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Replicated | Backend Engineer - All Levels | $90k - $160k + equity | Los Angeles | https://www.replicated.com

Replicated is modernizing the deployment framework for enterprise applications. We are looking for backend engineers of all levels to help build our tools to modernize enterprise software development and deployment.

At Replicated you will be working on the cloud based and installable aspects of the Replicated product that is in use in more than 1/3rd of of the Fortune 100.

Experience that will be useful for this role includes golang, SQL, js, React, Docker and Kubernetes. The most important element though is a demonstrated passion for software development and tackling challenging technical problems.

These roles will be exclusively onsite in Los Angeles.

If you are interested please email austin (at) replicated (dot) com
Shift is a start-up that provides a SaaS solution to insurers to automate fraud detection. We've raised $28 million series B and already have more than 45 clients and offices in Paris, Singapore, Tokyo and New York.
Our main challenges are making sense of a lot of heterogeneous data, analysing it accurately and efficiently and presenting the results to the user in an intuitive way.
On a daily basis you are expected to deliver new features, ensure code quality and performance, and help data scientists analyse data efficiently and accurately.
Tech: Windows, .NET (C#), SQL Server, ElasticSearch, JavaScript, React, VMware, Azure, Git
Do not hesitate to e-mail us at hnjobs@shift-technology.com
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I assumed the jobs posts are paid, and probably generate significant revenue. As such, honest discussion about the companies would not be beneficial to two of the three parties in the endeavor ie HN and the advertiser. We, developers, the target of the advertising, would benefit from candid discussion.
If you reject the web of trust then you're saying you trust nobody (except yourself). Do you really not know anybody you trust to verify identities on your behalf? (That's a trick question because you trust the CAs).
They do speak up. A lot. Protests happen in China. CCCP don't care. They just clamp down on the protests.
> And to think that virtually all the other OEMs barely even support their phones beyond a year and a half. Even Google is only supporting its own phones for 3 years, which is still less than the average lifespan of these phones (iPhones may be higher quality, but I doubt the avg lifespan for other flagship devices is much smaller).

I think the numbers include all Apple devices: iPhones, iPads, Airports, Macintoshes &c.

Certainly, I don't know anyone with a more-than-three-year-old iPhone.
We've built a few Wagtail sites now, it's a really great developer experience and the end result is an excellent experience for content editors. Really excited about Wagtail 2.0.
Cash has been relatively phasing out of developed countries for the past half century - it might not be here in a 200 years from organic technological advancement and usage. Most people, when paying with their smartphones, do not stop themselves and ask "gee, now that I don't use cash anymore am I contributing to a hypothetical eventuality of a cashless society that encourages an Orwellian state? What should I have for supper tonight?" Deliberately removing legal tender from circulation is a large endeavor as well; there no simple "this is beneficial for us, let's get rid of it". I'm also trying to picture the US intentionally renouncing its hegemony and announcing to the world that the physical US dollar is no longer in circulation and finding that slightly comical.

Providing any analogy from cash to crypto in ANY regard is simply never going to be bijective, so I would never apply the same logic. The entire point is that if I'm trying to hide "value" or "accrued value" from the government, crypto is and has been a considerably better option over other stores, including cash.
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Technologies: Python, Django (Django Rest Framework, GeoDjango), Linux, Lua, Javascript, PHP, (Social Media) API's

Technologies (secondary): PostgreSQL, MySQL, Docker, Vagrant, Ansible, Fabric, Drupal, Symfony, C#,

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Decades of legacy code to maintain continuity of business (dont assume for a minute you can export or import data from many of these apps in any sort of sane way). I think a lot of businesses would be open to better designed products, but the aforementioned legacy compatibility and the need to train people on the new software make this a nonstarter. Pretty much the same reasons Microsoft Office is still so dominant, although I actually like the recent versions of office.
The typical D&D game will have a group of players working as a team and exploring a monster-filled dungeon. A different person is the Dungeon Master and is responsible for crafting the plot of the adventure and presenting challenges to the players (monsters to battle, though choices to make, and so on). However, it isn't really an adversarial thing. A good DM doesn't "play to win" as their goal is to create the most fun experience for everyone.
There shouldn't be a law requiring support but it sure would be nice if at least the manufacturer's would provide a way for people to support the devices themselves. It'd also be great if they offered paid support for old devices, e.g. $1 per month to cover developer time.
Roadster | Frontend & Backend Engineers | Palo Alto, San Francisco

Roadster is modernizing the painful process of buying a car. Our software turns car dealers into modern shopping sites with up-front pricing and an end-to-end purchase & checkout process ending in home delivery of your new or used car. For the in-person shopper we power the dealer's iPads or kiosks to provide the same fluid process in the store, without the usual negotiation or hassle.

Check us out at http://roadster.com and our 5-star reviews at http://yelp.com/biz/roadster-san-francisco

We're hiring a frontend and backend engineer to help expand our customer base nationwide (and internationally), and to own, build, and launch snazzy new features. Our web apps target both dealer and consumer end users, so we emphasize great design and technology to scale to thousands of dealers. We use Ruby on Rails, Vue.js (migrating from Angular), Elasticsearch, Postgres & Redis. You should have a CS degree or equivalent and 2 years of work experience. Our team is small so you'll be owning your projects right away. Our PA office is a converted body shop with a rollup garage door.

Email me at dino@roadster.com for more details!
Location: Worldwide

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, depending…

Technologies: Full-stack Ruby/Rails, JS/front-end UI dev with lovingly hand-crafted CSS, Go, AWS stack, lots of personal projects with other tech beyond the day job (with Go, vanilla JS or frameworks beyond React such as Vue, AWS IoT, anything worth learning)

Résumé/CV: Upon (legitimate company) request

Email: farnsworthyhn@protonmail.com

I enjoy good collaboration and teamwork, and approach both coding and communication with thought and care.
Why not just set up your own email forwarder on such an address that you set up for all your domains?
How is it different than the USSR putting missile bases in Cuba during the Cold War?
This is really nice read! I remember I visited a local Planetarium few weeks ago. They had a game where you will need to pick like 5 planets and design the solar system. It had the asteroid belt. Big planets and small ones. The game will end if the EARTH collides with any other planet and if the other planet collides you lose points. The simulation was just amazing.
It's spelled Chia* please respect their rules.
Do you fear Winnie the Pooh?
"100% increase" != "increase by a factor of 1".

You seem to be stuck on the translation here. These are two different phrases with different meanings. Yes, they both refer to increases. Yes, they both can be interpreted as multiplications on the original term. No, they are not the same. You found exactly one case which does not use the same verbage and specifically points to percentages. I don't know how else to say that different phrases in English carry different meanings. You can't just say "a factor of X" is equivalent to "X00%". This just is not understood to be true. Even the GMAT and GRE present questions in this way with the understanding that "a factor of X" means to multiply by X.

I'm not going to continue to explain this to you. There's really nothing more to be said. If you attempt to solve problems presented in the format of "increased by a factor of X" such that X is not presented as a percentage, you will be marked as incorrect more often than not.

I'm not even explicitly arguing for a populism argument. I'm stating that the problem is presented in a different format than you are claiming it to be.
>I've had more luck accessing candidates by asking simple requests like "tell me about your daily duties at your last/present job" or "oh you've language x, what's your least favorite part of developing with it?" If the candidate can't discuss simple things with mild depth or command then they're probably not a good fit.

This is what I do. If an interviewer can be bullshitted doing it this way, they don't need to be interviewing. Non-technical managers really need to defer this sort of thing to technical people.
They're not asking me to complete a basic programming task. They're asking me to greenfield a project and implement complex features, often under ridiculous constraints.
I've got an iPhone that's more than three years old.
It's hard to infer much from this article since it lacks all relevant detail. If the earlier share holders are selling common stock, it's not clear how that affects the preferred price.
> I've had more luck accessing candidates by asking simple requests like "tell me about your daily duties at your last/present job" or "oh you've language x, what's your least favorite part of developing with it?" If the candidate can't discuss simple things with mild depth or command then they're probably not a good fit.

Being able to answer those still doesn't mean they can actually code proficiently, which would also make them not a good fit.

You seem to be swinging the other way too much. Not testing their programming ability just because other things are important doesn't sound like a great way to interview people, either.
Strangely, I've found that big companies are more willing to tell you the salary range. I assume because they have distinct job grades and salary tied to those grades.
> which is in the trillions of years

Is it always such a big lifetime for small stars? White dwarfs have a long lifetime, but they have interesting stories behind them; what about other types of small stars?
Please define "computer" for the context of your question. Almost every kind of vehicle or complex tool contains some kind of embedded processor now.
I did nand2tetris something like 7 years ago, it was a pretty fun introduction to digital logic. I remember hitting a point where I couldn't continue after designing the ALU due to either a paywall, something missing, or the Java software being broken. Not sure if it's been fixed, but I'm guessing running in an older JVM would have probably worked.
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Hustle Inc | Software Engineer | San Francisco / New York | Full-time

Hustle is a peer-to-peer text messaging platform that provides organizations across the country with an affordable, efficient, and effective tool to reach their supporters. By facilitating two-way conversations, Hustle’s clients maintain genuine, personal dialogues with hundreds, thousands, and even millions of people.

Our clients include Planned Parenthood, Human Rights Campaign, political campaigns (including the Bernie Sanders campaign last year) and dozens of universities. It's 48 times more effective than making phone calls.

See a recent article about us in The Hill: "Left Finds New Online Tools To Fight Trump": http://thehill.com/policy/technology/320195-left-finds-new-o....

We use JavaScript, React, React Native and Node.js through out our stack. It's a stack that heavily rewards generalists that just want to ship things.

Hustle was started by engineers from Facebook and MongoDB and is backed by top VC firms including Social Capital and Index Ventures.

Please apply on our site to learn more about us and our growing team of 85 (15 engineers)!

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"But nature would have a tough time forming this system. If it exists, it could only have been built by a super-advanced civilization."
As my gf said - cat fascinated by laser pointer => human fascinated by cat.
Mirror, because the site wasn't loading for me earlier: https://www.eternum.io/ipfs/QmSjZic3JCaU3MHro8MyvRi1RpQweuYC...
> It's like saying you provoked a burglar by putting a bigger lock on your door.

This is a poor analogy due to a nation-state not being analogous to a burglar. Especially due to a burglar being a deviant and a nation-state not (inherently) being a deviant. Also in your scenario, one party is deviant and the other is protecting their home (one-sided).

A defensive act like setting up missile shields runs counter to "mutually assured destruction" (it's not so mutual when one side has a missile shield).
The good news is just that wages have reached 2007 levels for all deciles. When it comes to the rise in the average wage, the influence is concentrated in the top 10% of incomes. Black people are actually doing worse, finally reaching the wages they had in 2000, which wasn't a great year.

This report definitely isn't a whitewash. It starts by making it clear that the wealthy are continuing to skim about 1/3 of middle class productivity gains (through housing, healthcare) as compared to the post-WWII period of the rise of America as a middle-class country that free-marketeers claim to want to go back to.
just yesterday 2 out of 4 people could not hear shit.
I think this makes sense. Money makes it way easier to automate / hire for non-essential things. My time is basically just work, family, reading or sleep at this point. Everything else is automated or hired for.
Frankly, cities like New Orleans, Baltimore and New Orleans need systems like Palantir, drones, license plate readers and etc.. They are like something out of Hobbes right now, with no effective state authority and violence levels unseen elsewhere in the developed world.

Once basic rule-of-law is established then programs like those can be scaled back but a lot of other countries would have established a state of emergency if they were confronted with the levels of violence seen in some of these American big cities. There's already a big push for body-worn camers for police, this is just a natural extension.
This is a fantastic challenge for computer engineers: create an interpreter or compiler for a programming language, based on statistic modeling. How likely is it that combining the token "foo" with "bar" using a mathematical operator is a valid construct, based on experience from other programs? What will the resulting value usually be, based on prior experience?
Where is Bill wrong?

Many cryptocurrencies are well-tested vehicles for laundering money and conducting illicit business. Also, the speculative wave around ICOs does introduce volatility and jeopardize long-term value. Speculative waves have always acted like a double-edged swords when it comes to long-term investing. They bring in capital and generate excitement, but they can also create turbid markets dominated by people who don't care about fundamentals or first principles.

> Bill needs to stick with what he actually knows about.

In the four years you've been on this site, you haven't exactly dazzled us with any insight. Maybe you can break your 2 sentence limit today and explain why Bill is out of his element.
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You'd have to ask a Chinese native whether their connotations are the same. It's possible the connotations of Winnie the Pooh took a twist on their way East. For instance, it would not be hard to see Pooh primarily as a childish wimp or something.

Anyone got any direct knowledge of the Chinese connotations of "Winnie the Pooh"?
7$ for 5 minutes of downtime in a month? That seems good to me. 1 hour would be a better example I guess, 84$ for an hour of downtime, that seems to be low for the amount of work that "may" have been lost, but then, that's weird to depend on a chat software that much.
Particularly family and close friends. I really don't give a damn what one-time acquaintances and Internet handles say, but when people who should know you better don't, that can be severely damaging. Ultimately I think depression is really chronic existential crisis along with alienation, and while I don't preclude treatment with drugs (as there could be associated physiological aspects that can be corrected and normalised), ultimately one has to 'find' the meaning and joy that can get you out of the rut oneself. But its not easy.
It's because dictators tend to become petty and take everything personally because they think they can afford to do that.

This is the #1 reason why countries should not fall under dictatorship. Humans are flawed, and flawed rulers with a lot of power are extremely dangerous. They tend to retaliate aggressively either against individuals or other countries because there are no "checks and balances" to keep them from abusing their power when they get emotional about something.

This is how you can easily end-up with insane decisions at the highest-level of a government such as "banning the letter N" because the ruler's feeling were hurt. And this is just an example. We'll see many more like this once he's officially declared a dictator (or Permanent President, or "The Senate" - whatever they decide to call him).
I can believe no one's said Oracle database. I keep thinking it's dead in favor of FOSS alternatives, but every large business I consult at has racks and racks dedicated to that tire fire, and a bunch of aging ODBAs itching to retire. And, Larry's still making an absolute fuckton of cash from it.
The rise of the Labour Party in the early 1900s era in the UK is a non violent example of this to some extent. It was helped by the 2 world wars so there was violence and upheaval but not directly to buck the system in the UK. Bolshevism happened at the same time is Russia but that was pretty violent.
We're using the Apollo stuff sometimes over in Angular apps also; at the moment I think this may be the strongest contender for a minimal code, declarative, "it just works" future.
I'd really love to see this broken down by location (more precisely than just state) and adjusted for CoL (e.g using the GS table).

Knowing how supply/input of money has changed over the years is cool and all but you need to know demand/output to reason about the actual impact on quality of life.
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From my understanding, the example posted is an unlikely degenerate case where the whole "web of trust" between you and another peer consists of three separate parallel paths.
I'm on the engineering team at Blockstack, and wrote the client-side encryption functions used by applications.

I totally agree with the idea that if software uses encryption, it should be documented, open-source, and ideally use a standard encryption protocol. Being able to say "this is exactly how encryption works" in a system is important, and I'm glad you're asking these questions.

Encryption in Blockstack apps is performed client-side via library calls in blockstack.js (our javascript library). The encryption routines are implemented here [1], and implement ECIES, using the user's application-specific private key. That private key is passed to an application during the application authentication process [2]. All a blockstack application has to do is pass { "encrypt": true } in the storage routines, and this is invoked.

We definitely would like to provide better documentation and messaging around how applications engage and use our client libraries -- and documenting our encryption routines is part of that. However, in the meantime, you can feel free to check out or codebase (it's all open source), and we'd always welcome any kind of feedback!

[1] https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack.js/blob/master/src/...

[2] https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack.js/blob/feature/aut...
The article specifically mentioned it

> surveys suggest Mr. Xi has an approval rating of more than 80 percent
You didn't mention what do you specialize in but I will assume something related to IT.

Some time ago I have started poking around for a job abroad. Don't know when or how but I have found AngelList. I wasn't actively looking and I didn't want to be overwhelmed by a million job sites so I thought I'd just try out my luck on this one as it was trending at that moment as a startup job site.

Filled out my profile, started sending my resume to companies from cities I was interested to move to. Few months after I got a response from a guy from a small company in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It didn't sound too serious but we kept in touch through the year and then he asked me to come over. Booked me tickets introduced me to the company and to the city a little bit.

And that's how it went. I got a few weeks to decide whether and when I want to come. I left my job in my home country Lithuania and I'm happily living in Amsterdam for over a year now.

I'm not sure how actively you're looking for a job but AngelList would be the No. 1 place to start. I have heard other success stories related to that place as well.
The title of the course really shows that learning is recursive. Pretty fitting given the name of the company who hosts us.
> Maybe it's just me, but a company who stores their customer's private keys, sends them around in a ZIP file via email and has a trivial code injection vulnerability on their site, with a process running as root, is probably not the one I want to make that call.

On the flip side, if a company with such little regard for security thinks there's a problem with the Symantec, you've got to wonder. They're basically saying "we're dangerously incompetent, however even _we_ can see that Symantec are broken" - and might actually have a point.
If you generated your own Private Key and used that to make one or more CSRs, you can show any fool the CSR and no harm will come to you, at least on the cryptographic side. Upload it to 4chan, print it out on a T-shirt, doesn't matter.

Any certificates produced are worthless to everybody except you, because you have the Private Key, and a _competent_ Certificate Authority (in this story that's Symantec or DigiCert, not Trustico) should only issue certificates for the names requested in the CSR, not any other names.

A customer who did things sensibly (their own Private Key, make a CSR etcetera) and used Trustico say in 2016, needn't be concerned that these development will end with their certificates unilaterally revoked on Trustico's say-so. They might not want to do any more business with Trustico, but there's no particular reason this incident should affect their feelings about DigiCert or Comodo or any of the Symantec brands (Verisign / Thawte / RapidSSL / etcetera) now controlled by DigiCert.
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