing
I am sick of the actual motions of authenticating, and many of the 2-factor implementations out there today are terrible. (SMS, really? What happens when your phone is stolen? How do you protect against an angry lover? What a joke)

U2F dongles aren't much better.

Also, a quick glance at that link seems to indicate attacker needs some sort of MITM access? Is it anything more than a replay attack?
it's a bummer that the windows story for ocaml is so sketchy. i'd like to use it for work (various utilities and whatnot) but the ecosystem seems to make a lot of assumptions about the system it runs on. (for me there's still haskell and rust at least.)
Sketch Plugins for Mobile
He's not saying that it doesn't exist, he's saying he doesn't believe that's who startups should hire.

He's making the argument that 10x isn't solely about the person and their technical abilities. You could have a "10x developer" who joins a team and performs poorly because they're not motivated by what the company is building, or they have a shitty boss. What makes the person a good performer is the environment they're put in combined with their technical abilities.
Basically the Epstein drive allows for basically unlimited thrust, which is what gives most ships on the show gravity. Unlimited thrust == unlimited acceleration. When they reach the halfway point, they 'flip and burn'; turning around and start accelerating away from the destination to slow their relative velocity.
I agree that there is human caused changing of the global climate due to emissions from fossil fuels, among other things. With that said, did you read the article?

> The calving of icebergs is a natural process. While climate change is affecting Antarctica in a variety of ways, this week's event does not signal that the region is entering a new state. That is happening in the Arctic, which has already been dramatically reshaped by human-caused global warming, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researchers. Scientists do not believe Antarctica is in a precipitous state of warming right now. Yesterday, as news of the calving spread, many researchers were careful to note that they were not chalking it up to global warming.

Climate change is an important issue to be sure, but this seems unrelated.
Part of me dreads the "Good Ol' Days" when you'd buy a brand new top-of-the-line CPU or graphics card only for it to be obsolete in a month.

A different part of me can't wait for that to happen.
Yes but I can't say for sure the cause is economic development. It seems likely, but it's a correlation, not a proven cause.
I'm curious, why are so many of these books related to Australia?
> all it really adds is static typing and async

You make that sound like its not a big deal vs vanilla php.
Did you at least BBQ the pet pig?
I recognize this may be a really unpopular opinion but lately I've been feeling like the lack of values and personality in ubiquitous apps like Instagram, Facebook, may be short sighted.

don't get me wrong. i make web software- I get it. just build an interface to the data. but I also think a little personality and good will from these apps could help make the world a better place (Facebook does this in some respects, like celebrating birthdays and friendship anniversaries with fun videos).

that all said... this kind of subjective censorship is totally not what I had in mind... perhaps it's a fine line.

aside (but perhaps more relevant): I'm curious as to who arbitrates this blacklist, and who is responsible for the funny messaging it responds with. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonga)
Looks to probably just be a banned word list as alternate/phonetic spellings get through their filter. phuck.to, kok.to, etc.
Parse error on my part, excuse the pedantry :) Tcl is such a weird and wonderful language, and I occasionally miss it (though I don't miss working with a GUI written in C++ wrapped around tk).
What's the commercial usage limitation? Is that specifically for virtualization of OSX to prevent offering a "Mac On Demand" by not letting you run the OS itself?
RV fridges burn the propane not compress it.
We just replaced our AC system, and while SEER 22 would have saved on electricity, it would have required several thousand dollars more in new duct work. The high efficiency systems require not only variable speed air moving capability, but ducts that work with it as well.

We went from SEER 10 to SEER 15. With the rebalancing that the contractor did, our house is much more comfortable with the thermostat at 80 than it was under the old system at 73.
Dang, dori.to is taken.
In Poland, the government recently announced they want to add +0.25 PLN ($0.07, or ~6% of current gasoline prices) of tax for gasoline. The stated reason is increasing the budgets for maintenance of local roads.

Regardless of the issues of stated vs. real reasons, the reaction of people in the country was totally predictable: people are enraged. How dares the government raise the fuel price? You get a similar reaction if you try to suggest an emission tax to any driver.

With this mindset, sadly, we won't get anywhere.
Generics in Go: https://twitter.com/snoyberg/status/882255351382462464
Interesting, are there any writeups you could point me to on how to size a system like this for the average home and what the energy costs are like?
Who's the manufacturer?
Perhaps we'll even be able to generate individualized tissue samples in order to test out side effects prior to treatment
A great book on the subject is called "A Guide to the Good Life", by William Irvine. It's a great read, and a good introduction to stoicism.

I read it while recovering from surgery when I was unable to walk for a few weeks, and found it to be very helpful in keeping sane.
How can one tell when one earns one's money because of government's intervention, and when one earns one's money despite government's intervention?
The influence of Jewish mysticism was pretty significant, too, to the point that Christian writers would fabricate an old rabbi as the purported "author" of their document. You also got a lot of fake Hebrew scriptures with obvious tells that they were written by Christians. And, of course, sorcery is part of the whole antisemitic complex of stereotypes that was used to oppress Jews in Europe for centuries. It lasted long enough that in 19th century America you get occasional stories of fake Jewish wizards.
I would just read the article. Basically, the restriction they want to impose is to make sure that you can import v2 code into a v1 codebase and vice-versa with a v2 compiler. So that means any syntax breakage would need to be versioned or otherwise inferred, I guess.
What do you mean by "in the long run"? Because a library being rendered unusable for a definite length of time wouldn't be a problem in the long run unless we're talking about a system with path dependence. And even if there is some path dependence, it's not quite obvious whether or not that's a major problem. For example, not being able to lend a book during a few hours could be only thing preventing some terminally-ill genius from solving some elusive mathematical problem before he dies, while everyone else can just try to check their books some other day when the power is back on. But so long as the problem can be solved, the solution might be found out later on by someone else.

On the other hand, if libraries are rendered unusable for an indefinite amount of time, or if they become so unreliable that they aren't even worth the effort, those would always be an issue regardless of whether there's path-dependence.

But it sounds somewhat far-fetched to create system to ensure the reliability of libraries in the event of say, a massive solar flare. Plus, it misses the point: in the event of something able to take out something crucial to the entire US library system for any appreciable length of time, the librarians themselves would most likely have far more pressing concerns in their hands. And that would be our new single point of failure.

I pretty much agree with scottLobster. Unless we're talking about developing countries, where electric power is not so much intermitent as unreliable - whereas it might take a hurricane to cause power outages in other countries, a gush of wind here will do - it makes sense to have a system like this in place.
I came here to mention this. You beat me to it.
CO2, and its interchangeably-used measure of CO2e (which is a sum of all greenhouse gases weighted based on how much they contribute to global warming) is the only pollutant that matters in this context.

Our disposable-good society is a small fraction of our overall impact on the climate. It is 100% possible to power our world with solar, wind, and batteries while keeping the rest of our lives largely unchanged. The only climate-hostile things we can't easily solve for right now are a) beef and b) air travel. Every single HN reader can go all-electric today, and most can sign up for a renewable-energy program through their utility.

If you think our society should build fewer, higher-quality goods then I agree. But doing that won't come close to stopping climate change.
just to add to the conversation ... once one learns algebra and expresses a number as polynomial of 10, one can just derive the usual manual algorithm for any integer root ... though it gets tedious very quickly with hisgher roots ... in addition to methods using Taylor expansion and such ... maybe this is a reason why there is no need to teach it ... apart from the practical reason of a calculator can do it much quicker ...
No, but I still can't call FCC or Congress (or enter USA easily..) so it's completely useless for me to see that.
Dang! burri.to is as well!
That was just France.

Hawaii could make vaccines mandatory, but it wouldn't mean that a lawsuit in Rhode Island about vaccines couldn't go forward.

[0]: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-vaccin...
I feel like the focus on global warming and the fact that it's 'controversial' or there's a 'debate' distracts from concrete, proven issues with fossil fuel consumption: toxic air, water and soil pollution related to both extraction and use.
At the beginning of 1.4 I was just a freshman. Now, at the beginning of 1.5, I'm just a different kind of freshman.
You make a really good point. Given the economic impact to companies, I think it will be much faster.

For instance, the Germans flew their first jet in 1941. Only 17 years later, the Boeing 707 was flying, and transportation around the world changed immensely.

Given that we had just come out of a war (2 if you count Korea), that's pretty fast. I'd think a comparable timeframe would apply rather than your 30 year estimate. Heck, 30 years ago you didn't even have a cell phone!
it's almost like writing purely-functional code is not the goal of Go.
Show HN: Enumerate SoundCloud users, save them to database
Or, technically, they do, but only according to a predetermined schedule.
LinkedIn would be my first choice for this.

Follow company pages, look at company employee lists and reach out to HR people with (a more professionally written version of) what you've written here.

I wouldn't use exactly the following, but along the lines of...
"Good morning/afternoon <name>,
I am an <descriptor> studying <field> at <school>, with experience in <stuff> and a strong knowledge of <other stuff>. In preparation of my graduation, I'm reaching out to potential employers to expand my network and, ideally, find a position which suits me at a company where I can use my skills, expertise, and knowledge of <field>. Your company interests me because of <stuff>, and I would love to further discuss what your company is in need of.

Looking forward to hearing back from you,

Regards,
<name>"

Depending on the responses, you may be able to eek out some additional networking contacts by following up with something along the lines of... (in the case that the company is not hiring, or not interested)

"Thank-you for the swift reply <name>,

I appreciate the time you've taken to read and reply to my previous message.

It is regretful that you are not hiring, but I am thankful for your candid response. With your permission, I would like to follow up with you in a few months time on the chance that a position opens up.

With how tight-knit the <field> community is, I was hoping you may be able to introduce me to another <company, person, etc.> which may be looking for an up-and-coming <desired job position>.

Regards,
<name>".

Keep in mind, this is spitballing with no context and may not be appropriate in all circumstances or with all companies.
We: https://www.muchbetteradventures.com try our best to keep the popups to a minimum (just a hellobar up top..) but then perhaps we're doing things wrong?
Surely if all lives matter they would stand with BLM, and not cross out their message. Seems biggoted to me.
What do you think are other interesting upcoming timestamps?
- http://timestamp.online/countdown/1515151515
- http://timestamp.online/countdown/1579119751
Is this the same CAR-T treatment that Juno Therapeutics tried and scrapped[0] after 5 trial patients died after receiving the treatment?

[0]: http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2017/03/01/after-trial-deaths...
Heh, this takes me back, due to the "Slayers" anime series. Although it looks a bit like a juvenile history (fantasy, magic, demons), the background story takes a lot from Ars Goetia, like the demons' seals and whatnot. A huge wikipedia rabbit hole :)
Craigslist has surely had to keep up with browser updates, new browsers, new mobile devices, etc. There's no way the Craigslist codebase of today is the same as 10 years ago.
I have, but the interface by which the spoiler communicates is fairly realistic. The fact that the spoiler creates an interface to be able to communicate with humans seems a realistic take on alien-to-human communication.
> When you do need to purchase a replacement, get a used hybrid or electric.

Now all we need is someone to manufacture used cars, since nobody buys new in this utopia.

Edit: to the downvoters: I guess I have to spell it out for you, but my point was that building efficient A/C units makes sense because eventually someone somewhere has to buy new.
https://play.golang.org/ isn't a "real" REPL but it serves the same purpose for me in most cases. You can write a few quick lines just to test a theory e.g. "What happens if I pass this function this weird input?" or "Will this regexp function do what I think it does?"

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/better-go-playgrou...

^ this plugin also adds some bells and whistles like syntax highlighting to make it feel like a real IDE.
Othello in BASIC
The $1.3 billion was from a single fraud ring not overall Medicare fraud. That was merely one investigation that netted 400 individuals. In 2015 it was reported that Medicare fraud for the previous year was a $60 Billion of a $600 billion Program while in 2016 it was reported that $140 Billion in "improper payments" were paid on the Medicaid program or 12% of the total program. Oh, and the rate of improper payments on Medicaid has almost doubled in the last few years.

So across both programs, $200 billion in fraudulent/improper payments in approximately one year. Just could not access the CMS website to gain the most recent Medicare numbers.
I agree it would be hard to ask about specific models. I just asked about which brands were the most reliable and easiest to repair.
> Am I understanding it correctly that you're saying those projects switch because of the license of their compiler?

Indeed they do.

$ cc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.2.1 20070719

This system is stuck with a rather old branch of GCC. It won't ever be upgraded, because of the license. LLVM seems to be on its way though.
Using a white roof and employing other passive coolong techniques could improve AC efficiency, or even make it redundant.
> but I'd also argue that having large groups living out in the desert is such an absurd configuration for humans that it presupposes an indifference for any sort of sustainability

They didn't give a damn when those cities were first founded. The issue wasn't probably even on the mind of anyone on the planet. Same is true about cities in seismically-active regions.

It's too late to fix that. You'd have to convince millions to abandon their homes and go... somewhere else.
My opinion is that the popularity of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy has brought the attention to Stoicism. I reached Stoicism by reading about CBT, and started reading about CBT because I wanted a proven tool to improve and modify my psychological state.

I would not call myself Stoic but there is a lot of wisdom there. I particularly like Seneca and Epictetus. The best modern book for me is "A New Stoicism" by Lawrence C. Becker.
Joke flew over my head. Sorry too touchy these days...

What is science other than the application of the scientific method?
It's because Linux desktop users want to be able to use consumer software, and the only way they're going to get it is if Linux becomes a consumer operating system
> As de Toqueville predicted over two centuries ago, democracy will end by everyone voting themselves pay raises until the economy is wrecked, then we'll start to blame and kill each other over it.

You made some good points about the modern using viral outrage to degrade public discourse and parts of our social fabric and how it affects how informed and cohesive the voting populace participates.

However, then you took what I thought was a very disconnected turn that betrays your first premise. Let me ask you, how does a fractured and misinformed populace vote themselves pay raises?

It seems to me special interest groups have done an incredible job of making sure people are divided on just about every important issue and then hijacking the legislative process for each of those issues. If you look at health care industry, you will notice they give to both sides of the aisle and have played a big role in shaping both the ACA and the repeals of the ACA.

While the changes in policies in health care policy will have a big impact on us (either in increased costs, or reduction in coverage), the health care providers and insurance companies will benefit from both the ACA and any law that repeals the ACA because unlike us, they are not divided in their objectives.

I see the world as a number of possible futures, and I don't dismiss de Tocqueville's prediction, but I don't think that's reflected in the current landscape. I think people are entirely too manipulated to be smart enough to vote themselves a pay raise, and I think special interests have done an exceptional job of influence government policy to maximize their interests.

I too suspect we might crush the economy with a tremendous amount of debt, but I think it will be the special interest groups that will figure out how to bleed us dry before people vote themselves a pay raise.

It could also be a mix of both scenarios.