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Rooam | Senior Software Engineer | Washington DC | Full-Time | Remote

We are looking for remote (any part of the world) experienced software engineers in designing and operating distributed JVM based web applications.

Responsibilities:
* Design and develop backend web applications using Groovy, Spring, RabbitMQ and MongoDB
* Apply best practices into design and implementation of scalable and distributed JVM applications using REST API, Message Queues and NoSQL databases
* Cooperate with other team members (e.g. backend, mobile and QA)
* Kanban + daily calls
* DevOps

Requirements/Skills/Conditions:
* 5+ years of experience with JVM tech stack
* This is a long term direct contract/commitment (No agencies please)
* Company does not sponsor visas or relocation at the moment
* Good written and spoken English
* Responsible and team player
* Linux (Centos 7.x)

Hiring process: 2 tech interviews and 1 technical task.

Please send your resume to `remote-dev at rooam.co`

https://rooam.co

Thank you.
You of course can argue that anything and everything affects interstate commerce, but ... in 1995 in Lopez the Court held that, no, there are truly local things, and laws not dealing with commerce (like the gun-free zone for schools act that was struck down at that time) lack authorization from the Constitution.

And this view was again reinforced in Morrision. Congress tried to use the Commerce clause to criminalize rape against women. The Court held that even though violence against women surely has some effect on the economy, that is very far from substantial. Even if viewed in the aggregate.

Our freedoms suffer some, sure, but the wheat (and other) market(s) got saner, which helped a lot of people, greatly expanding their freedoms. (On the other hand Wickard is used to regulate medical marijuana, which takes away some freedom.) But, but... it also allowed (and would allow) fixing healthcare, which was (would be) a big freedom improvent.
I don't think the best outcomes for hostage situations are quick responses by heavily armed assault teams? I'm pretty sure the playbook is something like surrounding and controlling the area, establishing communications, and trying to work out a peaceful outcome. Whilst planning for an alternative option.
Estonian tax and customs board has reduced its size by 30% over the last ten years all the while having cost of euro collected and percentage of euros collected figures trending up to the point of being in top three globally in both terms. Smart use of tech and a rock solid identity scheme help.
This involves a whole lot less ass-wiping[1] than I was expecting it to.

1: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/r/rabelais/francois/r11g/book...
As for why health care and education are getting not expensive
What you said also doesn't mean anything.
My experience is that entering Canada is a little less of a problem and that it's only become more of a problem due to pressure on the Canadians from the US to beef up their border security or else. The more strict checks seem to apply both to Canadians and non-Canadians. And entering Canada, the law is not actually suspended at the border and its vicinity .. unlike some other places.

That said I've travelled dozens of times in a multitude of ports of entries and the vast majority of people have no problem, they're not searched, they're not detained. I haven't seen anyone standing in front of me in line have a problem either. You can avoid 99% of the problem by being polite, answering questions truthfully, and treating the border guards with respect. Yeah, it sucks if they have a bad day and they're rude to you or they ask you invasive questions, just play along and be nice. You'll be fine. If you are suspicious or if you piss them off they will potentially make your day very very bad.

All that said, I think the land border between the US and Canada should just be open.

By the way, you can also go on vacation without a phone ;) disconnecting will make your vacation better!
That's stunning that (evidently) no one noticed the patents were for a physically impossible design. Was the legal battle even about the designs or more so for posturing?
@chrismwendt is a Sourcegrapher working on this. Posting this on his behalf:

Here is how I added GraphQL support last week:

- Follow the hello world tutorial https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph-extension-docs/bl...

- Add logic to handle hovers and definitions https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph-graphql

- Write the server part https://github.com/chrismwendt/graphql-ws-langserver (once a browser-based GraphQL analysis library exists, this would be unnecessary because the analysis could be done entirely in the browser)

It's available at https://sourcegraph.com/extensions/chris/graphql and once you enable it you can test it out on a GraphQL file such as https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/chrismwendt/graphql-ws-la... (it's pretty slow/janky at the moment and could be improved, but works).

If you're interested in interfacing with other tools too, you might be interested in LSP (Language Server Protocol):

- https://langserver.org/

- https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specifi...
But didn't you know? We're all in imminent danger from... uhh... terrorists! And drugs! Think of the children, donate to your local SWAT team today! They need more funding for surplus military equipment after all.

I just love this photo of the MRAP vehicle the Lynnwood SWAT team has. Really makes me feel safer. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/police-in-wa...

Edit: For those not familiar with Washington, Lynnwood is a kind of dense suburb north of Seattle. Not really where I'd expect to need a military vehicle, but you never know I guess...
We can sponsor H-1B transfers, TN visas for Canada/Mexico citizens (we did this for Render's first engineer), H-1B1 visas for Singapore citizens, and pretty much any other work visa that's not a new H-1B. If you're on an OPT, we will file a new H-1B for you because you're already here.

We will eventually grow out of this constraint, but it's personally frustrating because my own first job out of college was on an H-1B visa.
Domesticating a plant no longer takes a millennium
Unless the ramdisk (AKA tmpfs in modern Linux) is compressed.

Many low footprint Linux installations now include swapping to zram, which is compressed. The net effect is positive since you usually have an abundance of spare CPU cycles.
This will be my first year attending the annual event, and I'm super excited! I'm a long time fan of the Wayback Machine, even though my early work is terribly embarrassing :) Love what the archive does, which is so much more than snapshots of old websites. If you somehow have not read the mission statement, it's worth a minute: https://archive.org/about/
Or the UK, and probably a long list of other countries.
ActiveSphere | Bangalore, India | ONSITE | Full Time | Software Engineer, Full Stack

We're a boutique software development/consulting company based in Bangalore.

Apart from client work, we spend time exploring diverse topics. Sometimes these explorations lead to writings like compound interest[1], creating a visual primer on elixir streams[2] or diving into FoundationDB's high contention allocator algorithm[3]. Some other times, it leads to discussions in ML or distributed systems[4], or readings like Understanding Comics, or Art of multiprocessor programming. We care about having colleagues with whom we can grow in our perspectives.

We pick up language and technology based on client work or personal interests. Most of our current work is in Elixir, Go, JavaScript, Python.

The interview process usually involves a programming problem followed by a few rounds of telephonic/in-person conversations. If interested, please reach out to us at career[at]activesphere.com.

[1] https://www.activesphere.com/compound-interest/

[2] https://www.activesphere.com/blog/2017/11/28/stream

[3] https://www.activesphere.com/blog/2018/08/05/high-contention...

[4] https://www.meetup.com/Papers-we-love-Bangalore/events/25235...
Yet the ACA (Obamacare) was held constitutional due to the Commerce Clause.

Sure, if the ACA would regulate non-economic aspects of ER visits, those parts would have been likely struck down. (Unless otherwise authorized by the Constitution.)
It's definitely possible, since AFAIK swatting does not happen in Europe
Seeing it as threat to the socio-cultural aspects, Nepal bans porn websites
Some execs also think it's better not to know because they think they won't be responsible then. I have seen this with managers opposing pen testing because they were worried about the consequences of finding vulnerabilities.
That's a weird way to say it, it almost seems to imply that a list of passwords was lost, but the passwords aren't associated with emails.
How about actually meeting your neighbors and making friends with them?
The whole militarization of the police has resonated dreadfully with the ascension and worship of the military. And the US now has "law enforcement" instead of "peace officers". The incentives have been completely reversed.
It works on fruit flies, see Rose, M. Laboratory Evolution of Postponed Senescence in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution (1984), where the lifespan was doubled.

So this certainly works in principle. For longer lived species I expect it will still work, but it would take hundreds to thousands of years to breed for even a few dozen generations.
How is this different from paying the mafia protection money? This is what mafias do they extort businesses for money to not be bothered by them and other gang members.
Sourcegraph CEO here. I share your interest in open-source business models, going back quite a while. My public middle school back in 1999 had a mock investment club, and students voted on which stocks to invest in. (It's funny looking back on this.) I campaigned for RedHat and VA Linux, and we ended up "buying" those (and some JDS Uniphase, naturally).

I plan to write more about this, but here's the summary of why we went open core.

- Hosting is less viable for developer tools, especially those that are intended for companies above ~30 engineers, because those companies usually want their code to stay on-premises. Selling hosting means you'd only sell to small companies.

- Now, compared to 10-20 years ago, customers perceive software needing custom development as bad. Expectations are higher for the product to just work out of the box. They might not ever use it if they can't quickly see that it solves their problem (without getting custom development).

- Doing custom development probably entails a top-down sale, not a bottom-up sale. Compared to 10-20 years ago, bottom-up (having a single dev bring your product in and then spreading from there) is much easier. Bottom-up means that, especially in the early days, you can focus on building the product/eng teams instead of the sales/marketing team.

- Custom development doesn't scale, and we think every dev will be using Sourcegraph (or something like it, if we mess up :) in 5 years. We can only get there by building a product that works for almost everyone, not one that works really well only for a few companies.

- Open core is easy to understand because (if you ignore the availability and open-sourceness of the code, which is purely a benefit) it is just like freemium, which is a well understood concept.

I'm just stating our decision process in choosing open core. I make no claims that these are universally true.

If someone out there is thinking to themselves, "I'd love to pay Sourcegraph to build custom features for my company", then please reach out. At the very least, your desire for those features would be a strong vote in favor of prioritizing them on our roadmap.
Damping of selectively bonded 3D woven lattice materials
Ask HN: How do we save the planet?
So, lately I find that I can't really sleep when I read news about how the planet will probably be unlivable within 100 years (https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-administration-climate-will-warm-by-7-degrees-by-2100-2018-10) if not even sooner than that because of unknown factors. Frankly this post is more me trying to find some kind of hope that this is a solvable problem, one day... And I'm not finding it around much anymore. Even moonshot projects are worth entertaining, because right now I don't think it's possible to argue that climate change isn't the single biggest threat we face as a species.

So: we've all fucked it up. How do we make sure humanity survives the next hundred years?
Thanks! Very interesting.
YT, unless you subscribe, shows ads. News sites which let you browse unimpeded show ads --but have those ads blocked by many. So, when they try to make a quid pro quo bargain (ads for content) people often don't like complying with their end of the bargain.

Music has evolved into paid services or ad supported services. News content so far has failed with the ad supported model and unless they create some cartel (a spotify for news, let's say) they have little alternative beside the direct subscription model.
The bigger and less centralized a team is, the less you can afford edge cases in your rules. Even running a team of 6 people I found I had to make rules more rigid than I would ideally have liked.

On my own, I'll have many internal "rules" that are very flexible. But in a team I need a small number of rules that are rigidly enforced.
Your second point kind of negates your first point. You don't need an MBA to see that Tesla's financials are hopeless. It just requires some simple projections - this much money in, this much out, this much growth, etc...

Sure you want a certificate to do official accounting, but for making business decisions I don't see why the MBA is helpful.
Can you explain why the vast majority of other countries do have voter ID laws then?

As far as voter suppression, the whole point of what I wrote is that it's not inherent in voter ID. It only happens if the laws are deliberately designed that way. Again, look into how people vote in most European countries to see that it's not what these kinds of laws are actually about, when they're done right.

BTW, my perspective is that of a non-citizen on a track to citizenship. I think that even if real-world voter fraud is very low, there's also the question of symbolism at play. Voting is one of the few rights that are citizen-exclusive, so it is important to protect, even if only as a symbolic gesture. This goes both ways, of course - the right to vote shall not be denied to anyone who has it (and that part has priority for the same reason as presumption of innocence) - but conversely, if it is to be treasured, it needs to be secured to highlight its worth.
Well you don't upload but parsec provides everything google is planning on offering with the freedom of allowing you to use it as your own computer. So I am not sure what you are getting at.

Unless google undercuts competing small businesses in the same space, they're dead on arrival. They do not offer anything that's not on the market today.
Forgive me. What is "eject"?
A similar abstraction is being created into home-manager to generate MUA/MTA/MRA configurations from a central place. For now astroid/alot/offlineimap/mbsync/msmtp are supported. Neomutt support incoming https://github.com/rycee/home-manager/pull/300
Do note that restoring your phone can be a massive pain, even on a fast network it took me a couple of hours to fully restore it. There's also certain things you'll need to set up again; Apple Pay, mail passwords, ... So it's really not as simple as you make it out to be.
Well yeah, that was both josmala's (the original commenter) and my point. Putting the swap file in compressed memory (here DriveSpace+SmartDrive) can be good, putting it into a straight, uncompressed ramdisk is worse than useless.
For collecting weather data, tiny satellites measure up to expensive cousins
Does it apply if they are business contacts (business address/phone number)? After all your company-issued phone isn't personal to you -- it identifies a role ("the purchasing manager for foobartronix") and if you leave that number will reach someone else.

I don't know how the "compliance world" treats, that but I bet it's a loophole many many people are trying to squeeze through.

(I do actually consider it personal to you. And I am a fan of what GDPR is trying to accomplish, in principle, but it's clear the law doesn't really work yet).
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on this thread. There is defensible feedback and there is just being contrarian. If you have a reasonable position, you may just be missing the CEO's context and they should be smart enough to see the gap and fill it in for you. Without requiring a pink slip.
I think for most folks actually living in these high cost areas, capital appreciation is not the primary motivation.

Also I disagree that they are universally destructive - how else do you explain the long term success of high price cities such as London, New York City, Hong Kong, etc.
Is there a substantial economic effect of regulating the activity? Well, California might be its own enemy this time, but so is are the Federalist judges the GOP/Republicans prefer. As CA is too big to hide in the bushes, anything it does has likely substantial effect on the US - though it's easy to argue that ISPs are _very_ adept at adapting to local regulations, so they would simply configure their network devices this or that way depending where the subsribers are.

And of course Federalist judges are not exactly that consistent either.

So we shall see, but I sincerely don't see how this would affect interstate ISP markets substantially.
Downvoted? Because SPD scares me more than OPD?
Interesting. To be honest, I'm a little bit surprised it took so long for computational photography to come to market in smartphones, but it's nice to see it, I definitely agree that it's pretty much one of the only ways to improve imaging in such constrained conditions.
Police police police police. [1]

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>> If they are not media publishers... no one is

No, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo are not considered media publishers by any actual media publisher; because they are ad networks that do some news aggregation at best and do not produce original content. There absolutely is a definition that you are refusing to recognize for some reason.

>> There are large entities..., who run experiments constantly, and publish the results constantly. So. Where are they?

Again, what are you referring to here? The big companies are not publishers and what they do is closer to Amazon.com testing page speed rather than NYT testing ad load. Actual media publishers do not publish results constantly, if ever.

>> Congratulations, you have disproved the existence of hundreds or thousands of papers and blog posts. I must be hallucinating them all.

What? How are you asking about the lack of research and then saying there's research everywhere? Again, what are you talking about here? What media publisher* is printing heavy insights into their ad yield management?

>> ...when I talk to them, I never hear any specifics, I always get told either they don't know or no one's checked...

Because it's internal intel. Do you know anyone on the revenue team? They might be more open to details but won't know the technical background. You can look at trade publications like Digiday, Adweek, Mediapost, Adexchanger and others to find details and some rare whitepapers.

>> perhaps you could summarize them and provide the details for the rest of us.

You need to have specific questions, but here are some details:

Top sites are focused on revenue over UX. Sites have found equilibrium between ad load and retention with maximum time spent. Users rarely stop visiting sites, they just come back with adblockers instead, which has led to strategies like free articles per month and increased direct-sold campaigns and native ads from brand studios (for pubs that can afford a team). WSJ and other pubs have stopped the google-search free entry workaround as well.

UX changes include never-ending feeds and auto-changing articles to minimize bounces, along with less ad slots but more ad refreshes to increase total impressions. Tech-forward pubs like WaPo have built their own adtech stacks to show users different formats and ad frequencies depending on how they respond. Subscribers get less ads until churn is minimized. No ads for subs just leaves money on the table and even FT.com runs plenty of campaigns. Video has also invaded everything with 5x higher prices than banners.

Overall pubs have managed to squeeze out the same number of impressions from just the non-adblocked market, while optimizing paid conversions for adblockers and capitalizing on their uninterrupted attention to show more high-touch direct campaigns. Readership is up all around and both segments make more money than before.
but you didn't follow the directions of how to post in this thread
It depends.

> Faggin: Well, for the timing of the product out, that was put three-and-a-half months of my life at 80 hours a week doing the layout. I mean, that was the only way I could solve that challenge. We couldn’t find a layout draftsman. They weren’t experienced enough or fast enough. And that was the absolute, the limiting time in terms of getting the product out. Because the design, Shima pretty much was doing it all the time it was allotted, but the layout was just not getting done fast enough. And so that’s why I had to do it. You know, a CEO doing layout draftsman job was not something that would be normal, but that’s what I had to do, and I did it. So that’s how I solved that problem. And that certainly saved many, many, many months for the project. As I said, I did two-thirds to three-quarters of the chip drawing it myself.

http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Oral_Histo...
Where can I find someone like this? I need this help.
This whole piece makes me ask what a bubble really means. The author admits to having been wrong about housing prices since 2000. But that’s okay because bubbles can, apparently, last decades. If a bubble can last a very long, but totally indeterminant amount of time, does it have any reality?
How quick does the payment from your phone go through? Australia's only just implemented fast cross-bank transfers (PayID) but the implementation compromised privacy and only works in some circumstances.
It literally is class warfare; what else should it be portrayed as?
The neighborhood isn’t wealthy by California standards, but the county is the wealthiest in the state, and it was an infamous “Sundown Town” in the South as late as the 80s. But as the metro area has grown and an influx of professionals and younger people have moved in, the demographics are slowly changing. It’s mostly the older crowd who have been here for decades that have problems. My wife and I don’t get looked at too strangely, but my (step)son who is tall and big gets suspicious looks from older adults even though he grew up in the burbs all of his life and his circle of friends look like the cast of a CW show.

My son often hangs out with friends from his school. Their parents always love him. He only gets strange looks from the grandparents occasionally.
Former cop here: many departments get those vehicles from the DOD for free. (They bought thousands of them to protect troops in Iraq+Afghanistan from IEDs.) Everyone knows MRAPs weren't designed for law enforcement, but you just can't beat that price.
Overly quick armed response usually has more downside than upside.

If it's a swatting, you might end up killing innocent civilians.

If it's an actual hostage situation, you can trigger a violent end to the confrontation when a negotiator might have sufficed.
That raises an interesting question: Can unlimited political money post-Citizens-United buy not just tax cuts, but outright national fiscal suicide in the form of abandoning tax collection?
Knocking on their door would get the SWAT team there quick smart.