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Ultra Mobile - Software Engineer (entry) - Costa Mesa, CA - Full-time, Onsite

Ultra Mobile is a company dedicated to creating innovative, authentic mobile communication experiences for people around the globe. We offer communication plans that break down barriers and allow our customers to easily and affordably connect with their communities – no matter where they may be.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:
We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Engineering team. You’ll be contributing to the software design and delivery of both current and future products. This role is full stack and can cover websites, native apps and API development. You’ll have to be flexible and quick, but you won’t be alone. We have a strong team of leads and engineers who will mentor and guide you to success.

ABOUT THE ROLE:
Hit the ground running, develop changes to our existing websites and applications. Maintain current websites currently in React and Durandal. Maintain backend API’s in PHP and NodeJS. Research and develop proof of concepts exploring new technologies and techniques.

Apply: https://careers.ultramobile.com/
Are you a Markov chain?
> Eventually I went to delete and used a link from deletefacebook.com taking me straight to the right page.

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know whether by "deleting" your account, facebook removes your account/data completely or do they just mark your account deleted?

Is facebook required to remove your account from all data sources ( dbs, failover sites, recovery sites and even the backup tapes )?

I know certain sites, when you "delete" your account, it just updates a column marking your account "deleted" or "inactive".

But I'm most curious about the backup tapes of logs/data.
You can always use third-party EDA tools if you have the money rather than the vendor bundled free software. Eg Cadence, Mentor Graphics, etc.
Not that I don't know some great older folks, but I've also encountered my fair share of racist, narrow-minded old farts.
Ah there you go! We had the same thought a few weeks ago.
And can those waves be refracted, reflected, and/or focused?
This is the most stupid awesome worst best idea ever. I have so many feelings tied together, it's hard to express.

Good for you guys. I can't wait to see it filled up!
Defining "correctness" in terms of types is the CS equivalent of defining "risk" in terms of volatility - it replaces a real and fundamentally unsolvable problem with a problem that, while it has the advantage of being tractable, isn't actually all that important to solve. Great for publishing papers, dangerous when people start confusing the fake problem and the real problem.
> At least that is how i think of it. Am I missing something? What isn't obvious about it?

I think the number of times I've witnessed discussions over the decades regarding "which version of FreeBSD should I use?" numbers in the hundreds.
Paul S. Otellini has died
That's helpful, thanks, but none of those are full solutions.

Even if they are accessible via a javascript api, we need them accessible via regular HTTP for so many reasons.

'Periodic invocations' my gosh man, that seems like a big hack, requiring yet another service.

I get that there is /tmp - but it's not guaranteed to be persistent. I wish it were.

Anyhow - my main point is ... Lambda's don't seem to be designed for us in mind :)

Thanks for the pointer on S3FS, I will definitely check that out.
This is pretty neat. Have you released anything used to build and manage the Pi aspect of this?
What happens to "Backups" with Firestore? (Firestore console doesn't have a Backups tab)
They've oked it.
You can use Apache usergrid or the open source version of parse for example.
> It's also not hidden at all, you can inspect the page and see the requests clearly

It's sort of a grey area. The average person doesn't know that the functionality for the buttons is loaded by Facebook, and thus they are requesting information from Facebook that exposes information about them on every page that has a like button. It's "not hidden" in the same way that a pervasive network of closed caption cameras at all the businesses you frequent being owned by one company and having access to all your interactions at all those companies. Sure, the camera is in plain sight, and if you went up to it you might see a tag that says owned and operated by Facebook if you looked, but the normal expectation is that each business would have their own recordings, not that one company would be compiling all your transactions together to track your habits and make a profile. It's not hidden per se, but it's definitely not obvious and not what is expected by the average person.

Actually, I'm wondering is someone could sue Facebook under existing stalking laws.[1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalking#United_States_2
I remember back in the 90s when I listened to my 100MHz CPU with a radio. FreeBSD sounded like gentle raindrops. Windows 95 screamed.
That's what RDP does, it's so much better than any 'transferring the image of screen' software like VNC or Teamviewer.
Look in my profile, just added. Thanks so much for your interest!
There's a whole lot of may and might in all that; but you have to see it from the perspective of a smoker, not a non-smoker. It's clearly vastly safer than smoking. Any smoker who switched can tell you how they're starting to be able to breath well again, the smokers cough is going away, the lungs feel better and not full of shit. Yes, eciggs may still be more dangerous than nothing, but smokers aren't approaching it from doing nothing.

Eciggs make quitting smoking vastly easier, and eciggs are easier to quit than cigarettes. I routinely go half a day without hitting my ecigg, that never happened with smokes.
Before startup
I do. We migrated to VS 2015 this year.

Usually it takes one year to upgrade to a new version, after its release.

We are already playing with 2017 for next year upgrade cycle.
"I suspect the economics of a lambda that you keep hot would look very different than one that takes a few seconds to spin up. "

Surely. But what exactly are those economics? It can't be that bad.
Think you're not smart enough to work at Google? Well, think again
Absolutely. I lost track of the article and started skimming to get the a resolution. There didn't appear to be one. I do recognize this is likely due to my own lack of attention span :)
agreed. the scrolling is awful and the text placement and sizing is weird.
Here are some PCAPs of the PoCs from the GitHub repo:

CVE-2017-14491.pcap: https://www.cloudshark.org/captures/016080cbeab5

CVE-2017-14492.pcap: https://www.cloudshark.org/captures/fd4bfa9403fc

CVE-2017-14493.pcap: https://www.cloudshark.org/captures/1c30b56dc1d3

CVE-2017-14494.pcap: https://www.cloudshark.org/captures/657de976c0d1

Used this repo to generate these: https://github.com/google/security-research-pocs/tree/master...
Early retail investors in ICOs are not going to be very happy with returns down the line I don't think...meanwhile, hedge funds thrive anywhere there is volatility, and crypto is nothing but volatile.
LinkedIn is rolling out Snapchat-style geofilters for events and conferences
Fn Project – Cloud Agnostic Serverless Platform
In the same way, it would make perfect sense for Hedge Funds to invest early, or even start actual pyramid schemes, yet we've prevented that. Junk like this is not healthy for the market.
Thanks, yeah I am looking at a B2B project right now. Given that, is there value in using Figma as a first step or would that be redundant?
C++ Engineer | Start-up hedge fund | SF, Bay Area or New York | Onsite | Full­time | Comp: Best across all industries

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We are looking for candidates with experience in developing latency sensitive distributed systems from any industry. The required technical skills are: C++11/C++14 on Linux, open-source contributors are highly sought by us. We are looking for candidates with passion for technology.

Compensation is the best across all industries, much higher than silicon valley/tech firm packages; substantial base, bonus and profit share. The role can be based in San Francisco or New York. Sponsorship available for US based candidates.
We will consider candidates with the right skills across all levels of seniority. Junior Engineer to Engineering Managers/MD's.

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This article gave no specific examples of a hedge fund actually flipping a position.
Congratulations on the release!

> multi-region replicated database [..] once data is committed, it's durable [...]

> strongly consistent on the server-side

Do you mind elaborating a bit more here? Around perhaps what happens underneath the hood when failing over, etc. Do you have a single "co-ordinator" of sorts ensuring strict serializability, if so what do you do when failing this over? Or is it a quorum based approach like Paxos/Raft?
Not everyone is like you.
So, why all the hubbub about gravitational waves?
My mom and aunt are fighting over this right now.

My aunt moved in next to my grandparents some 30 years ago and has cared for them since that time. Then around 10 years ago, my grandfather died. Since that time, her assets have reduced by over $400k while receiving spouse military and civil service retirement and social security and payments for long-term care (over $7k in income per month). In the past 3 years, my grandmother has become more difficult and lost her mind. More recently, my mother is getting more and more upset that my aunt got financial and medical POA without informing her because my aunt pays her personal credit card bills, uses my grandmother's card as hers, eats out often/pays for other people's meals and generally seems irresponsible with money. So my mom, in an effort to prevent all the money from being wasted, cashed out a significant certificate of deposit and created a new account for it at a new bank. That way, if my grandmother (their mother) needs money, it will be there.

Un/fortunately, my mother also involved the state's elder financial abuse protection department whom made a determination that she was the elder abuser when my aunt recently gifted my grandmother's house to herself, in addition to two vehicles (a car and a van). And now there are also lawsuits, so now lawyers will get what scraps they were fighting over. Ugh. Stupid money family drama sucks.

Summary:

Don't put any adult children's names on any accounts. Bank accounts, investments, CDs, etc. should be payable upon death.

Do a will and living revocable trust. Probate and taxes can also take your kids' inheritance.

All adult children able to see but not use or modify credit card and banking accounts, and agree to financial decisions together.

Place a lock on elderly parent's credit reports.

Have parents split up/allocate inheritance before losing their mind/s or passing away.

Make wills specific so there are fewer arguments.

Have a single place (ie fireproof safe) where keys, documents, online passwords, bills, assets, properties are inventoried and include whom to call to cancel, transfer, etc.

Make end-of-life and upon death directives clear and precise.

If doing burial or cremation, get it pre-need because it's much cheaper and much nicer for the family.
The music does end after the first minute, fortunately.
TL;DR "We choose to test in San Francisco, not because it is easy. But because it is hard"
They have posted some additional information on their blog: https://blogs.dropbox.com/dropbox/2017/10/creative-energy-ke...

You can see the new frontpage here: https://www.dropbox.com/allyours
This is hilarious; the hedge funds are scamming the scammers.
What are fellow HN'ers using for file sync/sharing? I was a Dropbox early adopter but haven't been as impressed as of late, with Dropbox suddenly trying to integrate into my MS Office apps and trying to upload my screenshots and photos.

I'm not a huge fan of Google Drive's recent redesign either. I like box.com but haven't moved anything yet.
What is a brand of nasal snuff you'd recommend?
I'm not sure why the emails are a big deal; they are pretty much trivial to filter out. Marking them as spam is probably not helpful in the bigger picture. I just let them accumulate in their own folder in gmail, they don't hurt anyone there.
Optimizing compilers have been around for yonks, sure, but I think taking aggressive advantage of UB is relatively recent. See e.g. Regehr in 2012 [1] :

> The current crop of C and C++ compilers will exploit undefined behaviors to generate efficient code [...], but not consistently or well. It’s time for us to take this seriously.

[1] https://blog.regehr.org/archives/761
This mischaracterization was a crime of passion. I apologize.
So did Three20
Nope, that's not right. Probably have a number wrong somewhere.

94MH/s is about 17 cents ($0.17) an hour. So based on the $0.2 cost you would lose 3 cents ($0.03) an hour.
There has been some consolidation in this area lately. Everyone should be on React Navigation from now onwards.

https://github.com/react-community/react-navigation
The secret sauce of distributed processing and how we messed it up
Compaq Presario CQ45 I think. Bought on sale at bestbuy for $300. Everything prior to this one had been someone else's.
The bridging happens through Cgo and JNI. bridge/matchaforeign.h contains the functions that Go implements that can be called by ObjC/Java and bridge/matchago.h are the functions that Java/Objc implements that can be called by Go. Everything else is built on top of that.
Harriet Lawrence – Sociolinguistics and the JavaScript community: a love story
Yes, absolutely essential. Best done with a reputable elder law attorney who can walk you through all the complex messes that can occur when old folks transition to assisted living and skilled nursing.

The next step after POA is getting it filed with the banks so that you can monitor everything that happens and intervene as needed.
There are two meanings of prove. The one that type theorists are using is roughly "to derive your statement from axioms with pure logic." This sense of the term can never apply to things in the real world, like programs (of course, a program also exists both as an abstraction about which things can be proved, but when you're talking about programs which are actually doing things in the real world, you can't treat them as being pure logic).

The second sense is the scientific "gather enough supporting evidence that your are reasonably sure". In this sense, you can prove a lot of things.
How is the pricing? Firebase Realtime Database is fairly expensive ($5/GB of storage per month), so it makes economic sense for developers to migrate to their own backend once they hit a certain scale. This is why third-party mobile backends are nowhere near the popularity of non-mobile backends with Google Cloud / AWS.

Do you think $0.18 per 100000 writes solves this problem?
Indeed, I'm kitted out with the same hipster mac I suspect the design folks use, yet simply scrolling down was a mess. Not sure what they tested this with :/
I haven't. So far it's really customized for our use case. If you're interested in a smallish self contained code that is based on Go, you might have a look at https://github.com/gokrazy/gokrazy
Yup. This is what it looks like in Safari: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYPWaKHmAhE
Normally I have most my users in Asia (Myanmar/Malaysia) with just a few pageloads per session, so bytecount actually matters. I could inline this in an HTML page without feeling guilty.
Meh. Almost all government is corrupt if you look in the right places.

Most states have at least a few corrupt departments. Based on my experience and knowledge wealthy, coastal states with lots of laws on the books (and lots of departments to enforce these laws) generally have a little more breadth to the corruption. Flyover states generally have a little more depth where corruption is found.
I have unlimited and I am taking 35 days off this year. Not including the 9 days paid holidays I get. I took around 30 last year and had 10 paid holidays. My previous company gave us 24 days PTO, no paid holidays (we could choose which holidays we wanted to take off but we'd have to use PTO). At that company I consistently took off 30+ days total.

I am in the US, both are US companies. I could not handle having less than 40 days off a year and make it clear before hiring that I am going to take plenty of time off. Yes I am productive, no I do not work long hours (~35 a week at both places)
Have we not seen the effects of this already? YouTube, Kickstarter, Twitter have already made it possible for nobodies to became massively famous. Most of them are mediocre.

It seems to me the surest way to guarantee mediocrity is to incentivise blatant money grabs. Here's a million a dollars for your billboard of ads? That's not going to build the future we are hoping for, it's gonna make someone else in 10 years make another copy.
watsi for senior citizens

That is a good idea, but personally I am torn. Something like this shouldn't be allowed to happen in the first place, isn't it?
New search engine for lightweight, unbloated, old school websites
Yes, I agree with you, but I make this point because C++ gives me the same direct access to the hardware. I can always just write C (or inline assembly, if I really have to go there). That's why my last embedded project was written in C++. There was a core that implemented SPI by bit-banging GPIO registers, but wrapped around that was idiomatic C++.
Now perhaps we can start work on prostate cancer. Not as marketable a topic as prostate cancer.

Breast cancer receives half a billion dollars more funding for research than does the latter, despite the latter being more common: http://dailycaller.com/2010/10/05/breast-cancer-receives-muc...

I'm loathe to link to the Daily Caller, but it's a pretty neutral piece with no politics, nonetheless:

https://prostate.org.nz/2014/01/men-die-earlier-womens-healt...
This is the worst UX I've seen in a long time. Not only that, it's visually garish. Apparently the designers at Dropbox have never heard of color theory.
You can write changes to the card with a special command.
I'm sure the authors don't have malicious intent but this project reminded me of emergent activity getting closer to the "un-erasable bad byes" scenario I commented on recently. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14434786

Anyways, it looks like a fun project and it will be interesting to see how it finally turns out.

Staying on the same theme, I have no doubt that somebody will also clone the recent Reddit "place" experiment in Ethereum. (https://www.reddit.com/r/place/)
Documentation / tooling would probably be Twilio.

Provider based on price depends on how heavily you use US vs World, and if it's SMS (and/or MMS needed) or Voice or both and what volume you are operating at. For pure SMS with a balanced mix of domestic and international, I would probably suggest AWS Pinpoint at this point. Their international rates compared to Twilio are fantastic for all the locations I spot checked.
I could always modularize it if people are interested. It resizes using VH/VW, so that shouldn't be an issue. Retina display?
You know what they call alternative treatments that work? Treatments.
Interesting. Can you explain more about that?
There are some people who are incompetent. The most drastic case is somebody in a comma - they are unaware and unresponsive, but the body is breathing and there are all other signs of life. Somebody needs to make decisions that that person is unable to make.
Nintendo just geared up on this hardcore yesterday. A lot of other game studios have been getting worse too.
Yes. Adapter latency is guaranteed to be 0.5-5 usec depending on generation (later revisions are faster+lower latency). Switches add about 170 nsec per hop, plus whatever speed-of-light delays your cables add. 1 usec end-to-end is realistic for modern gear.

http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2014/swiss-workshop...

Of course with IP-over-IB you also need to factor in whatever latency is added from your network stack, but Infiniband also supports RDMA so IB-aware applications can essentially bypass this for high-performance or hard-real-time usecases.

Basically, Infiniband takes the network out of the equation here. The bottleneck then becomes how precisely you can time the software.
Wow. that is (from my perspective - but only mine) terrible.

Janky scrolling, things flying around, random animations that don't finish before you scroll past them.

The left / right alternate scroll is .... unsettling.
You would need to account for drag and windage. Basically know everyone's hull shape and CFD it! And the seabed under them.

At a distance it's easy - but in confined waters it gets very complicated very quickly. I've seen situations where literally the only solution is, who do I collide with.

In the case of the USN they have a hell of a lot more manoeuvrability than a freighter but they can't escape the laws o'physics...
C was originally a language for modest size programs on machines with 64K address spaces. C isn't a bad language for a thousand line program. It's a terrible language for a million line program. Just to get memory safety, there's too much that has to be manually coordinated across compilation unit boundaries.

The three big questions in C are "how big is it?", "who owns it?", and "who locks it?" The language gives zero help with all of those issues. Most later languages deal with some or all of those issues.
Assuming you have cleared things with Google / YouTube accordingly, what would a PRO version include? A donate button is nice, sure, but I seriously doubt you will see much traction through that - if any at all. Advertisement in addition to what I imagine is served through YouTube would personally make me want to avoid utilising your extension.
I wonder if a strategy of coopting a group of friends to flag your messages that have some cryptic message everyone claims is inappropriate would trigger a full deletion like his obscene messages strategy.
Thanks for the feedback. We don't have backups for Cloud Firestore yet, but this will be available down the road.
So don't use JavaScript. That's a terrible idea anyway. Use Swift/Kotlin.
Indeed, a friend of mine had her inheritance stolen by her father's attorney in Nevada. He had apparently been disbarred in California for similar scams, but was operating without issue in Reno.
I personally think ecigs are an interesting experiment in free markets.

A bunch of like minded people who had a habbit which was the leading cause of preventable death coming together to figure out a way to kill themselves less.

Have there been things in the industry which were poisonous and could kill you over the course of it's history. Yes. Lots. Have those been slowly fased out as concerned consumers voice opinions, yes. Ni200 wire is a good example. Battery mooch is another.

The lack of regulation has certainly led to it being more dangerous for uninformed consumers, but it has also lead to lots of independent entrepreneurs innovating fast in the space.

Personally I see it as a great example of free markets vs. regulation. I also think it's only been able to exist because it's in a market which of its own is hazardous to health.

Also this entire industry as I understand it came from China.
The quiet, massive rezoning of New York