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Tech, Business, and Education: Top Trends to Expect in 2020
> Unsigned extensions are also not for end-users.

Says who???

Part of the problem is the very delineation between developer and end user.

How about Firefox just be a powerful open platform that anyone can develop for easily with as few roadblocks as possible? We should all be one step away from being developers.

I am so glad I was on the old Firefox 12 years ago. I'm glad that I was able to quickly whip up extensions and share them with my friends. Wanting to automate bypassing my school's wifi captive portal, or wanting to change how the bookmark menu was displayed encouraged me to experiment.

The fact that Mozilla now sees only an audience of consumers that need to be protected from themselves and marketed to is the problem. Mozilla is afraid of their precious precious brand being sullied.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_serous_retinopathy
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Okay, Firefox is so big one could consider it a technical domain unto itself, but it's not so big its internal jargon overrides general usage.
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HAProxy Technologies is the company behind the world's fastest and most widely used open-source software load balancer.

We're a polyglot company and are looking for software engineers stretching across many spectrums: C, Golang, and JavaScript.

We're also seeking Senior Systems Engineers with open source experience.

C:

We are looking to reinforce the development team of HAProxy and are looking for developers who have solid skills in Shell, C, HTTP, TCP/IP and uses Git. Knowledge of cloud environment is a plus. We are looking for people who are not afraid of patching the Linux Kernel and who can quickly become autonomous.

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Check out the "Cornell note taking method"

I'm adding some good resources below but in short:
- Do it by hand, it increases learning
- 2 columns on top: Left: Big ideas + questions, Right: details
- Bottom: What you learned, action items

Practice a lot, the more you do it the less effort it takes and the effectiveness goes up.

http://lsc.cornell.edu/notes.html

https://medium.goodnotes.com/study-with-ease-the-best-way-to...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSYnGhlnzyw
Unbelievable. Amazon Sellers are such a disease.
I'm burnedout because I'm bored.

I'm not a dev, I'm closer to a BI Analyst if anything. What I do is the epitome of bullshit jobs. The company would be wildly profitable if I just stopped showing up. Yet my reviews and feedback are always glowing even if I do 1 'thing' a week, and yeah 6 months down the line some finding I put into motion results in some marginal change somewhere. It's hard to feel the motivation to do more when the output feels irrelevant.

I'd leave, but it'd be hard to match the benefits, salary, and work/life balance in my region. I know I need to change though because my skills are atrophying due to the ennui.
requiring a password to view a resume is the opposite of "finding simple solutions for complex problems"
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Willing to relocate to NYC for right salary
Or be on site for first x months of new role.

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Containers: Docker, Mesos, Kubernetes (intermediate)

Database Relational and non Relational

I've been specializing recently in reactive micro services in kotlin with multi platform capabilities.

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Even if (or especially if) you are not on the latest and greatest Python version(s), I think it is still valuable to take the survey. We are locked in at 2.6 no matter what on one of our projects. We slowly whittle it away into other services, but making it modern is not feasible.
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Comcast brings together the best in media and technology. We drive innovation to create the world's best entertainment and online experiences. As a Fortune 50 leader, we set the pace in a variety of innovative and fascinating businesses and create career opportunities across a wide range of locations and disciplines. We are at the forefront of change and move at an amazing pace, thanks to our remarkable people, who bring cutting-edge products and services to life for millions of customers every day. If you share in our passion for teamwork, our vision to revolutionize industries and our goal to lead the future in media and technology, we want you to fast-forward your career at Comcast.

Comcast’s network software development team aims to revolutionize network engineering and operations at Comcast by building an orchestration and telemetry platform to drive consistency, eliminate manual changes, increase network visibility, and ultimately minimize customer impacting incidents through self-healing. We seek passionate technologists who share our excitement for networking, software development, design, and building delightfully intuitive, performant, and disruptive products.

More about Comcast: https://corporate.comcast.com/careers.

Open positions within the the network software development team:

- Senior Product Managers (https://jobs.comcast.com/jobs/description/regular?job_id=207...)

I lead the Product team for network orchestration and telemetry and am the hiring manager. Feel free to e-mail me if you have any questions: andrew_mulhern@cable.comcast.com!
It's become clear your data is not safe no matter which company you choose to do business with, considering virtually all companies are in jeopardy of being purchased by bigger companies which don't value your data privacy. Perhaps it's time the US enacts laws similar to GDPR.
Starsky Robotics (YC S16) | Software, Sr. Software, Internships, All Robotics Positions, ML | San Francisco, CA | Onsite, INTERNS, VISA | Full-time
Come build self driving trucks! Starsky Robotics is a fantastic place to work, we're solving hard problems across the board and need help. We have positions open for all sides of the robotics stack, and are specifically looking for more Software eng. maturity for the Teleoperation stack. I personally work on the Infra side and am looking for extra hands on our data, simulator, and fleet management infrastructure. Interns welcome to apply as well! We have priority positions open for Perception, SWE Teleop, Controls, and Safety Validation.

Earlier this year we drove our truck with no one in the vehicle on a public highway in Florida, see video [1].

We recently opened new Software positions across all Truck systems.

Blurb:

We're working to make trucks autonomous on the highway and remote controlled by experienced remote drivers for the first and last mile. Our self driving trucks will make roads safer while giving drivers meaningful work close to their homes and families.

We currently run our trucks autonomously on the highway, with freight. We are looking for awesome engineers who are comfortable working on a scrappy, driven engineering team.

We use Python, C++, and lots of bash scripting. We are a group of PhDs, masters, bachelors, and college dropouts with a diverse set of backgrounds. We're looking for folks with experience building and shipping products and a history of diving excitedly into new fields. We can sponsor visas. All positions non-remote unless otherwise specified.

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCNSZKXvi64
It's incredibly unfortunate that you're correct, but I'm also not surprised.

Topics like these on HN inevitability devolve into complaints about the media or attempting to divert discussion into something entirely different (like missed male geniuses). Nevermind the pun people missed in the article title as they immediately jumped to attempt to discredit the entire thing.
No questions about mypy?
> Lech did get a $345,000 payout from his homeowner's insurance, but that was not enough to cover the full value of the home, which was appraised for $580,000... Lech ended up having to take out a $390,000 loan to cover the costs of rebuilding.

Looking at the picture of the home, it sure as hell doesn't look like a $600,000 home, let alone a $740k home to rebuild ($345,000 insurance payout + $390,000 additional loan + $5,000 payout from city).

He should have been able to rebuild the home with the $345k insurance payout. Keeping in mind that he still owns the land, which is the bulk of his overall home value.

Keep in mind that his "appraisal" took into account home VALUES, based on comparable homes that sold recently in the area. Home value is not at all related to home cost. Since most homes now sit on land that is worth more than the house itself.

That house can easily have been rebuilt for $345k.

As for the police overreach, it does seem like the police took excessive means to apprehend a petty criminal. A 2 day standoff for a shoplifter seems like a huge waste of city resources and taxpayer dollars.

Although, while I agree that the police took excessive measures in this case, this man is not the first person to have property damage as a result of police apprehending a criminal. This happens every day, all across the country. He isn't going to overturn any precedent that has already been set over the past 243 years that our country has operated.

When police damage property during the pursuit of a suspect, the fault falls on the suspect themselves. The criminal caused the police to chase him, the criminal went into the home and held the police off at gunpoint. Therefore the criminal is at fault. This means filing an inusrance claim with your insurance provider and let them duke it out. They will attempt to sue the criminal, or get the criminal's insurance to cover it.

And that is why you have homeowners insurance. For freak stuff like this. You get a payout and the insurance company figures out how make right with the situation. Now if you don't have adequate coverage for your home (which seems to be the case here) then that is the fault of you as the homeowner.
I don't think Andrew Yang has any expectation of actually becoming the Democratic candidate, let alone getting elected. Seems like he's just trying to bring new ideas to the debate stage because candidates actually trying to get elected won't risk straying too far from familiar ideas.
I found this to be a very gentle introduction to GA, FWIW:

"Geometric Algebra for Electrical and Electronic Engineers"

> This tutorial paper provides a short introduction to geometric algebra, starting with its history and then presenting its benefits and exploring its applications.

> Abstract: In this paper, we explicate the suggested benefits of Clifford's geometric algebra (GA) when applied to the field of electrical engineering. Engineers are always interested in keeping formulas as simple or compact as possible, and we illustrate that geometric algebra does provide such a simplified representation in many cases. We also demonstrate an additional structural check provided by GA for formulas in addition to the usual checking of physical dimensions. Naturally, there is an initial learning curve when applying a new method, but it appears to be worth the effort, as we show significantly simplified formulas, greater intuition, and improved problem solving in many cases.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6876131?arnumber=687613...

> By James M. Chappell, Samuel P. Drake, Cameron L. Seidel, Lachlan J. Gunn, Student Member IEEE, Azhar Iqbal, Andrew Allison, and Derek Abbott, Fellow IEEE
I'll admit I still do not understand. That quote seems to say that ICE paid GitHub $500,000 and, presumably, ICE received $500,000 in services. GitHub later paid $500,000 to immigrant support nonprofits. In this case, when you say that GitHub gave $500,000 of value, do you mean in the original transaction between the two of them?
Find clubs that play music you like. Go dance. Yes, I know you don't know how to dance and are embarrassed by it. Go shake your ass anyway, it's dark and nobody will give a shit. Do some Fortnite dances if that's all you know.
I've taken 2 sabbaticals from work. In the UK at least most companies are totally fine with you doing this.
Riding a bike hits both of these, and the balance between the two is highly customizable on each ride.
Most people have the capacity to do basic math and know that we can't support millions of refugees flooding into the country.

You can blame that toddler's parents for making the decisions that put them in that position btw.
Sure, but that's something the user sets up, so it still contradicts GP's contention that the user never needs to think about this. The only thing a password manager can (validly) do automatically is look at subject name and subject alt names. (I don't know that all of them even do this.) Even that's assuming that certs are set up correctly...
Huh? Since when? This sounds really odd to me because my dad is obsessed with DIY and self-repair videos on YouTube and has never had a problem finding tons of such content to watch daily.
Does anyone have any insight into their revenue model? How are they succeeding where Vine failed or are they still just riding investor capital?
"The more I code the more I observe getting a system right is all about getting the data structures right. And unfortunately that means I spend a lot of time reworking data structures without altering (or improving) functionality..." https://devlog.at/d/dYGHXwDinpu
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If you’re an engineer working for Google, I’m certain that there are more options available to you than to the average Walmart worker. That’s something the grandparent comment addressed.
> detailed health data that users willingly provide.

I'm skeptical that an accerometer on your wrist and maybe an optical heartrate monitor can really provide detailed health data.

Honestly, most of the "personal health monitoring" consumer device companies are selling bullshit. They don't have purpose-built devices that are capable of monitoring specific health parameters as you sleep or as you work, they have a pile of "these particular electromechanical / electro-optical sensors happen to be cheap enough and low power enough to put in a wristwatch" and are hoping that they can gain insight by throwing machine learning at the problem. In that sense, perhaps this is a perfect match, since that's what the hype-chasers at Google/X seem to love, but sometimes the best signal you can find just isn't all that useful or interesting.
Boeing MQ-25 Stingray
Creating both are merits, of course.

But creating Linux should not be a merit toward Git. Obviously the experience would make Git better. But why did a better UI lose to an inferior one?

I'd love to be wrong because now Mercurial is sort of dead and I have to use Git every day if I want to work with others. I'd love to have a better attitude about it. So far it just looks like another thing that one because X popular guy made it or Y big company made it.
Healthy food doesn't nearly as much rely no network effect to not be pushed out of the market. "Only works on Chrome" is real problem and won't get better if they don't also pander to those longing for sugar.

> They should just release a Firefox preskool edition for Joe Average User.

Seems like that's Developer Edition. The Joe Average won't know the difference, so obviously the default has to be for him.

And yeah, I also don't like were this is leading and wish they would have found a better way.
Does that sound like a political pressure thing or just the usual "company complaints / files bs reports and YT complies"?

I'm not at all convinced there is any large scale love for YouTube as far as US policy goes.
Well, you are right (and top has the same problem if not worse), but I'm always surprised what these tools are doing that they take significat CPU time. Parsing 200 virtual text files every second for sure should not.

> Or even better to provide specific syscalls for it like on macOS, Windows, OpenBSD, Solaris and others.

top manages to take 6% CPU on my Macbook.
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The plan suffers from the same problem as the student loan plan: reducing the cost to zero for the majority of consumers.

Rather than reduce co-pays to zero, patients should share in the cost at some level capped at some number. Similarly, the student loan forgiveness she proposes should have a sort of co-pay. Instead of paying off the first $50,000 of student loans, it should pay all student loans above some level, perhaps $5,000. By having patients and students share in the cost of their treatment and education, they are incentivized to make wise choices. By taking care of the costs beyond some point, patients and students are protected from catastrophic outcomes resulting from systemic failures.
Name a livelihood not dependent on someone else.
why do you feel like you need notes, instead of just listening and participating? first, try and cut back on what notes are needed. but i get it, sometimes it's necessary.

for action items, i jot them down throughout, spend two minutes at the end to check everybody's on the same page, and then send an email out immediately. it shouldn't be long, and each item should have an owner.

for design meetings, again it needs and owner who should have written a design doc upfront. i prefer it be send out in advance, but i've also heard of the amazon thing where everybody just sits there for the first 10 minutes and reads it. i guess that way, you don't have to make time beforehand. either use a collaborative editing tool, or have the owner project the doc and make changes as you go.

for other stuff, use a whiteboard and then take pictures of that. i wouldn't bother writing it up, it's just a good reference if needed.

finally, reducing the number of meetings will reduce the amount of notes you'll need to organise. depending on your role, you may just need to delegate more.
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