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LiveRamp – API Engineer – San Francisco – Onsite (Relo Paid)
At Liveramp, we are on a quest to build the most flexible and scalable data marketplace. The platform underlying the marketplace ingests, analyzes, enriches and transforms tens of petabytes of data and then delivers the enriched data to our customers. Powering it is a massive Hadoop cluster with over 80K cores and counting. The cluster hosts over 90 petabytes of data.

You will:

Design, build and improve APIs and services across LiveRamp’s engineering teams.
Collaborate with multiple stakeholders to drive LiveRamp’s API vision.
Improve developer tools to easily consume LiveRamp's APIs, both internal and external.
Deliver on high-throughput, low-latency architecture by adhering to strong engineering standards and best-practices.

About you:

Have 5+ years of experience writing and deploying production code.
Experience with designing and implementing high throughput, low latency services and APIs.
Experience with deploying and scaling containerized applications.
Love mentoring junior engineers, and deploying best practices.
Enjoy and have experience abstracting complex problems and design simple, elegant solutions.
Proficient in one or more of Java, Ruby, Javascript, Go, Python, C++.
Bonus points:

Familiar with cloud platforms such as GCP.
Familiar with API management tools such as Apigee.
Avid open source contributor.

Apply here https://boards.greenhouse.io/liveramp/jobs/1768610
> This attitude frustrates me.

CEO's making market-wages (100k+) "working for charity" frustrates me. At that wage, they aren't charity workers at all. Every dollar they accept is someone remaining underfed, while the CEO gets resume-flair.

Protip: Charity's do not need a CEO in the sense that a company pushing a product to market needs a CEO to manage various business units. They need someone who cares about the net impact to the impoverished at reasonable expense to themselves.
For anyone else who was confused by:

> A USB 3.0 capable USB-B plug was physically larger than a 2.0 plug and would not fit into a USB 2.0-only receptacle.

recall that it's this USB-hubby one: https://www.amazon.com/TNP-SuperSpeed-Connector-Bi-Direction...
As a side-side note, ever asked someone (friends, family, etc.) to draw a bycicle by heart?

This guy did:

http://www.gianlucagimini.it/prototypes/velocipedia.html
Well, the obvious contender for that is the penny farthing. It’s not dreadful (it was good enough to be commercialised with vague success at least), but it’s inconvenienced by the necessary size of the front wheel to make any progress, and the fact that you can’t have a front-wheel brake as you just rotate over the top of the bicycle when applied.
I disagree with pretty much everything you've said. Steam is the best experience for PC gaming I know of. It provides discovery tools, cloud saves, forums, reviews, gifting, a shopping cart (Epic still doesn't have one), and is just as happy to promote Nobody Studio's latest interactive visual novel as it is BigCo's annual AAA Call of World of Battlefield. Their "large" take is pretty standard for an online storefront and they provide huge value for it. In fact, if you don't want that value you're free to sell Steam keys to your game on any store you want with Valve receiving no cut at all.

Steam is where it is today because it first earned, and then kept, gamer trust. All the anti-Valve propaganda out there the past few years doesn't change that.
If you would like to discuss investing feel free to contact me through Reddit, /U/Jj_leahy.
Will there be a way to buy an ebook?

Oreilly only sells subscriptions to oreilly now (no epub purchases) and then redirects you to the DRM'ed amazon mobi or whatever.

Options?

I'd love to paypal you from your website for these type of things.

The Oreilly subscription is $39 a month btw...
So you're saying any rando could have accomplished what Steve Jobs did? Leadership matters as demonstrated by all the similar companies which made horrible decisions in hindsight, and now are no longer around.
I agree, although I'm not sure whether it's ever been implemented for public use.

You get anti-spoofing naturally if you're just using secret symmetric encryption (if your adversary doesn't know the key, they can't generate a valid signal to trick you with). To prevent spoofing against the public, you'd need to make use of public-key cryptography.
It is actually possible to operate without relying on Google or any other big tech firm. Who is forcing you into these privacy dilemmas? All of their services are a choice you are making. You don't need to accept any of it if you don't want to.
You conveniently leave off:

"The proof is a senior Google employee admitting to bias and manipulating results in the Project Veritas video."
I am sure that this is part of it. However, I speculate that China may also be pressuring students and their families at home...just as they've been reported to do to expats and exiles.

https://www.businessinsider.com/china-uses-family-members-to...
Either the skepticism leads to new knowledge and better policy alternatives; or it just sounds reactionary or partisan.
Relatedly, my favorite example of "why didn't this get invented before" is wheeled luggage which (from what I've read) wasn't sold until 1989, even though the wheelbarrow (the same basic idea) has been around since prehistoric times.

IIRC, the reason it didn't appear sooner was a combination of a) getting reliable castors[1] for wheels that small is a non-trivial problem, and b) there wasn't much demand for it until the 80s.

[1] These things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caster
So what do they use? Linux with LibreOffice?
Quoting someone who already explained why this interpretation is untenable:

> The OP specifically was condemning ignorant reactionaries. Responding with "but skepticism is good" is a defense of ignorant reactionaries. Otherwise, it's the responder's responsibility to enlist further clarification instead of what can only be interpreted as dismissal + "/s" snark.
I mean, we all can agree with "healthy skepticism is good." So was their post just an in-passing reminder unrelated to this thread? I charitably interpreted their post to be a response to the comment they replied to rather than an independent platitude.
Annual donations to charity per year in the US are in excess of 400 Billion (so about 1000x more than your off the cuff estimate). Rather than being a rounding error in the military budget, this is about 2/3rds of total.
This is used for charging laptops. Personally, I love having a single cable for power, USB, and DisplayPort.
Blender had a complete UX overhaul some years ago. They even recently just switched the default mouse button actions to match the defaults in literally every other modeling software. It's worth giving it a go again.
Why? CEOs in the USA (and UK to be frank) earn way more than an average worker compared to many countries such as Japan. They do a look of work sure, but they needn't be paid so much.
Twitter Exec not so neutral
Yeah, and corporations never do illegal things for profit in the EU, either.
Survey on Analytics in Game Development
Stack Overflow question checklist (2012)
Orange juice is essentially just sugar. Crickets are high-protein and low-carb. This makes sense intuitively...though I think "cricket juice" may need some rebranding.
You seem entirely too gleeful about users' privacy getting violated. Very far from "a win for everybody".
They probably prevent it from starting and later do self checks (checksums), check for wine using other methods and then game-ban accounts in waves to hide how they detected cheating/wine.

There isn't a general way to prevent cheating on open platforms with this kind of game, so it ends up being a kind of cat and mouse game. Think of an aimbot (instantly moves your mouse cursor to an enemy as soon as the enemy is seen) or a wall hack that makes enemies visible behind obstacles. The only way to detect those is to check if your runtime environment is being modified by known methods. Opening a wine front (where you'd somehow have detect Linux processes/a modified wine or even a modified kernel etc.) is probably too costly compared to the number of non-cheating players on Linux.
WHAT WOULD YOU DO

WITH 12 DOLLARS IN YOUR POCKET

AND A WIFE AND KID BACK HOME......
Congress has put ICE and CBP in a pretty impossible situation, they have refused to extend funding for months (since February at least) to fund further border enforcement to stop illegal border crossings, while simultaneously refusing to pass any legislation to further fund the detention centers.

Your implication that they must stop patrolling the border lest they become literally Hitler, is patently absurd and an affront to people who suffered through the Holocaust.
Juice isn't actually healthy due to it's high sugar content.
$100 would be old-school Apple markup price for 8GB of memory at current prices (under $50 for good, fast laptop memory). Instead they want $200. It's nuts.

If their memory and disk upgrades were $100/step—which is still very high—I'd have probably already bought an Air to replace my 2014 Macbook Pro (the new Pros are now solidly out of my price range for a personal machine) but they're double that, so instead I've given them $0.
The headline is correct as soon as Office 365 is declared illegal in 2 german schools due to privacy risks :-) /pedantic

I do agree that it is misleading though. It should be more like "declared illegal in german state".
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2019
> ...QR codes to accept digital donations

Any idea what service that is through? Do people that are donating need to download an app, or just go to website or...?

I've never come across this
Oh God, my previous employer did that. We had a ping-pong table, because it was trendy. We had an open plan office, because it was trendy. And, because the person making decisions wasn't thinking of actual development, we had the ping-pong table in the open plan office.

Open warfare broke out between the people who liked playing it and the people who were driven mad by the noise while trying to get work done. It was the most successful team destroying exercise I've ever seen. It was banned and reinstated at the whim of conflicting managers. Eventually someone discovered silent ping-pong balls and order and harmony was restored.

A few months later I quit for a 15% pay rise.
I guess the GP refers to treating all linux gamers as "cheaters" is not cool.

Like another comment says, maybe it's easier to cheat using Wine, and thus banning the platform is faster/cheaper, even though they might end up catching a lot of legit users in this broad dragnet.
At 13:00 hrs the weather was normal for April.
Absolute dictatorship, no matter how enlightened, typically fosters a top-down culture that does not tolerate dissent. There is little doubt that Jobs was such a dictator.
I think america is putting more money on trying to have natives fill these jobs over making the immigration policy more efficient.

There is tons of potential being wasted in America and we really should focus on our native citizens. Its been a while since america has been dominant in the strength of our workforce and much of our current wealth is because of past generations not the current one.

We should focus on changing that before relying on other nations to provide us with skilled labor. It a national risk short and long term.
That's why you do stress testing with production data...

That I know the store won't do. But then, if they are so large that it's a crisis, they have no excuse, and if they are small enough to have an excuse, they quickly revert to the last version and try to discover what went wrong.
It's important to note this mentality has not worked out well in the past:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite#Birth_of_the_movement

With progress comes new opportunities. It may not happen fr everyone, immediately, but it will happen.
Update: In-Flight Abort Static Fire Anomaly Investigation
At that scale, aren't we talking more about systemic problems?

The charity is about need. If it is also about that kind of growth, there is serious need.

We may be better served by a policy change so that charity remains at a lean scale.
Can there not exist some concoction of every possible nutrient the body needs in ideal proportions to where you would never need to consume anything else?
The existence of GIMP doesn't really make less people use Photoshop. The same is true of Blender and Maya.
It's difficult for me to describe what makes a CEO worthwhile as I do not have much understanding of the job past the barebones startup level in which case it doesn't really mean much of anything, so let me ask you a question - is there anything about what you do that means you can't just be replaced by anyone off the street, give them the info pertinent to the job, and set them loose?

I think most people on HN would say no I can't be replaced like that, I think I can't easily be replaced in the job I'm currently on. Not saying it's impossible just saying it is difficult, which is why they pay a lot of money for me.

I've worked non-technical jobs in construction and the like, and unless it was the stupidest low-level stuff you couldn't really pull anyone off the street and tell them well here's the job have at it.

But for some reason there does seem to be some people who think management can be replaced like that. It seems unlikely to me.

Now of course this calculation changes if the person being replaced is no good at the job, then yes when I worked construction you could probably have replaced me with some idiot off the street. And I suppose there are bad managers and CEOs that can be replaced the same way.

As for why they are worth their weight in gold, it is because that is what the market will pay, just as I am worth what the market will pay for my skills and the best construction worker I ever knew was worth what the market would pay which was quite a bit less than the money I get paid which is in turn less than a CEO gets paid for their skillset.
The median HN reader is missing the point of LI because it's not for developers. So you think "man, this sucks". You're like a carpenter looking at a welding machine saying "who needs this huge thing?".

We developers have so many social networks to be found at - SO, github, angel.co, random reddit or discord groups.

But others don't, and linkedin provides amazing value for them as a place to advertise their skillset.
I recall hearing that it's tube steel. The previous iterations used solid steel (maybe cast iron?) and were super heavy.
To address costs: most bicycles on the market are sport/racing bikes. Road racing, time-trial, track, cross-country, downhill, trials, BMX. If all cars on the market were sports cars for road racing, track racing, or off-road racing, cars would be far more expensive than they already are.

Commuter and touring models are a small part of the bicycle market, particularly in the west. Inexpensive commuter bicycles with very little maintenance requirements are more common in other parts of the world. Even so, a name-brand commuter bike can be had in the US for $300 (Giant Escape, similar bikes from competitors exist) that will run with minimal maintenance for many, many years.
Facebook works best for most people.
Cities: Skylines Is Turing Complete
Have you seen a human ride a penny farthing? I don’t think dreadful is overstating it. Sure it made the most of available technology at the time, but one doesn’t need to be expert in bikes to see why this design died.

Just getting on a Penny Farthing can be problematic, given it tries to compensate for 1:1 drive by using an enormous front wheel.
Yes we have. Further observation shows Google removes autocomplete for controversial items, like "Russian Investigation" for Donald Trump. If that example doesn't answer your question then you have confirmation bias.
This only seems to be counting USB-C to USB-C USB 3 cables

The actual situation is much worse when you add in passive and active C-to-C Thunderbolt, MHL, DP, and HDMI cables, some but not all combinations of which may or may not optionally support some but not all combinations of other signals as well — eg) a passive TB3 C-to-C cable will support DP and USB3 (but not MHL or HDMI), but an active TB3 C-to-C cable will be guaranteed to support only TB3, but may optionally support DP.

Visually making a complex matrix of incompatible things look identical has resulted in an absolutely hopeless situation for consumers, who trained by decades of “connector shape == bus” think that USB-C is a monolithic bus that supports all of these different use cases and then don’t understand why they can’t “just”, say, plug their USB-C Nintendo Switch (wired for USB 3.0 w/ a DP alt. mode signal) into a USB-C eGPU (wired for TB3) using whatever “USB-C cable” they have lying around, which could potentially support none of the incompatible protocols either port can handle anyway.
You concentrating on the literal interpretation of the phrase “give access to the index”. This is non-technical article which didn’t go into details, just read it as “give access to index & ranking”.
I think showing your knowledge would be better then this ad hominem.
This is a Lisp joke, isn't it.
We did. The ad for the Rover Safety Bicycle in this article says "Safer than any Tricycle". From Wikipedia you can see that trikes beat bikes by at least a hundred years, depending on your definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricycle#History
The article that I was hired to write was a web scraping tutorial, I did all of this to make it interesting.
Soylent certainly thinks so.
Something I missed? Could you be more specific?
Apparently, milk companies lobbied to have almond and other forms of alternative milk rebranded as "nut juice."
This is America.
This just seems like investment in open infrastructure? Any tool can be used for evil. Are contributions to the Linux kernel, then, a kind of contribution to the surveillance state?

What a ridiculous criticism. The media hysteria is boiling over in completely nonsensical ways.
Wait a tick. I can’t open medium at all, says I must log in. Is this a new thing?
I hope to engage in learning exercises long after I graduate!
Looks like this is where the code will be posted soon: https://github.com/chahuja/language2pose
You could call it RichPort since the cables will be over $30 and the ports will only by found on >$1,000 Macs. I remember the old Firewire days and it was certainly simple but I don't know if the ecosystem was better overall.
I think he tried to imply that most pros use 3DS Max or Maya instead of Blender for a reason.
I personally also really love that I can charge my phone and my laptop with the same cable (I have a phone with USB-C that uses PD along with a 2016 MacBook Pro). It makes cable management much simpler, and I find it invaluable that when traveling I only need to bring one single charger with me.
Enhance your markdown experience using VSCode
But `map` is not a primitive. It's just a function implemented with... a loop. It's hard to argue that that doesn't make it "some kind of loop".
Jen Gennai herself points out how Veritas is lying about what she said: https://medium.com/@gennai.jen/this-is-not-how-i-expected-mo...

James Okeefe is publicly known for selectively editing video to make false representations, and this duck is no different.

You specifically claimed that there's plenty of anecdotal evidence. Where is it?
Then on top of the 5x amount of food argument, there's also the nutritional argument: a jar of Ragu sauce without any pasta or cheese or vegetables isn't a balanced meal. And it's better to spend money on fresh food and vegetables and milk at the time it's needed, than to throw away donated perishables, and only distribute canned food.
The data on "Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" is interesting and I think it can be misleading.

The disparity between freelancers seeking work and people seeking freelancers on HN is huge - way more people looking for work, than people looking to hire. That makes it feel like there is an oversupply of freelancers, which would drive down the pay rates.

However, I think it's more of a reflection of the HN audience than the broader market. I.E. HN readers don't hire as many contract/freelance employees. This aligns with what we've seen in practice as well. If software is the company's core competency, they will be less likely to hire contract or outsource.

On the other hand, there is a huge need for non-software companies to hire senior devs and they hire a lot of contract/freelance. Demand is high and rates are good ($120-200/hr)...at the right companies. So, if you are a contractor looking for work, I would target companies where software isn't their primary business.

Source: I run a company that helps senior software engineers find contract work. (Shameless plug: www.facetdev.com)
So frustrating.

One would think that after nearly 2 decades of consumer confusion over USB cables that it would be possible to just mark the cables in a clear way with a non-confusing, easily looked up logo (or better, with a alphanumeric-code).

It makes me wonder if manufacturers are just doing this to increase the churn of cable sales, so consumers end up buying more cables because "some work and some don't".
I think the article misses:

1) Those 'hypotheses' seem like a perfectly good starting point for a very long list of cumulative reasons as to "Why not to get a bike".

2) It doesn't separate bicycle 'the tool' from bicycle 'the toy'. All those original machines were fashionable playthings for the wealthy. Bicycles the tool took off they were demonstrably better than walking (which is then the combination of improved tech and reduced cost overtook walking and alternative transports)
> (Some commenters have suggested that it was not obvious that a two-wheeled vehicle would balance, but I find this unconvincing given how many other things people have learned to balance on, from dugout canoes to horses themselves.)

I'll be one of those commenters I guess.... What!??

Balancing in a canoe is in no way similar to a bicycle. I can jump in a canoe having never been in one, and it will balance itself. I can probably even manage a few trepidous rows of an oar (or hand, or arbitrary object) without tipping it. Without me, the canoe will stand on its own. If I fall, it will often right itself without me.

On top of that, a canoe is both an evolution on previous working designs (rafts), and analogous to nature (whether it be a fish, crocodile or a floating log).

The horse, with its four (not two!) legs is an even more ridiculous comparison.

It seems pretty clear that the development of the bicycle would've been significantly hampered by the fact that balancing on two wheels was:

(a) unintuitive as an idea with no analogue in nature or previous innovations

(b) had a marked learning curve

(c) that learning curve was separate and independent for each design. Riding a modern bicycle doesn't automatically make you an adept penny farthing, unicycle, nor tandem rider. Nor any of the umpteen other technological iterations.

I wouldn't be surprised if this trumped material/manufacturing limitations as a hurdle. See this whimsical video for "evidence" of this [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yJdz-kjfLk
Huh. This was unknown unknown for me–I didn't know didn't know. I knew how to check device ports for markings, but it did not occur to me that I must check the cables too.
Does anybody know how USB4 will impact this? Will any cable that will be labeled as USB4 need to be full spec, or will there be a similar situation of cables with varying degrees of compatibility all labeled USB4?