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Betterment | https://betterment.com | New York, NY | Onsite (NYC or Philadelphia)

Our mission is to empower people to do what's best for their money. We built Betterment, and are continuing to better it, because we want to help our customers live better and spend their time doing what makes them happy.

We're here to disrupt finance in a big way. The people who already know how to do that don't exist. We're hiring for learners and adapters—people who can help us make financial services the way it ought to be.

We're a fiduciary, which means we act in your best interests. We're not incentivized to recommend certain funds, and we don't have our own investment products to sell. That means we'll do what we believe is right for you, always.

Recommended reading to have a good understanding of us as a company, what we do, how and what we value:

- https://betterment.engineering/

- https://www.betterment.com/careers/

- https://www.betterment.com/TheBettermentWay

Looking to fill various roles:

- Software Engineer - Backend (multiple roles, NYC or Philadelphia)

- Software Engineer - Full Stack (multiple roles, NYC or Philadelphia)

- Staff Software Engineer - Front End (NYC or Philadelphia)

- Engineering Manager - Full Stack (NYC only)

- Lead Data Engineer (NYC or Philadelphia)

- Head of Analytics (NYC only)

We use Ruby on Rails, Java 11/8, Scala, Python, Golang, AWS, Kubernetes and whatever else we deem fit for the problem we're solving. The engineering org deeply values mentorship, learning and cross team initiatives.

Please reach out to me directly at andre@betterment.com or apply directly at https://www.betterment.com/careers/current-openings/ (please mention HN May 2019).

Happy to answer any questions via email, please reach out!
The limit is about 4.5x, and that’s on top of any deposit you have saved.
I do, I hated it since the 2015 Macbook and even more so as time passes. But between Keyboard reliability and low travel, the latter is not as important. I would like the Keyboard failure rate within 5 years of purchase to be less than 1%.

I really wish they just revert to the 2015 design. I have had multiple Post 2015 MBP and sold or returned, I am typing this on the last batch of 2015 MBP and its AppleCare will be running out soon.
> What Reismann (and her predecessor, Chapters) did initially was bring suburban big box stores into the city and wiped out a lot of the street life and culture, and with it, small publishers. In effect this polarized the market for fiction, where literary fiction today has been reduced to "content," and a lot of unctuous posturing funded by grant money.

The MFA was born in 1940. Form before content is not a product of Borders. The same kinds of people read pretentious literature worldwide and the same kinds of people write it. It’s like avant-garde theatre, it’s the same everywhere. Literary fiction is no more because of Borders than fantasy or detective fiction is. People aren’t completely useless at realising that there are clusters in the kinds of books people like to read, even without computers. Those clusters are genres and literary fiction is one of them.
No. That's not at all what the post said.

I even said stretching, manipulations, and massage have their own merits.

These are all used to change the body, but strengthening is the long term change.

Best practice is to do stretching, manipulations, massage before the strengthening.

But these are my Engineering summary, you can get treatment from a doctor of Physical Therapy that does this as a job.
Brigading from folks with some reason or another to be very pro china.
...by ceasing to be a bookstore.
In the link, this is addressed:

It’s well known that nominal compensation isn’t the most effective incentive to get people to do things, and compared to engineer salaries in our US and UK tech hubs, $20/hr isn’t exactly a windfall.

This is intentional. We don’t want people to log on after hours to earn money. Instead, we think of the Sauce bonus as a recognition of the work people want to do anyway, and the compensation is aimed to be meaningful enough to do something fun with, but not so high that it would skew their priorities to stare at their computer screens instead of spending time with their hobbies, families, and friends.
HMRC = Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs, the UK tax office.
This is my approach with my own libraries (and it's what I look for in libraries I buy from others). I would rather pay four or five figures one time than to have to put up with making regular payments over time. In part for convenience, but mostly to avoid nonsense like registration keys and the like, and I prefer not to ask my customers to deal with things that I'm not willing to deal with myself.

That said, as a small businessperson I have considerable flexibility. If a customer really wants a lease option, I can easily accommodate that.
I don't think the power generation part of this is a breakthrough at all, just a "proof of the pudding is in the eating" demonstration.

As I understand it, the practical refinement of a significant amount of Americium from waste is the breakthrough. But that doesn't win hearts and minds like a 432 year space lightbulb.
Exactly, that's how preposterous this is. You'd implement the results of the 2020 election and then have another one at a later date (2024). Seems the reasonable thing to do is implement the results of the last referendum, then you can hold another if you'd like.
Really? I could have sworn that there were a whole host of techniques within the field of political rhetoric that could quite easily be relabelled; "Many interesting ways to misuse 'The Principle of Charity'".

The point at which I start to think it might be being misused is when it is not being used to look for a more gentle version of what could be unintentional ambiguity, but rather is being used to change meaning from the literal sense of a sentence to something in favor of a current position in a discussion, as this invites people to try and have their cake and eat it.
The only fix required would be changing slightly the definition of fiduciary duty expanding the concept to ALL stakeholders including customers and the people living where those businesses are based and it would become illegal overnight to do that.

It will never happen.
They might be able to make a case for searching the devices of foreign nationals, though I would be opposed to that too. But how can they justify warrant-less searches of Americans? Do they think we are smuggling drugs in there?
Coming from other database systems I found this intriguing, and did some googling. Turns out there are historical reasons that PG has functionally overlapping text and varchar(n) datatypes, where text was the original still the best datatype as detailed in this thread, whereas varchar was added for ANSI compatibility, and does not enjoy the same system support (changing length is a pain compared to other engines).

PG is going to be the engine of choice for my next project, so I'm happy to learn about this quirk compared to other engines. Which doesn't mean I'm all that happy about it. I'm really in agreement with this post from 2010 (still current AFAICT) that wishes the support for varchar(n) would be better, for readability and cross-engine compatibility nothing else [0]

[0] https://www.postgresonline.com/journal/archives/154-In-Defen...
Maybe we should just test things on people instead?
How so?

The choice of covering crappy plans is the employer's choice... and crappy plans are what have been pushed AFTER the ACA was passed. Largely by the GoP...

Is that what the ACA was, or what someone(s) who want it to fail want?

There's a weird narrative where any event is tied to the ACA while they ignore what the healthcare system is in the US overall.
I'm curious why the author used AKS. From my experience, I noticed that is the slowest to provision. I have personally experienced etcd nodes becoming unhealthy in lightweight test clusters which concern me with using AKS in production. Is AKS becoming the more popular of the three hosted k8s offerings?
How are these strip-shops able to resell the heavily debt-burdened companies they create? That's the part I don't get.
> their 'secret', which is always "eat good food, watch your calories, and lift weights."

This is literally always the _secret_.
Interview with Edward Witten
I wish cars still had DIN standard stereo mounting.
If you know what's going on you can select a car mechanic or mattress maker who doesn't do that. The market consists of individuals, if nobody buys things under these conditions then the industry would stop doing that.

So the best thing would be to fight for better information, education and clarity about these things, instead of treating only the symptoms with regulations and laws that only excludes people from participating in the market.

Why not have mandatory indicators about different privacy levels and a driver license for tech that gives people the necessary foundations? This could solve the privacy problem from the ground up.
In other news, the cargo cult has now spawned the infrastructure cult. Build models of construction machines, and maybe someone will start developing real actual infrastructure within the country...
When to Use MySQL?

Never.
Hostile takeovers do happen.
That study is for non specific pain.
It's also illegal to lie to a boarder agent, and that would probably include this.
Yes, and it works! Just don't expect to look like a body builder.
Firstly, I don't think I ever made a slippery slope argument. That seems to be something you've read into my comments somehow.

Secondly, any legal distinction is established via a multi-part test. As a first pass, I would ask:

1. Is the site open and particularly, targeted to the general public?

2. Does the site enjoy widespread use by the general public?

3. Is the site intended to foster open discussion on any topic? For instance, the public itself drives most conversation on the platform.

This isn't necessarily exhaustive, just a first pass. HN is targeted at a technical audience (although its open to anyone), it's typically used only by this subset of the general public, and its content is narrowly focused on technical subject matter, so it would fail two parts of this test.

Facebook definitely passes all three qualifications, Twitter doesn't have as widespread use by the general public but it continues to grow.

> What about all those shadow banned users, are they entitled to their free speech on any website that allows comments?

Shadow banning seems like a poor idea. Terms of service that encourage civil discussion are perfectly fine, and violators should get an explicit and public timeout, never a ban. I've toyed with the idea that repeat offences trigger exponentially increasing timeouts.

Judging violations of ToS should be a transparent process. Something like jury duty as a term of using a service also seems like it might be a workable idea. Corporations have their own motives for censorship, primarily profit motives to draw in advertisers, and so they have incentives to bury anything even remotely controversial and are not incentivized to evaluate anything "fairly".
Makeskill Design Kit, Open Source Multimodal Rapid Prototyping Suite for Alexa
gcc is not particularly hard to build from source either.
I apologize for not reading much of it yet, but could someone give a quick comparison to the exokernel idea?
Newspapers and magazines were profitable for centuries. Like many other industries, they've struggled to adapt to the new norms the Internet brought about.
You sure? All the projects I've worked on have used snake case. I've only seen newcomers to programming use capitalized table names.
Apparently security-related.

"Given the nature of this update and the need to ensure the highest level of security, we have provided limited advanced notice."
Isn't the point of an HDHP that you're supposed to set up an HSA to go with it? Premiums for HDHPs are significantly lower than for normal health plans; the idea is that you're supposed to use the premium savings to fund the HSA, which is then money that carries over year over year, right?
And the better chances that one will be used intentionally to protect a productive and decent member of society from a violent criminal.
We need entirely new OS abstractions to replace the dated notions of hierarchical file systems built around the metaphor of file cabinets, I/O as streams of bytes, terminals, process hierarchy. Essentially, say goodbye to the Unix model after 50 years. It would open up an entirely new world of software experimentation and craftsmanship.
A historic, household name helps.
No one knows quite what they’re doing. You deserve to be here. Keep learning, you’ll get there.

When you see the giant exit, the perfect job, the super-cool ultra-light digital nomad lifestyle... that guy doesn’t know what they’re doing either. Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t know what he’s doing.

Be nice to yourself.
On Exadata architecture (and the recent versions of Oracle Database) the search is made by the hardware, not the software.

I'm not a fan of Oracle, but things like that are awesome.
I'm getting security warnings on Firefox and Edge. But it maybe from my computer configuration.
Inbreads technically
In your example the people themselves are not the problem. If you change the example to be a person who is themselves a toxic, disruptive individual, then merely isolating and vilifying isn't enough: You fire them. "Deplatforming" is a close equivalent.

I used to edit a small newspaper. It wasn't uncommon (a few times a year) to receive advertising orders from Holocaust deniers. I did not run those ads. Maybe that was deplatforming, but I don't think it was wrong, or against the interests of free speech to do so.
What do you mean they “kinda” work? NAS is all the rage these days. SOA on Imagenet [1], SOA for mobile [2]. Still needs a ton of gpus, but search algorithms getting smarter every month.

PS I have to admit, your papers made me laugh :)

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.06965

[2]
http://www.arxiv-sanity.com/1807.11626v2
http://www.datomic.com
Yet other libraries/compilers (e.g. CUDA/nvcc) will still bail out if the major version number of gcc is different than they expect...
Almost all voting systems in use today will allow a plurality of political actors, and hence most democracies have more than two parties represented in parliament. That is, except "first past the post" which is the system in the UK and US. It inevitably and systemically always devolves into a de facto two-party system.
I'm sure you can see how this is a problem?

Granted, quadratic voting specifically was probably not designed with parliamentary elections in mind. There are other systems in use that are designed to be fair and result in decent representation of voters.
The general case of eigen-things has no other term to describe it. One might want something that hints at the geometrical meaning of eigen{values,vectors} when they learn about them in the context of multiplying vectors by matrices, but ultimately the concept is a mainly algebraic one. Accepting this it becomes easy to deduce what should be meant by "eigenfunction of the differential operator". So I think, somewhat retroactively, "eigen" is the best word to use there.
> Back in 2017 when the Guardian started showing those big yellow banners at the bottom of articles, I started contributing. If I'm on a site more than a few times a year and they have an option to contribute, I try to.

Same here. I recommend it, it feels good.

Also it makes sure I'm not a hypocrite when I speak up against the current advertising and tracking madness.
What is the warning...?
Those were neat. There was an input on it too, so you could hook up other devices to it.

I actually beat Mega Man on the NES... using a Game Gear with the TV Tuner as the screen.
I'm amazed to see a company in this day and age that charges more in store than online - how bizarre to not have a price match system.
On a good day.
I love the original idea of Blendle, low price articles, no payment if you leave within a few seconds.

Haven't used it recently since they hadn't too many of the articles I wanted && I have a sneaking suspicion that refunds aren't as easy anymore.
Generally, but I think that's a bit of a "hey people without a lot of money who can't afford more... you should save money" there.

Not that they shouldn't do it, but a slight paradox there.
Over the past few years, I've flown in and out of the EU dozens of times. Every EU international airport I've flown out of has outbound passport control, operated by the local country, before you enter the international part of the terminal.
You compute every possibility in parallel, and defer the selection of the 'true' result to some time-at-infinity. Once you've done this, realize that there's no difference within this system between selecting the 'true' result at random or using an algorithm, because the system would consider this result selection to be equally arbitrary in either case. (I.e., there's no way to prove that you've selected a specific result non-deterministically.)

A deterministic system emulates a non-deterministic one using (computational or data-) parallelism, and a non-deterministic system emulates a deterministic one using (temporal or spacial) aggregation.

We typically use random numbers to model non-determinism because it is computationally infeasable to track every possibility, but that is not the only way to do it, and nature doesn't appear to have this problem.
Amen to that. Unix was never a good design, and now is severely out of date. We can no longer afford to hack around it.
In general, the founders thought Greek style democracy was a horrible system of government. Inevitably incompetent, bloody, unjust, rash, and would quickly self destruct. When the French Revolution happened - with chaos, purges, wars, and then an emperor taking over the country - the founders basically said “I told you so”.

Here’s an example.

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-6371
> This is ridiculous, if drinking diet coke made people violent and go on shooting sprees against innocent people, it'd be banned. We all know they're radicalized on places like 4chan, 8chan, Voat, Gab.ai, many alt-right subreddits, alt-right YouTube channels and Facebook accounts.

And you can prove that these online sites cause people to go out and shoot people? Because actual studies on these topics have failed to support any such conclusion:

https://www.rand.org/randeurope/research/projects/internet-a...
PDF Is the World's Most Important File Format
> Just say things like "right yes" or "wrong no" and I'll understand.

OK. So s/false/right/ and s/right/true/ and s/negative/no/ and s/positive/yes/.

Does that work for you? Positive and negative are about the outcome of the test - did it report whatever or not? True and false are about if this result corresponds to reality or not.

It might just be me, but "wrong yes" sounds like it's claiming something very specific about the test. It's claiming that test said something was present and it wasn't. It's possible that this might not align with how the test works. Calling it a false positive would seem to make it clear that it's positive from the test's perspective.

But I may be wrong! This is clearly just opinion.
As the author says:

> because the parser generator knows about all patterns you want to match in advance, it will match longer terminals before shorter—more ambiguous—terminals

If you don't mind manually ordering your choices in your alt operators, then PEG and parser combinators are OK.

Oh, and you often need to restructure your grammar to avoid left recursion.
There is an unresolvable tension between the quantitative and the qualitative, and it's hard to imagine a more extreme example than erasing ineffable human dignity in order to turn a human into a commodity.

Let's flip this around to today: imagine a hypothetical future 100 years from now, that honors the qualitative dignity of all animal life, and views factory farming with the same horror that we view slavery now. From this moral vantage point (even as a meat eater, I concede this position the high ground), a phased approach seems appalling.

We currently slaughter roughly one Holocaust's worth of animals every hour; how about reducing it to one Holocaust per two hours? Maybe a new law to give cows an hour in the sunshine before they're herded back into pens? What about voluntary buyback programs? Taxes on meat to subsidize cheaper vegetables? These are all quantitative solutions to a qualitative problem: either cows have inalienable value as conscious beings, or they don't; and if they do, shouldn't we stop at nothing to defend that sacred value and eliminate all human-caused animal suffering, rather than wishy-washy incrementalism?

The unfortunate reality then and now is that we're stuck in quantitative games, directly or indirectly. There are no shortage of highly motivated consumers and producers who benefit from factory farming, just as as there was for slavery. There was clear justification to go to war to end slavery, to forcibly grind the game entirely to a halt; but it was not without cost, not only in lives lost, but in a consequential cultural rift that persists to this day. I'm both ignorant and curious how culture played out in those societies that use phased approaches; do they have equivalents to the "Southern Strategy" and Nixon's racially-motivated War on Drugs (which is rightly, I think, compared to modern-day slavery)?

I don't claim to know the answers to any of these things; but until a given moral phase-shift takes place, it's not always obvious how to get there, and a hardline stance can run the risk that the system kicks back, opponents are strengthened and galvanized, and nothing is accomplished.

(Yes, I'm aware of the irony and offense of invoking a comparison to farm animals in a discussion of slavery, when slaves were once viewed as livestock. I'm attempting to draw the opposite point: of humanizing animals, in the same way that we now humanize all homo sapiens regardless of ethnicity.)
Huh that's cool, kinda of makes me wonder if the SPE[1] in Cell is somewhat of a great-grandchild of Channel I/O.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_%28microprocessor%29#Syne...
What I'm getting on Firefox:

Someone could be trying to impersonate the site and you should not continue.

Websites prove their identity via certificates. Firefox does not trust www.hrw.org because its certificate issuer is unknown, the certificate is self-signed, or the server is not sending the correct intermediate certificates.

Error code: SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER
It's still relatively common on Mitsubishi econoboxes and Ford trucks.
Microsoft PM Explains Why Chromium Edge Can’t Run Google Earth (PNaCl)
Become better at communicating so people don't have to "read the context" and infer meaning in your words that exists only in your head.
The point was that the premium was lower so you could save the difference and instead of that difference going to waste each year, it could compound over time.
The problem is, it varies... you have what are effectively key/value stores to document databases, column stores and everything in between. You have systems built on other systems. RethinkDB and Cockroach have different approaches than Redis, Mongo, Cassandra or others.

CockroachDB gives an SQL interface over the top of a distributed data store with better consistency and relations. Cassandra has no real relations over a BigTable/Column-Store solution. It really just depends.

I think with what's coming out of SSD/NVMe and even Optain DIMMS, that there will be databases directly tuned to control/set their own data storage in these environments.
I'm not sure you are interpreting this correctly - its not like they were torturing the monkey.

This is almost the same as studies where they show humans a set of images and ask them which they like the most. Except in this case, they just show them the images and try to measure it.

Most of these comments are blowing this out of proportion.
If you don't normalize for where you live I think it's an apples to oranges comparison.