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Delphix is a data virtualization company that is doing for databases what VMware did for servers - this is a massive market, and we are on track for similar success. We're looking for software generalists to help build our full stack, from the operating system and filesystem, to the Java management stack, and the GUI.

The engineering team at Delphix is composed of the inventors and architects of the VMware platform, ZFS filesystem, DTrace, Oracle RAC, DataGuard, and Flashback.

We've built an engineering culture where anyone with a good idea can have a voice and drive unique projects. Whether it's developing new abstractions in the filesystem, designing an architecture to interoperate with a novel database, or developing a new cloud paradigm for virtualizing data, there is no lack of hard problems and opportunities at Delphix.

The Delphix platform has already established itself as the premier platform for structured data management in the enterprise world. In our first year of selling, we added 50 large corporate customers, including many from the fortune 500 (Proctor & Gamble, RBS, Fidelity, Deutsche Bank, Comcast, Staples, Qualcomm, among others).

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I don't think you can* paint PhDs with such a broad brush. It largely depends on their field of expertise. A (say) complexity theory PhD is indeed unlikely to be out of touch with reality, but a systems-oriented one is likely to have a pretty decent knowledge of practical aspects of programming.

Being a PhD student myself, I am of course biased on this. But it's frustrating to be generalized as an out-of-touch ivory tower type when that is simply not the case.

* Of course you can. But should you?
Marco Arment's 2006 Resume [pdf]
Avoid making a commotion, just as you wouldn’t stir up the water before fishing. Don’t use a flash out of respect for the natural lighting, even when there isn’t any. If these rules aren’t followed, the photographer becomes unbearably obstrusive. - Henri Cartier-Bresson

"American Photo", September/October 1997, page: 76 http://www.photoquotes.com/showquotes.aspx?id=98

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Cartier-Bresson
The moon does rotate, but the orbit is synchronised such that one rotation occurs per orbit, so from the Earth it appears not to rotate. However, if you photograph the moon over time you find you can see >50% of the surface area (about 60% I think) due to libration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libration
>There are infinite ways Google's information asymmetry could be exploited, and most of them would be completely invisible and 100% effective.

Then how do you know they're not happening?
> Even on a wonderful developer salary, I cannot possibly afford a nice apartment for me and my partner in San Francisco or on the peninsula. Especially compared to East Bay's prices

Ah, yeah. I was unfortunately speaking from the POV of 1-person dwellings with, ahem, somewhat lax standards. I totally empathize with not finding something suitable for 2.

A carpool might be worth looking into, but that said they're not really my cup of tea either (and, less productive than any single BART / train ride). Congrats on the new gig though, hopefully the work will be stimulating enough to offset any other inconvenience :)
Good advice and I think it rings true with what people have adviced me in the past. Could you elaborate on the generalize at 20 part if you can? I do most of the things you suggestions - maybe not open source so much yet.. but something is coming up for that. Though the problem with trying to generalize is that its quite difficult, I always tend to read up on Web Dev articles, general programming etc. Ive started to look more into embedded but the passion is not at the level of web dev for me. So even though I try to read up on new things eventually it does come down to some sort of web stack :) Maybe I read HN too much and its too web oriented. Not sure what you meant by the "higher level stuff"?
Yeah, but you don't need that to get people's attention. Any nuclear bomb at all is a Big Deal.
Berkeley can get crazy, especially that area of town. Glad to hear you're okay.
Similar story here - developer at NYC HFT shop making $180k base + about the same in bonus and equity grants.

The work is mostly very interesting, low-latency java programming, distributed systems, etc on a small highly capable team. 40-50 hours per week.
SE generally requires quite a bit of travel, doesn't it?
> most people who care about photography don't use flash much for direct illumination

I used to be adamantly against flash too. Then I read some of The Strobist blog. Now I am only against bad use of flash, the type built into P&S cameras.

* http://strobist.blogspot.com/

Warning, it is very well written and way too informative. I don't even own a DSLR, but I really want to get my own remote speedlight just for the occasions when I use my friends' nice cameras.
This thread has a ton of comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5027560

I think that it betrays the issue. If people are struggling to get started with the language, then that means that no one is bothering to use it beyond 4Clojure and basic koans.

The fact that there is up-voting and about one Clojure article on the front page every week shows that there is a strong interest in the language, but until the maintainers figure out how to make the language accessible, there won't be much commentary because very few people are knowledgeable enough to say A or B about it.
Not necessarily io bound, they clocked grep with the simple single regexp at 2 GB/sec which is about even with a fast net connection or ssd.
Aaron Swartz: hacker, genius… martyr?
Low dose, though, this is an off-label use, it's not for schizophrenia or bipolar disorder where a bare minimum of 4? times that is needed (and as I remember its dosing is non-linear).

I haven't followed the current info on atypical anti-psychotics possibly inducing metabolic syndrome or worse, but I do watch for signs of it. And that's not why my PCPs are pushing statins, it's because of my lipid levels. Which, strangely enough, are exactly where they were in 1999, they got a bit better for a while, and are now back to a level that wasn't considered worthy of dangerous medical intervention back then.

No doubt there are those who suspect previously not so bad lipid levels are actually bad; me, having watched the drama of lipids and health since around when it first became a big thing, and all the revisions in the conventional wisdom, I'm ... a bit more conservative with all that.
This is why I freelance remotely. I set my own hours, charge by day of work (or by week), and don't really need to commute (drove less than 200 miles in 6 months(grocery shopping)). I know I'm lucky.
Homeless in Germany are much more rare than in the USA due to the simple fact that we have a government-guaranteed unemployment payment program called Hartz 4.

If you're unemployed for a very long time, you are entitled to these things (if you're unemployed in the short term, you're actually entitled to more than the listed):

* the state will pay your rent, water, heating, trash retrieval, etc. (maximum level of that depends on where in Germany you live)

* the state will pay your insurances for rent, illnesses, accidents and extended medical care

* the state will pay you 374€ per month, which you can use for power, internet, food, etc.

A small note: The mentioned insurances are mandatory in Germany and will be removed along with the tax from your job earnings (as an employee) before the cash is even put into your bank account.

So, to become homeless you need to either choose it willingly, or be in such a mental state that you somehow manage to slip through the social security net, but aren't functioning badly enough that the state hasn't picked you up yet.
His words betray a naive understanding of how humans choose to harm one another. For example high school students have been beaten to death for being gay, or bullied into suicide for geeking out about online gaming. Martin Luther King was investigated and harassed by the FBI and CIA; now there is a statue of him on the National Mall.

> If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place.

No. There are things that we all do that are moral, ok, and even legal, that can be used against us. Privacy violations enable that.
A definition of "Major City" might be useful :)
covered by the guardian 6 years ago

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jun/24/usa.science

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nth_Country_Experiment

thanks bloggers!
Err.. No. Buddhism is just a non-theistic religion. It's a religion without deities.
In the middle of an economic recession, why would a bill allowing more foreign workers be passed?
I can confirm that. At least 15 years ago in Bavaria, the official statement was: "If innocents are in danger, abort the chase. Get his licence plates, broadcast his description, and we get him".
Source: Was a cop back then.
I read once that there was a debate or something in UK about tax avoidance, and the official stand was that if a company can find and exploit a way to reduce taxation, they are entirely in their right to do so. Can't find the source though.
I agree completely. I believe that this is a cultural and political problem.

I cant imagine a politician saying that he will fund prisons get any votes whatsoever. It would be suicide. And whatever fruits would come from such measure , he would never see, and the population as a whole is likely to ignore.

This is the kind of problem that comes from Democracy, unfortunately. Not prisons, but the inherent inhability to address a real, provable issue that falls flat on public opinion.

I also believe this is an economic policy issue as well. The problem is exacerbated by increasingly unequal living conditions. Its no secret that crime and socio-economic status is highly correlated.

The above statements really make the problem a lot larger, however i believe this wont be fixed until something changes in the above, because convicts are the most politically and economically weak part of society.
All metaphors are flawed! :-)
I think the article is pretty misleading given that the British carried out their first nuclear bomb test in 1952 and the French in 1960, it was pretty obvious already that other countries could build a bomb.

Reading the original report they assumed a reactor capable of producing plutonium was available so I'd say the real reasons for the experiment is to answer questions like, "if we sell countries reactors how big a step would it be for them to build a bomb". Given smart (but not Einstein smart) trained physicists with access to the publicly available literature, the answer they come to is 3 man years. Thats for an implosion device, a gun design would have been "finished much sooner".

Reading between the lines I guess there was also an element of trying to figure out how much of other countries nuclear programmes was based on espionage (the British were partners in the Manhattan Project, and the Soviets had had several spies there). They conclude that "its not surprising China has progressed so rapidly".

Finally its also worth noting that the reviewers were less confident in the design then the scientists were, they dont say it wouldn't work, just that it would need testing to work out the kinks (which the designers also say they just seem to expect less bugs :)
I'm shocked it's a fake-nimation... As a kid I loved Max and was amazed what the highest end computers can do. I was patiently waiting for that tech to trickle down to us mortal consumers. Of course I only got that when I became 'grown up' and now I learned it was all fake to begin with... Glad I found out now though, and not back then.
I even remember, as an Amiga owner at the time, of a word circulating in Amiga circles (way way pre-internet) that Max is created using Amigas.... Silly me.
no not on your life and they prob won't for several years.
Handlebars.js 1.0.0 released
I checked emberjs.com immediately upon seeing the Handlebars release. There was no Ember 1.0 yet, but it was updated to rc5. Excited for the 1.0 release, thanks in advance to the team for all their work!
I'm sure there are plenty of PhDs that are good developers, but in my experience that is in spite of rather than as a result of their degree.

After having interviewed thousands of candidates over 15 years, if I see a tilde in your URL on your resume, I'm immediately a little bit less interested.
Also this idea does not sound great why not create a game or or something useful like a Pinterest app?
Get your resume together - start approaching other companies in your area looking for developers, or start taking on freelance clients and spend your free time building up a small client base that you can comfortably live off.

Once you know you have something that you can jump off to, give in your notice.

Something similar happened to me as a sole developer (I wrote about it here: https://medium.com/this-happened-to-me/86b9d27f9962)
Moon rotating has nothing to do with from where the observer is observing it. An object is rotating if it produces centrifugal force.
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Are Go and D threats to Python?
Why I Want To Work In The Porn Industry
I feel kind of gross for creeping on his old resume, but the idea of having "jobs@mydomain.com" as an e-mail address is a really good one I hadn't thought to do before.
I think you really hit the nail on the head with this, especially with 3. The tryout project.

IMHO any sort of interview process is a crappy way to hire people. The best jobs I've had, I got by meeting people informally. Jobs where I've gone through a really formal interview process have always turned out "just okay" at best.
This is the short blurb that went along with his sharing it today: http://www.marco.org/2013/06/01/my-2006-resume
I use 'synclient PalmDetect=1 PalmMinWidth=3', otherwise I bump it with my palms. The touchpad works fine, though I still use an external mouse at home and work. I've been pretty happy with the screen. I can see some edge-bleed on early in the boot sequence in a dark room, but it mostly goes away. I normally use a light background, but I've never noticed it after startup, except at 100% brightness with black background in a dark room. The screen gets pretty bright so I don't go above 50% brightness unless I'm outside. The viewing angle on the screen is quite good.
Many people think that the email addresses in their profiles are visible to other people.
"Yoga removed from its spiritual context is just a kitschy low grade thing that may hurt you while taking your money."

As I yoga professor and a software developer I can say your definition is perfect.
> we should be grateful

Jesus Christ, this is the top comment on Hacker News.

The sentiment is very similar to what you may hear in repressive countries: "Thank God, they don't do x to us".

This is very disturbing.
>In the 1960s World War II was well over, and the United States and the Soviet Union were both settling into a nice, long, cold war. Both countries were nervous, knowing that each had designed and built nuclear weapons. At least, though, they were the only two countries that could manage it.
Nice article but it gets the time-scales slightly wrong.

The Soviet Union tested their first device in 1949.

The United Kingdom in 1952 (and their first thermonuclear bomb in 1957).

France in 1960.

China in 1964.

So by the time this programme began, all the countries in the NPT nuclear club already had fission bombs and at least the UK had a hydrogen bomb. The idea was not to figure out which country would be third but just how many nuclear powers there would be. 1967 is only one year before the first countries signed the NPT so proliferation was clearly on everyone's mind at that time.
Ask HN: Is 30 too old to start in software engineering or CS?
I read a lot about age bias and the emphasis on youth in the software industry, but I have no real context for it. I'm 25 right now and I graduated from college and am working, but I'm kicking myself for not majoring in CS (especially b/c I was at a school with a great CS program). I took an intro CS class my senior year, loved and excelled in it, and have taught myself quite a bit online. I'm thinking about going back to school so I can have a few years to really dive into all these CS concepts and learn them back and front. That said, I'm nervous about committing to a multi-year degree program if I'm just going to be too old to get hired anywhere. Is 25 even too old to get started? Would 30 be too old? (likely age after another 4 year degree).
Yeah no, magic quotes didn't ever sanitize.
Well said. It is damn tough (if not impossible) to keep the same sort of intellectual stimulation going when you have to "work" at a dull, boring job (or maybe any job, other than doing pure research).

I definitely miss having time just explore, play and do interesting stuff, now that I have both a $DAYJOB and a startup. However, the goal is to get the startup to a point where I can either:

A. IPO or sell the company, and walk way with enough cash to be financially independent for life, giving me all time I want to do "fun" stuff.

B. Get the startup to a point where it makes sense to hire somebody else to be CEO, appoint myself some nonsense title like "Chief Scientist", collect a reasonable salary, and spend all my time researching and playing with neat stuff.

It makes me sad though, every time I look around my apartment and see all these math books, or philosophy books, or history books or whatever, that reflect some interest I've been wanting to explore forever, but don't have time for. :-(
I hate you I hate you I hate you, you fucking rapist piece of shit. But this article is fucking amazing. But you are a rapist scumbag. Fuck you Julian Assange, you could have been so fucking brilliant but you are a fucking rapist and FUCK YOU
That fragmentation thing is dangerous because fragmented people have troubles maintaining their rights.

We desperately need politicians that will figure out this fragmentation thing.
Yawn who gives a shit. They suck!
Yes, it is.
I'm a serial entrepreneur who became a Yoga professor last year I can say that the author is totally equivocated in some points. He is judging something that isn't Yoga.
MY WEEK WITHOUT ANY SOCIAL MEDIA – EXCEPT FOR GOOGLE+
I empathize with this a ton. Reminds me of a David Foster Wallace commencement speech in which the takeaway point was something to the effect of 'you graduates don't yet know what day in, day out really means.' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFt7EzpsZQo)

Come on folks, let's think up a better primary waking activity for the average person than "attach yourself to someone else's dreams, and help build their wealth, at the expense of your own intellectual freedom and sanity." It's a first world problem, but I think privileged first world people should put some effort into thinking up something better for everyone. Effort meaning an intentional foray into some creative economics.

The economic world is something that can be shaped. The problems, of course, are where to start, and how to do it :-)
Ah, so that's why the faces remained eerily black-and-white!
If Our Gadgets Could Measure Our Emotions
"Should make it start not rotating" - what does that sentence even mean?
The Prom Server Becomes Sentient
Why not just use normal JavaScript inheritance?

http://jsperf.com/backbone-vs-john-resig-class/10
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Yeah, it's so annoying. Everytime I go to the moon I remember how I hate that uneven gravity!
It just struck me while reading this and I'm probably just reiterating something that was better put by somebody smarter than me, but:

The correct response to "Why do you care so much about privacy? Do you have something to hide?" is: "From whom?".

If you define privacy from the wrong end, you end up with the wrong conclusions. The important question isn't "What do you feel comfortable sharing?", but "How come so many parties have curious interests in what I'm sharing?".

Of course, if you are google, phrasing the question as "think about what you want to share" makes it so that in answering the question, people basically follow a path that is profitable to you. With that, they focus your suspicions on the wrong end of the conundrum.

Yes of course, you should be careful about what you do anywhere in public and yes of course people have lessons to learn with the internet. But it's not as if humans are completely removed from the basic concept. In Medieval Times, people didn't run naked across the market thinking nobody would see them. Treating people as though the most important thing was to educate them about not posting naked pictures of themselves online (or whatever makes a better example for "you shouldn't be doing it in the first place") means infantilising them.

No. The question is: Who is so curious about what I do online. Cui bono!?

Google most definitely profits from hyperfocussing people on themselves. Just like websites do SEO to present themselves in their best way to the search engines, we now want humans who make themselves presentable, easy to index entries in the databases of our society.
This is good to know. I'm planning to relo to Austin from Dallas some time next year and I'm experiencing some sticker shock at the housing prices down there recently.

If the salaries are trending up, then at least it's making up for the housing prices, unlike the Bay Area.
Or rather, the other way round...
Unless you have funding and are debt free take the job.