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WebAction - Downtown Palo Alto, CA

jobs@webaction.com

Hiring Front-End Developers and Platform Engineers (java).

WebAction is a real-time data management platform that bridges the gap between users and terabytes/petabytes of diverse, fast moving, and physically disparate data with a simple, SQL interface and state-of-the-art visual app designer.

On top of this platform, we build engaging, visual web applications for users to explore and visualize their data.

We do this by offering real-time ingestion of data from logs/databases, distributed stream processing (think storm), distributed caching, and interactive full-text/analytic queries in one platform.

Our customers use WebAction to solve a variety of next-generation data management challenges including fraud detection, money laundering, and real-time predictive forecasting.

Founded by a team of Silicon Valley veterans with proven track records, WebAction is backed by some of the most respected names in Silicon Valley. We're also well funded (recently raised $11m Series B by a private equity firm with a $15 billion fund).

We offer a competitive salary, excellent benefits package, generous equity for the right candidates. Our office is also a short walk from some great restaurants and coffee spots (philz) on University Avenue in sunny Downtown Palo Alto.

For the Front-End Engineer Position:

-Turn mockups and wireframes into functional, fluid web components

-Implementing beautiful and robust visualization using d3.js or other js/HTML5 charting libraries

Requirements:

-Strong knowledge of Javascript, CSS, HTML, and jQuery

-Experience with front-end frameworks like LESS, Grunt, Requre/AMD

-Enthusiasm for working in a startup environment

Nice to haves

-You’re interested in designing engaging and intuitive user experiences

-Experience with Backbone.js, angular.js or other front-end MV* frameworks

-An interest in the type of scalable systems you hear about at Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

-You’re interested in telling stories and revealing anomalies through data visualization

For the Platform Engineering position, we ask that you have experience writing clean code in Java and have a strong desire and skills to work on a scalable, highly optimized data management infrastructure. We ask that you have the following skills:

-Large-scale distributed systems

-Highly available, highly scalable architectures, Hadoop (MapReduce / Pig / Zookeeper)

- Data Serialization (Avro / Thrift / Protocol Buffers)

- Experience with HBase or Cassandra or Elasticsearch

-Real-time messaging (0MQ / Kestrel / Kafka or similar),
Real-time event processing, Continuous Queries

If this sounds like you, shoot us an e-mail at jobs@WebAction.com
Sadly, this is only true if they are affected by the bugfixes. And, honestly, most users need to be taught to avoid upgrades that include massive feature creep that actually has the potential to pose security and stability problems.
It's not only about Android. Kotlin is one of the few languages that's developed hand in hand with IDE support. That means you've got Java-class IDEA support for the language, including (interestingly) a Java to Kotlin converter tool! It's not like many languages where you end up having to sacrifice all your nice refactoring tools and libraries to use it. For this reason alone Kotlin is a natural upgrade path for many Java shops.
> I'd rather use Ruby than Swift or Kotlin.

Yeah, but there are people who'd rather use Haskell, Clean, Agda or Idris. Kotlin, Swift, Rust and other such things seem like a reasonable middle ground from this perspective.
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OpenSignal - London, UK (Full time, permanent)

At OpenSignal we're using mobile apps to tap into the smart phones we're all carrying around with us to build up global crowdsourced sensor networks. Our first [1] is for wireless signal where we are building a global database on the coverage and performance of wireless networks (both mobile + WiFi) on a scale that has never before been possible. Our second sensor network is WeatherSignal [2], which uses the barometers, thermometers and hygrometers on smart phones to crowdsource weather data and we have already published a scientific paper [3] showing the potential of this approach. If the concept of crowdsourced sensor networks appeals to you too then please get in touch. We are hiring for all manner of different roles right not (backend, frontend, UX/UI & data science) but most of all we are just looking for smart, like minded people rather than people with specific, existing skills.

More info: http://opensignal.com/jobs/ Email us: join@opensignal.com

[1] OpenSignal App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.staircase3...
[2] WeatherSignal App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opensignal...
[3] Battery Temperature/Weather correlation: http://opensignal.com/reports/battery-temperature-weather/
FreeBSD 10 has switched to a new package manager, so it might be worth giving it another look next time you're bored and fancy trying something new.

I can understand your preference though. I'm not a fan of apt much personally, but pacman is one of the reasons I've stuck with ArchLinux over the years - despite it's faults :)
Excellent, thank you! :)
So there is no ethical responsibility to protect the users who will be left vulnerable to this exploit? Remember the danger here is screwing people who have iCloud accounts. It's not like Julie the housewife in Minnesota, had any say in the security of Apple's products.
That part isn't the advice. Are you encouraging people to not admit their mistakes?
Sense - Next-Generation Data Science Platform - San Francisco, CA

https://senseplatform.com

jobs@senseplatform.com

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Frontend/Fullstack Developer

We're looking for a frontend/fullstack engineer to help build a radically better platform for data science. You should have experience building complex JavaScript applications and designing clean REST APIs. Our technology stack includes AngularJS, Node.js, Go, Postres, Firebase, in addition to a large data science infrastructure built on Docker. Interest in machine learningand data science a plus but not required.

We're a small team (4), venture backed, located in San Francisco, and offer competitive salary, real equity, smart colleagues, and work flexibility. Sound interesting? Shoot us an email introduction.

Email: jobs@senseplatform.com
"Do the same" - if you're now using 3 devices to do something that 1 can do, you're not doing the same. This is important to some.

Also, the Sansa doesn't stream, so it's not really "doing the same". Some like their own curated music and for that an on-device music player is fine. Some others (me, for example), want a radio style stream where I don't know what's coming.

> I would say I hang up rather than answer close to 50% of the calls.

I get you might not like gestures, but HALF of the time you mess it up? Let's not resort to hyperbole.

There are other callers/dialers on the market too that might have controls that work better for you also.

So, yeah, you might be able to make do with your use case and tolerances, but your needs are not everyones.
A few reposts are ok if the story hasn't had significant attention on HN in the last year or so: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6321474 was within a year, but I guess was borderline, so we'll leave the current post.
Minor correction. We don't make Android Studio. Android Studio is based off of the IntelliJ IDEA platform, which is what we develop.
> You cannot install just any version of any application on your system, but a lot of people want that.

That's the price of shared libraries (which you're trading off for easy security updates).

If you don't like this, you're still free to run statically-linked programs.

> Steam has solved this problem by using their own package manager and their own set of 'approved' libraries that other games must link to. Steam always ships with the set of 'approved' libraries, just so that it can side-step the libraries on your system.

So it's OK for Steam to do this, but not the OS vendor? I don't follow your logic.
>>> What you find is completely different from what most people would think. The person with the higher status uses the word "I" less.

Here's a hypothesis. The higher status person has learned to express their thoughts in a way that makes them seem more objective and authoritarian -- and less susceptible to negotiation or debate. The implicit assumption is that your words convey opinions, but their words convey facts.
The VAT I talked about is Value Added Tax, which is what sales tax is called in Europe.
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Thinknum is changing the way that investors value assets - the media calls us "Github for Finance." We have thousands of analysts using our platform, including many from institutions such as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Bridgewater. Thinknum just came out of 500 Startups and closed our $1m seed round led by Pejman Mar Ventures. We have been featured in the New York Times, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, and Forbes.

We’re growing quickly and currently hiring engineer number three. You can check out a list of open positions at https://www.thinknum.com/jobs. If you have any questions, please email me at jzhen@thinknum.com.
Ethics are a nicety, not an obligation.
My understanding is that some significant (thousands of bytes) silent corruption is inevitable when you start reaching huge capacities over long-ish periods of time; even cosmic radiation has the potential to flip a few bits here and there every once in a while.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_corruption#Silent_data_cor...

So, yes, I think even with the best hardware, and proper maintenance, seeing some data repaired in a scrub is to be expected.

(That said, I did spend way too long using technology [SATA PM] that often failed and made it impossible for me to run a scrub. It's very possible that normal error rates are more like what I'm seeing now, a single byte every month or so, and that the megabyte figure is representative of errors from the days of my arrays dropping out unexpectedly.)
> But isn't that non-fossil energy built with fossil energy?

Not if you use non-fossil electricity to power all the steps in the build process. I should have clarified that that's what I was envisioning.

> Fossil energy has a higher EROI than other sources, currently.

Actually, I don't think that's currently true for nuclear; the EROEI figures for nuclear that I've seen seem way off, even if breeder reactors are left out of the equation. I don't think a lot of people realize just how much energy there is in a kilogram of uranium, compared to a kilogram of fossil fuel.
In the US it is not common to show a price after sales tax, like it is in Europe with VAT.

Also, not all states have the same amount of sales tax and some have no tax at all. It would be impossible to show the prices with sales tax when there are 50 different states with differing sales tax laws.
Location: Upstate New York

Remote: Willing, but not sure it makes sense

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Most fluent in Python, JavaScript, Java.

Resume: http://ctogden.com/assets/resume.pdf

Email: ogdenchris@gmail.com

Recent graduate, so looking for entry-level software engineering positions. I would be extremely interested working in one of the following spaces: education, journalism/publishing, civic tech, or geoinformatics.
> And what happens if I want to have two terminal tabs on my end logged into the same remote machine? (Which is basically 100% of the time for me.) It seems like that would be a case where mosh would be much smoother...

You can use 'screen -x' to attach multiple times to the same session.
The Death of a Legend
would highly recommend this product
It's more complicated than OP says, but not too far off. In big cities like São Paulo or Rio, the prices of services have skyrocketed in the past 5 years or so. The only thing that can be considered cheap in Brazil currently is electricity, and that is only if we compare with Europe. And this is due only to most of Brazil having a tropical climate, which eliminates the need for residential heating.

If you go for groceries, and you see that staple food hasn't increased much, but meat/poultry/fish has gone up in prices due to local producers increasing their prices to match the exporters - so now a kilo of decent beef steaks is around R$35 (~US$15,50), when it could be had for R$10 in 2008.

Entertainment is expensive: movie tickets for US$15. Paul McCartney played in São Paulo a few years back and the cheapest tickets were going for US$300. Nightclubs all have a cover charge of at least US$30. A bus ride from São Paulo to Rio (which is equivalent to Boston-NYC) costs +/- US$30. Any passable restaurant will cost at least US$35/person. I went to visit my parents last year, we went out for a nice pizza place by the beach - R$75 each pizza.

Taking a look at these things, if you are a Brazilian tourist visiting any European/North American city, most of the things you will see are not related to basic cost of living - mostly entertainment and general shopping - and these are indeed cheaper compared to Brazil.
ART does not lift it. I was at the I/O session where the ART team explicitly stated that.
Unban him from the forum. Then he'll (maybe) stop. Maintaining control over your life and online reputation is more important than keeping him banned.
But many products are sold in India in English only. This is manifestly not the case in Europe.
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Nomograms were one of my favorite topics during undergrad (engg)!
They have a microsd card slot too, a rare bonus.
Google has spaffed more cash on lobbying this year than Big Cable
The leaker got doxxed by 4chan and doesn't seem capable of discovering the exploit on his own.

Though he's commented to Buzzfeed denying it was him (but anyone would).

http://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/bryan-hamade-blamed-by...

@nikcub still thinks it's him

https://twitter.com/nikcub/status/506465151562694656
>> But the question is, if she is able to get the degree easily with skills the degree is not meant to require, is there something wrong with the degree itself?

Nope. While the people running the degree should take reasonable precautions, it's not on them to entirely prevent people abusing the system. They're running a course, not trying to be the police.

>> Of course there are always ways to game any system, but it shouldn't be quite so easy.

Manipulating multiple people into doing 90% of your work for you over several years is not exactly entry-level cheating.

>> If a reasonably intelligent person who is good at writing can do the work required to get a degree given a few weeks and internet access, then the degree probably needs to be reworked.

I would agree. It doesn't sound much like that happened here though.
Indeed, however that's all dropping and recreating the pool would do as well. The file would still be corrupt.
I'm very interested in being an intern for you guys! Is there a specified length to internships (I want to do 16 months)? How early in advance do you accept applications?
Publet - http://publet.com - San Francisco - REMOTE

Frontend developer

We are looking for a frontend developer to help us build our publishing
platform.

You can work onsite in San Francisco or remotely anywhere in the world.

Interested? Get in touch honza@publet.com
User versus customer. A customer pays you, a user uses your application. Customers can be users, but users aren't necessarily customers. Finally, many people (entrepreneurs and VCs alike) will confuse these two simply to make it sound like you have more people paying for your service than the general populous understands.
I've found this to work pretty well in most cases, but there are some websites that don't semantically mark up their fields in a way the browser can recognize, and there's no way to manually trigger the password suggestion feature.
Is 'frequency' 1d or 2d? Also, gain transfer function looks like a spline, why not try an FIR?

It would cool to add a few images with periodicity. I expected the lake bed image to show some quasi-periodic lines, but couldn't make that out in the spectrum.
Yes. Maybe not willpower ... but reading tires same parts of your brain that you use for work as a software developer, so after session of reading you won't be able to work very long because you end up less bored but still tired. OP said that he has to read something every 30 minutes. That doesn't look optimal.

Most important reason for me for striving to avoid reading internet is that I fall back on this activity not because it's most efficient as means of getting entertainment but just because it's easiest one to do. Same as eating something sweet is easiest way to quench hunger. But not the most efficient or healthy one when you are interested in the longer perspective.

Also, your body and parts of the brain that interface with the body have only as much fun when you read as when you work so this also looks like there's a room for some improvement in efficiency of entertainment.
US and Al Qaeda together? I don't see what wsj is getting at. Why would an islamic state be a threat to Al Qaeda? Nice troll piece wsj.
I'm not sure how that holds up against the example shown, where the same professor fell at different levels on the scale depending on whether he was talking to someone lower or higher on the status hierarchy.

If the language shift was a learned skill that developed as part of performing the roles of the higher status, wouldn't two people of high status converse using similar rates, even if one of them is relatively higher than the other?
Crimson Hexagon - Boston

We use machine learning techniques to make sense of a vast reservoir of social data. As one of the few companies with direct access to the Twitter Firehose as well as the full Facebook and Google+ APIs, we face unique UI problems that you'll help solve with your keen sense of design and attention to detail. You'll be architecting new features and workflows that our customers will use to pull valuable insight out of hundreds of billions of social media posts.

There's no precedent for a lot of what we do. Familiarity with modern JavaScript frameworks is a plus, but not a requisite-- We value your ability to think laterally, collaborate, communicate, and execute above everything. We like people who have a background in freelancing. We also like people who come to programming via nontraditional means.

Top pay, top benefits, located in Boston's Seaport district. We're big enough not to be a monoculture, but small enough not to be a corporate cult.

Email me (alex at crimsonhexagon dot com) or check out our hiring page: http://goo.gl/oSIY3o
Yes, I should, and someday I will. I'm playing it fast and loose right now. :-p
Trulia - http://www.trulia.com/about/careers/Engineering - Downtown San Francisco, CA

TL;DR if you know complex data processing (hadoop/spark/cassandra/hbase/etc...) or you have a bunch of solid java and sql experience and want to learn this newer stuff please apply to our Senior Software Engineer, Core Data Pipeline position

Why join Trulia?
Engineering gets respect!

We use the phrase 'we're a tech company that does Real Estate' to emphasize how important engineering is to the company. Engineering is the department that drives our apps, tools, data, and interfaces forward. This attitude comes not only from the Engineers, but from our CEO and our senior management team. They believe in us, and understand how critical engineering is to Trulia’s success.

We have awesome problems to solve:
The housing market provides a fantastic blend of problems. We need creative people to help us combine the data about every address in America with the soft side of helping people find a home that makes them feel safe, happy, and comfortable.

Stability is wonderful:
We're that rare company that holds the culture of its startup roots, while blending in the sanity of a regular work schedule with an emphasis on work/life/family balance. It’s like this because we worked hard to make it this way.
Titles are pretty meaningless in most startup scenarios. It sounds more like they are looking for a technical co-founder and are using the C-level title as a carrot.

If there is not a team already in place, you will most likely be handling the early programming efforts until a team takes shape.

That's assuming a team ever does take shape. Depending on the vision of the other founders (and funding / budget), you may end up being the entire team. The title will look good on your resume but I wouldn't take it all that literally in regard to your day-to-day responsibilities.

Regarding how it may change over time, it very well could be a vanity title until another person is installed in the position over you. That's not always the case, but I've seen it happen. If you are given the opportunity to grow a team and play an active role in the technical vision of the company (assuming you're allowed to) you will probably grow with the position.

Source: Former "CTO" at two startups.
I'll keep that in mind; I do sometimes find myself with some time to play with things. :)
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Location: Baton Rouge Area

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Rails, HTML/CSS, Haml/Sass, JavaScript, jQuery, CoffeeScript, Git, RSpec, Bootstrap, Foundation, Sunspot/Solr

Resume: https://mega.co.nz/#!oIVlVKLb!SlI183yv-NVw3I3N0dHTHwgv61by-p...

Email: julien@crawfi.sh

Looking for a junior developer position
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US Federal Reserve Bank Credit – From 9/11 to 2008 to 2014
Hmm. So for many theologians and philosophers, scientism is among the greatest of intellectual sins would put me more on the science side.

Sounds like you have pretty strong feelings about this.
Use screen/tmux.
I notice you didn't mention OpenIndiana. Is OmniOS now recommended over OpenIndiana for the classic-server-install case?
And let the terrorists win?
But the professor used language without using 'I' when he held the power with the undergraduate, but he used it a lot when talking to a famous professor.
The New Era of Smart Dining
Almost all of the bitrot I see is on the oldest vdevs, which at this point probably contain mostly only old snapshots that are almost never accessed. My oldest vdevs are... 4-5 years old.
That’s not true. Well, strictly speaking it is, but the 2048 did know about another Threes clone. I don’t think he meant much by it and I don’t really fault the original 2048 author … but these guys … that’s not ok.