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Notion - Portland, OR - Full-stack Developer http://usenotion.com

Notion is a new company focused on simplifying business intelligence tools to help teams and companies make data-driven decisions.

You’re ready to be a key player at a startup using the latest in backend and front-end technologies to provide better insights for workers like us to make better data-driven decisions when building products, systems, and businesses. We think there is a huge opportunity for teams to leverage the data they already have and we’re ready to provide the fast-paced, forward-thinking environment you’ve been dreaming of.

Come join our startup team with a track record of success to create your perfect future.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

Be a leader of product development. You should be able to work independently, as well as mentor more junior developers. You’ll play a critical role in defining timelines and development approaches.

Act as a voice of the customer and product. We believe design and engineering coexist side-by-side, so you’ll work closely with us on user experience, design, and technology – not just on technical feasibility, but creative possibilities. This is your opportunity to create an amazing product and see it grow beyond even what we can imagine.

A generalist that loves the details. You believe in writing maintainable backend and front-end performant code that is well organized. You believe in tests and testing. You see the web as just another client and want to push the limits on what’s possible.

Love a challenge. Embrace risk. We know startups aren’t for everyone, and so do you. We don’t have to put in 80hr work weeks, but you know fixing that last bug matters; adding that key feature means a huge win for our latest customer; that we’ll try a lot of new things and some will work, some will not; that we’re building the best team you’ve ever been a member of.

Requirements:

* Strong command of core backend (Ruby, Java, Scala, Python, Go) and front-end (HTML5, Javascript, JSON) technologies

* Confidence in designing APIs and interfaces

* Worked with REST APIs and comfortable with the whole request / response lifecycle.

* Strong understanding of JQuery and DOM manipulation techniques

* Experience developing complex applications

* Experience integrating data from third-party APIs

* Expert debugging skills

Here are some “nice-to-haves”:

* Exposure to true agile methodologies

* Familiarity with automated build tools and Continuous Integration

* Understanding of what it takes to implement an application with cross-browser support

Email us at jobs@usenotion.com
Well.. this is a black market with no ability to self-regulate. So, the prices are going to be incredibly low compared to their everyday value; to be a bit crude, these are crackhead prices.
I meant the modules that were talked about in the parent comment. Not as a predecessor to scsh. The Perl module I referenced isn't to use Perl as a shell and neither are the modules mentioned by heavenlyhash. They instead allow one to use system commands as if they were previously declared functions. While scsh and clash both do this to allow you to use it as an interactive shell they do not extend the parent language (as far as I can see) to be used like a shell scripting replacement. Emacs is a slightly different case as im not sure where the line between elisp and emacs should be drawn. If yiliu look at the modules in the other comments you'll see they all have roughly the same interface as the Perl module from 1994, before many of the languages, python, go, java existed or were really used by then.
It's a pain, but really not that bad. You tweet from your phone (or use email/SMS/whatever else). 20 characters is manageable and secure, as long as it's randomly generated.
Agreed. Some ideas for the resistance of traffic analysis in the provision of Tor hidden services: layered architecture with aggressive caching at edge nodes, non-deterministic latency or update fetch algorithm (eg. random) between nodes, use of push rather than pull (edgier nodes have no knowledge of the location of content-publishing parent, only its key to auth inbound updates as they are supplied from unique addresses periodically) where feasible.
The Secret of Successful Remote Working and 5 Tools to Get You There
https://www.process.st/2014/08/virtual-team-software/

Communication is a crucial element to success for any business. But for a businesses that has an outsourcing operation or runs on virtual teams, communication is life or death.
> every Wednesday we go surfing.

I was in the military were they have a thing called mandatory fun time. basically, you are required to go to a bbq or some other "fun" thing. I hated it. I'm one of those people who draw a hard line between work and the rest of my life. when I'm at work, I'm working crazy hard to get the job done. period. when I'm not at work, I'm doing my own thing. period. I have no desire to mix the two.

> beers on Friday afternoon

again, this is a negative, from my perspective. I would much rather be home relaxing or out drinking with my friends then forced to go out with coworkers. I like my coworkers, and we are friends, but the minute you try to take my Fridays away is the minute I start looking for a new job.

I'm an good employee. I work hard and over deliver compared to what I'm payed. but I will not give up my freedom for my job. no way.

and it doesn't matter of you say it isn't mandatory. if you hold company events, they are mandatory. a rose by any other name it's still a rose.
MongoDB is web scale

http://www.mongodb-is-web-scale.com
I'm not sure what you mean by the pyramid-shaped configuration. In any case, n queries taking log(n) + n time each is O(n log n). I think you're right that a range tree should work fine.
Has anyone had an experience of "gridlock" in a distributed system? Where bottlenecks cascade due to failover, etc?
Stories like this have a certain nostalgic appeal to some people. Yeah, let's go back to the good ol' days when kids would play in dirt, swim in raw sewage, and eat random bugs they found in the bushes. Death to soap, death to the hand sanitizer, death to every artificial environment... except virtual ones! Yeah, caveman with an iPad!

The problem with such nostalgic appeals is that they grossly underestimate modern science's ability to fix its own problems given enough time and resources. Immune system needs germs to practice on? What about a pill/lotion/inhaler/whatever that contains a variety of carefully selected and relatively harmless germs to give your immune system plenty of practice without risk of any life-threatening infection? You know, like a vaccine.

If the hygiene hypothesis becomes well-established, every pharmaceutical company will jump into the market with "germ pills". They could become as commonplace as multivitamins (though I hope they're more effective than today's multivitamins). Sooner or later, even FDA might begin to recommend a daily dose of mild pathogens for children. Problem solved, until we cause the next problem, wash, rinse, repeat.

Usually, the solution to science is more science.
As I said before, Google is not perfect, but I never paid much attention to things like Scroogled.
5 trends in oil and gas technology, and why you should care
CIELAB is great. Even just being able to average colors is really useful.
What is the best VM software for OSX? I tried using VirtualBox but it seems kind of slow and unreliable for daily use.
When I get into a funk thinking about the above points, I cheer myself up thinking that the % of people who used the 8-bits are probably a somewhat self-selected group, and that all the today's programming-unfriendly UX did is extend the computer use to the rest. But the original cohort will program today just as they did way back when.

And furthermore, today we have the Internet and its mind boggling amount of information. Did I like learning on my Atari 800 XL that came with a programming manual and booted up in 1s? Absolutely. Would I have killed to have access to all the hardware register information, instruction set manuals etc. that I couldn't get at the time without--in my country--being politically connected? You bet ;-)
I think that that is a ridiculous statement. Of course giving a bad actor more opportunity to act badly increases the risk.
Dell is a hardware company, Apple is primarily a closed-garden software company with hardware as a lock-in to the former.
> In WWII they allowed the enemy to sink whole ships to accomplish same.

Whoa, that's interesting if true. Do you have any links you can share about this?
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Google doesn't have moderators posting messages like "uh-oh your illegal content is being taken down. Here's a list of other places to post it." Meanwhile, Reddit has precisely that. Warning: link to NSFW board, though this post isn't itself NSFW.

http://www.reddit.com/r/TheFappening/comments/2fa2a1/meta_ef...

In which the mods write: "On another note: please use other hosting sites besides imgur.com. We have a large list of whitelisted domains listed here that you should be uploading to besides imgur. Do not put all of your eggs in one basket."
For under $1000 one can get a year or two late Gigabyte on Newegg or wherevere with ram for dedicated graphics.

I'm not affiliated with them, I just own an U2442, and am extremely satisfied.
The "legacy ThinkPad weirdness" is one of the reasons why ThinkPads are popular for Linux (and free OS's in general). Older ThinkPads were IBM PC first and laptop second, thus were designed such that the whole thing works reasonably well when you run DOS on it (ie. OS that predates ACPI and thus has no idea that such thing even exists) and it not only worked, but was actually supported by IBM. This allowed Linux to work reasonably without any special considerations towards laptop-specific hardware. Somehow, this was deemed insufficient and commmunity had reverse engineered almost complete BIOS and embedded controller APIs for ThinkPad line (it certainly helps that these APIs are remarkably backward compatible, even though IBM->Lenovo transition had broken some important features like hardware volume control)
> I tend to think of most "tracking" not as "stalking" but as "relationship building."

I'm fine with relationship building. Google can give me better search results based on other activity they observe; I'm perfectly fine with that. They're simply trying to better their product for the user.

What I'm not fine with is the fact that Google is an advertising company. We're not the end-users, we're the product. Intuition says Google is selling the valuable information they collect to third-party advertisers. This means that our valuable information is being leaked to third parties I'm not sure I can trust.

At the core of it, I only want to give my information out to parties I trust. I don't care if it's valuable information or not, I just want to be in control. I don't want my info being sold to some advertising company -- after all, I'll only buy their product after I build a relationship with Google and they can provide the most relevant links.
First, create a new Apple ID.

If you want to use this for your App Store account, go into Settings then "iTunes & App Store", and sign out of the previous account. Log in using then different (new) Apple ID.

If you want to use this for your iCloud account, go into your iDevice's Settings, then iCloud, then "Delete Account". It will delete the iCloud data on your phone, but it should still be available on iCloud servers, and any other device hooked up to that account. I haven't looked into how to transfer data from one iCloud into another.
Reddit's the same site with the dedicated subreddit called "/r/thefappening", right? That Reddit? I'm not seeing how they get a completely free pass here, it's like saying UNIX doesn't store file data under file names, but under inodes. Perhaps pedantically correct, but completely missing the point.
Well that descision is pretty up to you. It depends on your needs and how much you like the laptop.

I'll recount my recent story.

I started out with an x200, which I loved for the size and lack of trackpad (I only use the trackpoint, I use keybinds and tiling wms heavily), and ran that for a few months. I did the screen upgrade[0] and was extremly happy with the mod. Unfortunatley a mishap at a hackerspace involving a large cup of beer destroyed my poor motherboard. I had a descision to make: either buy a new laptop or repair this one. I went with the rebuild plan. I squeezed in an x201 motherboard into the chassis instead of going with the same C2D mobo. I bought a refurbed 120GB SSD and a new 4GB stick of RAM. On top of that I had to replace my keyboard so that came as I also bought a new 9-Cell battery.

In the end I ended up with a near new x201 with an x200 chassis, an IPS screen, SSD, full DIMM of RAM, and a kew keyboard with roughly 8-9 hours of battery life all for about $550 out of pocket. I've spent about 2 years with it like this and if I had to make the choice again I would absolutley do the repair; I love my laptop. But I'm also only a sysadmin and compiling code and major power isn't a conern for me. Portability and reliability is.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4hVYq9glKg : This mod is just under $200 but you get an IPS equivalent screen that covers roughly 75-80% colour gamut. Way nicer to watch movies on.
Go with parallels, without a doubt the best you can go with. Very fast and feels native.

The downside if you won't be able to use a windows manager like WMII. Because parallels provide bindings for unity that makes the whole experience smooth and they don't provide bindings for other windows managers

https://www.parallels.com/
Essentially ...

We selected the BlockChain and the concept from BitCoin because we think that, over time, the strong focus on developers on BitCoin and block-chain technologies will help keep the security situation up to date. I think security through transparency is the best policy and the open source nature of BitCoin and the momentum of developers around it is a good thing.
This isn't surprising or really new. There are 4 types of mechanoreceptors in the skin, plus pain and temperature sensors. Each of those types have individual endings or sensors that have a specific range of intensity to which they respond most strongly. Also, they compete locally with each other. So the idea that neurons are "computing shapes" is really no different than computing edges, corners, specific patterns of vibration, a rapid change in temperature, or any other sensation that is more than a single point in time and space. In general the peripheral nervous system does a lot of computation and, given that many species don't have, or can do without, a brain, we shouldn't be surprised when things that are done in the neo-cortex are also done by the antecedent computational substrate.
x220 here. The only bad thing I'll say about it is the out of the box wireless was crap. I caused myself endless problems by not selecting the $5 Intel 6205 upgrade.
Battery life is only 4-5 hours (Windows squeezes out 6-8), but I can live with it.
Location: New York, upstate.

Remote: Yes, ONLY.

Willing to relocate: No, remote only.

Technologies: I'm a generalist engineer. I've worked from the lowest levels of computing (hardware and OS development) all the way up to web programming, and everything in between. My most recent project has involved seriously huge and highly scalable systems. I can work on just about anything.

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It was disappointing, I thought, that while the article did concern itself as to whether noticing the phenomenon was affected by confirmation bias, the author did not attempt to disprove the notion. Surely there must be a list of programming languages which have made it to version 6; an exhaustive search could at least determine if there are counterexamples.
A bit of a tangent, but it's worth noting that the amount JLaw should rationally be prepared to pay for the original files is zero. If you pay a ransom in a situation like that, all that will happen is a) the guy will take the money and then sell the pictures anyway, and b) you set a precedent that you can be blackmailed, which means the next blackmailer might come up with something worse than some rectangles of RGB pixels.
Couldn't someone just screenshot the citrix or terminal services session while the user is using it?
I visited La Silla last December[0] whilst traveling around South America. It was a few hours' drive up from La Serena, along some quite windy roads, but definitely worth it. You have to book by email in advance.

[0] https://twitter.com/marcosscriven/status/409787993617342464
I use compressed air to clean the fans every 6 months, also applied new Arctic Silver 5 cpu paste.

I have fans controlled not to run unless CPU or GPU over 52C.

Looking for a replacement like Thinkpad is extreme hard.
This may be overkill, but if you want to learn a lot about the overall history/culture/etc. behind open source projects, I just wrote a blog post linking to a number of great resources. You may find some of this stuff useful, especially if you're interested in the licensing aspect.

http://fogbeam.blogspot.com/2014/08/starting-points-for-lear...
Sort of. WordPress provides the gallery; the carousel comes from the Jetpack plugin [1] which is included on wordpress.com sites and can be installed [2] on self-hosted sites.

[1] http://jetpack.me/support/carousel/

[2] http://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/
I feel like Wired goes back and forth a lot - some of their articles (on a number of topics, not just computer-related) are pleasingly technical and I've really enjoyed them, and some feel really watered down. Probably, it depends on the individual writer.
> Intuition says Google is selling the valuable information they collect to third-party advertisers.

In this case your intuition has failed you.
I was too. And I had that beer when we finished. ;)
The list of people not hacked is much shorter than those who have. At least it seems that way.
The celebrity guide to never getting hacked
I used Derive on an HP100LX. I still keep two HPX00LXes running in case I ever need to do a bunch of symbolic math again. Best PDA/calculator ever for physics.

Funny how old calculators never go away. The HP12C is still used everywhere in finance and accounting.
I've found that part of the problem is that there's a very bad user experience with recipe formats. They assume that one will get all ingredients out first and will only start to follow the instructions once everything is ready. Almost no one does that all of the time.

The back and forth reading that you have to do results in errors because you lose your place, skip a step, add an ingredient in the wrong order, etc. That really impacts the results. In this vein, I've been working on a format that lets you just go top to bottom with much better results. Would love to hear your thoughts.

http://www.makebetterfood.com/recipes/
I honestly don't actually recall whether the Modula-2 toolchain was interpreted.

'C' safety is anything but an oxymoron. i don't even consider it all that difficult. It's an absolute pain the neck, but nobody said this is easy :)
Filtering doesn't work well enough at all. The fact that you can't be sure if your email was received is a problem. Many companies have over-aggressive spam filters and the recipients sometimes never even see the emails in their spam box - they're either bounced or black-holed. Often this is done by blacklisting IP addresses. When that IP happens to be the mail server of a service provider with many customers, when one of them sends spam, all of them get their emails blocked.

Unreliable delivery is perhaps on of the biggest problems with email. Largely due to faulty spam filtering.
> The best way to do that is to advocate against ad-supported websites and services, and to advocate (and invent if missing) honest ways to get necessary revenue

I like this. I mean, not gonna lie I love free stuff as much as the next guy but most services that offer to remove ads for a subscription (Spotify/Pandora for example) I pay for.

Even journalism - support your local NPR!
since when is advertising strictly an adversarial arrangement?

Websites such as real estate websites are basically just ads, yet it still offers a service (namely discovery). trailers for movies are also ads but I still like watching them.

There's a lot of disgusting/misleading behaviour in advertising, but it's not strictly an Us vs. Them proposition.
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Or better, more solid relational options like Postgres...

Honestly, is there any reason to use MySQL over Postgres at this point? Or is it sort of six of one half a dozen of the other as long as the data model is decent?
My problem is that 1Password et al are curing symptoms, not solving causes.

Personal infosec hasn't evolved quick enough to match the technology it depends on. Sure we're comfortable with 12 character, 3 month rotation passwords, but the average 'civilian'? Probably doesn't even have a passcode on their phone despite the massive personal security risk they're carrying around with them.

We need to educate and/or provide easier authentication.
One of the reasons that there wasn't much in the way of development of larger telescopes in the late 1970s and 1980s was the development of the CCD. Prior to the CCD, astronomers used photographic plates to take their images, and photographic plates have horrendous efficiencies. A typical photographic plate will only register a few percent of the incident photons. A CCD, however, has an efficiency very close to 100% (except at really low wavelengths). Almost immediately after its invention, new instruments with CCDs were built to be put on existing telescopes. [1] Because the efficiency was a factor of ~30 larger, it was as though you had quintupled the diameter of your telescope. There wasn't much of a reason, then, to invest in huge new telescopes when you could effectively have a huge new telescope just by building a CCD detector.

Also, as a graduate student at Ohio State I would be remiss if I neglected to mention that the Large Binocular Telescope was originally planned to be built at the same time as Keck. It was originally conceived to be larger and with OSU providing a large fraction of the funding. OSU's president, Gordon Gee, cut funding for the project in the early 90's, however, which threw the project into disarray. Most of the faculty in the Ohio State astronomy department resigned in protest which is why Ohio State has had a department with relatively young faculty. Due to problems funding the project and technical difficulties (putting two very large mirrors on a common mount turned out to be harder than anticipated), the telescope had to be scaled back and it only saw first light in 2005.

[1] As an aside, astronomy has been one of the major drivers of improvements in CCD technology. CCDs in consumer devices are generally used in photon-rich environments and the users can tolerate a lot of noise in their images. Astronomers, however, demand very low noise and use their CCDs in photon-poor environments, and the production of these kinds of devices has required major improvements in CCD technology.