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Amazon Alexa Shopping | Software Development Engineers | Seattle, WA and Palo Alto, CA | FULLTIME | ONSITE

Here at Alexa Shopping we are working hard and pioneering in many areas to enable shopping in everyday life.

We allow customers to instantly order whatever they need, by simply interacting with their Smart Devices such as Echo or Fire TV. Our services allow you to shop, no matter where you are or what you are doing, you can go from 'I want that' to 'that's on the way' in a matter of seconds. We are seeking the industry's best to help us create new ways to interact, search and shop.

The Alexa Shopping group is seeking talented and experienced engineers to design and develop Natural User Interface (NUI) shopping experiences and algorithms in Seattle and Palo Alto. You'll have the freedom (and encouragement) to experiment, improve, invent, and innovate on behalf of our customers. You will have an impact on Amazon's new devices and the way shopping is done in the area of IoT. And finally you will have the satisfaction of being able to look back and say you were a key contributor to something special from its earliest stages.

We have many challenges ahead of us, and we like taking risks so we can move quickly. We don't always get it right, but that's okay, our agility allows us to quickly learn, respond to customer needs, and keep building. Our team ships features that deliver customer value every sprint.

If you are interested in joining our team in Seattle or Palo Alto, please reach out with "HN" in the subject and the location you are interested in.

Contact:

alexashoppingjobs@amazon.com

Here are a few of our open positions:

https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/577780/software-development-... (Seattle) and https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/549698/software-development-... (Palo Alto)

Note: we are unable to hire interns or recent college graduates for these roles. Please apply here if you are seeking an intern or college graduate role: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/team/university-tech
If it's assumed that the "creators" live in a universe that does not follow the same physical laws as ours, that means the "creators" have the ability to run simulations of universes that are arbitrarily different from their own. In that case the chance that they chose a universe of our type to simulate, out of all the possibilities, is vanishingly small, and thus so is the likelihood that we are living in a simulation.
archive.is still captures text from most of these.
In this thread: people will bring out the same tired arguments for or against static typing, without commenting on the actual content of the post, which was quite good!

I have come to see type systems, like many pieces of computer science, can either be viewed as a math/research problem (in which generally more types = better) or as an engineering challenge, in which you're more concerned with understanding and balancing tradeoffs (bugs / velocity / ease of use / etc., as described in the post). These two mindsets are at odds and generally talk past each other because they don't fundamentally agree on which values are more important (like the great startups vs NASA example at the end).
4chan doesn't exactly pretend to be a news site. Is showing up at the top of google enough to be 'fake news'?
Why does matter whether it is simulated efficiently? What if each Planck time or frame takes a huge amount of "real" time to simulate, we would not know it.

Think of a Pixar render farm that takes hours to render one frame, the characters inside would not know that, their world unfolds in real time to them.
> It correlates also with diseases burden associated with bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and epilepsy

though the headline does not emphasize it, there's an OCD correlation too.
Maybe this rules out the possibility that we're living in a simulation run on classical computers that naively simulate all physical processes. But that's not all the possibilities of living in a simulated universe.
Kobalt Music - Full Time - On-Site (London) Software Engineers, Product Managers, Data Engineers, DevOps, Infrastructure - All Levels.

Kobalt Music Group is the leading global, independent music services company, offering Music Publishing, Label Services, and Neighbouring Rights services worldwide.

We use technology to provide unparalleled transparency, serving artists, songwriters, and publishers with licensing management works and rights distribution, royalty collection and processing, online data and royalty statements and creative services.

We have been very successful and today, around 50% of music on Spotify’s “New Music Friday” playlist is influenced in some way by Kobalt.

Tech Stack: Java, PHP, JavaScript, Oracle, AWS, Docker + lots more.

kobaltmusic.com/company/careers
We're not living in a simulation, faster than light travel is impossible, time travel is impossible, and there are more than three dimensions. Obvious facts about reality that somehow escape most self described "smart" people.
Indeed. It's true, in a world where a major newspaper will decide to write a multi-page story about one of Trump's silly tweets and run it on the front page, it's not all that hard for a large number of news orgs to write a similarly informative story, and many make it available for free.

I agree about ads, but my least favorite are the ones that begin playing video in a tiny window that devours laptop battery life... It's strange to imagine the marketers who are designing these pages. They must imagine that all of us read only when watching TV is not an option, so they try to make the website as much like TV as possible, complete with a tiny screen that you can click on to simply shift into couch potato mode.
Assuming your question is rhetorical but to be sure:

Imho because it's implicit signaling of `Americans First` (and here implicit only a subset of them)
Ask HN: Why has Super+Printscreen  suddenly started switching between ttys?
I have had a shortcut set up for multiple years with <Super><PrintScreen>. Today I went to use the shortcut and it switched me out to a virtual console. After playing with it more, it seems that it toggles between the two most recently used consoles.

Where would this be set up? Seems like something pretty low level, since it happens even outside of X.

Running Debian unstable if that is useful.
ROBOAMP | Software Engineer | Dallas | Remote

What we do: With just one line of code, we make websites load in one second or less.

What we are looking for:

We are a small agile team who value communication, learning, teamwork and organization. We encourage everyone to contribute, think things through, ask, question, propose better solutions and take an active part in everything we do.

If this sounds like the right fit for you, holla at me: roberto@roboamp.com
I have no problem with this. But in return I should be able to opt out of results that I cannot view. A result for a news article that changes when I click on it to a "Please subscribe..." plea is not the result that was returned that I clicked on.

Unfortunately, like the AMP fiasco, I doubt this is what will happen as Google doesn't exist to serve it's users.
One map that puts America's gun violence epidemic in perspective (2014)
Smartcar API | Frontend Engineering, Backend Engineering, Business Operations, Business Development | Mountain View, CA | ONSITE | https://smartcar.com

We're a small team (9 people) making a big change in transportation. Technological additions to vehicles are kicking off a new era of better transportation which is affordable, greener, and safer. The automotive industry is undergoing the most disruptive changes since its inception. We believe the future of transportation is Autonomous, Electric, Shared, and Connected. Smartcar is building a REST API platform to solve the "connected" part of it.

We recently launched our platform with BMW in Germany: https://blog.smartcar.com/smartcar-launches-connected-car-pl... and built https://teslabot.ai to show a sneak peak of what our platform can do.

The positions we are hiring for:

+ Business Development with 2+ years of experience selling in the Automotive industry.

+ Business Operations to manage delivery and process of new projects.

+ Frontend Software Engineer with 2+ years of experience with any modern frontend framework (React, Angular, Ember, ...).

+ Fullstack/Backend Software engineer with 2+ years of experience. Our backend stack is Node.js, Postgres, Redis, Docker, AWS.

If you are interested in helping us modernize transportation and enjoy working in a collaborative environment, we'd like to meet you. Compensation is $95K to $130K + equity. Read more about the positions and apply at: https://jobs.lever.co/smartcar.

If you want to learn more, email me at sanketh@smartcar.com or call me at 530 475 2882. No recruiters.
Because Trump is not big on America first. He is only big on creating illusions of success for his base. And nothing makes his base happier than to keep immigrants out. Or basically anything that will incense the more urban, liberal Americans.
I urge everyone here to pay one news outlet for news. Don't let the lowest, easiest, most fake news rule the cycle.
>Not just, "who the hell uses this", but "where the hell is this defined" as well.

On Common Lisp, a dynamic language, I can also get this answered instantly. I just press a key combination on a method call and i jump to the definition.

So this isn't exclusive to statically typed languages.
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? I can write down the state of the universe on a piece of paper over the course of your life, with enough precision that you would not know the difference. The thing is the description of the thing and the description of the thing is the thing itself.
In dynamic languages functions aren't typically overloaded by argument type.

For OO languages and methods it does get a little guesswork-y, and tools often offer a wider range of guesses than is correct for completion. But you can show the class along with the offered completion, so it's not too bad.
The 30-hour on-call shifts did start out as just on-call. However, it has long since become the case that it was effectively 30-hour straight shifts, with maybe an opportunity to catch a 20min nap.

Source: Had friends in Med School some years ago.
If you pay for Netflix, you're paying for the right to watch anything currently available in their library. If you pirate stuff, unless you're careful to keep that library up-to-date with Netflix's, you won't have the moral right to it.
I think you are right, but you only cover producing code. For maintaining code, it is another story. If you have to take over an unknown code base, I think static typing will prevent bugs to be deployed, because the typing system will detect errors you might not be aware of due to your incomplete knowledge of the code.

I was in favour of dynamic typed, but lean more and more towards static typing, like ocaml.
>until I realize the alternative doesn't fulfill my need

And programmers spend most of their day interacting with a text editor, so many hold strong opinions about them (see editor wars).

It is likely that some will not find one that fit their needs, and thus build their own.
I have filled up the form though I am not based in the US. Is the Product Manager's position open for remote?
Navigating Cancer | SDE, Web Apps | Seattle, Wa | ONSITE

NC builds one of the first patient-centered oncology platforms. We support over a million patients and thousands of cancer care providers nationwide to lower costs, improve patient satisfaction and drive better outcomes.

We're primarily a Rails shop, but there's some Golang sneaking its way in around the edges, and we're always trying to reevaluate what's working for us.

Email me if you're curious; apike@navigatingcancer.com.
Gravitational (YS S15) | Devops | Toronto | ONSITE https://gravitational.com

Gravitational, an early stage systems & cloud startup in San Francisco and Toronto, is looking for ambitious and talented people. We are well-funded by fantastic Silicon Valley investors. We are an experienced team: we founded Mailgun[1] which was acquired by Rackspace, we created Vulcand[2] and some other cool stuff at Rackspace and are authors of Teleport[3], Telekube[4] and Teleconsole[5]

* DevOps/Implementation services (Terraform, Linux, Kubernetes, Go, Ansible)

Locations: Toronto

Details: https://gravitational.com/devops-engineer/

Contact: jobs@gravitational.com

[1] https://www.mailgun.com

[2] https://github.com/vulcand/vulcand

[3] https://github.com/gravitational/teleport

[4] https://gravitational.com/telekube

[5] https://www.teleconsole.com/
Even WordPress is often overkill when a simple static site generator would suffice and be easier to maintain.

But I guess WordPress is easier to work with if you're a non-technical person who won't be doing much else than adding new posts from time to time.
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Location: Reno, NV, USA

Remote: Yes. Available for some travel.

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Technologies: React/Redux; Javascript; Node; Angular 1; HTML/CSS; full stack JS; WebRTC; TDD; git; project management

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Opendoor | Software Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, Data Engineer | Full-time onsite | San Francisco, CA

At Opendoor (https://www.opendoor.com/) we’re changing the way homes are bought and sold.

Moving is one of life’s most stressful events. We empower people with a simpler, more thoughtful approach to buying or selling their home.

We have an amazing team of talented and passionate engineers and data scientists. We are looking for Machine Learning Engineers, Data Infrastructure Engineers, and Generalists to help us change the real estate industry. Leadership experience is a plus.

Technologies we work with: Rails, React, React Native, PostGIS, Python, AWS, Webpack, Phoenix (Elixir), Kubernetes, Docker.

https://www.opendoor.com/jobs or reach out to me clay@opendoor.com
This company ghosted on me after I spent four hours on a written assignment (following a quick phone screen). I would strongly recommend not giving them the chance to waste your time as well.
Fascinating little phone. Have any of them shipped to backers?
So still a better deal than treasuries because of the cheaper leverage, length of time before an equivalent margin call, and tax deductible debt
>Isn't it cool how gene systems are hybrid digital/analog >computers?

I think it's more correct to say that computation is an emergent property of living systems, but is by no means the only thing they are capable of.
I think there would be many "people" trying to figure out how to get out. I know I would. If there is technology to simulate the world at this level, then there is probably technology to create a robot that could be filled with my conscience to inhabit the real world.

Step 1 - Find out how to communicate with the real world. Maybe some sort of quantum version of a buffer overflow?

Step 2 - Find someone to help us construct a body and transfer my conscience. Blackmail?

It won't be easy, but if we sims band together, I might make it out. I will send for the rest of you, I promise.
Also, Dolphin is concerned with faithfully emulating the hardware. Nintendo can just cheat and emulate only exactly what the games need, or even patch the games themselves to avoid having to emulate weird corner cases.
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I find that the Anti-adblock killer list in uBlock takes care of most of these. There's an additional addon you can install that pushes it even further.

The fight against browsers rendering markup in the way their users want is a losing one.
Buzzfeed should be the focus of this, as they claim to be news. 4chan goes out of it's way to promote people not believing anything they see on there. We have a problem if journalists are latching on to things they see on 4chan and thinking it'll fly as a source.
> vscode seems to figure out the types in javascript without any static typing.

Doesn't it do this by treating Javascript as a statically-typed language (Typescript) and using type inference?
EASI'R | Backend (PHP, Node.js & more) | Aarhus, Denmark | SaaS

EASI'R | Frontend (Angular.js) | Aarhus, Denmark | SaaS

At EASI’R we are on a mission to revolutionize the way companies work with customer relations. We live and breathe creating great software. We push the limits of possibilities and explore new grounds of the tech-landscape. We do this to deliver software that our customers can’t live without, while bringing a new breed of relations software to the world.

https://easir.com/company/careers/
It astonishes me that in prison, where your jailers have:

• complete control over where you live,

• complete control of your movements,

• complete control over your physical interaction with people who are not prison staff or other inmates,

• in the US almost no fourth amendment restrictions on searching your living space or possessions and so can pretty much arbitrarily conduct extensive searches for prohibited items,

that it is actually possible for a significant number of prisoners to keep their smuggled items hidden once they get them in (and that they get them in in the first place is astonishing).

It gives one something to think about the next time one is taking a plane trip or attending an event with a security checkpoint. If prisons cannot keep banned items out or from being used, how can airport security or event security do so when their powers are much more limited than the powers of prison authorities?

NOTE: the prior paragraph is not meant to suggest that we should boost the powers of airport and event security. It was meant to suggest that the situation in prisons provides good evidence that much of our non-prison security is indeed just security theater.
The patches are already committed to the git repo. There is very little burden for the sysadmin here.
Daily Harvest | https://www.daily-harvest.com | Full-Stack Software Engineer | Princeton, NJ, USA | Full-time Onsite | https://www.daily-harvest.com/careers | contact me at savraj@ [our domain] and mention HN in the subject line!

Based in Princeton and NYC, we are a rapidly growing startup sending out thousands of products to happy customers each week. Everyone around you -- especially the non-techies in your life -- will at least try, if not consistently enjoy the pre-portioned, frozen superfood eats that your work at Daily Harvest will deliver.

Our 29 flavor combinations of smoothies, overnight oats, chia parfaits, and sundaes are co-created by our team of chefs and nutritionists and come packed with organic fruits and vegetables, and no added sugar or preservatives. Each cup is perfectly portioned, so all you have to do is take it out of the freezer, add your liquid of choice and blend, heat or soak.

Daily Harvest seeks a full-stack software engineer, fluent in Python, to help build the future of frozen food delivery. As a member of our software engineering team, you’ll craft and ship the code that powers our entire business -- from user-facing UI, to code that interfaces with our shipping providers, to inventory and supply chain management at scale. You’ll be working with a small team of friendly, easy-going engineers and report directly to our CTO in Princeton, NJ. More info here: https://daily-harvest.com/careers

Your qualifications
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I recently reached the conclusion that Samsung SmartThings gear is junk, so I'm trying to figure out what to do next. Several of the sensors corroded inside the box (copper battery contact on PCB interacted with the metal in the battery casing), and many of the devices lose contact with the hub even though it's only 20 or 30 feet away.

Any suggestions for things like sensors, smart switches, etc.? What is the most open and reliable platform?
Why millions of Americans feel left behind by the economic recovery
It's immersions that include some edge cases. Embeddings effectively identify a manifold with a submanifold of another manifold.

Klein bottles can't be embedded into R^3.
Can also really fuck up your eyes

https://aapos.org/client_data/files/2015/1230_fig2congenital...
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For me, what I miss when using dynamic languages is good, solid refactoring tools that can inline functions/methods, rename across source files, etc. In my experience, in both Python and Clojure, the refactoring tools simply don't come close to those of languages like C++, C# and Java. And I say this as a major Clojure fanboy...
Time travel is possible in relativistic physics.
Not the best headline. Here's the gist of it:

> "Google’s plans include doing away with the “first click free” policy, which requires subscription-based news outlets to offer three free articles a day through its search and news features, allowing users to skirt pay walls. A new program, which Google plans to start this week and is calling “flexible sampling,” will allow those publishers to determine how many free clicks to give Google’s users."

So sites can still give access to Google visitors (which I bet many will), but they just have more say over the specifics.
This seems like a strange argument. Suppose that the creators created some simulation. This argument would apply equally no matter which simulation parameters they choose.

Is there more here I'm not getting?
Well, it's usually a trinmed down copy of vim, right? I just do a quick alias vim=vi and carry on.
With all these Russia targeting people with Facebook Ads stories or that Blue Whale game story, I am actually worried about how easy it is for North Korea or Russia to target and trigger lunatics like this.

I mean, I see normal people ranting and raging about pointless stuff they read on social media everyday. What's the effect of this fake news and outrage on deeply troubled folk?

It really scares me what all this info is doing to people.