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ActionIQ | Software Engineers | NYC | www.actioniq.com | Onsite

Startup Series B
Funding from Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz

ActionIQ is a NYC based enterprise startup focused on transforming the traditional database stack and redefining how it is built and used. We focus on leveraging rich behavioral data to provide teams with more powerful actionable insights. This is a super complex and technical problem. It also requires a beautiful and intuitive UI to obscure away the complexity and enable enterprises to fully utilize all the data they have on their customers.

We are a very deep technology company looking for engineers across the stack, including:

- Lead UI Engineer
- Full Stack Engineer (FE Focus)
- Lead Site Reliability Engineer
- Full Stack Engineer (BE Focus)

Tech:

- Scala, JavaScript, TypeScript, Immutable.js, React,
Play Framework, Thrift, AWS and more.

Culture:

- Weekly team lunches
- Yearly retreat
- Flex vacation
- Comfortable office
- Experienced leadership

Email: ryan.rende@actioniq.com

Apply: http://bit.ly/2E1R8Th
Learn much from overcommitting and under-delivering yet [1]

Still waiting on the self-driving vaporware that thousands paid advance for...

1. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/823727035088416768
3 months maybe, 6 months definitely
23 Jan 2017
I think we are saying the same thing. Apple/Adidas might have inflated prices today, but they're also creating actual products, selling for actual money, in actual stores.

That's the key difference. Bitcoin is as valuable as Beanie Babies. Those too had a perceived brand value, which was supposed to keep on rising forever.
San Francisco, CA | REMOTE OK in the US | US based only | Experienced Full Stack Rails Developer | Stitch Fix | Full-time

Hello, we're continuing to do a ton of hiring at Stitch Fix. I'm responsible for a small team working on cross functional projects; Last year we worked on expanding Stitch Fix to support Mens clothing, and then we also built the engine that drives Stitch Fix's Style Profile and made it more flexible. We work closely with the Data Science team, and our goal is always to serve our customers better using the information they provided while not being creepy :-)

Stitch Fix is a clothing / style personalization service. Search Instagram for #stitchfix, which will tell you a whole lot about us, how much our customers love us and you'll get an idea of our business. Come back when you're done.

There are a slew of other super interesting open dev roles across Stitch Fix, including in:

* the Consumer Facing team
* the Warehouse Tools teams
* the Styling Tools teams
* (and many others)

You can reach out directly to me (gal at stitchfix.com) - I'm a Principal Engineer and a hiring manager at Stitch Fix. Here is a job posting roughly covering the role I'm hiring for: https://www.stitchfix.com/careers?gh_jid=455296&gh_src=r8m5v Stitch Fix's "Multithreaded" Tech Jobs blog & site (http://technology.stitchfix.com) has a lot more about the team and other positions (we’re also hiring iOS, DevOps, and UX)
(BTW I used to include an ASCII sweater in this post but then Hacker News mods told me to stop, so now you have to go here if you want to see it: http://ascii.co.uk/art/jumper)
Data Is a Toxic Asset, So Why Not Throw It Out? (2016)
The article mentions the Flash storage size at 8meg. What was the ram size of the target?

UPX can be a bit of mixed bag. It doesn't necessarily cause load delays, If decompression is faster than data loading it can actually speed things. You can't mmap it though which could be an issue depending on RAM. If using an underlying compressed filesystem it might be providing on-paper-only gains.

It would be interesting to see breakdowns of the size of the text and data section at each stage of the size optimization.
The managing multiple kinds of machines issues is a real one, speaking from the other end. For uniquely talented software engineers I might let them use what they want but from managing an IT department you definitely want anyone who has no reason to be otherwise on the same exact hardware and software configuration.
And for awhile they were owned by one of the most evil companies of them all... Ticketmaster!
I've experimented with my 3d printer by attaching a wire connected to a capacitor bank to the tool head. I can cut (with low accuracy) metal foil that's connected to the other end of the capacitor bank this way, I never did more experiments with it.
not if the base currency is Bitcoin (I know...)
Uniform platform support for multiple architectures. I have Linux desktops on i686, x86_64, arm and aarch64. Same desktop environment, same programs, same easily mirrorable configuration, same firewall system, wireguard, same or fairly equivalent package management between systems.
Can someone explain why starting a docker container usually has a 200-300ms start up penalty? Its fine if I want to start a web server but is long if its a just a precompiled script that runs on-command and then dies.

Is it Docker that is taking 200ms to start the container or just the nature of the OS APIs?
What's sad to me about this is, data has in a sense been weaponized. Much like nuclear power, it has potential for both good and bad.

I'm so saddened to see that so many organizations have collected and overstepped their boundaries without justification.

There continues to be so much good, totally legitimate work to be done with data.
Add blocking is something Safari (and Apple) does better than the any other browser vendor, IMO.

A good ad blocker for Safari (on Mac or iOS) just uses the Content Blockers system, and provides essentially a JSON blob with a bunch of rules in it to Webkit, which will then take the requested actions (mostly block, sometimes hide elements, sometimes force a URL to https) internally - the Ad Blocker "app" never knows what sites you're visiting and is never involved in actual blocking.
The problem isn't the data. The problem is people who think bad things will happen to them if any of their precious data is ever leaked.
that only works with safari of course because they don't want chrome having feature parity or, gasp, being better!
So why are you sticking with it? Go out and get a nice Linux machine. Expense it. If you're working at a company too square to approve that, install Linux on your Apple laptop. If you're working at a company that won't even allow that, well, you have my condolences. Things to ask before you sign, I guess.
Made me laugh - thank you.
It's still very possible to put shortcuts on traditional mouse interactions. I don't find that this should be a significant hurdle.
Personal information should be viewed as toxic waste.

If you can avoid it, don't collect it.

If you must collect it, destroy it as soon as possible.

If you must keep it, prepare to fork out for the best security and insurance against breaches.

And never, ever, share it.
> This "globalism" you're quick to demonize is one of the greatest forces for progress the world has seen.

Yes, it has been. Yet it's boons have not been spread equally. Most of the inequality in the US is directly tied to globalism.

> Nationalism and xenophobia, while definitely common in the 1950's, aren't the tools to bring back the middle class of that era.

There are 3 major levers that are causing inequality in the US - globalism, immigration, and technology.

The US can do a lot to mitigate this inequality through the first two levers.

Edit: Taxes are another major lever - but corporate taxes can't make a major dent so we would need much higher individual income taxes.
Engagency | Sitecore (Enterprise .NET CMS) Partner | Austin, Texas | ONSITE | Full-Time

Are you tired of working at a soul-less job with little to no chance for personal and career development? Tired of working on projects that aren't challenging? Tired of being one of the few people on your team that actually pulls your weight? Tired of working fifty-, sixty-, and seventy- hour weeks and never feeling like you're getting ahead on projects?
We were too, and that's why we've set out to do things differently. We're looking for like-minded developers to join our team and make a difference.

Engagency is a .NET shop in Austin, Texas that develops and maintains websites built on the Sitecore content management system and associated integrations. We're a small, growing, collaborative team that values long-term client relationships and maintaining a good work/life balance. Our goal is to serve our clients by maximizing the return on their investment in the Sitecore platform.

Sitecore is an enterprise-class content management system and is recognized by Gartner as a Digital Experience Platform leader.

What we're looking for:

- US Citizens Only - are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time - Onsite developers - we value in-person, face-to-face interaction - 2+ years of experience w/ ASP.NET MVC + C#, CSS, and JavaScript - Self-starters who are detail-oriented, collaborative, and can work with little supervision - Strong communicators who are comfortable speaking directly to a client

What to expect:

- You'll immediately begin learning Sitecore and how to build components for it - At the conclusion of your training, you'll be assigned to a project and work with one or more developers. You'll be expected to contribute working code and components. - By your three-month review, you'll be expected to be fairly self-sufficient and contribute to code reviews. - As you progress further and become more comfortable with ongoing projects, you'll be expected to interact with clients regularly, understand their business requirements, and make recommendations regarding architecture and project direction.

Email careers {at} engagency.com, using the subject "Hacker News: Sitecore Developer", with a link to your LinkedIn profile and any other relevant material (Github profile, resume, etc.).
I bought a system76 bonobo with their pop linux distro. I'm perfectly happy with my desktop experience.
The mouse is useful for video demonstrations because you can see what operations are being selected. We actually were convinced Eve would be better than most languages for keyboard use because A) most programs were very short, so fewer keystrokes over all and B) most programs could be built with autocomplete. The implication here was that we could enable programming on a phone with very minimal keyboard input, and mostly touch. Madlibs Eve was an example of this, where building a program could be done over SMS or chat.
Jesus Christmas. Honestly, how many more times can they steal my ID?

It's gotten so they have to run a diff to see if there's anything new.
With academic, I'm not sure if you also include 'philosophic'. Personally, I'd rather develop on mac than on windows but I'm the happiest on Linux.

A large factor in this is that I like to contribute to FOSS and find that 'ideology' to be a match with my beliefs regarding software.
Yea, this is where I ended up. If I’m going to port something to oddball non-Unix-based or otherwise less-important platforms, like Windows, Qt makes the most sense.
Show HN: Convert website to audiobook
probably related to the fact that the top language on Github is javascript.

If you do anything else than UI scripts, I would agree with the above and say you are better off with a linux box.
i’m not sure that you can put “shifted to india” and “h1b” in the same argument. isn’t h1b a visa to allow you to work in the US?

don’t live there so don’t know; could be wrong
Yeah I don't endorse vaping especially for young kids but it's better than smoking, and that was even allowed at my high school (in specific places).

We've eliminated all the really worrying stuff but people like to worry about kids so now we're down to sugar and vaping. Of the two I'd bet sugar is a lot worse, long term. Though since vape juice is unregulated and kids probably buy the cheapest they can find, I'd wonder what kind of chemicals are actually in it.
If so, that's great.
> Wasn't old windows desktop technology the one proven to be bad? I mean I can say this because I like windows, but people have made fun of windows bugs and viruses for three decades now..

I feel like MS had mostly quashed these problems with XP - it was certainly not bug-free, but after a few years was a solid enough platform many used it all the way to (and probably past) its EoL in 2014.
Not really.

Nicotine wears off very quickly. While it can remain detectable in your system for days, the feeling it gives only persists for 10-15 minutes after inhale, if that. Varying the dosage only really affects the intensity, not duration.

Speaking of intensity; if you don't have a tolerance, high levels of nic can be physically and mentally uncomfortable. Someone who can comfortably inhale 3mg/ml of nic might get slightly nauseous and uncomfortable even at 6mg/ml, definitely at 9mg/ml, unless you have a counteracting agent in your system like alcohol (which is why "leveling out" is a thing).

The chemically addictive properties nicotine has is only one part of the story. There's also the "throat hit"; the feeling of inhaling something warm and slightly uncomfortable. That's a major part of the addiction.

It also tastes great. And its "something to do"; kind of like a fidget spinner, it keeps you busy.
> and you can have UWP Apps outside the Store

IFF your user has enabled side-loading.
Hm. I’m keen to get an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) so that I can self-host more services from home, but I’m extremely worried about the fire-risk.

I’m afraid I know little about battery construction to know whether this is a valid concern, or what specifications/designs to look for. Do any of the battery experts of this thread have any advice?
Breaking news: An OS with a limited set of drivers for the hardware it's specifically designed to be used on, doesn't work very well on hardware it was never intended to be used on. Full story at 11.
I only come expecting wine and loud music, I think I've only been to one concert with lasers and it was mostly run by the college I go to.
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Fake AV Investigation Unearths KevDroid, New Android Malware
Audio production on linux is pretty good, well not for everyone, but it's got a lot to offer. I spent years with logic / Ableton live on OSX. I'm moving to a more barebones approach these days with linux and supercollider.

Still nothing for the creative suite except for wine though.
The issue is implementing the features for the hypervisor’s emulation system without Intel-licensed hardware or software.
>> ...subject to our assumed framework and chosen prior.

This is usually implicit in such analyses.

>> More generally, what's even the point of placing a confidence level on a non-falsifiable claim? What utility does it serve?

It's not about falsifiability in the sense that someone should go out and measure the predicted lifetime of the universe experimentally.

The point of such lifetime calculations (and their associated confidence levels) is more as a test of the underlying theory - the Standard Model of particle physics. If this theory would make the prediction that the lifetime of the universe should be shorter than the observed lifetime of the universe, then clearly there is something wrong with the theory, or with the way the lifetime has been computed, since clearly we are still here to make that calcuation.
Usually, this is seen as a sign that there should be some new physics - i.e. physics that is not described by the standard model in its present form - that should enter at an energy scale relevant to the calculation. Since this we do not know about this physics yet, the calculation is necessarily incomplete, which would explain finding a "too short" lifetime of the universe, while with a more complete theory one would (hopefully) find a result, that explains observed lifetime of the universe.

The fact that the paper finds a "long enough" lifetime of the universe, could be seen as an indication that the theory is able to make predictions at energy scales relevant to this calculation.
I speculate that standing near existing (heavily regulated) combustion vehicles, going to existing (heavily regulated) restaurants, cooking using existing (regulated) methods and tools, etc. has a decent chance of being a greater health risk than breathing nicotine alone. I am not an expert though, so would love to hear some actual evidence about it.

We have now had decades of (publicly beneficial) propaganda effort driving home the “frequent smoking = deadly” message. In many peoples’ minds that message has been broadened by association “frequent smoking = deadly” ⇒ “any smoking = deadly” ⇒ “breathing any second-hand smoke in any context for any amount of time = deadly” ⇒ “any use of nicotine = deadly”, so there is a natural inclination to reflexively ban the use of vaporizers as well.

But if the vaporizers are largely being used as a replacement for (orders of magnitude more dangerous) cigarettes, that seems like an unambiguously positive development which should be applauded, not restricted. Fears about second-hand smoke from vaporizers in well-ventilated spaces seem likely to be entirely baseless.
And yet here you are, in one of the richest countries in the world. Maybe the problem is wealth redistribution?
The Atomic-Bomb Core That Escaped World War II
However according to Fox and the right on general he did. So it doesn’t matter what you and I think as his base believes they’re living in the Obama Recession
In theory the dock is nice but in reality they don't work at all.
Does Apple make their own dock?

Every time I come back to my desk with my laptop I have to go through some ritual involving opening and closing the laptop lid and connecting cables in a certain order to maintain screen orientations and try to get the thing to even wake up. I power cycle my dock at least three times a week to try and make it all work

I used to have a 2014 RMBP with the Apple display and it was fantastic because it was all built by Apple and Just Worked (TM).

Hopefully moving to their own chip fab is the start of them going back to owning the entire device solution.
Blitz Esports | https://blitzesports.com/desktop | Full time | Berkeley, CA | Onsite only, relocation offered

We're hiring full-stack or computer vision engineers to help build dope products for gamers.

Blitz Esports is a 11 person esports tech & media startup (backed by YC, Greylock, KPCB) based in both Los Angeles and in Berkeley. We're looking specifically for 1-2 more engineers to join our engineering team in Berkeley, where we're developing a desktop companion app that uses computer vision, data-driven insights, and expert-crafted content to help gamers make better in-game decisions. Think of it like an "automated friend" that sits next to you that tells you what you need to do to win/get better. The games we're currently focus on are League of Legends, Overwatch, and CS:GO.

The work is a lot of fun but pretty technically challenging. Basically both a concurrency and scaling problem (on the data-driven insights part where we parse and aggregate millions of match data), and also how do you do image processing in real-time without dropping gamers' FPS significantly.

More details on the position here: https://bltz.gg/hiring-backend

If interested, please email jobs@blitzesports.com.
I just got bite by this. If your ISP is AT&T (I have AT&T fiber) don't use 1.1.1.1, only use the CloudFlare secondary 1.0.0.1.

1.1.1.1 does not resolve.
"Bless your heart. Election history, with regard to the party holding the White House, strongly predicts the Republicans will have a bad time."

'Past performance doesn't guarantee future results...'

Trump has confounded observers quite a few times now, just sit back, relax, and enjoy... ;-)

"Yes, with the hilariously biased Rasmussen polls. Who the hell uses landlines in 2018? Not the average voter."

Rasmussen also polls those without landlines. One difference from other polls is that Rasmussen polls "likely voters" instead of "adults" like Gallup...
As far as I know, you can’t tag a non-member.
Google AI and search chief John Giannandrea steps down
This article feels a bit over reaching to meet the current narrative that Tesla is failing. As someone who has owned a Tesla, I'd much rather they ramp when they are ready to ramp than skip steps just to hit their targets. QA is a very important step that they have to get right.
"Libertarian" is a big umbrella. Most are not social darwinists, and anarchists are a different category altogether. Most libertarians acknowledge a legitimate role for the state in those few things the state can do best (e.g. national defense, police, etc.)
Like if Grindr sells your HIV+ status and then instead of hiring you an employer picks the other candidate because they know you'd raise the group health insurance rates?

Let's not pretend that there's no way to misapply this data and that a lot of people won't be incentivized to do so.
You wouldn't really know based on looking at the prototypes, but the underlying language Eve was very similar throughout (as the article states, based on Datalog). The interface to that language varied because we weren't sure what the best interface was, or even if there was the one true interface to rule them all, or a constellation of interfaces and tools depending on purpose and device.
Apple shot themselves in the foot for this market with the touch bar. It adds such a small amount of utility for annoying every VIM user.
Seems that it’s more of a logistical and network-effect issue in getting everyone to support it, rather than a technical issue.

Possibly a patent issue also
If Apple were to make their own LTE modem, does that mean we might get one in a MacBook Pro?