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Sparta (Oracle) | FULL-TIME, ONSITE | Seattle, WA or SFBay or Boston

Sparta aka Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is Oracle's bare metal cloud; most of us are in Seattle and there are branch offices in the SF bay area and Boston area. We’re looking for senior developers to help build services and tools for OCI's Operations group. This is a new team in a relatively new org, so it's a good chance to make an impact and the vast majority of the work will be greenfield.

Minimum Qualifications:

- BS CS or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Five years of software development experience
- Strong knowledge of CS fundamentals
- Mastery of one or more of: Java/C*/Python or similar
- Proficiency working in a Linux environment

Preferred Qualifications:

- Graduate work in CS, especially in the fields of Systems or Machine Learning
- Prior experience architecting and operating large scale systems/services
- Some familiarity with systems administration or DevOps/SRE experience
- 10+ years of software development experience

Resumes / questions to: mike.o.jackson@oracle.com
I have a Cavalier, but in hindsight I wouldn't get one again.
Just to not encourage this 'cute' breeding. I'd get a Cavalier cross with another type of spaniel or poodle.
Why not both? Take the most popular web frameworks and see how quickly you ramp up in say a week or two week sprint.

I'm more of a fan of the Ruby syntax and the Phoenix framework is definitely a breath of fresh air. My next web project wants to be with Elixir but for a generic cross platform cli program, I'm eager to learn Go.
The only way I can get a Signal binary is through OWS. Why should I trust them?

The whole spirit of GPL and FOSS is to be able to examine the source, modify it, and distribute it freely. It’s a form of DRM to restrict who can and cannot distribute the Signal binary.
Where I worked for over a decade, full day interviews were the norm as multiple PMs had to approve of the candidate and be willing to fund the person on their projects.
That's pretty reductionist. There are more factors that go into choosing a job than the salary. Commute time, work life balance, perks, liking the people you work with, quality of the work, etc. It's a balance between all these aspects and the salary.
It does not matter if you work for small or large companies. It matters what problems you solved. Highlighting the solution experience is more important than the size of a company.
> Or spin up a child universe then cut off the connection.

Unfortunately, even that doesn't always work;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuity_changes_during_Infi...
Fragment Foundry: GPU Shader Quizzes for Learning GLSL and WebGL
Wow. This is pretty mind blowing to someone that is not an engineer.

My take away from this is that if the information is valuable enough and if someone wants the data enough, there is no way to truly make anything 100% secure. There will always be something to exploit. Is this accurate? Can we ever make something that is “invincible “?
It's probably because women are waiting longer to have children and it's harder for older women to become pregnant.
Have you gone through voice training? I have not had this problem after that.
>No, I was a very poor student as I knew back then that school had little to do with success.

See, this is the kind of thing I mean. This is essentially a post-hoc justification of your success. Why did you "know that school had little to do with success". Why didn't your classmates? Did the valedictorian also end up on drugs and in jail? Or did they just end up less successful, despite working hard?

I mean I can actually take this same argument and apply it to some absolutely terrible choices: "I knew school had very little to do with success, so I decided to forgo school and start hustling and selling drugs at a young age, and here I am now an upper ranking member of a street gang, by many measures a fairly successful person". It's not like everyone who does the first does the second. A lot of them end up dead or in jail. But given what you've said so far, you would believe that individuals should follow that advice.

And if that's not the case, I ask what the difference between

> Take my advice, ignore your schoolwork and work with computers instead, you could become a millionaire, just look at Bill Gates!

and

> Take my advice, ignore your schoolwork and start selling drugs instead, you could become a millionaire, just look at [insert local gang leader or dealer]!

I could be wrong, but it really sounds like you're looking at your past through rose colored glasses. And as a result of this, you ascribe your success more to the "smart choices" you made than to the "lucky choices" or "lucky breaks" or "random opportunities" you got. I'd suggest you go out and look for people from similar backgrounds who made similar choices to you, I think you'll find it will be sobering how many of them didn't find success, despite the hard work, and that you're luckier than you think. Heck, I think if you really try and take an objective look, you'll find that some of the people who you feel like made worse choices than you were more similar to you thank you think, but didn't get the same lucky break.

Just in general, I think it's a good idea spending more time listening to unsuccessful people. It reminds me how they're not so different from me, and that's why I think privilege theory is both important and often correct. I hope you take the time to do that too.

Edit: I also think you're misunderstanding my use of the word bias in this context. I mean "evolutionarily hardwired to view things through a certain, objectively wrong, lens". See my earlier citations for how that reveals itself, but the result is that you, like everyone, are likely to take more credit for your achievements than you objectively deserve. This isn't unique to you, but it means that I basically have to take your entire description of your success and everyone else's failures with a grain of salt.
I wish doctors would spend more time figuring out why babies die instead of figuring out how to make more. I have a friend whose wife has had five full-term stillbirths, with no explanation. Babies all tested as perfectly healthy. My wife and I just lost a perfect baby boy mid-pregnancy, with no explanation. A few others I know have lost otherwise healthy infants in the first years of life, again no explanation, despite multiple doctors.

It's wonderful we can make a human egg and all, but we still can't figure out why babies die, so forgive me if we're still not that impressed by medicine, and think we're misallocating resources.
this, I think we can all agree. no wait.. this I think, we can all agree. No, hang on, this I think we, can all agree ...
Reminds me of these microbes stuffed animal. Someone also made an STD version.

http://amzn.to/2BhW7kp
Intel’s Winter Olympics light show featured a record-breaking 1,218 drones
Fortnite started out as something very different and they made the Battle Royal part of it free which is why it has so much traction.
Isn't it peculiar that we started out with pictograms, then migrated to alphabets, but now there is movement back towards pictograms?

Of course this is an over-simplified view of things, even for a language lay-person like myself.
I don't really see the issue unless there were incentives set up to encourage this and it wasn't properly disclosed.

Usually when you trade with a bank desk you know that they're betting against you because they're the ones on the other side. If they weren't doing that then you'd always have to wait for a customer to take the opposite bet, but the market might move by the time such a customer appears.

Generally you don't want people in Honest Goldman's Sound Financial Advice Inc to know what people in Goldman's Shady Shell Fund Ltd are doing and vice-versa.
I hope no prequeals I hate prequeals carry the stories forward
Huh. Someone once offered to buy my github username from me... I had no idea that was explicitly against their policy. (Not that I said yes, or had any interest in selling)
Just wanted to say that I'm sorry for your loss.
It is unclear whether that is due to lack of aptitude, lack of desire, or incorrect expectations.

The qualities of those people who have ever successfully written software programs suggest that there is no magical determinant that would prevent any motivated person from doing it.

Apply the construction from the Pixar film Ratatouille. "Anyone can cook" does not mean that everyone can, just that there's no one who couldn't.

I suppose some kinds of brain defect or brain damage could prevent it, if you really want to pick nits. But in that case the condition would likely also prevent that person from doing much of anything else.
Since historical estimates of figures like von Neumann or Sidis are more like +70-100 points, I would add at least 20 to that as the lower bound on the upper bound. Since such people existed, at least that much must be possible.

Of course, there's no way to definitively prove there's any potential to reach above that short of the existence proof of actually creating such people, but there's a lot of considerations which point to much more being possible: many complex traits have been pushed by selective breeding by many SDs, no one has ever been remotely close to genetically optimal and humans are minimally selected for intelligence, there's a large mutation load in terms of gene breakage, absolute measures of cognitive functioning like vocab size or digit span or reaction time generally show humans are nowhere near limits, brain scaling laws do not put humans at near any 0 marginal returns point, etc.

Even if there really is a bound at +100 and being able to increase IQ that much doesn't impress you for some reason, then you can simply spend your selection power on selecting for everything else... I shouldn't need to point out that many other traits are very important aside from intelligence.
Yeah.. Any critical thinker could see Robert trying to influence people. He actually is in favor of MLM systems in it, the minute I read that I was instantly suspicious of him... I later found out for good reason.

https://www.johntreed.com/blogs/john-t-reed-s-real-estate-in...

https://toughnickel.com/personal-finance/Robert-Kiyosaki-May...
Great! Can we extend it to support deep learning and blockchains? I think Markdown is sorely lacking in those areas too.
> Potentially this could lead to gay couples being able to have genetically descended children (obviously male couples here, but similar work on sperm is being done that could potentially enable lesbian couples to have kids too)

I would actually argue that the latter (lesbian couple->kids) will become feasible first - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/25/lab-created-...
FYI, you should reissue your certificate. Chrome 66 is already blocking it (because of the Symantec fiasco). https://i.imgur.com/dWqeK74.png
This is a thing that generates many useless syscalls despite vDSO:

https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2017/02/21/set-environment-...
Ah, I see. I was referring to "Might be different with Android though..."
Checking the hash of the code against an expected value should at least ameliorate that concern.
It is git, so everything is signed. Just not authenticated. If you don't use head but a release or some tag you should be fine. Also, github supports permanent URL's
Please.

Don't.

Scrolljack.
I'm not surprised that high-end retail is still doing fine. People want the luxury purchasing experience to be luxurious -- they'd rather buy their luxury goods in boutiques than get them delivered in a cardboard box from Amazon.

Part of that may simply be wariness about spending a lot of money on stuff that's going to be shipped and could be lost, but that's not all. Owning the luxury goods themselves is only part of the experience -- being treated well during the purchase and during future customer service interactions is a big part of the draw of luxury items. You don't get that from most online retailers.
Maybe not in this particular article/thread, but it's been widely discussed how starting a family can be disruptive to a woman's career and professional development. The reasons it's disruptive could be due to companies / culture in general not being flexible and accommodating enough to motherhood. Taking time off from your career tends to be a very costly proposition in our current time.

For these reasons, there's lots of pressure to delay starting a family, and it's no surprise that IVF has seen increased demand. Some companies (i.e. Facebook) even provide their female employees a benefit that covers freezing their eggs. This is somewhat controversial, as some would argue that Facebook (and other companies, and perhaps our culture in general) should instead focus on reducing the professional cost of starting a family.

Therefore, these findings about growing human eggs could have great significance. I have friends grappling with this issue right now, so I understand how this discovery could be a great help to them. I hope that provides some useful context...
Agreed. Hard to sue from the grave. Keep asking for second opinion. By the time most people go to the doctor it is getting serious.
Maybe bacterial Fitzgerald next?
Community, Identity, Stability.
12 hours a day, WTF? I've never seen anyone in any of the several companies I've worked for work 12 hours day regularly. I'm sure it happens but that's definitely not normal for software development, so to say "for the rest of your life" is a little misguided. Perhaps you were being a bit hyperbolic.
Scientists studying psychoactive drugs accidentally proved the self an illusion
Ideally you would be able to use combining characters to join the intended number of hearts (or birds, flowers, poos, etc) to the intended facial expression.
TV Shows Actually Talking About Bitcoin
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16340732
Do Github usernames have to be a person? Seems like an owner name to me, it could easily be an organization name.
Huh? It's an amusing joke. How is it taking a "potshot" at his religion?

Imagine being in church, praying to God for the betterment of humanity, and then you hear Him answer you back, filling the church with His voice, but...it's just Cortana with an inane canned response.

It's funny, and not in an insulting way, except perhaps if you're on the team working on one of these products.
It's from my analysis of embryo selection (https://www.gwern.net/Embryo-selection). But you can do it without the complications by treating it as an order statistic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_statistic): what is the expected maximum of a sample of 5 Gaussians (rough current average egg harvest) vs 20 or 100 Gaussians, where the Gaussian is N(0, 0.5 * sqrt(polygenic score))? (Since you are selecting on the polygenic scores, not the unknown adult scores, and 0.5 because you are selecting from embryos which are 50% related ie. siblings.) X_5 vs X_100 is a big difference.

(To save you the trouble, it's +1.16SD vs +2.51SD; the difference is actually much bigger than it looks because you lose so many embryos in the IVF process, so it's really more like X_1 vs X_196 or +0.56 vs +2.48SD, but to be more precise, you need to go into the weeds of PGSes and per-stage losses in IVF etc. But the order statistics are a good starting point.)
Blue Dye Kills Malaria Parasite Quickly
I'm aware of that. I don't really see the relevance to modern semiconductor engineering for cryptographic applications though. Differences in radix economy are typically only significant for very small numbers, far smaller than those used in cryptography. The decrease in number of required transistors is rapidly overwhelmed by the increased voltages required to discriminate between states and the resistive (heat) losses incurred by having a mid-valued state. If IOTA were a cryptocurrency for vacuum tubes where the power use is dominated by the cathode heater it might make sense to use trinary. But the last time I checked pretty much every processor around used CMOS FETs...

Edit: Idea! Hipstercoin - Trinary cryptocurrency for tube amplifiers! Play your vinyl and mine for hipstercoins at the same time!
I would never use that. It uses SHA1. The problem is the hash, not the signing. A secure package identifier doesn't necessarily need to be signed. Conversely, you must have a decent hash algorithm.

Your mentioned method signs the git commit hash. A signature is only as good as the hash you use, and SHA1 is not suitable.

https://blog.thoughtram.io/git/2014/11/18/the-anatomy-of-a-g...

Also see https://github.com/git/git/commit/721cc4314cb593e799213ad5f9...
>so forgive me if we're still not that impressed by medicine.

I get you're venting some pain here, but that's kind of looking a gift horse in the mouth. Modern medicine hasn't figured out every single mystery, but it's certainly impressive what we have figured out.
That’s a unique spin. It’s not about infantilizing. Hockey players also make a lot less, with fewer big payouts and thus fewer big flameouts.

Personally, I think the unions should help guide these guys. New money leading to bankruptcy is a universal story, not unique to any race.

Athletes are particularly vulnerable to scammers, as they spend a lot of time isolated by coaches with a small group of people. Self dealing trusted advisors and that isolation makes them vulnerable.
It's a cost/benefit analysis. Waymo put forward a fairly weak case. There were damning elements of that case, for sure, but there were also weaknesses, and a case is a chain of reasoning that is only as strong as its weakest point. If Waymo was certain of victory they would not have settled, it would have been in their best interest to get things sorted in court and to get the maximum amount of money out of Uber. The fact that they settled is an indication that both parties were unsure of the outcome of the trial.
Hostile Architecture: ‘Design Crimes’ Campaign Gets Bars Removed from Benches
I don't think it's that different from H&M having some kid wearing "Cutest Monkey" and not being aware some people might find offense. I call my sisters kids monkeys on occasion, no one thinks it's offensive, but some people will, regardless of intent. There are many other cases equally tone deaf in other countries too. You just gotta be aware that you potentially have a worldwide audience and there could be a group who takes offense and sometimes you have to make a hard decision regardless when two opposing opinions have valid points.
Because when you don't collectively fight for your rights, your boss will fight to take them away, and will probably win.

Your employer is in a better position to lobby for a law that will let them underpay 1000 employees by $100 each, then then their employees are to protect themselves from such a law.
Its backstory is famously that it was developed by some guy as a side project, and that guy's tacky username is in the title.

I mean, what did you expect?
As others have pointed out already, there isn't really such a thing as a best framework. Many of the fundamental ideas are the same no matter what you choose, so the potential benefits of switching are meager.

Stick with what you know for the parts that don't absolutely require another solution; not all (parts of) pages will be so interactive. Then branch out a bit where needed, e.g. to handle socket connections well. Maybe not all of that needs to be handled by the same service?

If you move the semi-realtime stuff into a separate project, it will be a lot smaller in scope, hence less risky to experiment with. Regardless, I wouldn't stray too far. If you'll be writing Javascript anyway, NodeJS could still be fine, but don't needlessly bring in a third language. Do try Channels, but don't overlook other Python solutions. Tornado is a workhorse that doesn't get nearly enough credit in my opinion.
Private Eyes
When can we grow babies in a pod? Matrix style.

Note: This is a serious scientific question.
Cryonics Myths
Battle Royale games generally need to broadcast player state to all players within a large distance (iirc for PUBG, it's one km) because it's common to spot another player 500+ meters out and take some shots at them. If they're not moving much you might hit them.
Article about free images 'contradicts everything I hold true about journalism'
Which I expect is more common in super computers.

But still, maybe there is some stuff with special processors that needs all to be compiled specifically with support for that type of thing, in order to make proper use of the underlying machine.
Oh yeah, I love to hold up Subspace as a perfect example of why games is so cross-discipline driven. For networked games building design about predicting where someone will be means that frame-to-frame latency almost doesn't matter. The Newtonian physics of that game plays into it perfectly leading to a something that works over primitive modems. Even FPS games to a large degree are about predicting/leading the positions of the other players.

Compare that to say, fighting games which are very reactionary and very hard to run over any latent connection without some seriously complicated netcode involving time rewinding.
There Might Be No Way to Live Comfortably Without Also Ruining the Planet
I don't really mind, and it was only one comment. I'm happy to explain myself when I can add clarity.
Nice read. And nice to see Java running at the backend.

I wonder whether Epic can solve its problems by rearchitecting more into a CQRS driven system with event sourcing: store events in a more write optimized DB (e.g. Cassandra) and then process the events for fast reads through whatever is required for the usecases. Maybe they touched the limits of MongoDB to handle both, reads and writes at their scale.
That's not true. I see moderate right wingers like Jordan Peterson criticising highly fevered left wingers who are clearly extremists. The right that I see is reasonable and the left they talk about is extreme. I suspect it's the same for you but in reverse. You can't judge the whole side by what their enemies mock them for.

I'm a right winger but I still believe in evolution and I don't have a portrait of Hitler on my wall.
In that case you didn't paraphrase the quote so much as repurpose it.
We’ll need a robot that can change diapers and wipe butts first. Interestingly I’m sure that has terrestrial uses as well so we might actually see it!
When you wrote "largely unbounded gains" I thought not only in terms of genetic potential but also the impact on science / technology / society / culture this would likely have.

Pulling numbers out of a hat here: if we could have even, say, 0.015% of the global population, approximately 1 million people, with an IQ of ~200, the effects on the evolution of knowledge could be staggering.
I guess we need to upgrade our tinfoil hats.
I'm fine with the fact that there's a standard for pictographs. Just.. why does it have to be Unicode? Why can't it just be its own standard?
It looks like a bacteria of some sort without a flaggelum, maybe gram positive.

If I had to bet, I'd bet on some kind of lactobacillus :)
> Chess Pawn was approved as part of Unicode 1.1 in 1993 under the name “Black Chess Pawn” and added to Emoji 11.0 in 2018.

Another existing normal character that got turned into an emoji and so will be rendered with funny colors rather than the original font color in firefox :(

Can't even use a simple left or right pointing triangle to indicate something anymore without it possibly getting funny colors in firefox :(

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> Legally, there's very little preventing your advisor from telling you to perform trades that make you poor and the advisor's buddies rich.

Well, other than the new Fiduciary Rule, though the Trump Administration handling of the implementation of that rule seems to have everything up in the air, from the coverage I've seen.
Exploitation Forensics. Interview with Vladan Joler