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MathWorks | Senior Software Engineer | Natick, MA (Boston MetroWest) | ONSITE | Full Time

I am the hiring manager for a team that designs and builds services and components that are part of internet based online products such as MATLAB Online. At a high level we are mostly focused on high availability and scalability of a system that makes MATLAB available over the internet for several different use cases.

The team makes use of distributed computing design patterns as well as public cloud services (AWS) and container orchestration (Kubernetes) to ensure our services and infrastructure meet our availability and scalability goals. We use Golang, IaaC (prefer code over yaml, etc) and are big fans of automation.

MathWorks is an exciting company to be a part of, MATLAB and Simulink are used in robotics, aerospace, deep learning, medical devices and many many more engineering domains. You can read more here[1].

You can apply here[0], but feel free to reach out to me directly to learn more at dbeaulie @ mathworks.com

NOTE: We are currently remote, but the position is located on our Natick office.

[0] https://www.mathworks.com/company/jobs/opportunities/22993-s...

[1] https://www.mathworks.com/company/mathworks-stories.html
You honestly expect Trump to lead, strategize, and bring the nation together, to the point of surprise that he hasn't?
Why did you to cite those particular guideline in this specific thread? Why ask about my motivations.

It seems like you are dodging the question(s) i.e If you have some generality about HN participants, why put it in this thread (and not others). Since you don't put it in your profile, or copy-paste it in every comment you make, it seems to me there's a reason.

> In summary, I think an accurate and charitable reading of my comment will realize that it was not a non sequitur nor off-topic.

Another back-handed response, as it implies my own comments (which made the opposite conclusion) is therefore either/or not accurate, or not charitable. If you believe this, then why not explicitly say so - and then defend that position? you say "In summary", but I can't see what part of this post you are summarising.

> My comments are relevant to the point of view of a developer. Moreover, HN discussion is about more than the POV of a developer.

They might relevant, if there is enough context to understand them. And we are not talking about what is relevant to "HN discussion" - we are talking about this thread in particular.
Curious to see this comment on "Hacker News".

Did you think this resource was about the infiltration profession?
Same is happening in NYC. Renewals are either no change or seeing an increase while move ins are seeing discounts. My advice is to move out. You will either get a nice discount somewhere else or force your current landlord to actually compete. When you straight renew you have very little negotiating leverage and landlords know this.
Significantly expanding police training, and greater coverage of topics such as nonviolent de-escalation, community outreach, implicit bias training, and how to work with mentally ill individuals. Greater accountability through body cam programs, and community oversight boards for police departments everywhere. De-militarization of police, because right now, the police can legally buy surplus military gear and use it on American citizens, up to and including tanks. Frankly, I'd like to see most beat cops completely disarmed (but that seems unlikely to happen soon). I'd also like to see yearly community service requirements for police; make them volunteer their time in the communities they patrol, so they can feel invested in it and get to know the people there.
Facebook employes planning virtual walkout ovr Zkerbrg's inaction on Trump posts
Funny that I just created a post just yesterday asking about developers from Poland and Ukraine. What are you requirements ? I am happy to connect. Contact info. in profile.
That's really cool ! Even the "extreme" examples could be an entire specie/race/civilization in a space game
From what I understand:

You have $100

You get $15 in credit

You then spent $7 that month

Brex takes $7 from your bank account to pay itself

You have $93 at the end of the month

Your credit line is now ~$14

So it's not too dissimilar from a credit card card, but it's also basically a prepaid debit card and they go out of their way to hide that.
It may also serve as a warning to other developers to beware the big MS’s practices
Thank you very much. I was going to ask for recommendations for where I could get a good backgrounder on this issue
Does that actually make sense to you?
>> BO was founded before SpaceX, has spent far more than SpaceX and has accomplished squat.

Oh, that's not true. They've filed a lot of litigation in that timeline!
> Just using common sense tells me that if you can name off the victims it means the problem isn’t widespread or systemic across the country.

true, but the counterpoint is the problem is not the volume of errors, its how the errors are handled. people know those names because the issues were never closed. Public servants like police officers should be open kimono; if someone dies, it should be a big deal. where's the brutally honest post-mortem? we expect this out of meaningless things like $SaaS, why in gods name not our police forces?
Debian Handbook for Debian 10 Buster
I believe there's a frog in Alaska that essentially has antifreeze for blood to prevent ice crystals.

The squirrel must use a similar trick.
Postmates allows you buy food from closed joints. They tell you "The store is closed " after you pay.
So let’s remove the game. Why should it be a challenge for two people to work around censorship automation before they can communicate?. It feels like we have normalized caring for the well-being of ads over the well-being of actual humans.
Looks like from their first quarter 10-Q 14B of their 18B in debt is specifically vehicle debt, so 77% [1].

[1] http://ir.hertz.com/sec-filings
Because along the way, Elon actually gets things done.
Tempus Ex | tempus-ex.com | San Francisco, CA | Onsite | Full Time

Tempus Ex is an Andreessen Horowitz backed startup bringing advances in real-time image recognition to sports. We’re leveraging this new data to create interactive live consumer experiences and fantasy sports.

At our San Francisco lab we are building a team of top-caliber engineers who are passionate about solving hard problems and want to be a part of the future of media. The core competency of the engineering team will be similar to that of autonomous driving - with the benefits of having a more complete data set and being able to ship products quickly.

Roles:

* Backend Engineer (https://boards.greenhouse.io/txm/jobs/4000075003)

* Game/Mobile iOS Developer (https://boards.greenhouse.io/txm/jobs/4051290003)

* iOS SceneKit Engineer (https://boards.greenhouse.io/txm/jobs/4047147003)

* Machine Learning Engineer (https://boards.greenhouse.io/txm/jobs/4003692003)

* Product Designer (https://boards.greenhouse.io/txm/jobs/4067004003)

* Senior Backend Engineer (https://boards.greenhouse.io/txm/jobs/4000069003)

Contact: recruiting+hn@tempus-ex.com

More info: https://tempus-ex.com/careers
If someone could explain this to me, please do. The wiki [1] on qualified immunity talks about civil action. So US officials (cops among those) are mostly shielded from civil action for their misdeeds and to even a greater degree than the former test that asked whether they legitimately believed they were following the law And acted in good faith. (Which is already a stretch since I don't quite follow how ones understanding of the laws enters the question of having followed it.) So no civil action then.

But isn't the larger differentiator from most other first world countries the way officials are treated regarding the criminal code? I am expecting most countries to have a quite independent prosecuting office that prosecutes both officials and laymen, hopefully to the same degree? (The exception I expect is the military?)

In my locality one of the things I like 'best' is an article in our criminal law that lets a victim ask a judge to reconsider the decision of the prosecution not to press charges. It's one of the final balances in our criminal law.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity
Dallas Police asked public for videos of protesters–it didn’t go well
Publish and Reuse React Components to Build Gatsby Sites, Faster
It's stunning to me that such a (seemingly?) relatively modest maintenance cost would be specifically called out as a massive oversight.

Perhaps I'm thinking about this the wrong way. Oil changes cost next to nothing, the customer pays for fuel, everything from brakes to suspension components on down to wiper blades are irrelevant when they sell the cars before any of that stuff needs to be replaced. Maybe tires actually are their biggest wear item?

While you might generally not have to replace tires before, say, 30k miles, the tires on a rental car do not exactly live an easy life, and when you're talking about fleets going up to 50k miles, they'll absolutely be needing replacement.

It also makes me wonder if Dollar Thrifty was letting them get illegally low, or just below the Hertz standard.
Some of those that work forces [0]... It's from 1992. 28 years old, little has changed. Still love that song.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8de2W3rtZsA
Towards a Safer JavaScript
The officer in question has been charged with murder. The Minnesota Governor and AG were both advocating for charges basically since day 1 and well before the protests so it's not at all clear the turmoil influenced his arrest.
The American revolution was a violent protest.
Elation Health | Software Engineer | REMOTE | https://elationhealth.com

At Elation we make tools for physicians and their patients that improve the efficiency and fidelity of their relationship, and help to make the delivery of excellent, proactive healthcare possible. We have various openings across the rest of the organization which you can see here: https://www.elationhealth.com/careers/ but specifically I'm focused on growing our engineering team. Right now is a particularly challenging time for our healthcare systems and providers -- Elation offers an opportunity to work and innovate in support of those providers and their patients.

Elation is headquartered in San Francisco (though remote for at least the rest of 2020), and our engineering team is distributed across PST-EST timezones.

Tech stack is AWS/Python/Django/MySQL/ReactJS. We have a great team full of people that really value working closely with product, customer-experience, and users. Lots of interesting problems to solve!

Apply on the website if interested, and feel free to reach out to me directly if you have any questions or are curious! You can reach out to me directly at phill.tornroth@elationhealth.com
This is quite an interesting perspective. What I've read on more 'right' leaning sites, is that post-WW1 Weimar became so 'degenerate', it directly led to support for the Nazi party. Had it not gone so liberal, it's unlikely Germans would have supported such an authoritarian regime.
Credit assignment is a hard problem. Let's not trivialize it with post hoc fallacies.
This is standard HN moderation. What exactly have you seen?

We don't delete things outright on HN unless the author asks us to (there have been perhaps half a dozen exceptions to that in the 13 years and 23M posts of the site, usually for legal reasons). The most we would do is 'kill' a post, which means anyone with 'showdead' set to 'yes' in their profile can still read it. The GP post was actually in that state because of user flags, but I unkilled it in order to reply. When I do that, I usually leave the comment unkilled as a courtesy to users who don't have 'showdead', so they can see what I was replying to.
Don't you personally know somebody who you consider be a good candidate? I do...
I have no idea what they actually do, but I'm guessing they could simply search for the accounts, or ask other people you know.
I have found that the difference between one-way and two-way to be quite profound when it comes to the complexity of bugs produced.

Race conditions become an almost permanent fixture with two-way and the 'chains of causality' are exponentially more complex in a two-way situation.

One-way simplifies things in quite a profound way. I remeber when watching Dan Abromov's excellent Redux tutorial physically laughing and muttering "of course" as every single two-way bug I had ever worked on flashed before my eyes.
Could you also make short videos of the working place so the people will be able to see where they gonna enjoy their time?
I woudln't complain too much. The strength of an economy is determined more by its amperage (flow) than voltage (total dollars). Also, it redistributes wealth to the less well off; obviously, with the potential to earn a higher payout.
I guess what I meant is that VDOM views (at least pure-functional ones like React) can have a much clearer separation between the view logic and the state logic. I don't have to understand how the VDOM works because it's never entwined with my code that might have a bug in it: I'm just creating a data structure and handing it off. If there's a bug, it's in the creation of that data structure, which is 100% my own code. That hard barrier exists even at runtime. Solid seems like it deeply entwines the two in a way that's very clever and has performance advantages, but would also, I expect, come with a cost.
Without JSX (or templates), writing HTML as JS is quite painful. Some don't like JSX but it is truly the best way to write HTML in JS.
But why aren’t avis and enterprise in the same straits as hertz? Sure they have difficulties, but aren’t yet seeking debt relief.
His future plans that he disclosed at MS. They made the guy think MS would hire him then they didnt even bother to show him the finger.
String and Key | Senior Software Developer (Backend) | Brooklyn, NY or Chapel Hill, NC | ONSITE | Full-time | https://www.stringandkey.com

We used to be a successful digital agency specializing in creating fintech products for our partners, and now, we've taken our award-winning team and are building something for a new company company of our own, solving the challenges that excite us most and creating a product we want to bring to market ourselves.

Our team of roughly 30 (and growing) is building a product for financial protection, helping those who fall through the cracks of the traditional insurance market gain access to protection, and using innovative strategies to keep things affordable, engaging, and educational for our customers.

We're seeking a talented senior developer with a backend focus to join our team in either our Dumbo, Brooklyn or Chapel Hill, NC offices and help build and maintain the core backend systems powering our API, vendor integrations, and internal administration tools.

Position and tech stack details:

- Senior Ruby developer, with substantial Rails experience

- Not a supervisory role, though senior developers are expected to participate in mentoring activities with more junior members of the team

- Ruby/Rails API-only backend, no UI rendered directly from Rails

- Postgres

- Apache Kafka (as a message broker for a heavily event-driven architecture)

- Deployment on AWS via EKS (docker-compose for local developer environments for now, possibly local k8s depending on architecture evolution in the future)

- Core API serves clients written in React with Typescript on the web side, and native mobile apps in Swift and Kotlin on the mobile side

Other notes: we pay meticulous attention to process, have robust internal training programs and professional development efforts, and strive for a culture of trust, debate, and transparency. Between Memorial Day and Labor Day, we close our offices at 2pm on Fridays to enjoy the weather and time with family/friends. We practice no-meeting Wednesdays, have year-round family time blocked off on Wednesday evenings, each quarter take a day off for a fun culture event in each office, as well as a quarterly mini-conference where our team hosts talks on everything from building an e-commerce side hustle to how to make great hummus at home. We have flexible PTO and remote work options, fully-paid healthcare premiums for employees and generous family coverage, 4% 401k match, gym stipend, transit/parking stipend, and when our offices are operating again we keep a fully-stocked kitchen in each (well beyond just snacks). While our offices are closed due to COVID, we are donating our office food budget to local food banks. Visa sponsorship is an option if required.

If you're an experienced Ruby developer and the above sounds attractive, please feel free to email me your resume or with any other questions: seth.hochberg AT stringandkey DOT com. I'm the Director of Web Engineering at String and Key, and this role reports to me.

Please, no recruiters at this time.
I don't know, these things tend to burn into your memory. Living in the sfbay I am moving out, things that drove me away are numerable. Covid-19, looting/excessive violence w/ riots, and before that a year earlier random power outages due to wind affecting millions (from pg&e), also out of control wildfires burning up large areas of the state. Combining that with the highest taxes in the US and both me and my wife in tech with great salaries but not being able to afford pennisula/sf area(owning a house) makes anywhere but here look amazing.
Try clicking on any of the books listed at https://archive.org/details/nationalemergencylibrary. See the big button that says "Log In and Borrow"?
Meister | Vienna, Austria | Full-Time, remote possible, GMT+2
Backend Engineer, Frontend Engineer, and others.
https://www.meisterlabs.com/jobs/
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Meister was founded in 2006 and is the company behind MindMeister (mind mapping - https://www.mindmeister.com) MeisterTask (taks & project management - https://www.meistertask.com). We currently have an engineering department of 35 people and we're working with Ruby, Elixir, React, Redux, Kubernetes, on Google Cloud. We have 2 offices, the main and the biggest one in Vienna, Austria, and the newer, smaller one, in Seattle, WA.
Yes, the whole economy is built upon cash flows. The moment cash flows stop, it collapses unless one has a reservoir of savings lying elsewhere. Even in Macro Economics, every model has to be stock-flow consistent (check Wynne Godley's work on this).
She's old enough to know the tradeoffs, and she can probably make the choice for each occasion. She can be eye contact averse, which will be deemed off putting by people who don't know her personally just yet, and may make bad first impressions. Or she can make the conscious choice to maintain eye contact at appropriate levels (for some people that literally means having to count silently and look away at regular intervals, because non-stop eye contact is also off putting), at the cost of finding the occasion tiring and needing to curl up somewhere afterwards.

(FWIW, the lock down has limited my social activity to circles that tolerate my eye contact aversion, and I am taking advantage of it to get what slack I can)
No, the article was calling out Carl Icahn for directing $57M last year to other companies he controls while being a minority owner of Hertz and the company obtaining $1.4B in new debt maturing no earlier than 2026 to service expiring debt. This is not being used to finance their working inventory except in the following sense "...it’s 500,000 cars act as collateral for $13 billion in financing — and when the collateral drops in value, the company has to make up the difference in cash." [1] The conventional model is leasing deals with the automakers that allow the rental company to sell back the cars at the end of the lease term, not try and dispose of them on the open market.

[1] https://nypost.com/2020/05/03/hertz-struggles-during-coronav...
>Net income is not profit.

A positive +net income is net profit. The "net profit" has more expenses subtracted than "operating profit" but "net income" _is_ profit.

[fyi I wasn't the one that downvoted your comments.]
> If you can land a job like those at PARC or Bell Labs, then yes, "carreer hacking" is certainly possible.

I wonder what the modern version of these are.
Twitter

Netflix
Profit for everyone? The general premise of capitalism is you have to make something someone else values. If more people get value from it, and they get more value from it, you make more money, so you're very incentivized to benefit as many people as much as possible.
They're a step above in the US as well. I rent from them whenever possible. Their vehicle selection is relatively small, they have few outlets, and I can't say they have the best (or most uniform) service.

But they're the only agency that actually rents cars I have any desire to drive.

I got a brand new full-size Volvo S90 sedan for what all the other agencies charge for a janky Corolla or something. And this wasn't a lucky upgrade scenario, they just had better cars at lower prices when booking.
Bankruptcy is a legally standard way of doing that. Chapter 11 can result in creditors being forced to take losses.
We can stop talking about EEE when Microsoft stop practicing it. This time is just with regard to a community instead of a particular software product. WinGet is the “Extend” step where they overtake AppGet in usage and probably in package registrations until AppGet withers and eventually Extinguishes itself.
taydaelectronics.com lists 1N34s in their catalog, although they are out of stock at the moment. 28 cents each.

(I usually check Tayda first, before ordering from Mouser/Digikey. Often cheaper, although parts take a little longer to arrive.)
Call for ISDS Moratorium During Covid-19 Crisis and Response
I assume they’re secured loans, so the lenders would rather repossess the cars in bankruptcy and sell them themselves rather than support unsecured holders. If not secured, I have no idea.
A policy or law that enforces a certain behavior that contradicts culture, would, by definition be undemocratic. A policy or law that enforces a certain behavior that is already present as a strong cultural norm, would be redundant.
Elm implementation of “Ultimate Tic-tac-toe”
You suggestion make sense to me, why haven't they been implemented? Is it lack of political will or lack of money?
The more I observe the recent and not so recent developments in the OSS world e.g. the funding issues, acquisitions etc, the less extreme I think Stallman is.
I guess the main issue is that languages outside of English generally don't have equivalent words for all of CS terms. I always have trouble explaining what I do (software engineering) in French without resorting to using English words, just because most words don't exist in French, or they don't mean exactly what you mean.

This reminds me that I can't stand people coding in languages other than English. Variable names/comments in French? No thanks.
Science Fiction v. Space Opera (from Soap Opera)

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

Star Trek is science fiction. It is clean, high-minded and with a plot driven by futuristic technologies and what they might mean for us. Science fiction is at least somewhat predictive. Star Wars is space opera, a soap opera set in space. The plot is driven by family squabbles and surprise revelations (ie Luke's sister/father etc). The standards of morality are subverted by the reality of the family drama. If one removes the special effects and fight scenes, Star Wars is almost daytime TV. All it needs is a good coma fantasy.

Another clue from Lucas: "A long time ago in a galaxy far far away." That is code for "This isn't science fiction. It isn't about a possible future. It isn't about what our children's lives might be like. Magic is possible. Just enjoy the show."