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Paperspace (YCW15)| Brooklyn, NY | Full-Time | ONSITE or REMOTE
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We're hiring for a few roles, and we'd love to connect if you're interested!

• Developer Evangelist (AI & Machine Learning)

• C++/QT Engineer

• DevOps Engineer

• Frontend Engineer

• Senior Frontend Engineer

• Fullstack Engineer

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I'm sure they have very good idea. Statistics, game processes design, everything is engineered towards stable and predictable profits.
Kafka Listeners – Explained
> so it could be packaged up as a library that could be called from other languages.

What would this mean for C++, if not an `extern C` interface?
They first introduced this keyboard in April 2015 on the new 12" and first added it to the MacBook Pro in October 2016. So they had 18 months to notice and resolve the issues.
Transportation is the big one. Transportation in American is so poorly designed that it basically forces an enormous (regressive) tax on everyone. Cars are an enormous cost for the average person, and are especially needed for service jobs of the poor. At the same time we pay huge amounts of money to maintain suburban infrastructure for the middle/upper class at the expense of public transit which could benefit everyone.
I retired at 34 with $3M–here are 5 downsides of early retirement
Is your implication that the tax would be paid anyway?

You could equally say that if Apple didn't exist, people would buy a smartphone anyway, so the Vat would be paid anyway.
I mean if a name is available to use, you can just use it. There's no negotiation, no price barrier, nothing.

I think most of my frustration is toward the domain squatting/reselling industry.
Seems strange to get excited about a robots.txt parser, but I feel oddly elated that Google decided to open source this. Would it be too much to hope that additional modules related to Search get released in the future? Google seems all too happy to play the "open" card except where it directly impacts their core business, so this is a good step in the right direction.
If you have any .org domains, you may want to consider a 10-year renewal before any price increases happen.
You might almost think it was intended to provoke a reaction.

So much so it smells like a false flag op. They were left pretty much alone for about 12 hours, while they broke windows and shutters, since the first reports of broken windows came last night.

To justify the "entirely necessary but unavoidable" reaction coming soon?
I'm surprised that people would down vote you for this.

It's a very real possibility that solving intelligence would make most of human knowledge work obsolete.
> Do you even need to match Google's robots.txt parsing behavior? With less than 1000 lines you can be pretty sure they are not doing it right and are breaking plenty of people's assumptions about it.

This seems like a weird assertion. The specification isn't particularly complex (ignoring the implicit complexities of unicode). There are ~5 keywords and like 3 control characters. Why would you expect to need all that much?
> Can we stop pretending we can forecast the unknown

Within reason. Ive worked in orgs where there is no estimate at all, and that bring a different set of problems (unbound projects and no work getting done because of the complete lack of pressure).

Now you're totally right: software engineers rarely do the same thing (or even similar things) twice, so estimating is somewhere between "very hard" and "impossible".

"Scoping" however is still needed.

If you ask me "How long will it take to add a button to this page", that's a very ambiguous question.

I can solve the problem in a few ways:
- Tack on a plain html button element
- Add a button from an existing styleguide/library/design system.
- Build our own button component instead of reusing one.
- Build a full blown button editor that allows a non-software engineer to use a WYSIWYG editor that will create their own custom button and insert it on the page without code.

Now obviously there's a range between these, going from a few seconds (plus deploy), to months or years of work.

The project/product/whatever managers and the tech leads/engineers need to work together to agree on scope. An arbitrary deadline can be picked and then engineers have to do whatever they can up to that deadline. Or we can agree on minimum functionalities with onbound deadline that MUST be created regardless of how long it will take. Realistically, successful projects will be a mix of both, along with various forms of padding and revisiting estimates along the way to account for unknown and mistakes.
>> he elderly help the community and this is obviously beneficial for survival and reproduction.

To a point. There is an inflection where the grandparent benefit becomes a burden on reproduction and survival. From a purely evolutionary perspective, this would probably occur where the presence of elderly people starts to impact the number of children born. We are seeing that today as many younger people are burdened with taking care of elderly relatives rather than raise children.
F5 Networks | Full-time | REMOTE (US ONLY) / ONSITE (Seattle)

We're a small team with a lot of autonomy who work on solutions for instrumentation and lifecycle management of virtual environments. Combining declarative infrastructure automation, task-driven UIs, and realtime metrics, we provide solutions to automate boilerplate tasks and surface pertinent data to our users so that their time and effort is preserved.

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Full-Stack Developer (REMOTE US or ONSITE Seattle):

We're looking for a full-stack developer to design, test, and implement end-to-end features encompassing frontend web apps and backend APIs.

Stack includes Javascript / ES6+, react/redux, node; considering typescript, golang, rust

https://ffive.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/f5jobs/job/F5-Towe...

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DevOps Engineer (ONSITE Seattle):

We're looking for a devops engineer to manage CI/CD pipelines, build and maintain scalable systems architectures for logging / metrics ingestion, deploy systems automation, and more.

Stack includes AWS/GCP, QEMU/KVM, postgres, redis, elasticsearch, dynamodb

https://ffive.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/f5jobs/job/F5-Towe...
I tried to rig up a Shavian chat group and we just hit the wall over and over. It was frustrating so we moved to Matrix.
Nova Credit (YC W12) | San Francisco, CA or New York City, NY | Onsite or Remote (North America only) | https://www.novacredit.com

Despite having built substantial credit in their home countries, millions of immigrants have difficulty accessing credit cards, loans, mortgages, and leases without domestic credit. Nova Credit enables newcomers to share their credit history from their home country with financial service providers and others, unlocking new consumers for lenders, and new futures for immigrants. The team is 30 people and has raised $20m+ in funding from Index, General Catalyst, First Round Capital, Nyca, and Y Combinator.

To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/nova-credit

Here are our open roles:

- Software Engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/neednova/d94c4bb0-5129-48ee-ae18-d65b7...

- Product Designer: https://jobs.lever.co/neednova/e5165268-3763-4cf1-9ca2-8a517...

Tech Stack: Node.js, Postgres, AWS, Terraform, Ansible, React
So. I quit my job by telling the truth
Hi, I'm also a member of the team here and we're really excited to hear from any applicants. Please be in touch :) -- Matt
Each of your cells uses hundreds of mitochondria to generate energy, so we have effectively tamed a part of our ancient microbiome into directly working for us.

A similar type of taming seems to be occurring at intestinal surfaces covered in mucus, where the body secretes a complex mixture of protein and sugars that simultaneously keeps the bulk of microbes at bay while actually feeding desirable bacteria.

You wouldn't die of lack of microbiome, you'd die of being unable to maintain your sterile environment and eventually being infected, unless you lived in a bubble (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3477854/), and Mars is actually not too far from that. Much better to allow yourself to be colonized by harmless bacteria which will fill up all the ecological niches that the pathogens require to thrive.
They publish occasional DL papers, but results are not impressive, so mainstream DL people ignore them.
Publicis Spine | New York, NY OR Chicago, IL OR Boston, MA | Onsite | Senior Software Engineer | Visa Transfer | Full-time
Publicis Spine, a group inside Publicis Groupe, is hiring full stack web developers and data engineers to build a digital marketing tool for our clients. Our clients are large national and international companies.

Publicis Groupe has been in business for over 90 years. Our third group CEO was appointed recently and he is determined for the company to have solutions in the digital marketing arena.

Our product stack is Ruby on Rails for the back with Angular on the front, Data Engineering uses Scala, Spark. Openings are for the NYC, Boston, or Chicago office.

Competitive pay, full health benefits, 401k contributions, and more.

Links to job openings:

New York/Chicago (Senior Software Engineer): https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/PublicisGroupe/743999685647...
New York (Senior Data Engineer): https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/PublicisGroupe/743999685654...
Boston (Principle Software Engineer): https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/PublicisGroupe/743999685654...
Boston (Solutions Architect): https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/PublicisGroupe/743999685813...
That bumps directly into "fallacies programmers believe about names". Not every culture uses family names the same or has them at all, for instance.
> I think there is a way to give an estimate (have been doing it myself for a decade), even for dependencies that are not known from the start.

I agree with this. The problem is that estimates vary, and that management teams often don't understand the way they vary. It's one thing if your estimates are precise and are generally accurate within 20%; it's another if your estimate is "it will likely take between six months and three years", and a third of the time the actual required time falls outside even that range.

... and yes, there are many projects for which such a large estimate wouldn't be unreasonable; nor would it be unreasonable for there to be unexpected breakthrough or challenges that significantly impact the timeline.

> Is this something that HN audience is interested in?

I can't speak for the community, but I think the only way you can know the answer to this question is to post it :)
Thanks, joined.
Up until recently I had only known of most of max Max Weber's thoughts through the books written by other thinkers (I had only read his "Protestant Ethic" about 10 years ago) but as I'm about to finish his "Economy and Society" [1] I more and more realize that we live in a Max Weber world, we have been doing so since the advent of capitalism (I'd say since the early 1400s by which time the Italian city states had "invented" most of capitalism's basic tools).

I remember an interview from back in 2002 or 2003 with today's most wealthy man, that is Jeff Bezos, and I was stuck by his insistence even back then of measuring and counting almost everything that involved Amazon's business, there was no room for happenstance or of "we think of taking that business decision because [insert some intuition-based thing]", everything was rationalized, there was no room for "enchanted" solutions (the ones involving intuition, for example), disenchantment had already taken place.

Couple of years later (I think around 2005-2006) I also remember the partial furore caused by a Google designer who had decided to leave the company because he was unhappy with Marissa Mayer's decisions of using certain colors on the Google front-page based on A/B testing alone, there was no room for "artistic thinking" anymore (not his exact words, but the general idea of his post back then), a specific blue nuance had to be chosen only after A/B testing, there was nothing left to the designers' imagination. Again, a big step towards rationalization and a big step away from the "enchanted" artistic work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_and_Society
I recently took a train from Seattle to Portland with my family. One difference compared to flying that it took me a while to realize was how amazingly quiet it is.

On a plane, the engines are right there out on the wing screaming and conducting that sound directly into the airframe next to you. With a train, the engine is way up front, hundreds of yards a way, separated by several linkages.

The end result is that a train car is as quiet as a coffee shop. I love it.
Signal | San Francisco or Remote (US only) | Full-Time, Remote-OK | https://signal.org

Signal is making private communication simple. As an Open Source project supported by grants and donations, Signal can put users first. There are no ads, no affiliate marketers, no creepy tracking. Just open technology for a fast, simple, and secure messaging experience. We design open protocols, develop Open Source software, and give it away for free.

To learn more about who we are, our engineering culture, and whether this is the right place for you, read our Key Values profile: https://www.keyvalues.com/signal

Here are our open roles:

- Server Developer: https://jobs.lever.co/signal/2a5fee8b-5875-46d4-a41d-773a28a...

- Desktop Developer: https://jobs.lever.co/signal/6cbff26c-290a-4e74-a56f-78e9783...

- Android Developer: https://jobs.lever.co/signal/cc2a16be-b9aa-496e-ba2c-cf8ba36...

- iOS Developer: https://jobs.lever.co/signal/5d866dff-b979-4a90-9a53-f581eee...

-Distributed Systems (Rust) Developer: https://jobs.lever.co/signal/7aa1ff1f-bd43-4359-82c7-8703d8b...

Tech Stack: iOS team: Swift & Objective-C.
Android team: Java.
Desktop team: Electron, web stack (js, css, etc.).
Service team: Java, AWS, devops.
Distributed Systems: Rust

Please email us your resume to: Workwithus@signal.org
And the time estimated is always used up, at a minimum.
Has there been any work or thoughts on what to do for long distance city-to-city hops? Like say you wanted to connect the NY Mesh to Boston (not sure if they have one, just an example)?

I live in Phoenix - I don't think we have anything, or if we do, they are all small projects, nothing widespread. We are fairly flat, and there are probably mountains and buildings that could be used for APs (getting permission might be tough, though - because most of them are already used for comms systems - not sure how easy or difficult it would be to piggyback on to a mast).

But we are a good distance away from other metro areas in the state itself (Tuscon and Flagstaff mainly), and connection to say, Los Angeles or San Diego (or even Palm Springs) seems like a virtual impossibility to me.

I'm just curious if anyone has considered how to bridge these long-distance spans in a low cost manner?
I don’t understand the comparison because non-compete agreements are unenforceable by law in California, which would explain an HR drone telling you so. As far as I know, there’s no law preventing the Public Interest Registry from raising prices.
> As it stands, I have no IRC equivalent of a 2FA key. I present a plaintext token and hope that it's all handled properly and that I'm not a victim of a password reuse attack.
> Any web based solution is light years ahead on this.

That's also the case for 99% of authentication in the web context. 2FA adoption is on the rise but by no means the standard. If it was a thing users asked for, there's no protocol reason a nickserv service and clients couldn't adopt a 2FA flow, even without breaking backwards-compatibility.
Not just the Mac Pro, but the iMac Pro, Mac mini, and iPad Pros are all outstanding computers. (No, Apple will never make an affordable, upgradable mid-tower, but the new Mac mini plus an external GPU is close.)

I'd say keep the Touch Bar, but add an escape key.
It's not that it's stupid. It's that it's antiquated in a bad way. The network architecture of server networks is similarly ridiculous by modern standards.
Yuge U-turn: Prez Trump walks back on Huawei ban. Tech sector seems to think so
That's new! And interesting. Thanks.
Narmi (Techstars NYC '17)| Software Engineer - Full Stack | New York, NY (NYC) | ONSITE | https://www.narmi.com

Narmi is helping reinvent banking in the United States. We create a more accessible and useful financial ecosystem by powering the online banking, mobile banking, account opening and open banking APIs for the 10,000 credit unions and community banks in the United States. You'll be working on production software that has a real impact on the average American's life everyday. Our software helps them save money on their bills, understand their financial story, protect their families and move money.

Narmi was founded by two Georgetown University alums who previously worked as CEO and CTO of an $18 million credit union and also at some of the largest banks in the world.

Even if you don't think you are an exact fit for one of our current openings, we'd still love to talk. We are always looking for well-rounded engineers to join our team in NYC. Having expertise in python (django and django-rest-framework), vue.js, react native, ansbile, terraform, visual design/UI/UX, and/or security are all pluses!

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The interview process entails an intro call to get to know each other, a remote pair coding session, and an in-person half-day.

Some keywords: * Senior Full Stack Engineer, Senior Full-stack Engineer, Senior Full Stack Developer, Senior Full-stack Developer * Senior Front End Engineer, Senior Front-end Engineer, Senior Front End Developer, Senior Software Engineer, Senior Product Engineer, Software Engineer * Banking, finance, online banking, mobile banking, open banking APIs, * New York City, New York, NY, NYC, Manhattan

You can learn more on our website and apply via email: jobs @ our domain. Make sure to mention you found us on Hacker News. You can also apply via AngelList[1] Also please feel free to reach out directly to me chris @ our domain.
It seems like the link is just the poster image itself again nothing else. Same as the links in previous terms.
But they know that the sum of all cards drawn will be profitable, because their practices guarantee it. Normal businesses cannot guarantee that the sum of all their projects will be profitable.
Hofstadter’s law: It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take into account Hofstadter’s law.
You'd be surprised how big of a Microsoft shop Amazon is. It's pretty representative of a large company actually.
Honestly, those just sound like growing pains for a new building. I would be curious to hear an update on how people like it in a few years.
Cool, I didn't know the Stennis site was that old. It looks like the F-1 was tested at several facilities. I found the link below to a Library of Congress document on the Huntsville site, which I'll have to read later.

https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.al1331.sheet
It offers a heady sense of power and control, even though you intuitively know there's always a catch. If you want to be powerful like a genie, you have to learn to live in a lamp and do the bidding of whatever random a-hole figures out they have to rub it.

The unknown is glamorous, and indeed an old word for magical spells was glamour. The disenchantment that results from actually learning how the spells work is the revelation that nothing truly offers infinite power, not even magic.

Wisdom is the discovery that a world without magic, as much disillusionment as that might save people, is also a world without wonder.

Children would stop getting impressed by dinosaurs once we start cloning them and putting them everywhere. Any wonder that's ubiquitous is by definition no longer wondrous
What server specs are working well for you?
My laptop, a Surface Go, can be charged either with USB C or with the little flimsy microsoft magnetic connector. I like having both options. At home, my surface dock uses that connection so I didn't need to buy new hardware when I upgraded to the Surface Go. When travelling, I carry its own proprietary charger which charges faster than USBC. When going to coffee shops or small co-working sessions, I carry either a battery pack with USB C PD or a USB C charger that is smaller than its own proprietary one and also charges my phone. I enjoy having options and using the best for the occasion.
I am hoping not much, because that is beyond a horrible "security practice". I have seen some lazy shit out there, but this would take the cake.
This is a pretty uneducated world view. Some species population is purely controlled by their food supply, predators, or disease vectors, eg: deer. They're a massive pestilence in many areas because humans have displaced their natural predators, increased their food supply, and have reduced diseases. As a result, it's incredible important to thin their numbers in a cycle that would mimic the course of natural cycles. That's why Rifle and Bow seasons issue are carefully permitted and populations are counted all year. Hunters are the single largest group in the USA contributing to preservation of habitat.
What point are you trying to make? Let invasive species flourish uncontrolled? Cull the human population?
What I've learned so far while bringing vs. Code's Webviews to the web
"Really? X will take 'a month at least'? Why?"

"I don't know why, but I don't feel comfortable guessing less because I don't fully understand X."

"Okay, that's not a good way to estimate. Why don't you spend some time to come up with a plan for X and we can estimate it after that. When can I have the plan?"
gridX (https://gridx.ai) | Software Engineers (Various Roles) | Full Time, On-Site | Aachen, Germany

So far, the energy supply was based mainly on large coal and nuclear power plants embedded in a central supply structure. Although there is now a significant number of solar systems and battery storage systems installed, these are neither intelligent nor integrated into the power grids. gridX is revolutionizing traditional energy supply with a fully integrated and vendor-indendent solution, bringing millions of small producers and consumers together on one platform – the gridX platform. Our product can intelligently control generation plants, display all household energy flows, and integrate existing smart home solutions on one platform. Transparency and user experience are in focus.

Technologies we use:

* Backend + IoT Devices: Golang, GRPC, Protobuf

* Frontend: JS, React, ...

* Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Packer, Docker, Linux

Roles we're hiring for include:

* Backend Developer (https://gridx-jobs.personio.de/job/62771)

* Container Systems Engineer (https://gridx-jobs.personio.de/job/81582)

* Frontend Developer (https://gridx-jobs.personio.de/job/62765)

* Go/Linux Systems Engineer (https://gridx-jobs.personio.de/job/62843)

* IoT Infrastructure Engineer (https://gridx-jobs.personio.de/job/81579)

* IoT Release Engineer (https://gridx-jobs.personio.de/job/81581)

* IoT Solutions Engineer (https://gridx-jobs.personio.de/job/81580)

If you have any questions, feel free to drop me an email: j.hermanns (at) gridx.ai
Port scans and industrial fans: 1 month of parenthood – Robert Heaton