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Stacktical | Blockchain Digital Marketer | Worldwide, Paris, Tokyo | REMOTE, FULL TIME, https://stacktical.com

Stacktical is a comprehensive service level management platform that helps companies compensate their customers for performance failures while rewarding their support teams for operational excellence.

In our effort to strengthen the community's interest in the Stacktical platform and the DSLA token, we are looking for a talented digital marketer with a track record of designing, implementing and contributing to successful, end-to-end ICO campaigns in the past 12-24 months.

Requirements:

- Excellent blockchain and cryptocurrency knowledge

- Hands on successful ICO marketing experience

- Hands on experience working in a Blockchain startup

- Hands on remote work experience for at least 2 years

- Strong communication an project management skills

- Fluent English (Japanese / Korean is a plus)

- Ambitious, Obsessed & Driven

Hiring Process:
Please send your resume to jobs [at] stacktical.com
We'll be happy to have a chat.

Equity:
We do not offer equity but you're entitled to DSLA tokens in you join us.

Important:
We are not interested in working with any 3rd party, thank you for your understanding.
"From a sociological point of view, the crisis exacerbated faultlines running through contemporary societies, faultlines of city and country, old and young, cosmopolitan and nationalist, insider and outsider. As a direct result we have seen a sharp rise in populism across the developed world and a marked collapse in support for established parties, in particular those of the centre-left."

Weirdly, the "winners"[1] of the populism have been rural, older, nationalist, and very much insider[2]. Think of both Trump and Brexit supporters. I'm not entirely sure, but these don't seem to have been the people hurt the most by the economic crash. The whole situation has an incredibly strong disconnect between what's actually going on and the facade or veneer of what they think about it. Ideology trumps reality?

[1] I'm using "winner" because I can't think of anything better, but the "victory" is Pyrrhic. Not only are they shooting themselves in the foot, even if they weren't they would not have a good end game.

[2] Yes, the rhetoric is about outsiders, clearing the swamp and that sort of thing. But those are the most inside outsiders I've ever seen.
> audit results would be available to Congress

This would effectively end the Fed's political independence. Agreements with foreign bankers seems acceptable, though even then it would be better to release it to a committee after a delay.
CompilerWorks | San Francisco Bay Area | Full-time, remote | $95k-$225k driven by your productivity.

http://www.compilerworks.com/job.html

CompilerWorks is a bespoke compiler company, with our core product centered around compiling on dialect of SQL to execute on a different backend - e.g. would you like to run Oracle PL/SQL on a PostgreSQL database? You can with CompilerWorks.

We are driven to solve interesting engineering problems, for this reason we take on challenges where compilers are useful. Our technology IS disruptive.

We are looking for EXPERIENCED developers (our least experienced developer has more than 10 years of experience). Our core development language is Java.

We are also looking for someone to develop a custom renderer. You would have to be a "freak front-end" developer to take on this challenge.

Let us know if you are interested info {at} compilerworks.com
Press release.
Divvy Homes | Sr. Software Engineer (full-stack) | (ONSITE) San Francisco, CA | www.divvyhomes.com

The Company

At Divvy, we’re on a bold mission to reinvent homeownership. We fractionalize residential real estate to make it more affordable, more flexible, and a better fit for our customers’ lives.

Over the past year, we’ve worked hard to build an exceptional team, raise over $30 million in funding, and provide homes for dozens of families, meaningfully changing their financial future. Our customers choose any home for sale, and Divvy buys it on their behalf. The customer leases the home back from us while building equity credits along the way, preparing to buy the home at the end of their lease. Our customers get to live in their future home today, while buying fractions of the home over time.

The Job

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer passionate about using their creativity and talent to make access to homeownership more accessible. In this role, you’ll be part of the engineering team building our consumer, agent and administrative products. At Divvy, you’ll own your projects from start to finish and help to scale our platform to thousands of new applicants and multiple new markets. You’ll report directly to Divvy’s CTO and work alongside a team of 3-5 software engineers.

Apply directly at: https://angel.co/divvy-homes/jobs/375496-software-engineer-f...

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me directly at alex (at) divvyhomes.com !
PayPal | San Jose, CA | Fulltime | Onsite (relocation available) | Hiring Javascript Application Engineers & Java API Engineers

PayPal is looking for JavaScript engineers who want to work both in the browser and on the server-side in Node.js. Over the past couple of years, we've worked hard to migrate our entire web application stack to Node and powerful client-side apps and we're looking to turn the dial towards product experimentation and innovation. We need your engineering ability and your desire to be a part of the whole product!

I’m a manager on the Online Checkout (that’s the “Pay with PayPal” button and experience) engineering team. We're looking for experienced JavaScript developers. My team is currently working primarily with Angular on the client and Express/Kraken on Node. If you've got experience with GraphQL or React, we're actively exploring doing an inside-out migration of our application and could use your expertise. As most Node shops go, we're leveraging a whole lot of other open source tools as well and we're very supportive of open source activities for our people.

Likewise -- there's a large demand for API focused Java engineers to help with our payment services that serve over $100+B in payments across 200+ countries. The PayPal Platform is a suite of web services, which are used by internal and external developers to enable payments anytime, anywhere and anyway. The Platform processes billions of requests each month, and enables PayPal and its partners to rapidly innovate on new payment scenarios and enable new experiences. Therefore, the evolution of the Platform is integral to PayPal’s long-term strategy.

As an engineer in our development team you will be responsible for the development and delivery of the web services supporting PayPal APIs and user experiences on various channels (web, mobile, etc.), as well as integrations with partners. You will work closely with product and experience and/or integration teams to understand the developer needs and deliver the APIs that meets their needs.

JavaScript / Node JS Application Engineers: https://wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/paypal/jobs/job/San...
Java API Engineers: https://jobsearch.paypal-corp.com/en-US/job/senior-checkout-...

We have several openings within my team as well as within other teams--so drop me a line even if my particular opening doesn't sound interesting and I'll help you find the right place! You can contact me at swesthafer at paypal dot com.
"A crackdown on international evasion is difficult because it requires international co-ordination, but common sense tells us this would be by no means impossible. Effective legal instruments to prevent offshore tax evasion are incredibly simple and could be enacted overnight, as the United States has just shown with its crackdown on oligarchs linked to Putin’s regime. All you have to do is make it illegal for banks to enact transactions with territories that don’t comply with rules on tax transparency."

Like Switzerland?
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Is the Alzheimer's “Amyloid Hypothesis” Wrong? (2017)
> I don't see how there can be any improvements in the current state of US politics

Fortunately, poverty doesn't take national co-ordination to solve. Cities and states can do a lot to eliminate poverty within their borders.
I was talking specifically about Marijuana addiction, OP's topic.
It's counterintuitive, but inflation is a good thing. It incentivizes people to invest their money into the economy in businesses and government projects (bonds) instead of hoarding away their money in a bank account.

Unfortunately how our economy works is a highly complex topic, so for most people the gut reaction is "hrmmm, that doesn't make sense at first glance to me, so it must be wrong." Thankfully, average Joe American doesn't even know the Federal Reserve exists, so the FED is able to operate with a level of sanity found no where else in government.

The fact is, the FED is one of the only institutions we have that actually works because it is largely managed by subject-matter academics and not politicians, most of whom are lawyers/pastors/TV stars and war heroes...a group generally dificient in their understanding of modern economic theory.

Do central banks make mistakes? Of course. Japan is a great example. But a quick look at history shows the world is better off with them than without.
Netflix is no longer competing with traditional television, they're competing with a user-driver modern web. Youtube doesn't allow all kinds of content but even so it has orders of magnitude more coverage than netflix. And for the content you won't find on youtube, it's usually pretty easy to find it on other sites. I think this is a problem for Netflix that is only going to get worse as the older generations that were primed by traditional television become less economically relevant and new generations of "internet natives" come in.

Personally if I'm going to sit down and passively consume media, I usually like it to be about people making things, ideally with constrained resources. Preferably nonfiction. At any point in time Netflix may have a handful of documentaries that fit the bill, but compared to a platform like youtube it's basically nothing.
USDA BEEF, FOOD COURT, SOUS-CHEF, HEAD-CHEF...

the puighead law looks more like the 40-thieves these days...

cost disease...

the fight goes on...
It matters as a filter.
As a D&D player, this amuses me: https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/vondst/NZD1.00442FAU026...
Tlon (Urbit) | San Francisco | Full-time | https://tlon.io/

Tlon builds Urbit, a secure peer-to-peer network of personal servers, built on a clean-slate system software stack. You can learn more about it here: https://urbit.org/#learn

We’re hiring developers across the stack to work on systems, storage, languages, crypto, and front-end. It’s an entire operating system, so there’s a lot of work to do.

Sound interesting? Get in touch: apply@tlon.io
> A video with a bbc banner showing the president saying something could easily be faked. One that is signed by the BBC will only be fake if the BBC itself is publishing it as a fake, and that comes with a reputational impact.

Nobody cares much about the reputational impact. Fringe tabloid fake-news, and mainstream 'fake'-news gets plenty of viewers.

BBC itself has manufactured video 'evidence' during the Libyan war. [1] Yet, most people think it's an accurate source of news.

[1] Their 'live broadcasts' showed video of people in India waving the Indian tri-color, which the BBC has claimed was rebels in Libya's Green Square waving the old Libyan tri-color. But, eh, who cares about honesty - when you've got a politically sensitive story to tell.
IBM was considered resilient, now they are on the way to becoming Unisys.
my impression is that the main benefit of bitcode is that it allows Apple to rebuild apps for the purposes of fixing compiler backend bugs and perhaps introducing improved micro-optimizations for newer CPUs generations within the same architecture

This is my impression, too, but it's always seemed strange to me - are the rare fix for a compiler bug and a few micro-optimizations worth all the effort?
For leads, you could potentially talk to hosts, such as WPEngine etc, about getting a link or mention in their FAQ about migrations? I'm sure if it's a useful tool (haven't tested) or has good help docs, it wouldn't be a threat.
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Nope, I never have.

Haiku's package manager makes that problem impossible, though, because there is no "installed files" database; whatever packages are in the "activated-packages" file get mounted on startup. If that file doesn't exist, it mounts everything in `/system/packages`. And if that's in an inconsistent state, you can boot into a previous state from the bootloader menu. And if that still doesn't work, you can copy a working `packages` directory from another Haiku install.
From this article:

> AI researchers and platform technologists need similar in-house or third-party societal impact review boards to help them evaluate the potential unintended consequences of their work.

As a machine learning researcher myself (albeit one who is probably unlikely to run afoul of one of these boards), this suggestion for research gives me pause. In the context of deepfakes, are you suggesting that it would have been more prudent to stop the research that made it possible before it had a chance to do so? This seems like a good way to ensure that less scrupulous parties harness destructive technologies before more scrupulous parties (the kind who'd adopt review boards).

I imagine this debate to some extent has already played out with nuclear weapons and bioweapons. I'm much less familiar with these two spheres, but as I recall research continued in both.
Why would anyone of above average ability become a journalist anymore? You have better, long term salary prospects as a public school teacher.

If you're looking for a genuine and authentic answer: I took up a part-time job writing local columns for high school athletics that turned into a few contributions for Sports Illustrated.

Why?

Because I genuinely love sports reporting and writing. I'm addicted to stats, I love the competition, I will enthusiastically argue for hours about 90's era baseball. I was and remain fully aware it might not be immediately or even eventually profitable, I have no long-term salary prospects, just a middle-of-the-road IT support job (that comparatively for the industry, doesn't pay that great). Combining the two 'jobs' I make enough to live what I consider, for my ends and motivations, a comfortable life doing something I really enjoy doing along with something that supplements everything else.

Journalism in the west is close to dead

I couldn't disagree more. It's not dead, it's evolving-and probably the most directly felt evolution is the delivery mechanisms.

If one wants to talk about objectivity it helps to look at the concept itself a bit more objectively.
> the amount of cooperation we'd need between camera makers and video distribution platforms

Apple could single-handedly launch a "verified video" system.
“A 4.0 does signal something significant, that that student is good,” said Stuart Rojstaczer, a former Duke University professor who has studied grade inflation for years. “ A 3.7, however, doesn’t. That’s just a run-of-the-mill student at any of these schools.”

I disagree with this statement, at Carnegie Melllon I noticed that a lot of 4.0's were engineered. Students avoid taking hard classes, avoid difficult requirement classes by taking at an easier university, avoid challenging themselves outside of their major.
The web is completely transactional. You want nearly all your code to terminate (and fast), it's just some small layer that will call the terminating part that you want to run forever.

Thus, you will almost certainly gain by annotating the non-termination at the main loop type, and have the compiler tell you about both any possible bottom at the rest of your code, and any possible termination of the main loop.
Brenger | Senior Frontend engineer (JS/react) | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | ONSITE | VISA SPONSORSHIP

Brenger is looking for an experienced frontender (JS).

We are a logistics startup (with 1M funding) and quickly on our way to become profitable.

We are in the process of building up our internal development team (our current platform is build by a digital agency) and migrating to a new better scaleable tech stack. It is an opportunity to become one of the early stage engineers of the company and therefore be an important influencer on the product, the technologies we use and the team we are forming. I have started last december as the first internal developer, a second senior backend engineer will start in a week and we have hired a senior frontender (HTML/CSS). We are now looking for a senior frontender/javascripter to become part of the core development team. We have a proper plan and budget to build a first-class product and team and have many interesting technological challenges ahead.

If you're interested, drop me a line: hugojan@brenger.nl

No recruiters/No agencies/No remote
Like when Facebook (briefly) tagged articles from certain sources as being disreputable and it led to an _increase_ in clicks to those articles?

People will believe what they want to believe. We're also seeing that they don't like mega corps acting as arbiters of truth. So, I'm not sure what, if any, effect this moderation/curation effort would have.
Historically, I have no idea. Anecdotally, having recently graduated from a liberal arts school(BA CS & Math) I can say the trend seemed to differ wildly depending on the instructor and course. The CS and Stats professors had radically different expectations of what an, "A" performance in their classes was verses general professors. The tears of those students who had only ever gotten A's when they got a B- in Algorithms or Stat465... So much angst and hate over what should reflect an adequate grasp of the material. That said I feel like it's the responsibility of the institution to instill consistent criteria for evaluating performance. Having applied and been accepted to graduate school, I was nearly rejected for having earned C's in two of the hardest courses offered by the school. Turns out the same (tough) professors didn't care about that fact, admitting those of higher GPA's from easier majors no-questions-asked, subjecting me to the microscope. So their distress was qualified in the end. I ended up saying, "f this noise" and took a great job where I get paid to write HN comments on the toilet, btw. Hey, you asked for anecdotes.
Brave | Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails) | REMOTE US/Canada | Full-time | brave.com

Brave is looking for an experienced Software Engineer to work on Ruby on Rails publisher app. This is a high­ profile and impactful, hands­-on position in an early stage startup. We’re primarily looking for someone with strong front-end skills.

Requirements

2+ years experience with Ruby on Rails experience.
Working experience with JavaScript
Enthusiasm and familiarity with blockchain
Experience with software development via distributed development teams
Comfortable working in an open source setting
A passion for helping protect users’ privacy and security
Written and verbal communication skills in fluent English
Proven record of getting things done

https://brave.com/jobs?gh_jid=1211193 and see our other listings on https://brave.com/jobs
I think you're assuming those advances in theory are universally available in practice.

They are not. My experience as a public school student was far worse than when my parents went to school - double or worse class sizes, no teaching assistants, and occasionally the same textbooks my parents used. "Experienced" teachers were the worst - it often seemed like the only thing they changed over the years was to stop corporal punishment.

My parents required unreasonable numbers of As, so I regularly got undeserved grades just by acting like I'd make a big deal about it... teachers were too overwhelmed to pay attention even if they cared. Some of my peers had helicopter parents that called in arguing their kid deserved an A simply for studying all night, even though that "sudying" was often was just online RPGs.

The trend followed in college for non-major classes. Professors simply didn't care unless a student would be advancing to another class in their department - then they cared enough to fail students, but the grade curve was still logistic. Not the expected "C = passing knowledge".

Even then, I still never saw pedagogical advances outside of brand new assistant professors in liberal arts classes.
and led to a generation of Brits thoroughly tired of having fried spam, egg and chips for dinner, which led to spam song and internet advertising.
But if you don't care about portability, and want more hardware control, you can do inline assembly, or something like Intel's AVX intrinsics.
If only people could properly argument...
Getting stabbed for drugs/money isn't part of their job description.
Flutter isn't yet at a 1.0 release. It looks very cool and I'm excited about it personally, but compared to React and Swift it has less stability and far less tooling support and developer knowledge. There's also reason to believe that it could be abandoned by Google down the line: it's being developed by the Dart team, but it's inherently at odds with the Android team because it circumvents their API almost entirely.

I'd do a personal project in it, but I wouldn't start a business on it right now.
How to Increase the Number of Remote Jobs in the Marketplace
For every recruiter email that you receive, instead of ignoring, respond back that "I would be interested, but I require that I work remotely."

If 10% of the engineers out there did this, companies would quickly revisit their policies.
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> If militaries made more of an effort to identify targets

The missile wasn't fired by the Russian military. Instead, Moscow gave some freedom fighters/rebels/terrorists an incredibly-powerful weapon and then failed to supervise them.
BuildingConnected | San Francisco, CA | Onsite, Full-Time | https://www.buildingconnected.com

A little about us... BuildingConnected’s mission is simple: Help the commercial construction industry communicate more efficiently. Businesses in this $10 trillion industry still rely on email to get the job done, and they’re struggling to keep up. That’s where we come in – over $4B in new construction is facilitated through our network every day. Whether it’s a remodel of your local coffee shop, or building the new Warriors Stadium, we enable collaboration between the companies that make these projects happen. We've made it easy to find, communicate, share documents, bid, and analyze data in this historically manual, labor-intensive process.

To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/buildingconnected

Here are our open roles:

- Data Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/buildingconnected/4e2b575c-768b-4d7a-b...

- Software Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/buildingconnected/61d8f782-cf3e-4105-8...

- Machine Learning Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/buildingconnected/708d9049-b71e-41a7-b...

- Quality Assurance Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/buildingconnected/30222c87-bba0-49b2-b...

- Product Manager: https://jobs.lever.co/buildingconnected/12986538-2a71-44ae-8...

- Product Designer: https://jobs.lever.co/buildingconnected/408dee33-1f02-42a2-b...

Tech Stack: React/Redux. Node. MongoDB. Elasticsearch. Redis.