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Oden Technologies | New York, NY | Full Time, Onsite

We're a small but rapidly growing team focused on building products that allow manufacturers to improve their production processes using data. We’re working across a range of cutting edge disciplines including industrial Internet-of-Things, big data, and machine learning.

We have openings across the board:

- Frontend: help build the next iteration of our manufacturing analytics platform, a first of its kind suite of applications for analyzing real-time data, optimizing production processes, and modeling the factory of the 21st century.

- Backend: build highly available APIs in Python / Go that efficiently and reliably capture machine and human data.

- DevOps Engineer: tackle interesting problems with infrastructure in a hybrid cloud & IoT environment, such as quorum-based distributed systems and cloud/edge application deployment strategies.

- Data Scientist: build statistical and machine learning models that improve efficiency of manufacturing using the telemetry collected from machines in the field.

- Forward Deployed: integrate with different production machines, allowing for seamless transmission of data to our platform.

- Customer Success Manager: ensure that our clients are using the product to achieve the best possible outcomes for their business. This person is ideally an operations/logistics/industrial consultant, engineer, lean expert, or similar with a proven track record for demonstrating ROI.

Reach out directly: mykola [at] oden [dot] io
You can’t win if you don’t play the game. The more you play, the better your odds.

Sure, you can play often and hard and still lose. It’s even possible to play once, not do much, and win.

The probability of those outcome are vastly different.

Don’t play = 0% chance of winning.

Play once and don’t try hard = .000001% chance of winning.

Play hard and often = 15% chance of winning, with a 80% chance of coming in the top 10%.

*figures are made up, but logically realistic.
> the quote boils down to "Life is suffering"

Not in any meaningful sense. Clearly the quote contains more than that. It's like saying "everything boils down to A = A" (Aristotle, Metaphysics), therefore anything following from that is an "unoriginal" idea.
Twitter CEO Admits Company Didn’t Fully Grasp Abuse Problem
> First off, large companies have different priorities in pursuing these deals than small startups. The large company might be interested in the service offered because it will generate revenue or improve efficiency. On the other hand, the execs might be trying to figure out if your company is any good so that they can buy it. In most cases, the startups see this Deal as the only thing that matters. That creates mismatched expectations and goals that can’t be bridged.

I'd also point out that this can be a massive benefit for a startup. Consider this: Microsoft would not be where they are today if they didn't take advantage of IBM not caring about exclusive rights to MS-DOS. Microsoft correctly banked on the idea (whether they fully knew it or not, I don't recall) that IBM did not have a firm grasp on their technology, and that IBM clone PCs would soon take over the world.

Another example. George Lucas was able to convince 20th Century Fox to give up merchandising rights to Star Wars. 20th Century Fox and IBM both had different priorities at the time, allowing the small player to win big.

The trick, it seems, is to make a deal that seems like a Small Deal with the corporation (they will readily agree with it) that is actually a Big Deal if the startup has a way to leverage it.
There's a reason that no other company tries to use geosynchronous orbit.

Stationary orbit is at a distance of 35800 km above sea level, which implies a one way latency of 110 ms based off the speed of light. Since any request from a user requires a total of 2 round way trips (one for request, one for response), the minimum latency for a request is 440 ms.

Avg latency with fiber is something like 30-60 ms, so we can assume an average request with Astranis will have ~500 latency.

Most modern webpages will not be able to support such latency. Astranis will need to essentially cache webpages on demand and deliver them to the end user as a fully rendered page, which will introduce security headaches.

I don't see why Astranis chose this vs a lower orbit.
> From my point of view, I would avoid approaching a group of women talking by themselves since I'd be the odd one out.

Women in male-dominated workplaces already feel like this every day.

I would submit that, while it is important to be cognizant that there are cases in which you may be intruding[0], the overwhelming majority of situations that's really not likely to be the case. It's work. You're working. Joining co-workers to talk about work is fine and overthinking it will bite you.

[0] - and yes, this may be identity-based and that may in a vacuum feel unfair, but we've held most of the cards for the run of human history and we can deal with it.
I would never trust Uber with anything sensitive, health related or remotely private after their history of stealing medical records to attempt to cover one of their drives rape. [1]

[1] https://www.recode.net/2017/6/7/15754316/uber-executive-indi...
Geo redirects... they make me furious!

I remember reading in the Google Forum from an American who flew to Kuwait (War contractor?) and when they loaded up Google on their laptop, it's in Arabic. They were furious...
Location: Canada (New Brunswick/East Coast)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies:
Social Media - Tumblr, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, Hootsuite, Canva
Recruiting - Indeed, Alongside
Travel Bookings - AirBnB, Booking.com, Google Flights, Hipmunk, Enterprise and Hertz
Customer Support - Intercom
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-o-connor/
Email: susan@susansocial.com (protonmail also available)
Website: https://susansocial.com

Open to freelance work or full/part time employment. I've got a lot of experience working with startups, both remote and onsite! See my website for more details on what I do, and recommendationsfrom startups I've worked with.
Windows 7, MacOS, or Linux, maybe. Anything that doesn't require access to the Windows Store.

I've got Windows 10 on my machine at work, and on my little netbook-style laptop, but just Windows 7 and Linux on the closest things to "gaming machines" that I've got.
This happens over normal cable internet connection (as someone mentioned below, it is probaby when a website is in IUAM) and it is not related to captchas.

Cloudflare provides some page with JS code that computes something and then procedes to the correct page if it is computed correctly.

So I can either enable JS both for the cloudflare interstitial page and for the target website, or I'm not able to access the website.

I'm not angry, I just close the website/go back to search results. I will not allow the browser to run random JS code from the target website for no reason, just because the interstitial page requires it.

Still, if someone requires computing random challenges in javscript in order to gain access to a web page, they're breaking the web. Javascript is still an optional addon.
How is that not economic issue? That is just ridiculous claim. It may be issue that is not caused by her employer sexism, but impact on her retirement or perspective in case of divorce or simply buying power or what not is absolutely economic.
> to make it completely unacceptable, in every way, for things to continue as they currently are

This seems key. Especially if it's "relatively rare but intensely negative events" (as seems to be the case).

Imagine if for every one of these stories, a colleague of the person dealing with discrimination or peer of the discriminator had tapped them on the shoulder and said, "Professor, what the fuck are you doing? That's sexist, and you're a terrible human for having done that."

And imagine if after three times of the above their peers had said "This is a pattern of behavior with you. We'd feel better if the department were headed by someone with different values."

Discrimination survives on awkward tolerance.
Let’s be a bit more intellectually honest and not compare the dumpster fire of Twitter, to the workplace.

Dumpster fire: http://variety.com/2018/digital/news/twitter-ceo-abuse-12027...
Caveat lector: Johann Hari, the author of this piece, was involved in a major integrity scandal in 2011. He resigned from his job at The Independent after being accused of habitual plagiarism and admitted to vandalising the Wikipedia articles of journalists who had criticised him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Hari#2011_scandals

His recent book Lost Connections, on which most of his recent articles about depression have been based, has faced widespread criticism for misrepresenting the evidence on depression and how it is treated.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2018/jan/...

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/johann-hari-depression-a...

https://anotherangrywoman.com/2018/01/08/five-things-wrong-w...
My employer recently switched from PeopleSoft to Oracle for HR stuff. So now instead of the system itself being slow to respond, it is plenty responsive when I put in for time off. However, if I fill out the form too quickly it rejects the input as invalid. They can't even get form input validation to work correctly.
type ii error is statistics, not mathematics. there is no equivalent concept in CS because type ii error relates specifically to statistical inference and hypothesis testing.

that said, if you are just pointing to a box in a confusion matrix and saying "TYPE II ERROR," you are probably trying too hard.
Because the engineering costs have not gone down so it may not make sense to spend the effort to reduce memory usage.
Deep nets are deservedly big because they've managed to improve upon all of the decades-old state-of-the-art methods in the world of signal processing (DSP): voice, image, video, game play, and a much of natural language. No other single computational/algorithmic method has achieved so much, in so many domains, ever. That's revolutionary.

The advances made by deep nets in signal processing will likely slow down now, but they aren't going away, not in the foreseeable future.

The hype around DNNs arose when we took our unbridled enthusiasm for what's they've achieved in DSP and extend it to other domains with data that's less 'dense' and thus aren't as amenable to de/convolution in N-D space or time.

Will DNNs revolutionize or introduce all the techniques needed to achieve AGI/Strong AI? I very much doubt it. As yet, there's little sign that DNNs can perform relational operations on interdependent symbols, like the transforms available via type theory, bayesian nets, or predicate logic.

The multitude of disparate facts and semantics in a rich knowledgebase can't be organized into dense matrices the way that continuous signals can, so the SIMD operations that are so effective in DSP won't implement the rich transformations needed in a relational fact-based knowledge space equally as well, if at all. Thus DNNs almost surely aren't going to take us to the heights of logical or compositional thinking that human level intelligence requires.

But how far up relational mountain will DNNs take us? I suspect that won't be known for a decade or longer. But even if we don't reach the summit, it'll be higher than we were before.
Corporate Innovation Management: Board Level Commitment Necessary
3 Tricks for Dealing with Crippling Discouragement
I'm sorry I still doesn't get it, it would be helpful to provide a couple of bullet points
Mobile Real-Time Video Segmentation
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ac... . Browsers send them.

But nah, let's be too clever and offer localized content based on IP! No localized content? Enjoy the 404!
Which is necessary of course because you can be sure they'll screw it up.
I’ve been been pushing processing.org to everyone I think might care - I feel like it fits a similar niche in providing immediate feedback like logo. I prefer the offline java version - although the environment has language plugins for python, r and JavaScript.

And to bring it full circle, there’s an HPGL filter that lets you record vector drawing to send to your old plotter.

It’s seriously the most fun I have with computers these days.
Deep nets are deservedly big because they've managed to improve upon most of the decades-old state-of-the-art methods in the world of signal processing (DSP): voice, image, video, game play, and a significant amount of natural language. No other single computational/algorithmic method has achieved so much in so many domains, ever. That's revolutionary.

The rate of advance using deep nets in signal processing will likely slow down now, but they aren't going away, not in the foreseeable future.

The hype around DNNs arose when we took our unbridled enthusiasm for what's they've achieved in DSP and extended it to other domains where data is less 'dense' and thus aren't as amenable to fast de/convolution in N-D space or time.

Will DNNs revolutionize or introduce all the techniques needed to achieve AGI/Strong AI? I very much doubt it. As yet, there's little sign that DNNs can perform relational operations on interdependent symbols, like the transforms available via type theory, bayesian nets, or predicate logic.

The multitude of disparate facts and semantics in a rich knowledgebase can't be organized into dense matrices the way that continuous signals can, so the SIMD operations that are so effective in DSP won't implement the rich transformations needed in a relational fact-based knowledge space equally as well, if at all. Thus DNNs almost surely aren't going to take us to the heights of logical or compositional thinking that human level intelligence requires.

But how far up relational mountain will DNNs take us? I suspect that won't be known for a decade or longer. But even if we don't reach the summit, we'll be considerably closer than we were before.
Probably should have said I (obviously) have newer clothing as well, and that the polo shirt was my oldest piece (it's really good quality). Point is I don't throw stuff out just because it's old, if it's still in decent nick.

When I do buy clothes, or anything, I try to get stuff that will last. My Rotel hifi is 20 years old and still ticking.

There's tonnes of resources to be found on the wasteful impact of the clothing industry - the whole head game of making people think they can't use clothes just because it's "slightly old" is a direct contributor to that. And that's not even touching on issues such as sweatshops.
And it’s rare for anyone to trial or test this software.

The people who have to use it, who are probably best informed to point out it’s strengths and weaknesses are usually the last to see it.
More recently, NZ had the Novopay debacle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novopay

The software itself, before fixing it, cost $182mm and covered payroll for 90,000 teachers. That's over $2000 per teacher. It cost another $45mm to fix it after this.
A snarky reply like this comes up every time there's discussion of a DDOS, but it ignores the fact that there is some point that has to filter that UDP traffic, and if that point is saturated, the DDOS still worked. Mitigating attacks of this size isn't a firewall rule or a support ticket with your ISP.
Same experience with me. I have mostly only consulted with large companies. There are some companies that insist on solid code and design. There are others that just live from quarter to quarter and the whims of the CEO and just throw out whatever is done at the end of the quarter. Having a great lawyer team chomping at the bit for litigation helps their confidence in living from quarter to quarter.
which has its share of problems, just from the top of my head:

- you will miss edits

- in some cases when people sign up with their email addresses, you now have "info" and "mail" as nicknames, because they signed up with info@example.org and only the slack client shows "joe".

- everytime someone pastes a snippet, you'll have to open it in a browser anyway (ok, minor issue)
I think this is a really honest point. I'd also like to springboard off of it. As the authors point out, many men are shocked by these stories. I am too. I've been in tech 10 years or so (mostly startups) and have a lot of semi-abusive stuff to report, but none of it that I've seen is gender/sex related.

I agree it's good to share awareness of these problems. However, I think there's nothing more for me to do. None of my female coworkers have ever reported something fishy, and if they did I'd simply report it to HR where I know the situation would be handled.

I also wonder if it'd be productive to stop singling out tech (which seems much less sexist than say, finance).
I didn't know about that issue. Although your story also include:

> Since then, Queensland has initiated - and
> comprehensively lost - attempts to recoup damages
> from the failed project. A judge has ordered the
> government to pay all IBM’s legal costs in the
> failed suit.

Ouch. I know nothing about the rights and wrongs of that case, but many of these agencies wounds are self-inflicted.

I heard informally of one case where a federal department demanded a "big bang" change introducing multiple new systems all in one go, even though it was obvious (and IBM advised) that the thing be done incrementally. Of course the budget and timeline ended up blowing out.

I expect that sort of thing is quite common, and companies like IBM will be perfectly happy to take advantage of the blowouts.
The SpaceX ground stations are meant to be consumer owned (about the size of a pizza box).
Location: Ireland

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Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: Python, C#, Javascript, Java, Go, .NET, VueJS, MS-Orleans, NodeJS
Elasticsearch (ELK), Apache Hadoop, Apache Hive, Apache NiFi, SQL, GrayLog

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If I remember right the reason the installer needs admin rights it to be able to kill and overwrite a previous installation of Temper
I think about this constantly.

Not to sound like I walked uphill in both directions back in my day or something, but I remember building models in numpy without pandas. It was tedious -- and that's just a nice API wrapping ndarrays!
Test kits are mobile, vaccines and bloodwork are mobile, basic diagnostic equipment is mobile. Most people do not need the vast majority of things a clinic contains; nothing you couldn't solve with a small refrigerable unit in a vehicle.

That being said, the downsides of travel time are so negative it's hard to see how they could be overcome.
Those folks also sold “Sylvia’s watercolor not” which was designed around, well, water color painting via the same mechanism.

They also sell an “eggbot” for drawing on Easter eggs. Wonderful stuff.
It's equally unfair to say that there's just one system, and it does work, so you should definitely participate. As they say: all of politics is local. It's up to you to decide if your time is worth spending.

Clearly, not every system is irredeemably corrupt--or even the majority of them--but some are. Some systems do not work, and it is eminently reasonable to not participate in them.
Yes that's it.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-im-under-attack-mode...
It's slightly ironic reading this because being accepted into Y Combinator is itself a perfect example of a 'Big Deal'.

I think that big deals are always a good thing. Any misfortune that people might encounter after they've won a big deal can only be blamed on themselves.

Most people never get any big deals and have to build a company the hard way. Just slow painful progress.
Pot possession only makes up 16% and I'd consider 84% a success.
Is Bitcoin Cash mining not decentralised?

https://cash.coin.dance/blocks/thisweek

Also I'm not sure what definition of fungible you are using that doesn't include Bitcoin Cash, but here's another spurious definition for you: A cryptocurrency isn't fungible if most wallets have balances that can't be spent because of fees.

https://www.newsbtc.com/2017/11/17/bitpay-ceo-claims-current...
No. Apple refuses to let me do that, I have offered to pay full price.
I've been wanting to experiment using pen plotters and conductive ink to print circuits.
Thanks! So much is possible now with the AWS Lambda free tier (it seems like)
How do you feel doesn't go into it. You probably feel like shit, granted. But we as a society have decided that it's more important that women can feel at least a little bit safer having a family as well as a career and we've regulated this so that they can be protected from losing their job.

In some more advanced countries than the US or Papua New Guinea there is even mandatory paid leave, go figure.

As an exercise you can take the pregnant woman in your example and replace with a cyclist in a bike accident or someone who was just diagnosed with cancer.
Low-carb or low-fat diet? Both work well
Ah, used yall's product in high school some years ago ;)
Maybe financial independence isn't for you. It doesn't suit most people in fact - most choose the greater financial security and predictability of a decent job. This is very helpful if you are an entrepreneur as you can hire people much smarter and more able than yourself.

Higher earners tend to just upgrade and spend more (apartment, clothes, restaurants, hotels etc), and aren't really living that differently - that lifestyle can certainly soak up maximum income achievable in a salaried job.

I think this is what the article inadvertently pointed to, that the higher salaries could lead to a sense of frustration that nothing really changed.
Running ASP.NET Core on GoDaddy's Cheapest Shared Linux Hosting
It's still not as fun as a real turtle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_(robot))
But there is a decent turtle lib for python, used in the Rasberry Pi book my son has and a few online tutorials like:
https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/turtle-snowflak...
I've yet to see any way to procure custom "Enterprise" software that isn't awful, and sadly I do believe duping is a huge part of it.

The duping starts long before the Oracles/IBMs/Whomever of the world ever reach a customer too - the "analyst" firm role is a huge problem with companies like Gartner/Forester who dream up the "Magic Quadrant" that people purchasing this stuff end up stuck relying on. I've seen in several roles the enormous gulf between what Gartner/Forester will claim about a leading player's capabilities vs the reality, which of course is a state of affairs large Enterprise software companies are all too keen to encourage.

I've never seen a sales consultant answer "no" to a question about capability in an enterprise software sale scenario, ever, across many RFPs. If your job explicitly targets you to bring in x millions of dollars of business a year, you answer "yes, of course" safe in the knowledge that when it does blow up it's someone else's problem and far away from you by that point.
I believe parent comment's point was that there's a difference between "Every man in comparch (or insert field here) is Harvey Weinstein" and "x% of men in comparch are y% of Harvey Weinstein" realities.

With substantially different suggestions on how to make things better for each. (Respectively, 'murder all the men' and 'be aware of and active against misogyny and sexism around you')
Because I just discovered that 5 days ago and it gives me a warm feeling of being tracked a little bit less:

- Decentraleyes
It's time to kill the job description
I don't think any engineer would consider that a good idea. But if somebody tells you that's what you're working on for the next few years, make lemonade I guess.
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I feel gamblers say similar things.