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BlueLabs Analytics, Inc | DevOps Engineers | Washington, DC | ONSITE | https://www.bluelabs.com/careers/

BlueLabs helps organizations personalize their engagements with individuals, optimize communications, and achieve their strategic goals through data science. Our team of more than 50 data scientists, engineers, and strategists come from diverse backgrounds but share a passion for using data to solve the world’s greatest social and analytical challenges. Our clients range from political campaigns and advocacy organizations, to government agencies, to startups and fortune 500 companies in a range of industries. Through our work, we’ve directly and measurably improved the health and financial security of millions of Americans.

BlueLabs is hiring a DevOps engineer to support our Government Analytics practice. This person will work closely with our Government Analytics practice team to develop, deploy, and support the data science platform and data pipelines that the team uses in its work improving how citizens use and learn about government services. Our team's mandate currently includes making the Medicare and healthcare.gov digital programs more intuitive and help people access the healthcare they need.

We're excited to work with any engineer who is curious and committed, regardless of specific experience. Our stack relies heavily on Python, Kubernetes, Airflow, Spark, React+Javascript, Terraform, and AWS, and applicants with several years experience using one or more of those in a production environment will stand out.

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The invention of Bitcoin was the Death Knell of Wall St.
How does that make sense? A DPO for a company that doesn't need more capital to give employees liquidity doesn't imply a bomb at all.
Not really. Having tried to use hotels for meetings, they are unreasonably expensive and do stupid stuff like “the whiteboard rental fee is $500/day”
If you rent a $100 device at $10 a month for 10 years you end up paying $1200 and still not owning it.

I can see why consumers and consumer advocate groups don’t like this.
Is that like how IBM was about business machines when they sold equipment to help Nazis with the Final Solution? Are living Uighur prisoners not being chopped up for their body parts, today?
Memory bandwidth. You can’t make the code run faster without more ability to move data to and from mamory.

All questions about modern CPU architecture get down to two questions of first principle: How much memory bandwidth is available? How is the available die area being used?
Help convince investors that it's an innovative tech company and thus worth 5x the valuation it'd otherwise get.

edit: This is based on some of the pointless pie in the orbit of pluto projects I've heard they were trying to work on.
What hard problems related to software and infrastructure WeWork was solving? I can not imagine a single one. Handling check-ins? Counting number of beers consumed?
I don't understand why people feel this way. Apple's doing away with 3D Touch because of the data that says that people don't use it. What makes you think they wouldn't do the same with the Touch Bar?

Despite that, I love the Touch Bar. I do tons of video and audio editing and it's super-convenient for me. It seems like HN just has a higher noise ratio against the TB because it's mostly programmers and a high percentage of them are tied to a physical escape key. As a front-end dev myself who uses VS Code, I feel like that audience is just going to keep shrinking while the percent of people that will find benefits to the TB will probably grow.
I have always wondered this too. On the surface, Twitter doesn't seem like a very elaborate service. I'm sure there's serious thorny scaling problems to deal with. But how many engineers does that really take?
That doesn't enable the same marking of break points and other features you typically get from IDEs. In GDB you can see multiple lines and split your screen, so I wouldn't use :term (I'll split with tmux). But other things that IDE debuggers have are like a file list (nerd tree) and display works better (off to the side). GDB technically has all these things, but it isn't formatted nicely. I use vim to be fast and efficient (and vim plugins for IDEs SUCK, plus are bloated).

Do people just not use debuggers around here?
Consider last example of Korean TV shows? They are once popular in China before THAAD deployed in South Korea.
I appreciate the directness and transparency of your reply and backblaze in general.

I also appreciate your focus on providing the value you know you can to your core audience. Compromising that attention which, as you noted, would possibly jeopardize your ability to exist at all. A ton of companies get this completely backwards.
So far, china has only retaliated defensively against the us. I wonder what will happen when china decides to go on the offensive the same way the us has and hit were it really hurts? What will happen if they cut off the us entirely and force asian countries to cease trading with it (i.e. using the same strategies used to isolate iran or turkey).

Successful military intervention is unlikely since china is a nuclear superpower with a strong army and an even stronger industrial backbone. They're not some defenseless third-world shithole.

I can't imagine it being long now, but china will eventually get to the tipping point were things start to go downhill for them. I bet china won't let it get to that point without retaliating for it's destroyed economy by thoroughly destroying the us economy while it still can.

I think we'll soon be seeing humanity's first economical MAD event.
I recently tried again at setting up Ubuntu on my 2013 Macbook, after multiple attempts over the years that didn't pan out due to Wifi issues, battery life, graphics drivers, touchpad etc.

As of 2019, it's flippin' fantastic. Most issues above are gone and Docker development experience in particular is vastly improved over Docker for Mac.

With the direction Apple is going, I don't see a road back soon.

Disclaimer - everyone's mileage varies, just sharing my odometer.
Agreed. That fits with my info. Pack a Model 3 with 5 people and go 30mph, and the efficiency per person is about the same as an ebike.
In this thread, it's pretty easy to spot people who've mostly lived in the US grapple with the experience of being on the sharp-end of a (nascent) foreign hegemon. Expats and non-American's can list countless examples of exertion of American "soft-power" all around the globe, which usually doesn't hit most Americans' radar.
A 60 day fast with no calories is far from impossible. I see no reason to think he made a typo.
that is 1 huge difference between the IPOs of now and even 10 years ago. you could buy stock in companies like Google or Salesforce that were still nowhere close to their maturation stage. sure it was hard to find that 50x bagger but at least it was possible. Now I doubt those exist
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your comment, but your parent wrote a well thought out comment, and your response shows not indication of having read it, to the point that I'm wondering if you happened to respond to the wrong comment?
Khrushchev’s shoe incident happened 20 years before Reagan was president.
There are a lot of routers using GPL code that have open source firmware available (ddwrt,openwrt,tomato,etc.) I think once support for a device ends it should be mandated that the company release the source code for future development.

There is a worrying increase in the amount of IoT devices that will remain forever unpatched due to the (cheap overseas) manufacturers never updating them or ending support for them.
You can use checkbox inputs (the reason why HTML&CSS is turing complete)
Non American here. Doesn't the electoral college system screw with this?
Lots of file systems at the time were hierarchical databases, but the file-system Microsoft was working on was to be more a hybrid with the ability to find files based on specific criteria right away, rather than having a search process walk the tree looking for something.
Don't write the application.
Auden’s oratorio of the same name is also well worth your time.
The worst thing about C++ is the endless sequences of choices you need to make about tooling before you even write a line of code. This is actually what made me switch to Go for personal projects - I'm a professional C++ programmer, but setting up a development environment required so many choices and so much futzing with various tools that I would spend all my energy getting set up and never make progress on the projects themselves.

Go, Rust, and even Java are all way better in this department - the tools are standard enough that you only have to make a choice if you are doing something less common. I would love a Dropwizard-like bundle that just gives me a pre-set-up config with everything I need to write a C++ CLI app or daemon.
Zuck's views need some scientific validation. Has Bill Gates investment paid off better than similar amounts of money spent by the government... or philanthropy in general?
Yes, but that took nearly 2 years (1.5 if you're only counting from individual public sales) and the launch was terrible. I'm glad that Vista happened because it very much needed to but they really shit the bed on its release.
In the diet you describe the body would preferentially reserve all glucose for the brain and run the rest on ketones. The body can manufacture glucose when needed from other energy sources but it’s an energy intensive biochemical process and not ideal for efficient use of available nutrients.
I'm very interested, email in profile.
Twitter has 321 million monthly active users.

WeWork has 466 thousand members.

The scale is quite different.
A systemic threat to what?

It's own people? Is that our problem? [1]

Uncooperative neighbours? We, here in the US, have posed, do pose, and continue to pose a threat to uncooperative nations across the entire world.

Our domestic economy? All problems with it are entirely of our own doing. Globalization killing the middle class? That's not a China problem, that's a domestic political problem. And yes, general tariffs are a systemic solution to this problem. Country-specific tariffs are a half-assed half-solution to it.

I understand that you're concerned that the uncontested US hegemony is not long for this world.

But I don't understand why you care so deeply about it. I don't consider that unipolar hegemony to have ever been a good thing for most people outside - or inside the US.

[1] If that is, in fact, the problem you care most about, then consider that the only way it will ever be solved, is internally, by the Chinese people. Foreign interference in those kinds of affairs is counterproductive - it only causes the target nation to close rank.
Ah, my apologies. I’ve never heard ‘the Netherlands’ used to refer to the kingdom without actually specifying that part.

(And a few times to the 1700’s ish low countries, hence my confusion)
The United States has a lot of people cheering for efforts like that back home; I think it absolutely could get swept under the rug. It's a different situation at the American border, sure, but I think it points to a general lack of empathy for foreigners.
If you look carefully the controversial discussion wasn't started by me but by the comment Steltek wrote below my post. I think you do owe me the courtesy of recognizing this and in that case detaching that comment might have been the right course of action instead of throwing threats towards me.

It is relevant in the sense that in the sciences department (FOR NOW) we don't judge scientific discovery or papers by their ethnicity or political opinion, but rather on the basis of their scientific merit. Although this too seems to be quickly fading away, judging from the daily comments I'm seeing on my Facebook stream.
You’re aware non citizens can get RealID drivers licenses too right? The only way you can prove citizenship is with a passport. Of course if you were going to the effort of attempting to impersonate someone you’d probably forge documents too which aren’t deeply checked in my experience of living in a state that had an ID requirement designed to disenfranchise black voters [0].

Ultimately it’s not a problem worth the energy of being solved.

[0] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/north-carolina-voter-id/
Some metals can undergo a bunch of reheats in processing (3D printing of metals is particularly bad) which could approach chemical reduction energy, but you're right to zeroth order (which is good enough in these conversations, IMHO).

Good rule of thumb.
Depends on the context for trying to catch up; both where you're at in life and what you're wanting to get out of it.

If you want to connect, feel free to reach out to the email in my profile. I may not be the best resource for best places to go next depending on what you're after, but may be able to help out.

A few general points though:

- Every field has it's own flavor of statistics. Supply chain, marketing, industrial engineering, business operations, finance, etc. Most practitioners will bastardize a technique or methodology common in their field before reaching out to another one for something more appropriate. Keep this in mind when looking at things, as you can find a lot of cases where the general premise for a technique is no longer valid, but practitioners are still going on momentum. You can also find some really neat nuggets/advancements that can be generalized and applied to another field. Although this can be difficult to suss out, as every industry tends to develop their own vernacular to refer to a particular set of base statistical techniques.

- Focus less on the math and more on the applicability of a particular technique or methodology to a situation. Generally speaking, statistical techniques are nothing more than sophisticated heuristics. Their validity, applicability, and actionability are entirely dependent on the situation they're applied in and the particular heuristics (statistical techniques) chosen. Understanding the techniques that are out there, what their applications are, and what their limitations are is far more useful than focusing purely on the math. The math can always be looked up once you know what to look up.

- Design of experiments[1] is a critical and often overlooked concept. It's rarely done in practice, and even when it is it's rarely more than a superficial attempt. But is a hugely important concept to understand how to approach a problem space.

- The output of a statistical analysis ranges from "checks the box of measuring something but so disconnected from observed reality that it'll otherwise be ignored" to "interesting but not robust enough to make decision on" to "directionally accurate" to "willing to make decisions based on confidence intervals". Understanding where your analysis stands on that scale, and where it needs to stand to meet your needs, is critical. Align your efforts with your needs, and set expectations accordingly.

[1] https://www.jmp.com/en_ch/applications/design-of-experiments...
Why can't they make a good faith effort? Everyone complains about bad regulations, and yet again and again, companies say "just give us something meaningless and arbitrary, so we can say we're compliant".

I think the question of how to comply is a diversion - the real issue is that if a website is compatible with a screen reader, anyone can leverage that to avoid ads and tracking. Accessibility in a general sense is fundamentally at odds with the modern internet.
This article on Masa from January gives some insight on what engineers were doing: https://www.fastcompany.com/90285552/the-most-powerful-perso...

tl;dr They used sensors to determine that people drink coffee in the morning and the line was long. They also used sensors to determine that small groups of people were booking large conference rooms so they made more small conference rooms.

Relevant part:

WeWork’s potential lies in what might happen when you apply AI to the environment where most of us spend the majority of our waking hours. I head down one floor to meet Mark Tanner, a WeWork product manager, who shows me a proprietary software system that the company has built to manage the 335 locations it now operates around the world. He starts by pulling up an aerial view of the WeWork floor I had just visited. My movements, from the moment I stepped off the elevator, have been monitored and captured by a sophisticated system of sensors that live under tables, above couches, and so forth. It’s part of a pilot that WeWork is testing to explore how people move through their workday. The machines pick up all kinds of details, which WeWork then uses to adjust everything from design to hiring. For example, sensors installed near this office’s main-floor self-serve coffee station helped WeWork discern that the morning lines were too long, so they added a barista. The larger conference rooms rarely got filled to capacity–often just two or three people would use rooms designed for 20–so the company is refashioning some spaces for smaller groups. (WeWork executives assure me that “the sensors do not capture personal identifiable information.”)
> things like focus and mood are all significantly better then before...

Was your keto diet the only change in your life? Going from obese to athletic in 6 months probably includes some other good habits like going to gym/physical activity and good sleep etc. So maybe your change in a lifestyle helped you improve you mood and focus, not necessarily the keto diet in particular?
You could always salt it.
Fluctuations in stork births can predict human births. Sidebar: Did you know that's why storks carry babies in cartoons?

"Correlation is not causation."
It's just change = bad without looking at what is being changed and why.
I’ve read and heard about it quite a bit recently. Not sure but maybe start here, Valter Longo seems to be doing some interesting stuff: https://valterlongo.com/cancer/
To a good first approximation, nobody has a printer.
If a corporation needed "clarity" to do something, they wouldn't litigate in the first place - there's nothing less clear than that.
1500 is the rough total number of employees, including non-tech ones, but the question is more along the lines is what the need is for 500 programmers/sysadmins/etc.

EDIT: Nevermind, I got confused with this part of the article:

> New York-based WeWork has roughly 15,000 employees
Craft.io says they have raised $900 Million. They want to IPO at a valuation just barely double that amount after 8 years of trying. That seems very desperate to me, especially considering the onslaught of competition, declining revenue growth.

There's no moat. It's easy to create hyperlocal competitors. There are many. This market is saturated.

I can't see how postmates can continue to grow wealth for investors. Neither can the public markets. They are barely better than index funds with way more risk.
To a point. I’m not saying we should have a war. I’m saying we should stop tiptoeing around China.
Yeah, but frogs and tadpoles are common across the world, so I find it hard to believe that the writer was not aware of tadpoles.

Out right falsehoods were not uncommonly produced as true facts of distant lands. For example, it is common knowledge that Ethiopians and natives of of the Indian subcontinent do not have heads, but rather have their face embedded directly into their chest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headless_men

Or if that is too fanciful, consider that the salamander’s natural habitat is fire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salamanders_in_folklore
Serious? Most of the top players in NBA are colored, they dominate this game. So Chinese may turn to football(European) instead.
Thankfully I don't think the Chinese think they are able to institute broad sanctions on America.

Classic tools that they may actually consider include:

Dumping US treasuries.
Making life for American companies difficult through regulations and inspections.
Limiting rare earth exports.

All of these have a cost on them as well (just like how most American tools on China have a cost on America), so they are careful to implement them.
> When someone suggests hiking, reading and meditation as a good way to spend your free time, everyone nods along and talks about how wonderful it is.

The key difference is the article is saying "should", and you are saying "suggests".

If someone says you should go hiking, you're more likely to get a similar response.
Zantac Recalled as a Precaution
They may as well just close down now.

The morale there must be terrible. Anyone good who survives the cuts will GTFO to greener pastures.

Anyone who stays or anyone desperate enough to join will be terrible.

Good bye We, consider this my eulogy, we hardly knew ye, and may you rest in peepee.
Maybe that's just the cost of offering these things. How much money do you think they're making off of those fees? They're probably covering costs and are low margin.
Right, but system creation+enhancements can be made by a single engineer in a large % of those cases. Overwhelmingly so if you already have a working live system to start with and you are seeking incremental improvements (vs a full rewrite).

There aren't many technical challenges I have encountered, when reduced to their smallest functional dimensions, that couldn't be fundamentally addressed by a single engineer. Obviously, efforts like writing an entire (practical) operating system are impossible for a single engineer to accomplish, but even then a single engineer could lead the entire effort or massive parts of the effort (e.g. the Linux kernel).

Conversely, I have seen far too many cases of "too many chefs in the kitchen" when it comes to a software project. This is the end of the spectrum where you end up stuck on Docker with a stochastic and otherwise insane architecture that isn't even consistent within each product, much less across the entire organization.
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Our bodies’ built-in oxygen sensing gets three a Nobel in Medicine
Cool experiment, De Broglie got it right back in 1924, all matter is wavelike with wavelength = h/p
The part about:

It's just so obviously an article for "how to suck up to your manager and do only the things they care about and notice,"

As an employee - especially as an individual contributor - your manager is the company. They have the ability to suggest raises to your company, assign you the plumb projects, etc.

You should optimize so that your goals are your managers goals.

Even if your manager prioritize “quick” vs “right” because he knows his manager is more concerned with the company surviving long enough to get the next round of funding/exit/looking good to the shareholders.
There's no logic to thinking of parking lots as different to any apartment or office tower. They are an asset that generates rental income. The value of the parking lot will be based on the rental income as well as the development potential of the land.
Yes. Red blood cells literally can only eat glucose. Without it you would be super dead.

I find it amusingly absurd how so many people here seem convinced that our primary food source is somehow a poison. People with 0 carbs in their blood are colloquially known as 'dead'.

I wonder if people even know what ketone bodies are... They are a downstream product of glucose processing(also downstream of fats - the inputs are different but the outputs are identical in a few ways), acetyl-coA, stuck together for bloodstream transport with the coenzyme temporarily removed.
WeWork currently employs about 15,000 people.

Though pretty much everyone expects that number to drop a good bit with layoffs (including this one) in the coming months.
"misused" seems to be the only word with affect, but seems consistent with and descriptive of the facts in the press release. I don't think "Personal information and ads on Twitter" is very descriptive - I prefer the previous title.