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Connexity - Camarillo, CA (Los Angeles area)

We're hunting for a Rails Developer to continue to build out our online advertising platform. We work at a scale where seemingly "small" improvements can have a big impact. In the last 24 hours, we served over 60 million impressions and processed over 6 billion total transactions.

You'd take ownership of the Rails app, which is the primary means of managing hundreds of campaigns running through our platform. This role is a great way to learn advertising tech as well as other tools. You'd get exposure to Redis, Hbase, PostgreSQL, and Scala. In other words, this isn't just a boring, run-of-the-mill CRUD app.

Our team is sharp and works well together. While we enjoy perks such as paid lunch and unlimited vacation, the culture of our team recognizes and respects the importance of your non-work life. Also, Ventura county is a pretty nice place to live/work.

Unless you prefer to start with a HR-oriented chat, you can reach me (a senior dev on the team) at dlarsen@connexity.com. Informal inquiries are great.
Yes, you are correct. The team from Acorn as they were then visited and realized that they too could do this, it didn't need the resources of a giant firm. Of course they already had an excellent track record.
Building a REST API with JAXB, Spring Boot and Spring Data
To be fair to the article (if not to Cryptocat), the EFF page doesn't give an analysis of the quality of the encryption. The code has been audited, but it doesn't mean the results were satisfactory.

That said, the fact that the page gives bright green happy checkmarks across the board for Cryptocat does become misleading for people who may not know a ton about it.
I realised I might not have been very clear in my previous comment. Let me see if I can improve it with an example.

Let's forget about all other considerations and instead consider the simplest possible build system we can conceive. This build system should take a directory structure of source files, and produce a directory structure of output files.

If our sole consideration is simplicity, we might construct a build system like:

(defn -main [task & args]
(-> (read-dir (cwd))
(run-task task args)
(write-dir (cwd))))

So we take every file in the current working directory, read everything into memory, perform some functional transformation that produces a data structure of output files, then write that to disk. This minimises I/O, and gives us a functional data structure to play around with.

It's a naive approach, and one made without regard for memory or efficiency, but given that the amount of memory on a modern machine is far larger than the source directory is likely to be, it actually seems feasible.

However, we can also consider optimisations that don't alter the behaviour. For instance, we could only read in files when their contents are accessed. In order to protect against changes, we could check the modification date, and abort if it changes. It's a compromise, but a small one.

We might also conceive of a system where the contents of the file are memory mapped, or held in some temporary file, or any number of clever ways to avoid keeping the file in memory while not breaking the integrity of the data structure.

This is just a toy example, and lacking in many areas like network I/O, but it's easier to start simple and add complexity when necessary, than it is to start from an assumption of complexity and try to work backward to simplicity. This is why I think it's incorrect to start with side-effectful functions, because that means starting from complexity.
It's a bit concerning that this page doesn't really reference the order of magnitude of data that they're working with, statistical significance, or anything to indicate that the difference between the two percentages they're comparing is something that's actually worth comparing, and not something that can or is likely to be explained away due to small sample size.
in case anyone missed it, they have this already. see firefly: http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/18/amazons-fire-phone-introduc...

I believe this is the same tech in their latest version of the barcode reader in their iOS app too.
I think you're overestimating the organic nature of "urban hipster" culture quite a bit. Its determined largely in a top-down manner like the other examples you've cited, just via different avenues. I would cite the rise of PBR[1] as an example.

[1] http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2010/10/how-pbr-co...
If you're not respecting other peoples' property rights, it's not a "marketplace" it's the state of nature.
How good these are from a security point of view seems (roughly) inversely proportional to their popularity.
I don't agree with this. There are a number of races I voted in more or less randomly today, and I feel perfectly fine about that.

I look at it this way. There is, we can assume, one "optimal" candidate. We have little way of knowing which one this will be until after they're elected and have started working. In some cases there may be candidates who are very obviously non-optimal - like if they're currently being indicted - but aside from that, it's tough to tell.

If I know nothing, the chance that I'll vote for that candidate is 1/N where N is the number of candidates.

If I do know about the race, and have been persuaded to vote for a non-optimal candidate, there's 0% chance that I'll vote for the optimal outcome.

The only situation where my vote definitely contributes to a good outcome is if I know for sure that the candidate is the best one, but that requires predicting the future, and is impossible. There will always be a pretty good chance my vote could have been cast for someone better.

I think in the end, the probability that the best candidate gets elected in low-information races is going to tend towards 1/N anyway, so you may as well increase the sample size.
Pretty fun, any chance of open sourcing it? Might be a good way for early Swift devs to get a foray into game development.
It's still possible to have a general-purpose app for beacons, you just need to make that structured data available in a standard format on the Internet.

You could treat the UUID as a domain name, have a DNS-style system where an app looks up a UUID, gets some structured data, and caches it.

That does mean, for your bus example, that you would have to have seen one of those UUIDs before while internet connected, in order to have the route data already cached.

If someone is going through the effort of placing bus beacons, there's a good chance that the location either already has good data coverage, or they could place a wifi hotspot at the same time.

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Alternatively, certain UUIDs could be taken to mean "connect to this device over wifi, and download structured information". This does have the battery issues mentioned in the article, but I expect that, for permanent installations, people will prefer externally powered beacons anyway.
Doesn't quantum erasure essentially invalidate the Copenhagen interpretation? (Naive question; I have a relatively shallow understanding of QM, but Copenhagen has always seemed unscientific to me due to the quasi-supernatural role of the observer).
finally! thx!
Starting a Barbershop
> Hipsters avoid labels and being labeled. However, they
all dress the same and act the same and conform in their
non-conformity. Doesn't the fact that there is a hip-
ster look go against all hipster beliefs?

Wow, begging the question much?
If a user used Stripe "the chance that a visitor would abandon their donation at the Checkout step halved from 22% to 10%"

You can see even in Stripe's earliest UX the desire to dramatically limit the "pain" that goes into entering CC details online.

When they added the "remember me" button I said to myself this is going to wind up being the "billion dollar checkbox" once merchants really understand the power of not forcing people to re-enter their CC details.

It's still somewhat mind-boggling to me how badly browser "auto-fill" solutions fail at this incredibly valuable problem.

Amazon and Apple, IMO, basically hold onto their dominating positions in physical & digital content respectively because their hold so many CC's and it's just so much damn easier to not have to re-authorize, re-input, etc etc.
A free pirate copy isn't really in the marketplace, notwithstanding the manifest flaws in our system of administering legal copyright. If we admit this as normal commerce, how is it functionally different from uncompensated eminent domain? where is the incentive to produce if one cannot exert any control over the distribution and sale of creative works?

Sure, everyone who worked on Batman got paid years ago. But if I want to produce a film tomorrow, I'm facing essentially the same problem - I can't compete with free, and that makes it harder to recoup an investment. If I don't have an existing franchise to leverage so as to raise capital advance, then distribution rights are the only tool I have.
Confirm: Skype doesn't deserve that second checkbox. It is now centralised, is a specific real-time PRISM source, including full chat logs, and does indeed read the messages going through it.

Try posting a URL on there and watching an anti-malware scanner ping it sometime. I don't know if they're still doing that, but they definitely were.
That is no longer the case. Using Dropbox for Business gives you two separate boxes and the admin for the business one cannot see or access the files from your personal one.
Most Misunderstood Jobs and How to Explain Them
does this remind anyone else of cable network bundling? which is now going through a decoupling of its own.
Visual Essay about Steve Jobs and NeXT
Useful info about Leanpub, thanks.

Also, your newsletter looks interesting. Signed up for it.
> Even if you are an unusually well-informed voter, the enormous size, scope, and complexity of modern government ensure that there will be many issues and candidates about which you know very little….

This argument can be used ad infinitum. There cannot be such a thing as perfectly informed about anything that has subjective components, so this doesn't sway me.

I find a corollary of this much more interesting: in elections for office -- as opposed to referenda -- I find that the amount of information I need to make a binary choice is often trivial. I absolutely cannot understand why there are so many millions of people out there who have such a hard time making up their mind on these things. Moreover, we have the gift of information about candidates at our fingertips. Maybe others see subtleties where I see rather stark contrasts, but I doubt it. I think it's all just political news reporting-generated false churn.
> that they are not trying to attract businesses with this change

Agree. anything 'included with prime' lately makes me think its really to better understand & sell to primers, rather than gain new ones.
The rights to many shows are tangled into "byzantine" webs. This is often a good thing, for reasons of economic incentives.

To use a personal example: let's look at the various parties involved in making "The Simpsons," whose DVDs have been available for many years. I had the good fortune to work on this show, albeit in a limited capacity, many moons ago. On this show, you have a lot of cooks in the kitchen (and I may be mangling some names here and there):

- Gracie Films (production company)

- Fox Television Studios (studio)

- Fox Broadcasting Company (network)

- Akom (animation company, based in Korea)

- 20th Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising division

- Whoever holds the rights for the music and theme song

- Matt Groening

- Syndicators in US and around the world

- Actors, writers, crew, and their various agents, managers, and lawyers

- Affiliates and home video partners

- Effects shops (if any, and if different from services performed by Akom)

Why would you want all of these moving parts? Isn't coordinating all of these stakeholders like herding cats? Well, yes. But absent this ecosystem of specialized players, no single player would be able to do everything at scale. The distributed ecosystem of TV development, production, distribution, and licensing is more efficient -- and allows for more shows to be made in the first place! -- than a system where a single company performs every step of the process.

Of course, this distributed system has its downsides. Complexity being a big one. No single party can unilaterally make decisions on behalf of the entire show. When the right aggregation of the aforementioned parties cannot come to an agreement about X, Y, or Z, then X, Y, or Z simply don't get done. This seems to have been the case with the Batman series. It's the case for several beloved shows, whose absence from the home video market is noticeable. It sucks when it happens.

This system is far from perfect. It is riddled with inefficiencies. Occasionally it leads to some mind-numbingly frustrating stalemates. It's especially bad about managing music rights; many high-profile shows have come to DVD and Blu-ray only very recently, after many years of wrangling the rights to the music in the shows. (Particularly '80s shows, which often relied on lots and lots of the pop music of the day). But in many ways, and on the balance, today's system is an improvement over the systems that came before it.

Generally speaking, this system is great at getting shows made. It is less than great at getting shows distributed to streaming services and home video. The system's strengths at the former are its weaknesses at the latter. It's an interesting paradox.
Do we know how MayDay is performing in this election? I was disappointed not to hear any mentions of it on the news leading up to the election? Have they actually upset any elections.
If the studios allowed me to copy their content to my media server so I can stream on any device in my house then I might agree 100%. It doesn't need to be HD or even 720p, I'd settle for your bog standard ~220MB/episode x264. But their efforts to frustrate my efforts doing that means I still hit up the torrents to get my DRM free digital copy - despite paying for the media.
I really liked this part, and if there's one thing I'm taking away from the article, it's this:

> "Actually, praise may not be the optimal way, but we are so praise oriented. We can ask the child questions about the process: “How did you do that? Tell me about it.” As they talk about the process and the strategies they tried, we can appreciate it. We can be interested in it. We can encourage it. It doesn’t have to be outright praise."
I keep a list of things I want solved for personal reasons each time they come up
How My Blog Post Made It to Entrepreneur.com
After 36 yrs of French legal obligation, constructors can sell TV without SCART
Well, its not just updating the config details its connecting other team mates apps together for eg you can create a google calendar event in your team mates calender by adding their name @teammate :)
How Attackers Can Use Radio Signals and Mobile Phones to Steal Protected Data
Having photos on my own external hard drive is an enormous liability. Even ignoring the risk of a fire / theft / loss (not to mention the hassle itself of backing them up locally), drives fail.

> have a pretty big downloading task ahead of you to get all these images and move them elsewhere

I would say instead you have an enormous uploading task ahead of you to move 2 Tb of photos from your HDD into the cloud somewhere.

Plus, the main reason I have photos is to share them with other people. If I'm going to end up uploading them somewhere else, it's just easier.

I know opinions differ on privacy, but I honestly could not care less who sees my vacation photos.
First Simulated Images of Two Black Holes Colliding
The main advantages are:

- the auto-backup apps on the different platforms
- the web interface for online browsing and sharing.
- not having to worry about hard drive failures.
Police Finally Arrest the Third and Final Founder of the Pirate Bay
Wait. This does not make sense given that MS already provides OneDrive.
Starting with a patronizing "sorry", looking down from heights, doesn't somehow give your comment more credibility.

There are a large number of services of the user scale of Netflix, with dramatically more complexity, that don't seem to have the heroic issues that Netflix does. Facebook and Reddit both are of a complexity scale multiple-magnitudes greater than Netflix. Someone else absurdly tried to draw Apple and Google in, but again, what they do absolutely dwarfs the entirety of Netflix's operation, to the point that it becomes almost laughable.

Netflix is a very simple application. Scaling it can be difficult, of course, but this is hardly some new grounds. Further, the particularly make-up of Netflix makes it one of the most profoundly scalable platforms going (silos, little to no need for transactional integrity. It is profoundly simple). You don't have to believe this, but your comically patronizing responses just sound...laughably unskilled.
> it's really useful just ergonomically to be able to use command line arguments to configure ad-hoc builds

It's largely also what contributes to "works for me" build environments... It's better to have a just one way to do it interface and discourage excessive tinkering with parameters. The more parameters, the more likely for your dev env to be unstable across individual checkouts or developers. I know it's idealistic, but I think we should strive for zero-arg builds, which oddly means not making it easier to configure them.

I'll have to think on all the other stuff you wrote, since it's not totally clear to me yet. I may ping you again after I noodle a bit.
How Wikipedia Data Is Revolutionizing Flu Forecasting
Raising Lots of Money Does Not Equal Success
This seems like a problem made worse by the similar appearance of intelligence and experience. Growing up it can be hard to understand how the skills of others can be acquired given enough time and effort.
Goldman Sachs helped Titan raise capital. If you believe that Titan hasn't performed well as a company, how is that the fault of Goldman Sachs as opposed to say, Titan's senior management team? Do you have any knowledge of trends in the global tire market? Do you know about tire subsidies from the Chinese government and how companies like Titan may have been impacted by them? What do you think would happen to Titan if it didn't have access to capital?

Wall Street firms structure countless financing deals for thousands of companies every year. Some of those companies are in better shape and better managed than others, and thus some of them are able to tap the capital markets on better terms than others.

As for the book you reference, I'm sure Goldman Sachs, like any company, is not perfect. But judging a company based on one book written by a single person with a single perspective and that wasn't exactly the recipient of universal praise is silly. If Goldman Sachs, which has been around since 1869, offered nothing of value, took advantage of its clients, and was in fact responsible for leading them to their demise, you'll have to come up with a good theory as to why it's still in business.
$100 and Amazon is still losing money on shipping alone. I don't see any of this as a "waste."

$150 and I would still save on shipping.
Should we be encouraging people to stay the science course? There are a glut of science phd's in the workforce. I dropped out of my phd program to just do an MS because I found I simply wasn't smart enough to hack it. My research wasn't going anywhere, and I was barely holding on with my grades. After school, I will stay in engineering. I wish someone had told me I wasn't good enough rather than spending 3 years here.

Science is hard, soul-crushing and not that well-paying. Better to quit before they go into grad school than to waste years to be me. Only the truly dedicated and brilliant will survive.
Do they throw out the whole ballot, or just don't count it for that race?

Regardless, staying home isn't a useful form of protest, it won't change anything at all. There is literally no way it could.
If you drop money on a brand from a real design firm, you get this same booklet. It's common practice. I've had to both design brands and the booklet's we gave to clients, as recently as a year ago. Of course a year of R&D, Market/Competitor Research and Design Studies cost our client $150,000.

Usually budget logo design; from freelancers etc, result in you getting an email with x number of Options and little to no reasoning.
Seriously? Google's SERP pages are now 75% ads above the fold. Hell, on a netbook you may not even see ANY organic search results. A couple quick examples: Google "work at home" (no quotes) and you'll see eight sponsored results and three organic results. Google "credit card" (no quotes) and you'll see NINE sponsored results and TWO organic results.

This is on a Macbook Pro 15" running Chrome. it's also worth noting that Google's current gen algo with hit you with a penalty if you "run too many adds above the fold".

They also have carousels, maps and product photos. Google has fully become the search engines they used to despise. It's basically a paid directory. I'm a power user so I scroll down, but the first content listing will see 33% of the clicks on the page. 40% of Google users don't know the ads are even ads.

Further reading...
https://econsultancy.com/blog/62249-40-of-consumers-are-unaw...

http://www.anticareer.com/google-tells-you-to-do-one-thing-b...

http://www.affhelper.com/googles-hypocrisy-exposed/

http://www.branded3.com/blogs/will-google-penalise-itself-fo...
Not wanting to wait through the prologue, I skipped ahead in the video, where I searched in vain for the real-time drop. It's bizarre that they apparently didn't show it even once, especially since it can't have taken more than a few seconds (the chamber's height is 37.2 meters [1], so t_max = √(2h/g) = √(2×37.2/9.8) = 2.75 s).

[1]: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2819205/Testi...
Even now that there are finally published DVD's -- I guess this is some years ago, already -- I find they aren't worth it. Because they removed so much of the original music. I remember watching the first episode and wondering, "What the hell is wrong with this?" Then it clicked.

As far as I am concerned, I think this is downright wrong. "Northern Exposure" -- pop culture though it might be labeled by some -- was a significant contribution to contemporary culture for many of us. It was one of those "water cooler" shows, around which everyone would be discussing it in the days following broadcast.

The fact that a private entity can simply "remove" such a element from our public culture and ongoing conversation -- or edit it into something else -- is, in my opinion, not something that was intended with "intellectual property".

Paying a reasonable fee is one thing. No (legal) access, whatsoever? That should not be permitted.

P.S. For those who are not familiar with it, in "Northern Exposure" a thoughtful and thematic selection of music became akin to another (omni-present) character. Removing those choices is akin to ripping (editing) a major character right out of the finished work.
Does anyone know who did this or a writeup about how they did it?
I suspect a huge factor is people being smart enough to avoid the fame/money trap. If you can trivially get a 40-45 hour a week 100+k job that's reasonably pleasant shooting for the stars is far less appealing.
ReactOS 0.3.17 is about to be released
Ok that's fair, but just a rough idea would be incredibly helpful.

Are we talking sometime within the next 6 months / 12 months / longer?

That roadmap document doesn't really explain how the current featureset makes Kubernetes ready for an 'alpha' release on GKE.
From the downloadable dataset of donations, the current total amount of donations is 62,769 donations with 50,802 unique donators, which is a healthy amount.

However, that doesn't indicate how many users fell into the "had a Stripe account already" bucket. (I'd wager not many.)

(Off topic aside about data integrity: the downloadable data, from October onward, has donation dates from 2018.)