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Bitcoin.com | Tokyo | iOS Engineer, Android Engineer, Backend Engineer(Java) | Full-time, Remote(APAC) | https://www.bitcoin.com

Bitcoin.com - the industry leader in creating the next generation of sound financial tools and introducing cryptocurrency to the world - is looking for a talented Software Engineer for the Bitcoin.com Web team, working on the development of several new and existing Financial Services department's products.

As our new software engineer, you will work to build and maintain several new and existing products that enable our users to buy, sell, trade, track and invest their cryptocurrencies easily and swiftly. Scope of work will include integrations with new partners, building completely new features and products from scratch, maintaining entire Bitcoin.com website and all its subdomains, ensuring it provides the best UX for a very big pool of our users.

This is an unrivaled opportunity to work with a team of highly skilled engineers, designers, product managers and marketers to work on the next stage of finance, banking, and other cryptocurrency financial services.

Check the links below or feel free to contact me directly either on hacker news or andrei@bitcoin.com

Software Engineer, Android: https://wrkbl.ink/bvHoycd

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Capacity for what? The line could theoretically be extended by a tunnel to Secaucus but even then only a fraction of the ridership will take that branch and get off at the first stop. The West side is already serviced by two lines so where else can the 7 go?
Chippy chips haven't been the same since they had a hint of the taste of the newspaper outer wrapper's ink.
How big is your team?

What kind of process do you use to on-board new engineers to the point that they can make good design decisions within your architecture?
PageUp/PageDown key binding is strange. I'd go to a natural one instead (the keys are named for a reason) and bind top / bottom of the document to Ctrl + PageUp / Ctrl + PageDown.
Gravitational (YC S15) | Backend Engineer | US, Europe, Canada, Remote OK | https://gravitational.com

Do you enjoy building security and deployment tools for other engineers? Join us to hack on https://github.com/gravitational/teleport anywhere in the U.S, Canada and Europe. Most of our code is Go, we have very little technical debt, our codebase is clean and small.

We expect you to be comfortable with the following:

* Go.
* Linux, networking.
* Scalability or security experience for systems software is welcome.

We’re looking for senior engineers to join the Teleport team. Gravitational is a company started by engineers to build products for engineers. We are a stable and growing company.
We offer:

* Competitive salary and equity.
* 401k with company match.
* Offsite retreat for everyone once a year.
* Excellent health insurance.
* Work anywhere in the U.S.

Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/gravitational We are also looking for Full-stack Engineers, On-Call System Administrators and SRE, you can find more details on our jobs page.
Agreed, isolation is a good reason to opt for microservices. One app goes offline, others still accessible, and you can do isolated maintenance. That, and features that aren't directly related, are super lightweight (quick to build, run, low on memory and CPU) as little projects.
I heard it was an urban myth. Titor predicted a lot of things that did not come true.
Startup Funding: October 2020
This would be a rose by a different name. So long as you're testing your branch's state, and not the end result of the merge — as most CI systems & GitHub end up pushing people towards — you're going to run into problems.

What makes testing the end result of the merge tricky, I suppose, is that it changes over time. (As other people merge into whatever "stabilize branch" you have, the result of merging your branch and the new HEAD of the stabilize branch must change.)
Do these individualistic people wear masks or is that to collectivist?

That’s the dealbreaker question for me right now.

Point being, even individualists are part of a community.
Insurance...

For one house that we were interested in, in an area that's not super risky (which is very relative), it's about $2500 per year through CalFAIR. That's only for fire, and doesn't include any other aspect of homeowners insurance.
Would you say the same about code that, for example, is designed to fail when used in a missile? E.g. navigation code that deliberately pilots into the ocean if onboard something going faster than Mach 3?
In C++ you can pass a no-arguments lambda with local bindings that approximates pass-by-name.

If actually evaluating the expression is something expensive and its result might not be needed, it can be the right thing. But whoever designs the function interface has to anticipate that possibility.
> How do you do failover if a server fails

Not sure if you do not know anything about typical ESXi and vSphere setups, but if a server fails, all virtual machines are automatically migrated to a healthy server. And of course, your HPE G10s are compute only, all storage is on the fiber channel connected SAN.
"Ox is easier to use than Vim because it doesn’t have modes where the keyboard is repurposed, however it takes the idea of being a keyboard-only editor and being able to act just like an IDE after some configuration."
This is the first time I've heard of Conway's law used in a positive or at least non-negative way.
Amazon Web Services - AWS | Sr Software development Engineer | Herndon, Virginia + Washington DC | ONSITE/REMOTE until June | Full-time | Visa Transfer

I’m building a brand new team from the ground up and I’m looking for strong mid to sr level software engineers who want to work on projects and teams that deliver services at a global scale! You would be part of a tier 1 team, building applications and services used by all AWS customers!

We have positions for Sys Devs and Software development engineers at all levels. Contact me via email if you have any additional questions or are interested in the role. We are all currently remote until June and would then require colo in virgina offices.

Tech stack: nodejs, nosql, AWS, golang, java, react, angular, dynamodb, kubernetes, docker

contact: Hiring Manager - John Nelson - ajnls@amazon.com
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I remember being rolled back to my room super excited. It was awesome.

And then the drugs wore off and the pain started...
As a native English speaker, I have no idea what this person was trying to communicate :)
I don't know anything about OCaml, but if it's anything like other slightly-unpopular languages, GCP probably was much less supported by the ecosystem than AWS. The double-whammy of an also-ran cloud platform with an also-ran language will really get you.
> Scala seemed like a mess at the time (from a distance - no idea whether I'm right).

I love Scala, and it's getting better year over year from all angles. It's also getting a little more opinionated. The upcoming version 3 removes long-standing warts and adds great features including sum types, intersection types, enums, and more. A huge thing is that it addresses binary compatibility issues, by allowing Scala 2 and 3 to use each other's libraries. Also, Scala has wonderful, super stable JavaScript support with Scala.js, and under development native support Scala Native.
It sounds like you have some domain knowledge, so some layman questions--

Does electrolysis research make sense in a region that is already short of freshwater and experiencing drought?

Would you say that the science of electrolysis of seawater is worth researching and investing further?
what is the advantage over micro?
Microsoft is much wealthier than the “entire music industry” but this still might not be a hill they want to die on.
$45/mo would be the minimum payment, assuming the free limit announced today actually lasted. Let's say they begin crying 12 months from now and knock it down even by 50%, now you're looking at $810 minimum per year per client site. Multiply that up by, say, 1000 sites, and you're starting to look at a "free" service that might completely pay for its own development within a year or two.
It's not clear to me what the intent of the person I was replying to was, and I agree with you that there is a reasonable likelihood that is what they meant.

At the same time, when you're having a conversation about this sort of thing, it helps to be precise so that there aren't misunderstandings, which is why I pointed this out.

That the country is "very clearly ran by the CCP" may be mostly true but does not mean that there's no national identity, culture, shared history, etc. which are not fully encompassed by the party.

People conflate these sorts of things with varying degrees of intention. This causes harm, even if it isn’t intended (and often, it is).

When we lose nuance in our speech, our ability to understand each other diminishes.
Alphabet’s Project Amber, quest for depression biomarker that fell short of goal
You might want to ask Huawei what they think about the Android monopoly. I think the same issues apply to Chromium, but not Linux.

I think you can probably figure out why.
> Ox is easier to use than Vim because it doesn’t have modes where the keyboard is repurposed, however it takes the idea of being a keyboard-only editor and being able to act just like an IDE after some configuration.
It's what happens when computer programmers try to pretend the law is an algorithm... the law doesn't work like computers do. To a computer, every sequence of bits is the same as another sequence in the same order; the law, on the other hand, cares about the source of the bits.

There is a great classic essay describing this called "What color are your bits?"

https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
As an Opera user since before the Cheomium switch, it’s honestly a piece of shit now. I constantly find myself annoyed by popups or features that just do not make sense. I really do need to switch to firefox, I just don’t want to lose my add obs..
It's also 10x the cut from a credit card processor... But sure, give away a significant part of your profit...
What I've found, from a regulatory perspective, is that US regulations just require that speedometers be reasonably accurate, but EU regulations require that speedometers err in the direction of reading too high rather than too low. The EU rules must have their impact in the US because, at least anecdotally, it seems like just about every car's speedometer reads 2-3 mph high.

There's also apparently a rule in the US that requires that the speedometer never read low for commercial vehicles... probably another reason that the same rule gets applied to passenger vehicles, for parts commonality.

The speedometer is just based on the rotation of one of the axles, usually via a magnet and reed switch in modern cars. If you do the arithmetic you'll find that just tire wear can have a surprisingly large impact on the final speedometer indication, a few percent easily. Presumably if your tires are brand new the speedometer is much closer to accurate.
Very cool, seems like something I wanted to implement for my life dashboard (health/sleep/exercise/etc) https://github.com/karlicoss/dashboard

I'm heavily relying on pandas frames for manipulating the data, and have been thinking of ways to make it type safe[r], will give your library a try!
That has historically not been the direction AWS prices go, but as I mention in my other comment, it’s trivial to move if AWS tries to put you over a barrel. Object storage is a commodity, and Docker images are objects, so shrug. It would be cool if Cloudflare supported container registry primitives backed by user provided Backblaze B2 bucket config info, for example (maybe you can do this with workers?).

Properly parameterize your build/CI scripts (in this case, your container registry host and how to auth against it) for portability. Portability is your insurance against poor service provider behavior.
Hey SpaceX Steve!

I actually sent in an application last week for one of the roles listed. Totally agree it's a great time, you folks have a lot of of very cool things going on.

I do have two related questions. Just based on the listings I took a look at last week and what's here now, the engineering orgs at least seem relatively flat.
Would you say that's true or is it just whats on the roster? Second question is if 'Senior' means anyting specific at SpaceX or is it just intended to communicate expectations around experience/skills?

Thanks!
Of course that line item is massively larger in the US than in Switzerland because it has to line the pockets of union bosses, lawyers, negotiators, administrators, and health insurance companies.
I remember that eBay seriously rewrote their backend three times — not because they kept doing it wrong, but because they grew.

An architecture that fits well for a small company is inadequate for a large company, and vice versa.
I'm trying to remember who waas called in to do data recovery on a VAX that turned up in a Sauusolito garage back in the 1990s. I want to say Clifford Stoll, though I'm unsure and cant find an online reference.
I thought something similar... they referenced emacs, and they took away... customized coloring? And appearance?

Really?
If you're like facebook, it makes sense to split user profiles and relationships to two microservices, but if you handle a few tens of thousands of users it does not, so you're doing yourself a disservice by using a poor example to drive the point
A better way to look at it, for me, is to start with what a vaccine is doing: it's not giving you resistance to a pathogen.

It's triggering your immune system to produce and/or store things, the presence of which then confers resistance when subsequently exposed to the actual pathogen.

So from that perspective, the next question is, "Do naturally occurring pathogens, presented in a natural manner, produce an optimal triggering themselves?" To which the answer, as you might guess from the messiness of real-world biology, is "No."

It turns out that while amazing our immune systems are also general purpose and adaptable, and such systems can get confused, or go off on a tangent, or focus on the wrong thing, etc etc.

Vaccines interact with this system by balancing two things: (1) how do I trigger the strongest, purest immune response that's effective on the thing I want to immunize against & (2) how do I avoid triggering such a strong immune response that I convince the body to attack itself?

It turns out, with modern biology, we actually can do better than nature on (1). Even if (2) still requires some guesswork (and a lot of testing).
Manhattan commuters peaked in 1946. The train system was able handle that level of demand without falling apart. All of the messaging from MTA about increasing ridership causing delays is a disingenuous lie.
Does github actually have to honor every request that comes in? I thought the youtubes of the world did that because of the volume, but hypothetically, couldn't they do some due diligence and push back on requests they don't think are valid instead of just taking them down and requiring the repository owner to appeal. I'm sure it would be more expensive for them, but it's still a choice.
Most data is stored in the same database server instance. There is a database access service that with seperate modules for each database, by convention each of these modules has exclusive access to it's tables with the exception of a special module that performs cross-database joins, needed for performance with some reporting tasks. Other services don't talk directly to the database, they go through the database service. Some services use their own data stores in a variety of formats.
This article is mischaracterizing Silver's model. The author writes:

"if the election were to happen today, what is the probability of each candidate winning?"

This is not at all what Silver's model does. Silver writes and makes clear that there is more variance in the model a few months out than a few days out. (In other words - Biden may be 90% now but four months ago if the polls were identical he would be at less than 90% since there would be more time for voter change and real world events.)

I honestly don't even get what Taleb is truly arguing here. He is using a lot of statistical arguments but ultimately Silver is making a model to predict an outcome. It is like a weather forecast.

I may say that four months from now the chance it rains in Los Angeles is 2%. However, the day before with more info I may be able to say it will rain 90% of the time. There isn't anything wrong with this, even though Taleb seems to suggest this wrong (from my read)
And don’t come to Louisiana either, WWOZ is on the Internet for a reason!

(just kidding, we need all of you we can get)
It works the other way around as well, American lack of cultural understanding of China also makes American influence operations seem very stiff and ineffective. I remember seeing a pro-democracy speech given by some Sinologist at an American University, the audience of which was mainland Chinese people. It was full of Americanisms and cultural elements which I assume would be very offputting and ineffective.

As for the Russian operations, the writer in the article briefly touches an aspect which I believe has the essence of why some of their operations work so well: it seems like the employees at the Internet Research Agency are having lots of fun subverting America. A few weeks ago I saw that one of the front organizations that claimed to be from somewhere in the US had an acronym that translated into something like "fuck" in Russian. I can't imagine the Chinese bureaucracy would allow such childish pranks to be part of a state influence operation, but paradoxically allowing your employees to mess around like this has a strong effect on the efficacy of your operations.

This actually mirrors a lot of what Paul Graham says about procrastination, and Jordan Peterson about play being an essential human activity. Simply put, if you don't feel like you're playing, you'll never get into a flow state where you can do your best work.
AnyDesk is really good.
GPS can provide highly accurate measurements using existing infrastructure and relatively low cost hardware. It also makes the results highly auditable since the GPS (and assisted GPS) system is public and well-documented, and open, standards-compliant methods exist in the surveying and DAQ industry for working with GPS data.

Laser gates certainly have advantages, but they require more setup and ultimately I am skeptical that they would provide more certainty than GPS results. As mentioned elsewhere a survey GPS receiver can produce raw data which can be processed after the fact as a form of audit, something not really possible with laser gates.
I think the objection was that a "haunted forest" sounds like it should be something old and natural and tangled and wild (think the Old Forest near the beginning of Lord of the Rings).

"Haunted pine plantation" just doesn't have the same vibe to it.
Newcomers have to navigate the copyright politics whether they like it or not. The amercian copyright laws have created this mess not the op.
I'd be curious what you think about Scala 3. Interoperability with Scala 2 and Java solves the library problem. And the language itself seems to really take on learnings from its own history and other modern languages.
Something like IAM seems necessary to authorize fork PRs to pull from but not push to registries:

https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/skaffold/issues/4432

in order to rate limit unauthenticated pulls:

https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/download-rate-limit/
Modal refers to Vim's insert and normal [and visual, etc] modes, where [almost] anything typed in insert mode is entered into the buffer, and you can [sorta] only navigate and manipulate the text from normal mode. The command examples you quote don't really have any bearing on modality.
Historically shared DRM keys are typically symmetric encryption keys, not asymmetric ones, and thus not primes. I am not aware of any instances of an "illegal prime" that was prime because it was the private part of an RSA-based DRM cryptosystem. As far as I know, all of them were either encoded as primes deliberately, or just coincidentally prime.

Edit: except for this one, I guess. This one wasn't about DRM, but rather just a locked down device. TI sent bogus DMCA notices for that one, but as far as I can tell there is no solid legal theory under which those primes were illegal, and nobody ever got sued, so we can file this one under "manufacturer upset they no longer control their users' devices throws a legally meaningless fit".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_signing_ke...
Cities can change and people adapt. It takes multiple decades , but is has happened before, and it probably will happen again. Cars use too much space and don't scale. That's a simple fact.
Remember George Bush pushing hydrogen?

The big problem with hydrogen is that it currently is a smokescreen for a certain industry that has a ton of hydrogen attached to carbon atoms desperate to maintain relevance in the "green" energy revolution.

It is staring down a massive economic challenge as well, shared with any new five-year nuclear reactor project or similar cutting edge power generation scheme, is that solar/wind/storage is in the prime curve of double-digit improvements to various aspects of cost, scale, storage, performance every year.

BEVs are poised to undercut ICEs fundamentally in cost and simplicity. Solar/wind is about to drop under even natural gas in LCOE for even installed turbines. All of those have three year projections of continued double-digit percentage drops in cost and massive increases in scale.

Even worse for hydrogen, most of that is using existing infrastructure for transmission, so while charging stations need to be built out for EVs, it is far easier to do that than put in hydrogen storage / transport infrastructure.

So even if some hydrogen article targets a certain cost on the batteries / EVs / power transmission lines, in five years things will look completely different.

Maybe aviation?
In Hunt for Virus Source WHO Let China Take Charge
This is a spot-on hypocrisy that they'll never admit. Diversity creates strife that otherwise wouldn't exist: https://freakonomics.com/2011/12/01/the-violent-legacy-of-af...
That's understandable given the current state of things. If and when you are able to relocate, please don't hesitate to apply.
Dutch whale tail sculpture catches metro train
So whose opinion are we supposed to consult? The local governments whose corruption we are trying to measure? Asking the local people seems like the best way to do it to me.
They have to dig two new tunnels in the next 20 years. Just sweeten the deal and make it three. The new guy could make it happen sooner. The bigger deal is that MTA will have to implement zoned fares to keep from undercutting NJT. That is the unspoken feature that OMNY will be bringing to the city.
> This is how you get people to stop doing nice things like writing open software.

Docker stopped making open software before they limited the pulls. Docker Enterprise for Windows (Windows dockerd, basically), Docker Desktop for Mac, and Docker Desktop for Windows are all closed-source and proprietary.

Docker-the-company hasn’t cared much for open source in a while.
And yet runs on gas stations happen during crisis times and they do in fact run out of gas.
Of course, this scheme only works if the leaked emails are published at least 10 days after the day the email was sent. If we build non-repudiation into the DKIM framework itself we can do better, as this paper does.

https://www.mit.edu/~specter/assets/pdf/sec21KF.pdf