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KZN Consulting | Full-Stack, Backend, and Frontend Engineers | ONSITE (DC Metro) or REMOTE | Contract Only

We are a consulting and bootstrapped SaaS firm that’s launched products with paying customers. Our mission is to build smarter, real-time, and blazing fast solutions for our customers in the research space, academia, and local government.

Backend Engineers

Our backend stack uses Elixir, Postgres, PostGIS, and is hosted on AWS.

We are ramping up to build a heavy GIS component to our application using PostGIS, and some smart task routing and scheduling functionality. We are looking for Elixir developers, or other developers interested in doing Elixir full-time, to help build out the common underlying engines for our products, as well as to support some of our consulting clients part time.

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Braze (formerly Appboy) is a customer engagement platform that delivers messaging experiences across push, email, apps, and more. Our platform allows for real-time and continuous data streaming, replacing decades-old databases that aren’t built for today’s on-demand, always-connected customer. With data, technology, and teams working together in unison, the Braze platform makes marketing more authentic, brands more human, and customers more satisfied with every experience. Each month, tens of billions of messages associated with over 1.5 billion active users are managed through our technology.

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Having been on the receiving end of angry Star Wars fandom (I wrote a play that was basically creative fanfic about Obi-Wan Kenobi, but really was a deep dive into the motivations of various characters)... yeah, don't let fans anywhere near how a show actually works.

Heck, I experienced this last night. I finished the last few episodes of the new season of Bojack Horseman and was actually yelling at the screen in confusion and mild anger at a very meta season. Thankfully, I wasn't involved in the writing process, so they were able to take it in interesting directions I would never have gone.
Also that other sites in the same 'bracket' increase number of visits. Even if HN's visits were increasing, they could still be rising faster.

Also when a site has been around for long you have to start taking into account the 'population growth'; how many new people gained access to the web this month? How many among those are tech-savy people? Does this proportion increase or decrease over time?
https://i.imgur.com/gnejoIm.jpg
> No, ROI is a great measure of 'success' for an institution like YC, in fact probably the best individual metric.

It makes for a broken culture. Have a look around you. Chasing profit is no indicator of cultural value. Unless you want to start discussing Beanie Babies and Tulip crazes. Or the problematic aspects of Facebook et al.

> Or it could be the opposite of that: a place where people are mostly free of ideological assumptions and discrimination.

I'd do a spit-take if I could.

You should try 100 level philosophy and perhaps investigate epistemology.
it's a border - nations have the sovereign right to impose entry restrictions, especially for foreigners.

the restriction and surveillance of their citizens within their country are far, far more troubling to me.
This is a nuanced topic (border security), and while I think there's slippery slopes (and their associated fallacies) in both directions, it is true to say that you are very free to share none of those things with border security, and border security is very free to not admit you to the country.
I took the class this textbook is used for a couple of years ago at UW. Andrea was a fantastic teacher and it was the easiest presentation of the material I'd ever found! Seriously, read this textbook. It's full of wit and information.
Obamacare was a compromise precisely because the Democrats had to make it palatable to Republicans. If it was upto Democrats, they would have passed Single Payer.
In neuroscience:

Principles of Neural Science, Fifth Edition (Principles of Neural Science (Kandel)) 5th Edition

https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Neural-Science-Fifth-Kande...
Senior Dev Ops Engineer | Remote or Onsite (Sunnyvale, CA) | Full Time | Email andrew@syllable.ai

Hi! At Syllable we're building natural language interfaces to enable healthcare companies to have a conversation with their customers and patients, through text or voice. We build NLP and AI tools to assist humans, reducing cost and improving service. We are a well funded start up that moves fast. As Senior Full Stack Engineer, you’ll have ownership of large projects and the ability to shape the product.

Description

* Total Ownership of all Syllable infrastructure and operation critical software. This includes:
Using Cloud Formation or similar cloud configuration language to formalize infrastructure requirements

* Building on our existing CI/CD pipeline and formalizing code deployment processes for efficiency, security, and regulatory compliance.

* Ensuring high availability of dockerized services running on AWS ECS, as well as complete visibility into all services using robust error reporting and logging facilities.

* Managing a framework to provide each service common facilities: logging, database setup, error handling, configuration management, etc. You’ll take ownership of this framework and shape it to your vision.

* Managing internal user roles for accessing infrastructure and databases according to the principles of least privilege with comprehensive auditing

* Spearheading our efforts to maintain regulatory compliance with HIPPA

* Building automation and tooling software to assist in the above responsibilities

Requirements

* 3+ years of previous Devops Engineering experience - either in a formal Devops Engineering role OR as a major, continuous part of the responsibilities in a Software Engineering role

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As long as you don't let them plug it into anything and it doesn't leave your sight, that should be fine. As soon as it leaves your sight or they plug in a hack-yo-phone box, you might as well throw the phone away. Who knows what zero-days they can stash on there.
A curated list of computer history videos, documentaries and related folklore
It's a huge security concern. You should give your passwords to no one: zero/no people. I wouldn't do it just out of personal security. It's not a matter of just changing it either. Your can't put a device password in a password manager,, so that's going to usually be one of your highly secure passwords. It shouldn't be used many places, but you still need to change it everywhere afterwards.

Just from a basic security perspective, this is teaching citizens it's okay to give your password out to authorities, and that's just fucking terrible.
That's a very interesting mondegreen[0] :).

FWIW, the normal word is "eyesore" -- but a saw would make anyone's eyes sore.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen
An example of where this is definitely true is Comcast: Their phone redirects to regional call centers, you get the bad voice answering system, the cancellation runarounds, the upsells, etc.

Conversations on Twitter with @comcastcares are brief, cordial, and productive. If you have to deal with Comcast, Twitter is the only way to do it.
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OPEN SOURCE SELF DRIVING CAR https://github.com/commaai/openpilot

Here's the plan: https://medium.com/@comma_ai/our-road-to-self-driving-victor...

Our stack is largely Python, with some C/C++ and JS(React). Primarily looking for a firmware engineer and a lead openpilot engineer with a physics or math background.

Reach out with a GitHub to givemeajob@comma.ai
Yea, if I was a terrorist, that's exactly what I'd do. That's extraordinarily inconvenient for me as a regular tourist.
You are picky because NZ is likely the trendiest place to immigrate to in the last 30-40 years. It would be silly + unfair to current NZ citizens if you guys weren't picky.
Adding money to this would easily kill the good intentions of people involved. I don't think it is a right idea.
That objection seems orthogonal to the point though. The US could make it so that owning a blue shirt means you are barred from the US for life. They open up your suitcase and find a blue thread.

Ultimately it's the law itself rather than the enforcement of it that you're objecting to.
There is a difference between something being incomplete, and being misleading. I think this would be a very bad starting point for the history of philosophy, unless you don't know any of the canon to begin with. It is entirely ahistorical, for the reasons I stated (point 2 and 3).

But yes, it can serve some pedagogical purposes, I'm sure.
I'll bite: could you cite some instances of real paradigm shifts that you have previously predicted in public?
If the F35 is an example, I’d say a trillion dollar, ten year contract?
But here you are not talking about coal. The alternative is not a more polluting fuel, is another person that is also very unhappy his opportunity was taken away because he had the wrong gender. We all agree that situation sucks, so we don't make a net possitive by making more people misserable AND being less productive.
Your story is accurate to as much as I remember it too, though a key element often forgotten in Notch's story is he'd already built a lot of small, throwaway games that had pretty much bombed and essentially learnt the lesson of what a lack of marketing could do the hard way before he got to MC.
How large companies manage crisis
Everyone can design better
Given that it's supposed to be a Black Mirror special, I fully expect that there will not only be plenty of "crazy shit" in how they twist the user choice into something entirely unexpected (while still adhering to the precise wording of the choice option), but also that the episode topic itself will be user choice and how it can go horribly wrong.

I'd see it primarily as a hype vehicle, not as a general indication of the direction Netflix will take in the future. (If I'm mistaken I fully support your argument)
No smart criminal would. There are lots of dumb criminals, though.
They do indeed look good, but I wouldn't bother. We have several of them at our company that we keep alive as build servers for our Mac software.

They are 4-5x slower than the equivalent contemporary x86 boxes you can run Linux/Windows on. As a modern day server they are fairly rubbish really.
No they don't. Their arguments are based around different interpretations of the constitution and protection of various ill-defined "freedoms" (freedom from religious persecution, freedom of choice etc.)

They happily do not include science in their political calculus.
Here's a good explanation of the flaws in the original study: http://journal.sjdm.org/16/16823/jdm16823.html

It's primarily due to "a statistical artifact resulting from favorable rulings taking longer than unfavorable ones".
I recall a story from long ago: user is requested to boot their laptop by airline security.

They boot, which drops to a linux (bsd?) command line. Agent is not pleased. User sets PS1 so the prompt now looks like DOS. Agent is satisfied (they may just have been satisfied that the device worked, but this story dates from when a DOS prompt was a believable thing for someone to recognize as "computer" )
Some of the arguments I’m reading in defense of digital search point out that the things luggage search was originally supposed to find would now be stored on your phone.

I accept that argument in principle, but practically, since it’s so easy to keep any illegal materials on the internet and retrieve them post-security, how does digital search still make sense?
I cruised through most of it. But the last three chapters really twisted my brain (continuations, the Y combinator, and the metacircular interpreter). I was familiar with the concepts, but figuring out the programs by myself was a tough exercise (I haven't read SICP though).
It's probably more worth it to turn around and not enter the country; unless it's your country .. in which case if you have the money, it's probably better to refuse and see if you can get a court case started to challenge it.
Maybe you watched Fuller House or something?

Try Ozark, Atypical, Stranger Things.

I can't call those daytime cable tv quality.

(And just to clarify I actually like Fuller House but I can see someone watching just that - and without of context of Full House - and getting that reaction)
Let's talk money …
What's the smartest (and replicable) financial decision you made? What do you wish you had done in your 20s around money that you didn't?
> The irony is his rant like other recent controversial cases proves the bias they are arguing against. He has 'come out' but given his deep seated beliefs what are the chances a female receives fair and equal opportunity from 'professionals' like him?

I'm sorry, I do not understand the irony you saw in what I said. I'd appreciate if you take a couple minutes and explain what you think my bias is. I'm honestly hoping that you'd give me something to introspect and change my opinion if necessary. I'm genuinely not understanding what I 'came out' with... I did not take any side, I only argue to be fair and judge only based on merit.

I'm not 'choosing' to ignore any real issues. I'm only saying the way to deal with it is not artificially affecting fairness either side.

I don't have the power to hire people for any jobs or give out opportunities of any kind at the moment, but if I ever get there in the future, I believe that I will treat candidates purely on merit and not care if it was woman/man/which color/age/whatever. If they are better than others, and have the will & attitude to take job, they win. I'd like to be chosen for something myself the same fair way.
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I’ve got a Mid 2010 Mac Mini running regular macOS I use as a light duty home server. Went to update it to Mojave this weekend to find Apple dropped support for it! F-me for having still-working hardware, I guess :(
Came here to say this. Kudos on the links.

I'll just add: and with fracking, it only gets worse. 500+ chemicals injected into the aquifer, that took millions of years to become what it is... it's hubris thinking this isn't a problem.
The 5th amendment doesn't apply to non-citizens and doesn't mean as a US citizen that your device can't be confiscated on potentially frivolous suspicions.
Threat (cyber or not) intelligence analysis:
"Intelligence Analysis: A Target-Centric Approach" by Robert M. Clark - https://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Analysis-Target-Centric-...
Populism meets art? No, thank you. Group think and optional solutions should have nothing to do with the telling of meaningful stories.
It doesn't even require focus groups. If you buy into Joseph Campbell's monomyth, or the more modern idea of tropes, then telling the stories people want and expect is so ingrained in our storytelling that it's hard to not do it.

That's what amazed me most about Breaking Bad... how effectively it undermined our storytelling expectations.
Shovelware can have appealing graphics and sound by way of licensing premade assets, but you can't really buy a game design and paste that into your own title to get appealing gameplay.
This will probably be another tool to catch unaware (and generally desperate and uneducated) drug mules. The ones some gang managed to convince to swallow a couple hundred baggies of cocaine.

I guess that helps the country's well being but hardly a violent target.
Where to start in writing my own bootloader?
I would like to write my own bootloader for a arm cortex-m4 processor. Read a few articles, searched a few blogs but I'm still struggling in finding the right resources. I'm looking for a deeper dive into the instruction on how and less "here is the code".
> show slightly different versions of the show to different viewers

The 1985 movie Clue was released with three different endings[1]. And if you really wanted to see them all, you had to go to the movie at least three times in different theaters.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clue_(film)
For others saying something to the effect of "we let them search our X already, so the phone is a logical step and not a big deal," you've already given up your expectation of privacy, so you can't understand why others would want to keep it. This is the slow creep of the state with concomitant erosion of liberty.

In a few short years, you are the ones who will be justifying any of the following on grounds that "they already do the less-invasive thing, why not one step more?"

- Mandatory fingerprinting (USA does this for foreigners in some airports)

- Declare all cash, declare all crypto (with addresses / xpubs)

- Bank account logins

- Register electronic devices / install software trackers

- Hair sample for drug testing

- Cheek swab for DNA

- Blood draw to check for diseases / drugs / DNA
I hadn't considered an 30 minute embargo, thanks for setting me straight on that (also an ex member of the press, but from the days when things didn't move quite so fast)
it strikes a nerve because the design is very familiar to people using metros or buses.

And certainly don't underestimate the number of people who are borderline obsessive with transport networks, trains, and anything involving traffic (myself included). Almost any game that adds a good gameplay element to managing or routing trains or traffic is going to do OK. Cities Skylines has done well with this crowd, too, after SimCity decided to start focusing on "Sims" style games and ditch the traffic aspects.
Pico Technology | C#/C++ Software Engineer, Software Test Engineer | ONSITE | St Neots, Cambridgeshire, UK | £30k - £50k | http://jobs.picotech.com

Established in 1991 Pico soon became a leader in the field of PC Oscilloscopes and data loggers. Based out of our head office in St Neots, UK, our software development teams work in an agile environment creating innovative software using C#, solving problems such as visualising large data sets.

Due to continuous growth plans Pico Technology are looking to recruit C# Software Engineers with proven C# development skills who are passionate about the code they develop. Additional skills in the following areas would be of interest:

C++, JIRA, Microsoft Visual Studio, DVCS, MVVM, WPF, Cocoa and / or Gtk#, Intel IPP / OpenCV, Azure / AWS

Equal to the technical skills our developers possess, we also value excellent organisational, communication and interpersonal skills.

Our Software Engineers benefit from a working environment that encourages them to produce excellent code with a customisable workstation, multiple monitors and an open plan office. Development Engineers can use Wednesday afternoons to work on inspirational projects either as part of a team of individually.

Away from the desk our Development Engineers can be found competing in our annual pool tournament, playing arcade games in the kitchen, gathered round the table football or simply enjoying our picnic benches in the garden. The flexible working hours suit many different lifestyles, with core hours from 10 till 3, Monday to Friday as well as an annual profit related bonus. A full list of the benefits can be found on our careers website.

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Tim Berners-Lee wants to remake the web to help you protect your data
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