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Stitch Fix | San Francisco, CA | H1-B Transfers | Senior (to principal) Software Engineer - ML Platform | Full-time | Onsite
ABOUT THE TEAM The Model Lifecycle (ML) team is a nimble group of hybrid machine learning-data platform-software engineers that are focused on enabling data scientists to more easily create, integrate, deploy, manage, and evaluate their models. We have wide latitude to choose how we go about enabling our data scientists. As a team, we are driven by the thrill of helping our colleagues iterate faster and with less friction, which ultimately increases the velocity at which the business can progress!

ABOUT THE ROLE - [official job posting isn't up yet - so apply to https://www.stitchfix.com/careers/jobs?gh_jid=1688418&gh_jid...] * IC position on the model lifecycle platform team, which is part of the data platform team within our Algorithms organization * We build a variety of services, tooling, & infrastructure that aims to support the model lifecycle here at Stitch Fix: development, backtesting, model evaluation, workflow creation, continuous model deployment, etc. * We're a very fresh team, so there's plenty of new things to build!

Tech-Stack: python3, docker, python3, spark, presto, druid, React.js, R, golang...
I gave control of my Robinhood account to an AI for a week
> The feds own like ~90% of Nevada, let's put a top tier research university smack dab in the middle of it.

The feds own 85% of Nevada because it's mostly desert and it's not practical to live there; nobody claimed it during the homesteading era, so it was left to the BLM. There's a whole lot of wide-open sagebrush country striped with the occasional mountain range, and very little water. It would be an expensive place to run a college town, since you'd have to truck in literally everything you needed to live on from somewhere else.
there are pros and cons to having a C dependency. the main benefit is reliability (get it right once, leverage that across languages). Another benefit is usually performance. The main practical gotcha is that security dependencies are incompatible across platforms, and the best you can do is distribute a number of builds of the C dependency compatible with common platforms (but that is workable).

the go story isn't as bad as you might think. there is a performance hit with the interop, which is of the order of 20% iirc - but throughput still massive, and this is not of practical significance. The Confluent go client (a binding to librdkafka), is used to push much of the volume through two of the largest Kafka installations in existence.

there is a PR open on the confluent go client that will include builds of librdkafka in the github repo, meaning this will 'just work', without the need to install librdkafka separately in most common scenarios.

note: i work on kafka clients (including minor contributions to the confluent go client).
Are you complaining that the language is evolving and provides new features that people want to use?
That's right, putty is usable terminal first. I can get ssh in various ways on windows. Decent linux terminal is hard to find though. Nothing comes close to putty and clones. The worst part in various contenders is output speed. Many of them are ridiculously slow. I don't care how pretty that Electron-based terminal is if it's dog slow.
>Firefox, on the other hand, plans to force all of their users to trust Cloudflare by default.. and most users won't even know they made that change.

Mozilla has explicitly stated on their blog that they don't intend to make any change to a user's DNS settings without getting the user's consent.

>When DoH is enabled, users will be notified and given the opportunity to opt out

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/09/06/whats-nex...
I'd say the most depressing and demoralizing part of being short is how negatively it impacts my dating opportunities. I feel incredibly handicapped and prefiltered out for something I simply can't change.
Woah, infinite redirect until I turned off the shield in Brave.
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There is no reason for ISP customers to use ISP DNS, given the available alternatives, and this will become even clearer as more people boot up DoH resolvers as alternatives to Cloud Flare.
At $DAYJOB, we organically switched from not having any formal style to having an internal formal style. People seemed to want the benefits of tooling integration and clearer communication.

Right now, we are switching SCM's and are looking at adopting Conventional to replace our internal style. I've already started using Conventional and have really appreciated it. It makes it fast and succinct (remember, line length "requirements" in git) to get the information you need even in one-line logs. Also, it makes CHANGELOG maintenance easier, whether using an automated tool or doing it by-hand.

Not happy with the other ones, I've created my own commit style validation tool, committed [0] and have deployed it on my open source projects. Like code style enforcement in CI, I like delegating this to a tool since it makes the requirement very clear for contributors.

The one thing I'm disappointed with with Conventional is that they did not follow git conventions for multi-line trailers.

[0] https://github.com/crate-ci/committed
Nice. Which protocol are you using? How is equipment availability?
Your ignoring history. The ones making the decisions pushed them out. The ones doing the hiring, not the women deciding what to do.
Assuming that they already use a computer and/or a cellphone, sending an email, making a call, or sending an SMS is much easier than creating and maintaining a Facebook account.

I would believe it if someone didn't want to use cellphones at all, for moral reasons, but that person wouldn't have a Facebook account anyway.
I'm not sure what the issue is. My ISP can still intercept my DNS traffic and provide it to law enforcement. If it's unreadable because of encryption, how is that different than the fact that all my HTTPS requests are similarly unreadable?

They can't provide what they don't have. ISPs in the US (and I presume most countries) aren't obligated to ensure their customers don't use encryption.
To nitpick, a thousand-day old turkey is going to be pretty tough.
If you have a Linux box like a Pi, you can expose that machine's audio device over the network with PulseAudio, and if you have that enabled, it'll autoconfigure and work like any other PulseAudio device.

I used to share my DAC between my laptop and my desktop this way. Whenever I plugged my headphones in, it'd default to them on the local device, and the remote would default to the network device. I could walk away from my desktop while playing something, and it'd continue playing on whichever I had my headphones plugged into.
AI software testing platform raises $2.5m from Salesforce, Global Brain, others
There are compounding productivity boosts available when a team can all trust each other to basically never cut corners or make sloppy mistakes. Removing a tenth team member who is not up to the bar of the rest of the team can make the remaining 9 members each more than 11% more productive.

Of course, this strategy has its downsides. You can't ever hire juniors. You can't really hire people in and train them up at all, because everything has been built under the assumption that only experts will ever touch it. This makes an organization that operates like this inherently parasitic to the industry, only capable of hiring in experienced employees from other companies.
It was MFN classification and the fast tracking into the WTO that enabled this result: hollowing out of American manufacturing, wage stagnation for blue collar workers resulting in economic instability which in turn had an effect on health and substance abuse. And of course “wage gap” everyone laments.

People like bringing up good old Ronald Reagan, who had faults and was simplistic about the economy, but Clinton (as mr Perot presciently warmed us) truly did drive the stake through the blue collar workers back and left them where we are today, moribund looking for salvation.

Yes, mr Clinton, you did it. It was done eloquently and with the backing of neoliberal elites, and the then mainstream media. The sophisticated approach is why he doesn’t get the vilification Reagan does amongst the working class. But it’s long deserved.
well, in theory you're right, but it isn't like the transition from python 2 to 3 requires a complete rewrite. it was fairly easy to write (mostly) compatible code, via __future__, u"", and maybe six. it's a bit unrealistic to think that if someone hasn't put the effort in to do that, they'll expend the effort on porting it to a different language, unless it also makes sense for other reasons
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There is a volume of ability north of 95% which could be lost, and the ISP has a mechanism to act (block DoT) but in DoH, its less simple. Hence, the liaison between Mozilla and Google, and state authorities.

Why do you think Mozilla turns this on selectively?
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Ask HN: How to retain users for a one-time use app?
Hello everyone,

I recently launched a side project I've been working on, while it gets between 500-1000 users per week who actually do use it, it struggles with retention which makes sense since there's only one feature which gives a result back and you have no more use for the app. I get anywhere between 2-7% of users come back the next day and it quickly drops on days 2+.

I'm trying to figure out how to proceed building it. I've asked users for feedback on what they would like to see, but I didn't get any strong response. So I was wondering if anyone has examples of these kinds of apps which were able to grow and retain users and what they did to achieve the growth ?

Thanks.
Location: Hokkaido, Japan
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Linux, network infrastructure/analysis, email infrastructure, linking/loading, ELF, profiling
Language Interests: Haskell, J/APL, Scheme, C, x86_64, Prolog, shell (various)
Other Interests: Formal verification, open hardware, GPU-accelerated Bayesian analysis
Résumé/CV: Upon request
Email: employment@wilsonb.com

I'm a software engineer with about five years experience in industry and masters degree in pure mathematics (algebraic geometry).

Two of my core values are team harmony and deep understanding. I thrive with teams that emphasize strong communication and ample learning.

If the above sounds like it might be a good fit for your team, then I hope to hear from you!
I was expecting article to be about short selling in the stock market - whoops :P
... How does it do distributed joins? Which just don't scale in the AP sense, and really can you trust a distributed join in CP?

Unless your data and the data you are joining are strictly shard-local. But that's also not a distributed join.
Harvard Library Innovation Lab | Web Developer | Cambridge, MA | Onsite, Full-time

The Harvard Library Innovation Lab is hiring a lead developer for opencasebook.org, our free, Creative-Commons-licensed legal textbook publishing platform.

About the project: opencasebook.org democratizes access to legal education by replacing $200 textbooks with free, forkable, digital or print-on-demand alternatives. We’re used in law classes at Harvard Law School and elsewhere; our website and code are open and available to anyone in the world. We’ve saved students over $1 million in textbook costs and have the potential for orders of magnitude more.

About the team: LIL is a group of ~10 developers/designers/lawyers/librarians building projects for systemic change, based out of the Harvard Law School Library. Our other projects include case.law, an open database of 360 years of precedential American caselaw; perma.cc, which fights link rot in court decisions and law review articles; and the Nuremberg Project, digitizing one of only two copies of the full evidence record from the WW2 Nuremberg trials. We’ve done side projects on distributed encryption, crowd-sourced fair use advice, interactive art installations, and more.

About you: this is a great fit for a more experienced developer (like me!) who is looking for a low-stress job with high social impact and great opportunities for personal growth. We use Django and Vue, so you should either have experience with those or with getting up to speed on new things. We are a very small team, so you should be prepared to contribute across the stack and to be very self-directed about what you work on day to day.

Personal opportunities: Another programmer here recently described this as the “most human” place she ever worked, and I feel the same way — we’re a small group from a lot of different backgrounds with wide scope to do creative work, so we place a lot of emphasis on making sure everyone has what they need while they’re working here. We each have real support to pursue experiments drawing on our own experience and enthusiasm, whether that’s exploring side projects, taking classes at Harvard, teaching classes at Harvard, making art projects, organizing conferences, advocacy, etc. Many of us have done more than one of these, and we’re serious about maintaining both a work/life balance and an exploration/exploitation balance within our work.

Job page with application link at the bottom: https://lil.law.harvard.edu/collaborate/2019/h2o-developer/

—

(This is a weird one! There aren't many programming jobs, even academic jobs, that pay a steady salary to creatively pursue social impact with a broad, self-directed scope like this. It's an awesome job for the right person -- please pass it along if you think you know that person!)
I mean, "universal basic income" would be a good start.
Tesla acquires computer vision startup DeepScale in push toward robotaxis
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We'll know how much this will affect those TLAs when the government suddenly gets involved for some altruistic reason to block DNS over HTTPS. "Don't let google take over the internet!" "Time to break up big tech!"
No stupid state. What people think of as "inevitable" shit for ops to clean up is often (not claiming always!) entirely preventable shooting in the foot.
ISPs are still able to run their filtering version of DNS server which the users are able to opt into. Nobody is going to take this away from them.

But that is not a valid use case for filtering dns requests to other services.
Not if we keep building colleges, no.
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But Boeing's problem isn't an innovation problem. Boeing's problem is ceding engineering decisions to marketing wanks and MBA bros.
Uh. And getting secured tax documents from CPAs or employers by email. Let's not suddenly pretend like encryption has no value.
To make money on analytics?
on "John", the article said "The problem with John was not just that he was misinformed, but that he was misinformed and highly motivated."

I'm reminded of this quote:

"I divide officers into four classes -- the clever, the lazy, the stupid and the industrious. Each officer possesses at least two of these qualities. Those who are clever and industrious are fitted for the high staff appointments. Use can be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy is fit for the very highest commands. He has the temperament and the requisite nerves to deal with all situations. But whoever is stupid and industrious must be removed immediately." - General Baron Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord
Hmm they definitely worried about threadripper 3.

2019 - year consumers win.
But DoH is provider independent. It's just like I can swap out AT&T's regular DNS service for Cloudflare's in my home setup. Which I did.

Mozilla's move to reconfigure Firefox to use DoH is a bit sneakier, but it fits with their privacy stance and their low market share does give them cover.
Is libargus the way to go with the tx1 cameras? I was using nvcamerasrc but have had some bugs I can’t understand.
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Likely due to the fact it's bubkus.

AI's permutate artwork. They don't feel, they don't assign or derive meaning. They don't feel, they aren't inspired, they aren't moved.

They don't derive joy from the beautiful, despair and disgust from the loathsome, awe at the sublime, and dissolution and insignificance in the face of the all encompassing.

They don't dance with glee at a bright and bouncy tune, they aren't struck to the edge of tears by the melody of wind through a forest of bottles. They know and can reproduce patterns that are labelled for them, but they don't get it, ya dig?

They don't relate or understand the soul of Jazz, the message of Blues/Rock and Roll, the Struggle and perseverance evoked by a good fight song.

They can't appreciate the byproducts of their work, or "make 10 more, but different."

They can't appreciate, display, or develop technique; they cannot perform. When composing, they generate content based off of higher-dimensional correlations between words as encoded through syntax and grammar, but a poem generated by a machine is not but a permutation of words ejaculated forth, with no rhyme, reason, or correlation to the world at the time; even being removed from the whimsy of it's programmer.

Art is a tricky thing. It is what it is because a human found that at that time in their life, in the details of their personal situation was the right time for that work to be born forth into the world, in all it's symbolism, ugliness, beauty, sublimity, and to affect all those who gazed upon it.

Think hard about the significance of that. That man's mortality factors into the fruits of his labor; something a machine, deriveable from a prescription can never truly know or imitate.

It isn't humanistic chauvinism...merely that as the clock is not the first cause of time, so the AI is not the creator of the Art it produces, if what it produces can even be truly called Art.

It may not always remain that way. Right now though, it is.

Least that's my guess.
>Comac is the only company that is attempting to build planes that rival Boeing and Airbus

Boeing also competes with Airbus, as in actively competes in real dollar terms compared to Comac which is more or less aspirational. Given their current situation they have as much incentive to hack Airbus, plus they've been accused recently:

Airbus to sue NSA, German spies accused of swiping tech secrets

>European aerospace giant Airbus is promising legal action over claims its top blueprints were stolen by German spies and given to America's intelligence agencies.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/30/airbus_us_german_in...

My view is that both Boeing and Comac is actively stealing from airbus because why wouldn't they?
Location: Chicago

Remote: Preferred

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python/R (ML/Data Analysis), SQL, Ruby

Resume: Email me

Email: alexilliamson gmail

6 years data science experience. Good collaborator and positive attitude.
Um, are you claiming that asians are biologically smarter than all other races?

How... Racist?
> When you used a type not of the spec, e.g. feet instead of feat

This actually had me laughing quite a bit. Because of my love for dad jokes, here are some less conventional commits:

"fete" : adding holiday support

"braking change" : a change of pace

"nix" : removing a featute

"suffix" : adding a nice to have
I see news about DNS every single day now!
> the company has no plans to switch Chrome users to its own DNS servers.

Meanwhile, the Chromecast inexplicably ignores DHCP/NDP-provided DNS servers and uses 8.8.8.8 for all queries.
San Diego and the Lockheed contract team determined where to put cameras based on where they thought the maximum revenue stream was, instead of danger to others. One light -- at an intersection that is frequently gridlocked because it's the most popular route out of the airport, which frequently has out of town visitors -- generated nearly 50% of the revenue from the red light systems.

It was clearly not about safety, but about selectively enforcing laws to maximize revenue. That's why the city stopped doing it.
Location: California

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes (US, Europe, Canada, Australia)

Technologies: Clojure/ClojureScript, AWS, Python, Node.js

CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinmershon/

Email: kevin [at] mershonenterprises [dot com]

Software developer for 15 years, worked in shipping software for a startup, oil & gas distributed data collection (SCADA), owned my own web development shop for 5 years with 10 employees at peak, spent the last 2.5 in the ERP world doing NetSuite and Salesforce integrations. I've already got 5-6 years production-level Clojure under my belt, want to get back into it and away from enterprise consulting. Internal tools/architecture is where I want to be.
He is speaking of the developers and engineers who have the technical expertise and should know it's a bad idea but still agree to implement it regardless of their moral compass.
>easy to migrate.

Yes I understand that. Legacy code is a pain.

This transition is a decade in the making though. A decade.

Ansible is SEVEN YEARS OLD.

This is not a flaw in the python support / timing model. Decade is practically glacial in software terms. Anyone not keeping pace is on their own imo.

Fun fact...py2 EOL was initially 2015. This is already the bloody extension...
> take the control away from the user/network-admin

You are confusing the network admin and the user. Most users have little reason to trust their router, they often don't own it, update it or have any clue about it. Even experts change roles here when they use any other entities network.

I understand your use case, but I personally think the end devices should increasingly allow interception by network devices only with user consent, not implicitly.

In other words, opt-in on the device with DNS settings and certificates. If you don't own the device (e.g. have root/admin/etc), you don't get to control it - beyond blocking it.
World's largest wind turbines to be built off Yorkshire coast
There are no logical errors, and the article is not logically vacuous.

>East Asians are less represented in leadership because leadership perceives East Asians are being less leaderly.

Can you provide evidence that this is what's going on instead of something else? Plenty of leaders in the US are East Asian.

>using the symptoms of racism in order to justify the racism itself

You didn't present your own evidence that the 'symptoms' are actually due to racism. The author presents a compelling explanation backed up with data that explains what we see.

>Never mind that Japan is a world leader in innovation

The article quotes the Japanese government stating it believes it has an innovation challenge as well.

>You can't just assume that hitting a high IQ at an early age means that it cannot continue growing

IQ is relative to others the same age. This is evidence that East Asians develop cognitive ability more quickly than other populations. All healthy children continue getting smarter as they develop. This is all discussed in the article.
I don't think "fixing income inequality" needs to mean that everyone is paid the same amount. It's reasonable to believe that <insert billionaire here> isn't a million times more productive than their median employee, and that factors other than pure merit allowed them to amass that much wealth. Even if you did think that they were that meritorious, you could still make an argument that "fairness" should involve balancing both merit and utility (in this case referring to the diminishing marginal utility of money).
Would you rather be a happy idiot or a miserable know-it-all?
Isn't that "side" just a bunch of clicks on a wizard on some cloud provider?
To me, punk rock is more about "do it simple, give no shits" than anything else. Making money isn't a problem, but caring more about the money is a problem. Growing old isn't a problem, but worrying about growing old is a problem. If you want to see some old rich punk rock, check out this video of Mick Jones playing at his local library: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcL91CKyivE

Can't get more punk than that.