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Scality | Full Time | SF / remote | Senior Full Stack Developer/Engineer

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Job profile: https://g.co/kgs/Sd59fX

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We have a Senior full stack engineering role available in my Zenko team that will quickly evolve into a lead role, enabling and empowering you to work directly with our product owners, and customer-facing SEs and TS folks to not only be involved but drive every aspect of software development life cycle.

The entire team is in SF. The role allows remote: work from home though initial training on the product will require traveling to SF downtown. We have excellent benefits, sport incentive programs and more.

More about Scality:

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Scality was named best places to work https://www.scality.com/about-us/press/scality-named-one-of-the-best-work-places-of-the-year/

It is IDC and Gartner recognized leader in the object and file storage for 3 years in a row. https://www.scality.com/about-us/press/scality-ring-receives-highest-score-for-hybrid-cloud-storage-use-case-in-2019-gartner-critical-capabilities-for-object-storage/

Scality also won the CRN Tech innovator award for 2018 https://www.scality.com/about-us/press/scality-honored-with-2018-crn-tech-innovator-award/
There’s a massive arm of cancer research devoted to exactly this, called immunotherapy. It’s where many of the best new treatments are being discovered lately. People are calling it the new chemo.

It’s particular promising in leukemia, for example.

Typically involves injecting a growth factor and then harvesting stem cells from peripheral blood (as supposed to having to go into the marrow directly), then processing the cells in some way to make them more antagonistic to the cancerous mutations.

In some cases the cancerous cells will be tagged with some marker that can then be used as a target site the extracted cells can be trained on.

Then the patient’s own stem-cells are transplanted back into their body to do their work.

Sometimes the patient gets ablated before reintoducing the new cells. That’s called an autologous (“auto”) stem-cell transplant.
Is it time for regulation yet? How many abuses are we going to let this motherfucking company get away with? Wasn't rigging the 2016 election enough?
Disputed NSA Phone Program Is Shut Down, Aide Says
Their regular search engine is already censored. Do you think those top 10 results are really the actual unfettered top 10? What do you specifically consider "censorship?"
Yes, this is income inequality, generational wealth, and the racial wealth gap all rolled into one.

The worst thing about it is that I've completely reoriented my free time to prepare for interviews so that I can double my salary -- that will hopefully give me enough breathing room to accelerate my savings to buy a home and pass on wealth to my children. The game is the game...
Maybe? Not from a visual perspective, but there may well be overlap in other dimensions - I understand Acme exposes a programmatic interface?

The UX I'm picturing is a suite of individual commands that can run from the shell against the current "state of the page", some of which would produce a display in either the shell or a separate window. One of those might be of the form of "render the whole page" but it could be less privileged a view than it is in existing browsers.
Websites using SSAI (server side ad injection)
The existing research of the berlin patient (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Ray_Brown) indicates the likely elimination of HIV was graft vs. host disease (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graft-versus-host_disease#HIV_...).

The NY Times doesn't mention graft vs. host, but the doctor treating the berlin patient says no one else was cured undergoing the treatment the berlin patient underwent. According to records, 6 additional people were thought to be cured. I couldn't find any follow-up on them. (https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23431244-400-immune-w...)
> The the few times end users were there, they clearly did not give their honest opinion in front of their bosses. And really even folks giving feedback who use a product are poor at doing son.

Actually I worked over 2 years at a company developing in-house tools. For almost all tools/projects I talked directly to the end-users. 2 observations:

1) users become greedy when it comes to features (especially those users in supervisor/manager positions)

2) there's a tipping point with amount of desired features when users actually start preferring to use the newly developed software instead of a previous solutions
How large is the remote ecosystem there?
I’d rather destroy the people who utilize them.

Ultimately, the problem isn’t tech, it’s people who misuse it.
Most smartcards require you to authenticate to them before they will perform operations using their private cryptographic keys. I'm adding WebAuthn support to my smartcard middleware [0].

[0] https://cackey.rkeene.org/
Whoops, I didn’t realize that I was replying to two comments by the same poster! My response above is the better one, and I’d have left it at that. And your note of caution is a good one, I just wanted to provide some additional context. Babies in bathwater and all that.
Yes, and Pre-Scheme deliberately avoids implementing all of Scheme in order to emit straightforward C.

Gambit and Chicken are fine programs -- close to best of breed in the Scheme->C transpiler space. Pre-Scheme was intended to map straightforwardly onto C semantics so that applications like the one for which it was designed -- implementing the Scheme48 VM -- could be coded and tested in a Lisp environment before being transpiled to understandable C code. They sacrificed full Scheme semantics for this.
>Why it's bad to have another censored search engine with higher quality?

Again, this isn't exactly my personal opinion but the obvious difference is this is one of the US's largest tech companies participating, not some Chinese company that US citizens are not familiar with.

>why not first stop use oil from Middle East until the war is complete ended there

Google employees have the power to protest Google projects, not big oil projects.
Google is the one that matters. Priorities.

Given infinite time and resources, by all means: pursue infinite objectives.

Given finite resources, sort in impact-priority order.

search engines aren’t like weeds
really? It reads like the subject of the criticism is millenials...

I find the tone of the criticism stunning, even if it were about the article and not millenials. The article is laying out how millenials have it different than previous generations. Yes NYC was always expensive but even now places that are 1 hour commute are out of reach for your average 30 something. It's tough to say when the commentor came up but the article is painting a picture that the game has changed and it isn't as easy as it once was to delay gratification for 8 years because it's more like double that amount of time. At that point we need to start asking questions to understand if this is sustainable.
Yeah, I think this is how a company achieves anything nefarious. Sensational media and people are fickle; they consume a few clickbaity articles and then forget them. Meanwhile, companies keep pursuing the goal. Again, their motto has been Keep Evil Undetectable, and we have to tell ourselves that this is a long and ongoing battle. But I'd say that democracy has been always a long and ongoing battle: When you stop paying an attention, you lose.
Undetectable also means non transmissible.
Still works because your adversary in this case is the game you want to play not existing. So you can make a good game easily and taunt your defeated adversary. It works on a bunch of levels.
> Is it wrong of me to be suspicious of comments on HN that are enthusiastically pro-China because they have English grammar errors in every sentence? Maybe, but I'm going to do that anyway.

I think it's wrong of you to label someone as "enthusiastically pro-China" for thinking that having access to a censored version of Google would improve the state of the Chinese search engine market (without using VPNs, anyway). That's more of an anti-China position.

If you ignore comments by Chinese people on China (presumably because you suspect them of being government shills?) you're just discounting the opinion of those with actual first-hand experience and an incentive to see things improve.
That's what happens every time they give big business an exception in my city. Fedex was the most recent. A city commissioner literally asked the Fedex rep at a commission meeting if they would still come without the tax incentive and they replied yes. The commission then still proceeded to pass the incentive. They see 20 years of tax free growth while property taxes go up for everyone else.

Google has to spend the money on the data center regardless if it gets the tax incentive or not. Whether the city gives them $15M in a free ride until then is what is in question.

It's basically spitting in the face of your new neighbors. The $15M is not important to the success of this data center and it will be a drain on the town for the first two decades.
Indeed. Either they will take over the Democratic Party or they’ll form a third and leave the old one to rot.

Since there are probably thousands of DB tables with dem and republican hardcoded, my money is on take over.
It is possible to write extensions (aka WebExtensions Experiments) which are pretty much as powerful as the old Addons; the cost is that one can run them only with Developer/Beta/Aurora release of Firefox and there are no guarantees for stability of internal Firefox APIs [0][1][2].

So I managed to write a proof of concept extesion [3] which exposes API to create sequence keyboard shortcuts (eg. Ctrl+x Ctrl+c in emacs) and creates bindings to Awesome Bar prefixes for filtering suggestions [4]. Although it is heavy experimental by now.

I suppose it may be pretty easy from here to add a feature for managing all the built-in shortcuts and commands of the browser.

Besides I think there are some effords to improve shortcuts stuff in Firefox [5].

[0]: https://webextensions-experiments.readthedocs.io/en/latest/i...
[1]: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/e...
[2]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1397874
[3]: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2va0icchtittbnx/shortcuts-experime...
[4]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-search-fire...
[5]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1303384
True. The eastern section of the bay bridge was originally estimated to cost $250 million. It ended up costing $6.5 billion.
Actually, Huawei has stolen IP from a number of western organizations. So the disdain isn't only for the CCP.
> Especially with people like AOC stating the position so eloquently.

You mean the person who was 1 at the time Bernie Sanders, having already been involved in the 60s Civil Rights movement and mayor of Burlington for 3 terms, was first elected to the US Congress?
Show HN: Electric Car Marketplace App
I now feel a vague compulsion to reimplement the 1979 Atari arcade game Asteroids, with game mechanics that have much much harder to smash asteroids...

Pew pew! Pew pew pew pew pew pew _ damn_ pewpewpewpew die
Does destroying all the possible reservoir cells really point to incremental possibilities?
How about I Google 'disease model of alcoholism' for you: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=disease...

Now, who was superficial and poorly researched? That's literally < 5s of effort. I'll stop there, given that you couldn't bother to do that before attempting to call me out, I don't think anything else you wrote is worth my time to respond to.
The failure can happen after negotiation, right?
I completely agree that a paradigm shift is required. Thankfully, it seems we are in the middle of one. There is sustained momentum, from tech workers, the press, congress, human rights orgs, etc. to work together to hold them accountable.

And we are already making huge impacts.

And, if press over the last six months (especially the NYT Rubin expose) is any indicator, Google's management is no longer viewed as benevolent.
This is the article I am referencing.
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/MicrosoftKilledMyPappy.aspx
Thanks for the shoutout!
Not to totally dismiss your point, but don't forget that one of the reasons, a very big reason, why FAANG companies pay that high is because they literally print money like crazy, so they can afford to behave that way. They have tons of cash to burn and they're not going to run out of it anytime soon.

If you are a startup that just raised 10M$, you just can't go around and pay a few good engineers $500k a year in cash compensation (which is what they would make at FAANG, since the RSU portion of the compensation is basically cash-equivalent, perhaps discounted at 80% if you want to be conservative), even if "a few" is a very small group.

You'll have to settle with offering them $180k base + stock options that on paper might bring their compensation to $500k, 5-10 years down the road, and any reasonable good engineer should value them at 10% of their pitched value, if not less.

It just really never makes sense to join a startup for financial reasons, and I say this as a person who was lucky enough to have a ~1M$ windfall from stock options of a former startup employer: amortized over the amount of time I spent at that company (4 years), I'd have been much better off financially had I been at FAANG the whole entire time (which is where I am now btw, completely done with the startup bs).
I was told to assume $350/square foot for new construction here in the East Bay by a design/build firm I contacted recently. So a typical 2000 sq. ft. home is $700K just for design, construction, and permits, plus $300K for land if you can find it. So it seems more like localized inflation to me. Architects and tradespeople need to pay to live here too. Plus requirements due to seismic and fire hazards, insulation requirements, etc. add to costs. Now solar panels will be required as well.

IMO prop 13 worked out really badly but it isn't the main cause of the problem, just one more giant expense for the new homeowner on top of everything else.
As long as their stock is up, add investors to the list too.
1) is different in quality. possibly 2), too, but I don't know enought about it.

in CH, search engines are state-censored for political reasons - mainly to keep in power a semi-dictatorship.

the right to be forgotten was implemented to protect individual rights. one may or may not agree with such a protection. however, the motivation was not systematic political censorship.

edit: missing word.
Hm, I only knew about the individual meanings of gg and ez, didn’t know they were already used in conjunction and with such negative meaning. That’s unfortunate :(
> I don't think private bondsmen in the US can legally contract to require people to wear ankle bracelets.

Well, that's something to think about, then. It wouldn't even necessarily just have to be between the suspect and the bondsman; you might also allow judges to allow bail contingent on the suspect wearing a locating device.
A tasty scheme to put halal food on the blockchain
In that case, a help article on FB isn't going to be very helpful for you anyways
I am not okay with a company headquartered in a democratic country actively building tools to suppress political inquiry and organizing. To be clear, this included Google literally building a blacklist containing the terms 'human rights' and 'student protest' and ensuring that the Chinese Communist Party could track Chinese citizens' queries by their phone number.
Less competitive companies means that we won't have these types companies in the EU. We are already doing very poorly when it comes to anything related to computer technology and this will make it even worse.
People are still beating the rigged election dead horse?
Interesting link, thanks!

For the time being, passphrases + TOTP 2F are sufficient, but I will look forward to being able to use a security key instead.
Scality | Full Time | SF / remote | Senior Full Stack Developer/Engineer

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Job profile: https://g.co/kgs/Sd59fX

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We have a Senior full stack engineering role available in Scality Zenko team that will quickly evolve into a lead role, enabling and empowering you to work directly with our product owners, and customer-facing SEs and TS folks to not only be involved but drive every aspect of software development life cycle.

The entire team is based in SF. The role allows remote: work from home though initial training on the product will require traveling to SF downtown. We have excellent benefits, sport incentive programs and more.

More about Scality:

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Scality was named best places to work https://www.scality.com/about-us/press/scality-named-one-of-...

It is IDC and Gartner recognized leader in the object and file storage for 3 years in a row. https://www.scality.com/about-us/press/scality-ring-receives...

Scality also won the CRN Tech innovator award for 2018 https://www.scality.com/about-us/press/scality-honored-with-...
The Detroit Company Providing Public Transport in Exchange for Pub Crawls
Except every government is trying to expand their law for internet.

Just see how many American company changed their website for GDPR

Your CEO won't want arrested in Thailand and extradite to China because their company in Europe violated a random law in China.
You've got the right idea about computer science.

As for Calc II, no pain, no gain. If you're STEM-inclined, stick with something real--mathematics, physics, medicine, engineering, chemistry. "Real" opens up many different career paths, so if you land in one you don't like, it is much easier to transition to another.

Unless you really need some money in a hurry, and have a job offer just waiting for the cert, I wouldn't waste my time on being a PC tech. Obsolete skill.
> A quick search shows that male doctors outnumber female doctors in the US by about a 2:1 ratio, so I don’t think that’s the best example.

I think it's a good example, you (and GP) just missed the more interesting part: Nurses handle the patients on a more intimate level than doctors, and female nurses outnumber male nurses roughly 10:1 in the US.

https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/total-number-of-pr...
Tiny Core, a minimalist distribution of the Linux operating system and tools
One nice thing about GraphQL is that there is only a few endpoints to secure instead of thousands.
C# and WordPress Developer Looking for Someone to Work With
Hello,

I live in the Philadelphia, PA area and was wondering if anyone on here lives nearby who would like to meet up. I am an intermediate level C# .NET programmer in my early 20's who is looking for someone to work on projects with, and help each other learn and get to the next level in the process. Moreover, I am really looking for a friend who programs on a similar level and has similar interests because I have none lol.

I have a mentor and he suggested I make a post on this website to see if I have any luck.

I have been coding/programming for around 3 years now. I started with Java in high school, then moved on to C# which I have practicing for over a year now. Aside from back-end development, I do have some experience with Xamarin and XAML for UI and cross-platform application development where I built a bunch of tiny android projects. Aside from c#, I am also experienced in WordPress and began learning PHP a few months ago to increase the scale of the work I do on WordPress. I am obviously also experienced in HTML and CSS, for what it is worth.

Professionally, I am currently employed as a developer for a Lighting Showroom in the area. I built and currently manage their website, online store and have worked on numerous c# projects that integrate with the website including an inventory feed application. Aside from the purely technical aspects, I also handle marketing and SEO for the website and company. I also do have some experience in security.

Outside of work, my largest project was a data-mining application that was capable of scraping/crawling hundreds of social media pages in minutes. It was meant to be a part of what I consider a million dollar idea, but it eventually fell through due to various conflicts.

If you're interested in chatting or getting together, you can email me here: jmerk12086@gmail.com

Also, I play xbox pretty regularly if anyone wants to game and talk about anything tech!
Gamertag: XxAdversityzxX

Thanks!
I miss Larry :(
What explains the recent performance of Risk Parity?
You rather it was swept under the rug and forgotten about?
Measles, Mumps, Rubella Vaccination and Autism: A Nationwide Cohort Study
This post is specifically about men being underpaid. Men are rightfully concerned and passionate about this issue. Here we have hard data showing men are being discriminated against and people are still asking how this will help women.
Feels a bit like correlation vs causation. It's unclear what the mechanism of action in GvH would be and it's also clear in this case that GvH was not necessary.
It would be interesting to see if the client will upload a file from an SMB share using the credentials the client is running under.

But I think the main scenario is where the MySQL server is compromised and the attacker wants to pivot to the client machine.
^ So much this. For everyone of us who know and care about someone who has HIV, and for everyone who has it, it's basically a sunbeam of hope -- regardless of how effective or not it turns out to be in practice.
The achievers are likely the quiet ones, precisely because they're a bit tired of articles like these telling them that they can't be proud of their success.
Well, there is their Polestar [0] performance division, which suggests there is such a market...?

0. https://www.volvocars.com/uk/cars/new-models/s60/variants/po...
I would also add that stock options are not stock grants. You are given the option to purchase those shares. Meaning you have to pay the company for them at strike price within 90 days of leaving and you have to pay tax on them.

Many young startup employees I talk to are under the impression that they own .x% of the company because their options have vested. That is not true.

After exercising your options the company could shut down or it can be acquired with a valuation less than what your options and strike price were based on. In both of these cases you would be losing money.
I agree. In waterfall, you close the 'design door' behind you when you go into implementation. There is nothing wrong with taking a phased approach as long as you keep that door open for the inevitable changes you discover while implementing.

In fact, that's the way it should be. There is no human endeavor that does not benefit from an understanding of how something should be done, before it is attempted. I'm not sure why some seem to feel that software engineering is somehow special in this regard. I can't count the number of times we have had people shout down attempts at serious engineering design, often by using the term "waterfall" in a derogatory manner.
Yeah that's true, the cable could bend and cause a short after the negotiation, but how is a specification supposed to protect against this?
> 15MM over 20 years doesn't sound like a huge amount of money

It does when you consider it for 50 people.

Like this, "Give 50 lucky citizens $300,000"

Alternatively, since this is HN, 15mm, could be a healthy Series A for 3-4 companies. If this money is invested in already existing space, do those 4 companies hire more than 50 people over 17 years?
For an accessible talk about the real-world implications of this, I enjoy watching Mike Acton's CppCon talk "Data-Oriented Design and C++": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc
https://web.archive.org/web/20190305014509/http://www.tomant...