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SimpleForms / Software Engineer / San Diego, Remote / Fulltime
www.simpleforms.com

SimpleForms takes the pain out of employee onboarding paperwork. We serve SMBS, Contractors and Enterprises.
Small but growing team backed by Techstars, and an amazing set of investors.
Looking for someone that wants to own product, and build a robust yet simple platform.
We play with React, Meteor, Node etc.

Happy to provide more detail just reach out to
emily at simpleforms

Please, NO recruiters.
Ain’t it great they didn’t patent the GUI?
1. Should be automatic. Still testing, but looking fantastic so far.

2. The coverage across modern OSes, browsers, and devices is incredibly high, and increasing daily, or we wouldn't be finally pulling the trigger. (I've wanted to do this for 16 years!)

3. Hmm, hadn't thought about this. What did you have in mind?
I believe car travel provides that same benefit without the dehumanization.
Shirts for hackers, developers, and blockchain-enthusiasts won't sell too well

Maybe not if you put it in a H&M store. But these kinds of shirts do exist and I don't think 'nerds' are averse to buying them.
Great feedback, thanks. This is a great secondary line of business for SmugMug already, so this is great to hear and we'll think about it. Thanks again.
I think the point is that "assume" is a weird word: it is probably true, in a statistical sense, that married couples are more valuable to some companies, and less to others, and their models reflect that.

No one is saying "eh, screw the single people/happy couples" and tweaking the scores in some ad hoc way.
I’m not sure the thing being rewarded is loyalty. I take 3-4 personal trips a year; that’s nowhere near enough to earn status on any airline, even if I used the same one on 100% of my trips for a decade. (Eligibility thresholds are per year).

Status mainly seems to be a minor perk built into any job requiring frequent travel.
Sweden or Canada do not possess the qualities that have allowed power to accumulate for a nation/empire.
Good for them! HashiCorp is solid engineering.
Creating a QR Code step by step
>it implies leaving people in such a despondent state that the only thing preventing suicide is lack of means.

this is certainly one of the reasons I'm still here today. Not such a bad thing, no?
Terraform is the best you can get right now but it’s still so incredibly painful to use. Every team I’ve ever been a part of is ultimately building a custom framework on top of terraform to spit out .tf files. It’s so frustrating.
Dremio | https://www.dremio.com | Santa Clara, CA | ONSITE

Full Stack Engineer | Front-end Engineer

One of the biggest pain points when working with Big Data is that the data is stored across multiple sources and data warehousing is expensive and doesn't allow you to work on the data easily. At Dremio we are solving this by offering a Data as a Service platform - allowing analysts and data scientists to work with large sets of data no matter where and how they are stored.

We heavily contribute to and use several open source projects like Apache Arrow to achieve this and are hiring engineers. We are looking for both front-end engineers and full-stack engineers (we use Java on the backend) to help grow our product.

https://www.dremio.com/careers/
How to Setup a Cloud Ubuntu Server for Deep Learning on Paperspace
"Lost hikers" is really enemy combatant.
They know we won't stop paying them/accost them appropriately.
Look into books by Gerald Weinberg and Steve McConell. Both have served as great mentors for me in the mentioned areas.
Facing Tomorrow's High-Tech School Surveillance
Yeah so tf and cloudformation are kind of the big options in the aws space. They’re both good tools. But I like tf over cf because I have additional control.

The import functionality is super useful in real life, as is “state hacking”. Yeah so technically it’s an antipattern but when you are down and dirty cloud engineering it is very useful to be able to edit the tf state (by comparison you have no access to the internals of cf) to avoid destroying/migrating databases or other precious resources where it turns out you judged the proper point of ownership wrong. This is not really the reason one is “supposed” to like one tool over another but there it is.

Refactoring infrastructure as code is kind of a dark art, and IMHO tf has a way better story for that. SUPER hard to sell though because the problems are not obvious at all. The main reason is that it exposes state as a first-class concept and although big chunks of that are presented as “internals you should not mess around with” it is a pretty big win in terms of day-to-day engineering (and of course usually you shouldn’t...).

What I do wish is that HashiCorp would finally make using third party providers suck less. They seem super sold on a “registry” and bunch of stuff which solves HC level problems while I would be happy with a URL and a trust relationship...
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I faced what I think is a similar issue on Android : colors in RGB are gamma encoded; which make linear animations between 2 RGB values not linear at all.

There I solved it once I realized what was going on by converting the start and end colors to linear sRGB values and then interpolate between these two.

Would this work here too ?
What is the difference between a tech lead and an engineering manager?
The use case here is for identifying criminals based on noisy data with results that are just slightly better than guessing. Couldn’t they start with cat photos rather than something so dystopian?
Bypass paywall:

* DDG: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Your+Smartphone%E2%80%99s+Location...

* Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=Your+Smartphone%27s+Location...
Is it? I would answer that question by asking whether it would've been great if Xerox hadn't patented the copier. I think the answer is no, because we probably wouldn't have gotten Xerox PARC and everything it invented if Xerox was immediately thrust into race-to-the-bottom competition with clone copiers. (Note: Xerox and PARC rapidly went downhill after a DOJ antitrust lawsuit forced Xerox to license its copier patents to Japanese competitors.)

What if Xerox had patented the GUI? Maybe Microsoft and Apple would've had to pay to license it instead of just stealing it from Xerox. What innovations did we miss out on because PARC never made any money off GUIs?
Google selling incense sticks on Amazon India?
$10/flight < ticket price
Did they stagnate? Isn’t Japan one of the most advanced and prosperous countries in history? And this despite being hit with two atomic bombs even...
I am pretty excited about RISC-V. Hoping to see a v8 JavaScript and Node.js port in the future.
Here's the problem: other companies ruined it for the good ISPs. They destroyed their trust by screwing with end user transfers, tampering with TLS, tampering with connections, modifying resources in transit, MITMing in horrific fashion, invading privacy, and breaking protocols for profit.

Arguably there would be a lot less insane push to make everything a blackbox if companies didn't keep doing dumb crap for an extra buck. See also the TLSv1.3 middlebox arguments.

I certainly enjoy the fact that when using an AT&T hotspot I can't reach certain websites over TLS, with Verizon they would append advertising tracking headers to requests on their end, on Sprint if I wget the same image multiple times it'll be in a different quality and not match md5-wise each time, all of the above do DPI and negatively degrade web traffic no matter what port it runs on, TCP connections fail if I try to run non-web traffic over port 80 randomly, TCP connections are randomly killed if long lived.
If you'd say "no" to reading a book because it engages more use of one's imagination, how is reading a dead tree book different from reading an ebook on screen? The latter is still lumped together gaming and all other uses as "screen time."
They do have the best silicone, and I was trying to explain why they get to set the price they do and get away with it.

It’s just that, for example in South Africa the new iPhone XS costs R22000-24000 which is $1500 - the Samsungs and especially the Huawei’s are much cheaper. You can get a P20 lite for like R5000 which is an outstanding phone. But again many South Africans can afford the iPhone.
Java Crawling the world's largest website
I wonder, and hope, that this really happened.
How to build STEM toys
You know what a lot of middleboxes do? They block ads/malware. Shocking that the two largest ad companies are trying to push standards which break things that block their ads.
If you like it, please hit the star. Thanks :).
It's weird how positive you are about a business venture failing at the only thing that they are required to do -- bring you food in a timely fashion. "Your experience is probably a win for them" is a very strange way to prioritise what's important when running a business -- unhappy customers are a win somehow?

> If they only had high quality drivers, they [...]

... would actually be a good service?

> nobody got fired for buying Microsoft.

IBM, not Microsoft.
People may not like this answer, but it is a good summary of their internal thought process.
If anybody had working lie detecting AI, border control pilot in Greece and Hungary (as per TFA) is the last place you'd see it used.

From CIA, and TSA, to your local police department, everybody would have jumped all over it.

This is some vendor managing to sell some BS to bureaucrats (probably with the required bribes).
Q-DOS from which MS-DOS is derived is basically a clone of CP/M. I've written a CP/M bios for fun to bootstrap my IMSAI. It's not really that high level. You got even more from IBM's BIOS but of course that was too slow for what people wanted to do with those machines - so everyone talked to the hardware directly.

In those days it didn't matter what you were doing - the hardware was too slow. It's not like today where you can trade off performance for reliability or cleanliness. People praise Wozniak for his genius of trading hardware for software, but the tight coupling made it really hard to make future iterations. People didn't value upwards compatibility yet.
As far as "using it as evidence..."

The secret is that your "AI" doesn't actually need to create lost data. All you have to do is qualify yourself as an expert witness in Artificial Intelligence, and then you can say that your AI (which, let's be real, is a huge black box whose internal workings are a mystery to anybody) has identified X suspect in an image of y extracted from the scene with a Z probability score.

Fill in X with the appropriate suspect at your discretion.

(This already happens, athough not with imaging yet: https://www.propublica.org/article/where-traditional-dna-tes...)
Whenever there's a post related to phone screen sizes I rush to it in the hopes that there would be an SE alternative being talked about or an Android option that gives control over privacy.
When advertisement companies push for L4 redesign... This is going to be a fun one to watch how it plays out.
(I'm one of the founders of HashiCorp)

Consul, Nomad, Terraform, and Vault are the only products that have associated enterprise products (in addition to being open source). Different products have different impacts different quarters but all of them are contributing many millions per year individually.

Vagrant and Packer do not have enterprise products and we don't try to monetize them much (Vagrant Cloud has some paid plans for box hosting but primarily so that we remain cost neutral). However, we're fully committed to them and both teams have full time engineering and management assigned to them. They're not deprecated in any way.
There is no combination between them.
Seems to be the only solution in the USA. Throw people in jail. Both parties seem to agree on this, they just argue who specifically should get sent.
Microwave ovens do indeed have hot spots[0]. Conduction doesn't propagate evenly in very many foodstuffs, and you still want to avoid overheating any one spot.

[0] https://www.evilmadscientist.com/2011/microwave-oven-diagnostics-with-indian-snack-food/
How do the products bring in $ if they are OSS?
When can I buy an affordable, complete RISC-V computer? I've been long planning to cook my own with FPGA but it seems like soon we'll start getting affordable RISC-V CPUs with other utility support?
I just watched Day After Tomorrow again. All of a sudden, it's science doesn't seem nearly as far-fetched.

Anybody here have thoughts re why more isn't done about this? I'm thinking a combination between: 1) The general population doesn't want to hear about it so the media doesn't care so it does not create movies/books/shows about it 2) Selfish individualism over societal interests 3) Too much money invested in destroying the earth through the major resource industries.
With as useful as both Vagrant and Packer are to users... I don't understand how they don't contribute to the bottom line equally, or at least in a significant way.
Very few. I would guess it averages out to about 10 per day.
Has the current administration changed the work/mission/culture at all?
This is effectively funded by all the student loans and double mortgages that FOMO drove people to trade real money for virtual commodities at the peak of last year's bubble. I'm calling it. We have reached peak blockchain hysteria. This is "if you build it they will come" on the blockchain.
I am so happy for you guys. Hope you take this money and make more awesome shit. Terraform is my jam.
webhose.io
I've had to scroll the length of streets all they way across the entire city before it showed me a street name.
This isn’t as much about stopping middleboxes on your perimeter that you fully control, but a lot about middleboxes between you and the destination that are outside of your or the destinations control.

Those are often used to add ads rather than block them.

If you yourself want to block ads, do so on your machine (where traffic has already been decrypted) or on your router (which will then decrypt traffic for you and re-encrypt it with its certificate that you have added to your machine).
"Fun fact": I just noticed that he is using an old email address, after that I believe it was changed to @cs.helsinki.fi and after @helsinki.fi

" At the moment, the City of Helsinki uses the address Hel.fi, while the address Helsinki.fi belongs to the University of Helsinki."[1]

[1] https://www.hel.fi/helsinki/en/administration/information/in...
For any OSS products that claims to make money you can check their product page and see if they put out some pricing information. For example https://www.hashicorp.com/products/consul
If you choose non critical bugs to work on, your managers will say wtf is he working on that, and your next performance review will say "needs better judgement on priority of tasks" and you'll be let go in the next round.
That's indeed very cool. You seldom see such a wide and successful offering.

Congrats on the raise! And thank you for Vagrant et al.
I just laughed out loud because I have never heard of the term McMansion before but every single house that I have been seeing go up in Dallas lately fits that description so elegantly. They do look like a mish mash of wierd things but when organized into clusters of hundreds its somewhat normalizing to see them all so wierd.
His use of gifs make differences much easier to see, vs putting them side by side.
Uber offering high-performing drivers better earnings and free college tuition
wonder if marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu still works??
ALC announces lease placement of A320neo aircraft with Air Seychelles – Aviation
How can you be sure the salmon wasn't really responding to the pictures?
...except for helping create the conditions to WW2, Vietnam, involvement in Afghanistan 1 and 2, Iraq war prison industrial complex (highest prisoner per capita in the world) war on drugs, supplying weapons to places like Saudi Arabia.

I agree that the USA has impacted many many lives very positively. I don’t think this extends to an overall net “peace and prosperity” claim.

I didn’t downvote FWIW
Slow-moving natural disaster threatens critical infrastructure in S. California
If Google link fails... https://outline.com/yPWTZR
Disagree, FWIW. Knowing how the land is shaped and what’s on it helps me navigate much better. Green things on the map that don’t correspond to green things in the environment are not super useful to me.
I've been using hashicorp products almost my entire professional life (8 years). I'm really happy to hear this news.
I think the idea of piracy as civil disobedience is a new dimension that has emerged recently. Reading these clippings i get the impression that software was much more compartmentalized from the rest of life.
The other thing is that with mixed zoning you can get so much more than just grocery stores. My neighborhood has the following within the 1000 feet radius:

- grocery store (x3)

- dentist's office (x2)

- hairdressing salon

- pharmacy

- kingergarten (x2)

- pizzeria

- Starbucks

- music school

- post office

None of this thins ruins the overall experience, because they all are small scale and none of them has their own parking lot - they are located at the ground floor of residential buildings (except music school which has it's own small building). Kindergardens are most interesting case because they both are actually just apartments adapted to their new role, so each of them hosts maybe 20-30 kids.
The liquor rule you're talking about is on the ballot this year. It might be going away.

https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2018/09/29/minneapolis-restau...
I’m pretty sure the plan is to roll out the rest of the US in the next year. Not sure about the rest of the world, though.
Postmates | iOS Engineer | SF, CA | Full Time

We are an on demand delivery company that recently entered unicorn status. There is a lot of upside potential and a small enough team to contribute significantly. If you love Swift and the ability to reach millions of users, please get in touch!

If interested, send resumes to { mustafa DOT rahman AT postmates DOT com }
The Omnipod Insulin Management System
Your city probably doesn't care about urban design at all. They want the tax money from businesses, but they also want to restrict housing, so they have to spend less on services and property costs rise as much as possible. Therefore, 2 stories residential is too much, but 5 stories business is fine.
Ah, so setting GOMAXPROCS with a value larger than NumCPUs is good for the performance of a program sometimes. Glad that I learned something new. Thanks for this article.
Exactly. Would the Internet be way easier to design and use if we could assume that everybody is a good actor? Heck yeah! It'd be great. There are some really useful things you can do when you're allowed to intercept the conversations between two people. Caching, debugging, fixing spelling errors, etc.

But we can't assume that the folks between me and you are good, and sharing anything at all with them is a bad idea. Does that mean a whole bunch of really useful techniques are harder or straight up impossible now? Yes, absolutely, and we should plan ahead and make sure to come up with ways to debug issues like this.

But stepping back on security and privacy because it makes it harder to benevolently spy? Screw that noise.
Hello, I'm one of the founders of HashiCorp! We're super excited about this. I'm really proud of the team that got us to this point, thankful to our communities, and just generally excited about the future for us.

The project that really kicked off HashiCorp was Vagrant, and I "launched" it right here on HN over 8 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1175901 So its always fun to see things come back around. :) For those that are less familiar these days, HashiCorp now has many major OSS projects: Vagrant, Packer, Consul, Terraform, Vault, Nomad (in addition to lots of minor ones and libraries) addressing different areas.

For the HN crowd, there are a couple background viewpoints that I would also like to share that may be helpful on painting the backdrop on the product and business behind HashiCorp. A first quick one is my tweet on the four dimensions for "multi-cloud": https://twitter.com/mitchellh/status/1022162653618135040 At HashiCorp we're mostly looking at enabling #1 (workflow portability), though that has downstream effects of helping with the other dimensions as well.

Second, I often get asked "Why multi-cloud?" And I wrote up a fairly long answer on Reddit about that with real examples that I recommend: https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/91afzz/why_multiclo...

While I'm happy to answer any questions, this post is rather late for me local time (past 10:30 PM here) and I'm leaving tomorrow to get married this weekend so I can't promise anything!
Interesting catch!

From the filename and context, I'm going to guess it had something to do with Mikhail Gorbachev?

Searching for that filename yields almost exclusively links to that conversation.

Wayback machine didn't have anything for that URL but they did have a snapshot of the splash page for the NSA website circa 1998: https://web.archive.org/web/20051104005542/http://www.nsa.go...

Archive.org is truly a treasure.
Huh. WSJ site put me 'on hold' becuz I'm not a subscriber.

This tactic seems a bit self-defeating in the end. Keep me on hold for over 15 minutes (never mind the music and mechanical apologies ... what a farce) and I guarantee you have lost a customer. (If I have any recourse, and I will assiduously seek one).

Modern business attitudes that don't strive to welcome all customers are, IMO, on death row. Perhaps they're too big to succeed. (Hello? Sears?) OTOH, businesses that welcomed my trade (or that great rarity, welcomed me by name!) have enjoyed steady business for decades. No doubt the revolution will fix that.
I find http://domains.google.com to be the simplest.

It comes with built-in privacy protection* and a free email forwarding service. So all emails to hello@yourdomain.com could be forwarded to your email.

* with recent news around Google + privacy, I'd take this with a grain of salt.
Ask HN: Which books do you think created the best Perfect/Utopia worlds?
Which books do you think created the best Perfect/Utopia worlds?
or others not list here?

540 BC - 400 BC, Analects of Confucius, Confucius

380 BC, Republic, Plato

1516, Utopia, Thomas More

1602, The City of the Sun, Campanella

1726, Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift

1848, The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

1877, The Dream Of a Ridiculous Man, Dostoevsky

1887, Looking Backward, Edward Bellamy
US always been complained as the cop of the world by the other countries. But I didn't see any American shamed about that.
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It would be nice if these protocols could be easily decrypted using a key available on the client. Other than that, tough luck for the ‘transparent’ proxies and friends.
Just had a look, and it turns out that's including running LLVM's optimizer as well, which takes roughly half the time. It's basically doing the equivalent of -O2 currently. That's probably more aggressive than what's needed, but I haven't taken the time to fine-tune it yet.

Other than that, you're right that it might be a bit high. There's very likely parts of the lowering code which can be optimized, I just haven't had the need to yet.