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Guide Informatics | Full-stack software developer | PT/FT | Remote

Guide Informatics is a small (one-man) software consulting company. About 3 years ago I was fortunate enough to start working for a computational biologist who consults for several biotech companies in the genome-editing (CRISPR/Cas9) space. Together we build software that allows their scientists to organize, analyze, and visualize their data.

We're at the point now where we need additional help from a software standpoint, and so we're looking to bring someone on to the team.

Our stack is Python/JavaScript, and experience with the following technologies would be ideal:

* Django

* Vue.js

* Postgres/MySQL

* AWS

Any experience with the following would be a plus but not necessary:

* Pandas

* R

* Data Visualization tools (D3, charts.js, etc)

Ideally we'd love to find someone that would eventually want to work for us on a full-time basis (we have way more work than we can handle), but to get started we'd prefer a short term contract or part-time W2 employment (specifics TBD based on several factors).

This is a remote gig but does require that you be legally allowed to work in the US, and we'd prefer if you were in a time zone close to pacific.

If interested, send a resume and a quick intro about yourself to jordan@guideinformatics.com.
I'm asking to better understand - can you think of ways to make an interview process more comfortable? What about 'blind' remote interviews (ie, no video, but audio)?
Because torrent clients can't handle that many pieces in a single torrent. There are algorithms that are super-linear, maybe even quadratic or worse. They start causing trouble int eh TB range.

Also the UI for adding many torrents is much nicer than for selecting a non-trivial subset of files inside a single torrent. Also many parts of the ecosystem handle partial-seeds that do and will only for the near future seed a subset and not leech any other parts. They often get treated as leechers, despite not really being leechers.

TL;DR: 2k files are just a watchfolder and a cp * watchfolder/ away from working. Scaling does not work with one fat 32TB, however.
Windows 7 Extended Security Update (ESU) Program Available
lol ok i should add this to feature requests - https://building.buymeacoffee.com/feature-requests
I don’t want to go through the hassle of installing it again in a few months to do a firmware upgrade.
Well, I don't like a bunch of activist techies trying to shape tomorrow's society using the assets of their host corporation. The answer, I believe, is to reduce the "shaping" impact of corporations in the first place.
"If there's one available."

Just don't connect the network - use only HDMI. This will turn a "smart TV" into a "dump TV".
okay, high Mars orbit. Quite a lot less delta-v requirement for some theoretical several thousand kilogram chunk of long-lifespan data storage, and easier to discover and retrieve, than achieving solar escape velocity (look at the delta-v budget for the new horizons probe vs. its total size and weight, for instance).
Damn, I just learned about ChaosSearch yesterday. This is their whole business model.

I've faced that pain on AWS ES service and will definitely give it a try.
> Bud on draft is fine.

Oh man, was with you till the very end. Most places will have something on tap that qualifies as real beer. PBR, Yuengling, Stella, and Pilsner Urquell are all great lagers. Confronted with 40 taps of HOPULUS PRIME (or whatever), I'll happily swill them all day in a non-ironic, non-cheapskate, non-hipster fashion. But rice adjuncts? No thank you.
I wonder how this compares features and price to similar products from H2O.ai’s driverless ai, datarobot, bigsquid, etc.
I switched from Chrome to Firefox 6 months ago when Google started playing games with it's ad blockers.

All of my Chrome extensions and features were supported by Firefox and I was a happy camper.

Then two problems got to me:

1. Slow performance on web apps like Gmail (use it for work)

2. Firefox regularly crashes (more than 10 times per day)

I'm trying to switch to the Brave browser (Chromium) now, but I was almost a Firefox convert.
Interesting statement, but I see a thriving community asking and answering questions on stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/qt
> If American farmers are good at anything, it’s oversupplying demand.

And then asking for handouts when they don't make their money back.
That only just occurred to me as I was reading OP's comment. The construction of "LatinX" has always bothered me for how contrived and nonstandard it is, but I think what's really been getting under my skin is that it's entirely superfluous. The meaning is entirely legitimate but since the word for it already exists I can't see any purpose for such a weird new one other than signaling woke group affiliation.
RAWGraphs: a missing link between spreadsheets and data visualization
I am Brazillian, mixed race, my dad family is from europe, my dad has green eyes, and I can apply for EU citizenship.

My mother family is mixed of black and native american.

Almost every single time I faced discrimination, was because I was "white", for example open hostility by 100% black people assuming that I was "white" and evil or something, or when I was informed I should not apply for affirmative action because I was too white looking, or many, many times I was called racist as soon people saw a picture of me during some argument or another.

To me it is obvious that further segregation and racism, is not the answer to segregation and racism.
If you just change the WiFi password, the TV should probably become something like a dumb TV, shouldn't it ?
We'll have to agree to disagree that a person's personal privacy protection should categorically extend to whether they're helping build the next generation of drone warfare target-acquisition software.
How do you avoid it ?
> My favorite Tweet ever was someone who described this process that dudes do where they show up, take over a hobby, and drive all the fun out (and thus women) as "MENTRIFICATION". It is my new favorite word.

So you think that less women ride bicycles and drink beer than 20 years ago?
I had a package delivered to the wrong address, across town, multiple times, even after I contacted FedEx, confirmed my address, and gave them directions (because they are too stupid to figure them out on their own). This was just the worst case out of many. It's shocking whenever a FedEx truck actually shows up to deliver packages. It's also shocking how incredibly bad FedEx is at their one job, delivering packages. Amazon is even worse, but let's not go there. The package was finally returned to the shipper, Newegg, and then the fun started trying to get a refund. Took about a month of calling every day. That was a lot of fun.
Twenty years ago I contributed a chapter to a book on SQL Server and slipped in a subtle fart joke. Instead of using the then Microsoft standard sample company called “Northwind”, my example had “Southwind”.

EDITED to add link to Google Books link.

https://books.google.com/books/about/Microsoft_SQL_Server_7_...
Scaling and the Friction of Dimension
It's pretty sexist to imply that only men exhibit this particular form of gatekeeping or making men in the minority of some hobby group feel out of place, and then coining a term for it with "men" right in the name, as though women never do what is described.

Complain about some subset of the population who has made a lifestyle choice you don't like (bros) all you want. But "mentrification"? Give me a break. That's just a prejudicial slur.
Your comment is basically continuing the innuendo train. All of these things, taken together, are perfectly reasonable to have, period. It sounds like his "bedroom" was his only personal space away from his mother, so once again nothing notable. And "stashed" is yet another baseless pejorative.

I do agree there are other pertinent details that are the actual cause for concern, especially regarding the FBI. But why not stick to those rather than illustrating some scary sounding but ultimately innocuous motif around the suspect?

I'm thinking the dynamic is that the journalist has no idea what the real world is actually like (eg associating "wires" with movie bombs, rather than realizing they're in literally every electric device), but has been trained to embellish their writing with descriptive words, and so they've resorted to crafting a narrative of fear of general odds and ends. Perhaps they should have visited the witchcraft victims' memorial one town south to remind themselves what such fearmongering leads to.
Dexcom glitch kept parents of children with diabetes in the dark this weekend
I can't believe you are openly racist enough to claim that interviews are unfair because you have to be interviewed by white people (who you would have to work with every day if you were hired). If I said that I was uncomfortable being interviewed by latinos what do you think the reaction would be?
> It means performance expectations of BBB is quite stable.

Given that we are in a period of disruptive innovation I find that market optimism alarming. I think it means that even the least competent accumulations of capital are expected to extract savings by removing workers and hold onto their position using IP, regulatory capture, etc despite the best competition doing it all an order of magnitude better.

In a free market, the spread should be high right now since a few large players and startups should be about to decimate energy, transport, insurance and health costs and return the majority of the savings to customers. Why is there so much confidence in bad businesses holding onto profitability?
What local IoT features are you referring to?

>I would buy a dumb TV in a heartbeat, next time I upgrade. If there's one available.

There are none that I could find when I bought my TV some months ago. I hope that eventually some anonymous heroes start flashing open source OSs to their smart TVs and make us owners of our hardware again.
They could do like NVIDIA and switch back and forth between two, three, and four digit model numbers every decade or so as the numbering scheme gets stale. I remember having a GeForce2 MX400, then a Ti4600, then a 8600, then a GTS 250, then a GTX 460, then a GTX 970, then a Quadro P4000, and now they seem to go for a hybrid scheme where they have the two-digit "16 series" or "20 series" containing four-digit models like 2080 :p
Perhaps so. It does seem like a fast track "all you can eat and right away" feature would be a draw, even for the steep fee, but maybe on balance it wouldn't be enough. Maybe toss in permanent residence after five years, or something like that.

FWIW, the H-1Bs I've worked with have been good people and as competent as locals. I worry some about them being abused by their employers, but that's their trade-off to manage. I have noticed, though, over the years that demand for my skills has lessened noticeably.

Thanks for your answer.
In company collateral we used to say, "Send an email to anyone@microsoft.com" I think that it's a real email address and is still active! LOL
> Americans don’t really get exposed to good lagers and pilseners. We get Bud[1], not Budvar. So there’s no expectation that beers in those categories could possibly be “good”. IPAs don’t have the same baggage.

Pretty much every major craft brewery nowadays has a high-quality pale session beer. Sometimes it's a pilsner (both Euro style and American pre-Prohibition style), sometimes it's a golden ale, and sometimes it's a Kölsch, and hell I've even seen one brewery with a Dortmund-style lager, but regardless of which it is, they're typically among the brewery's top sellers.

They're not the sexy beers that grab headlines, but they're actually the ones doing a lot of the heavy lifting for the brewery's bottom line.

Ten years ago, you would have been absolutely right, but pale session beers have come back in a huge way, and we now have no shortage of them. They exist, they're high-quality, and they sell, but you don't see people talking about them much because there's just not much to talk about. It's the beer you order multiples of when you're hanging out with your friends and don't want to get too full or too drunk too fast, and there's nothing particularly _interesting_ about that.
> If I remember correctly, you got accepted to YC with a different idea

That'd be Brew [0]: https://brew.com

As for the pivot, I'm not sure it qualifies as a pivot since buymeacoffee.com predates brew.com. Separate businesses, and it seems to me they're simply re-announcing buymeacoffee again [1] and possibly shifting focus to make it the main product.

Another YC company https://kyte.ai (AI for SMS inboxes) did that recently and pivoted to https://khatabook.com (Credit/Debit Book Keeping app for Indian SMBs) [2].

Of course, https://brex.com famously did the same, too (not launch with the idea they applied / did YC with) [3].

[0] https://www.ycdb.co/company/brew-com

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16484040

[2] https://www.ycdb.co/company/khatabook

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17418813
Maybe it's debatable now whose property it is.

But I'd imagine many people think it's their own property that they allow Facebook to hold and control on their behalf. The users still retain all the ownership rights associated with that contact list... or so they hope.

It's like buying stocks. Often times a brokerage will hold ownership of stocks that clients buy, on behalf of the client. Doesn't mean the brokerage can do just whatever it wants with my stocks.
Of course urine is the perfect medicine! That's why your body gets rid of it instead of storing it internally!

Also, it can power batteries:

https://newatlas.com/urine-battery/42866/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3685109/Caug...

https://newatlas.com/aluminum-battery-urine-power/47849/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3544957/Batt...
I read a recent poll that 90% of Latin Americans don't like the term.
So many questions

- per-cell timestamps (this is IMPORTANT for online data migration with no downtime)?

- can you choose compaction strategy?

- access to sstables for rapid data loads/custom backups?

- triggers?

- UDT?

- how will upgrades work?

- are they using rocksandra or other techniques?

- how about a scylladb option?
You’re right, I missed that. If you’re not going to do any arithmetic, you might as well store them as strings.
Curious how it compares to my offering:

https://insideropinion.com/

The main issue is giving access to documents, which most Enterprise customers do not want to do... Further, most info is in employees heads, not in documentation.
Right. The Republicans, who are in control of both California's state legislature and city governments, are blocking Democrats from passing any policies. The Democrats push hard to pass laws for more inclusive zoning, but since California is such a red stronghold, there's absolutely nothing they can do.
I think there are extremely good reasons to keep the rotors on top, not below, with people around the craft or entering and exiting. One prop in front of single engine plane is enough of a safety hassle that one makes a big deal out of it in safety briefings, and yet people run into them again and again [1][2].

At any rate, the Volocopter [3] has the rotors on top, and while it might not look as sporty as the Kitty Hawk, I don't find it annoyingly goofy.

[1] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lauren-scruggs-model-plane-pr...

[2] http://www.rightthisminute.com/video/graphic-man-hit-plane-p...

[3] https://www.volocopter.com/en/
Google's AutoML produces black box models that are only available over a network call. This services seems to produces downloadable models, and a notebook with Python code that creates the model. If that is the case, this is substantially better than GCP's offering.

AWS consistently releases similar products after GCP... but they are much more well-thought-out, as AWS has to support them indefinitely...
Why is that a ridiculous name? It's from the Core X family of processors, is an i9 (which generally means more cores and cache than an i7), it's a 10th gen processor, which since 9th gen, also means that it has hyper-threading, as opposed to 9th gen and later i7s), and most importantly, as a product name is unique enough to make it easy to look up the technical specifications.
I am not claiming you are making that argument. I'm responding to the original poster, relevant part quoted here: "I think it’s safe to say that anyone working there today has nothing to do with the time periods you’re referencing, so I don’t know why you would consider decades old issues to be relevant today."

As demonstrated, people working during the time periods he referenced are still working for Microsoft, contrary to this claim. This also addresses why someone should consider the risk of "decades old issues" when making decisions today.
Hi there! Disclaimer - Linode employee here.

I can't speak for the other services, but we have a very active IRC channel. I run my IRC instance off of a Linode I created just for that purpose.
Someone discovered it years ago online, and it's done a couple rounds in the media[1] as an example of an "overreaching software patent", similar to the "pop-under" patent, which patents a pop-up ad that opens after a window is closed[3].

So no personal experience, but I definitely think it's pretty frivolous; I don't imagine its ever been tested in court. :)

[1] https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1040068/microsoft-... from 2004
[2] https://www.geek.com/news/microsoft-granted-patent-covering-... from 2010
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop-up_ad#Patent_controversy
>I doubt many contributors are going to browse the homepage and try to contribute.

I agree. Our goal was to showcase the most common use-cases and types of creators who use us, and not for discoverability.
In this case the issue seems to have come from "copyright minimalists" instead : wanting the books to be freely available, rather than making money for Google...

I wonder why the Copyright Office didn't just buy Google Books, would only have cost a few hundred million $ ?
Sounds a lot like SPIN OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPIN_(operating_system)
They have to make do without type safety (in SPIN's case provided by modula-3), but it's really cool to see it tried.
For those interested: SPIN and other hybrid kernels (like Exo) were created in the fall-out of "microkernels are bad" by attempting to allow a hybrid approach. Linux was created around the same time staying straight in the monolithic category (but since moving to be more hybrid).
'Stereotype threat' anxiety is a well-known and well-documented phenomenon at this point. https://www.apa.org/research/action/stereotype
Does anyone know the origin of the name "Contoso"? I bet Raymond Chen does!
I wouldn't put anything in my organization's calendar that I wasn't okay being broadcast to the entire organization. Certainly not my medical appointments or other sensitive personal things. Otherwise, who cares if somebody wants an alert that I have a meeting? That's why the feature exists.
Why would you need a firmware upgrade for a non-smart TV? If it accepts HDMI up to 4K now what kind of an update would it need?
I think it's a fact that our system, even for relatively high-profile "centralized" efforts, is in fact very decentralized already. I don't think we've tried centralized command of instruction methods and various things about how schools run that have way more to do with the experience of a student than someone in Washington saying "do Common Core, uh, somehow", really, so far as I'm aware, aside from some very high-level directives.

I know lots of school administrators are effectively incompetent at implementing reforms & any kinds of systems, really, directed from higher up or otherwise (frankly, it's usually even worse when "otherwise"), due to some combination of ignorance or misaligned incentives (the balance of these varies but one or both are often present in some quantity). Whether it's worth bringing the few who have a clue and are choosing to use it to-heel in order to attempt to fix the many who don't and aren't, I do not know, but so far as I know anything like that's pretty far outside the Overton window so I wouldn't worry about it either way. Just recording how this stuff looks when it hits the state, district, and school level, since not everyone has insight into that, and it's largely a mess.

Probably it's worth looking at how schools are run and their governance structured in other countries that are doing better than us, if the core motivation of all this anxiety is our falling behind them.
Basic Principles of Respectful Discussion:

1) Assume good faith until you have reason to assume otherwise. Try your best to NOT make assumptions about people's experiences or situations.

2) If someone, particularly a marginalized person, brings up an experience they have had but you have not had, your first impulse should be to hear them out, NOT to invalidate them.

3) Likewise, just because you personally may not have seen or experienced something in this group/in real life, it does not mean that said thing does not happen.

4) Above all, just be good to each other. It can often be difficult to discern tone and intent over the internet, but try not to pounce on each other too quickly.
Surprising to hear them survive for 4 years, a 150k investment is not gonna last long in new york city
at my workplace we try very hard to hire women programmers and we are at about 10% - 15% which is still quite low but better than other companies around us.

At the same time I noticed that the majority of engineering managers, product owners and agile coaches in our company are women. Some of these women were programmers at some point in their career.

I'm not deducing anything from this (especially since it’s a single datapoint) but it sure is interesting.
I don't think the point of criticizing "it's a pipeline problem" is that there isn't a pipeline problem, but that it's an easy out to avoid taking action at whatever stage of the 'pipeline' you happen to be working at.

If, as an manager at a FAANG, you say "it's a pipeline problem" you're probably saying that there aren't enough candidates because not enough women graduate from ST programs. If you're a program development person at a university you're probably saying not enough enroll. If you say it as a high school guidance counsellor you probably are saying there's not enough push for girls to do well in science and math classes and apply that to their higher education even if there is.

The point is that whatever stage of the pipeline you're at, if you want things to improve, you have to work with the tools at your disposal. You can't wait for universities to both increase enrollment and increase graduation (two separate problems as well). As this post points out you need to look for other ways to find talent that bypass that problem and recognize that the path to your job for a minority in your field will probably look drastically different to yours. It's just never going to be enough to wave your hand at the problem and blame the stage before you.

The post does get at this for sure, so I'm not really criticizing it for its conclusion, but the first couple of paragraphs build a strawman that I think is very unhelpful to understanding the nature of the problem.
Trump in London for NATO summit amid election race
AWS is like crack to developers, especially ones that used to be tied down to enterprise data centers and their six month procurement schedules.

So you get a lot of "addict reasononing".
Sure: https://phys.org/news/2019-02-hemp-marijuana.html

There are some questions around whether the “entourage effect” is beneficial with CBD. In other words, does the presence of THC and various other compounds make CBD oil more effective for x or y (vs pure isolates of just CBD).

But “industrial hemp” really just means cannabis with a THC content below a federally determined guideline. And that’s why it needs to be tested for being “hot”. Many people lose their crops because they test hot and find themselves with smokable weed.